Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination inventions 12/08

20080319779 - Activation system architecture: Techniques are described for generating a license for software installed on a device. An entitlement certificate is generated including one or more entitlements describing license characteristics of the software. The one or more entitlements are determined in accordance with first information about the software. The first information includes at least... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080319769 - Activity manager: An operations instance is created in an operations environment, and an activity item is created related to the operations instance. An initialization level for the activity item is identified and one or more parameters associated with the activity item are initialized based on the initialization level, wherein one of the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080319781 - Assessment and grouping applications of lifeotypes: The methods and systems described herein may involve determining at least one lifeotype of at least one individual, analyzing the at least one lifeotype, and delivering an assessment to at least one individual based on the analysis or delivering a compatibility assessment to at least one individual based on the... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080319775 - Bowling system: A system for managing data associated with one or more bowling centers. The system includes a bowling center databases that collects information associated with patrons of an associated bowling center and a central database server that communicates with each of a plurality of bowling center databases. The system may be... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080319777 - Business transaction issue manager: A plurality of business transactions associated with a user may be determined based on a role of the user, wherein each business transaction includes business data associated with the business transaction. A user-defined issue based on the plurality of business transactions may be received, the user-defined issue including at least... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20080319783 - Charging method, system and server for poc service: A charging method, a system and a server for Poc service are disclosed. The Poc server transmits updating CCR message to OCS when the number of the clients participated in conversation changes, the message carries the information of the number of the clients participated in the conversation. The present invention... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080319780 - Defining reports for dimension based enterprise resource planning systems: A reporting tool is used to create reports for dimension based ERP (“Enterprise Resource Planning”) systems. The dimensions for the report may be selected manually and/or automatically. The reports are defined using the selected dimensions that are obtained directly from the ERP system without including the fully qualified account information.... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080319767 - Method and apparatus for identifying dependency loops: An apparatus and a method for identifying dependency loops in an urban development graph (UDG) having nodes each representing an urban development factor (f), wherein the nodes are connected to each other via weighted edges describing dependencies between the nodes, wherein an objective function value is calculated for each loop... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080319782 - Methods of collecting and visualizing group information: A system and methods allow groups to be managed. Various methods of collecting and visualizing group information are described. A group head and various members of organizations can organize fundraising activities. Group performance can be rated and displayed. Various group successes can be reported.... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080319768 - Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for device management: A method, apparatus, and computer program product for safety device management is provided. The method includes performing an action with respect to the safety device in accordance with a rule when a corresponding condition of the rule is met. The actions subject to the rule include at least one of:... Agent: At&t Legal Department Attn: Patent Docketing

20080319778 - Neighborhood bartering in a geo-spatial network: A method, apparatus, and system of neighborhood bartering in a geo-spatial network are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes providing a plurality of user profiles, each user profile to include an associated specific geographic location, associating a first user with a first user profile, providing a plurality of item... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20080319773 - Personalized travel guide: The claimed subject matter relates to architectures for providing and accessing a service that facilitates an enhanced travel experience. The architectures can determine a location of a subscribing mobile device, match a profile relating to the device with available guides for a site in proximity to the location, and transmit... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080319774 - Pixel cluster transit monitoring for detecting click fraud: Detecting click fraud that includes a processing device that receives data related to a cursor movement towards an advertisement displayed on a web page. The processing device analyzes the cursor movement data and determines a confidence level useable in the determination of click fraud, the confidence level responsive to the... Agent: Moore & Van Allen, PLLC For Ibm

20080319770 - Replenishment planning management: A computer-implemented method of managing stock levels includes obtaining target-location-dependent information pertaining to a location product in an order management system using order proposals for management of the stock levels. The location product may not be included in an active order proposal. A computer-readable medium and/or system may also be... Agent: Sap Ag C/o Foley & Lardner, LLP

20080319771 - Selective data feed distribution architecture: An architecture for providing data feeds to clients in a service-based platform environment is provided where the platform stores an immense amount of data regarding transactions occurring on the platform. In one aspect, the platform operates in a partner context such that partners are clients to the platform service, and... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080319766 - Subscription-based catastrophe-triggered transport services facilitation method and apparatus: One or more non-human-powered vehicles (203, 204) are pre-positioned and maintained at a predetermined location (202). Consideration-based private civil security subscriptions (201) are then accepted from subscribers with respect to providing civilly-catastrophic event-based transport on the non-human-powered vehicle away from a location of substantially sudden civil upheaval. By one approach... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20080319772 - System and business method for leasing a mold: A method for managing a lease purchase program includes a computing system, a network, one or more databases, and a server. The server provides a sales proposal operation, a mold design operation, a mold construction operation, a completed sales operation, and/or a payment schedule operation for a mold lease purchase.... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080319776 - Systems and methods for extending a patent monopoly on an active ingredient for a chemical composition and on the chemical composition having the active ingredient: A system and method are provided for extending the period of traditional patent protection. Initially, the developer develops an active ingredient for a chemical composition and/or the chemical composition having the active ingredient. An initial patent application is then filed in a selected country on behalf of the developer of... Agent: Factor - Patent Attorneys

20080319787 - Integration of lifeotypes with devices and systems: The methods and systems described herein may involve providing a device, determining at least one lifeotype of at least one individual in association with the device, analyzing the at least one lifeotype, and modifying at least one attribute of the device based on the analysis. The methods and systems described... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080319792 - Invoicing method and apparatus for therapeutic treatments: A method of providing compensation for therapeutic treatments involves establishing a therapeutic services membership having an associated compensation plan. The compensation plan establishes a maximum monetary payment amount for therapeutic treatments. Therapeutic treatments are rendered to a recipient of the therapeutic services membership. The rendered therapeutic treatments have an associated... Agent: Heenan Blaikie LLP

20080319790 - Management of patient transfer systems, methods, and devices: Systems, methods, and devices are described related to the assignment and management of patient-specific bins. A dispensing device at a healthcare facility includes a number of bins for storage of medical supplies, with some of the bins designated as patient-specific bins allocated to be assigned to patients for storage of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080319785 - Medical instrument distributing system and medical instrument distributing method: A medical instrument distributing system of the present invention includes hospital terminals provided in multiple hospitals, a server placed in a manufacturer, which includes a computer system that processes orders/shipment of a disposable medical instrument based on inputted information that orders the disposable medical instrument from the hospital terminals. The... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080319793 - Method and commuication system for supporting the adherence to the study protocol of a clinical study: In at least one embodiment of a method for supporting a person involved in a clinical study in the adherence to a study protocol, an automatic communication system is disclosed which collects data correlated with the performance of the study in at least approximately real time from a data processing... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080319788 - Method and system for analyzing costs to a plan member under medicare: A method for facilitating an easy and practical detailed analysis of Medicare Part D plans that saves the user time in calculating what a single plan costs by analyzing and presenting data regarding actual and estimated drug costs under various healthcare plans and features. A list of prescription drugs likely... Agent: Kristina M. Grasso Kristina M. Grasso, Esq. PLLC

20080319791 - Method of providing vision care services and retail optical goods: A method for providing optometry services and retail optical goods (38) to patients in a package (20) includes establishing a optical management entity (22) owned by a first group of owners and establishing a professional services entity (56) owned by a second group of owners all different from the first... Agent: William H. Honaker Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080319784 - Online health consultation: Online processing system which combined the process of medical consultation and medical attention, prescription, and monitoring.... Agent: Haniel Cordero Nieves

20080319789 - Patient-specific bin assignment systems, methods, and devices: Systems, methods, and devices are described related to the assignment and management of patient-specific bins. A dispensing device at a healthcare facility includes a number of bins for storage of medical supplies, with some of the bins designated as patient-specific bins allocated to be assigned to patients for storage of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080319786 - Publishing and insurance applications of lifeotypes: The methods and systems described herein may involve determining at least one lifeotype of at least one individual, analyzing the at least one lifeotype, and publishing a publication based on the analysis or providing an insurance engine that provides at least one output based on the analysis.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080319797 - Chronic illness goal management: A health management system includes a plurality of goal modules (14). Each goal module includes one or more content sessions (16, 18, 71, 72, 73, 74, 120, 122, 126, 140, 148) cooperatively directed toward achieving a health management goal. A user interface (30) is configured for presenting content sessions. At... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080319794 - Health information services using phone: A method for storage and access to patient information over a payment processing network is disclosed. One embodiment of the invention includes receiving an authentication response message indicating that a requester is authorized to receive medical information, collecting medical information from various medical institutions via a payment processing network, storing... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20080319796 - Medical applications of lifeotypes: The methods and systems described herein may involve determining at least one lifeotype of at least one individual, analyzing the at least one lifeotype, and monitoring at least on attribute of the at least one lifeotype of the at least one individual, informing at least one medical decision based on... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080319800 - Method for the construction and utilization of a medical records system: A method for the construction and utilization of a medical records system capable of providing a continuous data stream of epidemiological data to the records system via kits provided to the symptomatic population to obtain and record an epidemiological profile in a searchable database by applying data mining or automated... Agent: Pauley Petersen Kinne & Fejer

20080319798 - Personalized medical information card and method for managing same: A method for managing an individual's personal medical information includes creating an online medical information record which contains the individual's stored personal medical information, providing the individual with a physical credit card sized card which includes the individual's key medical information from the individual's online medical information record that would... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (main)

20080319799 - System and method for storing medical data: A method for uploading of a user's medical data to a portable device includes receiving a request for storage of medical data to a portable device and collecting medical data from a plurality of sources. The data is converted to a uniform format for storage on the portable device. At... Agent: Sofer & Haroun LLP.

20080319795 - System and methods for detection and identification of chemical substances: The invention provides a system and methods for centralized collection and verification of controlled substance/pharmaceutical waste. The invention provides a system and methods that replace the witness's co-signature with a process of centralized pharmacy controlled substance validation. In this process, the administering health care practitioner or nurse will give the... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLPIPGroup, Columbia Square

20080319802 - Long term care underwriting system and method: A system and method for analyzing risk for underwriting insurance is provided. The method may comprise: inputting data regarding at least one applicant for insurance, wherein at least one item of data relates to a first category and at least one item of data relates to a second category; assigning... Agent: Dykema Gossett PLLC

20080319801 - Warranted retail transaction: A method of providing a warranty coupled with an identity verification system having the steps of verifying the identity of a party, and, if the identity is fraudulent despite the verification, reimbursing the user of the identity verification system for losses due to the fraud. The warranty may also cover... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080319807 - Management of room cleaning: Systems for management of room cleaning at an accommodation facility such as a hotel. The system records variables related to the occupancy of rooms at the facility and/or operational characteristics of the facility. Daily cleaning times are determined for rooms in accord with the variables. Daily cleaning plans are then... Agent: Dennison, Schultz & Macdonald

20080319806 - Mealtime commerce and publishing in a geo-spatial environment: A method, apparatus and system of mealtime commerce and publishing in a geo-spatial environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes generating a community network of user profiles, each user profile of the user profiles associated with a specific geographic location, generating meal events, each meal event of the... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20080319803 - Method and system for booking travel products online on the basis of up-to-date availability data displayed on a map-based client interface: m

20080319805 - Method and system for validating open basis reservation at lodging: A method of doing business, and related system, for a pre-reservation on an open basis, namely for a guaranteed room on a future unspecified date or future unspecified dates at lodging, which belongs to a group of pre-selected lodgings in a designated geographic area, where the open basis reservation can... Agent: Jennifer L. Skord Moore & Van Allen, PLLC

20080319804 - System and method of global electronic market of educational services in the internet: A system and a method of global electronic market of educational services in the Internet are provided. The method of operating a global electronic market of educational services for consumers of educational services and educational establishments via the Internet includes registering the consumers of educational services and the educational establishments;... Agent: Dr. Pulnikova Valentina

20080319808 - Travel monitoring: A Corporate Travel Management & Cost Consolidation system where each member of the Corporation's Travel Management Team, Corporate Executives and each Corporate Traveler uses a single terminal to view, and analyze Travel and Credit Card information from and to conduct travel and card transactions with two or more GDS, Travel... Agent: David M. Ostfeld Adans And Reese

20080319815 - Computer-implemented method, system, and program product for conducting a trade-off study: A method, system, and program product for conducting a trade-off study are described. Under aspects of the present invention, a mapping of logical model to a physical model for a product that is a subject of the trade-off study is provided. Based on the mapping, component(s) for a configuration of... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080319816 - Enterprise service delivery technical architecture: An Enterprise Service Delivery Technical Architecture includes a Technical Model, and a Technical Delivery Framework, and is designed to facilitate the development of complete enterprise service management solutions. The use of the Enterprise Service Delivery Technical Architecture as the framework for an enterprise systems management technical solution results in solution... Agent: Ibm Corp (wsm) C/o Winstead Sechrest & Minick P.C.

20080319817 - Method and system for monitoring a vehicle: A method for monitoring a vehicle includes detecting movement or activation of the vehicle, transmitting a signal indicating movement or activation of the vehicle, to a control center, transmitting any received operator identification information to the control center, and determining whether an operator identification was received within a time interval... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080319813 - Methods and apparatus for collaborative process modeling: The present disclosure provides methods and apparatuses for collaborative process modeling. Using the methods and apparatus herein, users can utilize a plurality of modeling canvases with a plurality of functionality levels during business process design. Additionally, a plurality of users can work collaboratively on a single business process design.... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080319810 - Methods and system for collecting, storing and distributing information relating to goods and/or services: Presented are methods and systems for collecting, storing and distributing information relating to goods and/or services, and in particular, information relating to the environmental impact of goods and/or services at respective points in a lifecycle of the good and/or service.... Agent: Lackenbach Siegel, LLP

20080319814 - Quality control inspection and maintenance result reporting system: A quality control (QC) inspection and maintenance result reporting system includes a web server, and an inspection database. The web server has various selection and analysis webpages built therein, and the inspection database has quantity analysis reports, production analysis reports, inspection result reports, QC personnel data, unqualified data and photographs... Agent: Hdsl

20080319812 - Sustainable design decision support system: A software application providing system and methods for using Web Services to connect an Analysis calculator, a Recommendations engine, Social Networking, and Knowledge Management technologies in a platform for operationalizing sustainability into Product Life Cycle Management (e.g., conception, design, manufacture, service, end-of-life disposition) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) (including enterprise-wide... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 30623

20080319811 - System and method for modeling an asset-based business: A system for modeling a plurality of assets in a business, the system comprising a database having one or more asset data structures each for storing data representing an asset of the business, the asset having an ascertainable productive output with forecastable market value; and the data structure having one... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP (ott)

20080319809 - System and method of maintaining contracts in business process management: A system and method for establishing and maintaining a contract between a business process model and a monitoring module corresponding to a portion of the business process model is disclosed. In the modeling task, a contract is established and associated with an event in the business process flow. The contract... Agent: Patent Ingenuity, PC

20080319819 - Adjusting a pricing plan of record: The present invention provides a method and system for adjusting a pricing plan. The method may include receiving a baseline and performing a feedback loop method. The feedback loop method may comprise analyzing the pricing plan to see if the pricing plan may include pricing figures that, when applied to... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080319820 - Move lot size balancing system and method: A method and system for allowing a vehicle dealer and manufacturer to match dealer orders and manufacturing plant shipments easily and equitably are disclosed. The method significantly decreases processing time, saving valuable time, money, and manpower resources. An automated linear expression calculation for determining and balancing vehicle allocation allows for... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080319818 - Multimedia calendar: A method for creating events for use by an electronic calendar application. A computer device running a calendar application displays a GUI having a representation of a calendar. A first widget on the GUI initiates a software routine for defining an event. The routine generates an interface window having a... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20080319822 - Method and system for creating and trading schedules: Systems and methods are provided to facilitate employees in accurately specifying and weighting preferences in the form of a bid to be used in a preferential bidding system (“PBS”) at the time schedules are created and shifts are assigned and to facilitate creating shift trade requests after schedules are created... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP - Slc

20080319821 - Method for optimizing a maintenance program: The present invention discloses a method and a computer program for optimizing the implementation of a maintenance program for maintenance units. In the method of the invention, an estimated duration is determined for each maintenance module, a periodic working capacity is determined for each serviceman carrying out maintenance programs and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080319829 - Bias reduction using data fusion of household panel data and transaction data: In embodiments of the present invention, a method is described for reducing bias by data fusion of a household panel data and a loyalty card data. In embodiments, a method is provided for receiving a consumer panel dataset in a data fusion facility, receiving a consumer point-of-sale dataset in a... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080319823 - Communication connectivity via context association, advertising sponsorship, and multiple contact databases: Communication connectivity via context association is provided by associating targeted subscriber contact information with a key at a subscriber database. At a data center, the keys are associated with unique characteristics or aliases (contexts) of the subscribers, thereby facilitating context searching. A caller initiates a connection to a subscriber by... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20080319830 - Creating a pricing plan of record: In embodiments, the present invention provides a method and system for creating a pricing plan. The method may include receiving a baseline including at least one entity plan, creating a pricing plan, validating an assumption used in creating the pricing plan, and making the pricing plan available to a price... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080319834 - Household level segmentation method and system: Methods and apparatus for household level segmentation are disclosed. An example method to classify consumers in clusters includes receiving population data indicative of a population of consumers and receiving a plurality of profiles, at least one profile to evaluate partitioning of the population of consumers. The example method also includes... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080319835 - Information system and information processing apparatus: An information system capable of analyzing customer interests in unpurchased commodities is provided. The information system specifies a commodity shelf or a commodity of interest to a customer based on information captured by a camera group independently of whether the customer purchases the commodity. The information system immediately displays the... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080319824 - Market-based continuous quality function deployment tool and method of use: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide methods and system for gathering feedback regarding clinical software features and/or functionality in a virtual market model. Certain embodiments include allowing one or more authorized users to submit one or more clinical software items for trading in a virtual market; facilitating trading of... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080319836 - Method and system for delivering advertisements to mobile terminals: Method and system for targeted advertising of goods and services to users of mobile terminals, based for example on the users' profile. Goods and services are marketed to particular target groups of users sharing a common profile which may be selected to increase the likelihood of the users responding to... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080319831 - Method and system for providing local information of product: A method and system for providing local information of a product is provided. The method includes the steps of: maintaining an original product register database which records an original product register to specify each product; providing a seller with the original product register so that the seller can select information... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080319827 - Mining implicit behavior: The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can monitor transactions between a content consumer and a user-interface that provides the content. The architecture can also monitor environment variables that relate to a content consumption environment. From one or both of these potential sources, the architecture can identify implicit... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080319833 - P2p real time media recommendations: Systems and methods are described for providing peer-to-peer (P2P) media recommendations. In one embodiment, a central streaming media service operates to stream media presentations to user devices of users. For each user desiring to send and receive recommendations, each time a media presentation is streamed to and played by a... Agent: Concert Technology And Withrow & Terranova

20080319832 - Search methods and systems using periodic payment data to identify items by lump sum value: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for identifying items for purchase by the consumer using a computer. The method and system is premised on the search for items based on the amount of a periodic payment to be paid by the purchaser for the item, whether... Agent: Crawford Maunu PLLC

20080319828 - System for transmitting syndicated programs over the internet: A system and method are provided for exposing Internet users to advertisements together with the distribution of media content in a manner which is germane to conventional syndicated broadcast agreements. The system includes a processor coupled to a memory device. The system further includes software means operable on the processor... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080319825 - Virtual markets for selecting answers to open-ended questions: A virtual market system is used to rank-order answers to an open-ended question. A virtual market on which participants can trade securities representing answers to the open-ended question is used to gather information from the participants regarding each answer. Additional securities representing additional answers to the question may be added... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20080319826 - Virtual markets for selecting answers to open-ended questions: A virtual market system is used to rank-order answers to an open-ended question. A virtual market on which participants can trade securities representing answers to the open-ended question is used to gather information from the participants regarding each answer. Answers to be traded on the market may be provided by... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20080319837 - Pay parking system and method: A parking meter system where a vehicle detector is coupled with a microcontroller for detecting the presence or absence of a vehicle in the associated parking space has a plurality of monitoring units communicating with a single unit for accepting payment by coin, credit card or both. In this way... Agent: Oyen, Wiggs, Green & Mutala LLP 480 - The Station

20080319855 - Advertising and marketing based on lifeotypes: The methods and systems described herein may involve determining at least one lifeotype of at least one individual, analyzing the at least one lifeotype, and targeting an advertisement to at least one individual based on the analysis. The methods and systems described herein may involve determining at least one lifeotype... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080319849 - Apparatus and method for discount integration into an on-line pricing engine: A user may submit a request for pricing information for an item (such as a product or service). Multiple vendors that offer the item are identified, and multiple discounts associated with the item and/or the vendors are identified. A web page that includes pricing information associated with the item is... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080319858 - Automated system to determine, store, and share the relevance of information, and to assign trust to that information: A system includes a relator configured to receive data from an external source, a data store configured to store the data, a first processor to assign a relevance value to each of the stored data, a transceiver to receive a query for data meeting certain criteria, and a second processor... Agent: Mcguirewoods, LLP

20080319856 - Desktop extension for readily-sharable and accessible media playlist and media: A system and method for distributing and providing access to media and for extending such access to a desktop environment is described. A media player in a webpage or in a desktop environment may reference a centralized location to access a playlist of media files. The playlist itself may reference... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20080319859 - Digital media methods: Many digital media methods are detailed. In one, consumers are provided incentives for viewing commercials. In another, charges for entertainment content are assessed based on the percentage actually rendered to a consumer. Signature data can be derived from the advertisements and entertainment content to implement such methods. A variety of... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20080319839 - Dynamically creating a context based advertisement: A method and a system dynamically generates an advertisement based on one or more tokens distilled from information about a web session that requested a web page. For example, a token is distilled from information about a web session. Data is retrieved from a commerce database based on the token.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080319848 - Fresh ad: The present invention is a wipe or towelette with advertising space that may be on an outside package or on the wipe itself. The wipe is attached to a product, the product is of a type that would that may have a user utilize the wipe for cleaning various body... Agent: Michael Ries

20080319844 - Image advertising system: Systems and methods are described for image advertising. In one implementation, an image owner registers an image-bearing medium, such as a website, device, email account, messenger account, printing service, etc., including proprietary images, with a service. The service may connect with the image-bearing medium, for example, by using a crawler... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080319852 - Interactive advertisement overlays on full-screen content: In accordance with one or more aspects, an interactive advertisement overlay is displayed on a full-screen display of program and/or video commercial content. At the end of display of the video commercial content, the display of the interactive overlay is terminated, and an advertising icon is displayed during a full-screen... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080319857 - Managing content resources: Content resources are managed. A request is received from a user for access to a source of content resources. It is determined that the user is authorized for access to the source. A portal Web page is generated based on a set of content element data applicable to the subscriber.... Agent: Houston Eliseeva

20080319840 - Method and apparatus for real-time tv advertisement auction in a tv-over-ip environment: A system for real time auctioning of advertising timeslots for live TV transmission over IP networks incorates settop boxes interconnected to a searver to provide real time viewing statistics to an advertising management system which also receives subscriber information from a subscriber management system which also management system determines demographics... Agent: Utstarcom, Inc. C/o Laura Weiss, Paralegal

20080319860 - Method and system for on-line bidding: A bidding application embedded into an online video sharing platform enables bidding for advertisements as an overlay on published video clips. The invention is applicable to any user generated video web site. Players, or bidding actors, may bid for the sponsorship of the video clip in an online bidding game.... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20080319862 - Method and system for preventing ad stripping from ad-supported digital content: Methods for preventing ad stripping from ad-supported digital content include removing part of the content, and using a digital rights management (DRM) proxy server to provide links to any removed content part and to ads to be inserted in the content to a player who plays the content with the... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20080319846 - Method and system of electronic couponing and marketing: A method and system of electronic couponing and marketing where a third-party intermediary distributes coupons to consumers through a website and the retailer's existing preferred accounts. The method comprises identifying a user, linking the user to an identifier distributed by a seller, enabling the user to search a database and... Agent: Beem Patent Law Firm

20080319850 - Method for managing website advertising space: Method for managing website advertising space, according to which advertisers access a service provider server, which is dedicated to manage website advertising space of authorized host sites. Each advertiser is associated with a corresponding advertiser server and each of the host sites is associated with a corresponding host site server.... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080319853 - Method of obtaining advertising locations: A method includes the steps of working with a beer or soft drink company to obtain site placement rights adjacent a beer or soft drink retailer, placing a beer or soft drink staging structure at the site, storing beer or soft drinks in the structure and marketing beer or soft... Agent: King & Schickli, PLLC

20080319841 - Per-machine based shared revenue ad delivery fraud detection and mitigation: A per-machine based owner compensation advertising delivery systems targets advertising content to individual computer machines. Computer owners are compensated by receiving a portion of the per-machine advertising revenue, obtaining subsidized ad software, or by other financial agreements corresponding to ad delivery to a specific computer. The client software responsible for... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20080319842 - Pixel cluster transit monitoring for detecting click fraud: Detecting click fraud that includes a server that hosts a website that includes a web page containing an advertisement. The server provides an advertisement on a web page, provides pixel clusters on the web page with the advertisement, each pixel cluster having an associated mechanism for capturing whether a cursor... Agent: Moore & Van Allen, PLLC For Ibm

20080319847 - Platform for loyalty services: A platform for a loyalty program provides an interface allowing a consumer to create a benefit tailored for his/her needs. In one embodiment, a consumer accesses the platform via a web-based interface, and selects benefit/reward parameters including but not limited to the nature of the event triggering award of the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080319845 - Printing incentive and other incentive methods and systems: Embodiments of the invention provide printing incentive methods and systems. In one embodiment, a method of providing advertising content to a customer can be provided. The method can include receiving information associated with a customer. In addition, the method can include receiving information associated with at least one advertiser. Furthermore,... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20080319838 - Reward system and method for online credit and debit card transactions: A reward system and method including a card issuing institution that issues debit or credit cards to cardholders. Each cardholder has a cash back account set up by the institution and a cash back program provided by said institution rewards its cardholders with a predetermined cash value dependent on the... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP (la)

20080319854 - Reward system and method for online credit and debit card transactions: A reward system and method including a card issuing institution that issues debit or credit cards to cardholders. Each cardholder has a cash back account set up by the institution and a cash back program provided by said institution rewards its cardholders with a predetermined cash value dependent on the... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP (la)

20080319843 - Supply of requested offer based on point-of-service to offeree distance: An automated communication system supplies a requested offer for inventory to an offeree based on the distance between an offeror-merchant to the offeree. A consumer can request an in-person offer for inventory using a consumer device that transmits to a Requested Offer Supplier (ROS) the request, the location of the... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080319861 - System and method for advertising on a peer-to-peer network: A system for advertising on a Peer-to-Peer network detects a search request of a node in a Peer-to-Peer network. After detecting a search request, the system prepares an unsolicited response (e.g., advertisement) to the search request of the node. Once the unsolicited response is prepared, the system sends the unsolicited... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080319851 - Using delegation for distributing protected content: In various embodiments, a content distribution model is provided in which content providers that own content can distribute their content to third-party content distributors who are unaffiliated with the content providers. The content distributors can, in turn, manipulate the content to provide supplemental content, such as advertising and the like,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080319863 - Using payment mode rankings responsive to item attributes: A method and system are described for obtaining at least a first mode ranking and a second mode ranking responsive to one or more categorical attributes of a first item and to one or more payment mode use constraints and transmitting at least an indication of a first payment mode... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080319864 - Method of dynamically routing food items through a restaurant kitchen: Dynamic Routing of food items through a restaurant kitchen improves on advanced routing methods by being forward looking and forecasting the time to prepare each of the menu items within an order based on the current capacity and conditions of individual prep stations. Such Dynamic Routing has the ability to... Agent: H. Jay Spiegel - H. Jay Spiegel & Associates

20080319865 - Automatic price display control by emulation of electronic cash register price lookup: A system and method for distribution of product price and/or sales data in a retail establishment. Product price and/or sales data is stored locally, either in a central computer or master electronic cash register (ECR) or remotely at a master computer. The product price data is stored in the form... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080319872 - Biometric identification device and methods associated with inventory: The invention is directed towards methods, systems and apparatuses, see FIG. 1, (100) for providing secure and private interactions. The invention provides capability for verifying the identity of a party initiating an electronic interaction with another party through data input module (140) which is verified by the identity verification module... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080319868 - Client customized card for use with selected merchants: A client selects several merchants with whom the card may be redeemed, the amount redeemable, and a design for printing on the card which is personalized for the card recipient.... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP

20080319867 - Digital file processing for secondary sale: In one embodiment, a method for transferring digital files is provided. The method includes: downloading an application for facilitating the transfer of used digital files; storing the application at the client; receiving an indication of a used digital file that a user desires to sell; searching, using the application, storage... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20080319870 - Distributed media reviewing for conformance to criteria: Distributing review of content or other items for conformance with quality requirements or other criteria. Embodiments include distributing media assets over an electronic network to a number of reviewers. Each reviewer uses an interface to review a media asset and corresponding metadata submitted by a content provider. The interface guides... Agent: Corbis Corporation C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20080319866 - Method and system to hand over an online transaction to a help desk assistant: A method of providing assistance to an end-user of an online software application running from a web server. While the end-user and the web server communicate through at least one data network, during a web session initiated by the end-user from a client software application, the online software application provides... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080319874 - System and method for exchanging values based on telephone number of an entity: A system and method for facilitating a value exchange transaction. A first party initiates the transaction by selecting or providing an identifier of another party and the value to be exchanged. The second party may be identified by a pre-existing identifier such as an electronic mail address, telephone number, etc.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080319873 - System and method for facilitating value exchanges: A system and method for facilitating a value exchange transaction. A first party initiates the transaction by selecting or providing an identifier of another party and the value to be exchanged. The second party may be identified by a pre-existing identifier such as an electronic mail address, telephone number, etc.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080319875 - System and method for facilitating value exchanges using mobile devices: A system and method for facilitating a value exchange transaction. A first party initiates the transaction by selecting or providing an identifier of another party and the value to be exchanged. The second party may be identified by a pre-existing identifier such as an electronic mail address, telephone number, etc.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080319871 - Systems and methods for auto-generation of rich media purchase, reservation and/or activity information: Systems, methods, apparatus and computer-readable mediums as discussed herein provide for a method for generating a dynamic electronic book for display in a multimedia player application including receiving information about a purchase by a consumer from a first remote computing device; accessing content associated with the received information; extracting characteristic... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080319869 - Systems and methods for secure and transparent cardless transactions: Systems, methods, and apparatus for handling and/or authorizing payment requests by a consumer for a transaction are provided. Payment information can be sent directly from a consumer to a non-merchant, thereby allowing no new entities to obtain the payment information. Transaction identifiers can be used to facilitate communications among the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20080319877 - Supply unit ordering system, image forming apparatus, supply unit ordering method and supply unit ordering program: An image forming apparatus comprises: a readout portion that reads out from a memory of a supply unit that is replaceably loaded on the image forming apparatus itself, information about a plurality of vendors, which is stored in the memory; and a transmitter that transmits to a terminal apparatus the... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080319876 - System for and method of acting on beverage bottles: A system for and a method of acting on beverage bottles has a plurality of bottles each provided with a device selected from the group consisting of an electrical device and an electronic device integrated in each of the beverage bottles without interfering with a content of the bottle and... Agent: Ilya Zborovsky

20080319878 - Dynamic time series update method: Updating metadata for a set of time series quantity data, and re-creating the set of time series quantity data in response to updating the metadata while reading at least one of the set of time series quantity data.... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C. Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 64280

20080319881 - Electronic commerce transaction audit system, electronic commerce transaction audit method, and storage medium recording electronic commerce transaction audit program thereon: The present invention comprises agent for gathering transaction log means for automatically collecting all exchange messages notarized and recorded depressively by a plurality of electronic notarize means in connection with the electronic commerce transaction so as to reproduce them as an event of the entire wide network area, agent for... Agent: Sughrue, Mion, Zinn, Macpeak & Seas

20080319879 - Optimized communication billing management system: A business method is disclosed directed to attempting to saving clients money on their communications services. Specifically, billing information is obtained for a client and loaded into a database. An initial rate is determined based on this billing information, along with possibly an add on rate for add on services,... Agent: Douglas T. Johnson Miller & Martin

20080319880 - System, computer program and method for processing presentment and adjustment information to institutions participating in a regional or national clearing house: A system, computer program and method for adjusting debits and credits received from participating institutions are provided. The system includes a plurality of remote computers of participating institutions, a central server, a network interface in communication with the clearing house computer and the plurality of remote computers over a network,... Agent: Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP Intellectual Property Section

20080319882 - Efficient work flow system and method for processing taxpayer source documents: A method for processing taxpayer source documents is disclosed. The method may include receiving proforma data and an electronic image of a taxpayer source document, determining a type of tax statement for the taxpayer source document from the electronic image of the taxpayer source document and using the proforma data,... Agent: Ketan S. Vakil, Esq. Snell & Wilmer L.L.P.

20080319883 - Method for usage billing in an internet environment: The invention presents a novel and efficient method of facilitating accurate usage billing. In a multi-user service provider environment, using weighted records of web-server usage to determine each user's bill for services is provided. The invention provides for billing with a minimal amount of overhead on the web host, which... Agent: Lieberman & Brandsdorfer, LLC

20080319884 - Charging system and charging method: The present invention provides a charging system and charging method. An online charging system and an offline charging system are interconnected via a shared data center to make up a dual-engine structure, which is able to implement online charging, offline charging, account sharing, switching between prepaid and postpaid modes, and... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080319888 - Allocation of residual value risk: Residual value risk may be allocated for a leased vehicle between a dealer organization and a manufacturer group, where the manufacturing group may include both a financing institution and a sales organization. In one embodiment, residual value risk may be allocated by first calculating a difference between a residual value... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080319885 - Deposit instruments: Among other things, funds are received at an institution the deposits of which are insured by a third party against loss. In a computer, the received funds are attributed to principal of a single deposit instrument maintained by the institution for the benefit of a depositor. The deposit instrument has... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080319889 - Restricting access to compromised account information: A notification service protects different user accounts from being exposed to fraudulent activity when one of the accounts is compromised. The notification service instructs an issuer of the compromised account to automatically close, freeze or place the other associated accounts on a watch list to prevent potential exposure to the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20080319887 - Systems and methods for accessing a secure electronic environment with a mobile device: The invention provides a system and methods for multifactor authentication of a mobile device for access to an electronic account. The mobile device may serve as one factor of a multifactor authentication process. A time based activation code may be generated in order to enroll an electronic account for mobile... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080319886 - Winans trend indicator: Two moving averages are plotted against a market index price to signal long term market trends. To avoid whipsaws, when applied to the S&P 500, the 40 week moving average is given a negative 3.6% filter and the 25 week moving average is given a positive 2% filter. Crossings of... Agent: Steven A. Nielsen Allman & Nielsen, P.c

20080319921 - Apparatus and method for investment management: A method of funding an investment. The method comprises receiving a loan of a first amount from a lender and paying that loan in to an investment fund. The loan is repaid in accordance with a predetermined repayment schedule. The repayment schedule comprises a plurality of repayments made at predetermined... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080319923 - Investment analysis and planning system and method: A system for modeling and comparing supply of and demand for output of productive assets in an asset based business, the system including a database having one or more demand data structures each comprising a device field for storing data representing a device which consumes said output of the productive... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP (ott)

20080319920 - Method and system for determining margin requirements: The present invention provides for a system and method of applying value-at-risk determination of a financial portfolio to a performance bond requirement and comparing the value-at-risk determination with a traditional scenario-based performance bond requirement.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080319924 - Stock method for measuring and assigning precise meaning to market sentiment: A stock method for objectively quantifying the feeling, or market sentiment, of a company's stock (or the market as a whole) in a data-driven and transparent manner that serves as a standardized tool useful to investors and stock market analysts in gauging such items as inflated or deflated price values... Agent: Greenberg & Lieberman, LLC

20080319922 - Systems and methods for automated political risk management: According to some embodiments, a computer-implemented method to facilitate management of risk related to political exposure associated with a financial transaction may comprise receiving financial transaction data associated with the transaction, determining that the participant is a politically identified person, calculating a first category political risk score based on the... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20080319891 - Clearing system for an electronic-based market: A system for an electronic-based market is disclosed. The system operates with a model where a trader is designated to enter orders for contracts on behalf of a subscriber. The model uses assets of the subscriber that are placed into an account that is accessible by the electronic market to... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080319893 - Intelligent routing of electric power: A method and system for dynamically routing electric power in real time in accordance with parameters submitted by buyers and sellers of electric power using a feedback control scheme. A control node is arranged for receiving the parameters via a wide area network and to generate a route plan based... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080319890 - System and method of enabling an interactive online sales process for electronic real estate transactions: An interactive online sales process is presented for electronic real estate transactions. The process includes initializing a bidding file and instantiating an electronic sale transaction based on the data in the file. Parameters of the sale can be customized by a seller or listing agent. An electronic bid can be... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080319892 - Systems and methods for allocating size among trading accounts: A system and method for allocating trades of financial instruments among multiple accounts comprising aggregating orders, wherein each order is associated with an account, and wherein each order has an original order size; allocating an executed order based on the aggregated order in a phase I allocation, wherein the phase... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080319897 - Apparatus and method for simulating an analytic value chain: A computer-implemented simulator models the entire analytic value chain so that data generation, model fitting and strategy optimization are an integral part of the simulation. Data collection efforts, data mining algorithms, predictive modeling technologies and strategy development methodologies define the analytic value chain of a business operation: data→models→strategies→profit. Inputs to... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 76615

20080319896 - Cardless challenge systems and methods: Systems, methods, and apparatus for handling and/or authorizing payment requests by a consumer for a transaction are provided. Challenge questions may be presented from the non-merchant to the consumer after receiving the payment information, thereby allowing a judicious determination of when to ask such challenge questions and allowing complex and... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20080319894 - Purchasing of investment property by way of having an advanced lease option or rent to own tenant choose his own property: A method described herein includes receiving an indication that a prospective purchaser wishes to purchase a property identified by the purchaser by way of a lease-option or lease-purchase agreement. The method additionally includes purchasing the identified property in response to receiving the indication, and providing the prospective purchaser with a... Agent: Driggs, Hogg, Daugherty & Del Zoppo Co., L.p.a.

20080319895 - System for matching borrowers and lenders: A system and method are disclosed for a borrower to obtain and/or evaluate desired financial services. Personal information from the borrower is obtained and recorded. A credit grading for the borrower is determined based on the personal information, and based on pre-established and objective criteria used by at least one... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080319898 - Donation system: A donation system that would encourage registered individuals to make small contributions to a charity or political campaign (or cause of their choice) as well as facilitate the process of doing so. The system provides a central location for all donation activity and works as a “contribution bundler” to empower... Agent: Greenberg & Lieberman, LLC

20080319899 - System and method for electronically exchanging value among distributed entities based on electronic mail addresses: A system and method for facilitating a value exchange transaction. A first party initiates the transaction by selecting or providing an identifier of another party and the value to be exchanged. The second party may be identified by a pre-existing identifier such as an electronic mail address, telephone number, etc.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080319900 - Life insurance products under a single approved form: A system and method for generating life insurance products under a single approved form. In one aspect, a system and method are provided for determining a premium schedule by selecting a death benefit; targeting a projected balance of an account associated with the product; designating at least one premium band;... Agent: Covington & Burling, LLP Attn: Patent Docketing

20080319901 - Payment card financial validation processing center: A method for validating a payment card financial transaction includes receiving a financial transaction approval request message derived from a payment card that is able to change its magnetic card data as elicited by a card reader. Out-of-sequence transactions encoded in a dynamic number included in said magnetic card data... Agent: Richard B. Main, Esq. Patents Pending

20080319902 - Method and apparatus for facilitating a secure transaction: A method and apparatus for facilitating a secure transaction via a computer network. It is known for fraudsters to carry out “man-in-the-middle” attacks utilizing malicious software which diverts communications or corrupts communication between users and a financial institution computer, in order for the fraudster to modify the transaction. A secure... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080319903 - System and method for interacting with a self-service terminal: Systems and methods for processing custom structured tags at a self-service terminal are disclosed. Custom structured tags received by a self-service terminal can include information to identify one or more devices attached to the terminal and identify one or more types of data to be obtained from a user by... Agent: Michael Chan Ncr Corporation

20080319906 - Biometric identification device: The invention is directed towards methods, systems and apparatuses, see FIG. 1, (100) for providing secure and private interactions. The invention provides capability for verifying the identity of a party initiating an electronic interaction with another party through data input module (140) which is verified by the identity verification module... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080319905 - Secure mobile payment system: The present invention provides a method for conducting a transaction that includes receiving a pseudo account identifier that corresponds to a primary account identifier. The pseudo account identifier may be received at a portable wireless device and may be generated by a remote server computer. The portable wireless device can... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20080319907 - Secure transaction method and system including biometric identification devices and device readers: The invention is directed towards methods, systems and apparatuses, see FIG. 1, (100) for providing secure and private interactions. The invention provides capability for verifying the identity of a party initiating an electronic interaction with another party through data input module (140) which is verified by the identity verification module... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080319904 - Seeding challenges for payment transactions: Systems, methods, and apparatus are provided for authenticating a consumer using challenge questions. A response to a challenge question is verified via seeding the challenge question, receiving response, and deductively determining the answer. The verified response and challenge question may then be used to authenticate a consumer as part of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20080319908 - Packet schema for pay-as-you-go service provisioning: Methods and a program of instruction provide a packet schema framework for communication between elements of a pay-as-you-go business model including a provisioning server, an adapted electronic device, and a service provider. The packet schema defines provisioning instructions and content types to support service provisioning, including electronic device configuration and... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20080319909 - System and method for managing the lifecycle of encryption keys: Automatically managing the lifecycle of encryption keys. The systems and methods include a workflow engine and workflows that implement actions that generate, maintain, replace, and destroy encryption keys. Workflows may trigger other workflows to automate each step in an encryption key's lifecycle. The systems and methods include reporting on and... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20080319910 - Metered pay-as-you-go computing experience: A computer with scalable performance level components and selectable software and service options has a user interface that allows individual performance levels to be selected. The scalable performance level components may include a processor, memory, graphics controller, etc. Software and services may include word processing, email, browsing, database access, etc.... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20080319911 - Financial transaction token with onboard power source: There is provided a card or token for use in financial transactions. The financial transaction token or card has an onboard energy storage device that enables onboard electronics to operate when the card is not in the proximity of a merchant Point-Of-Service (POS) terminal. In one implementation, the onboard energy... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080319912 - Powering financial transaction token with onboard and external power source: A card or token used in financial transactions has an onboard energy storage device that enables onboard electronics to operate when the card is not in the proximity of a merchant Point-Of-Service (POS) terminal. In one implementation, the onboard energy storage device includes a capacitor such as a thin-film capacitor... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080319913 - Anonymous online payment systems and methods: In various embodiments, a central server grants access to a plurality of anonymous one-time-usable, time-sensitive encrypted tokens that identify consumer purchase orders. A plurality of certified merchant servers are certified by being provided with an application to securely connect the certified merchant servers to the central server for, among other... Agent: Dwc Law Firm, P.s.

20080319914 - Transactional security over a network: A system and method facilitating purchase transactions over a computer network, including the purchase of electronically storable items. The embodiments herein encrypt “customer identifier string” in an encryption stream and cause the encryption stream to be transferred from the customer to a merchant in the purchase transaction. A verification entity... Agent: Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080319915 - Biometric identification device and methods for secure transactions: The invention is directed towards methods, systems and apparatuses, see FIG. 1, (100) for providing secure and private interactions. The invention provides capability for verifying the identity of a party initiating an electronic interaction with another party through data input module (140) which is verified by the identity verification module... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080319917 - Bidding for position placement in a search result on time-limited resources: A method, computer program product, and system are provided for bidding for position placement in a search result on time-limited resources. For example, an embodiment of the method includes receiving a bid for position placement of the time-limited resource in the search result, calculating the bid based on historical data... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080319919 - Electronic inquiry lists for financial products: Inquiry lists for financial interests are submitted, negotiated and traded between investors and dealers over a network or networks. An investor interface for display is provided to an investor. A dealer interface for display is provided to a plurality of dealers. The investor can create an inquiry list via the... Agent: Wilmerhale/new York

20080319916 - Method and apparatus for cashless online marketplace: A cashless online marketplace for the transaction of goods and services. A computer implemented method of acquiring membership, donating and acquiring goods/services via the Internet are described. A computer-implemented method for conducting a cashless online transaction is described, generally comprising the steps of a donor posting an item for donation... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20080319918 - Methods and systems for generating product offers over electronic network systems: Methods and systems are provided for advertising and providing product offers. Such methods and systems may be implemented for increasing, for example, advertising revenue or the amount of time spent by individuals viewing a Web site. According to one implementation, a method is provided that includes the steps of receiving... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080319925 - Computer hardware metering: A computer or other electronic device may be used in one of several selectable modes of operation. Computer resources, such as a processor, memory, or a graphics controller, are individually settable for operation at different levels of performance. A mode of operation or performance level is determined by the combination... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20080319926 - Method for dynamic usage billing: A computer-implemented method of calculating a bill for resource usage in an application hosting environment. Resource information is gathered on each computer system resource from a set of resources which are memory resources, SAN resources, CPU resources, hard disk resources, network resources, and middleware resources. A cost per unit of... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080319927 - Methods for the commercial production of transgenic plants: Compositions and methods for producing a crop having a predetermined level of at least one primary trait of interest are provided. The compositions comprise seeds and plants exhibiting a primary trait of interest. Primary traits include traits that improve or otherwise facilitate the conversion of harvested plant material into a... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080312944 - Apparatus and method for metering, monitoring and providing real time enterprise printing information: The invention relate to an apparatus and a method for monitoring all printers in an enterprise. The method includes for each transaction, authenticating a customer associated with the enterprise and obtaining a session ticket. The method also includes executing a printer list fetcher for downloading a list of in-service printer... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080312939 - Automated identification of employment history: A computer system may be configured with software that performs an automated process for identifying at least potions of the likely employment history of a specified individual. The process may include receiving information indicative of the identity of the specified individual. The process may include searching patent inventor data for... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080312945 - Divided title property allocation method and system: A system and method divides the full undivided or fee simple property rights bundle of an individual property into at least two distinct property titles, each encompassing distinct rights and available to distinct owners. One divided title can be a possessing title that encompasses the single unbundled property right of... Agent: R. Blake Johnson Dla Piper US LLP

20080312940 - Imputing intellectual property owned by subsidiaries during automated identification of owned intellectual property: A computer system may be configured with software that performs an automated process for identifying intellectual property owned by a specified company. The process may include receiving information indicative of the identity of the specified company. The process may include searching parent/subsidiary data for subsidiaries of the specified company. The... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080312949 - Information processing apparatus and method and program: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus including a taker and a display controller.... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080312948 - Method and a system for delivering messages: A system for generating a schedule for use in triggering transmission of message content in a telecommunications network is provided. The system comprises a store for storing profiles of a plurality of recipients, and a plurality of message delivery campaigns with one or more criteria. The campaigns to be executed... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080312943 - Method and system for data product license-modification coupons: A method and system for issuing and redeeming digital coupons for requesting and granting modifications of licensed computer data products. Modifications include versions and configurations of the licensed data product as well as licensing issues related thereto. A product licensor issues authenticated coupons to customer organizations which utilize the licensed... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20080312942 - Method and system for displaying predictions on a spatial map: A method and system for displaying predictions on a spatial map includes using a data analyzer for analyzing heterogeneous data having a spatial component to find utilizable data and using machine learning to automatically extract relationships from the utilizable data. The extracted relationships are used to make a prediction about... Agent: Kevin H. Fortin

20080312947 - Method of identifying animals with likelihood of providing high quality meat: providing a unique identification indicia for the animal; providing, to a central organization, detailed information about the animal including at least some of the lineage of the animal, the provided information being keyed to the unique identification indicia of the animal; entering the detailed information for the animal into a... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20080312937 - Robotic fighting system: The patent is a new frame for the wars using robots instead of humans.... Agent: Ching-min Huang

20080312941 - Separable billing for personal data services: A billing system and method for providing both business and personal data access to a user of a wireless communications device is provided. A user enters an access request, and it is determined if the access request is a personal type access request or a business type access request. Personal... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080312938 - Ticket management system: Embodiments of the invention include a system and set of processes for managing tickets. The system maintains a database of tickets belonging to a company and the allotment of the tickets to employees and clients. The system provides interfaces for requesting tickets and managing ticket requests. The system optionally provides... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080312950 - Tracking frequent flyer miles: Inter alia, methods, and means for tracking frequent flyer miles. One embodiment identifies a user database which has a one to many relationship to an accommodations database which contains flights the user has taken along with the corresponding distance traveled in that flight. The distance traveled corresponds to the frequent... Agent: Aerende, Inc.

20080312946 - Trade show information management: Location-based technologies improve a trade show information management. Attendees may benefit from real time, location-specific feedback on trade show activities, aggregated exhibit ratings from other participants, automated and semi-automated exchanges of information with exhibitors, and so forth. Similarly, exhibitors may benefit from improved flow of relevant foot traffic and convenient... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080312958 - Computer system and method for training certifying or monitoring human clinical raters: A method and system are disclosed for computerized training, monitoring, certification or re-certification of human raters in clinical trials. The invention provides an interactive computerized interview that can be compared scores obtained by human raters to monitor and train clinical raters on a continuing basis in order to reduce rater... Agent: Foley Hoag, LLP Patent Group, World Trade Center West

20080312953 - Database design for collection of medical instrument parameters: A method and system for maintaining medical items is provided. The system includes a medical database structure, a medical database utility configured to maintain medical database contents by organizing medical information into levels, and a user interface component configured to enable a user to access the medical database utility. The... Agent: Advanced Medical Optics, Inc.

20080312959 - Health care data management system: The present invention is directed to a health care data management system comprising a workflow management system and a decision support system, as well as to a corresponding computer program product and a method. The decision support system comprises a probabilistic expert system for medical advice and is arranged to... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080312961 - Managing deployment of clinical guidelines: Variable and ambiguous factors in clinical guideline execution are further defined by prior expert medical scrutiny and testing. The definitions promote uniformity and ease of use, afford efficient interpretation by a medical device which can variably invoke the guideline (160) suited to the sensed current situation, and facilitate enterprise-wide administration... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080312951 - Method for optimizing design delivery and implementation of innovative products in healthcare: More precisely, the present invention is related to a method and a database for optimizing design, delivery and implementation of innovative products in healthcare. More precisely, a current treatment scenario of a patient is being loaded from a memory, a default case or a stored scenario from previous customer interviews... Agent: Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. Patent Law Department

20080312956 - Method for proxy development, maintenance and upgrading of pharmaceutical formulary and software tool therefor: A method of operating a formulary and software therefore comprising a unique formulary maintenance tool are disclosed which allows for much greater participation of a PBM In the maintenance and upgrading of formularies. The method and software allow the PBM to create a wide range of useful and efficient proxies... Agent: Gordon & Rees LLP

20080312957 - Method for verifying and assembling a multiple prescription package: A method for verifying a multiple prescription order having a plurality of different medications is described. The method comprises receiving a prescription order that includes a first medication that is different from a second medication. Additionally, the prescription order indicates that the first medication and second medication are to be... Agent: Virtual Legal, P.C. Michael A. Kerr

20080312963 - Productivity workflow index: Provided are methods of providing productivity measure for a complex workflow process, be determining at least one Productivity Workflow Index (PWI) based on data regarding human computer actions and workflow-related variables. Also provided are systems, apparatuses, machine-readable medium, and computer readable program products relating to such methods.... Agent: Castellano PLLC

20080312952 - Regulating use of a device to perform a procedure on a subject: Among other things, whether a procedure can be performed on a subject using a procedure device, is governed based on control data prestored on a portable memory device; procedure data generated in connection with performing the procedure is stored on the portable memory device; the procedure data being stored in... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080312954 - System and method for generating and promulgating physician order entries: A system and method for generating and promulgating Physician Order Entries. The system uses traditional user interface to obtain physician input, and applies context-free grammars to produce a physician order in a standard format including the expected jargon and syntax of conventional physician orders.... Agent: Crockett & Crockett, P.C.

20080312962 - System and method for providing services via a network in an emergency context: A computer-implemented method of providing services using a digital network in an emergency context is provided. In some embodiments, information about a person may be delivered across a network to assist in an emergency medical situation related to that person. The information may be obtained by receiving into the network... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080312955 - System for preventative measures to maintain health and wellness: A system for providing preventative measures to maintain the health and wellness of an individual includes a personal health record accessible through a website connected to an electronic network. The personal health record includes medical history of an individual, at least one health risk assessment, and educational information personalized for... Agent: Zarley Law Firm P.L.C

20080312960 - System of medical treatment units and peripheral devices: The invention relates to a system of a plurality of medical treatment units that are respectively associated with a patient, and a plurality of peripheral appliances also respectively associated with a patient. The peripheral appliances transmit control signals and patient signals to the treatment units, while the treatment units receive... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080312967 - Comprehensive method and system for intake screening and medical records management: A system and method for providing health care services, such as medical intake screening and follow-up patient care, including management of medical records and access to patient information for incarcerated individuals. Data regarding medical information collected during an initial intake and screening process and subsequent physical examination may be inputted... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080312965 - Medical compliance software based system and computer writeable medium: A software based medical compliance system including a physician accessible computer in communication with an electronic medical records (EMR) database for storing, in digitized form, a patient's medical information including at least a prescription medication portfolio. A plurality of software template screens link the physician computer to the EMR database... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20080312966 - Rx scan software component such as for incorporation into a medical compliance software based system & computer writeable medium: A prescription software component, optionally incorporated into a physician accessible and updatable database of patient medical information and which, in cooperation with an interactive process server, issues a wireless medication reminder message to a patient. The prescription component to the program can operate as either a sub-component of the medical... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20080312964 - System and method for electronic home health care: The present invention relates to a system and method for managing the business of providing home health care. It facilitates the matching of a health care worker to a client based upon the attributes the health care worker possesses and how those attributes match the needs of a client. In... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Anne Kinsman

20080312968 - Electronic payment system for providing regular payment services for pre-paid mobile phones: The invention relates to a mobile telecommunication network and specifically a network adapted to provide a pattern identifier and risk analysis system and methodology to enable users of mobile devices within the network to avail of regular payment services such as insurance for their devices. A preferred embodiment of providing... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20080312969 - System and method for insurance underwriting and rating: An apparatus and method for underwriting and/or rating an insurance policy, and for generating information for underwriting and/or rating an insurance policy, are provided. The system and method may include identifying a vehicle, determining a value of at least one vehicle history data variable or a group of variables, and... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20080312970 - System and methods for providing additional insurance: The invention provides a system and method for providing additional insurance to a fully-qualified insured party to increase a total benefit amount of insurance. More particularly, the invention provides a computer system and method for providing additional life insurance to increase a total benefit of life insurance to a fully-qualified... Agent: Carol H. Peters Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c

20080312976 - Enhanced travel reservation system and method: An enhanced travel reservation system and method allows for contribution to reservation offer and selection of a travel reservation provider by a traveler while also allowing for negotiation to occur between the traveler and the travel reservation provider. Before a final booking both the traveler and the travel reservation provider... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP/seattle

20080312977 - Method and apparatus for providing availability of airline seats: A computer program product, method and system for producing seat availability information for a mode of travel such as airline travel produce a prediction of availability of a seat in accordance with an availability query. The prediction is used in place of making an actual query to an airline or... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080312981 - Automated identification of competitors: A computer system may be configured with software that performs an automated process for identifying likely competitors of a specified entity. The process may include receiving information indicative of the identity of the specified entity. The process may include searching patent ownership data for patents and/or patent applications that are... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080312992 - Automatic business process creation method using past business process resources and existing business process: A business process creation method comprising the steps of: receiving the input of the business flow to store the input business flow in the storage unit; extracting a business name of a business corresponding to the input business flow and business information containing business tasks constituting the business from the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080312991 - Buyer-side consolidation of compatible purchase orders: Systems and methods of buyer-side consolidation of compatible purchase orders are described herein. Purchase orders can be identified for consolidation using spatial and temporal proximity parameters. Purchase orders can be modified by changing a ship date or a delivery date and the changing can be based on a buyer input.... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20080312985 - Computerized evaluation of user impressions of product artifacts: Computerized systems and methods for use in evaluating user impressions of a product are provided. One method disclosed includes receiving from a developer of a product, a canonical textual description of an intended product audience and an intended use of a product. The product is displayed to potential users, and... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080312982 - Dynamic creation of a service model: A service model of resources is dynamically created from a selected service model template. A user-input or incoming event selects one of multiple pre-defined service model templates for construction of a selected service model. The selected service model represents real-time characteristics of resources for an enterprise. External data sources, which... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080312983 - Dynamic risk management: Methods and systems of managing project risk in a business environment are provided. In the methods, the presence of mitigation solutions is taken into consideration prior to the occurrence of project-associated risks, thus minimizing negative impact when the risks occur. Project risk levels can be dynamically updated, thus allowing a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080312989 - Evaluation system, evaluation equipment, and computer program: An evaluation system, an evaluation method, and a computer program that specify an effect inhibition factor are provided. The evaluation system specifies the effect inhibition factor when an introduction effect of a predetermined system such as a support system cannot be acquired. Further, the evaluation system notifies a user of... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080312994 - Guideline manager systems and methods: In embodiments of the present invention, a method and system of a guideline manager is provided for receiving a pricing plan of record, identifying at least one product within the pricing plan of record, determining at least one guideline for carrying out the pricing plan with respect to the at... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080312986 - Implementing key performance indicators in a service model: A service model of resources is created and the resources are mapped to a plurality of templates. The service model represents real-time characteristics of resources for an enterprise. Rule-based Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are then configured on the templates and thereby applied to the depicted resources, and the overall health... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080312993 - Information processing system, information processing method, and computer readable medium: An information processing system includes: an action storage unit that stores an item of an action in business and a record of the action in business; a selection unit that selects the item of the action stored in the action storage unit; a voucher item storage unit that stores the... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080312990 - Knowledge management system for asset managers: A knowledge management system is provided to assist asset owners, managers and operators in the management of assets. The knowledge management system includes a database for storing a plurality of manuals, each manual including world's best practice guidelines with regard to an aspect of an asset life cycle; a performance... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080312979 - Method and system for estimating financial benefits of packaged application service projects: A system for calculating financial benefit estimations and generating reports for multi-dimensional project plans for implementing packaged software applications, the system includes: a view layer configured to act as a user interface for user inputs and system outputs; a model and control layer configured to implement rules based on a... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080312996 - Method and system for managing delivery of communications: Method and system for managing delivery of communications such as advertisements to mobile telephone subscribers where delivery to roaming subscribers is prevented or blocked when the subscriber is determined to be using a roaming network and revenue derived from delivery of the advertisements to a roaming subscriber is less than... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080312980 - Method and system for staffing and cost estimation models aligned with multi-dimensional project plans for packaged software applications: A system for generating staffing and cost estimations and reports for multi-dimensional project plans for implementing packaged software applications, the system includes: a view layer configured to act as a user interface for user inputs and system outputs; a model and control layer configured to implement rules based on a... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080312984 - Method for assessing risk in a business: Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems and methods for determining risk associated with a business. The risk determination calculates risk with one or more policy controls associated with one or more business objects in a business object tree. Risk calculated for the policy controls is rolled-up to a... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080312997 - Methods and apparatus for exposing workflow process definitions as business objects: The present disclosure provides methods and apparatuses for exposing a workflow processes definition as a business object. Using the methods and apparatus herein, users can access a business object representing a workflow process definition from any system using standard database constructs. The data for the business object may be combined... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080312995 - Methods and apparatus for managing system events: The present disclosure provides methods and apparatuses for managing system events. Using the methods and apparatus herein, users can create events that are based on changes in a business process or a business system due to a business process activity. Users can create and manage events that evaluate and execute... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080312988 - Performance rating of a business: Method for performance rating of a business entity using a server computer and one or more remote client computers linked to the server computer by a communication network, the method including defining performance metrics related to performance of the business entity; defining desired weighting for each metric; obtaining performance data... Agent: Akzo Nobel Inc.

20080312987 - Supply chain visualization and management system with dynamic zooming: Supply chain visualization and management are achieved using supply entity icons and inventory parameters overlaid on a zoomable map image. A user zooms in and zooms out to display multiple geographical areas and variably receives greater or less detail regarding supply parameters. A user may initiate a transfer of products... Agent: Raman N. Dewan Jackson Walker, L.L.P.

20080312978 - System and mechanism for proactive supplier hub management: A system and method for allowing an organization access to supplier data, allows an organization which has outsourced one or more supply functions to one or more suppliers, permits feeding in real-time data from suppliers and processing and analyzing the data to determine performance metrics. Monitoring of these performance metrics... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, & Christofferson, P.C.

20080312998 - System and method for reducing riks associated with accepting a financial instrument: A system and method for verifying a financial instrument or a user's authorization to use a financial instrument. The system initiates one or more verifying transactions involving the instrument, with details that may vary from one transaction to another, such as the type of transaction (e.g., deposit, credit, debit), amount... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080313001 - Method and apparatus for management of the creation of a patent portfolio: Start-up companies, as well as new businesses within established firms, have the challenge of creating a sensible intellectual property (IP) portfolio. With resources usually tight, not all of the IP can be protected due to cost or resource availability considerations. Accordingly, disclosed herein is an apparatus and method that provide... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080313002 - Method, system, and apparatus for operating a registry: Various embodiments of the present invention relate to a method for operating a registry of service providers in a given service sector, an apparatus for operating a registry of service providers in a given service sector, and a system for operating a registry of service providers in a given service... Agent: Ppg Industries Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080312999 - Multiple goal throughput analysis: A method of analyzing production throughput is disclosed. The method may define production constraints, define timing constraints, define resource constraints, add a weight to one or more solution strategies for the production throughput and calculate a production throughput solution to satisfy the constraints and the weighted solution strategies and report... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20080313000 - System and method for facilitating skill gap analysis and remediation based on tag analytics: This invention includes a workforce management system having a system bus, at least one database in communication with the system bus that includes data representative of workforce employees, and social networking data associated with the employees. A matching functional unit includes a text mining function for mining contextual information from... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080313003 - Designing business processes using parametric roles: Automating a business process includes defining an activity of a business process. The activity is associated with an abstract role, and the abstract role represents a user responsible for performing the activity. An organizational role associated with a set of values is defined. The organizational role can have a value... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080313004 - Method and system for providing a bi-directional feedback loop between project management and personal calendar systems: A system providing a bi-directional feedback loop that assists project management to make timely decisions and alterations based on personal calendar data retrieved from team members' calendars. The system provides a project manager user with perceptible alerts in a project manager user interface in response to detecting a conflict between... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software David A. Dagg, Esq.

20080313007 - Methods and apparatus for scheduling an in-home appliance repair service: A system for scheduling an in-home appliance repair service is disclosed. The system receives inputs from a user via a client device. The inputs are used to identify one or more home appliances in need of repair. For example, the user may have a clogged dishwasher. Data identifying the appliance... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080313005 - System and method for real-time scheduling of human and non-human resources: A system for real-time resource scheduling comprising a hosted line-of-business software application for service providers operating in various industry verticals; a central data center; an in-store web-based calendar for service provider employees; a web-based calendar for service provider customers; and a mobile customer scheduling interface; wherein the central data center... Agent: Antoinette M. Tease

20080313006 - Systems, methods, and devices for managing emergency power supply systems: Aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to systems and methods for managing and monitoring a plurality of emergency power supply systems (EPSS's) at a facility via an emergency power management system (EPMS). The EPMS generally comprises EPSS equipment, a management computer system for managing, monitoring, and testing the operational... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20080313022 - Market determination system: A market analysis system uses travel time to define a relevant market area. A map is generated using stored geographical map information around a selected geographical point or area, and a travel time around the geographical point or area is selected. A trace is formed on the map around the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080313016 - Method and system for managing media content in a network: A method and system for managing a plurality of media content in a network (100) is disclosed. The network includes a content server (104). The method includes associating (404) a skip count with a first media content. Further, the method includes providing (406) the first media content to a user... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080313008 - Method and system for model-driven approaches to generic project estimation models for packaged software applications: A project estimation system with a model-driven approach to the generation of generic project estimation models for packaged software applications, the system includes: a view layer configured to act as a user interface for user inputs and system outputs; a model and control layer configured to implement rules based on... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080313020 - Method for determining relative ranking data in a broker mediated geospatial information service environment: A method for determining a value indicator in a broker-mediated geospatial information service environment includes receiving feedback data at a first system of the broker-mediated geospatial information service environment. In particular, the feedback data is received from a plurality of respondents, and relates to a broker-mediated geospatial information service provided... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20080313009 - Method for extrapolating end-of-life return rate from sales and return data: A method for predicting product return rate behavior. The ratio of the cumulative product returns to cumulative sales affecting product returns is calculated. The cumulative sales affecting product returns is calculated based on a benchmark distribution related to the product return behavior. Accordingly, a manufacturer is afforded a more accurate... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20080313012 - Methods and apparatus for a digital music, video, and data player and recorder and business method of marketing music and video through a branded data storage device: A digital storage device having a credit card sized carrier with memory and processor for processing digital data, an output on the card for converting and transmitting digital data for audio output, a set of touch sensitive controls on the planar surface of the card, a modifiable planar surface for... Agent: James D. Petruzzi

20080313017 - Methods and apparatus to weight incomplete respondent data: Methods and apparatus to weight incomplete respondent data are disclosed. An example method includes assembling a set of complete data, assembling a set of incomplete data, and selecting a channel of interest. The example method also includes estimating activity within the selected channel, and calculating synthetic time indicies for the... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080313011 - Online marketing platform: Online marketing platforms are disclosed that harness user generated content to encourage the viral sharing and tracking of online marketing campaigns. One embodiment includes a campaign hosting system including a database connected to a network, a campaign creation device connected to the network and a plurality of user devices connected... Agent: Kauth , Pomeroy , Peck & Bailey ,llp

20080313010 - Online survey spawning, administration and management: A method and apparatus for spawning and management of online surveys is provided. An administration and redirector subsystem (ARS) is used manage ongoing surveys for a plurality of sites. Surveys can be added to or removed from individual sites using the ARS. The ARS also tracks statistics for individual surveys.... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080313021 - Power demand and supply-adjustment system and method: A power consumption-demand/supply adjustment apparatus comprises: a monitor for a consumption amount of supplied power and the quality of supplied power; a contract-adjustment means for supporting establishing of contract for a power demand/supply by adjusting power demand conditions of a customer and power supply conditions of a power supplier; and... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080313015 - Pricing plan of record: In embodiments of the present invention, a method and system is provided for producing a pricing plan of record. The present invention may provide for determining a pricing plan, the pricing plan specifying unit price guidelines for a plurality of items based on anticipated demand, the pricing plan being directed... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080313013 - System and method for estimating forward retail commodity price within a geographic boundary: Embodiments disclosed herein provide a new way to generate estimated forward retail prices for a retail commodity within a geographic boundary that represents a target market; Using estimates for local retail prices, combined with knowledge of current and historical wholesale prices, embodiments disclosed herein enable the creation of a forward... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20080313019 - System and method for extracting contact information from website traffic statistics: A system and method for providing user-defined business contact information, relating to website traffic statistics, to a user approximately in real-time is described. One embodiment comprises receiving visitor information associated with a visitor to a website, wherein the visitor information includes at least an IP address of the visitor and... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080313018 - System and method for prime lead data commercialization: A prime lead data commercialization system and method, in at least one embodiment, filters lead data to identify prime leads, provides the prime leads to a recipient, and determines compensation to the lead source based upon conversion rates. By shifting compensation risk to the lead source, the prime lead data... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080313014 - System and method of determining a retail commodity price within a geographic boundary: Disclosed are a method and system for determining a retail price for a commodity within a geographic boundary. Retail prices for the commodity may be obtained from various sources, such as observers, third-party reporting, transactional data, and self-reporting. The retail price for each source may be analyzed to determine a... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20080313025 - Designed process testing method: A method for identifying deficiencies in a new or improved designed process comprising the steps of collecting implementation data pertaining to agents, resources, environment and strategy associated with the designed process, identifying a historical event to serve as a context for evaluating the designed process, compiling historical event data for... Agent: Law Offices Of Grady L. White, LLC

20080313023 - System for facilitating objective evaluation of the performance of sell-side professionals: A system for facilitating evaluation, by a buy-side professional, of performance of a sell-side professional, includes a computer system and a source of performance data in which the computer system is in communication. Software executing on the computer system receives from the sell-side professional a plurality of sell-side data and... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20080313024 - Workflow management system and workflow management method: A workflow management system for managing a workflow including plural tasks is disclosed that includes a task data storing part for storing task data and a task control part for obtaining task data from the task data storing part, calculating a predetermined index from the task data, and outputting an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080313026 - System and method for voting in online competitions: Content distribution systems that support Cost-Per-Engagement (CPE) based advertising are disclosed. One embodiment of the invention includes a server connected to a network, a database connected to the server and a voter computer connected to the network. In addition, the server is configured to provide a plurality of options to... Agent: Kauth , Pomeroy , Peck & Bailey ,llp

20080313030 - Category-based advertisement: A hierarchical category system for organizing and displaying electronic advertisements is disclosed. Each electronic advertisement is assigned one or more categories from a hierarchical categorization system. Similarly, each available advertisement placement location is also provided with a category from the hierarchical categorization, system. Then, when displaying advertisements, the system attempts... Agent: Stattler - Suh PC

20080313031 - Classification of images as advertisement images or non-advertisement images: An advertisement image classification system trains a binary classifier to classify images as advertisement images or non-advertisement images and then uses the binary classifier to classify images of web pages as advertisement images or non-advertisement images. During a training phase, the classification system generates training data of feature vectors representing... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080313040 - Content distribution system including cost-per-engagement based advertising: Content distribution systems that support Cost-Per-Engagement (CPE) based advertising are disclosed. One embodiment includes a server connected to a network and a plurality of user computers connected to the network. In addition, the server is configured to host an interactive web site that enables the uploading of pieces of content... Agent: Kauth , Pomeroy , Peck & Bailey ,llp

20080313034 - Credit item tracking system: A transaction system comprising: a participating vendor tracking mechanism that identifies at least one participating vendor which has authorized at least one certificate to be sold at a face value determined by a promotional campaign and rate plan; a purchase interface that generates a request by a customer for at... Agent: Absolute Technology Law Group LLC

20080313027 - Fair discounting auction: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates employing an online auction in which a coupon is fairly administered. An online auction environment that can employ an auction to identify a fair market value of at least one of a good or a portion of a... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080313037 - Interactive advisory system: A method for passing content to at least one communicator device. The user of a communicator device registers with at least one service provider for delivering a plurality of different types of content to be passed to the at least one communicator device. A user defined priority is assigned to... Agent: Dunlap Codding, P.C.

20080313033 - Method and apparatus for advertisement delivery in wireless networks: The invention provides for advertising content selection, presentation, and statistics reporting at a wireless user terminal. The invention includes a method for selecting a subset of advertising content for presentation at the wireless user terminal. The invention includes a method for presenting advertising content at a wireless user terminal in... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20080313043 - Method and system for advertising a product or service: The present invention provides a method of advertising a product or a service. The method involves distributing an advertisement to a viewer, wherein the advertisement includes an embedded code. In a typical embodiment, the viewer would view the advertisement, take note of the embedded code, and send the code to... Agent: Marc Segal

20080313044 - Method and system for payment and/or issuance of credits via a mobile device: System and method for delivering upon request credits having monetary value to a mobile device using a communications network. An account of available credit for the user of the mobile device is maintained and authorization to issue credit is generated when a request for credit for the mobile device is... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080313032 - Method for operating a points incentive program: The present invention is a method for operating a points incentive program comprising three steps. The first step is to provide consolidation of third party account information into a single source identifier. The second step is to allocate points received by the source identifier to each respective third party account... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20080313038 - Method, system and apparatus for users to build and use digital products and for advertisers to communicate with users in a manner that does not mitigate user experience: Serving targeted advertisements to a user within a virtual environment. The virtual environment is displayed to the user on a client and enables selection of components for use within the virtual environment. Component selections, associated with one or more attributes are obtained from a user, and a custom product, which... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080313041 - Multi level marketing for businesses and consumers: A novel marketing system and method wherein consumers and businesses join a network which increases commercial activity in a synergetic manner, providing profits and monetary rewards to consumer members and participant businesses. Participant businesses use the network as a platform for self advertising for which expenses are paid only after... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20080313029 - Push-caching scheme for a late-binding advertisement architecture: A system providing late-binding of advertisements to video content and incorporating a push-caching scheme is disclosed. In general, the system includes an advertisement server located at a central location such as a central headend and a number of late-binding systems located at locations such as a number of remote headends.... Agent: Flashpoint Technology And Withrow & Terranova

20080313028 - System and method for consumer notification that an order is ready for pick up via an application-specific user interface on a personal communication device: Systems and methods for providing notification of order fulfillment for an order previously made at a retail device by a consumer interacting with a personal communication device are disclosed. According to one system and method, a notification is provided to the personal communication device that the order has been fulfilled,... Agent: Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP

20080313036 - System and method for providing advertisements in online and hardcopy mediums: A system and method for providing advertisements in online and hardcopy mediums is presented. Advertising content is targeted to a target audience. The characteristics of the target audience are analyzed against the advertising content to identify potential advertisers. At least one of the potential advertisers is selected. One or more... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property

20080313035 - System and method for providing print advertisements: A system and method for providing print advertisements is presented. A target audience is assembled from characteristics about readers. Advertising content is targeted to the target audience. The characteristics of the target audience are analyzed against the advertising content to identify potential advertisers. At least one of the potential advertisers... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property

20080313039 - Systems and methods to facilitate the specification of a complex geographic area: Methods and systems to specify complex geographic areas for advertisements to connect advertisers and customers for real time communications. One embodiment includes: a web server to present a user interface to receive input specifying a plurality of geographic areas and one or more operations to combine the plurality of geographic... Agent: At&t Legal Department Attn: Patent Docketing

20080313042 - User driven system for enabling associative endorsement and distribution of branding capsules: Building brand awareness that enables users to personally endorse and drive branded messages to a plurality of targets that have a high likelihood of being receptive to the message and associated branding. To ensure that the brand messaging is kept consistent with the desires of the advertiser a repository of... Agent: Dalina Law Group, P.C.

20080313045 - Using payment mode rankings responsive to item attributes: A method and system are described for obtaining at least a first mode ranking and a second mode ranking responsive to one or more categorical attributes of a first item and to one or more payment mode use constraints and transmitting at least an indication of a first payment mode... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080313046 - Food ordering system and method: Embodiments of a food ordering system include a menu board station adapted to display information about a plurality of food items. At least one dispenser is associated with at least one of the plurality of food items. The at least one dispenser is adapted to dispense an article including identifying... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080313048 - Dual input/output device point of sale terminal: A dual input/output point of sale system allows a customer and a point of sale operator to use respective input/output devices, such as a touch screen, independently and cooperatively during a transaction.... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080313047 - Payment clearing network for electronic financial transactions and related personal financial transaction device: Described herein are networks and related devices and methods for facilitating the electronic transfer of funds and electronic purchases between consumers, merchants, and other parties. Also facilitated by the principles described herein is the electronic transfer of funds or payments between individuals. The disclosed principles provide for the funds of... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20080313054 - Delivery storage apparatus and system and a method for the same: An apparatus, system and method for delivery storage. The delivery storage apparatus includes an outer opening to allow an individual delivering the goods to place the articles of food directly into the delivery storage apparatus disposed at a side of a house without the presence of the owner. The delivery... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080313050 - Media exchange system: A media exchange system according to the present invention provides a simpler interface for requesting media from a server. The user can store an archive copy of the media at the server and send copies to other users with accounts on the server. The user has a control unit which... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20080313052 - Method and system for managing transactions initiated via a wireless communications device: A system for managing an order received from a wireless communications device (WCD), including: an order element, in a processor in at least one specially programmed general-purpose computer, arranged to receive, via an interface element in the computer, a transmission, via a communication network, from the WCD, including an order... Agent: Simpson & Simpson, PLLC

20080313051 - Online preowned golf club sales: A portal is provided in which accounts can be created and sellers of golf clubs have login privileges. A seller of preowned used clubs can input an inventory of clubs it wishes to sell. Account representatives at the portal implement a system that grades the clubs and provides a group... Agent: Ward And Smith, P.A.

20080313053 - Payment service: A method and system to offer a payment service to a consumer user. The system receives a check-out request from the consumer user of an electronic storefront. The check-out request is for purchase one or more products from the electronic storefront. The system determines whether to offer a payment service... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080313049 - System and method for dynamic reordering of items in an online list: A computer implemented method for dynamic reordering an online list is disclosed. An embodiment of the invention provides the user with the ability to change the position of an item displayed on the list and this change is seen by all users who are browsing this list. The user provides... Agent: Louis Ventre, Jr

20080313055 - Method and apparatus for generating customized furniture documentation: Preferred embodiments include a method and apparatus for generating customized product documentation for a furniture item having a plurality of surface material options. A computer receives a plurality of images of surface materials which may be applied to a furniture item and stores the images into a computer database. Label... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20080313056 - Ordering and image transmission system and method utilizing instant messaging: A system and method for a consumer to order goods and/or services from a vendor through the use of an instant messaging service and to transmit images via instant messaging. The consumer initiates an instant message communication link between the consumer and the vendor by using the vendor's screen name... Agent: Keith D. Nowak

20080313057 - System and method for the collaborative solicitation of knowledge base content, services and products: A system and method for soliciting a content item, which may include but is not limited to one or more products, services and/or acts, based on an assumption that if a content item can be identified for which a single Internet user has a desire, amongst the millions of world-wide... Agent: Daniel B. Schein, Ph.d., Esq., Inc.

20080313059 - Method and apparatus for a receiving, inspection, and supplier quality system: The disclosure provides a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for managing inspection of items. In one embodiment, an identifier for an item is received in a shipment of items to form a received item. Inspection criteria for inspecting the shipment of items are adjusted using a... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080313060 - Openly accessible inventory management system and method: A system enabling users to view and initiate action to alter the geographic distribution of the pooled inventory of an item includes an inventory registry, a transaction module, and a viewing module. The inventory registry includes information indicative of a pooled inventory of an item including inventory from two or... Agent: Raman N. Dewan Jackson Walker, L.L.P.

20080313058 - Process and system for identifying demand for inventory: A computer-implemented process for identifying demand for excess inventory includes the steps of determining an inventory level and a forecasted demand of at least one part at least one facility; determining a part interchangeability of a first part with a second part of the at least one part; inputting an... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C. (p&w)

20080313063 - Expense report generation from confirmation emails: Inter alia, methods, and means for automatically generated travel expense reports. One embodiment identifies an email extractor that reads travel expense information from travel reservation booking emails. The extracted information is then displayed in electronic table format. The displayed information includes travel expense details such as vendor name, trip conveyance,... Agent: Aerende, Inc.

20080313064 - Method and system for manual authorization: Embodiments provide systems, apparatus, methods, computer program code, and means for performing manual authorizations.... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (amex)

20080313061 - System and method for facilitating transfer of physical money and/or credit: A system for transfer of physical money and/or credit comprises a transferring party with a first communication device; an intended recipient with a second communication device; a facilitator; and a third party, wherein the transferring party makes a payment to a third party and receives a unique payment code associated... Agent: Intellectual Property Law Group LLP

20080313062 - System and method for mapping paper receipts to electronic receipts using an application-specific user interface on a personal communication device: Systems and methods for providing an electronic receipt for an order previously made at a retail device by a consumer interacting with a personal communication device are disclosed. According to one system and method, a receipt is scanned using the personal communication device, where the order was previously made by... Agent: Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP

20080313067 - Management and decision making tool for commodity purchases with hedging scenarios: Methods for managing hedging scenarios associated with a retail commodity. The method includes enabling the creation of a risk profile associated with a user and the commodity. Based on the risk profile, the method includes selecting hedging scenario(s) associated with purchasing a quantity of the commodity. The method also includes... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20080313066 - Method and system for managing receipts: A method and system for managing receipts includes a process for managing receipts whereby when a user makes a purchase of a product and/or service, an electronic copy of the data on the purchase receipt is generated. The purchase receipt data is then assigned an identification code unique to the... Agent: Gunnison, Mckay & Hodgson, L.L.P.

20080313065 - Method of and system for analyzing, modeling and valuing elements of a business enterprise: An automated system (100) and method for analyzing, modeling and valuing elements of a business enterprise on a specified valuation date. The performance of the elements are analyzed using search algorithms and induction algorithms to determine the value drivers associated with each element. The induction algorithms are also used to... Agent: Asset Trust, Inc.

20080313097 - Credit index, a system and method for structuring a credit index, and a system and method for operating a credit index: 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

20080313099 - Method and system for providing downside protection of stock market investments: A method and system for providing downside protection of stock market investments. The present invention allows stock prices to be expressed as a stop loss percentage of the high value the stock price attains rather that a fixed or “hard entered” number. The stop loss percentage of the high value... Agent: James Addison Barry, Jr. J Barry Law Office

20080313094 - Method and system for searching, displaying and sorting products or services according to computed costs: A method and system are disclosed for searching, displaying and sorting products or services according to computed costs for the products or services per a specified time period. For each of a group of products or services, (i) a first component cost is determined representing the cost of purchasing or... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080313098 - Method for displaying information for use in electronic trading of financial instruments: Financial instruments may be electronically traded according to any of three modes, including single instrument mode, correlated mode, and aggregated mode. One of more market depth representations showing current market price levels, Bids and Asks of the financial instrument(s) to be traded are displayed on a GUI window. The user... Agent: Michael E. Sellers

20080313095 - System and method for creating and trading a digital derivative investment instrument: A method and system for auctioning an investment instrument that allows investors to take risk positions relative to the occurrence or non-occurrence of a contingent binary event is disclosed. The contingent binary event will have one of two possible outcomes. Tn a digital derivative contract, a long investor agrees to... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080313096 - System and method for financial product management: The present invention provides a financial product management system for managing a financial product, which makes it possible to attempt to reduce the investment risk associated with current price fluctuations even when making a lump-sum investment without requiring the investor or distributor to divide the total funds into smaller amounts.... Agent: Ward & Olivo

20080313100 - Systems and methods for trading actively managed funds: The invention provides systems and methods for intra-day trading of actively managed exchange traded funds (AMETFs). The invention provides creation and redemption structures for AMETF shares that allow arbitrage, intra-day value estimations for AMETF shares, and hedging portfolios for hedging risks associated with trading AMETF shares, all without requiring disclosure... Agent: Howrey LLP - Dc

20080313069 - Distributed reverse auction: A distributed reverse auction allows an auction to end when a dealer is first in time to accept a bid. A purchaser creates an account that relates to a specified purchase. The purchaser places bids at different dealers using the created account. The first dealer to accept the bid draws... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080313072 - System and method for bidding on contingency-based matters: A system comprises a web server for posting matters of clients for bidding by contingency professionals, e.g., contingency lawyers and/or judgment collectors; a client matter engine for enabling a particular client to post a particular matter and to select a particular contingency professional bidding on the particular matter to handle... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20080313070 - System, method and apparatus for consumer purchase and future distributed delivery of commodity at predetermined prices: Embodiments disclosed herein provide a unique methodology as well as the overall architecture necessary to implement the methodology that can enable an entity to create and provide a consumer price protection product under the Forward Contract Exception of the Commodity Exchange Act. Even consumers who do not meet commodity-related regulation... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20080313068 - Systems and methods for enabling borrowing of stock: Systems and method for enabling borrowing of stock according to the invention have been provided. One method of facilitating borrowing shares of a pre-determined stock according to the invention may include receiving a list of guaranteed stock lenders. The system may display the list of guaranteed stock lenders in a... Agent: Weiss & Arons, LLP

20080313071 - Systems and methods for providing investment opportunities: An online trading competition is provided in which a group of traders are associated with teams and allocated an amount of money to be invested. Trade instructions are received from the traders, and based on the instructions, performance metrics are calculated for each of the traders. Each trader is rated... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20080313073 - Apparatus and method for simulating an analytic value chain: A computer-implemented simulator models the entire analytic value chain so that data generation, model fitting and strategy optimization are an integral part of the simulation. Data collection efforts, data mining algorithms, predictive modeling technologies and strategy development methodologies define the analytic value chain of a business operation: data→models→strategies→profit. Inputs to... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 76615

20080313074 - Business model that brings new technology to market in a rapid, cost effective manner: A system, model and method for commercializing a consumable product used in capital equipment by selling the consumable product in a first sale directly to a builder of capital equipment integrally with the sale of the capital equipment at a first price then making a second sale of the consumable... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080313076 - Downstream correspondent foreign exchange (fx) banking: Systems and methods that enable real-time (or almost real-time) foreign exchange (FX) pricing via retail branch networks, wire room operations and cash management platforms are provided. Essentially, the systems and methods decouple the FX-infrastructure and enable downstream banks to effectively and efficiently access FX transaction services and infrastructure without the... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080313075 - Payments-driven dynamic firewalls and methods of providing payments-driven dynamic access to network services: A machine-implemented method of providing dynamic access to network services may include receiving a request from a client for a type of network service, monitoring an amount and type of network service being provided to the client, and receiving incremental payments from the client for the network service being provided... Agent: Prass LLP

20080313077 - System and method for coordinating charitable contributions: A system and method allows charitable organizations through banking partners to calculate, collect and distribute monetary donations provided by financial institutions based on those institution's credit or debit cardholders who have opted to make monetary donations to beneficiaries based on their card usage. The process of making monetary donations by... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20080313080 - Method and apparatus for controlling the transfer of private information in a communication system: Methods and systems for selectively transferring confidential or private information to a user of a communication device are disclosed. In an exemplary method, a trigger event is detected at a first communication device, resulting in the retrieval of a data object for transmission to a second communication device. If the... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20080313081 - Method and apparatus for payment service using bar code: A method and apparatus for a payment served based on a card of a purchaser instead of a wire or wireless card inquiry apparatus or a payment gateway program owned and managed by a merchant. The method includes confirming merchandising member store information provided after a merchant registers on a... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080313079 - System and method for proximity payment transaction between a wireless communication device and a point of sale terminal in conjunction with a trusted party: A method for proximity payment transaction between a wireless purchasing device and a point of sale terminal in conjunction with a trusted party. The wireless communication device initiates a proximity payment application for a transaction between the wireless purchasing device and the point of sale terminal. The wireless communication device... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080313078 - System and method for verification of site location using an application-specific user interface on a personal communication device: Systems and methods for preventing fraud during a purchase transaction performed at a retail device are disclosed. According to one system and method, an identifier is received from an application-specific user interface executing on a personal communication device, wherein the identifier is associated with the retail device. Location information associated... Agent: Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP

20080313082 - Method and apparatus for proximity payment provisioning between a wireless communication device and a trusted party: A method for proximity payment provisioning by a wireless communication device is disclosed. A photo image of a user of the wireless communication device is loaded. The loaded photo image is transmitted to a trusted party via a communication network. A superimposed photo image is received from the trusted party,... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080313083 - Systems and methods to manage presentations of advertisements: Systems and methods to manage the presentation of advertisements. One embodiment includes: a data communication server to assign a reference of a connection server to an advertisement and to provide the reference of the connection server with the advertisement for presentation to customers; a connection server to receive from the... Agent: At&t Legal Department Attn: Patent Docketing

20080313084 - Digital content royalty management system and method: A system and method manages the royalties for owners of digital content when processed or output by a user. A control module on a user device decodes information in a watermark embedded in a digital file and restricts output of the digital file based on the decoded information. The control... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20080313085 - System and method to share a guest version of rights between devices: A method to share a guest version of rights between two devices is described. For one embodiment, a non-guest rights object may be converted to a guest rights object by withholding certain information when conducting a secure transfer or sharing of rights. For another embodiment, rights issuers that issue rights... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080313086 - Secure licensing system: A secure licensing system and method where a licensed product is purchased by a first party from a second party and then conveyed by the second party to a recipient with an indication that the first party is an intended licensee of the licensed product. Identity of the recipient of... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080313087 - Automated teller machine having access point and method for providing financial service using the same: An automated teller machine (ATM) having a wireless network access apparatus and a method for providing financial services using the ATM are provided. The ATM includes a user interface unit, a first financial processing unit, a first network access unit, a second network access unit, and a second financial service... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080313088 - Identification verification system: An identification verification system having several applications is disclosed. First, a sender sends a person an offer that requests information. The person replies to the sender, who forwards the reply to a verifying entity. If the sender is legitimate, the verifying entity forwards the reply to a UDID service, which... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20080313092 - Computerized system and method permitting a buyer to interactively barter/negotiate and arrangement to make a purchase from at least one seller: A computer implemented process, associated storage medium having program code, and system, for bartering for at least one term relating to the purchase of a product by interacting with a motional graphic displayed on a screen of a client-device. The process includes: (a) displaying a product indicia for each of... Agent: Jean M. Macheledt

20080313093 - Electronic business transaction system: A center site is disposed to intervene in a business transaction achieved through a network. The center site includes an open business information database in which open business information received from member sites connected to the network is accumulated to be opened to the sites and a notarization database to... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080313090 - Interaction-management methods and platform for client-agent interaction-related environments: A platform for enabling collaboration of components of a distributed interaction-related loosely-coupled system, and a method thereof are provided. The platform includes a communication medium and interaction-related business services capable of communicating via the communication medium using an interaction management protocol. The platform further includes one or more business process... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080313091 - Method and electronic platform for enabling and hosting a market for research, and a taxonomy method for specifying research: An operational method and an electronic market platform for hosting a market place for investment research products that have been classified according to a species of research based upon a buyer-side ex-ante procurement process. Research providers are able to provide a range of prices for each species or class of... Agent: Lackenbach Siegel, LLP

20080313089 - Multiple option auction method and system: The present invention relates generally to a method and system for conducting online auctions. It has particular application in conducting business over a network of computers such as the Internet, for establishing materials or service supply or sales contracts, agreements for allocation of resources, etc. In particular, the invention relates... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20080312971 - Managing patient bed assignments and bed occupancy in a health care facility: An integrated health care delivery network with enabling software and network technology to maximize bed resources, manage varying census levels, and avoid patient diversions through real-time monitoring, automation and communication, is disclosed. Preferably, the present invention is embodied in a bed management system that interfaces with and complements existing Admission/Discharge/Transfer... Agent: Tillman Wright, PLLC

20080312972 - Managing patient bed assignments and bed occupancy in a health care facility: An integrated health care delivery network with enabling software and network technology to maximize bed resources, manage varying census levels, and avoid patient diversions through real-time monitoring, automation and communication, is disclosed. Preferably, the present invention is embodied in a bed management system that interfaces with and complements existing Admission/Discharge/Transfer... Agent: Tillman Wright, PLLC

20080312973 - Managing patient bed assignments and bed occupancy in a health care facility: An integrated health care delivery network with enabling software and network technology to maximize bed resources, manage varying census levels, and avoid patient diversions through real-time monitoring, automation and communication, is disclosed. Preferably, the present invention is embodied in a bed management system that interfaces with and complements existing Admission/Discharge/Transfer... Agent: Tillman Wright, PLLC

20080312974 - Managing patient bed assignments and bed occupancy in a health care facility: An integrated health care delivery network with enabling software and network technology to maximize bed resources, manage varying census levels, and avoid patient diversions through real-time monitoring, automation and communication, is disclosed. Preferably, the present invention is embodied in a bed management system that interfaces with and complements existing Admission/Discharge/Transfer... Agent: Tillman Wright, PLLC

20080312975 - Managing patient bed assignments and bed occupancy in a health care facility: An integrated health care delivery network with enabling software and network technology to maximize bed resources, manage varying census levels, and avoid patient diversions through real-time monitoring, automation and communication, is disclosed. Preferably, the present invention is embodied in a bed management system that interfaces with and complements existing Admission/Discharge/Transfer... Agent: Tillman Wright, PLLC

20080313101 - Method and apparatus for capacity- and value-based pricing model for professional services: A method and structure for pricing a good or service to a customer includes a calculator that executes a pricing model that includes a dimension of a utility of the good or service to the customer.... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080313102 - Method of and system for estimating the cost and effort associated with preparing for and conducting a cmmi appraisal: A method of and system for estimating the cost of and effort associated with preparing for and conducting a CMMI appraisal. A set of variables affecting a CMMI appraisal are input. Prior CMMI appraisal data is determined. The costs and effort associated with preparing for and conducting different stages of... Agent: Iandiorio & Teska

20080313103 - System for identifying lowest cost prescription: A computer software system that provides a requester and a physician with information on available cost savings for therapeutic equivalents to a patient's medication is disclosed. The computer software system can include an information-gathering template, a system administrator module, a search engine, a database and a message delivery module. The... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20080313104 - System and method for printing correct postage for batches of mail with presort discounts: A method and system of providing postage wherein delivery fee discounts are provided based on one or more sorting levels in which mail pieces are run through the system twice. In the first run, postal codes are obtained from the mail pieces, a running tally for each participating sorting level... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20080313105 - Virtual mailing system: A virtual mailing system includes a virtual post office disposed in a virtual environment. A user in the virtual environment can request for the delivery of an electronic asset. A postage metering device, associated with the virtual post office, is operative to review the aspects of the delivery of the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080306750 - Employment screening system and method: A system and method for screening candidates for compliance with general, employer specific, and/or position specific policies. Such policies may be applicable to job applicants, potential contractors, existing employees, and/or existing contractors (collectively, “candidates”), and may be influenced by law or by best practices. The system compiles data based on... Agent: Ice Miller LLP

20080306746 - Executing business processes using persistent variables: Executing a business process includes initiating an instance of a business process comprising activities, where the instance has an instance variable. A first activity of the business process is executed, and a value corresponding to the instance variable is received. The instance variable and the value is recorded in an... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080306752 - Method and system for automatic testing in a business scenario environment: A software tool for automatically executing relevant testing in an Application Platform. When an object in an Application Platform is changed, testing may be executed for the changed object as well as any related objects.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080306747 - Method for charging for a service in a communication network: The invention permits the operator of a stateless proxy, or application broker to offer a reliable trustworthy charging system which is accurate in definable intervals in a simple manner to registered application service suppliers, or registered clients, in which, during the provision of the service, the client and server are... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080306754 - Pet commerce and pet groups in a geo-spatial environment: A method, apparatus, and system of pet commerce and pet groups in a geo-spatial environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes generating a community network of user profiles, each user profile associated with a specific geographic location, procuring preseeded pet data, providing categories of the preseeded pet data,... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20080306748 - Request modification method and system: A modification method and system. The method includes presenting by a computing system to a requester, templates associated with a candidate request. The computing system receives from the requester, first data associated with the candidate request. The computing system generates a request document comprising the first data. The computing system... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080306757 - Server, settlement system and recording medium: A server device comprises: a first communication unit for communicating with a sales data processor and a settlement center; a first storage unit; and first control means for receiving sales data via the first communication unit from the sales data processor, for storing the sales data in the first storage... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080306756 - Shopper view tracking and analysis system and method: Devices, systems, and methods for tracking a view of a shopper are disclosed. The system may include camera coupled with a head of a shopper, and configured to capture one or more images in a field of view of the camera as captured image data. The shopper view tracking system... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20080306758 - System and method for initiating returns over a network: The present invention provides systems and methods for processing return transactions over a network. An embodiment of the invention discloses an online return application that generates an electronic return shipping label that can be delivered to a browser of a customer that wishes to make a return. Also, disclosed is... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080306749 - System and method for presenting image bearing products for sale: A method of presenting n offer of an image-bearing product to a user provides access to a plurality of user image files. User image files are analyzed to obtain semantic information about the content of the plurality of image files. An offer for the image-bearing product based on the semantic... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20080306753 - System and method for providing quick links: A method and system are provided for providing a user-interface. The method may include receiving a request to render a business portal at a browser. The method may further include responsive to the request, determining a set of work lists to be rendered on the business portal. The method may... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080306755 - System for project preparing a procurement and accounts payable system surface: A system for coordinating a project for designing, implementing, and using a general procurement and accounts payable (GP/AP) system for a customer. A playbook database is created and includes templates of information relating to designing, implementing, and using the GP/AP system. The templates are particularized for the customer. A playbook... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080306751 - Systems and methods for managing business processes in an enterprise: A method for managing a business process in an enterprise includes executing a business process model, wherein executing the business process model comprises generating a plurality of business level messages associated with business level tasks, generating one or more system level messages associated with system level tasks to be performed... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20080306760 - Administrative reports for digital radiology department: A system produces administrative reports for a digital radiology department. The system includes a plurality of digital radiographic systems, each of which has storage for storing digital data in html relating to the use and operation of the system. A computer is in communication with the plurality of digital radiographic... Agent: Susan L. Parulski Patent Legal Staff

20080306766 - Examination-data processing apparatus and examination system: An examination system comprises an examination apparatus 1 and a workstation 10. The examination apparatus 1 executes an examination on a patient to acquire a plurality of examination data and acquire an examination time of each of the examination data. The workstation 10 creates a procedure log that associates a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080306768 - Healthcare notification method and system including a healthcare website: Methods and apparatus enabling organizations with a need to communicate with healthcare providers regarding health-related issues affecting patient health to notify healthcare providers of a health-related issue affecting patient health are disclosed. An electronic notification of the health-related issue is transmitted by one of the organizations to a healthcare notification... Agent: Vierra Magen Marcus & Deniro LLP

20080306765 - Method and structure for providing medical benefits to retired employees: A method for providing post-retirement health-care benefits is provided. The method includes the steps of adopting a health reimbursement arrangement that includes a sponsor and a beneficiary, wherein the beneficiary is employed by the sponsor. A pension plan is adopted, wherein the pension plan includes an account. Funds are provided... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20080306759 - Patient workflow process messaging notification apparatus, system, and method: A system and method to communicate workflow process information associated with a patient. A notification configuration message includes at least one notification rule is received. The notification rule includes conditional tests to determine whether to transmit a notification message, determine the medium for communicating the notification message, and determine a... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20080306764 - System and method for complex arena intelligence: The present disclosure generally relates to a method and system for processing and assessing health care-related data. A system and method are provided for evaluating and/or analyzing and/or predicting performance and outcome of a health care service provider. The system and method may enable standardization of generic health care organization... Agent: Empk & Shiloh, LLP C/o Landon Ip, Inc.

20080306762 - System and method for managing absenteeism in an employee environment: A system for managing absenteeism includes an absence manager, employees, and healthcare individuals. Absence manager can capture health-related data associated with employee and reason for employee absence. Healthcare individuals can receive a report associated with the employee that is updated in real time as new data is captured. Healthcare individuals... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080306763 - System and method for modifying risk factors by a healthcare individual at a remote location: A method for modifying risk factors by a healthcare individual at a remote location includes interacting with a participant at a remote location to obtain health-related data, such that the interaction occurs during a live video session. The healthcare individual determining an intervention plan to the participant based on the... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080306761 - System and method of performing remote verification of a prescription in combination with a patient access terminal: The method and system provides a patient access terminal to collect customer and prescription order data, and enables a product work order to be divided into portions that may be routed to and processed by a plurality of entities including a customer, while providing verification processing to ensure the integrity... Agent: Francis C. Kowalik Walgreen Co. Law Department

20080306767 - Weight management system using adaptive targets: A method for managing the weight of a subject having an associated predefined target weight, comprises deriving a target energy balance and computing the realized energy balance (303) from collected information (301, 302). It further comprises determining a weight reduction plan (304) comprising a sequence of at least two phases,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080306771 - Care plan update management: A care plan management system (10) includes a server (12) including a content database (14) containing care management-related content including multiple revisions of at least some said content. Each content revision is tagged with temporal content revision information. A care plans storage (18) stores a plurality of patient care plans... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080306775 - Electronic agenda with weight management function: A weight management system (10) comprising logging means (11) for logging past food intake events and past energy expenditure events, means for receiving (11) agenda entries and storage means (12) for storing the past food intake events, the past energy expenditure events and the agenda entries. The system further comprises... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080306774 - Methods and apparatus for digital audio, video, and data player and recorder and business method of managing medical information on a branded data storage device: A credit card sized digital storage device and data system and method of marketing same pertaining to health care information, a memory and processor for processing digital data, an output on the card for converting and transmitting the digital data for video output, a set of touch sensitive controls on... Agent: James D. Petruzzi

20080306769 - Pos printing triggered by pharmacy prescription orders: c

20080306773 - System and method for obtaining medical records: A method, computer program product, and system for receiving a request, from an individual, for one or more medical records concerning a person/patient. At least a first portion of the one or more medical records is requested from a first medical services provider. The at least a first portion of... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080306772 - System and method for providing a personal internet of objects and information: A system and method are described for managing a personal Internet of objects and information, and applying the information to enhance the quality of daily activities such as situations where personal medical information is required but otherwise not available. The device can be used for performing various functions, such as... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080306770 - Systems and methods for disease control and management: Methods, computer-readable media, and systems for providing disease management. In one implementation, a system develops a treatment recommendation for a patient based on patient data. The system may receive patient data, execute a basic model of the physiological system of the patient to generate a modified model for the patient... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080306778 - Accessibility insurance coverage management: Accessibility insurance coverage management is provided. An insurance server receives a coverage request from a requester that includes a user identifier corresponding to a user (i.e. policyholder). The insurance server matches the user identifier with a stored policyholder identifier and retrieves accessibility data corresponding to the matched policyholder identifier. If... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20080306779 - Collateral damage coverage for insurers and third parties: A method for marketing, underwriting, and adjusting damages that are associated with insured loss events but that are not covered by traditional insurance policies. This method permits the marketing of loss expense coverage, underwriting, and claim adjustment processes of insurance to be performed by reference to the loss payments that... Agent: Bruce Bradford Thomas

20080306777 - System and method for providing an insurance premium for price protection: Systems and methods for providing an insurance premium in association with an insurance strike price for a commodity are disclosed. By paying the insurance premium a consumer may obtain price protection for a commodity purchase. In particular, in one embodiment a consumer may obtain the right to be reimbursed for... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20080306776 - System and method for risk acceptance in the provisioning of price protection products: A provider of price protection products may enter into an agreement with a set of terms and associated financial risk with a financial institution such that the financial institution provides indemnification against the financial risk associated with selling a commodity. The provider may analyze data, the terms of the agreement... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20080306780 - Method for internet supported and completion of travel services: A travel selection and booking system is provided, that facilitates the selection of different travel offerings for the customer, realizes better utilization of capacities and often avoids cancellations and otherwise necessary re-bookings. This is achieved by offering a dynamic, customized internet site to each individual traveler, with pre-defined specifications given... Agent: Dennison, Schultz & Macdonald

20080306793 - Apparatus and method for automatically improving a set of initial return on investment calculator templates: A method for updating the return on investment (ROI) templates used by business consultants. The present invention comprises a Template Evaluation Program (TEP) and a Template Analysis Program (TAP). The TEP compares the default template to the templates modified by the consultants for the customer's ROI analysis and assigns an... Agent: Rudolf O. Siegesmund Gordon & Rees, LLP

20080306785 - Apparatus and methods for optimizing supply chain configurations: A machine-implemented method for optimizing a supply chain configuration may include retrieving a supply chain configuration and financial requirements for a product, receiving user input to optimize the supply chain configuration, and outputting at least one most profitable scenario over a desired time period.... Agent: Prass LLP

20080306792 - Brokerage service method and system using human networking: Provided is a brokerage service method and system using human networking that can quickly provide a user with information or service that the user desires and also can improve reliability of the provided information or service. The present invention is constructed to repeat operations of receiving, from a user, a... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080306784 - Computer-implemented methods and systems for analyzing clauses of contracts and other business documents: A computer-implemented method for analyzing clauses of business documents of an enterprise may include steps of providing a database and storing a plurality of business documents used by the enterprise in the database. Each of the plurality of business document stored in the database may include a plurality of clauses,... Agent: Young Law Firm, P.C.

20080306786 - License management tool to monitor and analyze license usage to determine need for additional licenses: License management techniques for managing and analyzing license usage among license consumers.... Agent: Gregory W. Osterloth Holland & Hart, LLP

20080306794 - Measurement of content placement effectiveness over web pages and like media: A system estimates the part of a current content page that is currently visible on a user screen. A movement detection unit detects movement of the content page within the user's browser, and an estimator infers whether a particular content item of interest is within the currently visible area. The... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan D/b/a Prtsi, Inc.

20080306790 - Method and apparatus for generating and transmitting an order initiation offer to a wireless communications device: A system for generating and transmitting an order initiation offer to a wireless communications device (WCD), including: an identification element, in a processor of at least one specially programmed general-purpose computer, arranged to identify, using an interface element in the computer, a WCD; an eligibility element, in the processor, arranged... Agent: Simpson & Simpson, PLLC

20080306781 - Method and apparatus for identifying and contacting customers who are due for a visit but have not scheduled an appointment: A method and apparatus for identifying and contacting customers who have not responded to reminders to schedule a return appointment, or who are due for a visit according to accepted standards of care or office policies, but have not scheduled an appointment. A management database is queried to determine which... Agent: Michael O. Scheinberg

20080306787 - Method and system for automatically measuring retail store display compliance: Methods and systems for measuring retail store display compliance are provided. One or more images of one or more retail store conditions are captured and associated with related information. The one or more captured images and the related information are transmitted to a processing location for storage and processing. The... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080306791 - Method and system for utilizing drive-time calculation: Described is a method and system for tracking leads and setting appointments. In the method and system an inquiry is received from a prospect. The zip code of a location for the prospect is entered into a database on a computer system. This database contains the estimated drive time between... Agent: Thomas A. O'rourke Bodner & O'rourke

20080306782 - Method of driving traffic from a mobile wireless device to an e-commerce site and tracking that traffic: An entity registers as an affiliate of an e-commerce site and then publishes information that promotes that WWW e-commerce site; an end-user with a mobile wireless device, sees that information and as a consequence sends a request to a remote server that can interact with the e-commerce site under control... Agent: Fox Rothschild LLP

20080306783 - Modeling a supply chain: A method, system, and computer program product for modeling a supply chain. The method includes modeling a storage element in the supply chain as a place node and modeling an activity in the supply chain as a transition node. The transition node includes at least one of an immediate transition... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080306788 - Spen data clustering engine with outlier detection: Disclosed herein is a computer implemented method and system for grouping spend items in a list of said spend items, and for detecting outliers. The spend items entered into the spend database are phonetically sorted and grouped into second level clusters by the spend data clustering engine. In the first... Agent: Ashok Tankha, Esq.

20080306789 - System and method for generating revenues in a retail commodity network: Embodiments disclosed herein provide viable revenue models for a service provider that offers price protection on a retail commodity to businesses as well as individual consumers in a retail commodity network. Specifically, embodiments disclosed offer a plurality of revenue flows in which the cost incurred by a service provider to... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20080306801 - Dashboard 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 a first environmentally relevant item, identifying a second environmentally relevant item, and providing an environmental dashboard from which at least one user may manage activities relevant... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080306798 - Deployment planning of components in heterogeneous environments: Deployment plans, to service execution environments, of component services associated with a composite service associated with an analysis of data generated by one or more data sources, may be determined, the composite service including an ordering of execution of the associated component services for the analysis of the data. An... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20080306800 - Light path management system and method thereof: A light path management system and method for displaying working status of a user and subordinates thereof on a screen with light notification determining by weighting the job priority and work load. Sequentially, it further synthesizes light notification from subordinate staff into the user's conclusive working status, and then displaying... Agent: Bruce H. Troxell

20080306797 - Method and system for automated resource management and optimization: A method for automated resource management and optimization, the method includes: monitoring one or more of the following: resource usage, level of resource utilization, and resource amenities; receiving a request for reserving a resource; determining whether the request for the resource is granted as originally requested; wherein the determining of... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Fishkill

20080306796 - Method and system for providing closed-loop operations consulting and optimization: A closed-loop system and method for optimizing one or more aspects of the operation of a facility or business is presented. The system includes a platform at a remote provider for accepting and storing data from the facility for analysis. The system facilitates a live consultation such that information is... Agent: Obi Iloputaife

20080306799 - Method and system for providing maintenance & management services for long-term capital assets, equipment or fixtures by providing a warranty: A method includes the steps of diagnosing existing conditions of long-term capital assets, equipment or fixtures, providing a performance warranty on the long-term capital assets, etc. The performance warranty is negotiated and signed prior to on-site inspection so as to transfer from owner to a provider the risk of maintaining... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080306802 - System and method for distribution of campaign resources: A system and method for distribution of campaign resources generates proposed allocations of resources, predicts electoral results based on such proposals, and selects strategies based on predetermined metrics. Both the activities of a protagonist (e.g., candidate) and of one or more opponents are considered. A campaign model considers polling impacts... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080306803 - System and method for performing oilfield production operations: The invention relates to a method of performing production operations of an oilfield having at least one process facility and at least one wellsite operatively connected thereto, each at least one wellsite having a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation for extracting fluid from an underground reservoir therein. The method steps... Agent: Osha . Liang L.L.P. / Slb

20080306804 - Systems for scheduling marketing campaigns in public places in order to enable measurement and optimization of audience response: A system is described for determining how to execute a media campaign (e.g., an advertising campaign) in out-of-home environments (e.g., retail stores or other public places), in such a manner as to enable analysis of the impact of the campaign upon audience behavior, and some of the aspects of audience... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080306795 - Transportation management processes and systems: The present invention relates to transportation management processes and systems. One aspect of the invention is directed toward a method in a computer system for determining one or more routes for transporting items, including receiving multiple orders to transport items from an origination stop to a destination stop, generating one... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080306805 - Method and apparatus for queue-based automated staff scheduling: The invention disclosed herein provides a queue-based scheduling system, which comprises an automated staff scheduling computer program that is highly flexible in enforcing scheduling rules. This flexibility comes from the ability to: (1) Define conditional and unconditional rules; (2) Rank the rules/requests in varying priority as represented by a numeric... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080306806 - Methods and apparatus for dynamically allocating tasks: The present disclosure provides methods and apparatuses for dynamically allocating tasks. Using the methods and apparatus herein, users can dynamically assign tasks to roles within a workflow process. This allows business process designers to easily create tasks and define roles for those tasks.... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080306807 - Interest profiles for audio and/or video streams: A user interest profile, which indicates a portion-varying level of user interest toward a first streaming media item, is determined. The user interest profile is based on a plurality of ratings inputted by a user for a plurality of respective portions of the first streaming media item. A second streaming... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080306809 - Method and system for providing sponsor match advertisement service: The present invention relates to a method and system for providing a sponsor match advertisement service which, when a service user sets a sponsored tag and sponsored tag related additional information of advertising information, which is highly related to or identical to a user created content (UCC), registers the sponsored... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080306810 - Method, algorithm, and computer program for optimizing the performance of messages including advertisements in an interactive measurable medium: Method, procedure, algorithm, system, and computer program for improving and attempting to optimize the performance of messaging campaigns, particularly to marketing campaigns in which advertisements or other messages are distributed over an interactive measurable medium such as the Internet. A goal is to allocate the message alternatives to the customer... Agent: Law Office Of David H. Judson

20080306808 - Purchases method and system: In an automated method for providing personalised recommendations to a user, a global probabilistic purchase model based on prior interactions of a group of users of a system, is used in the generation of personalised recommendations for future purchases for a given user. Attributes of the given user are used... Agent: Unilever Patent Group

20080306811 - Method system and device to evaluate employees and employers:

20080306812 - Methods and systems for determining the effectiveness of a dealer's ability to close a sale: A method of measuring the sales performance of a dealer may include determining a propensity to buy score associated with each lead received by a dealer and determining an expected close rate associated with the dealer that may be based on the determined propensity to buy scores. The method may... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20080306823 - Electronic publication advertising system: An electronic publication advertising system including establishing sponsorship standards for reviewing advertisements for inclusion in an electronic publication. At least one advertisement is reviewed to determine whether the at least one advertisement complies with the sponsorship standards. The electronic publication is reviewed to determine a placement location of the at... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20080306824 - Empty space advertising engine: A web page is enabled to display advertisements in the empty space that is present in conjunction with normal content. Usage data including both positive and negative feedback is collected and stored on a server.... Agent: John Whitaker Whitaker Law Group

20080306814 - Localized advertisement substitution in web-based content: The present invention discloses a system and a method of intermediate network nodes that substitute local content for detected advertisements before serving Web pages to Web clients. In the invention, served content provided by a remotely located Web server directed towards a remotely located Web browser can be detected by... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080306815 - Method and system for inserting targeted data in available spaces of a webpage: Various techniques for placing targeted data in a webpage requested by a user are disclosed. A presentation of the data when the webpage is displayed draws attention from the user. Examples of the data may include, but not be limited to advertisements, various alerts and notifications. In one embodiment, some... Agent: Silicon Valley Patent Agency

20080306825 - Method and system for making awards based on the travels of an artifact: In one aspect, the invention discloses an itinerant artifact in the form of a toy that embarks on travel to different places. Associated with the artifact may be a mission which includes at least one location/place that the artifact must travel to in order to be eligible for an award.... Agent: Hahn And Moodley, LLP

20080306813 - Method for recycling consumer goods: A method to encourage consumers to return reusable or recyclable containers to the origin of purchase provides to the consumer a coupon or other proof of return to be redeemed for a discount on items made with or incorporating the recycled products returned by other consumers. The returned container may... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP 1007 North Orange Street

20080306817 - Methods and systems of presenting advertisements in consumer-defined environments: Targeted or other advertising may comprise one or more advertisements presented in a virtual world environment constructed according to consumer parameters, with the advertisements presented according to rules, scripts, or other parameters defined by the advertiser(s). For instance, one or more consumer computing device(s) can access data defining a brand... Agent: Flashpoint Technology And Withrow & Terranova

20080306818 - Multi-client streamer with late binding of ad content: A late-binding multi-client streamer utilizing Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) transfers to obtain video and advertisement content is provided. For each client device, the streamer receives a video content selection. In response, the streamer initiates an RDMA transfer of the video content or a segment of the video content from... Agent: Flashpoint Technology And Withrow & Terranova

20080306816 - Network devices for replacing an advertisement with another advertisement: Techniques for replacing an advertisement in a webpage from a website with another advertisement are disclosed. A response including the webpage is intercepted in a network device deployed in an in-line fashion, preferably at a data traffic point along a network. When it is determined that the webpage includes an... Agent: Silicon Valley Patent Agency

20080306820 - Process and system for targeting of content to segmented customer base: A method and system for targeted in-store advertising content is disclosed. In order to improve the success of advertising content on a group of customers, the present invention monitors and records items as they are purchased from the store. These records generate data that is used to categorize customers into... Agent: Dergosits & Noah LLP

20080306822 - Self funding emergency and other notification system: The present invention is directed to a business model, methods, and system for generating and distributing telecom and Internet advertising revenue between a voice message broadcast provider and partner social network. The inventive business model provides voice message broadcast services to a social network, self-configured by the administrators and members... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080306819 - System and method for shaping relevance scores for position auctions: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for ranking and providing advertisements in a position auction. The method of the present invention comprises receiving a search query and selecting at least one keyword based upon the search query. A list containing at least one keyword based upon the... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Dreier LLP

20080306821 - System and method of driving commodity consumers to selective retail locations: A system and method for driving commodity consumers to selective locations allows an operator of a price protection product to enter into agreements with locations offering a commodity such that the locations provide incentives for purchasers or consumers of the commodity to purchase the commodity at the location. The operator... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20080306826 - System for providing a service to venues where people aggregate: A system and method for providing a service to promoters, including venues and advertising sponsors, who wish to provide promotions. The service includes making promoter promotions accessible by the mobile phones of members associated with an organization. Typically a promotion and member are matched based on the member's geographical position,... Agent: James F. Kramer

20080306827 - System for registration of commercial transactions: The present invention is a new use of the POS terminal and the existing communication networks for processing, registering and storing all commercial transactions regardless of payment method that when combined with an electronic lottery increases the registration of commercial transactions.... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (main)

20080306828 - Method for processing transaction information: A method for processing transaction information is provided according to the present invention. The method enables business vender to provide consumers with paperless transaction information, e.g. invoice information, via a route mainframe and a electronic data interchange platform. The method includes providing a mobile electronic device and establishing an information... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20080306829 - Method and system for promoting a dealer in online merchandise: A method includes providing an online merchandizing web site for a distributor and prompting a customer to select a sponsoring dealer from a list of sponsoring dealers while the customer is at the web site. The customer may select a sponsoring dealer during check out and is associated with the... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20080306832 - Broadcasting data purchasing system and method thereof: A broadcasting data purchasing system includes an internet radio station, a media receiver and an online shopping server. The internet radio station provides broadcasting data. The media receiver receives, plays the broadcasting data and judges whether the broadcasting data includes metadata, which includes first audio information relevant to the broadcasting... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080306836 - Network auctioning apparatus, system and method of use thereof: The invention provides an apparatus comprising a remote auction terminal operatively connected to a network auction via a network, wherein the remote auction terminal facilitates interactive screening before, and during, receipt of goods into the network auction and can also automatically notify potential auction agents of a pending sale by... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20080306837 - Pin-less atm processing system: A system and method are provided for processing transactions across an ATM network without requiring the use of a PIN or a signature. The transactions can be aggregated to allow multiple purchases to be processed in a single transaction.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080306833 - System and method for constraining depletion amount in a defined time frame: Embodiments disclosed herein provide price protection on commodity purchases in which a consumer can select, accept, or otherwise agree to a depletion constraint on the consumption of the commodity thus purchased. Based on the agreed depletion constraint, a provider may adjust terms and/or the price of the price protection. In... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20080306835 - System and method for customizing an email message: The invention includes systems and methods for facilitating customizing of electronic communications. A consumer may shop and request purchase of an item on a consolidated shopping (CS) website displaying items available for purchase on different merchant websites. A host computer providing the CS website may access a merchant website selling... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (amex)

20080306834 - System for aggregating services for a telecommunication platform and method of ordering a good or service: A system for aggregating services for a telecommunication platform is provided. The system includes a data administration server (10) comprising a requests management module (11) a requests analysis module (12). With the system, targeted data (D4) and requests (R) are received from the requests management module (11) and the whole... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080306830 - System for rating quality of online visitors: A system for determine session, visitor, advertiser and/or website click quality scores includes a data warehouse collected from a plurality of websites, a method of determining whether a goal established for a website is achieved, a data mining system for adjusting the value of certain actions taken by a visitor... Agent: Christopher Paradies, Ph.d.

20080306831 - Systems and methods for facilitating purchase transactions in a network: Systems and methods for facilitating the purchase of one or more items from one or more vendors on a network through a platform. In one embodiment of the present invention, a method includes receiving at the platform a request from a user for purchase of at least one item from... Agent: Jack P. Abraham

20080306839 - Method and apparatus for online check processing: Methods and apparatus for processing an online payment for an item is disclosed. In one implementation, the method includes receiving information from a user corresponding to online payment for an item. The information from the user is received through a graphical user interface, and includes an authorization to pay for... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080306838 - System and method of bridging a product catalog from a central e-commerce website to remote access: A computer system bridges information between first and second websites. The first website is a central e-commerce website. The second website can be a social, commercial, or public service website. Product information is created on the first website. The product information may be a product catalog. Bridging code is created... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080306840 - Computer system for enhancing sales force effectiveness and downstream account management in a multi-tiered demand chain: A software application program is disclosed for allowing an upstream channel member such as a supplier to enhance sales force automation and performance by making it easier to manage a downstream channel member such as a retailer.... Agent: Vierra Magen Marcus & Deniro LLP

20080306841 - System and method for processing orders: An order processing system includes a staging area for receiving a shipping medium prior to shipment. The shipping medium supports at least one item. An imaging device is positioned for capturing an image of the at least one item supported by the shipping medium. A data storage device is configured... Agent: Caterpillar C/o Liell, Mcneil & Harper

20080306843 - Cost effective methods to reduce tax avoidance by landlords, small businesses, and individuals: To allow tax collection agencies to identify underreporting of income by individuals, landlords and vendors, new methods have been developed to ensure that tax revenues are reported accurately and lay the foundation for sharing data amongst the different agencies. Presently, cost effective methods do not exist to ensure that individuals,... Agent: Syunix Professional Services

20080306844 - Payroll receipt using a trustee account systems and methods: A payroll receiving and accessing system includes an enrollment kit. The kit includes activation instructions and an enrollment form for assigning an account identifier that identifies an account for receiving payroll funds due an employee. The system also includes an account activation system programmed to receive an activation request by... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080306842 - Transaction verification system: A transaction verification system comprises a central data processing system and a plurality of satellite data processing systems discreet from the central data processing system. A plurality of audio and/or visual recorders are adapted to record sounds and/or images and to these into digital data which is transferred to the... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (sf)

20080306845 - Charge managing system, image forming apparatus, charge managing server, and image forming method: A charge managing system including an image forming apparatus and a charge managing server is provided. The image forming apparatus includes plural applications each configured for executing a specific process on input data, a counter unit that counts a number of result items output as a result of executing at... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080306847 - Providing metered accounting of computer resources: An apparatus and method provide the capability of metering temporary capacity on demand in a computer system in a way that allows one resource to benefit from unused billed capacity of a different resource. The actual use of a selected resource is monitored. When the selected resource is actually used,... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080306846 - System and method for a frame-based internet enabled user interface: A system and method for a frame-based internet enabled interface. In one embodiment, a system is disclosed for a client-side frame based internet enabled interface. The system comprises a first frame and a second frame in a window. The first frame encapsulates a resource from a third-party internet based service.... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20080306852 - Home registry with advertiser contributions: Systems and methods assist a potential home buyer in funding a down payment for a residence, by accumulating contributions towards the down payment at least in part as a first function of purchases made through a first business, and keeping track of the contributions. All suitable interfaces are contemplated including... Agent: Fish & Associates, PC Robert D. Fish

20080306848 - Lead generation platform: A method and system is disclosed for a financial institution to offer one or more financial products or services to a customer. Upon receiving a triggering event, such as a customer transaction, at least one of an internal and external database concerning is queried, and an algorithmic determination of an... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd Attorneys For Client Number 007131

20080306851 - Method and system for managing accounts using a social network over a network: The present invention generally relates to data processing, and more particularly, to a method and system for managing accounts using online social network. The method and system allow for computer implemented management of a trust and other accounts4 over a network where the network users can generate and share content... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20080306850 - Methods and apparatus for preventing fraud in payment processing transactions: A method includes receiving an authorization request for a purchase transaction, and determining whether the authorization request arose from proximity-reading a proximity payment device. The method further includes mapping a first account number included in the authorization request into a second account number associated with the first account number if... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20080306849 - Methods, systems and computer program products for interacting with iso 14443-4 and mifare applications on the same wireless smart device during a common transaction: Methods, systems, and computer program products for interacting with ISO 14443-4 and MIFARE® applications on the same wireless smart device during a common transaction are disclosed. According to one aspect, the method includes detecting and communicating with an ISO 14443-4 application located on a wireless smart device that includes an... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20080306878 - Method and system for administering index-linked annuity: A method for administering an annuity product comprises the steps of establishing an annuity account, storing data relating to the account, determining an amount of an income payment and paying the income payment to the account owner. The amount of the income payment is subtracted from an account value. The... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20080306881 - Portfolio selection for custom indices of public securities based on state of domicile of issuing company: A method and system are provided for creating an investment vehicle associated with a geographic region, the investment vehicle including a plurality of securities issued by companies. That method comprises forming a set of securities based on inclusion criteria, and categorizing the securities according to geographic region, where the geographic... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080306879 - System and method for creating a primary and secondary market in whole and bifurcated land tenant in common real property ownership interests: The present invention relates to systems, methods, and articles of manufacture for the exchange of tenant in common real property ownership interests, either by physical or electronic exchange. The present invention also relates to methods for creating a secondary market for the buying and selling of tenant in common real... Agent: Don J. Pelto Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20080306880 - System and method for creating a primary and secondary market in whole and bifurcated land tenant in common real property ownership interests: The present invention relates to systems, methods, and articles of manufacture for the exchange of tenant in common real property ownership interests, either by physical or electronic exchange. The present invention also relates to methods for creating a secondary market for the buying and selling of tenant in common real... Agent: Don J. Pelto Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20080306882 - System, report, and method for generating natural language news-based stories: The present invention generally relates to a system, report, and method for automatically generating a series of natural language news-based stories to be presented via a digital interface or printed publication to a portfolio user. The disclosure relates to a filter for selection of a handful of relevant and desired... Agent: Vedder Price P.C.

20080306856 - Aged transactions in a trading system: A method and system for aging orders, increasing securities market liquidity.... Agent: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

20080306860 - Allocation 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 first environmentally relevant item, identifying a second environmentally relevant item and providing a software-based module for an allocation engine allowing at least one user to allocate at... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080306855 - Allocation mechanisms for dutch auction of securities: A method is described for auctioning securities by an auction offeror. Bids are received for an offered number of securities. Each bid includes a bid price, a desired number of securities, and a timestamp indicting a time that the bid was received by the system. After a final bid time,... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20080306866 - Automatically distributing a bid request for a grid job to multiple grid providers and analyzing responses to select a winning grid provider: A method, system, and program for automatically distributing a bid request for a grid job to multiple grid providers and analyzing responses to select a winning grid provider are provided. A user at a grid client enters at least one bid criteria for a particular grid job intended for submission... Agent: Ibm Corp (ap) C/o Amy Pattillo

20080306862 - Bidder-side auction dynamic pricing agent, system, method and computer program product: The present invention sets forth a system, method, and computer program product for automating an interaction between a buyer and an electronic, variable, dynamic pricing online auction service. The method can include receiving a registration of a buyer at an Internet enabled buyer bidding site, a portfolio, and account information.... Agent: Venable LLP

20080306864 - Electronic trading system supporting anonymous negotiation and indicators of interest: A system conducts anonymous negotiations and supports indications-of-interest in trading stock. The system includes a database for storing public orders received from a public stock trading system; and a server for receiving hidden orders from a plurality of users and for conducting anonymous negotiations between first and second users with... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080306854 - Event timing mechanisms for dutch auction of securities: A method for auctioning securities defines an auction start time and an auction end time. The time therebetween is defined by time bucket intervals and transparency intervals. At the auction start time, a real-time auction of securities over a communications network begins. During each time bucket interval bids are received... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20080306857 - Method for displaying transmission time intervals of orders on electronic trading system: A method is provided for displaying transmission time intervals to a trader using an electronic trading system comprising the steps of displaying a trading screen for an electronic trading system, said trading screen including a transmission time interval display, and displaying a transmission time interval on the transmission time interval... Agent: Mcguirewoods, LLP

20080306859 - Standing orders and sales for environmentally relevant items: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for methods and systems for facilitating exchange of rights associated with environmentally relevant items. The methods and systems may include identifying a type of environmentally relevant item recognized by a market associated with an environmentally relevant action and allowing a... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080306858 - System and method for enabling hedging customers to lock forward positions with customer-friendly payment options: In some embodiments, a method includes providing a loan or line of credit (LOC) to a purchaser to financing the cost of purchasing a retail commodity price protection contract. A new financial instrument is created bundling the loan or LOC and the retail commodity price protection contract. The method also... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20080306861 - System and method for index based settlement under price protection contracts: Systems and methods for the provisioning of price protection contracts which provide price protection against adverse fluctuations in the retail price of a commodity are disclosed. While these price protection contracts may pertain to almost any type of commodity, certain embodiments of the present invention may provide systems and method... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20080306863 - System and method for managing trading using alert messages for outlying trading orders: According to one embodiment, a method of managing trading is provided. In a market for a particular type of instrument, buy orders and sell orders are received from a plurality of traders. Each buy order has an associated bid price and each sell order has an associated offer price. A... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080306865 - System and method for pricing and allocation of commodities or securities: An auction server node is described for a computer network having user nodes for conducting an auction run by an auction adviser for awarding securities from an issuer to bidders of the auction. There is real-time monitoring of the auction as it occurs, a bid mechanism for receiving competitive bids... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20080306867 - Methods and systems for managing government issued entitlements: A method for designating accounts for funds from a check to be deposited is described. The method includes receiving, at a processing center having a processor, a direct deposit government entitlement check from a government entity to be deposited. The check may include an identifier. The method further includes comparing... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080306868 - Unlimited toll utilization: A system, method, and computer readable medium for unlimited toll utilization by a transport in a fleet comprises receiving, by a toll rental entity, fleet information from a third party entity, receiving, by a toll authority, the fleet information from the toll rental entity, receiving, by the toll authority, toll... Agent: Winstead PC

20080306869 - Electric payment delivery service: Systems and methods for providing finance-related services such as electronic payment delivery are disclosed. In accordance with one embodiment, a payment system is configured to receive a payment message including a type of information, and to add an identification number to the message. The type of information is removed from... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20080306870 - Pin-less atm processing system: A system and method are provided for processing transactions across an ATM network without requiring the use of a PIN or a signature. The transactions can be aggregated to allow multiple purchases to be processed in a single transaction.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080306872 - Information record infrastructure, system and method: A method for controlling access to a medical record of a patient hosted by at least one medical record repository, comprising a plurality of sub-records, each sub-record having an associated different patient-controlled access control criteria, comprising: receiving, by an intermediary, a request for a medical record from a requester, said... Agent: Milde & Hoffberg, LLP

20080306871 - System and method of managing digital rights: A method of managing digital rights is disclosed that includes recording media content at one or more servers supporting a multimedia content distribution service. The one or more servers are configured to transmit multimedia data to multiple customer premises equipment (CPE) devices. The method further includes determining recorded media content... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080306873 - Method and apparatus for obtaining content license rights via a document link resolver: A link resolver menu generated by a link resolver server includes a link to a “rights advisor website” containing a program that determines available rights for a resource. When activated, the program uses the resource information in the link to obtain a standard resource identifier and then uses user and... Agent: Law Offices Of Paul E. Kudirka

20080306874 - System and method for managing a product through a distribution chain: A method and system for distributing products is provided. The distribution system enables a manufacturer of a product to define one or more allowed distribution paths, and to limit distribution of their product to only an allowed distribution path. The system provides an embedded processor in or on a product,... Agent: William J. Kolegraff

20080306875 - Method and system for secure network connection: Methods and systems for secure payment via a network are disclosed. In an example embodiment, a system includes components to receive a globally unique identifier (GUID) and a client-hello message from a client, generate a tag and sending the tag and a server hello message to the client, receive the... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080306877 - Secure internet e-commerce: A secure Internet based website electronically facilitating Internet entry of an account-owner to a pre-registered account on the secure Internet based website; escorting the owner to a merchant Internet site and therewith transmitting to the merchant site a one-time password, wherein said one-time password is thereafter identifiable by the secure... Agent: John Alexander Galbreath

20080306876 - Verifying dynamic transaction security code in payment card system: A method includes receiving an authorization request for a purchase transaction. The method further includes determining (a) whether the purchase transaction is eligible for security code checking based on whether an account number included in the authorization request is in an eligible account number range, and (b) whether a transaction... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20080306853 - System and apparatus for bidding: In connection with a computer-based auction system, the auction system communicatively coupled with sellers and bidders, the system having records indicative of sellers of items and records indicative of bidders for the items and identifying for each item a winning bidder in an auction, a first bidder selects a first... Agent: Oppedahl Patent Law Firm LLC

20080306883 - Techniques for automatically provisioning a database over a wide area network: The database systems may use database appliances. A database appliance includes a database process and a non-database process that is-tailored to the needs of the database process. The wide area network may be a public network of computer networks, such as the Internet. With the present invention, a user is... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20080306884 - Automated mailpiece processing: System and method for the addressing of mail pieces by a variable printing system. Information allowing a mail piece to be associated with a mailing list of address information is printed on the mail piece prior to processing of the piece by a variable printing system. As the piece is... Agent: Vista Print Usa, Inc. Attn: Patent Counsel

20080306885 - System and method for authenticating indicia using identity-based signature scheme: Methods and systems for verification of indicia that do not require key management systems, and in which revocation of key pairs is easily performed without adding costs to the verification process are provided. Indicia are generated and authenticated utilizing an identity-based encryption (IBE) scheme. A key generating authority generates a... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20080300893 - Assistance program enrollment method and computer readable code: A method of making an assistance program offered by a provider available to a client includes receiving, at a computing system, client information pertaining to a social benefit program for which the client qualifies from an organization that administers the social benefit program. The client information is compared with eligibility... Agent: Meschkow & Gresham, P.L.C

20080300897 - Business method for domain name creation and marketing: A business method for domain name creation and marketing uses multiple sales of definite rights for domain names and/or e-mail addresses from sellers to purchasers, either of which can be a person or a legal entity, with simultaneous creation of multiple independent compound domain names and e-mail addresses between them,... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080300896 - Congregant recruitment method: A sales method is initiated by providing a product for acquisition by consumers. Next, a surveyor is sent door-to-door in a neighborhood to determine the level of interest of consumers in acquiring the product in the neighborhood. Next, a salesman is sent to consumers, determined by the surveyor to be... Agent: Stephen R. Greiner, Esquire Greiner Law Offices, P.C.

20080300903 - Delivery/pickup service activator and advisor: A computer device for activating and reporting on delivery/pickup service is disclosed. The device has a button connected to a computer. Software on the computer is activated by a user pressing the button to contact a delivery/pickup service via the internet, schedule service according to selections made by the user,... Agent: Pedersen & Company, PLLC

20080300898 - Document processing services: A document processing device is provided. A device service is configured to generate information concerning a document processed by the document processing device. A client interface is included in the device service and is configured to perform at least one of (a) publishing an event to a plurality of clients... Agent: Unisys Corporation

20080300909 - Exclusivity in internet marketing campaigns system and method: A marketing campaign collects data for page counts, sessions, orders, and revenue. Four kinds of campaigns are addressed: direct, deferred, site link tracking, and deferred site link tracking. A particular page visit in an end-user session “qualifies” for a campaign if it satisfies the configured conditions for the campaign; that... Agent: North Oaks Patent Agency

20080300906 - Facility control systems and facility control method: A facility control system for controlling devices shared in spaces, a plurality of operation units being equipped in the spaces respectively, each operation unit configured to input a operation request for operating the devices, calculates a priority level of each space during the reservation time of each space based on... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perie, L.L.P.

20080300889 - Formation and rearrangement of lender devices that perform multiplexing functions: A method comprises establishing an ad-hoc network between a borrower and at least two lenders of bandwidth and establishing one lender of the at least two lenders as a multiplexer to manage data flow over the ad-hoc network between the borrower and lenders of the at least two lenders of... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080300911 - Gravesite location information service: The invention provides methods and systems for ordering and effectuating subscriptions to a gravesite location information service in connection with the interment of deceased individuals. In one embodiment, funeral service providers serve as a front end for taking orders for subscriptions to a third-party gravesite location information service. The invention... Agent: Paul Diamond

20080300907 - Import and export manager for environmentally relevant item: Methods and systems for facilitating exchange of rights associated with environmentally relevant items are provided. 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 a user... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080300904 - Information management system: An information management system is described comprising one or more workstations running applications to allow a user of the workstation to connect to a network, such as the Internet. Each application has an analyzer, which monitors transmission data that the application is about to transmit to the network or about... Agent: Wilmerhale/new York

20080300892 - Mapping method and system: A mapping method and system. The method includes receiving from a computing system, a selection of a first candidate skill from a list of candidate skills. The computing system receives a selection of a first work location of associated with a first skill. The computing system determines a first geographical... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080300895 - Method and system for handling returned payment card account statements: A method and system for handling returned account statements in a payment card system. In one embodiment, upon receipt of a returned account statement corresponding to a consumer's account, an indication is made in the consumer's account that an address of the consumer is invalid; and future mailing of account... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20080300910 - Method for searching products intelligently based on analysis of customer's purchasing behavior and system therefor: A system for searching products intelligently based on analysis of customer's purchasing behavior includes a search engine database, a product database configured to store a predetermined number of keyword information on each product, an input/output unit configured to receive keywords, product selection or order information, and output search results, a... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20080300902 - Method of identifying locations experiencing elevated levels of abuse of opioid analgesic drugs: In the field of pharmacovigilance (monitoring of adverse events associated with the use of marketed prescription drugs), an improved method of detecting “signals” of abuse or diversion of pharmaceuticals is needed, in order to more reliably distinguish real anomalies in pharmaceutical consumption in particular locations from apparent anomalies which are... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080300905 - Method of providing a digital athlete profile: A method of providing a web-based sports or academic social network web page includes providing a digital athlete or academic profile portion configured to provide various athlete or academic information and providing a gallery portion having at least one of photographs or videos uploadable by a user. The athlete or... Agent: Duane Morris LLP - PhiladelphiaIPDepartment

20080300890 - Price offerings for bandwidth-sharing ad hoc networks: Methods and systems to establish and execute price offerings among the lenders and borrowers in a bandwidth-sharing ad hoc network for shared bandwidth usage. The method comprises establishing a price offering among a lender and borrower in a bandwidth-sharing ad hoc network for shared bandwidth usage. The method further includes... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080300891 - Resource management framework: This invention outlines a method that distributes the decision-making process according to the application owners' needs, through the use of chip management and brokering technologies in an auction-like environment which allows for very fluid business need changes. This disclosure describes a master framework for a family of disclosures which allows... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080300899 - Supply item replacement optimization in imaging devices: In an imaging device, methods for managing replacement of supply items include providing users with one or more adjustable variables so they may balance individual image quality needs versus economic costs of purchasing new supply items. Representatively, users are provided with a first adjustable variable indicative of a countdown value... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20080300908 - System and method for downloading and activating themes on a wireless device: A wireless device receives a list of available themes and premium content from an activation server. The wireless device may select a theme for download and activation. The activation server verifies that the wireless device has access to the theme or premium content and then authorizes the wireless device to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080300901 - System and method for transfer of digital media: Digital content can be sold by an original sales entity (OSE) to an affiliate sales entity (ASE) for playing of the content by the ASE. The ASE is permitted to transfer the content to another ASE, and sales credit for the secondary transfer is split between the transferring ASE and... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20080300900 - Systems and methods for distributed sequestration in electronic evidence management: Systems and methods are provided for managing sequestration of electronic evidentiary objects in an organization with distributed systems. The systems and methods include capturing in a central evidence management system objects from sources in the distributed systems. The objects are stored in a repository. Selected objects are selectively sequestered, which... Agent: Beck And Tysver P.l.l.c.

20080300888 - Systems and methods for providing risk methodologies for performing supplier design for reliability: Embodiments of the invention can provide systems and methods for providing risk methodologies for performing supplier design for reliability. According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for analyzing reliability associated with a product provided by a supplier can be provided. The method can include providing a supplier a... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20080300912 - Systems and methods to provide a product to a customer before a final transaction term value is established: A method for selling a product which allows a customer to comparison search for, and obtain as a part of a purchase transaction, the competitive terms for a product following product acquisition. The method includes conveying the product to the customer prior to at least one transaction term of the... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20080300894 - Television audience targeting online: A method of targeting users receives a data feed that has information relating to a first media and extracts events from the received data feed. The method generates a profile relating to a first item in the first media, and processes behavior of a first group of users of a... Agent: Stattler - Suh PC

20080300887 - Usage model of online/offline license for asset control: It is disclosed a method that may monitor and control loan instalment or other fee payment for an asset. The method may comprise checking validity status of a first license that comprises allowable usage information of a user device; and disabling use of the user device based on the validity... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080300919 - Architecture for health monitoring systems: An architecture allows individual system components to be developed and tested individually, i.e., as distinct modules, and to be subsequently combined through standardized electrical and communication interfaces. Any combination of these modules can be implemented to form different products that provide any number of functions, such as an integrated system... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP

20080300913 - Domo1 virtual major domo: DoMo I is a suite of interactive Business Intelligence tools for the hospitality industry. DoMo I is a virtual Major Domo, by collecting and analyzing a customer's personal preferences using the proprietary PRIME© (Prospect Resource Information Management Environment). DoMo I can accurately predict a customer's individualized requirements in advance and... Agent: Integrity LLC Bill Fuchs

20080300914 - Dynamic activity management: A system that facilitates management of physical activity by dynamically compensating for current conditions is provided. A user profile can be employed to automatically calibrate an activity device (e.g., treadmill, cycle, haptic brace) based upon characteristics and/or limitations of a user. User activity and other data (e.g., physiological data, motion... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080300920 - Health data management device: A device for managing health data provides a first housing portion including a data storage system that stores health data and a second housing portion including a data communications element. The data communications element provides data communications between the data storage system and a processing device that processes the health... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP

20080300916 - Health incentive management for groups: A method of presenting information to an administrator. The method includes the steps of accessing a library of actual expenditures on health care by an organization, generating a baseline based on the actual expenditures, enabling an administrator to reconfigure a health benefit plan and generating a display with impact information... Agent: Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole, P.C. Intellectual Property Department

20080300917 - Interactive patient care system: A patient information system and method are described. The system provides patient interaction via a display.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080300921 - Method for rapid tracking of trauma victims: A method for rapid identification and treatment of a group of trauma victims at an initial location comprises the steps of attaching a wristband containing machine readable information to each victim of the group, wherein the information comprises both patient information and first responder information, wherein the patient information comprises... Agent: Miller, Canfield, Paddock And Stone P.L.C C/o Robert Kelley Roth

20080300918 - System and method for facilitating hospital scheduling and support: A method comprises enabling a patient to book an appointment via an online service with a particular hospital, the online service providing appointment choices for a number of hospitals, the choices being based on attributes including time, insurance, insurance type, patient concern or geography; sending reminder information to the patient;... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20080300915 - System and method for providing informed consent: A system and method of providing subject informed consent in connection with a medical procedure is provided. According to the invention, a subject interfaces electronically with an electronic consent component that (i) provides the subject with information concerning a medical procedure, (ii) electronically enables the subject to provide an informed... Agent: Lawrence R. Oremland, P.C.

20080300922 - Electronic medical documentation: A system for electronic medical documentation receives a patient identifier and patient healthcare information from a user, associates the patient healthcare information with the patient identifier, and stores the patient healthcare information in an intermediate database. The system receives a command from the user and, upon receipt of the command,... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP

20080300924 - Method and system for projecting catastrophe exposure: A web-based application for an insurance carrier that combines national account information and detailed insurance policy information with catastrophe modeling technology. As an event occurs, the modeling technology determines a projected damage area that the event will cause. The insurance carrier can cross-reference that information with its account and policy... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080300923 - Method, system, and interface for setting health insurance premiums: A method, system, and user interface for adjusting and optimizing health insurance premiums based on an individual's participation in health-related programs.... Agent: Patent Group C/o Dla Piper US LLP

20080300925 - Computer implemented method for managing electronic ticket requests: A ticketing management system and computer implemented method for managing ticket requests is provided including a request management system, configured to receive ticket requests and allocate tickets to purchasers, a back-end office ticketing system, configured to record ticket requests and a fulfillment center configured to receive the ticket requests from... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080300926 - Method and system for allowing user check-in: A method for changing the state of a pre-booked ticket from a first booked-state to a second check-in state, wherein the method includes a mobile device communicating through an IM communication system with a check-in desk service. The mobile device also comprises an identification instrument for a user, said check-in... Agent: Gregory J. Lavorgna Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

20080300927 - System and method for automatically generating an airplane boarding pass for a traveler returning a rental car: The invention provides a system and method for integrating rental vehicle return with airline boarding pass generation. The system includes a rental identification tag located on a rental vehicle and a tag reader located at a rental vehicle return facility for reading and identifying the rental vehicle identification tag when... Agent: Goodwin Procter L.l.p Attn: Patent Administrator

20080300941 - Air cargo yield management system for utilizing booking profiles and unconstrained demand: A yield management method and system, particularly for maximising a revenue that can be obtained from a given capacity that is offered by a cargo flight; the capacity is defined by two different variables consisting of the weight and the volume of the freights that may be transported by the... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20080300940 - Capturing consumer requirements: Disclosed herein is a computer implemented method and system for capturing desires and needs of a consumer. A toolbar application is provided to the consumer. The toolbar application accepts inputs from the consumer. The inputs are desires and needs of the consumer. The inputs of the consumer are transmitted to... Agent: Ashok Tankha

20080300939 - Computer-implemented method for evaluating an investment: In another aspect of the invention, the data generated by the computer-implemented method can be password protected by a user and forwarded on to other user(s). In the protected state or mode, the other user(s) can manipulate the data by a set of permitted actions, while another set of actions... Agent: Gordon & Jacobson, P.C.

20080300930 - Developing and structuring business ecosystems: This present invention structures and implements a process for alliance development using an ecosystem of partners around a defined solution framework. Under the present invention, the solution framework is first defined, and then an ecosystem is developed to strengthen and implement the solution (and the portfolio of offerings available within... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080300937 - Event-linked social networking: Embodiments of the invention provide increased user-to-user interaction and increase the sphere of influence event attendees have on one another by sharing what event functions and other features are being attended by persons having similar interests. Embodiments of the present invention may provide a new and enhanced end-user interface to... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20080300935 - Exchange rates 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 a first environmentally relevant item associated with an environmentally relevant action, identifying a second environmentally relevant item associated with an environmentally relevant action and identifying at... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080300936 - Market oversight facility 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 first environmentally relevant item, identifying a second environmentally relevant item and providing a software-based module for a market oversight facility by which at least one user may... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080300931 - Optimization process and system for multiplexed gateway architecture: Process and system for optimizing one of uploading and downloading of at least one file through at least one lender in multiplexed gateway architecture. The process includes identifying available lenders coupled to a multiplexed gateway within a vicinity of a borrower, selecting an optimization criterion, and selecting a number of... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080300932 - Optimization process and system for non-multiplexed peer-to-peer architecture: Process and system for optimizing one of uploading and downloading of at least one file through at least one lender in a peer-to-peer architecture. The process includes identifying available lenders within a vicinity of a borrower, selecting a number of lenders based upon at least one requester optimization criterion, dividing... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080300928 - Publishing and deploying business processes: Publishing a business process includes accessing a business process that includes activities, where each activity is associated with an abstract role. Organizational roles are accessed. Each abstract role is matched with an organizational role. The business process is published to a data repository by creating a plurality of object classes... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080300938 - System and method for control and adaptation of carrier infrastructure and process using formal carrier product definition: An automated process that allows the posts to obtain a computer description of mailer's requirements for new carrier products and a description of available carrier operational constraints and capabilities in computer processable format; translating the mailer's requirements for the new carrier products into a sequence of computer actionable instructions that... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20080300929 - System and method for evolutionary learning of best-of-breed business processes: A method of evaluating business processes comprises inputting a set of initial processes, inputting a distance function, and determining whether new processes are allowed. If such new processes are not allowed, the method determines which of the initial processes is the best process by applying the initial processes to the... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080300934 - System and method for evolutionary learning of best-of-breed business processes: A method of evaluating business processes comprises inputting a set of initial processes, inputting a distance function, and determining whether new processes are allowed. If such new processes are not allowed, the method determines which of the initial processes is the best process by applying the initial processes to the... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080300933 - System and method for facilitating strategic sourcing and vendor management: A system and method for facilitating consistent management of a repeatable procurement process within an organization is disclosed. The system enables various members of the organization to follow a set of defined core processes to engage stakeholders by understanding the stakeholder's business and building a trusted advisor relationship. Further, the... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (amex)

20080300948 - Application of brokering methods to operational support characteristics: This application describes an application of resource unit brokering algorithms, chip management methods for automated brokering, chip management methods for live brokering, and chip allocation methods to the brokering of operational support characteristics of service level management within an enterprise. Typically, the operational support characteristics are derived from known capacity... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080300949 - Application of brokering methods to security characteristics: This application describes an application of resource unit brokering algorithms, chip management methods for automated brokering, chip management methods for live brokering, and chip allocation methods to the brokering of security characteristics of service level management within an enterprise. Typically, the security characteristics are derived from known capacity values that... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080300950 - Chronicling for process discovery in model driven business transformation: An electronic chronicling method and system that automatically captures, stores, and organizes various aspects of business processes in real-time. The system allows different role players to analyze, mine, and share selected performance metrics of business processes in the context of various measures involved, including users, systems, applications, processes, etc. The... Agent: Cahn & Samuels, LLP

20080300951 - Dynamic staffing using population count: In one embodiment, data is received from a monitoring device that monitors population at a location within a facility. Then the data is used to determine a staffing count. A list of employees is then requested from a staffing application. Coordination then occurs with a call manager application to notify... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080300946 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing an end-to-end project management system: Methods, systems and computer program products for implementing an end-to-end integrated product development management system are provided. A method includes providing a user system with a link to a data source and an analysis tool via a user interface in response to a project opportunity selection for a proposed product.... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Fishkill

20080300947 - Non-depleting chips for obtaining desired service level characteristics: This application describes non-depleting chips and their use in a Resource Management Framework. In this methodology, chips do not deplete when spent, but rather represent a weighting that each party/business unit (BU) has to accomplish its IT processing needs over time. In this model, BUs are assigned a certain buying... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080300944 - Relevant invitee list for conference system: Methods and apparatus for providing a list of suggested attendees for a meeting that is being scheduled using a conferencing system are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a conferencing system includes an interface that receives a keyword associated with a meeting. The system also includes a... Agent: Cisco Systems, Inc. Scientific-atlanta, Inc.

20080300942 - Service requests for multiple service level characteristics: A system, method, program product and service for processing a multiple service level bid in a resource management framework. A buyer's agent is provided to receive a multiple service level request from a business unit and query a resource unit broker for available resource types that can be utilized to... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080300943 - Techniques for project transformation and management: Techniques for project transformation and management are provided. A project is defined via user-defined stages associated with its lifecycle. Each stage is associated with a set of resources and a particular processing environment. Each stage is dynamically and automatically configured and the resources of each stage are dynamically and automatically... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/novell

20080300945 - Techniques for sharing resources across multiple independent project lifecycles: Techniques for sharing resources across multiple independent projects are provided. Resources, which are associated with a first project and which are managed within first stages of a first project lifecycle, are selectively shared and managed within second stages of a second project lifecycle, which is associated with a second project.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/novell

20080300952 - Storing and depicting organizations that are subject to dynamic event driven restructuring: The present invention discloses a solution for storing and depicting complex non-contiguous organizations that are subject to situation-based restructuring. Different views for organization charts of the organization can be generated, where the generated organization charts are collapsed to a minimal view which automatically hides at least a portion of the... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080300956 - System and method for caluclating and displaying estimated wait times for transaction request based on the skill required to process the transaction request: A reception management system for handling transactions includes a plurality of ACMs (Automated Contract/Consulting Terminals) for receiving procedure requests for predetermined transactions from customers, a plurality of ROTs (Remote Operation Terminals) to be employed by an operator for handling the procedure requests, a server for storing information for managing the... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080300955 - System and method for multi-week scheduling: Systems and methods of scheduling a customer center workforce are disclosed. One exemplary method comprises ordering a set of slots in the scheduling period to be bound to worker shifts. The method further comprises binding a first portion of the worker shifts within a domain to the ordered set of... Agent: Setter Roche LLP

20080300954 - Systems and methods of automatically scheduling a workforce: Systems and methods of workforce scheduling are disclosed. One example embodiment, among others, comprises a computer-implemented method of scheduling workers. Each worker is associated with one of a set of flexibility classifications, which include non-flex-time and at least one flex-time. The method includes generating a set of shift instances to... Agent: Setter Roche LLP

20080300953 - Workforce management system with fairness scheduling: A workforce management system implements enhanced any-day-of-the-week or holiday fairness processing. The system provides one or more display interfaces indexed by day of week or given holiday dates, and through which a user defines a fairness policy with respect to each such day or dates. In use, the system compares... Agent: Law Office Of David H. Judson

20080300960 - Competitive advantage rating method and apparatus: This invention relates to a rating method and apparatus that quantifies competitive advantage based on measurements of how well companies are delivering on consumer desires when benchmarked against their industry peers. More specifically, the method measures the existence of one or more barriers to entry, referred to herein as barriers,... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080300959 - Enterprise application procurement system: An intermediate processing layer provides for the inclusion of procurement functionalities of a multi-level enterprise business application by bridging processing and other operational gaps in the enterprise application. The invention further includes the methodology for operating the procurement management system including numerous processing steps or operations, which may be guided... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080300964 - Identification of users for advertising using data with missing values: A method and system for identifying users for advertising. Users, attributes, and first web sites provided by ISPs accessed by the users are identified. First data including content of the first web sites and user time spent thereon are received from ISPs and analyzed to determine first attribute values indicative... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080300966 - Integrated interviewing and capture process: One embodiment relates to a method or process for structuring and operating an integrated interviewing and capture process including providing a produced recording of the interview. In one embodiment, the process includes collecting data from the subject, customizing the interview questions, managing employee availability and selecting an interviewer, conducting the... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20080300967 - Interactive marketing, product/market research, contact access and usage tracking for wireless: A method and system for requesting and delivering mobile marketing interactions, controlling access and tracking usage for wireless device applications directly from a wireless device is disclosed. Upon starting an application on a wireless device, the application connects to a server and posts information about the application, the user of... Agent: Gordon E Nelson Patent Attorney, PC

20080300962 - Lead distribution and tracking with integrated corporate data usage and reporting capabilities: A system for distributing a plurality of leads for vehicles over a network from a plurality of disparate lead sources to a targeted lead destination, the system comprising: an import module configured for receiving the plurality of leads in an electronic format and for associating a unique identifier with each... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20080300961 - Lead distribution and tracking with integrated corporate data usage and reporting capabilities with message templating: A system for facilitating access by a user of a vehicle dealership to messages related to a lead for a vehicle from a customer, the lead having a unique identifier, customer information of the customer including contact information, and requested vehicle information, the system comprising: a storage containing a plurality... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP Suite 1600

20080300968 - Method for benchmarking of information technology spending: IT spending by a subject entity is assessed against an industry-wide optimal value of an IT benchmark and a result of that assessment displayed. Importantly, the IT benchmark developed by the present inventor accounts for the subject entity's IT spending as a percentage of the entity's revenue and the entity's... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080300965 - Methods and apparatus to model set-top box data: Methods and apparatus to model set-top box data are disclosed. An example method includes receiving a first set of non-panelist behavior data and receiving a second set of panelist set-top box behavior data, the second set being associated with demographic data. The example method also includes identifying at least one... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080300957 - Simulation apparatus, effect measurement apparatus, and sales promotion support system: There is provided a simulation apparatus that predicts an effect of sending out a direct mail for a product of a specific brand, including a planned budget acceptance unit 102 that accepts a planned budget of the campaign, a customer master 108 containing properties and turn-away probability of each customer,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080300963 - System and method for long term forecasting: Systems and methods of strategic forecasting of demand are disclosed. One such method comprises receiving demand data and computing a variant factor associated with a variant. The variant includes a variant date and a measure of demand on the variant date. The method further includes generating a strategic forecast. The... Agent: Setter Roche LLP

20080300958 - Taste network content targeting: A system and method for targeting content to be shown to a user, such as advertisements. The members of taste network of a user can be identified according to a given similarity threshold. An advertisement or other content can be selected based upon a favorable response to the advertisement or... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080300971 - Advertisement approval based on training data: A system for determining whether to approve a target document (e.g., advertisement) is provided. The system trains a classifier using tuples of words from appropriate documents and tuples of words from inappropriate documents. To approve a target document, the system identifies tuples of words of the target document. The system... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080300969 - Advertisement platform, system for playing advertisement and method thereof: The present invention discloses an Advertisement Platform (ADP), including an ADP Switch Point (ADP-SP), a voice playing unit and a service logic supporting unit; wherein the ADP-SP connects a call from a calling LS or an MS and initiates an advertisement service call to the service logic supporting unit; upon... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080300981 - Campaign optimization: Methods, systems, and software for combinatorial optimization are described. A first combination of offers are selected from a list of combinations of offers that pass a first set of rules belonging to a first category of rules, and it is determined whether the first combination of offers passes a second... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080300975 - Demand pull and supply push communication methodologies: Systems and methods for determining whether a node in a bandwidth-sharing ad hoc network should advertise as a borrower or a lender of bandwidth, or alternatively not advertise as either a borrower or lender of bandwidth. The method comprises establishing an ad-hoc network between nodes configured to be a borrower... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080300978 - Display system including miniature size article and accessories: A system and method for displaying full size items for sale includes a shelving unit having a top and one or more shelves beneath the top on which items are displayed for sale. A miniature size article is displayed on the top, where the miniature size article includes a plurality... Agent: Stites & Harbison PLLC

20080300974 - Flexible revenue sharing and referral bounty system: An advertising system manager, a partner and one or more participating publishers may collectively agree on a revenue sharing arrangement, based on revenue generated from ad conversions. The advertising system manager may define various components of the revenue sharing arrangement including details of the revenue sharing arrangement and the criteria... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080300976 - Identification of users for advertising purposes: A method and system for identifying users for advertising. Users and attributes are identified. First web sites provided by ISPs accessed by the users are identified. First data received from the ISPs include content of the first web sites and user time spent thereon. The first data is analyzed to... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080300979 - Method and apparatus of customer relationship management and maketing: A method, apparatus, and system of customer relationship management and marketing are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of generating a personalized communication for a customer includes obtaining a purchase record of the customer from a first data source, obtaining a location of the customer from a second data source,... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20080300986 - Method and system for contextual advertisement: A method and system for providing an advertisement, and a method and system for providing training data with respect to providing of an advertisement are provided. The advertisement providing method includes: verifying a document displayed on a web page; providing a user with a recommendation advertisement list associated with the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080300977 - Method and system for fractionally allocating transactions to marketing events: A fractional response allocation system is designed to accurately measure the effectiveness of marketing campaigns and programs. It determines the impact of each marketing event that has influenced a customer's purchase by allocating some amount of credit towards the customer purchase for each of the existing open marketing campaigns present... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

20080300980 - Method and system of synchronizing data processed through web widgets distributed across network nodes: A method and system of synchronizing data processed through web widgets distributed across network nodes is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of a service provider module includes linking an admired party webpage of an admired party with a follower webpage of a follower of the admired party when a... Agent: Raj Abhyanker, LLP C/o Intellevate

20080300982 - Method for enabling the exchange of online favors: Embodiments are directed to enabling the exchange of online favors. In one embodiment, the system may include a client device connected via a network to a favor management platform. The favor management platform may include a favor management server, web server, billing server, and an advertisement server. A user may... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080300984 - Methods and apparatuses related to the offer of purchase incentives: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a customer identifier associated with a customer and receiving purchase data associated with the customer based on the customer identifier. The method can calculate a parameter value of a purchase incentive based on a financial condition and based on the customer identifier. The... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080300983 - Methods for nteractice television and mobile device: A environment of server and client systems for revenue generation, where a component is provided for broadcasters to broadcast and/or transmit programming, and where advertisers can create advertisement, and bid for advertising time on the transmitted programming. Advertisers are empowered by the network's ability to perform targeted advertising and/or product... Agent: John D. Tran Buus, Kim, Kuo, & Tran, LLP

20080300991 - Operating a site upon an international communications network to cross-refer potential sellers and buyers of real estate to selected real estate agents, rebating a portion of referral fees earned to real estate sellers, or buyers, or both: A referral site operated by a registered real estate broker upon an international communications network system enrolls, most preferably, both seller's and buyer's real estate agents who will provide a referral fee on real estate commissions earned by them from referred sellers, or buyers, or both who do pay said... Agent: William C. Fuess

20080300970 - Redemption techniques for electronic coupons: Methods and apparatus are described for redeeming an electronic coupon. The electronic coupon corresponds to an advertiser and has an associated coupon identifier. The coupon identifier is received as part of a first communication session with a communication device. Redemption of the electronic coupon is facilitated where the communication device... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP/yahoo

20080300973 - Supply of requested offer based on offeree transaction history: An automated communication system supplies a requested offer for inventory to an offeree based on the offeree's transaction history. A consumer can request an offer for inventory using a consumer device that transmits to a Requested Offer Supplier (ROS) the request, information pertaining to an account in a payment processing... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080300972 - System and method for generating user-assisted advertising relevancy scores: Systems and methods for incorporating user feedback on advertising relevancy and providing the feedback to advertisers is disclosed. Generally, a user requests a web page from an online service provider. The online service provider checks to determine if the user requesting the page is a member of the user assisted... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080300985 - System and method for providing media content to physically proximate mobile devices: In one embodiment, a system and a method pertain to displaying an advertisement, determining media content related to the advertisement to send to a physically proximate mobile device, wirelessly connecting to the physically proximate mobile device, wirelessly transmitting the determined media content to the physically proximate mobile device using a... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080300989 - Systems and methods for generating, reviewing, editing, and transmitting an advertising unit in a single environment: This invention is directed to embodiments of systems and methods for generating, reviewing, editing, and transmitting an advertising unit in a single environment. In one embodiment, a method can include executing an ad unit component module program adapted to operate in a single environment. The method can further include simultaneously... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20080300990 - Web-based performance points system: A method and system for marketing a product. The method includes establishing a community of online users for the development and marketing of a movie. A fund is established for distribution to the community of users. At least one activity is provided that invites participation by the community of online... Agent: Holme Roberts & Owen, LLP

20080300987 - Website monetization: A merchant portal accessible by a user via the Internet searches for a product using typical search techniques. The merchant portal returns to the user a list of merchants in an identified geographic location. For each listed merchant, a token is created that associates the inquiry and the merchant. Once... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20080300988 - Wireless electronic vehicle window display system: The invention of the wireless electronic vehicle window display system employs the latest technology in electronic paper and low power consumption wireless networking devices. One contemplated embodiment of the present invention consists of three main components: A vehicle information portal, an electronic vehicle window display system subscriber, and the electronic... Agent: John D. Tran Buus, Kim, Kuo, & Tran, LLP

20080300992 - Interface controller that has flexible configurability and low cost: In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises serializer/deserializer (SERDES) circuits. Each SERDES circuit provides data received from a respective lane to which the SERDES circuit is coupled. A receive pipe is coupled to the SERDES circuits and comprises accumulate buffers, multiplexing levels, accumulate buffer counters, control registers, and control logic. Each... Agent: Lawrence J. Merkel Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20080300993 - Computerized method and system for recipe presentation: A method for interactive recipe presentation including initially receiving, at a server, an indication from a user of at least one first ingredient, querying the user, by the server, whether at least one additional ingredient is available, additionally receiving from the user in response to the querying, an indication of... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080300994 - System and method for conveying information: A computer system is provided that may include a platform, a display device, and a processor in communication with the platform and the display device. The processor may be configured to receive a bill of materials listing elements, receive models of the elements, and receive information on the quality of... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080301000 - \"system for tracking gift preferences\": A system for tracking gift preferences of gift recipients to create a unique gift preference list for each user and allowing the unique gift preference lists to be displayed on a portable electronic device.... Agent: Absolute Technology Law Group LLC

20080301001 - Bulk activation of portable consumer payment devices: Consumer Payment Device (PCPD)s, such as gift cards, can be bulk activated and thereby be made ready to use in a commercial transaction. The bulk activation is provided through a web service giving a user experience that includes an online interactive user interface that receives an order for PCPDs and... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080300996 - Digital photograph processing and ordering system and method: The disclosure presents a system and method for processing and managing customer orders for digital documents, such as digital photographs, through a network, such as the internet. The system may be implemented in a variety of ways, including a system, a method and/or a computer readable medium for processing and... Agent: Neal, Gerber, & Eisenberg

20080300995 - Dynamic methods of awarding a supplier based upon customers criteria: A method of awarding a supplier's offer based upon a customer's competition criteria, comprising the steps of: accepting an input of requirements from a customer; accepting a criteria of rating supplier offers according to criteria importance to provide a weight index; searching for convenient suppliers based on requirements from the... Agent: Meredith & Keyhani, PLLC

20080300998 - Method for online buying: A digital rights management (DRM) storage device acts as a virtual browser and server functioning as an offline shopping mall. Cookies and similar information stored can be maintained on the DRM device. When attached to an online host (or a host to which it is attached is placed online) the... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP - Sandisk Corporation

20080301002 - Method of providing interactive financial services on a multi-lingual single destination internet platform: The financial portal and search engine micro markets consumer specific finance inquires and needs to product specific financial service providers and then allows these service providers to display their expertise and compete on the cost of the service or product required by the consumer interactively so that the consumer is... Agent: Clifford G. Frayne

20080300997 - Payment transfer strategies for bandwidth sharing in ad hoc networks: Systems and methods for compensating lenders of bandwidth in an ad hoc network and, more particularly, to systems and methods for providing payment strategies for bandwidth sharing in an ad-hoc network. The method comprises establishing an ad-hoc network between a borrower and at least one lender of bandwidth, and providing... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080300999 - System for aggregating services for a telecommunication platform and method of ordering a good or service: A system for aggregating services for a telecommunication platform is provided. The system includes a data administration server (10) comprising a requests management module (11) and a requests analysis module (12). With the system, targeted data (D4) and requests (R) are received from the requests management module (11) and the... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080301005 - Collective gift system: An Internet business model comprises a website that allows an Organizer to log-in and initiate a collective gift from many Contributors that are then presented to the Recipient in the form of a Gift Card. Each contributor provides credit card information and an authorization only is obtained. The actual charge... Agent: Mcdermott, Will & Emery LLP

20080301007 - Methods and apparatus for gifting over a data network: A method for providing a content gift to a gift-receiving terminal is provided. The method includes a gift server communicating with the gift-receiving terminal over a wireless communication link to determine what content is owned by the gift-receiving terminal. The method further includes the gift server generating catalog data including... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080301004 - Pool supply and service system: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for the efficient and convenient provision of pool services, equipment and supplies. The system incorporates a network between a pool distributor, pool regional dealer and pool customer. The system allows for the distributor to increase market share by providing benefits to pool customers who... Agent: Timothy H. Van Dyke Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P.A.

20080301006 - Price comparison for travel or accommodations: Inter alia, methods, and means for price comparisons for travel and accommodations. One embodiment identifies an online database where users input the actual prices paid for travel services and accommodations, including any discounts, coupons, or price premiums. The database can be searched by all uses who have subscribed to the... Agent: Aerende, Inc.

20080301003 - System for online buying: A digital rights management (DRM) storage device acts as a virtual browser and server functioning as an offline shopping mall. Cookies and similar information stored can be maintained on the DRM device. When attached to an online host (or a host to which it is attached is placed online) the... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP - Sandisk Corporation

20080301010 - Component inventory management: A component management system can comprise one or more software tools that streamline creation and adjustment of documents that indicate parts stocking requirements for manufacturing assets. The manufacturing assets may comprise machines, sub-assemblies, and the like, while the components comprise parts, tools, and other equipment used to maintain operation of... Agent: Dority & Manning, P.A.

20080301009 - Method and apparatus for providing fulfillment services: Method and apparatus for providing inventory fulfillment services to customers who have small quantities of heterogeneous items to sell. A self-service registration interface for generating lists of items to sell via the inventory fulfillment service is provided. The inventory fulfillment service may provide pricing suggestions to the customer. The inventory... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20080301011 - Method and system for handling returned prepaid payment cards: A method and system for handling returned prepaid device in a payment system. In one embodiment, upon receipt of a returned prepaid device corresponding to a consumer's account, a method indicates in the consumer's account that an address of the consumer is invalid; and determines whether the device should be... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20080301008 - Method and system for vehicle transactions management: RFID tags are used to track motor vehicles on and around a vehicle dealer's facility. The information may extend to customer contacts, pending deals and detailed vehicle information. The dealer's salesmen and service writers can access the information using handheld RFID tag readers with which to scan vehicles and integrated... Agent: O'malley And Firestone

20080301012 - Methods and systems for distributing computer modeled product design and manufacture data to peripheral systems: Methods and systems for interfacing computer modeled design and manufacture data from an Manufacturing Process Planning (MPP) system to peripheral computer systems, via an integration server interface, that resolves data transfer format conflicts between the MPP system and the peripheral systems and facilitates the use of predetermined data standards of... Agent: John S. Beulick (24691) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080301014 - Information processing system, information processing method, electronic money service providing system, and recording medium: An electronic money system is provided which requires lower management and running cost, and features higher flexibility. An acquirer/brand holder managing an electronic money brand manages all keys used for authentication processing in the system, and issues the keys as necessary. The acquirer/brand holder distributes keys according to a tie-up... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080301013 - System and method for evaluating the fiscal condition of companies: A system and method are provided for analyzing the fiscal condition of a company based on publicly available information to identify problematic situations. In one embodiment, the relation between two financial indicators is examined. These indicators may be, for example, the earnings-per-share of a company and the operating cash flow-per-share... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080301015 - Visual cues for identifying financial accounts: Visual cues for identifying financial accounts. A distinctive visual cue, such as a specific color, is applied to an account from among a plurality of accounts, such as associated joint and individual checking accounts. The designation can be applied to statements, and optionally also checks, check/ATM cards, and other materials... Agent: Moore & Van Allen, PLLC For Bofa

20080301017 - Formation and rearrangement of ad hoc networks: Systems and methods for the formation and rearrangement of ad hoc networks and more particularly to systems and methods for sharing bandwidth in ad hoc networks. The method comprises broadcasting a table to at least one potential lender requesting pertinent lender information and receiving the table from the at least... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080301020 - Method and system for business card functioning as a prepaid debit card or gift card: A novel approach enables a customized smart business card that combines key features of a business card and a debit/gift card. The card not only carries information about a provider (a person and/or a business corporation who provides the card as a gift to the receiver), the card also functions... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080301016 - Method, system, and computer program product for customer linking and identification capability for institutions: In an enterprise where a database maintains multiple accounts for one or more business customers, a method, system, and computer program product correctly links accounts which are associated with a single location of a common business. Further hierarchical linkages are established between accounts associated with multiple locations of the common... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20080301023 - Multi-channel and cross-channel account opening: Embodiments as described herein include methods and a system for multi-channel and cross-channel account opening. An applicant may start an account opening process in one channel and move to one or more other channels without any application data being lost. A financial management system (FMS) provides a single account opening... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20080301019 - Prepaid card fraud and risk management: A method of monitoring fraud associated with prepaid devices includes configuring fraud platform parameters which comprise one or more limits defined by one or more values, each limit associated with a particular platform parameter, one or more thresholds defined by one or more values, each threshold associated with a particular... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20080301022 - Real-time core integration method and system: Embodiments include a system, or platform, and method allowing financial institutions (FIs) to have access to an account opening platform that is capable of completing every aspect of the account opening approval process for the FI, and that is also capable of interfacing with their respective core systems (regardless of... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20080301018 - Revenue assurance tool: A system assures revenue reconciliation of customer billing and vendor settlements for multimedia services, including voice over IP, provided through a network. The system includes a data repository configured to store a plurality of tables, each table including data collected from a plurality of network elements in the network and... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080301021 - Systems and methods for nacha compliant ach transfers using an automated voice response system: Embodiments of the invention described a method for processing an ACH transfer in compliance with NACHA regulations. The method comprises receiving a request, through a phone call from a customer, to initiate an ACH transfer, the request including at least an account identifier and a payment amount. The method confirms... Agent: Wilmerhale/dc

20080301061 - Method and system for monitoring market data to identify user defined market conditions: A method and system for monitoring market data. The method includes collecting real time data that is related to conditions of a trading market. Collection occurs at an edge server associated with a liquidity destination trading at least one financial article of trade. In addition, the real time data that... Agent: Holme Roberts & Owen, LLP

20080301060 - Method for valuation and sale of private equity to accredited investors by means of a ranked, algorithmic, due diligence process: A computer implemented method to provide a valuation estimate and secondary market exchange for private equity securities is disclosed. The valuation of the security is accomplished through a performance ranking in which time dependent values of multiple quantitative and weighted qualitative factors are calculated to provide a automated surrogate method... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20080301059 - Mlp financing system: The MLP Financing System extends the properties of shares in an publicly traded entity that does not generate UBITs to create a new asset class that permits the underlying assets to be specifically structured for financing. MLP Financing System requires a minimum of three markets entering into transactions involving a... Agent: Rudolf O. Siegesmund, Gordon & Rees, LLP

20080301062 - System and method for efficiently using collateral for risk offset: A system and method for analyzing correlation between the assets given by the trader for collateral and that trader's open positions is disclosed. Thus, if the collateral is correlated to the trader's open positions, then some offset can be given. If there is no correlation than the collateral is valued... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Cme

20080301063 - System and method for managing trading using alert messages for outlying trading orders: According to one embodiment, a method of managing trading is provided. In a market for a particular type of instrument, buy orders and sell orders are received from a plurality of traders. Each buy order has an associated bid price and each sell order has an associated offer price. A... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080301025 - Application of brokering methods to availability characteristics: This application describes an application of resource unit brokering algorithms, chip management methods for automated brokering, chip management methods for live brokering, and chip allocation methods to the brokering of availability characteristics of service level management within an enterprise. Typically, the availability characteristics are derived from known capacity values that... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080301028 - Application of brokering methods to performance characteristics: This application describes an application of resource unit brokering algorithms, chip management methods for automated brokering, chip management methods for live brokering, and chip allocation methods to the brokering of performance characteristics of service level management within an enterprise. Typically, the performance characteristics are derived from known capacity values that... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080301029 - Application of brokering methods to recoverability characteristics: This application describes an application of resource unit brokering algorithms, chip management methods for automated brokering, chip management methods for live brokering, and chip allocation methods to the brokering of recoverability characteristics of service level management within an enterprise. Typically, the recoverability characteristics are derived from known capacity values that... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080301030 - Application of brokering methods to scalability characteristics: This application describes an application of resource unit brokering algorithms, chip management methods for automated brokering, chip management methods for live brokering, and chip allocation methods to the brokering of scalability characteristics of service level management within an enterprise. Typically, the scalability characteristics are derived from known capacity values that... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080301032 - Derivatives of 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 a first environmentally relevant item associated with a first environmentally relevant action, identifying a second environmentally relevant item associated with a second environmentally relevant action, identifying... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080301026 - Fluid, depleting chips for obtaining desired service level characteristics: The present invention provides fluid, depleting chips for allocating computational resources for obtaining desired service level characteristics, wherein fluid chips deplete from a maximum allocated amount but may, in an optional implementation, be allowed to be replenished through the purchase of additional chips. A number of chips are assigned to... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080301036 - Hidden book trading system and method: Presented is a system and method for performing crossing of institutional security orders. The system includes a first server interconnected to a second server and client stations across a communication network. The first server includes a database and is configured to receive institutional orders from the client station, which are... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080301024 - Intellegent buyer's agent usage for allocation of service level characteristics: A system, method, program product and service for managing bidding in a resource management framework. A buyer's agent is provided to manage the bidding process for resources for a client. The buyer's agent includes the ability to submit a bid to a resource broker to acquire a set of resources... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080301033 - Method and apparatus for optimizing long term revenues in online auctions: A method and apparatus for optimizing long-term revenues in online auctions of distinguishable units of an item. For example, the item might be a specific keyword in sponsored search where the distinguishable units could be different slots for putting ads. The system can estimate parameters such as relevance and value... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080301027 - Method, system, and program product for selecting a brokering method for obtaining desired service level characteristics: Under the present invention, a set (e.g., one or more) of requests (e.g., from a single bidder or multiple bidders) for an elemental bidding resource (EBR) is received. Market conditions for the EBR are evaluated from historical data. It is then determined whether a demand for the desired EBR exceeds... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080301031 - Scaling offers for elemental biddable resources (ebrs): This invention describes the use of a Chip Conversion Factor (CCF) to scale offers for EBRs. The CCFs are a multiplier that will be applied to offers received for the EBRs. In general, the CCF can be computed based on any number of factors such as the cost of the... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080301034 - System and method for automated commodities transactions including an automatic hedging function: An integrated virtual market is provided that facilitates communication between the producers of a given commodity and the parties wishing to purchase such commodities. This system provides real-time updated information about local pricing being offered by those purchasers. In addition, those producers can post offers that can automatically be accepted... Agent: Law Offices Of Grady L. White, LLC

20080301035 - System and method for managing and administering a lifetime income share plan: The present invention provides a system and method for administering an investment option known as a lifetime income share. Lifetime income shares mitigate survival risk, the risk that an individual will outlive his or her assets. More specifically, the purchase of a plurality of lifetime income shares certifies that an... Agent: Ward & Olivo

20080301038 - System and method for sharing and allocating financial risk associated with a loan: An application for a loan comprising information about a buyer is received. An amount of funds to be contributed to the holdback pool by the seller based on the information about the buyer is determined. Approval of the amount of funds is received from the seller. The application for the... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080301037 - Systems and methods for automatic migration of a consumer between financial accounts: Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for automatically migrating a consumer from one prepaid financial account to another prepaid financial account based on preset trigger criteria. A prepaid payment device, such as a payroll card, may be issued to the consumer and associated with a prepaid financial account.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20080301044 - Gift card reimbursement system and method: A method for purchasing goods and services in transactions utilizing a valued card includes issuing to a card owner from an issuing institution a valued card pursuant to an agreement between the card owner and the issuing institution. The valued card has a purchase value. The valued card is transferred... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080301041 - Method and system for processing financial transactions using multiple financial accounts: Associating multiple existing financial accounts with a multi-card account. The single multi-card account may allow a cardholder to determine an order for processing a financial transaction among the multiple financial accounts. This ordering may be dependent on the type of financial transaction. Also, the cardholder may allows partial payments from... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20080301046 - Methods and systems for making a payment and/or a donation via a network, such as the internet, using a drag and drop user interface: The invention provides methods and systems that facilitate and expedite electronic transactions between a computer readable medium user (“Payor”), and a merchant or payee (“Payee”), including payment through the Internet. The invention allows the Payor to make a payment to a Payee of an exact desired amount using a drag... Agent: Christian John Martinez

20080301042 - System and method for categorizing credit card transaction data: A system and method employs a categorized list of business names to identify a category corresponding to transaction information, such as credit card transaction data.... Agent: Innovation Partners

20080301045 - System and method for facilitating engagement and communication between a company and a recruiting firm: A system to facilitate engagement and communication between a company with an available position and at least one recruiter includes a server coupled to a computer network, a user interface for co-workers at the company coupled to the server over the computer network and a plurality of co-workers post information... Agent: Schox PLC

20080301039 - System and method for fair-sharing in bandwidth sharing ad-hoc networks: Systems and methods for fair-sharing in bandwidth sharing ad-hoc networks. A method includes maintaining a borrower account and lender account of a borrower and a lender of an ad hoc network. The method also includes adjusting at least one of the borrower account and the lender account based upon data... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080301043 - System and methods for managing debit card account settings: A method includes receiving, from a remotely located computer, information identifying a durational spending limit corresponding to a debit card used by a bank customer, and causing an authorization request to be declined responsive to the durational spending limit and to an amount spent via the debit card during a... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20080301040 - Systems and methods for evaluating financial transaction risk: Methods and systems are provided for evaluating the risk of conducting financial transaction such as money transfers through representatives. In one embodiment, information generated by a money transfer system regarding a plurality of financial transactions conducted by one or more representatives are received, records of the information are stored in... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080301047 - Atm system for receiving cash deposits from non-networked clients: A systems and methods for depositing foreign funds into a native account using a foreign transaction machine are disclosed according to one embodiment of the invention. A foreign transaction machine, such as an ATM, receives and financial account number associated with a financial account and determines the native currency associated... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080301048 - Portability of financial tokens: A method determines that a first relationship between a holder of a portable consumer device and a first employer is terminated. In response to determining that the first relationship is terminated, the method also disassociates account information of the portable consumer device from the first employer while retaining an association... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20080301049 - Transaction management system: The transaction management system 100 includes a plurality of individually identifiable secure container holding facilities constituted by cash acceptance terminals 112 located at the premises of participating merchants 114 and a plurality of individually identifiable secure containers or cash containers, each adapted to dock with and un-dock from a cash... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080301051 - Internet fraud prevention: A method of detecting malware on a computer and comprising scanning a system memory of the computer, and/or code being injected into the system memory, for known strings indicative of banking trojans. These strings may be Universal Resource Locators and/or partial Universal Resource Locators.... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080301050 - Real time account update: A method is used in a system that includes a financial service provider coordinating accounts issued by an issuer to cardholders requesting credit from merchants. Each merchant has an acquirer with whom the financial service provider also coordinates the accounts. The method can be performed by a merchant sending a... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080301052 - Authorizing customer premise equipment on a sub-network: Systems and methods for authorizing a customer premise equipment (CPE) device to join a network through a network termination unit (NTU). The CPE device can send an encrypted connection request, and an authorization server can decrypt the connection request and provide a network membership key (NMK) associated with the CPE... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080301053 - Service broker: A method, associated with a platform that includes a number of distributed proxies and a hub, includes receiving, at a first proxy, a communication from a first entity intended for a second entity and forwarding control information to the hub. The method may also include identifying parameters associated with communications... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080301054 - Station for sale of digital media: A system for selling digital media, comprising: a content server for providing a master source of digital content to the system; a retail server for maintaining a local cache of popular content, and for packaging content; a license server for maintaining licenses for each piece of digital content wherein the... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20080301055 - unified platform for reputation and secure transactions: The claimed subject matter provides a unified platform system and/or a method that facilitates optimizing an online transaction. The unified platform system can include a secured transaction component that can secure a portion of transactional data related to an online transaction between at least one buyer and at least one... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080301056 - Online payer authentication service: A payment authentication service authenticates the identity of a payer during online transactions. The authentication service of the present invention allows a card issuer to verify a cardholder's identity using a variety of authentication methods, such as the use of passwords. Also, the only system participant requiring a certificate is... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP/visa

20080301057 - Online commercial transaction system and method of operation thereof: A system for conducting commercial transactions comprises an application server that hosts a software application that can be accessed by users to conduct commercial transactions thereon, an application user database of authorised users capable of accessing the application server, each authorised user in the application user database being uniquely identifiable... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080301058 - Method and system for negotiating digital media licenses and distributing digital media: A method for uploading digital media and negotiating licenses, includes receiving, from a licensor, media and associated data and storing the received media and associated data in a database, generating a contract based on input from the licensor, for licensing the media to a licensee, storing the generated contract in... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080301064 - System and method for determining a real estate property valuation: Methods and systems for establishing a contemporaneous Real Estate property valuations are disclosed. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, this is based upon first identifying a set of relevant value indicators, or Fields, and then producing a comprehensive Multiple Regression Analysis which statistically measures the relative value of... Agent: Diehl Servilla LLC

20080301065 - Device for automatically determining a category of mail to which a mailpiece delivered to a franking system belongs: A device for determining the category of mail of a mailpiece, which device comprises: an stand designed to receive said mailpiece; at least one gauge fastened to said stand and provided with a slot of predetermined length and of predetermined height, which length and which height are suitable for defining... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080301066 - Error propagation in calculation with conditional alternatives: The result of a first calculation may be determined by one of two alternative calculations. Each of the alternative calculations has an error associated therewith (due to factors such as measurement imprecision, rounding, etc.), and these errors propagate to the first calculation. However, there may also be error in the... Agent: Peter M. Ullman LLC

20080301068 - Process for logistics management: A system and method are provided for servicing back orders and replenishing stock in order to provide high service level while preventing overstocking of material. Goods are produced at a first location and a certain number of the goods is required at a second location at a certain time. A... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080301067 - Reality game show: A program is provided in which individuals submit business proposals in efforts to receive funding or other support to be used to implement the proposals. The program may be provided distributed for television, internet, cellular telephones or other media.... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen