Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination inventions 07/09

20090192811 - Business model for computer rent center: A business model is provided, which includes computing zones, computers, food zones, an entrance, and a rest zone. The computing zone includes furniture and networking connectors. The computer is disposed in the computing zone and connected to the networking connectors. The furniture are customized with visual indications according to computing... Agent: Park Law Firm

20090192810 - Fraud detection system & method: Methods and systems are disclosed for combining the results from multiple fraud detection devices into a single, ordered list of suspect items. The confidence value for each suspect item identified by each fraud detection process may be calculated. Calculated confidence values may be refined by resealing the confidence value. The... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20090192807 - Identification of specialty drugs: Methods for determining whether a drug is a specialty drug, methods for creating tools to be used in making the determination, and the tools themselves are disclosed. The overall value of a drug depends on the drug's attribute values with respect to each of a set of drug attributes (concerning,... Agent: Bryan Cave LLP

20090192813 - Information transfer through optical character recognition: A medical data receiver configured to optically capture medical data, extract the medical data from the optical capture as alphanumeric characters, and provide the alphanumeric medical data for analysis.... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP / Roche

20090192815 - Initiating a service call for a hardware malfunction in a point of sale system: Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for initiating a service call for a hardware malfunction in a POS system, the POS system having a POS controller domains, the POS controller domain composed of a POS controller and one or more POS terminals, the POS controller operatively coupled to a service... Agent: Ibm (rps-blf) C/o Biggers & Ohanian, LLP

20090192808 - Method and device for providing a personal product recommendation: The invention disclosed provides a device and method for recommending at least a product or a plurality of products to a user based at least in part on opinion-based criteria. The invention proceeds by first choosing a plurality of products in a category. At least one product in the category... Agent: Law Office Of Michael J. Feigin

20090192817 - Method and portable device for management of electronic receipts: A system for managing electronic receipts is provided. According to one aspect, the system includes a portable device, a base device, a user device and an electronic receipts administration system. The electronic receipts administration system provides the base device with the appropriate data to allow the base device to generate,... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20090192809 - Method for predicting churners in a telecommunications network: Data pertaining to interactions between a plurality of customers is obtained. A graph is formed, having a plurality of nodes representing the customers and a plurality of edges representing interactions between the customers. A sub-set of the customers are denoted as previously churned customers. A spreading activation model is applied... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090192814 - Method for updating metadata on write once media containing digital audio and/or video: Write once media is used to store many different versions of metadata along with recorded video program. The metadata can be written many times over, for example once for each renter. The metadata can include rental information, or movie trailers, or other information.... Agent: Law Office Of Scott C Harris Inc

20090192816 - System and method for assisting contributors: A management system for managing, streamlining and automating the process of obtaining contributions for philanthropic entities (e.g., charities and other non-profit organizations), wherein user friendly Internet based processes are provided to (potential and actual) contributors that substantially eases the burden on such contributors in, e.g., contributing to such entities via... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20090192812 - Wall street rating system, method, and apparatus: While several services offer ratings of different investment firms, these have little value when it comes to evaluating the actual quality of the individuals an investor or businessman will be working with. Given the vast size of the financial services firms, and the wide variation in their employees, the quality... Agent: Maxvalueip Consulting

20090192820 - Assay system and method: Assay system, comprising: at least one first assay device (IA) that is configured to assay one or more samples and to provide at least one assay result; and at least one distribution system (10) which is configured to distribute at least one second assay device (IB) to a user of... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090192819 - Pharmaceutical distribution systems and methods: A method of distributing pharmaceutical items from a primary distributor to a secondary seller. A request for pharmaceutical items is received by the primary distributor from the secondary seller. Shelving information indicative of a sequential arrangement of pharmaceutical items along the secondary seller's shelving system is reviewed. A mobile cart... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20090192818 - Systems and method for continuous health monitoring: A system for continuous health monitoring includes a computer system including a locking mechanism configured to allow multiple health point checks to be accessed simultaneously, a plurality of component health point checks configured to monitor at least one component of the system and configured to store health monitoring statistics in... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Tuscon Division

20090192823 - Electronic health record timeline and the human figure: A patient information interface system presents an aggregated, graphical view of patient anatomy and history. The system includes a graphical representation of at least a portion of a human anatomy including one or more indicators, aggregated from a plurality of clinical information sources and located at anatomical locations on the... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20090192821 - Medical image annotation: Incorporating new technology into an existing medical practice is often difficult. Documents associated with a patient, for example, a patient's medical charts, are typically provided physically, i.e., as “hard copies,” when a patient is being serviced by multiple health care providers Disclosed are means for electronically annotating an image associated... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20090192824 - Medical information system and medical image storage apparatus: When a medical image diagnostic apparatus captures a medical image, a medical image storage apparatus retrieves a medical image similar to the captured medical image from among medical images stored in a data storage unit. The medical image storage apparatus collects a past diagnostic reading report that uses the retrieved... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090192822 - Methods and computer program products for natural language processing framework to assist in the evaluation of medical care: A computerized method for evaluating medical reports includes identifying at least one or more medical reports stored in a database related to the medical condition, validating the identified medical reports by determining if key words associated with the medical condition found in the at least one or more reports are... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090192825 - Process and system for enhancing medical patient care: A process and/or system that extracts selected information from e.g. traditional electronics medical records to enable analysis of a determined medical condition shared by multiple patients. A data warehouse receives the extracted information and reformats that information to enable rapid analysis by a health care provider of that provider's patient... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20090192826 - Systems and methods for evaluating patient-specific information and providing patient management recommendations for healthcare providers: The present invention relates to the use of computerized systems for evaluating patient-specific data for the purpose of providing healthcare providers with recommendations for adhering to best medical practices.... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090192830 - Method and system for determining and selecting a longevity benefit payout: A computer-implemented longevity benefit plan provides that a processor of a computer can determine longevity benefit payouts at respective benefit payment dates that participants of the plan can obtain by use of funds accumulated on behalf of the participants. The accumulated funds are based, in part, from contributions by employers... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090192832 - Method of enhancing value of pension system assets: A program product, a system, and method for a trustee and a pension system, one embodiment of a program product consistent with the invention comprises program code for generating or receiving a plurality of files or a reference or references to a plurality of files that form an life insurance... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090192828 - Method of managing insurance data: A method for insurance data management including accessing employee insurance enrollment data. Claims cost data may be accessed for employee claims. The claims cost data for employee claims may be reconciled with the employee insurance enrollment data. At least one insurance data report may be generated.... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20090192831 - Securitization of health care receivables: A method, system, and control program for expediting payment of claims to service providers and to reduce institutional capital reserves. The method includes evaluating a risk of full payment of each claim; grouping claims from a service provider(s) based on a commonality of risk; generating a security representative of the... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20090192827 - System for health benefits planning in retirement: A rules-based expert system is described in which the information relating to health or retirement benefits are stored in the form of statements or clauses relating to financial, medical, or personal characteristics relevant to statue or regulation at issue. The statements, or rules, are stored in a rules engine, or... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090192829 - Variable product reinsurance: A Variable Product reinsurance structure including: (i) a reinsurance Agreement between a Variable Product issuer (Ceding Company), and a separate account or Cell of a reinsurer, qualifying for (re)insurance accounting under FAS 133; and (ii) a plurality of derivative instruments qualifying for mark-to-market accounting under FAS 133, designed to hedge... Agent: King & Spalding Credit Suisse Securities (usa) LLC

20090192833 - Ticket refunding system and method: A system and method refund a current value of an event ticket to a user. The ticket is purchased from a ticket issuer and out of a pool of tickets. Information associated with the event ticket is obtained from a physical event ticket provided by a user to a kiosk.... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090192836 - Automated test system project management: Test system project management processes, algorithms and software are described. The combination of the processes, algorithms and software provides a means to effectively management new the testing procedures for new product introductions from initial specification of the testing requirements all the way through implementation. The automated system allows the work... Agent: Law Office Of Mark Wisnosky

20090192844 - Autonomic business process platform and method: An automatic business process platform and method is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes monitoring systems, resources, persons, and/or processes, and controlling the systems, the resources, the persons, and/or the processes. The method may include diagnosing, an issue associated with the systems, the resources, the persons, and/or the processes,... Agent: GlobalIPServices, PLLC

20090192842 - Computer programs, methods, apparatus and systems providing improved evaluation of business processes: The exemplary embodiments of the invention provide computer programs, methods, apparatus and systems that describe techniques providing improved evaluation of business processes based on considerations such as throughput and/or parallelization. As a non-limiting example, such techniques may be useful for evaluating agreements between entities, such as SLAs between a service... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090192855 - Computer-implemented data storage systems and methods for use with predictive model systems: Systems and methods for performing fraud detection. As an example, a system and method can be configured to contain a raw data repository for storing raw data related to financial transactions. A data store contains rules to indicate how many generations or to indicate a time period within which data... Agent: Patent Group 2n Jones Day

20090192837 - Dispensing consumer products: A system for dispensing consumer products includes a product bin unit; a product ejector; a product trigger; and a controller. The product bin unit includes a product bin; an ejector aperture; and a trigger aperture. The product ejector is coupled to the product bin unit through the ejector aperture and... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090192845 - Integrated real time collaboration experiences with online workspace: Online meeting experience is integrated with online and/or offline collaborative workspace(s). Documents and other content generated through team collaboration and managed by a content management system are automatically made available during the meeting, updated, and stored in collaborative workspace linked to a particular meeting. Newly generated content during the meeting... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090192851 - Location-based transportation management: Various implementations of a location based transportation management system and methods are disclosed, including a device for visually communicating with drivers in a variety of environments.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090192841 - Managing operational activities when contingent performance deliverables are in place: When uncertainty is present, operational activities and counterparty relationships related to such operational activities are evaluated and appropriate management actions determined by utilizing data records comprising Contingent Performance Deliverables (CPDs), where a CPD specifies a set of rights and obligations for two or more counterparties to the CPD with respect... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090192847 - Method and apparatus for an improved security system mechanism in a business applications management system platform: The present invention provides a solution to the needs described above through an improved method and apparatus for an improved security system mechanism in a business applications management system platform. The security management system partitions a number of business objects into a number of hierarchical domains. A security list is... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090192854 - Method and apparatus for facilitating electronic acquisition and maintenence of goods and services via the internet: Internet acquisition of goods and services from multiple service providers is facilitated in a uniform, automated manner. Online service account facilitation systems and methods are contemplated that allow for intuitive, uniformly-structured representations of service offerings; straightforward, yet flexible, definition of service product markets; advantageous status designations for market offerings; flexible... Agent: Dilworth Paxson LLP

20090192853 - Method and apparatus for managing communication services: Online communities often do not include the same level of trust or accountability as face-to-face communities. A system is disclosed wherein a member of an online community is able to increase their contact ration. A system is disclosed wherein a member of an online community is held accountable to the... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20090192846 - Method and apparatus for weight and balance management in aircraft: A method and apparatus for weight and balance management for aircraft is disclosed. The method may include receiving specific aircraft weight and balance data, the specific aircraft weight and balance data including aircraft identification information, passenger and crew information, aircraft destination information, container and cargo destination information, cargo and container... Agent: Prass LLP

20090192848 - Method and apparatus for workforce assessment: A method and system is disclosed to assess the potential workforce for a region. The potential workforce may include an actual workforce of the region and/or a reserve workforce of the region. Members of the reserve workforce may by individuals that are spaced apart from a region and have expressed... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20090192843 - Method and system for time-standard development: A performance-standard-computation method. The method includes selecting a task including a series of component steps, filming a worker performing each of the component steps of the task, reviewing the output of the filming step, using a data-acquisition device to record a plurality of process data wherein the step of using... Agent: Winstead PC

20090192850 - Method for selecting postal products using formal postal product definitions: A computerized method that allows the posts to determine what new products and services their customers want. The foregoing is accomplished by creating an automated process that: collects from mailers a description of new products and services the mailers would like to have and summarizes the description of new products... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc.

20090192852 - Method of tracking the lifecycle of a product: A method of tracking a lifecycle of a product includes creating a template of a lifecycle of a product. The template includes steps in the lifecycle of the product between a supplier and a customer. The steps include steps of a manufacturing and delivery process. The template and the status... Agent: Davis & Bujold, P.l.l.c.

20090192840 - Recycling program and method of encouraging recycling of target waste materials by use of precious metals: A recycling program provides a monetary incentive to encourage recycling of target waste materials, such as paper, glass and plastic products. A precious metal, such as gold, silver, platinum or palladium, is incorporated into the target waste material during manufacturing to provide an incentive for recycling the target material. A... Agent: Thompson & Thompson, P.A.

20090192834 - Revenue generation method for monitoring of fluid dispensing system: A method of generating revenue for monitoring of a fluid dispensing system is provided. The method comprises providing a manually initiated cleaning system that cleans the fluid dispensing system. The cleaning system is manually initiated by a user of the cleaning system in response to the user of the cleaning... Agent: Matthew J. Esserman

20090192838 - System and method for optimizing response handling time and customer satisfaction scores: A system and method disclosed for using and updating a database of template responses for a live agent in response to user communications. The method includes computing an average string distance between each response from a live agent and a template, use to generate the response, modifying the computed average... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Ndq

20090192849 - System and method for software development: In general, in one aspect, a method for developing software by contest includes hosting a series of contests for the agile development of a software application by contest. In one embodiment, the method includes holding a contest for the development of a wireframe, holding a contest for the development of... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP

20090192835 - System for managing a license associated with a molding structure: Disclosed, amongst other things, is a method executable in an asset management entity associated with a proprietor of the molding structure, a method executable in a supervisory entity associated with the molding structure, the asset management entity, and the supervisory entity, amongst other things. The asset management entity includes a... Agent: Husky Injection Molding Systems, Ltd Co/amc Intellectual Property Grp

20090192839 - Systems and methods for providing controlled process execution: Systems and methods are disclosed to provide a controlled process execution in enterprise software by receiving one or more rules specifying the controlled process execution; capturing one or more activities performed by the enterprise software; determining whether the activities performed violates the one or more rules; and notifying the user... Agent: Tran & Associates

20090192856 - Business method for originating mortgages: A method and model for originating mortgages is provided that includes a team of members for originating a mortgage having a first team member who supervises a second and third team member and provides home buying consulting services preferably as a licensed real estate agent and mortgage consulting services to... Agent: Erickson, Kernell, Derusseau & Kleypas, LLC

20090192861 - Client apparatus, server apparatus, meeting arrangement system, and meeting arrangement method: Disclosed is a client apparatus including a communication unit, a first generator to generate friendship information indicating a friendship between a first user of the client apparatus and each of second users of the plurality of other client apparatuses, a storage unit to store schedule information and meeting history information,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090192858 - Coordination and management of operational activities subject to uncertainty: Operational activities of an enterprise are managed by producing a data record comprising a contingent performance deliverable (CPD) that specifies a set of rights and obligations for two or more parties to the CPD with respect to operational activities of the parties to the CPD, wherein the rights and obligations... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090192857 - Product lifecycle management method and apparatus: A method for synchronizing activities during design of an industrial automated system wherein the automated system includes a plurality of different features and the design of the automated system requires at least first and second different information types, the method comprising the steps of using a first software program to... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(qb)

20090192860 - System and method for managing business partnerships as they evolve across all aspects of the content creation and advertising value chain: The present invention relates to managing a multi-directional advertising value chain and effectively managing a very large number of partnerships where each partner can, over time, fulfill any and all of the piece of that value chain simultaneously. According to the present invention, tracking, accounting, controlling and netting out of... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20090192859 - System for performing schedule management, schedule management method and program: A system includes a structure information obtaining unit which obtains structure information containing information on components of a development target in a project and on dependency relationships between the components, the structure information described, e.g., in SysML, a work item determining unit which determines work items and a work execution... Agent: Ibm - Arc Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20090192863 - Incentive card program for attracting persons to product or service displays: Methods, systems, and techniques for marketing products are provided. Example embodiments provide an Incentive Card Program System (“ICPS”), which enables vendors to attract potential customers to product displays. In one embodiment, the ICPS comprises an incentive card program along with services in the form of hardware, software, or firmware to... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20090192862 - System and method for seamlessly integrating the listing and sale of real property: A system and method for allowing a plurality of Sellers of real estate to either list their real estate “By Owner” or “By Agent.” Those Sellers that list “By Owner” may select a time period after which their property may be converted to a “By Agent” listing. “By Owner” Sellers... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090192864 - System for optimizing bulk product allocation, transportation and blending: A computer application loaded on a computer readable medium, a computer apparatus comprising the same, and process employing the same, is described herein. The computer application, when executed, causes a computer to optimize, for maximum net profit margin, the product allocation, transportation routing, transportation vehicle/route scheduling and, optionally, blending, of... Agent: Exxonmobil Research & Engineering Company

20090192873 - Apparatuses, methods and systems for a donation-coordinating electronic market platform: The present disclosure details apparatuses, methods, and systems for a donation-coordinating electronic market platform that coordinates interactions and transactions between platform participants to facilitate the allocation of charitable donations based on consumer purchases. The platform sits at the intersection between charitable giving and retail transacting that is enabled by web-tools,... Agent: Chadbourne & Parke LLP

20090192871 - Business social network advertising: Tools for enhancing participation in an web-based social network of businesses. For instance, such tools may encourage members of such networks to invite other members, providing viral growth of the network. As another example, the tools may encourage members of such networks to improve their web sites, which effectively will... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090192877 - Chapman icon charting: A method for using a computer to execute the electronic transformation of data into a visual depiction, the method comprising the steps of recording the values of a plurality of data points during a data period; recording the creation sequence of the data points; executing the electronic transformation of the... Agent: Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLP

20090192882 - Customer behavior monitoring system, method, and program: A flow line storage stores flow line data of each customer obtained by tracking a behavior of each customer in a store, by adding time data on an estimated time of payment made by each customer. A transaction data storage stores transaction data for each customer including records of items... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090192867 - Developing, implementing, transforming and governing a business model of an enterprise: The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for developing, implementing, transforming, and governing a business model of an enterprise. In some embodiments, a method of implementing and managing a business model of an enterprise includes defining a business model using a business model tool that is executed by a... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090192865 - Group profiling with electronic offers: Group profiling with offers distributed through affinity groups is provided. Each affinity group has members who have pre-existing relationships with the affinity group. Savings offers from sponsors are distributed to affinity group members. A member of an affinity group accesses and receives one or more offers through a forum, such... Agent: Lumen Patent Firm

20090192872 - Inferring environmental knowledge through near field communication and data mining: A method, performed by a mobile device, may include receiving transponder information relating to a consumer product, and verifying whether user consent exists to forward the transponder information to a network device for data mining processing. The method may further include transmitting the transponder information to the network device, when... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20090192879 - Lead rating systems: Systems for rating leads are presented. A lead providing service preferably provides a tagging interface that allows users interested in leads to assign the leads one or more tags. The tags represent metrics by which one or more leads can be rated by other users. A rating interface is also... Agent: Fish & Associates, PC Robert D. Fish

20090192869 - Marketing control center: A computer system is configured to implement efficient marketing campaigns across a plurality of platforms to a plurality of consumers. The computer comprising memory and a processor for storing an executing instructions for implementing the marketing campaign. The memory includes a community manager, campaign manager, content management system and rules... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20090192878 - Method and apparatus for utilizing shopping survey data: In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, mystery shopping data may now be used in conjunction with customer satisfaction data to determine customer loyalty results. For example, two different surveys can be conducted: 1) a customer satisfaction survey of actual customers; and 2) a mystery shopper survey of store... Agent: Swanson & Bratschun, L.L.C.

20090192868 - Method and system for analyzing performance of a wind farm: In one aspect, a method is provided to track performance of a strategy to perform an analysis on a product using a global portal system. The method includes providing the strategy to customers and obtaining, from the customers, customer input relating to the performance of at least some products and... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche (22402) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20090192880 - Method of providing leads from a trustworthy: Methods of providing leads are presented. A lead database storing leads is made available, possibly via a lead mining service, where leads comprise closing values and attributes that have attributes values or attribute metadata describing the attributes. Lead purchasers can modify the closing values or attributes of the leads as... Agent: Fish & Associates, PC Robert D. Fish

20090192875 - Methods and systems for life stage modeling: A method for associating transaction card accounts with life stage segments is described. The method includes analyzing survey results to define the plurality of life stage segments based on at least one of demographics, transaction categories, and card usage. The method further includes creating at least one spending profile for... Agent: Daniel M. Fitzgerald (21652) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20090192876 - Methods and systems for providing a payment card program directed to empty nesters: A computer-based method for enrolling financial transaction cardholders into a payment card program that includes features that are directed to an empty nester segment of society is described. The method includes creating at least one spending profile representing an empty nester target group. The empty nester target group includes transaction... Agent: Daniel M. Fitzgerald (21652) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20090192881 - Methods of advertising using digital stamps: Provided are methods that include using a computer to insert digital stamp advertisements from corporations, small businesses, non-profit organizations and the like, into a user's email, social networking website or web communication. The digital stamp may be an intelligent file having computer code embedded thereon, such that the digital stamp... Agent: Castellano PLLC

20090192883 - Process for determining object level profitability: A process for determining object level profitability includes the steps of (1) preparing information to be accessed electronically, (2) establishing rules for processing the prepared information, (3) calculating at least one marginal value of profit using established rules as applied to a selected set of prepared information, (4) calculating a... Agent: Kelly Lowry & Kelley, LLP

20090192870 - System and method for monitoring consumption of marketing content: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a monitoring system having a controller to receive a consumption notice indicating whether marketing content supplied by a media communication system to a media processor has been properly consumed by the media processor according to a presentation... Agent: At&t Legal Department - As Attn: Patent Docketing

20090192866 - System and method for using key-value pairing to identify uniquely a communication device on a mobile network: The present invention provides a system and method for using key-value pairing to identify uniquely a communication device on a mobile network. In some embodiments a user of the device visits the mobile network site of a publisher. The publisher sends header information received from the device to an inventoried... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20090192874 - Systems and methods for targeted advertising: A system and method for providing advertising media to consumers is described. The system comprising image capture means, an image processing unit connected to the image capture means. In use, the image processing unit executing one or more pattern recognition algorithms on an image received from the image capture means... Agent: Law Office Of James Trosino

20090192884 - Method and system for incentive-based knowledge-integrated collaborative change management: A change management system and method is disclosed. The change management system maintains an integrated database. The integrated database includes a change management database that stores a collaborative project and information related to changes to the collaborative project, a knowledge database that stores information sources to help a user resolve... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090192893 - Action on a rate of distribution of goods with the aid of a bonus method and system: The invention relates to discount and prize distribution methods and to a system for carrying out said method. The aim of said invention is to increase the interest of clients in buying at points of sale and in using services where they are provided by using the inventive system and... Agent: Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP

20090192899 - Associative search engine: This invention relates to an advertisement machine which provides advertisements to a user searching for desired information within a data network. The machine receives, from the user, a search request including a search argument corresponding to the desired information and searches, based upon the received search argument, a first database... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090192886 - Automatic online mail printing and package system at post office or place of receiver for mails which are sent from home or office via internet: The automatic online printing and enveloping system at recipient's post office or home for receiving mail or advertisements via internet is system provides a service which requires the sender to create an email account in order to sign in the email webpage. Then this online system forward email to the... Agent: Ky Van Nguyen

20090192900 - Facilitating manual user selection of one or more ads for insertion into a document to be made available to another user or users: User distributed advertisements (UDA ads) facilitates insertion of manually selected ads into a document that is to be distributed (e.g., transmitted, published, and/or posted) such that the document is to be made available to other users. For example, manually selected ads can be inserted into an email to be sent... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090192887 - Guide based content services: Systems are described for a guide of audio, video, multimedia transmission, receiving and playback with advertising and bi-directional fulfillment of goods and services over the Internet. A method of streaming content distribution includes streaming content from a plurality of streaming content sources; streaming advertisement from a plurality of streaming advertisement... Agent: John Bruckner, P.C.

20090192890 - Interface between two reward programs for consolidating currency for redemption: A system and method, such as an interface, for real time consolidation of currency between two or more reward programs. The interface allows a participant to consolidate in real time currency of one program in which a participant has an account with currency of one or more other programs in... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP

20090192895 - Method and a system for managing network marketing using hierarchical social networking website: A computerized method of the establishing and managing of a hierarchical social network directed at the distributing of services using a network marketing module through a web based application. The computerized method may include: a) registering as an expert, mediator, customer and the like; b) upgrading user capabilities by becoming... Agent: The Law Office Of Michael E. Kondoudis, PC

20090192896 - Method and system for targeted advertising based on topical memes: A targeted advertising system and method based on memes contained in content sources are disclosed. Content matching keywords-defining topics are identified from content sources and are further processed to extract the memes. Ad networks servicing the content are also identified and their reach for each meme determined. The system and... Agent: Victoria Donnelly

20090192894 - Methods and apparatus for creating and managing green micro credits: Methods and apparatus (systems) for effectively and efficiently creating green credit backed “micro” green credits utilizing the same regulatory agencies that certify green credits.... Agent: H. Michael Brucker

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20090192897 - Proactive identification of targets for advertisements: Methods and systems are provided that allow advertisers to custom define questions that are delivered to people through a digital media experience. Subsequent to answering the questions, consumers are shown advertisements based on their answers to one or more of the questions.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090192891 - Real world and virtual world cross-promotion: Technologies are described herein for cross promoting real objects in a real world and virtual objects in a virtual world. A redemption code is received from a first participant in the virtual world. A virtual object corresponding to the redemption code is provided to the first participant. A request for... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090192898 - Remote ordering system: A remote ordering system is provided using an electronic menu having a series of input devices associated with various menu items, and a wireless transmitter to send selected menu items to a receiving device for processing. A display to show selected menu items, an alpha-numeric keyboard, a non-cash payment device,... Agent: Baril Corp./gtpp

20090192892 - Shopping using wireless communication: This is a system to assist shoppers through a handheld wireless communications device which is Bluetooth-enabled (as an example) (a registered trademark), connected to a barcode reader to scan Universal Product Code (UPC) barcodes on items in the store. The shopper is required to login to the store's shopping system... Agent: Maxvalueip Consulting LLC

20090192889 - System and method for preventing unauthorized contact of applicants: A system and method for preventing unauthorized use of sales leads. Application information is gathered from an applicant after the applicant views an Internet ad or other advertisement. The application information may include the applicant's e-mail address and phone number. At least one pseudo e-mail address or phone number is... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP

20090192888 - Targeted ads based on user purchases: The present invention relates to systems and methods for providing advertisements on websites. In an embodiment, a method for providing an advertisement on a website includes obtaining purchase information submitted by a user making a purchase on the website, determining at least one advertisement for a product or service related... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20090192901 - Calorie counting pos system: The Calorie Counting POS System is a software value addition to current POS systems with price look-ups. Food item entry generates a parallel look up into the Calorie Data Register (Calorie Data Table), subroutine ads all calorie entries, ads total calorie count of the order, displays it and prints it... Agent: Zoltan Egeresi

20090192902 - Vertically mounted product load sensor for a retail checkout station: A retail checkout station includes a housing having at least a front wall that defines a first substantially vertical surface, a first side wall that defines a second substantially vertical surface, and a second side wall that defines a third substantially vertical surface. A product scanning portion is provided at... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Tuscon Division

20090192903 - Method and apparatus for authorizing a financial transaction: A system that authorizes a financial transaction is presented. During operation, the system receives a request to authorize accounts associated with one or more financial instruments to be used to fulfill the financial transaction. Next, the system determines a transaction location at which the financial transaction is being performed. The... Agent: Pvf -- Intuit, Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090192905 - Self service order processing system and method with a remote receipt printer: The present invention provides a system of order fulfillment that utilizes an order station, a separate fulfillment station, and a separate payment station. The order station presents the consumer with options for placing an order and upon the consumer's completion of the order issues a fulfillment receipt for the order.... Agent: Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, LLP Attn: Gregory M Stone

20090192907 - Smart card application system and method: A smart card application system and method are disclosed. A method includes controlling access to first restricted data stored at a database server of a transaction processing system. The first restricted data is associated with a commercial transaction. Access to the first restricted data is granted upon receipt of a... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Toler Attn: Patent Docketing

20090192904 - System and method for conducting transactions with a financial presentation device linked to multiple accounts: System for conducting a financial transaction with a single financial presentation device linked to multiple financial accounts stores financial account information of multiple financial accounts associated with the presentation device, and a set of predetermined rules for determining which of the financial accounts is to be used to conduct a... Agent: Afs/ Visa

20090192906 - System and method for transponder-enabled account transactions: A transponder-initiated transaction system is electromagnetically coupled to an account transponder device at the point of sale. The account transponder device may be embedded within a watch, key chain or other personal article for convenience or affinity. The transponder device may communicate account information to an RF-enabled point of sale... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090192908 - Commodity sales data processor: Connection of a USB memory (storage device) to a USB port (data transmitting and receiving unit) is detected and the date and time of detection of this connection is stored. Using this detection of connection as trigger, a camera is caused to pick up an image of an area embracing... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090192909 - Datacode reading apparatus: When decoding a datacode based on moving image data output from an image sensing device, moving image data output from the image sensing device is input. An image display output unit processes the moving image data and displays it on the display screen of a display as a real-time moving... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090192914 - Adaptive lead pricing: Adaptive lead pricing systems are presented. Users of a lead mining service can use a lead attribute interface to modify a lead's attributes where the attributes can include an attribute value of the lead attribute or attribute metadata bound to the lead attribute. As leads are worked, an analytic engine... Agent: Fish & Associates, PC Robert D. Fish

20090192912 - Charge-for-service near field communication transactions: A method for purchasing a value item using near field communication (NFC) includes placing a NFC enabled data communication device of a buyer of the item in close proximity to a NFC enabled data communication device of a seller of the item, the devices being interoperable to establish a NFC... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090192913 - Electronic payment system: An electronic payment system includes a mobile apparatus, such as a mobile phone, with a memory for storing a list of electronic payment accounts that may be used to complete an electronic payment transaction. The electronic payment system further includes a merchant terminal that can receive the account list from... Agent: Ibm Corporation Lotus Software

20090192915 - Methods of associating a purchase by a client with a content provider which facilitated the purchase by the client: A method of associating a particular purchase with a content provider includes the step of receiving first data from the content provider after a client selects a reference which is provided at the content provider and is associated with a particular entity. The first data includes first information which identifies... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090192911 - Payment redirection for online transactions: Methods and systems for facilitating an online value exchange transaction are disclosed. One method includes delivering a link for display by a service provider, the link affiliated with an exchange facilitator and unaffiliated with the service provider. The method further includes, upon selection of the link, redirecting a user of... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20090192916 - Secure transaction processing system and method: A processing system and method for processing purchase orders between a purchaser and a merchant across a public network. The processing system including a purchaser account database for storing purchaser account information for each purchaser and including at least a purchaser identifier and delivery data associated with the purchaser identifier,... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20090192910 - Systems and methods for supplying ink and toner cartridges: Embodiments of the invention relate to systems and methods for supplying ink or toner cartridges to a customer as part of a cartridge purchase program. One embodiment is directed to a method that involves receiving, in a receptacle, a used ink or toner cartridge from a customer, identifying the customer... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090192920 - Inventory sales system and method: A computer system and method of facilitating a sale which permits inventory information to be used in connection with a technology enabled selling (TES) system to facilitate a sale. The inventory information may be used during configuration of an item to be sold to a customer in a manner which... Agent: Hershkovitz & Associates, LLC

20090192918 - Lead mining systems and methods: Lead mining services and methods are presented. A lead mining service stores leads having attributes, a history, or a closing value in a database and allows lead consumers to defined policies for acceptable leads. The service provides leads to the lead consumers according to their defined lead policies. Each consumer... Agent: Fish & Associates, PC Robert D. Fish

20090192917 - Method for retrieving and presenting travel related information: A method to intuitively and quickly retrieve travel related information and gain access to providers of travel related services. The method is especially suitable for quickly finding non-stop airplane flights and connecting to airline reservation systems in as few as two clicks to access an airline reservation system to book... Agent: Schneck & Schneck

20090192919 - Periodically reloading image in order to obtain any changes to the images: A method of managing images between computers over a network. The method includes receiving a first product description and a first image location of the first product, the first image location referencing a first storage computer on the network; receiving a second product description and a second image location of... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20090192923 - Efficient retrieval of return assemblies for optimized parts fulfillment: A method and apparatus for a pull back optimizer in conjunction with an inventory management system allows for efficient retrieval of return assemblies for optimized parts fulfillment. The inventory management system includes a return assembly inventory and a list of parts needed for order fulfillment. The return assembly inventory lists... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20090192922 - Inventory-based payment processing system and approach: Transaction management for financial institution-based transactions is facilitated in various example embodiments. According to one such embodiment, a transaction management approach involves the processing of financial aspects of a transaction using transaction rules associated with a buyer for auditing the transaction and any associated invoices. A processor arrangement processes transactions... Agent: Crawford Maunu PLLC

20090192924 - Method and system for providing mobile inventory control service using mobile communication terminal: A method and system for providing mobile inventory control service using a mobile communication terminal are provided. The method for providing mobile inventory control service includes receiving a text message containing goods information from a mobile communication terminal of a seller; searching for goods corresponding to the received goods information;... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20090192921 - Methods and apparatus to survey a retail environment: Methods and apparatus to survey a retail environment are disclosed herein. A disclosed example method involves moving a cart in a retail establishment having a camera. The method also involves capturing a first image of a first area and a second image of a second area. A stitched image is... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20090192925 - Method and user device for management of electronic receipts: A system for managing electronic receipts is provided. According to one aspect, the system includes a portable device, a base device, a user device and an electronic receipts administration system. The electronic receipts administration system provides the base device with the appropriate data to allow the base device to generate,... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20090192926 - Real-time payroll: A system for compensating an employee before a payroll period is complete is presented. During operation, the system receives a request from the employee to be compensated before a payroll period is complete for uncompensated work which has been already performed. The system then determines whether the employee can be... Agent: Pvf -- Intuit, Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090192927 - Enhanced power outlet system incorporating a smart receptacle: The present invention relates to the field of enhanced electrical receptacles (outlets) and plugs. It is comprised of a system to identify and validate the user with acknowledgement of authorization. Power is supplied to authorized users and their power usage can be monitored, stored, and communicated to a remote device.... Agent: Dennis M. Connolly

20090192928 - Integration of gift card services for mobile devices and social networking services: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for social networking services integrated with gift card services. In general, a profile of a member of a social networking service may be presented with one or more merchant credit services for prepaid merchant account credit, data characterizing a request to provide a... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c

20090192929 - Systems and methods for distributing electronic media: A system and method for the distribution of electronic media content to consumers is disclosed. A portal for the distribution of media content and advertisements to a user's device is provided. Media content and advertisements are displayed on the user's device such that the user views the advertisement while engaging... Agent: Arnold & Porter LLP Attn:IPDocketing Dept.

20090192946 - Electronic financing and collateralization method for securities: This process is designed to supplement current financing methods for general collateral with a secure vehicle (Collateral Receipt) that can be delivered vs. payment via the Federal Reserve's Book Entry system and or through the Depository Trust Company. It is further designed to allow for the Collateral Receipt to be... Agent: Peter S. Canelias Law Offices Of Peter S. Canelias

20090192947 - Generating a savings plan: A user utilizing a user interface inputs debt information, income information and savings information. The user also inputs retirement information which includes aspects of the user's retirement plans (e.g., age of retirement, current age, etc.). The debt information, the income information, and the savings information are assigned to categories. The... Agent: Patent Administrator Proskauer Rose LLP

20090192948 - Investment determination: Included are embodiments for providing investment data. One embodiment of a method includes providing an interface with predetermined criteria and at least one field, the at least one field configured to receive user input, the interface configured to provide investment data for at least one piece of property and receiving... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090192949 - Modeling financial instruments using bid and ask prices: A method for modeling an investment significant parameter of a financial instrument, using a computer. At least one series of historical bid prices of the financial instrument or historical ask prices of the financial instrument is provided. A financial model type that has at least one variable parameter is selected.... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090192930 - Methods and systems for trading options and other derivatives: In at least one aspect of the invention, systems are provided that comprise at least one computing device coupled to a plurality of other computing devices that are operable to retrieve market data for a plurality of risk reversals for a currency pair, determine a currency in which to quote... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20090192931 - Methods of liquidating physical, documentary & other assets: Methods of enabling many, including the general public to convert their assets to stocks, such as common or preferred shares, bonds, warrants, etc., by providing an Entity which can accept assets in exchange for its stocks. Creating a market for said assets, for liquidating those without an efficient conventional market,... Agent: Ahmad Amiri

20090192933 - System and method for coordinating automated and semi-automated trading tools: The present embodiments include methods, systems, and computer program products that provide tools for use in any type of electronic trading environment. In one aspect, leaning manager includes software that can be implemented on any type of computer device for tracking and/or coordinating the buying and selling of available market... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20090192932 - Systems and methods for performing international money exchanges: Disclosed are systems and methods for effecting international online financial transactions between individuals or between individuals and entities such as banks, merchants and other companies. In one embodiment, requests for international currency exchanges are processed in batch form. A currency accumulator may be used to keep track of currency exchange... Agent: Yahoo C/o Mofo Palo Alto

20090192934 - Consumer lending using a money transfer network systems and methods: A method of lending money includes receiving a loan application from a consumer. The consumer is a prior customer of a money transfer service provider. The method also includes using information indicative of the consumer's prior usage of services provided by or through the money transfer service provider to approve... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090192935 - One step near field communication transactions: A one step method for transferring money from a sender to a recipient includes entering information relating to the transfer into a near field communication (NFC) enabled data communication device of the sender and then placing the sender's device in close proximity to a NFC enabled data communication device of... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090192936 - Portable storage device and transaction machine: In systems which execute transactions with an ATM using an IC card in which plural account information is registered in advance, one or more transaction information and intended use information indicating the intended uses of transactions to be executed by the ATM based on the transaction information are associated with... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090192937 - Two step near field communication transactions: A two step method for transferring money from a sender to a recipient includes entering information relating to the transfer into a near field communication (NFC) enabled device of the sender. The device is then placed in contact with or close proximity to a recipient's device a first time, causing... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090192938 - Uncle gem iv, universal automatic instant money, data and precious metal and stone transfer machine: The Universal Automatic Instant Money, Data and Gold Transfer Machine, Uncle GEM II, system is a multiplicity of devices on a communications network available 24 hours a day, used interchangeably as sender, receiver and dispenser of funds and data. The sender accepts standard currency and includes removable medium storage devices... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20090192939 - Method of transferring data and corresponding device: The method of transferring data between a first and a second set of elements via a switch that includes a set of paths each associated with a weighting coefficient representing a data stream for each path. The method includes a credit flow control between the first set of elements and... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20090192940 - System for providing cardless payment: The method and system of the invention provide a variety of techniques for using a selected alias and a selected personal identification entry (PIE) in conjunction with use of a transaction card, such as a credit card, debit card or stored value card, for example. A suitable number or other... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090192941 - Digital marketplace for healthcare data: A system for facilitating commercial exchange of packages of electronic health records, including practice nodes in communication with one another via a peer to peer network, each practice node having a plurality of electronic medical records including medical data and patient identification data, a digital marketplace server including software for... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20090192942 - Pre-performing operations for accessing protected content: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for pre-performing operations for accessing protected content. Cryptographic user key pairs can be pre-generated and distributed in response to a variety of different events prior to provisioning client machine for accessing protected content. Usage licenses can be pre-generated and... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090192943 - Renewing an expired license: This document describes tools capable of renewing an expired license to entertainment content. The tools, in some embodiments, may repeatedly renew a license using very little resources, such as by forgoing retention of the license, encryption keys, or the entertainment content between renewals. The tools, for example, may provide a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090192944 - Symmetric verification of web sites and client devices: A method and apparatus for symmetric verification of a client device and a web site are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving an identity verification request for an electronic transaction between a client device and a website. In one embodiment, the method may also comprise verifying an identity... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

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20090192950 - Method and apparatus for operating a removable meter unit: A method and apparatus for operating a meter uniquely associated with a physical location are provided. The method includes monitoring a communication channel for a message from a remote device and identifying an initial message directed to the meter uniquely associated with the physical location, establishing a communication session with... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090192952 - Healthcare advocacy program: The present invention is a Healthcare Advocacy Program (HAP) that handles financial and administrative issues in healthcare for patients, providers, medical producers, employees and employers. The program advocates for treatment across a total continuum of healthcare, ensuring that proper treatment is provided, that payment for treatment is made, and that... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20090192951 - Portable illumination device: A device comprising a housing in the shape of a fashion accessory, the housing having a hollow interior, a top portion, and a bottom portion, wherein the hollow interior extends from the bottom portion to the top portion of the housing. A light source module is removeably attached to the... Agent: John A. Martin Pension Benefit Insurance Services, Inc.

20090187417 - Age and identity verification for online creative works: A computer-implemented method of verifying the age and/or identity of a participant in a digital creative work to be published includes storing a participant profile in memory, confirming a date of birth (DOB) input by the participant in the participant profile, and identifying the digital creative work. A date of... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090187412 - Correlation/relationship and forecasting generator: A method, system and computer readable recording medium for forecasting financial data and economic data correlations including and executing the steps of selecting, from a database storing a plurality of data types, two or more two or more data types for forecasting, analyzing the two data types to determine the... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090187416 - Fuel station apparatus and method for utilizing the same: An apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a housing, one or more fluid tanks disposed within the housing, a fluid modification network in fluid communication with the one or more fluid tanks, one or more dispenser nozzles each including a hose that are connected to and in fluid communication with... Agent: Honigman Miller Schwartz & Cohn LLP

20090187415 - Method and system for validating a service order: Disclosed is a method and system for receiving a service order having a service order parameter and a service type of the service order and determining a set of services based on the service order parameter and the service type. A service validation rule set is fetched based on the... Agent: Sap Ag

20090187414 - Methods and apparatus to recruit personnel: Methods and apparatus to recruit personnel are disclosed. A disclosed example recruiting system includes an electronic test administrator to present a test to a candidate and to record at least one of the candidate's answers to the test; and a recruiter interface to provide a recruiter with access to the... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20090187413 - Service delivery platform for automated and remote information technology management: An apparatus for providing remote services to an integrated information technology environment. The information technology environment comprises a services appliance. The services appliance provides agent-less monitoring of information handling systems within the information technology environment. The apparatus comprises a remote management platform. The remote management platform comprises a service delivery... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20090187422 - Deformable registration of images for image guided radiation therapy: A system and method for developing radiation therapy plans and a system and method for developing a radiation therapy plan to be used in a radiation therapy treatment is disclosed. A radiation therapy plan is developed using a registration of medical images. The registration is based on identifying landmarks located... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090187418 - Methods and systems for outputting a list of complementary treatments for a patient: There is described a method for outputting a list of complementary treatments for a patient using a complementary treatment database which comprises entries for prescription drugs and complementary treatments associated to at least some of the prescription drugs. The method comprises: inputting a drug search criteria on a user interface,... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20090187420 - Methods and systems for providing individualized wellness profiles: Methods and systems for providing a user with personalized wellness and health information are described. More particularly, methods and systems are provided for creating an individual health profile display, presented on a network-based interface, based on the analysis of a user-submitted biological sample that has been compared to a knowledge... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20090187421 - Mobile healthcare data: The present invention provides an apparatus for configuring a mobile healthcare network of monitoring a being. The apparatus comprises a sender for sending the composition of the mobile healthcare network to a home healthcare network of monitoring the being, a receiver for receiving a configuration recommendation, the configuration recommendation corresponds... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090187419 - Systems and methods for a decision support alert feed: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a clinical decision support system comprising a clinical decision support processing component adapted to determine the occurrence of an event based at least in part on at least one message received by the clinical decision support processing component and an alert feed server... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090187426 - Implantable medical device system and method for adapting functions of the clinician's workstation thereof: Functions of a clinician's workstation, which is a part of an implantable medical system that also includes an implantable medical device, are dynamically adapted dependent on collected patient data and/or collected data relating to operation of the implantable medical device. The adaptation can take place based on instructions provided to... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20090187423 - Method for online management of medical record forms: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for the online management of medical record forms, which can provide web screens through terminals to enable doctors, nurses, pharmacists, or the like to immediately online input and read a variety of information created upon treating and caring for... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090187425 - Pda software robots leveraging past history in seconds with software robots: It appears that one of the enabling technologies that are promoting an intelligent look and feel by software system involves leveraging past history in seconds. This sublime but inertial characteristic provides the ability of decades of information to be searched and realized in such fields as medical critical care or... Agent: Arthur Solomon Thompson

20090187424 - System and method for monitoring and recording locations of medical products and applications thereto: A system for autonomous monitoring of administration of prescribed items for patients may include a plurality of wireless locator tags each having an indicator coupled thereto, an indoor positioning system, a database, a processor, and a radio transceiver. A method for autonomous monitoring of administration of prescribed items for patients... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090187427 - System, apparatus, and methods for developing and delivering health information: An individual is enabled to develop medical contingency plans that are automatically activated if the individual is rendered unable to assert his or her own will by an injury or a medical condition. Medical information and health information are assembled and advance directives are formulated in a manner that combines... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20090187431 - Adjusting general damages values using equalization values: A selection is made from a defined list of one or more equalization criteria. Based on the selected equalization criteria, equalization values are derived from a set of closed claim data. During processing of open claims, bodily injury data for the open claims are entered into the system. For one... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20090187429 - Determining amounts for claims settlement using likelihood values: Methods and systems are provided for determining and displaying amounts for use in settling insurance claims are disclosed. Closed claims that match an open claim are identified based on one or more characteristics of the open claim. A likelihood value associated with at least one of the matching closed claims... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20090187430 - Determining recommended settlement amounts by adjusting values derived from matching similar claims: Precedent claims that match a pending claim are identified. A general damages amount is determined based on the likelihood value for at least one of the matching precedent claims. A general damages amount is derived from the likelihood value for at least one of the matching precedent claims. Pending claim... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20090187432 - Displaying likelihood values for use in settlement: Likelihood values are determined for one or more closed claims that match an open claim. The likelihood values are displayed as a function of an amount (e.g., general damages amount). The graph may be an x-y graph in which the x-axis is amount and the y-axis is likelihood value. The... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20090187428 - Evaluating effectiveness of claims evaluation, assessment, and settlement processes: Methods and systems are provided for evaluating processes for insurance claim estimation and settlement. Data may be provided for closed claims that have been previously settled using an estimation and settlement process. Each closed claim in the data is treated as a candidate claim. For each candidate closed claim, a... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20090187434 - System and method for a health insurance risk evaluator: A computer implemented method for selecting a health plan includes logging into a server comprising a risk evaluation application and starting the risk evaluation application. Upon being prompted by the risk evaluation application selecting a health plan for an individual or for a family. Upon being prompted by the risk... Agent: Akc Patents

20090187433 - System for providing insurance associated with a lost-and-found service: A system for providing insurance associated with a lost-and-found service, according to which a person and/or item (the “insured”) is covered by an insurance policy that provides compensation in the event of at least one of loss, theft, damage, and/or destruction of an item, and in association with said insurance,... Agent: William C. Milks, Iii

20090187436 - Online marketplace for moving and relocation services: Methods and systems for operating an online marketplace for the sale of goods and services associated with self-help moving and relocating are described. A customer enters an online marketplace where vendors offer services and goods relating to moving and relocating, specifically in the “do-it-yourself” moving field. The venue for the... Agent: Tiffany & Bosco Camelback Esplanade Ii, Third Floor

20090187435 - Security methods employing drivers licenses and other documents: Driver's licenses and other security documents include one or more machine-readable features, each conveying plural bits of information. These features are used in a variety of ways to increase security, and/or to enhance functionality. In one embodiment, data encoded on a driver's license is used at airport check-in, to link... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c

20090187448 - Alerts realtime llc: Alerts Realtime's business model is focused directly at addressing this business model problem. We have created a platform which leverages many vendors' capital investments and creates one pool of capacity that we manage in Realtime. Our core platform manages our multiple service providers' capacity as one large pool where we... Agent: Joseph Melfi

20090187447 - Checking the correctness of gis data: A method and apparatus for checking the correctness of GIS data. The method includes the steps of: receiving GIS data; receiving business data of each branch; determining the geographic area to which each branch belongs, wherein the GIS data in the geographic area will be checked; and, checking whether the... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090187439 - Commission tracking web services: Web services allow a real estate professional to create tracking services to monitor commission transactions, expense transactions, performance goals, taxes, and so on. Using an Internet client, the real estate professional creates a tracking service by accessing a server across a network. The tracking service allows the real estate professional... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20090187446 - Computer-implemented system for human resources management: A system and method for testing and/or evaluating employees or potential employees is disclosed. An applicant terminal presents a first set of a plurality of questions to an individual, the answers to which are stored by an applicant screening server. An electronic predictor system is configured to predict at least... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20090187442 - Feedback augmented object reputation service: Described herein is technology for, among other things, implementing a feedback augmented optic reputation service. A request for an object reputation is received from a user, and in response to the request, a reputation generation service is accessed to determine a value for the object reputation. The value for the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090187445 - Method and apparatus for determining energy savings by using a baseline energy use model that incorporates an artificial intelligence algorithm: A computer-based system, computer-implemented method and computer program product facilitate determining energy cost savings in an energy-consuming facility, such as a commercial building, using an artificial intelligence model, for example a neural network model, that projects or estimates the amount of energy that would have been consumed by the facility... Agent: Gardner Groff Greenwald & Villanueva. PC

20090187437 - Method and system for auditing internal controls: The present invention provides a computer-implemented method and system for assessing internal controls. The method includes: presenting internal control items; processing an input set associated with at least some of the internal control items; and (c) generating a set of assessment information based on the processed input set. The method... Agent: Valenti, Hanley & Robinson, PLLC

20090187440 - Method and system for facilitating security management in an electronic network: A method and system for facilitating security management in an electronic network is provided. The method comprising obtaining a set of criteria corresponding to a security requirement of an enterprise. The method further comprising a set of entitlements verification components based on the set of criteria to obtain a customized... Agent: GlobalIPServices, PLLC

20090187438 - Method for review appraisals: A system and method for reviewing property appraisals which provides reviewers with assessment parameters on a point by point basis for each input on a standard appraisal form and regulations via a computer network to input information regarding the review. The system automatically associates regulatory citations and language with negative... Agent: Brett J. Trout, PC

20090187444 - Service knowledge map: The main difference between this system and similar purpose systems is the target audience and related methods of communications. While similar systems target computer programs that can read and understand XML messages to connect web services, this system operates with natural language, providing mapping between service descriptions and implementations, and... Agent: Yefim Zhuk

20090187441 - System and method for vendor management: A system and method are provided for vendor management during a procurement process. Vendor qualification data is stored and compared relative to a procurement request. Based upon statistical data in relation to previous bidding information and vendor relevance a list of recommended Vendors for invitation can be generated. The recommended... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20090187443 - Visual metaphor for elapsed time spent: An embodiment provides a system that visually indicates time spent on applications. During operation, the system can measure time spent on applications to obtain time spent data. The user can provide rules which specify when to start and when stop measuring time for an application. Next, the system can generate... Agent: Pvf -- Intuit, Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090187451 - Method, computer and program for assigning seat to person: The present invention has the object of providing a method of managing changes of assignments in response to various disturbances that may occur up to the work date after creating an assignment plan. A computer 1 includes a memory 120 storing assignment data including at least data related to employees... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090187449 - System and method for managing unscheduled maintenance and repair decisions: A system for managing unscheduled maintenance and repair decisions may include a maintenance swap options prioritizer. The maintenance swap options prioritizer may include a data access and transformation module to find and assemble information from different sources for computing performance data and generating a list of prioritized swap options. The... Agent: Moore And Van Allen PLLC For Boeing

20090187450 - System for optimizing transportation scheduling: A computer modeling application is disclosed for finding the optimal solution to maximize total net margin, for the assignment of vehicles (e.g., especially vessels) in an available fleet to perform a set of voyages to transport cargo comprising one or more bulk products during a planning period, as well as... Agent: Exxonmobil Research & Engineering Company

20090187456 - Automated sales support system: A system and method for notifying salespersons of customer communications including a target item is provided. Individual customers are mapped to one or more salespersons. Target items of interest to a salesperson are defined and a salesperson is associated with a customer. For each salesperson, on-line communication channels are monitored... Agent: At& T Legal Department - Monka Attn: Patent Docketing

20090187452 - Cleaning work estimating system, cleaning work estimating method, and cleaning work estimating program: There is provided a cleaning work estimating system 10 composed of a PC 12, wherein the PC 12 comprises: area type storing means 18 for storing the area type; surface area storing means 20 for storing the surface area; degree of contamination storing means 22 for storing the degree of... Agent: Milde & Hoffberg, LLP

20090187454 - Computer program product for efficient scheduling of meetings: A computer program product for efficient scheduling of meetings including a computer usable medium having a computer readable program, wherein the computer readable program, when executed on a computer, causes the computer to obtain scheduling information of one or more potential meeting participants that includes a work schedule of the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Lotus

20090187458 - Knowledge transfer in a project environment: Various techniques for effecting knowledge transfer are provided. In one embodiment, knowledge transfer tasks are identified through parsing of one or more repositories comprising project-related artifacts to ascertain tasks that are relevant to a transitioning project participant, and that may be further analyzed to determine whether knowledge transfer is necessary.... Agent: Vedder Price PC

20090187453 - Method for evolving shared to-do lists into business processes: A method and apparatus for evolving a shared to-do list into a business process is disclosed. A business process includes one or more business steps and zeroor more action rules related to the business steps. Members of a workgroup participate in the business process and are able to view, modify,... Agent: Ibm - Arc Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20090187455 - System and method for prioritization of website visitors to provide proactive and selective sales and customer service online: A system that (a) monitors and analyzes a website visitor's (or ‘user's’) behavioral patterns in real-time; (b) identifies key users by comparing the user's actions and information derived thereof to a set of pre-defined, merchant-specific business rules; (c) makes a sales and customer service offer to the user only if... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20090187457 - Systems and methods for providing a reminder option associated with an obligation: Systems and methods for facilitating fulfillment of an obligation associated with an established agreement are disclosed. In various example embodiments, during a predetermined time interval following an establishment of an agreement, a reminder display element may be presented to one or more parties in a first state to indicate that... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20090187472 - Apparatus and method for producing personalized cosmetic products: An apparatus and method of manufacturing a personalized cosmetic product, said method comprising, receiving data relating to a person; obtaining a predefined list of items and determining at least one item to be used in manufacturing the personalized cosmetic product according to the data relating to a person. The apparatus... Agent: Soroker-agmon Advocate And Patent Attorneys

20090187468 - Automated replenishment using an economic profit quantity: Prior art methods base inventory management on maximizing cost. The present invention shifts the focus to maximizing economic profit, taking income tax into account. Systems and methods are provided for digitally calculating an economic profit quantity that maximizes economic profit, defined as the excess of net operating income over capital... Agent: Beck And Tysver P.l.l.c.

20090187467 - Linguistic extraction of temporal and location information for a recommender system: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that recommends activities. During operation, the system receives a piece of content obtained from text or converted to text from speech. The system then analyzes the received content to identify any activity type, indication of willingness to participate in any type... Agent: Pvf -- Parc C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090187466 - Location-based information-geo retail notification: Sales information corresponding to one or more retailers is collected and stored. A customer/user can access the sales information using a client application running on his mobile device. The access may be responsive to a customer profile that establishes the customer's preferences or tastes. The access may be responsive to... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20090187461 - Market segmentation analyses in virtual universes: This description presents techniques for performing market segmentation analyses in virtual universes. In one embodiment, a method includes collecting virtual universe data associated with interactions between avatars, entities, and objects in a virtual universe. The collecting can include recording at least some of the virtual universe data as the interactions... Agent: Ibm Endicott- Delizio Gilliam, PLLC

20090187464 - Method and apparatus for end-to-end retail store site optimization: A method and apparatus for end-to-end retail store one-stop site configuration integrates multiple data sources, identifying key customers, forecasting merchandise demand. Site configuration is formulated as a mathematical optimization problem with both in-store and external data as input to the problem whose solution provides proper suggestions for retail store transformation.... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090187471 - Method and system for evaluating one or more attributes of an organization: A method of evaluating at least one attribute of an organization, by identifying at least one group of information holders, the group having at least one member who has information about the organization and at least one member who has information about at least one competitor of the organization, with... Agent: Winston & Strawn LLP Patent Department

20090187462 - Method and system for providing relevant coupons to consumers based on financial transaction history and network search activity: A method and system for providing relevant coupons includes a process for providing relevant coupons whereby a consumer's financial transaction data is obtained from one or more sources using a computing system implemented financial management system. The consumer is provided one or more financial transaction based coupons based, at least... Agent: Gunnison, Mckay & Hodgson, L.L.P.

20090187470 - Method for carrying out surveys by the exchange of targeted information between users and web sites of a network: The method according to the invention involves a plurality of Web sites each belonging to an editor and on which survey questionnaires may be displayed that are accessible to users distributed by means of a survey network, on the initiative of a plurality of advertisers who wish to carry out... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20090187469 - Method for the simultaneous diffusion of survey questionnaires on a network of affiliated web sites: The method according to the invention consists of dynamically adapting survey questionnaires to the content of the affiliated Web sites of editors and the specific visitors of said sites. It comprises the dynamic selection of the most appropriate questionnaire for a given survey in function of the content of the... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20090187463 - Personalized location-based advertisements: Advertising content is selected and provided to a mobile device user based on user location information in combination with user profile information. In one embodiment, user location information and user profile information is provided to an advertisement server over a network connection. An advertisement database lookup operation may then be... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090187465 - System and method for presenting supplemental information in web ad: A system for generating supplemental advertisement information. The system includes an advertisement engine and a user server. The advertisement engine is configured to select advertisements for a web page based on advertisement criteria. The user server is in communication with the advertisement engine to provide user identification information allowing the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20090187459 - System and method for qualifying a lead originating with an advertisement published on-line: A system and method are provided for qualifying leads originating from an advertisement published online. The system is configured to track certain events relative to an advertisement. Tracked event data may be recorded to a database.... Agent: Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP

20090187460 - System and method for real-time feedback: An application for a computer system for obtaining feedback at a location of service includes at least one touch screen computer terminal device located at the location of service and software. One computer software module is for authoring a survey, the survey comprising a plurality of survey question with at... Agent: Larson And Larson

20090187473 - System and method for recruiting online: An automated recruitment system can use a variety of techniques to provide information for assisting in recruitment and selection of candidates for various activities. For example, predetermined parameters indicative of future performance for a given activity can be identified and collected electronically from candidates through a candidate portal. The collected... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090187474 - Method and system of tracking, coordinating, and quantifying charitable actions and community service: A central and remotely accessible system of tracking, quantifying, and standardizing community service activity among a plurality of participants and service organizations is disposed on at least one central computer. The system includes a points tracking module adapted to receive logs of community service activity from participants and convert the... Agent: Pryor Cashman, LLP

20090187475 - Computer system and method for matching businesses and investors: A computer system allows businesses and investors to present information about themselves and allow the two find one another for working together. The businesses may also present their business on a television program, where judges and the audience will be able to vote for the best business. The businesses participate... Agent: Michael L. Leetzow, Esq. Michael L. Leetzow, P.A.

20090187487 - Advertisement display method: An advertisement display method for providing advertisements from a display device, includes acquiring advertisement information which is endowed with an advertisement display right for displaying one or more advertisements, the advertisement information identifies an advertisement displayable by an advertisement display right, deciding whether the advertisement identified by the acquired advertisement... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20090187483 - Apparatus and method for providing advertisement image based on user information: An apparatus and method for providing an advertisement image based on user information, the apparatus including: a selection unit to select an advertisement object, from a plurality of advertisement objects, to be applied to a basic image based on user information; and a playback unit to play back an advertisement... Agent: Mcneely Bodendorf LLP

20090187481 - Automatic generation of electronic advertising messages: A facility for generating an advertising message is described. The facility extracts visual content from a model web page. The facility then constructs an advertising message that contains the extracted visual content.... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20090187479 - Conversion tracking for paid search market: Conversion rates and tracking data may be considered in conjunction with a paid search market. A generalized second price (GSP) auction may be extended by incorporating conversion rates and tracking data in the payment rule. Such an extension is referred to as a generalized acquisition-aware second price (GASP) auction. A... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090187478 - Item-based seller sales incentive method: A manufacturer to dealer incentive program allows the manufacturer to incentivize sales of the dealer. The manufacturer allocates credits to the dealer for vehicles sold by the dealer, and the dealer assigns the credits to individual vehicles in the dealer's inventory. When a sales person of the dealer sells a... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP

20090187486 - Method and apparatus for delivering targeted content: Embodiments of the present invention permit a user to receive content that is directly targeted to that particular user's interests, including a method for targeting content that is arranged on a page that is displayable by a computing device, including the steps of displaying a list of categories of available... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20090187485 - Method and system of displaying information related to items offered for sale in a network-based marketplace: A system for transmitting information related to a network-based marketplace includes identifying information that may be interesting, useful, and entertaining to the users and to the potential users of the network-based marketplace. The identified information may be other than information that is already being displayed in listings by the network-based... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20090187480 - Method, system, apparatus, and computer program for providing selective advertising to subscribers: A method, apparatus, system, and computer program for providing selective advertising. The method includes providing an advertisement request specifying that advertising content be provided and automatically providing the advertising content on at least one network service in response to the advertisement request. The advertising content provided is based upon advertising... Agent: Tellabs Operations, Inc.

20090187476 - Network transaction intermediating methods, and network platform therefor: A network transaction intermediating method is adapted to be executed by a network platform. The network platform provides basic product data to a buyer terminal upon receipt of a product inquiry request from the buyer terminal, and transmits a connection command to the buyer terminal in response to selection of... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20090187484 - Soil treatments with carbon dioxide: A method is described for treating soil to increase plant growth or improve the health of plants, wherein a combination of carbon dioxide and a surfactant having pesticidal effects is applied. The invention also pertains to methods for applying bio-derived surfactants in combination with carbon dioxide to crops and other... Agent: James C. Eaves Jr. Greenebaum Doll & Mcdonald PLLC

20090187482 - Systems, methods, and computer program products for supply chain finance: Systems and methods for providing supply chain financing that include receiving a request to finance an asset of a borrower, where the asset is associated with goods provided by a supplier to a buyer under the control of a supply chain/logistics entity. Attributes of a trade ecosystem of the supplier... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20090187477 - Universal ad creative: Methods for generating one or more advertisement creatives for multiple advertisement types. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a selection and data entered in an electronic form, the selection being for two or more different advertisement types, the entered data being of one or more data types, the data... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090187488 - Method and system for providing a service to a customer: A system and method for providing a service to a customer wherein a transaction engine processes an order placed by a customer for at least one product provided by at least one provider. A location engine provides the customer location information to the provider to enable thereby an adaptation of... Agent: Wall & Tong, LLP/ Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc.

20090187491 - Activation of digital products on mobile electronic device: Systems, methods and apparatus for distribution of digital products to portable electronic devices are disclosed. Digital products, such as digital assets or digital gifts, can be a purchased from a centralized location and associated with particular ones of the portable electronic devices. In one embodiment, the digital product is a... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20090187492 - Location based authentication: A portable consumer device that is used to conduct a transaction at a merchant is authenticated. Information provided to a server computer includes locations of a merchant and a mobile communication device possessed by a consumer. If the location of the mobile communication device corresponds to the location of the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20090187489 - Method and apparatus for selecting a pickup location based on customer location: A method and apparatus for determining a pickup location for an item selected in an online transaction based on location information or data. The method comprises obtaining location data for the mobile communication device and determining availability of the selected item at one or more locations based on proximity to... Agent: Bennett Jones LLP

20090187490 - System and a method enabling a customer and a business to interconnect via instant messaging in order to complete a business transaction: A method to provide a service to enable a buyer and a seller to interconnect via real-time messaging to complete a successful business transaction. The method includes registering by the buyer and customizing a profile by the buyer. The method also includes registering, paying a subscription and customizing a profile... Agent: Naomi Assia Law Offices C/o LandonIPInc.

20090187493 - Method for offsetting carbon dioxide emissions associated with shipping: The invention is a method that provides consumers and retailers an easy way to track shipments, use shipment information (e.g. tracking information) to accurately calculate carbon dioxide emissions generated by the shipment, and provide a means to offset the carbon dioxide emission either before or after the shipment takes place.... Agent: Ken Whiteman

20090187495 - Simplification of inventory management: A simplified inventory management method. The method employs a plurality of stock-keeping unit labels, with each of the plurality of stock-keeping unit labels having a same stock-keeping unit number. Individual ones of the plurality of stock-keeping unit labels are utilized to track individual items of a plurality of items. A... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20090187494 - Virtual inventory system: A system and method are provided that allow a user to search for products within the inventory of multiple vendors. The disclosed web-based application allows a customer to maintain a virtual inventory. A web server is maintained separately from the customer's and vendor's computer system and the web server runs... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20090187498 - Apparatus and method for performing accounting in wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for processing accounting in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes creating an accounting data base (DB) for a mobile station (MS), determining whether a state transition of the MS occurs, if the state transition of the MS occurs, updating state information in the... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090187496 - Data workbench for accounting data management: Methods and apparatuses enable management of accounting data for currency exposure analysis. A management system receives general ledger data defining asset and liability accounts balances for a business entity. The management system selectively filters the account balances based on functional currency and whether they are subject to revaluation. The management... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090187497 - Electronic register: This invention pertains to software that is created to manage financial data. This invention focuses on electronically managing accounts that the user has with a financial institution. The invention would replace paper transaction registers. The invention is an electronic version of the paper register. This invention helps account holders manage... Agent: Miriam Evelyn Salcedo

20090187499 - System, method and computer program product for providing demand response functionality: A system, method and computer program product for providing demand response in a power grid is provided. In one embodiment, the computer system may include a first module configured to store user profile data for a plurality of users in memory and wherein user profile data includes load shed participation... Agent: Capital Legal Group, LLC

20090187500 - Accounts payable tax rules processing system and method: A system for generation of accounts payable processing system tax rules is provided. A tax account system generates an account for a tax jurisdiction. An over-tax rule system generates one or more rules for processing a tax amount in excess of a required tax amount associated with the tax jurisdiction.... Agent: Mr. Christopher John Rourk Jackson Walker LLP

20090187501 - Method and system for facilitating, coordinating and managing a competitive marketplace: A system and method for facilitating, coordinating and managing the operation of a competitive marketplace via the Internet. The system and method collect bids for market services from a plurality of customers, calculators a clearing piece for the market service and calculates settlement information based on the clearing piece calculated... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090187502 - System and method for the automated brokerage of financial instruments: Disclosed herein in a preferred embodiment is an automated financial instrument brokerage system wherein a front end layer interacts with customers to generate activity requests for an intermediate layer. The intermediate layer preferably processes the activity requests and places financial instrument orders on a financial market if appropriate. A backend... Agent: Thompson Coburn LLP

20090187510 - Calculating method for systematic risk: A calculating method for systematic risk comprises the steps of: calculating and obtaining predetermined number of true values of beta coefficient of a stock; establishing an original data series from the true values of beta coefficient; taking the accumulated generating operation (AGO) on the original data series to obtain a... Agent: Kamrath & Associates P.A.

20090187511 - Live alerts: Systems and methods for monitoring the trading of financial instruments are provided. Trading messages are received at a live alert server. The messages are analyzed with a set of predetermined limits and rules. When a predetermined limit or rule is violated, an email message is sent to a regulator or... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd., Attorneys For Client No. 006119

20090187512 - Asset-backed investment instrument and related methods: An asset-backed investment instrument that increases deferred tax liabilities for an investor and, therefore, is attractive to any investor that benefits from deferred tax liabilities, such as certain insurance companies. Ownership of an asset underlying the investment instrument is transferred to an investing entity. The transferred asset is leased from... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler PC

20090187503 - Generating content to satisfy underserved search queries: Generating content to satisfy search engines queries is described. A knowledge base including a plurality of prior search queries for a search engine and corresponding prior search results provided by the search engine is accessed and a plurality of underserved search queries are identified, wherein each of the underserved search... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090187504 - Non-traditional futures contract and associated processing systems: A computer implemented method and system is disclosed for trading a non-traditional futures contract representative of a price of an individual underlying commodity and/or an option on such a contract. The method and system comprises receiving a request from a customer to establish a position in the non-traditional futures contract... Agent: Weitzman Law Offices, LLC

20090187505 - Online savings network: Implementing an online savings network includes creating a network account for an owner and associating an investment account to the network account. The investment account is associated with savings parameters and is owned by the owner. A first contributor is invited to join the online savings network and a condition... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090187506 - System in which new production creates new money: An economic system includes a method of keeping consumption equal to production by creating new money only in response to new production. The method includes the steps of an employer ordering new production including one of a new good and/or service and an earner performing the new production for the... Agent: Michael A. Painter, Esq.

20090187507 - Secure financial transaction network: A secure financial transaction network works with payment cards that includes a magnetic device readable by a legacy card reader that presents dynamic magnetic data such that each use of an individual card produces a cryptographic series of variations of a respective user access code according to an encryption program... Agent: Richard B. Main, Esq. Patents Pending

20090187508 - Business method for using a phone to transact financial transactions: A business method for using phones to transact financial transactions in a secured and verified manner. The business method for using phones to transact financial transactions comprises registering the user with a registration system. Having the user initiate a financial transaction over a specific telephone. Verifying if the initiated user... Agent: Ruben Alcoba, Esq.

20090187509 - Methods of facilitating the use and occupancy of land: A method (800), apparatus and system for determining the value of a property is disclosed. The property includes land owned by a first party. The method (800) determines a first value representing value of the property at a first time. The method (800) then determines a second value representing value... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20090187513 - Systems and methods for upfront vehicle pricing: Systems and methods for upfront vehicle pricing management may include an independently owned online system which may provide a consumer with an upfront dealership price for a vehicle trim as a category. A vehicle pricing management system may collect vehicle pricing information from multiple sources, provide pricing feedback information, and... Agent: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

20090182565 - Aiding creation of service offers associated with a service delivery framework: A method of aiding creation of a service offer associated with a Service Delivery Framework (SDF) includes providing a plurality of reusable Application Objects (AOs) that may be associated with an Interactive Development Environment (IDE). The AOs are prototype customer facing service offers that include standardized functions supporting ordering, billing,... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hb Patent Docketing

20090182571 - Automated execution of business processes using reverse nesting: Systems and methods for providing interaction of multiple business process events by nesting the information from prerequisite events into a business process that is dependent on those processes to transact. In one embodiment, a business process comprises a first event that is launched by users, completed events or application calls... Agent: Law Offices Of Mark L. Berrier

20090182570 - Automated execution of business processes using two stage state: Systems and methods for automating and increasing the efficiency of business processes using two-stage state. In one embodiment, an automated method for execution of a business process is provided, where the business process is an event-driven activity including first and secondary events. The method includes the computer-implemented automatic steps of... Agent: Law Offices Of Mark L. Berrier

20090182566 - Automatic library referral system and method: Online activity between a client computer and an online store is electronically monitored to determine that an item referenced in the online activity is a publication, such as a book or periodical. In response, an electronic library database is automatically queried to determine whether a physical or electronic copy of... Agent: Ibm Corporation (ss)

20090182569 - Content hierarchy: Systems and methods for automating and increasing the efficiency of business processes using a hierarchical content structure. In one embodiment, A method comprises providing a plurality of business information items, defining a hierarchical content structure of the business information items, associating access rights for a first role with a first... Agent: Law Offices Of Mark L. Berrier

20090182567 - Exporting and importing business templates: A method and system for configuring an instance of a business information application program based on data exported from an instance of the application program is provided. Each instance of the application program has a database storing an organizations' business data. Template providers desiring to provide a template containing configuration... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20090182574 - Limiting proxy subscription propagation in a publish/subscribe message broker network: In a method of controlling a network of interconnected publish/subscribe message brokers for routing publications from a plurality of publishers to interested subscribers, each message broker is arranged to receive publications from publishers both directly and via other brokers and to receive subscriptions and unsubscriptions from subscribers and other brokers... Agent: Novak Druce + Quigg LLP

20090182568 - Method and apparatus for personalized consumer to business matchmaking: A personalized consumer to business matchmaking apparatus and its related method correlate and quantify a personalized match between a business offering products or services to a searching consumer looking for the reviewed products or services. In one embodiment of the invention, the personalized consumer to business matchmaking is based on... Agent: Invent Capture, LLC

20090182573 - Multi-party payment system for online creative works sale: A computer-implemented method of managing royalties for the online sale of a creative work includes selecting a digital creative work for sale from a plurality of digital creative works stored in digital memory, assigning a royalty scheme from a plurality of royalty schemes to the digital creative work, and identifying... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090182572 - System for determining equipment repositioning plans: A system and method are disclosed for maximizing equipment transport and vehicle space utilization by reducing the amount of equipment repositioning plans and reducing vehicles rotation between a plurality of shipping companies. The present system receives equipment repositioning plans or equipment use forecast from each shipping company. The system then... Agent: Vierra Magen Marcus & Deniro LLP

20090182577 - Automated information management process: A method of automating a healthcare facility workflow process includes creating a rule set governing at least one of a collection phase, an organize phase, and a display phase of the healthcare facility workflow process. The rule set is based on at least one of a plurality of decision factors.... Agent: Carestream Health, Inc.

20090182575 - System and method to manage a workflow in delivering healthcare: A system and method to manage progression of patients through a workflow of events that employs at least one resource in delivering healthcare is provided. The system comprises a sensor operable to track at least one property of the plurality of patients, and at least one processor in communication with... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20090182576 - System and method to manage a workflow in delivering healthcare: A system and method to manage progression of patients through a workflow of events that employs at least one resource in delivering healthcare is provided. The system comprises a sensor operable to track at least one property of the plurality of patients, and at least one processor in communication with... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20090182581 - Device and method for prompting behavioral change: A device for prompting behavioral changes generates a probability classification model in consideration of a probability dependence relation among nodes equivalent to each item (attribute) of health examination and doctor's question result data. The device tentatively changes an attribute value of each node of the classification model in an improvement... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20090182580 - Generation and dissemination of automatically pre-populated clinical notes: Some embodiments provide a system and method for automatedly aggregating medically related data and disseminating different sets of the aggregated data to two or more different members of a medical care provider. Some embodiments automatedly and intelligently disseminate the aggregated data such that the data that is written once to... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20090182579 - Method of processing genomic information: The present invention relates to a method for processing and/or providing genomic, proteomic, biochemical, and/or metabolic information collected from at least one subject wherein the processing and/or providing of the information is under the control of the subject. There is also provided an apparatus and a system for processing and/or... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090182578 - System and method for mental health disease management: The present invention is a system and method of related healthcare processes protecting workplace productivity and mental health. It provides tools to patients and their physicians to assist them in identifying, managing and tracking mental health disorders. It also provides information to employers and health and disability insurers regarding the... Agent: Riches, Mckenzie & Herbert, LLP

20090182582 - System and portable apparatus for securely dispensing and maintaining accurate inventory of controlled substances in a hospital setting: A system for use in a hospital or other medical facility that protects medications (e.g., injected or orally administered) against diversion by facility personnel when transported from a central pharmacy to the patient. The system includes a portable hand-held carrier to encapsulate the medication, which may be contained within a... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090182587 - Gps pathfinder cell phone and method: A device and system for use in emergency management operations before and after a disaster. The device incorporates a GPS and a radio with very simplified, pre-programmed instructions which are uploaded automatically in the device's memory via wireless technology prior to the unit's first use at a disaster site. Maps... Agent: Mchale & Slavin, P.A.

20090182583 - Methods for selling insurance using hybrid life: An insurer sells a life insurance policy with two distinct coverage periods. Prior to accepting the offer of insurance, the insurer underwrites the insurance contract on a limited basis using information obtainable by querying a remote database. During the first coverage period, full coverage is provided and the premium rates... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090182584 - Methods for selling insurance using rapid decision term: An insurer sells a life insurance policy having a coverage period equal in length to the term of the policy. The consideration paid by the insured is relatively high compared to conditional receipt coverage, but is generally lower than that charged for standard simplified issue policies. The policy is only... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090182585 - Methods for selling insurance using rapid decision term: An insurance company sells a life insurance policy having a coverage period. The policy provides a total benefit amount which includes an all-cause benefit amount and an accidental death only benefit amount. The policy is initially underwritten on a limited basis and the ratio of the all-cause benefit to the... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090182586 - Point-of-sale, value-added payment processing system and method thereof: A point-of-sale, value-added payment processing system and method thereof comprising, in general, a central server system connected to a data processing and storage device that utilizes a computer program adapted to host, accrue, calculate, disburse and report monthly donations earned by a participating merchant, based upon credit card processing transaction... Agent: Kaplan Ward & Patel LLC

20090182589 - Communicating information in a social networking website about activities from another domain: A social networking website logs information about actions taken by members of the website. For a particular member of the website, the website generates socially relevant ads for the member based on the actions logged for other members on the website to whom the member is connected (i.e., the member's... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090182588 - Market-level inventory control system and method: A system and method for managing inventory on a market basis is disclosed. When employed by a transportation carrier, the system allows for the creation of a market group that includes a limited amount of space that is provided by any one or more of a certain group of physical... Agent: Unisys Corporation

20090182590 - Market-level inventory control system and method: A system for managing inventory on a market basis is disclosed. When employed by a transportation carrier, the system allows for the creation of a market group that includes a limited amount of space that is provided by any one or more of a certain group of physical routes (e.g.,... Agent: Unisys Corporation

20090182601 - Alerts realtime delivery broker: What differentiates Alert Realtime from all other Messaging companies is our “Delivery Broker” technology that will utilize the capacity of multiple Alerts Messaging companies creating a much larger single pool of delivery capacity. At peak times or during a catastrophic event when emergency alerts are in demand, Alerts Realtime will... Agent: Joseph Melfi

20090182593 - Automated risk assessments using a contextual data model that correlates physical and logical assets: An automated method, system, device, and/or computer program for performing risk assessment for an information system. A risk assessment tool can receive a scenario for which to perform a risk assessment. A contextual data model and a set of data instances for the information system can be accessed. The contextual... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A. Ibm-rsw

20090182602 - Human resources method for employee demographics reporting compliance: In one example embodiment, a human resources method for employee demographics reporting compliance includes various acts. First, a server system sends, to a client system, one or more employee demographics reporting criteria. Next, the server system receives, from the client system, an indication that one or more employee demographics reporting... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090182603 - Information collection program, information collection apparatus, and information collection method: It is an object to provide a mechanism that can efficiently collect and accumulate unspecified large number of information as much as possible for marketing activities and that can make use of the information. An information collection program includes: an information receiving step that receives information provided from an information... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090182591 - Method and apparatus for determining optimized resolutions for infrastructures: An exemplary method of providing an optimized resolution to a problem in an infrastructure includes a step of determining at least one target configuration of the infrastructure wherein the target configuration is aligned with at least one template. The exemplary method also includes determining at least one resolution to the... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090182598 - Method and system for planning of services workforce staffing using hiring, contracting and cross-training: A method and system for workforce planning in one aspect provide an optimization model that produce, based on the availability profile and the demand profile of skill types, a workforce plan recommending a combination of actions. The combination of actions may include hiring, contracting and cross-training. The optimization model considers... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090182599 - Method and system for the bundling and pricing of wireless hotspots: A method (and structure) for providing services for wireless hotspots. The services are offered to selectively include bundled hotspots as well as single hotspots.... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090182596 - Method and system of analyzing choices in a value network: A method and system of analyzing choices in a value network, includes applying real options analysis to one or more choices. The real options include a present cost and a call value.... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090182597 - Monitoring capabilities for mobile electronic devices: Improved computer-implemented techniques for providing relevant information to mobile electronic devices are disclosed. According to one aspect, usage of mobile electronic devices can be monitored and usage data can be formed. The usage data can then be used to perform an action. The action can operate to provide more relevant... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20090182595 - Operational transformation for analyzing business processes: An operational level process diagram depicts the execution linkage between a process, organization and technology at the operational level. Business objectives, issues, and requirements are effectively linked to technology and organization through critical process elements, thus providing a perspective that ensures an effective transformation of process, organization, and technology.... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090182592 - Procurement system and method over a network using a single instance multi-tenant architecture: A single instance, multi-tenant procurement system, includes an access module to provide access to a plurality of end users associated with an organization to their respective accounts, each account being customized by a super user of the organization, a search engine to execute searches for products offered by one or... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090182600 - System and method of real-time homebuilding scheduling: The invention consists of a method of real-time tracking of production schedules and timetables for one or more homebuilding developments, comprising: a) assigning one or more mobile devices to one or more users associated with projects and lots, the mobile devices providing access to project and lot information, including: lots... Agent: Lang Michener

20090182594 - System and method to manage assets of healthcare facility: A system to manage utilization of a plurality of types of assets by a plurality of independent entities is provided. The system comprises a controller including a processor operable to execute a plurality of program instructions generally representative of the steps of receiving a plurality of parameters from each of... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20090182604 - Apparatus and method for transmitting work information, and method for providing work information: A work information transmitting apparatus of a primary business enterprise provides second work information to a second server of a secondary business enterprise according to first work information received from a first server of a main business enterprise. The first work information includes production plan information generated based on inventory... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20090182605 - System and method for billing for hosted services: Some embodiments provide a system and method for projecting billing of a specified server configuration. In some embodiments, the projected billing is determined by identifying a set of allocated resources for the server configuration. In some embodiments, the set of resources include an amount of allocated RAM, network bandwidth, disk... Agent: Adeli & Tollen, LLP

20090182607 - Approver identification using multiple hierarchical role structures: Systems and methods for automating and increasing the efficiency of business processes using multiple hierarchical role structures. In one embodiment, a method comprises defining two or more hierarchies, defining an approver for a business process where the approver is associated with at least a first role in a first one... Agent: Law Offices Of Mark L. Berrier

20090182608 - Managing event-based conditional recurrent schedules: Managing recurrent schedules based on events and conditions. Schedules from a plurality of applications are identified based on an activation time for the schedules and a determination of whether or not conditions defined for the schedules are met. The identified schedules are activated by performing actions associated with each of... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090182609 - System and method for assessing fit between a business issue and perception of the issue by potential solution providers: A system is provided for screening requests for proposal and matching the requests with high potential solution providers. The system includes a host computer, a screening and matching process, a proposal request key generator, and a response key generator. The host computer is in communications with a computer network. The... Agent: Moetteli & Associates Sarl

20090182610 - System and method for asset registration workflows utilizing an eventing infrastructure in a metadata repository: Described herein is a system and method for automating asset workflows in a service metadata repository. A service metadata repository includes an event model for generating one or more events based on a change to one or more assets. A persistent message stores the one or more events. A subscription... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20090182606 - System and method for facilitating strategic contract audit, resolution and recovery: A system and method for facilitating consistent management of a repeatable contract audit, resolution and recovery process is disclosed. A methodology that tightly defines the contract audit, resolution and recovery events enables an audit team to evaluate supplier performance against a contract, ascertain the existing health of a contract, and... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (amex)

20090182611 - System and method for scheduling employee shifts: A system and method for scheduling employee shifts. Two types of users generally utilize the system to post and view schedules, managers and workers. A manager may define shifts for work areas and post the shifts so workers may obtain their schedule and know when to work. Workers may retrieve... Agent: Dalina Law Group, P.C.

20090182621 - Content and advertising material superdistribution: Embodiments provide content and advertising material superdistribution. In one embodiment, a method of distributing content and advertising material may be provided. The method may include: registering members who are potential users and distributors of content; receiving, from a first member, an identifier of a second member with whom the first... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20090182619 - Electronic advertising using distributed demographics: In one embodiment, a request for content is received. An electronic advertisement is associated with the content. A status of a device that transmitted the request for the content is determined. Data corresponding to the status is included in the request for the content. The electronic advertisement or receipt of... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090182622 - Enhancing and storing data for recall and use: A user of a personal computing device may see an item that interests him or her and would like to remember the item for future reference. The user captures data (e.g., a digital image, an audio recording, etc.) of the item of interest (e.g., anything user can see, hear or... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20090182613 - Managing shipments in an order by proxy service: Illustrated embodiments provide a computer implemented method, an apparatus and a computer program product in an order by proxy service for managing shipments. In one illustrative embodiment, the computer implemented method identifying a set of initial orders received at the proxy service and responsive to identifying the set of initial... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090182624 - Method and apparatus for generating and evaluating ideas in an organization: The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for generating and evaluating ideas within an organization through an idea market. It includes an automatic price-setting mechanism that modifies the share-price at the same instant that a trade is made, yet without the assistance of a market maker or a queue... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20090182617 - Method for improving customer satisfaction: A method for optimizing a process utilized in providing a service to a customer is disclosed in which the series of steps involved in the process are first identified. Each process step is then tracked and the tracked steps are analyzed to determine if the process can be improved.... Agent: Baker Botts, LLP

20090182620 - Modeling system and method to predict consumer response: Systems and methods for determining a consumer response. At least two attributes are obtained for a sample product, the at least two attributes are associated with a feeding experience of an animal are determined. A regression analysis is performed on one or more factor scores for the sample product derived... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Global Legal Department - Ip

20090182626 - Optimum acquisition valuation systems and methods: A software product which is stored on computer-readable media that when executed by a computer performs steps for determining a target industry, quantifying critical mass for IPO in the industry, determining acquisition targets in the industry; and generating a three-stage offer for each target company within the acquisition targets.... Agent: Lathrop & Gage LLP

20090182625 - Process and system for integrating information from disparate databases for purposes of predicting consumer behavior: A process and system for integrating information stored in at least two disparate databases. The stored information includes consumer transactional information. According to the process and system, at least one qualitative variable which is common to each database is identified, and then transformed into one or more quantitative variables. The... Agent: Gamburd Law Group LLC

20090182616 - Ringback advertising: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, in which an indication of a telephone call being placed from a calling number is received, and a determination is made of an audio advertisement to play based on the calling number. The audio advertisement is played based on the determination.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090182627 - Self learning method and system for managing a third party subsidy offer: A self-learning computer-based system for managing a third party subsidy offer, including: a memory element for at least one specially-programmed general purpose computer for storing an artificial intelligence program (AIP) and first and second metrics; an interface element for the computer for receiving an order, the order including an item... Agent: Simpson & Simpson, PLLC

20090182615 - Self-serve direct-to-consumer mail marketing service: Technologies are described herein for providing a self-serve direct-to-consumer mail marketing service. A unified mail marketing service is provided through which a user can generate a postal or e-mail mailing without the need to consult multiple independent service providers. The mail marketing service provides a single point of contact for... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090182612 - System and method for online sizing and other applications involving a root measurable entity: Applications are disclosed involving root measurable entities such as given a size of a garment from one manufacturer that fits, appropriate sizes for garments made by other manufacturers can be returned; also, given a particular computer network and a user-input desire for a particular task, optimum settings are returned.... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20090182614 - System and method for serving advertisements according to network traffic: A system and method may allow an advertiser to sign a conditional contract with an advertising network so that the advertiser's advertisement may be displayed on a web page only when the network traffic thereto exceeds a threshold level. The system may have a network traffic monitoring server which may... Agent: Yahoo! Inc.

20090182618 - System and method for word-of-mouth advertising: A system and method to facilitate word-of-mouth advertising and sales support associated with displayed media objects on distributed networks is described. The system provides one or more advocates to a network user accessing advertising of a brand, product, or service. One or more of the advocates may be socially related... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

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20090182634 - Image-based payment medium: Disclosed is a method and system for use of an image-based payment medium through images stored on the consumer's mobile phone in place of traditional plastic gift, credit or debit cards. Upon authentication, an image is sent to the consumer's mobile phone. The consumer displays the image at the retailer's... Agent: Robert F. Gilbert

20090182632 - Internet trading: The new process provides sets of pre-programmed price reduction schedules which may be prepared by the seller, or selected from a pool of sets, or randomly selected from the system, thereby, at every certain amount of pre-selected times, the maximum price of such goods or services is reduced by certain... Agent: Michael Winfield Goltry

20090182628 - Limited brand gps mobile device, method and system: Invention is subsidized Limited brand GPS mobile device, method and system that allows consumers to obtain the GPS device at subsidized low cost or even free, wherein consumers pay for individual destinations on-demand, package of on-demand destinations, or use free destinations featured on the device of sponsoring companies brands and... Agent: Michael Chechelniker

20090182629 - Media content protection: Method and system for protection of digitally formed media from illegal use and distribution. The method comprises the steps of producing a random spatial and temporal mix of at least one embedded advertisement and at least one digital content track and producing a digital media product using the random mix.... Agent: Yoram Tsivion

20090182633 - Method and system for payer-centric payment using mobile terminal: Provided are a method and system for payer-centric payment using a mobile terminal through which payment is made while information about a payer is not released to a participating store. Specifically, a terminal of the participating store transmits payment information including a payment amount and participating store identification information to... Agent: Jason Y. Pahng And Associates, LLC

20090182637 - Method of referral marketing: There is a method of referral marketing over a computerized network configured to incentivize participation and thereby enhance the effectiveness thereof; wherein the method includes steps of providing a webpage to sell products/services over a computerized network. The method includes providing a hypertext offering to a shopper, for a referred... Agent: Advantia Law Group

20090182630 - System and method for enabling point of sale functionality in a wireless communications device: The invention broadly comprises a method for enabling point of sales (POS) functionality in a wireless communications device (WCD) including the steps of: transmitting, using an interface element in at least one specially programmed general purpose computer, a POS function control signal to a communication network for transmission to a... Agent: Simpson & Simpson, PLLC

20090182636 - System and method for structured search: A system and method for structured search of information, including but not limited to, search for goods and services in e-commerce and mobile e-commerce, is disclosed. In some embodiments, the system comprises a plurality of heterogeneously structured data sources, a plurality of query objects that represent queries to the data... Agent: Fernandez & Associates LLP

20090182631 - System and method for word-of-mouth advertising: A system and method to facilitate word-of-mouth advertising and sales support associated with displayed media objects on distributed networks is described. The system provides one or more advocates to a network user accessing advertising of a brand, product, or service. One or more of the advocates may be socially related... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090182635 - Vehicle inspection system and process: An inspection system and process that allows requesters to electronically request inspections to be made of one or more items and/or properties at one or more remote locations, for the request to be electronically routed via a processor to one or more electronic devices to be carried and used by... Agent: Harvey Lunenfeld

20090182638 - Self-guiding interface for customer service machines: A customer service machine, such as a self check-out terminal, includes a visual indicator and a proximity sensor associated with certain functional components or stations of the terminal, such as itemization, bagging and payment stations. The visual indicator is configured to provide a visual signal to either encourage or deter... Agent: Paul W. Martin

20090182639 - Shipping station and logistics system: An exemplary embodiment of the present invention relates to a shipping station. An exemplary shipping station includes a shipping pad that is placed at a cash register. The invention further relates to a logistics system.... Agent: InternationalIPLaw Group

20090182640 - Fiscal data recorder: A fiscal data recorder for storing transaction related data in a point of sale system is provided with a processing unit receiving the transaction related data. Memory in communication with the processing unit is operable to store the transaction related data. A protection circuit acting between the processing unit and... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20090182641 - Financial transaction approval system and method: A method of sale including processing a plurality of purchases to be sold to a consumer, identifying a consumer financial account held by a financial institution, receiving authorization from the financial institution to enable payment for the plurality of purchases from the consumer financial account, and providing the consumer with... Agent: Target Brands, Inc.

20090182646 - Method and system for monetizing content: An e-commerce system, comprising an endorsement engine and interface software coupled to the endorsement engine and adapted to interact with one or more content sources connected over a network and adapted to enable subscriptions from users using a protocol, is disclosed. In an embodiment, the interface software enables an endorsing... Agent: Brian R. Galvin

20090182642 - Methods and systems to recommend an item: Methods and Systems system for recommending an item. The system comprises at least one machine including a receiving module and a recommending module. The receiving module receives an event for an activity related to a first item. Next, the recommending module analyzes recommendation information to identify a first measure of... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20090182645 - Provisioning web services: A web service provisioning system including a subscription system having a web service description data correlated to the at least one web service, and provisioning processes data correlated to the at least one web service. The provisioning system also includes an invocation system operatively coupled to the subscription system. A... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090182643 - System and method for tracking a user's navigation on a website and enabling a customer service representative to replicate the user's state: A system, method and computer readable medium for tracking and replicating user navigation on a website having multiple user web pages. At least one user web page includes a session code link that displays a session code identifier to the user and causes a session code and a web page... Agent: Carlton Fields, P.A. Attn:IPDept.

20090182644 - Systems and methods for content tagging, content viewing and associated transactions: In some embodiments, a method includes initiating a tagging event associated with an item included in a media content. The initiating is based on the actuation of an indicia in a video module. Data associated with the item from the media content is input into the video module. The video... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20090182648 - Electronic gift linking: According to the invention, a method for creating an electronic greeting card that references a gift is disclosed. In one step, a selection of the electronic greeting card is received from a sender of that greeting card. Identification of the gift is received. A code indicative of the gift is... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090182647 - Systems and methods for enhancing product value metadata: Various embodiments of computer-implemented systems and methods for enhancing product value metadata in an electronic marketplace listing environment are described. One exemplary embodiment includes receiving input from a user, the input being descriptive of a product listed in the marketplace, and determining reputation of the user based on feedback provided... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20090182649 - Optimizing inventory in accordance with a constrained network: In one embodiment, optimizing inventory includes accessing service level band sets. Each service level band set is associated with a policy group, and includes service level bands. Each service level band of a service level band set has a service level priority with respect to any other service level bands... Agent: I2 Technologies Us, Inc.

20090182650 - Hydrogen chloride supply system, air pollution control system, and hydrogen chloride supply control system: An air pollution control system comprises: a carry-in tank truck that carries in a feedstock, i.e., concentrated hydrochloric acid (35% hydrochloric acid); a hydrogen chloride vaporizer that vaporizes the concentrated hydrochloric acid to obtain hydrogen chloride; a liquid level regulator that separates residual hydrogen chloride from extracted dilute hydrochloric acid... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090182651 - Method and apparatus for the randomized storage of printouts: A method and apparatus for printing and storing transaction records in a random manner is provided. A printer is coupled to a storage tray wherein the storage tray or the contents thereof are moved, shifted, or shuffled to randomize the storage of printouts in the storage tray and prevent the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090182653 - System and method for case management: A case management system and method for evaluating a plurality of transactions against a set of rules, determining which rules are satisfied, scoring the transactions as a function of the satisfied rules, and risking ranking the transactions as a function of the transaction scores.... Agent: Duane Morris LLP - Dc

20090182654 - System and method for data completion including push identifier: A system and method for processing push transactions. A payor may initiate a transaction without input from the payee. A system can determine who the payee is from partial information provided by the payor, and direct the transaction to the proper party.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20090182652 - System and method for detecting fraudulent transactions: Some demonstrative embodiments of the invention include a system and method for detecting related transactions, e.g., fraudulent transactions by for example associating transactions and creating lists of related transactions. Other embodiments are described and claimed.... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20090182655 - Method and apparatus for prioritized delivery of electronic mail messages: A system allows users to send electronic mail messages having prioritized delivery. A server receives an electronic mail message that contains a specified priority or a specified time frame for delivery. The server determines a time frame for delivery and selects procedures to ensure delivery of the electronic mail message... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090182656 - System and method for the automated brokerage of financial instruments: Disclosed herein in a preferred embodiment is an automated financial instrument brokerage system wherein a front end layer interacts with customers to generate activity requests for an intermediate layer. The intermediate layer preferably processes the activity requests and places financial instrument orders on a financial market if appropriate. A backend... Agent: Thompson Coburn LLP

20090182682 - Bank-eligible investment product and a system and method for designing, implementing, monitoring and managing the same: A computer system and computative process for designing, implementing, processing, communicating and managing a bank-eligible investment product that invests in other bank-eligible investments wherein the risk-based capital exposure of each investment is compared to a limit database and processed using a plurality of risk-weight percentages stored in the database. The... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090182686 - Integrated trading information processing and transmission system for exempt securities: A system is provided for processing and transmitting trading information for exempt securities or assets not otherwise listed, traded, valuated or bought/sold in any conventional exchange or system for the regulation of securities or commodities. The system may include: (a) a risk analytic module using the latest market prices and... Agent: Patton Boggs LLP

20090182684 - Method and system for creating a volatility benchmark index: A method and system for creating a volatility benchmark index is disclosed. The method includes obtaining a value of a Treasury bill account less a mark-to-market value of at least one of a volatility-based future or option and calculating a value reflecting a volatility benchmark. The value may be displayed... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090182683 - Method and system for low latency basket calculation: A basket calculation engine is deployed to receive a stream of data and accelerate the computation of basket values based on that data. In a preferred embodiment, the basket calculation engine is used to process financial market data to compute the net asset values (NAVs) of financial instrument baskets. The... Agent: Thompson Coburn LLP

20090182685 - System and method for investment in a portfolio of entertainment productions: The invention relates to a system and method for raising a fund from investors for the purposes of distributing to a portfolio of startup investments, where each startup investment within the portfolio has been separately capitalized. Additionally, the invention relates to a system and method for investing in a milestone... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090182658 - Automatic financial instrument transaction system: A computer-based transaction system manages representations of a plurality of positions in a first type of financial instrument, such as bond future contracts. The transaction system, at a first predetermined time, converts each position in the first type of financial instrument into a corresponding position in a second type of... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20090182657 - Distributed ranking and matching of messages: A method for managing messages in a computer system is described. The method comprising the steps of; receiving a plurality of order/quote messages via an input mechanism, ranking the order/quote messages based on the at least one ranking value parameter at a first ranking unit, sending at least one top... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090182659 - Method of selling using auction style bidding: The invention relates to an auction like bidding process establishing the value of an asset; the sale of the asset going to whomever pays first. This differs from the established auction protocol where the seller is obliged to pass the asset to the highest bidder. With this method, the seller's... Agent: Philip Clarke

20090182660 - Systems and methods for providing enhanced volume-weighted average price trading: Systems and methods for providing trading using an eVWAP price in an illiquid market are provided. In an illiquid market there may be little or no actual trades. During a trading period, the eVWAP price is therefore determined from not only trades, but also unmatched bids and offers. The eVWAP... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20090182661 - Firm offers of credit system: A computer-implemented method for providing firm offers of credit to a consumer includes receiving consumer information from a consumer via a network, receiving a selection via the network from the consumer to permit at least one soft credit inquiry of the consumer's credit record, submitting a soft credit inquiry to... Agent: Venable LLP

20090182662 - Federated entertainment access service: This document describes tools capable of managing digital content from multiple content providers based on a user's identity. By so doing, the tools may free people from the limitations of their storage media and devices. The tools may perform these and other actions through an indirect relationship with users, such... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090182663 - System and method for re-distributing and transferring mobile gift cards: A system and method for re-distributing and transferring mobile gift cards is described. One embodiment, a computer-server-based method, receives a selection of a particular mobile gift card belonging to the first user; receives a request to transfer a specified monetary amount from a balance of the particular mobile gift card... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20090182664 - Integrating social networking with financial services: A method for integrating an online social networking platform with a banking platform enables users of the online social networking platform to transfer funds held in one or more accounts accessed through the banking platform to a third party.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090182665 - System and method for processing checks and check transactions: A method of processing paper checks that divides into two independent paths the processing of a data file representing a check and the digital image of the check. The data files and image files are separated both in time and in space, with the data files being used to promptly... Agent: Beck And Tysver P.l.l.c.

20090182666 - System for effecting the payment of paper and electronic financial instruments received at a payment facility: A system for expediting the deposit, settlement and submission into the payment system for collection of funds represented of commingled paper and electronic financial instruments that are received by a payee at a location remote from the payee's collecting and clearing bank in which the instruments are separated at a... Agent: Hershkovitz & Associates, LLC

20090182669 - Card data management device and method thereof: The present invention discloses a card data management device comprising: a server interface module, for connecting the card data management device with a server and sending authorized data obtained from the server to a data management module; a data management module, for receiving the authorized data from the server via... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090182668 - Method and apparatus to enable lawful intercept of encrypted traffic: Methods and systems are described for communicating the session keys used to encrypt media stream to allow a lawful intercept agency to decrypt the media stream. Assuming the endpoints negotiate the session keys themselves, the send an encrypted format key message which is encrypted with an encryption key for which... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Anne Kinsman

20090182667 - Practical secrecy-preserving, verifiably correct and trustworthy auctions: A system and method for conducting verifiably correct auctions that preserves the secrecy of the bids while providing for verifiable correctness and trustworthiness of the auction is disclosed. Some of the elements of the method and apparatus are that the auction operator accepts all bids submitted and follows the published... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi, LLP

20090182671 - Interface system for annuity database for management of assets: A method, system, and article are provided for extending the functionality of a patent management tool to incorporate automated submission of patent documents to a government agency. Due dates for documents submission is tracked by the management tool. Prior to expiration of a due date, appropriate documents are electronically submitted... Agent: Computer Patent Annuities North America, LLC C/o Cpa Global

20090182670 - Method and apparatus for on demand video and other content rental: A video on demand system in the context of the Internet, for video rentals. A user accesses an on-line store to rent a video program or movie. The rental is for a limited time (such as 30 days) and within that thirty days, the video program or movie can only... Agent: Apple C/o Mofo Palo Alto

20090182672 - System and method for financial transaction validation: A system and method for identifying and validating indicia representative of at least one of a document and a transaction and a set of data by an originating party involves at least one of a document and a transaction and a set of data having at least one information item... Agent: Mcgarry Bair PC

20090182673 - Token based new digital cash protocols with combined blind digital signature and pseudonym authentication: Digital cash token protocols use a combination of blind digital signatures and pseudonym authentication with at least two pairs of public and private keys. A user is provided with one master pair of private and public keys and as many pseudonym pairs of private and public keys as desired. The... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090182674 - Facilitating financial transactions with a network device: Systems and methods provide for communicating with a user device via a network, receiving a first numeric identifier from the user device, associating the first numeric identifier with a user account, and processing a financial transaction requested by the user device. The user device includes a mobile phone, and the... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090182675 - Method and system for conducting electronic commerce over a network using a shadow credit card number: A method and system are disclosed for conducting electronic commerce over a computer network. A first processor can be configured to receive first data including information of a buyer, and generate second data based on the first data. The first processor sends the second data to the second processor and... Agent: Dla Piper LLP Us

20090182676 - Remote electronic payment system: The invention concerns a remote electronic payment system comprising an authentication device (300) with an authenticating server in a remote payment system, the authentication being performed prior to a transaction carried out by a user. The device (300) is characterised in that it comprises: means (310) for receiving a first... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20090182678 - Financial risk management system: The present invention provides a method and system for re-allocating financial risks. The system includes computer modules for assessing the behavior of the insured individual by an insurance provider, modeling the risks associated with providing insurance to the individual by the insurance provider, assessing the market risks associated with providing... Agent: Ward & Olivo

20090182681 - Methods and systems for electronic commerce facility client-based presentation offer management: A method, system and computer readable medium for facilitating interactive electronic commerce transactions over an electronic commerce network between a plurality of sellers and a plurality of buyers via an independent service provider. A request is received from a seller over the electronic commerce network to generate an auction program... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20090182679 - Rights establishing system and method: A system and method for providing a present consideration to a consumer and coincidentally establishing a future right for a holder to offer or to provide, at the holder's option goods or services in response to a trigger event... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090182680 - System and method for anonymized disclosure of corporate data in electronic negotiations: An automated electronic negotiation system permits anonymous negotiations between one or more buyer entities and one or more seller entities. Each buyer entity and seller entity registers and provides information related to the respective entity. The information is stored confidentially and released in a step-wise fashion only upon authorization. The... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP/seattle

20090182677 - Upsell system embedded in a system and controlled by a third party: A method of determining compensation, including the steps of: generating, using a processor of a specially programmed general-purpose computer and a first software program stored in a memory element of the general-purpose computer and offered by a first business entity, at least one sales offer; transmitting the at least one... Agent: Simpson & Simpson, PLLC

20090182687 - Systems and methods for mid-stream postage adjustment: A method and system for receiving payment for postage by a delivery system operator from a customer is provided. The method includes receiving payment from the customer for a first postage value; receiving the parcel for delivery, the parcel including a machine-readable postage indicia indicating the amount of the received... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090182688 - Connector assembly for connecting an earpiece of a hearing aid to glasses temple: Connector assembly for connecting an earpiece (27) of a hearing aid to a glasses temple (13). The glasses temple (13) has hearing aid components. The connector assembly (31) has a first connector housing (34) and a second connector housing (37). The first connector housing (34) is designed to be attached... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090177481 - Method and system of wireless quality for fee: A method of selecting and receiving enhanced wireless service is provided in association with a wireless device. The method comprises designating at least one device number to receive a communication; selecting at least one feature of the enhanced wireless service and receiving the selected at least one feature in connection... Agent: Bruce B. Brunda

20090177485 - Method of establishing interpersonal relations, and suitable device to implement such a method: A method of establishing interpersonal relations comprises emission by a first user of an availability signal, reception of a correlation signal by a potential conversation partner, and establishment of a mutual assent for a meeting between the first user and the potential conversation partner; the step of establishing the mutual... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090177482 - Method of improving concrete production by monitoring weather conditions: In a concrete preparation and pouring process, concrete quality and batch consistency is improved by monitoring weather conditions at one or more locations relating to the process and taking the weather conditions into account in adjusting variables in the preparation and pouring process.... Agent: Vollrath & Associates

20090177487 - Methods for assessing genetic compatibility: The invention relates to a method of constructing a compatibility profile for an individual based on a data set including alleles corresponding to four or more human leukocyte antigen (HLA) loci and optionally the AVPR1A locus and assigning an encoded reference to each allele in the data set. The invention... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090177486 - System and method for conducting a location based search: A system and method for conducting a location based search for event cartridges is provided. A database of cartridges is maintained. Each cartridge includes a sequence of triggerable events and origin geolocational data for a start location for execution of the triggerable events. A server is operatively coupled to the... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property

20090177483 - System and method for facilitating the establishment and operations of a professional service organization: A system and method of facilitating the establishment and operations of a professional services organization governed by rules of professional conduct that prohibit obtaining investments from non-licensed investors. The method compromises establishing a stand-alone, turn-key solution company to provide necessary services to one or more professional service organizations. These services... Agent: PCt Law Group, PLLC

20090177480 - System and method for identifying targeted consumers using partial social security numbers: A system and method are used to identify a targeted consumer. The system includes a partial social security number (SSN) system that identifies a partial SSN issued during a preselected time period and a marketing database system. The marketing database system receives a comparison result from a SSN matching system... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20090177484 - System and method for message clustering: The disclosure describes systems and methods delivering communications associated with delivery conditions in which the occurrence of the delivery condition is determined by monitoring information received from a plurality of sources via multiple communication channels. The message delivery systems allow messages to be delivered to any “Who, What, When, Where”... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20090177490 - Method for improving pharmaceutical selection ratios in pharmacy implementation of prescription medication dispensing plans: A method is disclosed by which pharmacies and physicians are encouraged to select appropriate and effective medications but dissuaded from selecting higher priced medications where more economical versions are available as alternatives, but where physicians and patients can also select such higher priced medications if they so choose and are... Agent: Gordon & Rees LLP

20090177491 - Method for minimizing the cost of post-treatment follow-up and diagnostic tests: A method for determining an optimized surveillance schedule of follow-up diagnostic tests and doctor visits considers the tradeoff between timely detection of relapse and the cost of the diagnostic procedures. A method for generating a surveillance schedule for monitoring a recurrence of a condition includes the steps of (a) scheduling... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20090177488 - System and method for adjudication and settlement of health care claims: Systems and methods are disclosed for settling health care claims as part of a claim adjudication process. A standard financial transaction network is used to settle the portion of the claim not covered by insurance. Eligibility checks are also disclosed that make use of the financial transaction network to determine... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20090177489 - Systems and methods for patient scheduling and record handling: A computer automated tool is provided, the tool being designed to coordinate the complex processes of patient scheduling and record handling. The tool and supporting methods intelligently input, correlate, notify and link schedules to medical records and patient-specific scheduling behavior.... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20090177492 - Method and system for generating personal/individual health records: A system and method for generating and/or updating a personal/individual health record. Inputs of data to the system may come from diverse sources including, but not limited to, patient questionnaires, insurance company (or other payor) claims data, hospitals, clinics and other institutional providers, and individual physicians and physicians' offices.... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20090177493 - Method and system for providing clinical decision support: A method and system for providing medical decision support is disclosed herein. The method comprises: accessing a record pertaining to a patient stored with different patient parameters, including patient status and linking various patient parameters based on their relation. A change in at least one patient parameter is detected and... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20090177497 - Ophthalmic surgical systems with automated billing mechanism: A system and method for billing for one or more surgical procedures includes a treatment planning module to accept input selecting multiple surgical procedures, a patient data management module to provide patient data, and a billing module to charge different payers for the selected surgical procedures in relation to the... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20090177494 - Patient management method and system: A method and system of patient recall management is disclosed comprising defining a set of disease related codes, each code being assigned to one or more predefined categories and having a predefined patient management plan including predefined time intervals at which appointments to meet with a predefined healthcare professional are... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20090177496 - Relationship prediction system: A Relationship Prediction System for providing a relationship prediction based on the correlation of personal characteristics and the analysis of genetic characteristics is disclosed. In one embodiment, a first person supplies descriptions of their own personal characteristics, as well as descriptions of the personal characteristics of their ideal match, to... Agent: Thomas N. Giaccherini

20090177495 - System, method, and device for personal medical care, intelligent analysis, and diagnosis: A system for personal medical care, intelligent analysis and diagnosis may include: at least one source of medical information; at least one source of personal medical data for at least one patient; and one or more servers, where the medical information and the personal medical data are accessible to the... Agent: Venable LLP

20090177501 - Method and system for furnishing an on-line quote for an insurance product: In an alternate embodiment of the method and system for furnishing an on-line quote for an insurance product, such as auto insurance, the user is allowed to enter basic user information on an on-line quote system application which calls a common data entry system to request credit information for the... Agent: Wilmerhale/new York

20090177499 - Method of and system for determining insurance claim losses: A system for and method of determining insurance claim losses. The method is comprised of inputting a claim loss item into a remote computational device. The claim loss item is communicated to a claims server, where a data source is searched for comparable items. The data source can be a... Agent: Steig Gunnar Westerberg

20090177498 - System and method for developing loss assumptions: A method for developing assumptions for use in evaluating the possible occurrence of an event comprises the steps of defining a plurality of factors correlated with each other to the event, assigning a plurality of levels to each factor, determining a relative occurrence rate for selected combinations of factors and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090177500 - System and method for numerical risk of loss assessment of an insured property: A system and method for numerical risk of loss assessment of an insured property, in general, comprising the steps of evaluating one or more risk criteria and category for each property area, subsystem or sub-area utilizing objective evaluation criteria and matrix to assess the risk of loss numerical rating for... Agent: Balser & GrellIPLaw LLC

20090177503 - Scheduling apparatus and computer readable medium storing scheduling program: A scheduling apparatus to arrange a schedule for a new event in accordance with an input includes an input accepting device, a personal schedule information acquisition device, a schedule determination device, and a schedule registration device. The input accepting device accepts new event information. The personal schedule information acquisition device... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090177502 - System for matching drivers with customers seeking to hire a driver: A server computer is programmed or adapted to register drivers and customers. Registered customers log into the system and generate booking inquiries which are received by the system. In response to a booking inquiry, the system searches among registered drivers for available drivers corresponding to the request and presents to... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090177504 - System and method for assisting online product research by consumers: Rating information is maintained that is associated with one or more sources from which a product of interest can be purchased. Search criteria is received from a user that defines a product of interest. A plurality of sources are selected from which the user can transact for a product that... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20090177506 - Application of discrete choice theory to forecasting aircraft retirements and fleet composition: An apparatus and method for forecasting aircraft fleet composition, aircraft retirements and fleet spares requirements, includes obtaining aircraft fleet data, obtaining data on independent variables, determining a cycle indicator, determining the operation type of the aircraft, estimating the model using certain estimation steps using the aircraft fleet data, examining and... Agent: NovatechIPLaw

20090177507 - Automated derivation of response time service level objectives: A method for maximizing a utility of a service contract by optimizing target response time for a performance service level objective is provided. A set of criteria are provided to ensure that performance requirements for the service are met. The method comprises determining one or more usage windows for providing... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090177509 - Business service management dashboard: A system for presenting a visual dashboard which presents real time information regarding health of business processes through the health of the underlying IT systems. Visual representation of the relationships of the underlying application architecture are also presented via the system. In certain embodiments, the system develops a visual hierarchy... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20090177512 - Determining a policy parameter for an entity of a supply chain: Determining a policy parameter for an entity of a supply chain includes establishing attributes of the entities of the supply chain. Attribute segments are established for each attribute, where an attribute segment includes one or more values of the corresponding attribute. Rules are formulated using the attribute segments to define... Agent: I2 Technologies Us, Inc.

20090177511 - Recruiting and applicant qualification system: A recruiting system comprises a server that stores applicant guidelines, an administration module that updates the applicant guidelines in the server, and a recruiting module. The recruiting module receives characteristics of an applicant, and the characteristics are compared to the applicant guidelines. The recruiting module displays a recruiting disposition for... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090177505 - Supply and distribution method and system which considers environmental or \"green\" practices: The carbon footprint of a supply and distribution chain is modeled as a carbon dioxide (CO2) cost that can be considered alongside monetary or dollar ($) costs in supply, manufacturing, and distribution operations. Databases on products and services, supply chain policies, and targets, costs, and/or greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.C.

20090177510 - System and method of generating a business plan: Exemplary systems and methods are disclosed for generating a business plan on a network. An exemplary system comprises a first interface that generates business data associated with a client, a second interface that generates review data based on a review of the business data, and a processor connected to the... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090177508 - Validation framework for service oriented architecture (soa) application adoption: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to business process model validation and provide a method, system and computer program product for validating a service oriented architecture (SOA) oriented application. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for validating an SOA oriented application can... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090177513 - Device and method for dynamic itinerary planning and tracking for mobile communications device: A dynamic tracking application for a mobile communications device is disclosed. The dynamic tracking application enters itinerary events into the mobile communications device to create an itinerary. The itinerary events are plotted on a map that can be displayed by the mobile communications device. The itinerary is then executed by... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20090177516 - Redistribution of parts in a distribution network: Redistributing parts includes defining locations. An actual inventory of parts is established among the locations, and a desired allocation of the parts is established among the locations. A demand for the parts at each location is determined using the actual inventory and the desired allocation. Paths are determined, where a... Agent: I2 Technologies Us, Inc.

20090177514 - Services using globally distributed infrastructure for secure content management: Secure content management is enabled as a cloud-based service through which security protection and policy enforcement may be implemented for both on-premise network users and roaming users. The global SCM service integrates the security functionalities—such as anti-virus, spyware, and phishing protection, firewall, intrusion detection, centralized management, and the like—that are... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090177515 - System and method for prioritizing the transformation activities to optimize the resulting infrastructure improvements: The present invention provides a variety of aspects, which may be combined in different ways to present embodiments of an easy-to-use, straightforward method and apparatus for performing interactive optimization analysis on different classes and subclasses of infrastructure articles by allowing a user to modify different parameters (such as inflation, revenue... Agent: Lawrence Rea Redd

20090177518 - Method, system and program product for filling job orders: A method, system and program product are disclosed for filling job orders, the method comprising: creating electronically a respective commitment reservation for each of a plurality of workers, with each respective commitment reservation comprising a commitment for the respective worker to work on a prospective job not yet created, with... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090177517 - System and method for tracking a contract: A system for tracking a contract is disclosed. The system may include a user input interface configured to receive a user request to track a contract from a contract administrator, a storage device configured to store contract-related information, and a processor. The processor may be configured to determine a list... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20090177522 - Contact stream optimization: Methods, systems, and software for conducting a marketing campaign are described. One or more scores associated with sending offers to proposed contacts are received; and an overall campaign score corresponding to a sum of the scores is optimized to generate optimal assignments of offers to customers. The optimal assignments are... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090177528 - Electronic media system: The invention is a digital information display system (10), comprised of an electronically controlled display (20), usually used to display advertising, A video camera (30) is used to detect one or more viewers in the audience who are paying attention (100) to the display (20), and if so which part... Agent: Snell & Wilmer LLP (oc)

20090177529 - Internet eco system for transacting information and transactional data for compensation: In one embodiment, an Internet eco system includes a data posting platform securely accessible over the Internet to post personal, confidential and business data for conducting informational and transactional transactions for compensation. In another embodiment, the Internet eco system enables data providers to earn monetary compensation, system credits compensation or... Agent: Altaf Hadi

20090177521 - Market demand estimation method, system and apparatus: A method to estimate demand of a market for a service is disclosed. The method includes selecting a set of feasible service offerings to offer for sale to the market from a set of candidate service offerings, observing a response of the market to the set of feasible service offerings... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20090177533 - Method and apparatus for interactive audience participation at a live entertainment event: The present invention relates to a method for providing interactive audience participation at live entertainment events. The method includes providing audience members with an interactive device that presents a promotional message and includes a user interface, broadcasting audio programming to the audience member through the interactive device, querying the audience... Agent: Ernest D. Buff, Esq. Ernest D. Buff & Associates, 231

20090177530 - Near field communication transactions in a mobile environment: Methods and systems for passing information using a mobile client are disclosed. For example, a method for a mobile client may include initiating a transaction between the mobile client and a transaction host using a near field communication (NFC) link, and receiving on the mobile client, information relating to the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090177519 - Process for creating media content based upon submissions received on an electronic multi-media exchange: In a process for creating media content, media submissions are requested and electronically received from end users and stored in a computer database. The submissions are searched for material to be included in the media content, and cross-checked against the other submissions for originality and timeliness. After the material is... Agent: Michael J. Tota

20090177527 - Rewarding influencers: The present disclosure relates generally to rewarding influencers in a Web 2.0 environment. More specifically, in some implementations, an influence of an electronically-accessed content on an involvement between an accessor and a third party is assessed. In further implementations, a provider of the electronically accessed content is rewarded based on... Agent: Constellation Law Group, PLLC

20090177532 - Self serve advertising system and method: A self serve advertising platform and method is provided, including an interface that permits users to sign up, create accounts, create, customize or upload advertisements, create campaigns, including defining campaign objectives and parameters, set budgetary and time constraint limits on the advertising, and analyze the performance of one or more... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Fox Entertainment Group

20090177531 - System and method for category-based contextual advertisement generation and management: A computer-implemented system and method for category-based contextual advertisement generation and management are disclosed. The system in an example embodiment includes an advertisement processor to allocate a first display region for displaying a combination of variable revenue ads and fixed price ads, the variable revenue ads and the fixed price... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20090177523 - System and method for compiling market information associated with consumer activity and geographic location: A system and method gather market information associated with consumer activity considering the geographic position of the consumer. The system and method employ mobile locator devices that can compile geographic information and transmit a request from a user for target information (usually marketing information), along with geographic information to a... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090177524 - System for printing purchase order sheet including target advertisement: Provided is a system for printing a purchase order sheet including a target advertisement. The system includes a franchise terminal which extracts a property value from purchaser information, requests an advertisement server to send a target advertisement corresponding to the extracted property value and receives the target advertisement, and includes... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090177525 - System, method and computer program for selecting an advertisement broker to provide an advertisement: System, method and computer program for enabling use of a plurality of advertisement brokers in order to obtain advertisements for use by a service provider. Data about a user requesting a service from the service provider and/or about pricing relating to advertisements provided by the advertisement brokers is obtained and... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090177526 - System, method and computer program for selecting an information provider: System, method and computer program for enabling use of a plurality of information providers in order to obtain content and/or messages for use by a service provider. Data relating to a user requesting a service from the service provider and/or relating to resource requirements relating to messages provided by the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090177520 - Techniques for casual demand forecasting: Techniques for casual demand forecasting are provided. Information is extracted from a database and is preprocessed to produce adjusted input regression variables. The adjusted input regression variables are fed to a regression service to produce regression coefficients. The regression coefficients are then post processed to produce uplifts and adjustments to... Agent: James M. Stover Teradata Corporation

20090177535 - System and method for monitoring and executing substitute fulfillment: A system for substitute fulfillment having a management module that acquires and analyzes information regarding potential substitutes, wherein the module includes an application mode for acquiring substitute information, a preferences mode for providing preferences relevant to the substitute process and a grading mode for analyzing the substitute information, wherein substitute... Agent: Warner Norcross & Judd LLP

20090177534 - System for performing personnel evaluations and computer program thereofor: A computer system and computer program product are provided that enable a supervisor to input performance evaluations for members of the supervisor's group. The supervisor is presented with an electronic evaluation form that includes evaluation items that are answered by the supervisor selecting one of a plurality of options. The... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090177544 - Campaign system, campaign method, and campaign service program: A first server for providing a service site that provides a user, who operates a user terminal, with a given service, generates a unique identifier when a service provided to a certain user satisfies a given condition, generates a network address with the first server set as a destination and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090177548 - Cooperative environmental and life benefit exchange system: A cooperative environmental and life benefit exchange system is presented. The system includes a grid for transmitting available electrical energy, a plurality of rate payers using energy generated from renewable energy sources, a plurality of utility companies providing the grid, a plurality of credits redeemable for acquiring one or more... Agent: Michaud-duffy Group LLP

20090177551 - Custom stores: A custom store web page uses an external administrator to provide configuration data for a custom store web page. The configuration data can include virtual bundles of products for sale.... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090177536 - Dynamic, subscriber driven charging models for media distribution: A system and method is provided to implement charging models for subscriber driven media agnostic content delivery across same or different networks. The method includes receiving content of a first media type over a network from a sending client. The method further includes sending the content or a reference to... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090177540 - High-precision customer-based targeting by individual usage statistics: A system for distributing limited numbers of promotional offers targeted to individual customers based on the customers' individual probabilities of accepting the offers is disclosed. Each customer can receive a limited number of offers estimated to be most likely to be acceptable by the customer. Customer-Based targeting analyzes each customer's... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20090177539 - Method and apparatus for dual system detection: A printer capable of detecting whether the printer is operating within a gaming system to perform gaming voucher printing, or within a promotional system to perform promotional coupon printing, or within both systems. The printer performs the operations of the identified system by providing one firmware that can detect whether... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090177541 - Method and apparatus for point-based rewards system using interactive devices and software: Consumers may be rewarded by monetizing downtime in an advertising supported environment. For example, a user may be presented with a message on a wireless or other unit. Including advertising, the message may solicit a response. A trivia question may be presented. During a sporting event, a user may receive... Agent: Nora M. Tocups

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20090177550 - Methods and systems for offering and selling advertising: A method (22) for coordinating information for use in advertising. The method (22) comprises receiving sets of advertisement information (26) associated with advertisements for distressed advertising space (28). The sets of advertisement information (26) are stored and the method (22) includes searching the stored sets of advertisement information (22) to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090177545 - Methods for generating and selling custom postage: A custom postage has an artwork region and an adjacent cancellation region that includes a meter mark. The artwork region contains an original image having a top edge adjacent to the cancellation region. The custom postage may be placed onto an item of mail with a delivery address thereon, with... Agent: Michaud-duffy Group LLP

20090177549 - Notification system and method for domain name options: A system and method of the present invention allow communication via electronic messages between a Customer and a domain name Registrar, avoiding traditional electronic mail (email) communication. Email messages may not be delivered to the Customer for various reasons including the situations where the Customer employs anti-SPAM protective technologies. The... Agent: Go Daddy Group, Inc.

20090177546 - System and method for category-based contextual advertisement generation and management: A computer-implemented system and method for category-based contextual advertisement generation and management are disclosed. The system in an example embodiment includes an advertisement processor to allocate a first display region for displaying a combination of variable revenue ads and fixed price ads, the variable revenue ads and the fixed price... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20090177542 - Systems and methods for managing and distributing media content: In accordance with the present invention, a media content management application that allows a user to customize, assemble, distribute, and track one or more versions of media content based on semantic criteria is provided.... Agent: Ip Patent Docketing K&l Gates LLP

20090177543 - Tabs based drag and drop graphical trading interface: The interface comprises one or more grids, each grid typically associated with a specific security. GUI objects or icons representing orders of a specific quantity may be dragged and dropped onto the grid to place, change, or cancel orders. The Grids are contained within tab pages, which are further contained... Agent: Mr. Pranil Ram

20090177537 - Video advertisement pricing: A query including one or more keywords is received from a client device, and an advertisement relevant to the one or more keywords is identified, wherein the advertisement is associated with a video. Display data for displaying the advertisement at the client device is generated. Video selection data for displaying... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090177538 - Zoomable advertisements with targeted content: Advertisements may be displayed on electronic devices within a variety of contexts, such as websites and applications, but the amount of information that may be conveyed by small advertisements in a portion of the screen may be limited. One technique for displaying information in a limited space involves a zoomable... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090177552 - Pre-paid activation and replenishment on a point-of-sale device: A system and method for processing prepaid financial transactions. The system and method describe the utilization of one or more remote terminals that are adapted to acquire transaction information from a user and transmit a first signal indicative of the transaction information. The remote terminal is further adapted to receive... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20090177555 - Assignment exchange and auction: An assignment exchange and auction system comprises a server, a network, a plurality of trader systems and a data store unit. The server performs the auction or exchange, creates and receives assignment messages, and retrieves and stores data sets to and from the data storage unit. The server processes bids... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090177557 - Computerized national online parcel-level map data portal: A National Online Parcel-Level Map Data Portal (NPDP) is provided that optimizes online delivery of parcel-level maps and linked attribute data. To do this, the NPDP manages a database of assembled and current vector based parcel data in a spatial format (GIS) that enables geocoded parcel boundaries to be linked... Agent: The Law Office Of Lawrence Edelman

20090177556 - Information processing system, information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program: A system effectively performs content information acquisition processing and content purchase processing in which it is necessary to access different servers. If a user views information provided by an information providing server, for example, television program table information, and acquires content related to information selected from among pieces of information... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090177553 - Intuitive trading system and interface: A system and user interface for commodity trading allows trading on a historical chart or depth of market display. In an embodiment of the invention, the user interface allows the definition and invocation of order strategies to take order actions based on predefined criteria. In an embodiment of the invention... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20090177554 - Method and system for facilitating transfer of an intellectual asset: A system for facilitating transfer of an intellectual asset includes a data interface receiving electronic patent application data respecting a primary patent application. A processor creates a plurality of option records, each option record respectively including data relating to an option to file a patent application in a respective secondary... Agent: Sim & Mcburney

20090177558 - Methods and apparatus for wireless interactive guided shopping: The disclosed embodiments provide for methods and apparatus for a user of a wireless handset device to wirelessly connect to a portal of a merchant/vendor, or a third party service provider and interactively select and purchase food ingredients and merchandise assembly parts. The user may also receive instructions on how... Agent: Robert S. Showghi

20090177559 - Aggregate user defined function (udf) processing for multi-regression: An aggregate User Defined Function (UDF) processing used for multi-regression is provided. The aggregate UDF initializes storage space for multiple nodes of a database environment. Data is then extracted from a relational database and populated according to groupings on each of the nodes. Multiple rows or records are then processed... Agent: James M. Stover Teradata Corporation

20090177560 - Method and device for parts management: A parts management method is performed by a parts management device for managing parts used to produce an assembly product. Firstly, parts identification information and number of parts corresponding to an assembly product of which production is started are read from a storage device, respectively, as used-parts identification information and... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090177563 - Authorization refresh system and method: Limited use account identifiers or secondary account identifiers are enabled with refresh capability. The refreshable account identifiers are used in financial transactions and, specifically, in transaction situations where multiple and/or duplicate authorization requests occur for the same or related transactions. The limited use account identifiers may be used by intermediaries... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (amex)

20090177564 - Final sale merchandise card: A system and method that involves a merchant, a merchandise cardholder, and a beneficiary that allows a customer to select one or more beneficiaries that are to own any unused proxy sale merchandise, associating the one or more default beneficiaries with the customer merchandise account, wherein the one or more... Agent: Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20090177565 - Method and apparatus for utilizing a unique transaction code to update a magazine subscription over the internet: A method for completing an electronic commerce transaction over a global communication network initiated between a vendor and a potential consumer. The method includes the steps of associating a unique transaction code with the initiated transaction between the vendor and the potential consumer for use by the consumer in completing... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20090177561 - Method and system for statement of cash flow: The present invention relates to a method and a system for providing a statement of cash flow and supplementary statements of the statement of cash flow, especially the method and the system for automatically providing the statement of cash flow by direct method, the method and the system for automatically... Agent: Park Law Firm

20090177562 - Systems and methods for providing ach transaction notification and facilitating ach transaction disputes: A system and method for identifying incoming ACH transactions involving subscriber accounts at a financial institution, comparing the ACH transaction details with preset notification criteria, suspending any ACH transaction that satisfy the preset criteria so that the transaction does not post to the account, notifying the subscriber of the incoming... Agent: Greenberg Traurig

20090177566 - Method and apparatus for custom cost accounting invoicing: A method and apparatus for providing custom cost accounting invoicing. The method allows each customer to associate its proprietary accounting information and billing system with invoicing information. The method provides each customer with the ability to create various expense and other information profiles, such that custom invoices may be generated... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20090177567 - Mobile application monitoring system: A method and system to test, monitor, and share revenue associated with third-party software applications operating on mobile devices over a network operator's wireless network. An application may be tested by the mobile application monitoring system to simulate the expected load of the application on a mobile device and the... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20090177570 - Money services system: A check cashing system is configured to scan in a check to be cashed and scan a customer ID of a customer cashing the check. Information for the customer, including check cashing history, information for the maker of the check and other information is displayed to verify the authenticity of... Agent: Mannava & Kang, P.C.

20090177571 - Processing binary options in future exchange clearing: Systems and methods are disclosed for processing binary options (also referred to as digital options) in existing clearing systems, such as futures clearing systems. The binary option is treated, or processed, similar to standard options on a non-tradeable cash-settled underlying futures contract. A hypothetical instrument, referred to as a book... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd., Attorneys For Client No. 006119

20090177568 - System and method for conducting account requests over a network using natural language: The invention is directed to a system and method for conducting account requests with a financial institution accessible with a client device over a network. An account is established with the financial institution and a user can access the account via the client device. The client device has a user... Agent: Gibbons P.C.

20090177569 - Water alteration structure risk management or ecological alteration management systems and methods: A method of managing risk includes selling individual insurance policies regarding areas to be protected by storm suppression equipment. The method discussed also includes finding at least one of purchase, operation, or maintenance of the storm suppression equipment at least partially through premiums collected from the selling.... Agent: Searete LLC

20090177589 - Cross correlation tool for automated portfolio descriptive statistics: The cross correlation tool is used to quickly understand and describe the composition of an asset portfolio and the response of a user selected variable versus other variables in the portfolio. The tool is also used to quickly identify unexpectedly high or low correlation between two attribute variables and the... Agent: John S. Beulick (17243) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20090177592 - System and method for flexible spread participation: A system and method for risk analysis of a portfolio of derivative products is disclosed which is conducted based on a set of flexible rules. The system and method allow creating predefined sets of products for the purpose of future risk offsets. If a futures trade as a subset of... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Cme

20090177590 - Total return asset contracts and associated processing systems: A novel vehicle investment that greatly simplifies ownership and implementation of futures so that the pricing, trading, and risk management characteristics of futures investment are more broadly accessible by investors. Trading and account processing is implemented on a data processing platform that facilitates expanded access and use of risk management... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090177591 - Zero-knowledge proofs in large trades: According to one aspect, presented is a useful new mechanism that facilitates the atomic exchange of large baskets of securities in a combinatorial exchange. Some embodiments of the exchange offer institutions who wish to trade large positions a new alternative to existing methods of trading. In one embodiment of an... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi, LLP

20090177574 - Methods and systems for purchase of commodities: The invention is directed to methods and systems for commodities procurement with concomitant hedging. The invention enables automatic commodity purchase at a desired basis level when a seller's price matches a buyer's basis bid and concomitantly automatically placing an electronic commodities order to hedge the buyer's purchase.... Agent: Law Offices Of Grady L. White, LLC

20090177573 - System and method for managing relationships between brokers and traders: According to one embodiment, a method of managing access to a trading network is provided. A first network login request for a first user is received from a client application. The first network login request includes first authentication information. Based at least on the first authentication information, the first network... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20090177575 - System and methods for acquiring an interest in real property: Methods and systems for implementing investment options on a real property. An owner of the real property may sell a Call option that gives the owner a consideration in exchange for an option to purchase the property at a strike price at some point in the future, wherein the strike... Agent: Ipxlaw Group LLP

20090177572 - System, method and computer program product for providing an efficient trading market: A system, method and computer program product for providing a trading exchange are disclosed. A request for conducting trade of a security is received from a user. The security associated with requested trade is evaluated to generate a derivative security. A trade is then executed for the user using the... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20090177576 - Automated loan placement system: An automated loan placement system. The abstract of the disclosure is submitted herewith as required by 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b). As stated in 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b): A brief abstract of the technical disclosure in the specification must commence on a separate sheet, preferably following the claims, under the heading “Abstract of... Agent: Nils H. Ljungman & Associates

20090177580 - Collection of electric vehicle power consumption tax: A method of collecting electric vehicle power consumption tax for charge transferred between a local power source and an electric vehicle comprises: providing a network-controlled charge transfer device, charge transfer being controlled by a controller, the controller being connected to a network for communication to a server; requesting by an... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20090177578 - Method of converting cash into virtual cash and loading it to mobile phone cash account: A method of receiving cash from an outlet through a mobile phone comprising the steps of: —customer requesting for cash-out at an outlet; —customer showing identification and filling up a form; —frontliner accessing the device and keying in command containing customer's amount of cash-out and sending this to telco; telco... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090177577 - Rental network security system and method: A system and method of facilitating a rental transaction of a tangible item is provided. Initially, a lessee pickup code is communicated from a borrowing party to an owning party upon exchanging the tangible item between the owning party and the borrowing party. The owning party subsequently transmits the lessee... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090177579 - Transaction system supporting dynamic currency conversion: Disclosed is a method of performing a funds transaction that includes providing the option to perform the transaction using dynamic currency conversion and apparatus for performing dynamic currency conversion. The method may include identifying whether a transaction is eligible for dynamic currency conversion and if so allowing an operator to... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090177582 - Identity authentication for financial transactions: A financial services and transaction network including multiple networked validation stations and remote terminals allows users to access a number of financial services and transactions. A user visiting a remote terminal indicates a desired service or transaction. The user provides any currency or funding information needed for the selected service,... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090177581 - Method of cash-less, cardless purchase transaction using mobile phones: The method of cash-less purchase transaction using mobile phone comprising steps of: —customer requesting for purchase at outlet; —merchants verifying if customer is registered with telco's cash product service; —merchant informing the customer of the purchase price to e paid; —merchant sending in a SELL command on his device to... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090177583 - Media renting system, media rental provider and method: A media renting system includes a media rental provider and a client machine. The provider communicates with the client machine via a data transmission network. The provider stores user information including a payment card number of a user and a hardware ID of the client machine. In a related media... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090177584 - Digital card cd/dvd with contacless microcomputer chip for transportation systems: A digital card 1 equipped with a CD or DVD bearing a contactless microcomputer chip 2 for the transmission of data relating to the use of transport systems, such as Calypso, Icare and other new-generation systems, between a specific terminal and the microcomputer chip 2. Other security devices have been... Agent: Osoro Loyola, Joseba

20090177586 - Authentication device and payment system: The payment system according to the present invention comprises an electronic payment device (2) and an authentication device (1) connected (3) together; the payment device (1) comprises a bank card reader (27); the authentication device (1) comprises a fingerprint reader (16) and is adapted to make fingerprint comparisons. When the... Agent: Dykas, Shaver & Nipper, LLP

20090177585 - Conditional access system for broadcast digital television: A method for managing access to scrambled broadcast or transmitted events received from a variety of service providers (including broadcast television networks, cable television networks, digital satellite systems). Each service provider employs the same public key for descrambling the access information message thereby permitting a user to access events from... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090177587 - Method and system for providing online authentication utilizing biometric data: A system and method for securely authenticating a user for the purpose of accessing information, such as private financial or personal information, in an online environment are disclosed. In addition, a system and method for allowing consumers to make secure payments from an electronic wallet with biometric authentication are disclosed.... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20090177588 - System and method of determining pricing and sponsorship optimization for brand promoters and social publishers: Systems and methods for quantifying points of value in a personality relevant publishing environment are disclosed. These systems and method determine and account for the value that a brand campaign provides to brand promoters when the brand campaign is delivered within the social content of social publishers.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090177593 - Portable base station device and charging method: A mobile base station device and billing method, which can provide an incentive for use at a specific position, while securing convenience for users, are provided. In a mobile base station device 10, upon installation by an owner, registered user terminal-specific information transmitted from a network N, and installation position... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090177595 - Bidirectional metering and control of electric energy between the power grid and vehicle power systems: A metering device that allows the two-way exchange of electrical energy between the power grid and electric vehicles by giving customers the option to upload electrical energy from their vehicle's electrical power system to the power grid or to another vehicle, or the option to download electrical energy from the... Agent: Law Office Of Robert C. Klinger

20090177594 - Method for rewarding water conservation and generating additional revenue for hotels: A method for rewarding hotel guests for conserving water and for generating additional revenue for hotels is disclosed. A water flow control device that regulates the amount of water flowing through a shower head is installed between the shower head and the hot water supply line in each of the... Agent: James A. Hudak, Esq.

20090177596 - Method for risk free stock investment using very long term synthesized stock options or very long term option hedges: An improved method for risk free, or low risk, stock investing using long or very long term options, or synthesized long or very long term options, or synthesized expirationless options These embodiments of the invention disclose a method for risk free, or low risk, stock investment that uses long or... Agent: Forrest Anderson

20090171685 - Approval repository: A method and system are used to seek required approvals at various steps of a reconciliation process. A framework is created by which an end user can request for some of the key administrative maintenances done on a reconciliation application, along with an approval hierarchy being followed. A complete audit... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20090171679 - Business data access client for online/offline client use: Architecture for uninterrupted access to business data by enabling work on rich client machines to be stored in a local business data cache that is always available. A dispatching mechanism executes read/write requests against the local cache transparently to a client application, an automatic synchronization mechanism propagates changes bi-directionally when... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090171682 - Contactless prepaid product for transit fare collection: Transaction processing in an offline environment for a prepaid product comprising a portable consumer device includes responding to presentation of the prepaid product at a reader for offline processing by initiating operation of the prepaid product, receiving data from the prepaid product at the reader that indicates the prepaid product... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20090171684 - Enhanced on-demand diagnostic and maintenance reporting: A system and method for providing enhanced diagnostic and maintenance reporting for a vehicle over a wireless communication system. When receiving a telephone call from a subscriber requesting diagnostic assistance, a data connection is established between a call center and the subscriber's vehicle, and the needed diagnostic data is obtained... Agent: General Motors Corporation C/o Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20090171681 - Entertainer card system and method: An entertainer fan service method comprises providing electronic access to a fan to a network service, and providing features associated with one or more entertainers on the network service, the entertainer being associated with a club. Providing electronic access may include providing an access code to the fan, the access... Agent: Foley & Lardner

20090171687 - Identifying industry passionate consumers: Transaction-level data and size of wallet data may be used to identify industry passionate consumers. In an embodiment, industry passionate consumers are identified based on a ratio of spend within an industry to total spend of the consumer. In another embodiment, industry passionate consumers are identified based on a modeling... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20090171688 - Information communication system, facility apparatus, user device, management apparatus, vehicle apparatus, facility program, user program, management program, and vehicle program: A user device notifies a facility apparatus of the user driving status in the vehicle. The facility apparatus receives that notification and exchanges status information with a management apparatus to specify a service corresponding to the driving status indicated by the status information. The facility apparatus notifies the user carrying... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090171680 - Method and system of listing items: Described herein are a method and a system to suggest information for one or more items offered for sale by sellers in a network-based market place. One or more keywords associated with an item to be listed may be received from a seller. The one or more keywords may be... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20090171689 - Process and software for distribution of communications in a relational context utilizing the internet: A process and software for the distribution of communications in a relational context utilizing the Internet with the steps of: Each person sends an electronic newsletter to their list of personal/business contacts, each person's profile is carried on the newsletter of the first level (Parent 1) person he is in... Agent: Esteban Guillermo Gallegos, Ceo The Business Friends Forever Network, LLC

20090171678 - Protecting domain names from undesired transfer: Systems and methods are disclosed for protecting a domain name during a sale of shares of equity in the domain name. Prior to and during the sale of shares of equity in the domain name, the domain name is moved into a holding account as collateral for the sale of... Agent: Go Daddy Group, Inc.

20090171690 - System and method for a web-based people directory: An online system and a method for a web-based people directory provides for collaborative updating of the directory information. The method includes creating profile templates for each person on earth and storing these profile templates in a central database (202). Next, populating the profile templates with publicly available basic information... Agent: Akc Patents

20090171691 - System and method for a web-based social networking database: An online system and a method for a web-based social networking database that allows collaborative updating of the social network information. The method includes creating profile templates for each person within a group and storing these profile templates in a central database. Next, populating the profile templates with publicly available... Agent: Akc Patents

20090171683 - Use of constraints to enforce complex payment policies: A method of using constrained payments to enforce complex payment policies in electronic commerce (e-commerce) systems. An order capture component generates at least a first relationship object that corresponds to a first payment constraint rule. If an order item is placed in a shopping cart, and if the order item... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090171686 - Using social network information and transaction information: Among other things, a user can determine, from aggregated transaction data, private information about a transaction of another party. The other party is associated, in a shared social network database, as a contact with the user. The activity of the other party is related to an activity or contemplated activity... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090171693 - Data logger: A data logging module and a method of monitoring a medical warming cabinet is disclosed. A temperature of the heating chamber and a state of a door of the heating chamber are sampled at predetermined intervals and recorded as data packets on a memory device. A display may provide a... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20090171692 - Online health care consumer portal: An online health care consumer portal for accessing one or more health-related services by a health care consumer. The consumer portal includes an authentication module for identifying the health care consumer upon receiving an online identification token, and a database for maintaining health care information comprising a plurality of health... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20090171697 - Optimization and individualization of medication selection and dosing: The invention provides population models, methods, and algorithms for targeting a dosing regimen or compound selection to an individual patient. The methods and algorithms of the invention utilize population models that incorporate genotype information for genes encoding drug metabolizing enzymes for one or more compounds of interest. The methods allow... Agent: Taft, Stettinius & Hollister LLP

20090171695 - System and method for interactive management of patient care: A system for interactive patient care management that includes a database of patient records and a second database of skilled personnel tasks that can be related so as enable a display of relevant patient care tasks and relevant patient record data. The result is the enablement of patient care delivery... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20090171696 - System and method for patient portal with clinical decision intelligence: A computer-implemented method for transmitting a scheduled appointment to a patient. Input is received, wherein the input comprises at least one of current data provided by the patient, prior data provided by the patient prior to the current data, and known medical history of the patient. A possible condition of... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090171694 - System for managing laboratory test results for patients taking an endothelin receptor antagonist: The invention provides a system and method of collecting, storing and managing laboratory test results of patients. In one embodiment the invention is directed towards collecting, storing and managing laboratory test results of patients taking an endothelin receptor antagonist (ERA). The system provides a way of securely collecting and tracking... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20090171698 - Providing human capital management software application as enterprise services: Methods and apparatus, including systems and computer program products, for a service architecture design that provides enterprise services having human capital management functionality at the level of an enterprise application. The design includes a set of service operations, process components, and optionally deployment units. Suitable business objects are also described.... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20090171699 - System and method for managing a property: The present invention provides a system and method for managing rental income. The system includes an interrogation module arranged to secure information regarding a financial institution account controlled by an owner of a property, and verify that rental income has been paid by a tenant of the property. The system... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20090171700 - System and method for event slot negotiation: A method and computer program product for receiving a slot request, from a second respondent having a second seniority level, for an original event slot that was previously reserved by a first respondent having a first seniority level. The second seniority level is compared to the first seniority level. If... Agent: Holland & Knight

20090171701 - Method and system for providing dynamic and real-time air travel information: Providing passengers and other interested parties with dynamic and real-time air travel information. This dynamic and real-time air travel information is shown in various screens on a computer monitor, and includes flight information, passenger information, other general air information, and advertising. The information is presented to passengers in a manner... Agent: King & Spalding

20090171717 - Applications of cluster analysis for cellular operators: Subscriber travel behavior is defined using cellular call location data. The defined travel behavior is used to segment the customer population. In a further aspect of the disclosed principles, a method to consolidate numerous of price plans is disclosed wherein price plans are grouped using cluster analysis. In the context... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20090171712 - Architectural design for ad-hoc goods movement software: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for implementing a software architecture design for a software application implementing ad-hoc goods movement. The application is structured as multiple process components interacting with each other through service interfaces, and multiple service operations, each being implemented for a respective process component. The... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20090171716 - Architectural design for personnel events application software: Methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer program products, for implementing a software architecture design for a software application implementing personnel events functionality. The application is structured as multiple process components interacting with each other through service interfaces, and multiple service operations, each being implemented for a respective process component. The... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20090171713 - Architectural design for self-service procurement application software: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for implementing a software architecture design for a software application implementing service procurement. The application is structured as multiple process components interacting with each other through service interfaces and multiple service operations, each being implemented for a respective process component. The process... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20090171721 - Bidding system for search engine marketing: A method for search engine keyword bidding, including providing a search engine that is used by shoppers to search for products and services, maintaining by an advertiser a keyword database used by the search engine, collecting by the advertiser statistics for revenue generated during each Internet session on the advertiser's... Agent: Soquel Group, LLC

20090171706 - Computer pattern system environment supporting business resiliency: A Pattern System Environment is formed. The Pattern System Environment is a representation of information technology (IT) resources of a customer's business environment. The Pattern System Environment is based on information associated with the IT resources of the customer, and that information indicates how the IT resources are utilized during... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20090171724 - Construction payment management system and method with sub-tier document exchange and approval features: Systems and methods for managing a construction payment process wherein a higher degree of functionality is provided to primary users and only a limited subset of functionality is provided to sub-tier contractors. One construction of the system is configured to receive an electronically signed document and a request for payment... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20090171705 - Defining and using templates in configuring information technology environments: Templates are provided and used in an Information Technology (IT) environment. A template represents a pattern of resources and resource relationships of the IT environment. Templates are applied to automatically generate recommendations of programmatic representations of artifacts of the IT environment. The artifacts include Recovery Segments, Redundancy Groups, Business Resilience... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20090171726 - Enterprise proposal management system: A system and method for managing an enterprise is provided. The system and method may be based on a layered architecture including a data center that may store all documents and data abstractions for an enterprise. One or more services may interact with an enterprise resource planning system and/or a... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20090171722 - Green rating system and associated marketing methods: A method and system for assigning a rating to an entity based on a plurality of metrics, for example, assigning a rating to an entity which reflects that entity's level of environmental performance, and then assigning an indicia to the entity which reflects the rating relative to other like entities.... Agent: Fox Rothschild, LLP Pittsburgh

20090171719 - Interactive system and method for displaying support and support-related processes: An interactive system for displaying support and support-related processes includes a memory arrangement, a processor, a display and an interactive user interface. The memory arrangement is configured to store support and support-related processes across multiple entities for a lifecycle of a system and/or project. The processor is configured to generate... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090171714 - Live intention management: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to service dispatch and provide a method, system and computer program product for live intention management in a computer communications network. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for live intention management can be provided. The method... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090171704 - Management based on computer dynamically adjusted discrete phases of event correlation: Management of a customer's IT environment is facilitated by correlating events that occur within the environment, obtaining information relating to those events, and performing actions, such as environment tuning or recovery actions, based on the information. Discrete phases of processing are used to obtain the information and/or perform the actions.... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20090171711 - Method and system of managing transactions: Method and system of managing transactions. The transactions may be executed over different networks, such as but not limited to networks associated with different cable television service providers. The transactions may be monitored so that product purchases may be facilitated without requiring product vendors to support electronic communications with each... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20090171709 - Methods and systems for assessing sales activity of a merchant: A method for assessing sales activity of a merchant using a computer system coupled to a database is provided. The sales activity includes purchases made by a customer using a financial transaction card over a financial transaction card network. The method includes storing within the database a plurality of merchant... Agent: Daniel M. Fitzgerald (21652) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20090171710 - Mobile advertisement system with advertisement status: A method of operating a mobile advertisement system includes receiving an advertisement parameter by a client from a server to be shown on a display of the client; detecting an advertisement control parameter with the advertisement parameter in the client; operating the client based on the advertisement control parameter and... Agent: Law Offices Of Mikio Ishimaru

20090171715 - Powerfully simple digital media player and methods for use therewith: A powerfully simple digital media player and methods for use therewith are disclosed. In one embodiment, a digital media player with a simplified user interface is disclosed that, like an FM radio, allows a user to easily select a category of digital media for playback. In another embodiment, to make... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/sandisk

20090171725 - Process and apparatus for seller credibility verification in trading of factual or opinionative information: A process and an apparatus that perform seller credibility verification in trading of factual or opinionative information are disclosed. When buying information, buyers already have some prior information about the subject of the purchase. The present invention facilitates comparison of said prior information known by buyers with information known by... Agent: Dmitri Okhotski

20090171727 - Processing and management of transaction timing characteristics: A transaction management and processing approach involves using timing-related aspects of transaction events to manage and process transaction-type information. According to an example embodiment of the present invention, a transaction management approach involves using a transaction processor arrangement to track transaction events with or as a function of timing characteristics.... Agent: Crawford Maunu PLLC

20090171707 - Recovery segments for computer business applications: Recovery Segments are defined and employed to facilitate management of a customer's environment. A Recovery Segment is a runtime usable representation of resources and relationships between those resources associated with a business application. That representation is usable in managing the business application. Associated with the representation is one or more... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20090171702 - System and method for maintenance of residences: An application for a computer-based method for managing a property includes providing a server computer system and a client computer system. A list of maintainable inventory items is accepted at the client computer system and sent from the client computer system to the server computer system where the list of... Agent: Larson And Larson

20090171718 - System and method for providing workforce and workload modeling: Workforce and workload prediction is provided. A portal is configured to receive input from a user, wherein the input relates to forecasting workload and workforce for providing a communication service. The workload includes ticket loads relating to repair and provisioning, and the workforce includes human resources and equipment. A load... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090171723 - Systems and methods for electronic account certification and enhanced credit reporting: Systems and methods are provided for electronically certifying financial account data and providing enhanced credit reporting capabilities. The systems and methods may include electronically receiving a certification request from a requesting computer, wherein the request is associated with a financial account requiring certification, collecting financial data from at least one... Agent: Chad G. Jenkins

20090171720 - Systems and/or methods for managing transformations in enterprise application integration and/or business processing management environments: In certain example embodiments of this invention, systems and/or methods for managing transformations in Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and/or Business Process Management (BPM) Environments are provided. In certain example embodiments of this invention, when a process and/or transform is defined, design-time encoding data is extracted and stored as metadata. When... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090171703 - Use of multi-level state assessment in computer business environments: Management of a business environment is facilitated by enabling customers to determine the sensitivity of events on resources, dynamically evaluate composed state of those resources, based on the sensitivity, and use that state in management of the environment. Management is further facilitated by the dynamic evaluation of aggregated state of... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20090171708 - Using templates in a computing environment: Templates are used to programmatically create workflows used in managing an Information Technology environment. The templates include conditional processing that enable the workflows to be created based on the current state of the environment.... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20090171735 - Automated kitting for short build manufacturing: A method for managing production of a product when components of the product are missing during a manufacturing process is provided. The method includes applying a first set of rules for determining whether a short work unit can be released for manufacturing and clearing the short work unit to build.... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090171741 - Bsm problem analysis programmable apparatus: A system (apparatus), computer implemented method, and program product for analyzing a problem in a distributed processing business system used to provide a service comprises identifying the problem; preparing for an audit; performing the audit; reviewing the audit; developing an action plan; developing an execution plan; deploying a solution in... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090171740 - Contextual management system: An automated system (100) and method for context based management of an organization. After extracting data describing the organization from existing narrowly focused systems, mission measures and organization levels are defined for one or more organizations and the data are transformed into an ontology. The ontology is then used to... Agent: Asset Trust, Inc.

20090171733 - Dynamic selection of actions in an information technology environment: Management of an Information Technology environment is facilitated by preparing the environment for management. The environment is prepared for a specific management goal, such as an availability goal or a performance goal. To prepare the environment, one or more recommended preparatory actions are selected, initiated and monitored. Resources associated with... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20090171736 - Method and system for centralized management of sources of supply: Methods, systems, and software for determining sources of supply are provided. The system for determining sources of supply is centralized so as to be accessible to a plurality of clients. Sources of supply may be determined and the results prioritized according to user defined criteria. Specifically, the system may offer... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20090171729 - Method for assembling a business process and for orchestrating the process based on process beneficiary information: A system for assembling a business process or a portion thereof includes a rules base containing executable rules and defined business process elements, a workflow orchestration engine, and at least one interface available to a process beneficiary. Information known about and or provided by a process beneficiary interacting with the... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20090171732 - Non-disruptively changing a computing environment: A change to a goal specified for an IT environment is to be made. Responsive to the changed goal, the IT environment is changed. This change is performed non-disruptively. Further, during the change, management to the existing goal is continued.... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20090171730 - Non-disruptively changing scope of computer business applications based on detected changes in topology: A change to resource scope is to be made. Responsive to the changed resource scope, the IT environment is changed. This change is performed non-disruptively. Further, during the change, management to the existing resource scope is continued.... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20090171742 - Scheduling system: A scheduler combines characteristics of a forward and backward schedulers to determine a schedule for activities that require the use of resources. The system handles conflicting requirements for resources by considering target dates and the relative priority of the activities. As a result, higher priority activities are more likely to... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20090171738 - Service providing system, service providing method and program: A service providing system for providing a user with service, includes a service providing unit which provides service, a service provision right storing unit which stores a service provision right necessary for providing the service, and a service provision right manufacturing unit which manufactures the service provision right, wherein the... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090171728 - Simulation framework for evaluating designs for sponsored search markets: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for sponsored Internet-based search simulation. The present invention includes receiving a search query sequence that represents a search query and selecting one or more advertisements based on the search query sequence. The present invention further includes filtering the plurality of advertisements based... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Ostrow Kaufman & Frankl LLP

20090171739 - Special occasion reminder and gift giving system: A method for on-line shopping for special occasions includes the steps of providing a link to a network accessible website, receiving and storing data from a user identifying at least one recipient, wherein the data includes at least one special occasion date, sending a notification to the user prior to... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20090171734 - System and method for reserving scheduling time: A method and computer program product for reserving scheduling time includes defining a reserve time period in a scheduling system for a user. A reserve user group is defined including one or more reserve users, and the reserve user group is associated with the reserve time period. Scheduling permissions are... Agent: Holland & Knight

20090171731 - Use of graphs in managing computing environments: Resource graphs are provided for use in managing Information Technology environments. The resource graphs include representations of resources of the environment and their relationships.... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20090171737 - Vehicle sales space system: The present invention relates to a method for managing a vehicle sales geographic location/site and a method for facilitating vehicle sales in a Vehicle Sales Space System (VSS System) by managing and organizing the flow of people, vehicles, and material through the site. The VSS System has been developed using... Agent: The Patent Guild

20090171745 - Automated sales support system: A system and method for notifying salespersons of customer communications including a target item is provided. Individual customers are mapped to one or more salespersons. Target items of interest to a salesperson are defined and a salesperson is associated with a customer. For each salesperson, on-line communication channels are monitored... Agent: At& T Legal Department - Monka Attn: Patent Docketing

20090171743 - Service request system with natural service provider profiling and methods thereof: A system and method for managing service requests performs the steps of loading profile settings for service providers, where the profile settings comprise a two dimensional matrix of actions and objects, processing a work order by determining task involved in the accomplishment of the work order, mapping the profile settings... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20090171744 - System and method for reducing employee training time and distributing corporate and job information to employees: A system and method for communicating corporate information to employees of a company which may include creating an employee user profile that includes an identifier of a job position of the employee within a company. Corporate information to be communicated to employees of the company may be identified. Distribution information... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090171762 - Advertising in an entertainment access service: This document describes tools capable of managing advertising in the field of digital entertainment content. The tools may enable advertisers to know which advertisements are more effective or are more likely to be effective with all users, users having similar demographic profiles, or a particular user. The tools may do... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090171758 - Architectural design for physical inventory application software: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for implementing a software architecture design for a software application implementing physical inventory. The application is structured as process components such as Accounting process component that records relevant business transactions for valuation and profitability analysis; a Financial Accounting Master Data Management process... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20090171755 - Behavior-based generation of site-to-site referrals: A content provider system interacts with a network of web sites to provide behavior-based content to users. Operators of the web sites add widgets to selected web pages of their sites. The widgets, when executed on the computing devices of users who view the selected web pages, report user-generated events... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090171765 - Identifying luxury merchants and consumers: Transaction-level data and size of wallet data may be used to identify luxury merchants. In an embodiment, luxury merchants are identified based on their average record of charge (ROC) size in combination with the percentage of high-wallet consumers who transact with the merchants. Customers having a high share of wallet... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20090171750 - Incorporating advertising in on-demand generated content: A system and a method of incorporating advertisements in on-demand printed content are disclosed. In response to receiving a request from a consumer for on-demand printed content, an advertisement is selected. The selected advertisement is included within the requested content. Thereafter, and further responsive to the request, an on-demand printed... Agent: Client 170101 C/o Thomas , Kayden , Horstemeyer& Risley , LLP

20090171768 - Method and system for incentive based tie-in transaction: A method and system for incentive based tie-in transaction is disclosed. In one embodiment, an e-commerce system embedded with a transaction engine performs a method of an e-commerce transaction, the method including displaying multiple sale items on a website, and forwarding offering data which proposes a deal for a first... Agent: GlobalIPServices, PLLC

20090171749 - Method for dynamic advertisement placement based on consumer and response capability statistics: A network-based processing server for processing statistics and serving advertisements includes a first network interface to a first stat server for receiving consumer statistics, a second network interface to a second stat server for receiving response capability statistics, and a dedicated input/output port connecting the processing server to a broadcast... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20090171752 - Method for predictive routing of incoming transactions within a communication center according to potential profit analysis: A transaction routing method in a contact center has steps for (a) identifying an initiator of a received transaction; (b) gathering information about the initiator of the transaction; (c) determining agents available to receive and service the transaction, and gathering information about the agents; (d) using the gathered information, determining... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20090171746 - Method for providing search service and system for executing the method: The search service providing method according to the present invention includes: maintaining a search listing database including a keyword, a search listing associated with the keyword, a bid amount, an exposure index, and/or an advertiser identifier associated with the search listing, computing an average click rate for each of the... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20090171764 - Method for real time data processing to produce indexing of an advertisement in internet research tools: The present invention relates to a method of real-time data-processing designed for an indexing of an advertisement in Internet search tools, the present method is directed to a simultaneous, real-time management of the indexing position of one or more advertisements in one or more search tools. Particularly, the present invention... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP

20090171759 - Methods and apparatus for implementing an ensemble merchant prediction system: A computer-based method for discovering patterns in financial transaction card transaction data for the purpose of determining group membership of a merchant within the transaction data is described. The data relates to merchants that accept the financial transaction card for payment. The method includes receiving transaction data from at least... Agent: Daniel M. Fitzgerald (21652) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20090171756 - Modeling responsible consumer balance attrition behavior: A request to generate a balance attriter risk score that characterizes a likelihood of a change in a level of creditworthiness of an individual following balance attrition is received. Thereafter, one or more creditworthiness indicators such as future credit balance increases (a proxy for the responsibility of the individual) are... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c

20090171757 - Modeling responsible consumer debt consolidation behavior: A request to generate a consolidation risk score that characterizes a likelihood of a change in a level of creditworthiness of an individual following a consolidation of debt of the individual using a secured line of credit is received. Thereafter, future credit balance increases are estimated for the individual using... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c

20090171751 - On-demand generating e-book content with advertising: A method of providing fixed computer-displayable content in response to a consumer request for content is presented. Upon obtaining a digital image corresponding to the requested content, an advertisement is selected. The advertisement is to be included in an on-demand electronic content corresponding to the requested content. The advertisement is... Agent: Client 170101 C/o Thomas , Kayden , Horstemeyer& Risley , LLP

20090171747 - Product activation/registration and offer eligibility: An offer may be provided to a user in conjunction with activating or registering a software product. A request for activation of the software product or registration of the software product may be sent to a server via a network. In response to receiving the request, the server may send... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090171767 - Resource efficient research data gathering using portable monitoring devices: Methods and systems are provided for carrying out a research operation in which each of a plurality of panelists carries a portable research data gathering device. Each of the portable research data gathering devices is configured to gather research data only during a time period or time periods of a... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP / Arbitron Inc. (c/o Patent Administrator)

20090171769 - Self learning method and system for managing a group reward system: A system for managing a purchase agreement, including: a memory element for at least one specially-programmed general purpose computer for storing an artificial intelligence program (AIP) and a purchase agreement between a customer and at least one business entity, the purchase agreement including at least one requirement regarding at least... Agent: Simpson & Simpson, PLLC

20090171763 - System and method for online advertising driven by predicting user interest: An improved system and method for online advertising driven by predicting user interest is provided. An advertising demand engine may be provided for selecting advertisements to be served to a user for display with requested content. An advertisement may be correlated to an advertisement previously selected by a user or... Agent: Law Office Of Robert O. Bolan

20090171766 - System and method for providing advertisement optimization services: Systems and methods for providing advertisement optimization services are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, of analyzing a first set of images hosted by the web-publisher for display on the website. One embodiment can include, analyzing metadata... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20090171760 - Systems and methods for facilitating electronic commerce: In electronic commerce, a user profile may be used to determine one or more product recommendations. The user profile may be selectable so that a first user may receive product or service recommendations for a second user associated with the user profile. Additionally or alternatively, price quotes may be solicited... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20090171761 - Systems and methods of matching purchase requests with consummated sales: A sales matching system which may match sales of products or services with consummated sales by collecting selected leads from a group of lead suppliers, collecting a plurality of sales records from multiple sales sources, and matching at least some of the sales records to selected leads. The matches may... Agent: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

20090171748 - Using product and social network data to improve online advertising: Methods and apparatus for improving word-of-mouth online advertising are provided. Construct a social network including multiple users based on the users' social network data and optionally further based on the users' demographical and/or other personal information. Categorize the users in the social network with respect to a type of product... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP/yahoo

20090171754 - Widget-assisted detection and exposure of cross-site behavioral associations: A content provider system interacts with a network of web sites to provide behavior-based content to users. Operators of the web sites add widgets to selected web pages of their sites. The widgets, when executed on the computing devices of users who view the selected web pages, report user-generated events... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090171753 - Zero cost loyalty & consumer engagement program: A method of using a Zero Cost Loyalty & Consumer Engagement Program comprising the steps of (1) consumer paying a subscription fee to enroll, (2) the company sending a welcome kit detailing the program features, benefits and process, (3) the consumer being credited with the notional currency of the program,... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.

20090171770 - Integrated purchasing system: A system for use in conjunction with an electronic purchasing guide may include definition of a purchasing objective, generation of an evaluation of the purchasing objective based on purchasing activity, identification of an employee performance indicator associated with the purchasing objective, and determination of an employee evaluation based on the... Agent: Sap Ag C/o Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20090171771 - Method, system and software for talent management: A method of managing talent including the steps of a user dragging an icon representing an individual within a continuum of one or more dimensions to record the value of one or more attributes of the individual; and refining the position of the icon within the continuum with reference to... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090171772 - Rnss-based lane-level vehicle tolling method and system: An RNSS-based lane-level vehicle tolling method and system for a roadway having at least one managed traffic lane and at least one unmanaged traffic lane, and on-vehicle equipment for use therein, overcome lane identification limitations of RNSS-based tolling and achieves lane-level tolling through explicit lane identification. In some embodiments, a... Agent: Scot A. Reader

20090171786 - Advertisement apparatus with rfid tag: An advertisement apparatus including a controller, a display panel, a reader and a tag is provided. The controller is suitable for receiving advertising content information and tag information corresponding to the advertising information simultaneously. The display panel is suitable for receiving the advertising information from the controller and displaying the... Agent: Wpat, PC

20090171785 - Advertisement distribution system and advertisement distribution method: A home storage (a first storage device) installed in each home is provided with an area for a user to store data (user area) and an area for storing ads (ad area). The first storage device checks interest and favorite information for the user in the user area, and transmits... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090171787 - Impressionative multimedia advertising: A method for making online adverisement makes an impressionative presentation of an advertisement to a viewer. The impressionative presentation is an impressionized version of an original online source medium such as a photo. The method associates advertisements with the source medium based, at least in part, on calculated ad relevance,... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090171781 - Location based advertisement delivery to pervasive devices: A computer implemented method, computer program product, and data processing system display advertisements on a pervasive device. A wireless signal for an advertisement is received by the pervasive device. The advertisement includes advertisement information. Responsive to receiving the wireless signal, the advertisement information is compared to user preferences to determine... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090171784 - Method and apparatus for splitting advertising opportunities: A dynamic advertising insertion system automatically inserts advertisements in response to opportunities that arise in the course of content playback. For example, when a user hits a pause button, an advertising opportunity may be created and an appropriate advertisement may be inserted. One basis for determining which advertisement to insert... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.

20090171789 - Method and system for managing and trading web-based virtual services: Virtual services are works that can be carried out without physical presence. This invention relates to a method and a system that allows subscribers of the system to manage and trade virtual services over a wide area network, such as the Internet. Subscribers can advertise and provide virtual services through... Agent: Yuanhua Tang

20090171783 - Method and system for managing digital photos: Methods and systems for managing digital photos are disclosed. In one implementation, a method for organizing digital photos includes receiving a set of digital photos, analyzing the set of digital photos to create tags that identify content information in the set of digital photos, tagging the set of digital photos... Agent: Yahoo C/o Mofo Palo Alto

20090171791 - Method of advertising: A method of advertising is disclosed, and more particularly, a method for the targeted advertising of products and services to the visiting customers/clients of a business having a waiting area including the steps of providing a network in electronic communication with a source of media content in the waiting area,... Agent: Fraser Clemens Martin & Miller LLC

20090171780 - Methods and system for a targeted advertisement management interface: A system and method can include entering targeted advertisements for multiple types of targeted consumer devices, managing associated targeted advertisement campaigns, sending a targeted advertisement to a targeted consumer device over a network, and receiving receptivity data associated with the targeted advertisement from the targeted consumer device. The targeted advertisement... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090171778 - Methods and systems for applying a rewards program promotion to payment transactions: A method for applying promotion codes to a payment transaction using an input device in communication with a database is provided. The payment transaction includes a purchase made by a cardholder using a payment card over a payment card network. The method includes storing promotion data within the database including... Agent: Daniel M. Fitzgerald (21652) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20090171777 - Methods and systems for applying promotion codes to payment transactions: A method for applying promotion codes to a payment transaction is provided. The method uses at least one input device in communication with a database. The payment transaction includes a purchase made by a cardholder using a payment card over a payment card network. The method includes storing promotion data... Agent: Daniel M. Fitzgerald (21652) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20090171774 - Methods and systems for displaying mattresses by color: A method for displaying a plurality of mattresses according to a color scheme is provided. The method includes categorizing a plurality of mattresses into at least three different types based on features of the mattresses other than size (e.g., based on comfort or style), designating a different color for each... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090171779 - Mobile advertisement and rating system: A method of operating a mobile advertisement and rating system includes receiving an advertisement parameter by a client from a server to be shown on a display of the client; detecting an advertisement control parameter with the advertisement parameter in the client; operating the client based on the advertisement control... Agent: Law Offices Of Mikio Ishimaru

20090171775 - Promotional incentive voucher and method for providing a selectable gift card to a recipient: A promotional incentive voucher and method for providing a selectable gift card (stored value card or SVC) as a gift to a recipient. The incentive voucher includes an advertising portion comprising information that identifies a business that is providing the voucher and SVC as a gift to a recipient of... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul LLP Attn: Steven M. Greenberg, Esq.

20090171782 - System and computer program for providing flight information: A system and a computer program are provided for providing real-time flight information to a user over a telephone network. The system includes a server having access to real-time flight information, an interface in communication with the server and a telephone network, a database in communication with the server. The... Agent: Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP Intellectual Property Section

20090171788 - System and method for activating a device based on a record of physical activity: In a redeemable coupon there is a housing, a motion detector coupled to the housing, wherein the motion detector detects an amount of motion of the coupon, and an indicator coupled to the motion detector, wherein the indicator is activated by the motion detector upon detecting the amount of motion.... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090171773 - System and method for administering a value vault for use in facilitating a financial transaction: A system and method for administering a value vault for use in facilitating a financial transaction described herein. In one embodiment, the system includes a communication interface; a database having stored therein information regarding a plurality of value programs associated with a plurality of merchants; and a payment provider system... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090171776 - System and method for providing variable incentives based on spending: Systems and methods for providing incentives to a customer based on spending behavior include a customer account established with the customer for depositing funds and for purchasing one or more items from at least one merchant. A first rate of return is applied to the deposited funds in the customer... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090171793 - Systems and methods for providing savings based upon combination purchases at a retail level: A method of providing rewards to a customer based upon purchasing multiple items. The method comprises offering a group of multiple products for sale, providing a reward to the customer for each product of the group that is purchased, and providing a bonus reward to the customer when each product... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090171790 - Time based targeted advertising: A system and method to display advertising using a client and a server device enabling streaming advertisements onto the client device using a timing mechanism. Said timing mechanism allows selected target areas on the client display to be updated at regular intervals to create a visual perception of motion.... Agent: Transaxtions LLC Nagendra Nagarajayya

20090171792 - Transaction system and methodology with inter-party communications capability: In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, although not necessarily limited thereto, the system of the present invention may function in the context of an internet based commercial real estate brokering system. In such a system, potential buyers, sellers, lessors and lessees list and respond to offerings having characteristics... Agent: Mcguirewoods, LLP

20090171798 - Merchandise sales data processing apparatus and computer readable medium: Articles are placed in a commodity placement area thereby to acquire figure images of the articles, based on stored data acquired from wireless tags respectively attached to the articles. The acquired image forms are developed and displayed in X-axis and Y-axis directions in a display area of a display. A... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090171796 - Methods and systems for assigning interchange rates to financial transactions using an interchange network: A method for assigning an interchange rate to a financial transaction is provided. The method uses at least one input device in communication with an interchange database. The financial transaction is initiated by a cardholder using a card over a card interchange, the card having been issued by an issuer... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20090171795 - Personal check acceptance systems and methods: Tools for facilitating the acceptance of personal checks and other presentation instruments. The tools, in some aspects, allow for preauthorization of a personal check (or other presentation instrument) prior to the merchant receiving the actual check, allowing a merchant, for example, to accept an order by phone, obtain details about... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090171797 - Positionally trackable payment device: A payment device includes a positioning module for determining a location of the payment device. The positioning module has a receiver for receiving a signal from a navigational system. A first antenna is operably connected to the positioning module. A transmitting module is operably connected to the positioning module. The... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20090171794 - Systems and methods for processing a payment transaction: Systems and methods for point of sale instant access are provided. In one aspect, a method for processing a payment transaction in real time is provided. The method uses a server system coupled to an input device, the input device is located at a point of sale (POS) of a... Agent: Daniel M. Fitzgerald (21652) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20090171799 - Wireless point-of-sale transaction system and method: A wireless consumer transaction system and method includes wireless equipment coupled to a point-of-sale system, whereby consumers are enabled to set up and carry out point-of-sale transactions in an automated or semi-automated manner using a wireless device. Users entering within the coverage area of the wireless equipment are prompted to... Agent: Irell & Manella LLP

20090171800 - Systems and methods for generating receipts: Systems and methods for electronically processing accounts receivable (AR) check transactions via a location-base device associated with a merchant. The location-base device, such as a point-of-sale (POS) device, can be configured to perform various functions that facilitate processing of AR checks. Such functions may include improved user interface, an ability... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20090171801 - Self- checkout terminal: In the case of displaying a button in a predetermined scene during an item sales data process on a self-checkout terminal, an operation history stored in association with an input customer code is referred to. When it is determined that the number of times of touching a button to be... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090171803 - Accounting for spatial and environmental factors in equipment order configurations: A method for processing an incoming order for equipment can be provided. A plurality of objects representing environmental factors is read, each object comprising at least one of a required parts list and an excluded parts list. Next, a customer places an order for computer equipment, wherein the order comprises... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090171805 - Method and system for conditional transactions: A method and system for conditional transactions are provided. The system provides one or more master accounts wherein each master account is tied to and control one or more subordinated accounts. Each subordinated account may have a configurable/customizable set of permissions defined by the master account. The subordinated account holder... Agent: Dla Piper LLP (us )

20090171806 - Method and system for monetizing third-party content: An e-commerce system, comprising an endorsement engine and interface software coupled to the endorsement engine and adapted to interact with one or more content sources connected over a network. In an embodiment, the interface software enables an endorsing user to browse the content sources and select a content item, to... Agent: Brian R. Galvin

20090171808 - Networking system for referrals: A networking system for referrals that connects businesses (vendor) with their customers (member) and potential customers (prospective member) across a network. Once a vendor has joined the network, the vendor may invite other members to join. A member can then refer a prospective member to the vendor. If the prospective... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20090171804 - System and method for conducting a gift value transaction: A system and method for conducting a gift value transaction is described herein. The method includes receiving a request for payment for a gift; notifying a gift recipient of the gift; prompting the gift recipient to accept or reject the gift; and receiving a response from the gift recipient, wherein... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090171807 - System and method for interactive electronic data card with survey and purchase options: An interactive electronic data card and method for enabling a user to communicate information and data to others through a seamless interface that transmits directly into a receiver's communication device of choice and for a receiver to respond to a user's questions and/or surveys.... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (main)

20090171802 - Zero integration model for e-commerce merchants: Solutions for e-commerce merchants that allow such merchants to interact with buyers in foreign jurisdictions are disclosed. More specifically, solutions are presented that provide an intermediation service that operates to provide variants of e-commerce (or other) Web sites in a local language of a visitor to such site, such variants... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c

20090171811 - Architectural design for product catalog management application software: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for implementing a software architecture design for a software application implementing product catalog management. The application is structured as multiple process components interacting with each other through service interfaces, and multiple service operations, each being implemented for a respective process component. The... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20090171809 - Efficient purchase order creation: A system may include detection of a user selection of a purchasing-related document and, in response to the detection, automatic creation of a new purchase order based on the selected document. At least one data element of the new purchase order is identical to a data element of the selected... Agent: Sap Ag C/o Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20090171812 - Media streams and media store: This invention is directed to providing access to one or more media streams in exchange for purchasing articles or items that may be related to at least one of the media streams. In some embodiments, the item purchased may include a media item related to a media item provided as... Agent: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

20090171813 - System, program product, and method of electronic communication network guided navigation: Systems, program product, and methods of electronic communication network guided navigation which allow users to obtain more relevant product search results much more quickly, are provided. An example of a system can allow a user to enter or start a product search request for a relatively broad term in a... Agent: Patrick Byrne

20090171810 - Systems and methods for facilitating financial transactions over a network: Systems and methods for facilitating financial transactions over a network include a merchant device, a client device and a payment processing device. The merchant device is adapted to allow a merchant to provide items for purchase via the network. The client device is adapted to allow a user to access... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090171814 - Remote warehouse management system: The invention relates to a remote warehouse management system comprising a central processing system and one or more remote data collection terminals, which exchange data with the central processing system, wherein each of the remote data collection terminals includes a wireless transceiver module which conducts wireless communication with the central... Agent: Ying Chen Chen Yoshimura LLP

20090171815 - System and method for managing product returns: A computer-implemented method for managing product returns includes: receiving information of a set of returned products, and recording the returned product information into a storage of a computer; generating a returned product order based on the returned product information; determining if any returned products are reusable; determining to scrap the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090171816 - Attribute based inventory usage and stocking: A novel and non-obvious method, system and apparatus for controlling inventory stocking and usage based on part attributes. A method for controlling inventory stocking and usage based on part attributes that can include establishing a stock footprint, which maps stocking locations to attributes on a part, establishing a usage strategy,... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090171818 - Architectural design for expense reimbursement application software: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for implementing a software architecture design for a software application implementing expense reimbursement. The application is structured as multiple process components interacting with each other through service interfaces, and multiple service operations, each being implemented for a respective process component. The process... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20090171822 - Method and apparatus for image data based valuation: The present invention teaches methods and apparatus for capturing image of a subject property and utilizing the captured image data to determine a value of the subject property. In some embodiments, one or more of VideoDriveBy and VideoWalkABout are included in the captured image data. The captured image data can... Agent: Joseph P Kincart Ideation Law

20090171819 - Providing payment software application as enterprise services: Methods and apparatus, including systems and computer program products, for a service architecture design that provides enterprise services having payment functionality at the level of an enterprise application. The design includes a set of service operations, process components, and optionally deployment units. Suitable business objects are also described.... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20090171817 - Remote account maintenance system and method: A remote bill maintenance and payment system is described, wherein consumers and billing creditors can sign up for service. Consumer bill payment by internet access is provided, complete with accounting and status display. Creditors sign up to provide service to their customers, allowing consumer customers to send payments and receive... Agent: Steven W. Webb

20090171820 - System and method for automated comprehensive reconciliation processing: A system and method of reconciliation processing that automates multiple steps of data validation. One of the key steps of reconciliation is the review and validation of the input and outputs. An embodiment of this invention includes the maintenance of an automated checklist of the various reconciliation steps, which enables... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20090171821 - Systems and methods for providing resource allocation in a networked environment: Systems and methods are described for adjusting an item characteristic. An illustrative system includes a first network interface, a database storing information regarding a plurality of items, a load balancer, a web proxy processor configured to selectively block or route an inbound user browser request, a cache cluster system configured... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090171827 - Authenticated third-party check cashing: Tools for facilitating the process of providing presentation instrument redemption services, including without limitation tools that implement techniques for authenticating the identity of a check cashing customer through the use of biometric data that is derived from one or more biometric characteristics of the customer. The tools can be used... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090171826 - Conversion of over-the-counter swaps to standardized forward swaps: Systems, processes and methods are described for converting over-the-counter derivative products such as interest rate swaps (IRSs) to standardized forward swaps, such as centrally cleared interest rate swaps. The value of each leg of the over-the counter swap may be determined and compared to a value of a corresponding leg... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Cme

20090171824 - Margin offsets across portfolios: A method for managing a risk associated with a plurality portfolios wherein each of the plurality of portfolios includes a plurality of positions representative of products traded on an exchange is disclosed. The method includes determining a risk assessment for each of a plurality of portfolios, calculating a margin offset... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Cme

20090171829 - Method and apparatus for deriving benchmarks for trading instruments: Benchmarks for the price of a financial instrument such as FX spot rate for a currency pair are calculated by an algorithm based on a previous benchmark and a market price. The market price is derived from a deal price and a quote price. The deal price is based on... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090171828 - System and method for integrated advance life planning: An integrated advance life planning and management system provides to a user, through a single convenient Internet interface, a plurality of advance life planning and management services including estate planning, will preparation, and funeral planning services.... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20090171825 - Systems and methods for processing a payment transaction: Systems and methods for real-time check authorization and clearing are provided. In one aspect, a method is provided for processing a payment transaction using a check and an input device at a point of sale (POS). The method includes electronically capturing at the input device information from the check used... Agent: Daniel M. Fitzgerald (21652) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20090171823 - Underwriting the sale of shares of equity in a domain name: Systems and methods are disclosed for underwriting a sale of shares of equity in a domain name. Domain information (including domain registrant, description, organizations, performance, business plans and risks) is submitted to a network of underwriters. Based on this information, the potential underwriters submit proposals to underwrite the sale of... Agent: Go Daddy Group, Inc.

20090171858 - Method and system for the exchange of intellectual property assets: A computer based method and system for exchange of intellectual property assets which permits intellectual property IP) buyers and IP sellers to interact via a marketplace exchange includes a marketplace exchange accessed via a global communication network by IP buyers and IP sellers through utilization of computers. The marketplace exchange... Agent: Welsh & Flaxman LLC

20090171859 - Method for balancing the risk/reward structure for tranches in collateralized debt obligations: A structured finance transaction, such as an asset securitization, is disclosed which includes a method for balancing the risk reward structure in the transaction by providing an additional tranch of securities, Class X. The Class X tranch of securities, for example, may be amortizing senior secured securities that are used... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP (c/o Patent Administrator)

20090171857 - Method of increasing the sale value of the equity of a business entity: A business entity or investment entity increases the sale value of its own equity by forming a new hybrid investment unit that includes the combination of a debt instrument and the equity share. The debt instrument pays interest that is tax deductible to the business entity or investment entity and... Agent: Durham Russell Maples

20090171860 - Process for optimized lifetime return on personal investment capital or wealth creation: A process for managing investment funds to realize the highest return after taxes. First and second distinct closed end funds are established. The first of said funds is a personal account (PA) fund designed to be purchased with taxable monies, and the second of said funds is a tax deferred... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20090171831 - Managing an insurance plan: Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for managing insurance plans. Multiple bids are received from multiple reinsurance companies for the price of a unit of an insurance product (e.g., a fixed annuity paying ten dollars a month starting at the age of sixty five). The unit... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20090171832 - Method for displaying multiple markets: A method is provided for displaying contract information for a plurality of markets within the single window of an electronic display, and displaying a price axis common to the displayed plurality of markets. In a preferred embodiment the electronic display is a computer monitor and the price axis is on... Agent: Mcguirewoods, LLP

20090171830 - Payment transaction system: A system for allocating a resource used in payment transactions is disclosed. The system includes an allocation module that allows a user of a payment device to specify a class of good or service and an allowable resource amount that can be charged to a user account for the selected... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20090171833 - System and method for displaying and/or analyzing a limit order book: According to one embodiment, a method of generating a display of a limit order book is provided. Data regarding a plurality of limit orders entered onto an electronic market is received and recorded, at least temporarily. The data regarding each limit order includes a price and a time associated with... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090171834 - Systems and methods to select a credit migration path for a consumer: According to some embodiments, supplemental information about a consumer is determined, the consumer being associated with a first level of credit availability. One of a plurality of potential credit migration paths may then be selected for the consumer based on the supplemental information. Each potential credit migration path may, for... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20090171835 - Multiple payment transaction systems: A system and method of conducting multiple payment transactions is disclosed. The system and method allow a consumer to make contributions to selected groups based upon the consumer's financial activity. The invention could be used by a consumer to identify beneficiaries and can be used by merchants and payment network... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20090171836 - System and method for identification verification over a financial network: A system and method for identification verification over a network is described herein. In one embodiment, the system for identification verification over a network comprises a communication interface; and a payment provider system configured to receive via the communication interface an image of an individual from a merchant system, verify... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090171840 - Method and system for facilitating credit transactions: Disclosed is a system and method for Facilitating Credit Transactions, which may allow for the division of a given purchase or cash-withdrawal transaction amount, into periodical installments by enabling the financing of said transaction.... Agent: Professional Patent Solutions

20090171837 - Systems and methods for mobile payment: Mobile payment methods and systems using Short Message System (SMS) messages include a card distribution point with a plurality of mobile payment cards, each card having an initially concealed card code, an initially concealed confirmation number, and a plurality of initially concealed Transfer Authorization Numbers (TANs), a payor device, a... Agent: Frank G Morkunas

20090171839 - Systems and methods for processing recurring payment transactions: Systems and methods for updating payment card records in real time for payment cards registered to be used for recurring payments in which the payment card itself is not present. In one aspect, a method for processing card-not-present recurring payment (CNP/RP) transactions is provided. The transactions include recurring purchases made... Agent: Daniel M. Fitzgerald (21652) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20090171838 - Systems and methods wherein a credit product is offered in accordance with usage of a pre-paid card account: According to some embodiments, a consumer is associated with a pre-paid card account. Purchase transactions for the consumer may be facilitated via the pre-paid card account, including a transfer of funds out of the pre-paid card account. Funds may also be transferred for the consumer to re-load the pre-paid card... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20090171841 - Method and system for transferring funds between account holders: The preferred embodiments are directed to facilitating a transfer of funds between account holders. The preferred embodiments can receive account information from a transaction devices associated with a first account and a second account and can receive a specified amount of funds to be transferred to the second account. The... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20090171846 - Contactless payment through satellite radio devices: A method and system for making a purchase using a payment card and a satellite radio. The method includes: broadcasting information relating to goods or services for sale via a satellite radio; receiving a request to purchase goods or services via a satellite radio that includes a payment card account... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20090171845 - Methods and systems for cardholder initiated transactions: A cardholder-initiated financial transaction using a cardholder controlled input device in communication with a payment card network and a database is disclosed. The cardholder uses a payment card issued to the cardholder by an issuer bank. An exemplary method includes the steps of storing merchant data within the database including... Agent: Daniel M. Fitzgerald (21652) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20090171844 - System and method of a passphrase account identifier for use in a network environment: A system and method for facilitating a financial transaction over a network including use of a passphrase account identifier is described herein. In one embodiment, a system for facilitating a financial transaction over a network comprises a communication interface; and a payment provider system configured to receive via the communication... Agent: Macpherson, Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20090171842 - Techniques for conducting financial transactions using mobile communication devices: The present invention advantageously combines communications aspects of mobile devices with financial transaction system capabilities in a novel manner. This advantageous combination enables a user to automatically initiate a financial transaction with a merchant upon the user being located in a particular geographic vicinity. Numerous types of transactions can be... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20090171843 - Universal funding card and delayed assignment of a funding instrument for a financial transaction: A universal funding card and the delayed assignment of a funding instrument for a financial transaction are described herein. In one embodiment, a system for facilitating a financial transaction comprises a communications interface; a database storing data regarding a user and a plurality of funding instruments associated with that user;... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090171848 - Mailing machine having dynamically configurable postal security device to support multiple customers and carriers: A mail processing system having a postal security device (PSD) that can be dynamically configured to support multiple customers and carriers is provided. Meter records are maintained at a data center. Each meter record includes information necessary to configure the PSD for a particular customer and/or a specified carrier. The... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc.

20090171849 - Track data encryption: A method for using a secondary PAN is disclosed. The method includes providing a secondary PAN associated with a primary PAN, where the secondary PAN has at least one end portion that is the same as the primary PAN, but has a middle portion of that is different than the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20090171850 - Transaction authentication platform using video: A transaction authentication platform using video is provided. In an illustrative implementation, a computing environment comprises a video transaction authentication engine and an instruction set comprising at least one instruction to the video transaction authentication to process, store, manage, and monitor data representative of video transaction authentication requests to generate... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090171851 - Registering a biometric for radio frequency transactions: An authorized sample receiver configured to verify an RF device in response to proffered biometric sample data is disclosed. The authorized sample receiver may be configured to receive data from the RF device and decrypt an encrypted authentication code using a unique device identification code. The RF device is authenticated... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (main)

20090171852 - Method and system for providing secure processing of electronic transactions: Disclosed is a method and system for providing secure processing of electronic transactions for customers. Each customer maintains at least one payment account for use in the electronic transactions. The method includes processing a first electronic transaction. The first electronic transaction is processed using a payment account of the at... Agent: Jay M. Schloff Intellipex PLLC

20090171854 - Increasing health insurance benefits: Disclosed herein is a computer implemented method and system for providing increased health insurance benefits to employees of business entities for an insurance premium charge. A third party collects health plan requirements and critical health information from the employees. The third party then proposes health plans from health insurance companies... Agent: Ashok Tankha

20090171853 - Method and system for hosting an in-store electronic auction: A system for hosting an in-store electronic auction including a plurality of shoppers including a store server capable of synchronizing with handheld portable devices within a predetermined geographic area, a plurality of customers having portable electronic devices. The portable electronic devices are capable of synchronizing with the store server, such... Agent: Cahn & Samuels, LLP

20090171855 - Monitizing network connected user bases utilizing distributed processing systems: Various embodiments enable network service providers to receive revenue from their user bases by providing network services to various distributed devices in exchange for the distributed devices agreeing to process workloads for customer paid projects. In at least one embodiment, a method of operating a distributed processing system may include... Agent: Sadler, Breen, Morasch & Colby, Ps

20090171856 - System and method for negotiating according to improved matching criteria: A computer-implemented system stores profiles for parties to the negotiation, each profile specifying values for one or more parameters negotiated, the values reflecting a desirable outcome of the negotiation for the associated party. A matching server accesses an offer from a first party containing values for one or more of... Agent: I2 Technologies Us, Inc.

20090171847 - Multi-merchant purchasing environment for downloadable products: A multi-merchant purchasing system is configured to identify downloadable products selected by a user for purchase. The identified downloadable products are offered by multiple merchants. The multi-merchant purchasing system enables the user to purchase all of the downloadable products in a single transaction. Specifically, the multi-merchant purchasing system determines payment... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090171861 - Methods and systems for using multiple permanent postage rates in mailing machines: A mailing machine that provides for permanent postage is described. Postage may be purchased at one point of time at a then prevailing rate and used in the future at the same effective purchasing power even if a new more expensive rate schedule is in effect. The mailing machine provides... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc.

20090171862 - Energy control system: A method for adjusting an economic balance point in a dual fuel HVAC system includes a furnace, a heat pump and a control system. The method comprises providing a control device having a preprogrammed algorithm for controlling the HVAC system, providing a communication path between the control device and at... Agent: Mcnees Wallace & Nurick LLC

20090171864 - Methods and systems for displaying mattresses by color: A method for displaying a plurality of mattresses according to a color scheme is provided. The method includes categorizing a plurality of mattresses into at least three different types based on features of the mattresses other than size (e.g., based on comfort or style), designating a different color for each... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090171863 - Symmetrical re-balancing system: This is a new investment strategy which involves a new way to make a possibly decent return at a low risk. The new part of this process involves purchasing a long (or ultra long) fund of some index from a fund family. Also it involves simultaneously purchasing a short (or... Agent: Robert John Grant