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

20090216550 - Business method for preserving the value of business assets: A business method for preserving the value of business assets, and more particularly, the value of assets that are subject to associated license agreements.... Agent: Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel, LLP

20090216545 - Contract authoring template creation: A system allows a contract administrator to define the attributes of a contract template, and then generate a user interface. The contract administrator can modify the contract template user interface attributes, and the system then creates and stores a modified contract template. The modified contract template is subsequently rendered into... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p. Oracle International Corporation

20090216549 - Gift registry and comparison shopper: Devices and methods are disclosed which relate to the creation of a gift registry or comparison shopper. A user can select any product from any store using her mobile communications device and add it to her registry. This registry can be viewed online so that the user as well as... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Moazzam Attn: Patent Docketing

20090216548 - License management in a networked software application solution: A networked software solution comprising a plurality of servers, and application programs at various of the servers forming components of the solution. License information for all networked applications that form part of the solution is stored at each server that forms part of the solution. At relevant times, a server... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090216551 - Method and system for managing social networks of a user: A method and system for managing a social network are provided. The method includes establishing a user profile, wherein the user profile includes basic information fields and supplemental information fields. The method includes receiving a user-defined criteria defining how a display profile will be compiled based, in part, on a... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20090216547 - Method, system and computer program product for providing real-time recommendations: A method, system and computer program product for providing real-time recommendations. The method includes accessing an itinerary corresponding to a guest of a venue, the venue having a plurality of attractions. The itinerary was created in response to one or both of preferences of the guest and historical data about... Agent: Disney Enterprises, Inc. C/o Cantor Colburn LLP

20090216546 - Rating virtual world merchandise by avatar visits: A computer implemented method and apparatus to generate popularity ratings for virtual world artifacts based on how often and in what manner avatars access the artifacts. The popularity ratings for virtual world artifacts may be used to determine what virtual world artifacts are selected to have a prominent presence in... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090216552 - Systems and processes for maintaining roofs: The process for maintaining a roof includes receiving a maintenance request and establishing an account in the database associated with the maintenance request. Next, a contractor is notified of the maintenance request. The contractor receives maintenance request information over a communication network by accessing a software application. Performance of the... Agent: Kelly Lowry & Kelley, LLP

20090216554 - System and method for outcome-based management of medical science liasons: A system and method for managing customer interaction activities of medical liaison personnel of a sponsor organization with health professional customers to achieve one or more desired business outcomes is disclosed. The system uses a customer relation database to record data regarding customer interaction activity of the medical liaison personnel... Agent: Fox Rothschild, LLP Pittsburgh

20090216553 - System and methods of obtaining reimbursements for patient treatment: A method of selecting a dressing for treating a patient's wound includes providing a database of dressings and dressing information corresponding to each dressing, the dressing information including an indication of whether the dressing is reimbursable. The method also includes observing a patient's wound, recording characteristics of the patient's wound,... Agent: Stephen B. Salai, Esq. Harter Secrest & Emery LLP

20090216563 - Electronic profile development, storage, use and systems for taking action based thereon: Examples of the present invention include profiling systems that store, manage and respond to electronic profiles. The profiling systems utilize attributes of the electronic profiles to take predictive or deterministic action, including identifying content to be provided and notification of selected content. Embodiments of the invention allow the profiling system... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090216562 - Method and apparatus for accommodating diverse healthcare record centers: A healthcare portal aggregator collects data from healthcare portals of different institutions to provide patients with a comprehensive view of their healthcare information. The aggregator visually organizes data by datatypes for easy reference while visually linking the data to healthcare institution identifiers to preserve the healthcare institution's connections to their... Agent: Boyle Fredrickson S.c.

20090216561 - Methods for management of anticoagulation therapy: Presented herein are methods for determining dosages of anticoagulants for a patient. Also presented herein are apparatuses for determining dosages of anticoagulants for a patient. Further presented herein are electronic medical records systems comprising a program for determining dosages of anticoagulants for a patient. Further presented herein are clinical decision... Agent: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

20090216556 - Patient monitoring: Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for monitoring patients in a unit of a hospital, an entire hospital, or several hospitals. In some of these embodiments, the methods receives data pertaining to multiple patients. The method aggregates the data and calculated scores based on the received data. The... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, Llc

20090216564 - Rules-based system for maternal-fetal care: A rules-base patient care method for managing the care of a plurality of pregnant patients from a remote command center for use in healthcare locations using patient-specific rules for each of the plurality of pregnant patients. A patient rules generator creates rules for the patients. Performance measures indicative of the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090216557 - Software system for providing access via pop-up windows to medical test results and information relating thereto: A software system is disclosed having pop-up windows that efficiently deliver informational and/or actionable messages that provide access to medical test results and related information. The otherwise invisible software receives and displays the messages on a computer where a medical professional can immediately access test results and related information. A... Agent: Russ Weinzimmer

20090216558 - System and method for generating real-time health care alerts: An automated system is described for presenting a patient with an online interactive personal health record (PHR) capable of delivering individualized alerts based on comparison of evidence-based standards of care to information related to the patient's actual medical care. A health care organization collects and processes medical care information, including... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20090216560 - System and method for monitoring medication prescriptions using biometric identification and verification: This invention is a system and method for a matching system that cross-references patients anonymously with doctors and pharmacies. The invention uses patient-unique biometrics, such as fingerprinting, retinal scanning, or another such unique identifier, for patient identification and verification without revealing a patient's name or other personal information. The system... Agent: Feldmangale, P.a.

20090216559 - System for providing anonymous access to health information: A system for providing anonymous access to health information may include an interface, a memory and a web portal. The interface may be operative to receive a test result of a biological sample of an individual and a unique identifier associated with the test result. The individual may not be... Agent: In Re: 28533 Brinks, Hofer, Gilson & Lione

20090216555 - System, method and computer program product for performing automatic surveillance and tracking of adverse events: A system, method and computer program product are provided for automatically detecting and tracking adverse events. The system may include one or more data sources configured to provide a combination of clinical, operational and financial data associated with each of a plurality of patients. The system may further include a... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090216567 - Insurance system and method: An insurance benefit plan is disclosed including one or more insurance modules whereby at least one of the insurance modules is a limited medical benefit program.... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20090216565 - Method for protecting equity in purchased goods: A method 10 for protecting equity in purchased goods that are disposed of during a predetermined time period after purchase, includes establishing the purchase date and price for the purchased goods 14, determining a purchaser's equity in the purchased goods on the purchase date 16, selecting a time period for... Agent: Cherskov & Flaynik The Civic Opera Building

20090216566 - Systems and methods for management of compensation and benefit plans: The present inventions provide systems and methods that allow employees to electively participate in an alternate compensation and benefits arrangement, such as a specialized statutory trust structure, which provides the same or substantially similar benefits as their employer's deferred compensation plan without the employer being exposed to the additional cost... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090216569 - Communications system and method for serving electronic content: A network system for serving digital content to a graphical user interface of a user device is provided. The system includes a database storing user data including user preferences and events in a calendar of a system user; a processor configured to automatically scan the database to determine an event... Agent: Mcneely Bodendorf LLP

20090216572 - Conversation mode booking method: A method to book events such as trips are discloses. The method provides a conversation mode that allows a booking to be created within retentive storage in a portable format. In one embodiment, this portable format is a string written in eXtensible Markup Language (XML). This format may be stored... Agent: Unisys Corporation

20090216568 - Guaranteed revenue at electronic ticket issuance and modification: The invention relates to a method for automatically checking revenue in connection with transportation ticket purchases such as airline tickets. A request for issuance or follow-up processing of the ticket is received at an E-ticket server, said request comprising the fare data of the journey. A real time check is... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090216571 - Sports and concert event ticket pricing and visualization system: A system and method is presented for determining at what price and when to release so-called ‘flex’ price tickets during an on-sale using hazard functional analyses of sales velocity and sales/inquiry ratios. Exponential, power, and Weibull-gamma models are also used to predict demand, depending on what part of the on-sale... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090216570 - Travel reservation system and method: A system and method to identify Small and Disadvantaged Business (SDB) travel suppliers and account for the SDB expenditures. SDB suppliers submit their information to the system for inclusion in an SDB database. Initially, the suppliers self-certify their status. Status may be subsequently verified by the system operator or a... Agent: W. Edward Ramage

20090216583 - Approximating cycle times within material flow network: Approximating cycle times within a material flow network is disclosed. One embodiment includes assigning an approximate cycle time for completion of a part number PN within the material flow network by using a model that rounds the approximate cycle time to a nearest aggregate time period and adjusting the assigned... Agent: Hoffman Warnick Llc

20090216578 - Collaborative innovation system: A collaborative innovation system is described. The system may include a memory, an interface, and a processor. The memory may store a topic, responses, revisions, and ratings. The interface may communicate with a content provider and users. The processor may receive the topic from the content provider and provide the... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090216580 - Computer-implemented systems and methods for partial contribution computation in abc/m models: Computer-implemented systems and methods for analyzing costs associated with a cost flow model having components of relationships and entities. A system and method can be configured to receive a data associated with the cost flow model as well as source-entity definitions, via-entity sets, and target-entity definitions. A set of linear... Agent: Patent Group 2n Jones Day

20090216590 - Inferring system goal values in an inverse goal lattice: A system for inferring relative system goal values in an inverse goal lattice including: a goal identification module, an inverse goal lattice configuration module, a goal value assignment module, an included goal value allocation module, and an including goal value assignment module. The goal identification module identifies goals for accomplishing... Agent: George Mason University Office Of Technology Transfer, Msn 5g5

20090216587 - Mapping of physical and logical coordinates of users with that of the network elements: Physical coordinates of a user and an asset are determined. A probability that the user and the asset are close to one another is determined based on the physical coordinates of the user and the asset. Permission for the user to access to the asset is decided based on the... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090216573 - Method and device for automatic event detection and report generation: A robot controller including a control unit and a portable operating device (TPU) for teaching and manually operating the robot. The TPU includes safety equipment, a safety TPU-part having a first communication unit and a main TPU-part having a third communication unit. The control unit includes a safety control part... Agent: Venable LLP

20090216574 - Method and system for monitoring plant operating capacity: A monitoring system is disclosed for acquiring output activity, utilization capacity and/or effluent data from an facility on a facility-by-facility and/or an industry-by-industry basis. The system is designed to generate a plant and/or industry output activity database that is updated on a continuous, near continuous, periodic and/or intermittent basis so... Agent: Robert W Strozier, P.l.l.c

20090216591 - Method for computer evaluation of customer information and automatically providing customized financial product offers thereto: In a preferred embodiment, a system comprising a software module generates pre-approved financial product offers, such as credit offers, after evaluating information retrieved from internal and/or external databases which contain customer information. The system is particularly suitable for generating pre-approved multi-product offers from the suite of products a user institution... Agent: Eugenia S. Hansen Hemingway & Hansen, LLP

20090216576 - Method for constrained business plan optimization based on attributes: A method for constrained business plan optimization based on attributes. The method, according to one embodiment, uses business data of a manufacturer to generate constrained business plans using one or more attribute-based constraints. The method is highly efficient in organizations having a complex organizational structure, multiple interactive production flows, many... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20090216586 - Method for modernizing technical installations: The invention proposes ascertaining at least one technical influencing variable for the technical measured variable and then identifying design measures on the installation which are able to influence the at least one technical influencing variable such that the value of the at least one technical measured variable is altered so... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090216593 - Point source asset system and method thereof: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a point-source asset system for managing an incentive-based environmentally-conscious behavior program and methods of implementing the same. In one embodiment, a system comprises: an administrative entity, communicably accessible via a computer network, comprising a database; a consumer entity having an entity account stored... Agent: Maldjian & Fallon Llc

20090216584 - Repair diagnostics based on replacement parts inventory: A diagnostic system for diagnosing a vehicle, includes a first memory storing in a database, dynamic sales of components of the vehicle, a signal translator that communicates with the vehicle in at least one protocol, an input device that inputs information, a processor that controls a software according to the... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20090216588 - Return on investment analyzer: In various embodiments, a user enters information regarding a business entity for classification of the business entity. Thereafter, a user views a series of questions and when those questions are pre-populated with answers a user can keep the pre-populated answer or replace the pre-populated answer with a different answer. The... Agent: General Electric Company Ge Global Patent Operation

20090216585 - Sorting optimization of documents for mailing: A method of optimizing mail sorting on a envelope sorting machine by eliminating the necessity to pass some of the documents through the machine twice is provided in which a postal code table is created having an order for each of a plurality of postal code ranges. An unsorted document... Agent: Law Firm Of Dan Shifrin

20090216582 - Sub-ledger to account for performance obligations: A system and method for implementing a performance obligation sub-ledger. A performance obligation is generally the recognition by an enterprise that the enterprise has an obligation to provide goods and/or services that corresponds with the enterprise's right to receive consideration. The obligation is released as the goods and/or services are... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090216589 - System and method for developing technology assets: An automated method for developing new products within a development entity, comprises receiving respective catalogs of technology assets, each including at least one of a patent, trade secret, know-how, documentation, prototypes, pre-production units, production samples, tooling, and demonstration frameworks. Each catalog corresponds to a discrete pool of technology assets having... Agent: Docket Administrator Avaya Inc.

20090216592 - System and method for identifying network click: The present invention discloses a system for identifying a network click. The system includes: a parsing server, adapted to provide, after a page is impressed, impression information of the impressed page for an identifying server; a clicking server, adapted to provide, after the impressed page is clicked, click information for... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090216581 - System and method for managing community assets: A system and method to manage a community development asset. The system includes an asset polling agent, a nomenclature taxonomy dictionary, and an asset discovery service. The asset polling agent identifies a descriptive term associated with an asset under development. The nomenclature taxonomy dictionary stores a list of synonym terms... Agent: Holman Ip Law/ibm Rsw

20090216575 - Systems and methods for providing a vending network: Embodiments of the invention can implement systems and methods for providing a vending network. In one embodiment, a system for providing a vending network can be provided. The system can include at least one transaction-type device associated with a vending machine, wherein the at least one transaction-type device is operable... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20090216579 - Tracking online advertising using payment services: A user's online activity is tracked and offers associated with online advertisements presented to the user are identified. Information regarding these offers are provided to a payment service, which associates the information with an account for the user. When the user performs an activity using a payment card or other... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.l.p. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090216577 - User-generated review system: A system that combines user-generated reviews and user-generated video to create a review website covering an ever-changing list of topics. People located in different cities and colleges throughout the world create videos to both educate and entertain. This allows users to input their positive recommendations of different subjects into the... Agent: Greenberg & Lieberman, Llc

20090216597 - Automatically prescribing total budget for marketing and sales resources and allocation across spending categories: In one embodiment a software facility that uses a qualitative description of a subject offering to automatically prescribe both (1) a total budget for marketing and sales resources for a subject offering and (2) an allocation of that total budget over multiple spending categories—also referred to as “activities”—in a manner... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20090216596 - Estimating advertisement placement costs: The invention concerns estimating advertisement placement costs, for example, the placement of an advertisement in a newspaper The invention allows users (18) to enter in text of an advertisement and to select a publication (66) in a website. The server (10) of the invention operates to automatically create an artwork... Agent: Snell & Wilmer LLP (oc)

20090216598 - Methods and systems for planning configurable manufacturing capacity: The present invention comprises methods and systems that provide manufacturing capacity configuration, allocation, and procurement plans based on manufacturing demand, operational constraints, and other user inputs. This is generally accomplished by modeling the capabilities of the equipment comprising the capacity at its lowest allowed level of configurability. By defining capacity... Agent: Dan Hamling

20090216595 - System, methods and computer products to manage an individual meeting with a team: Systems, methods and computer program products for managing an individual meeting within a team. Exemplary embodiments include a method for managing individual meetings for all attendees of a team, the method including storing individual times slots for each attendee, determining a maximum number of time slots, for each available attendee... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Europe

20090216594 - Vineyard information collection and management system: A vineyard information collection and management system is provided. The system allows a variety of information at one or more vineyards to be collected in real time, processed at a central server, and provided to users over the Internet using customizable, easy-to-use forms and pages accessible using a conventional web... Agent: Mccarter & English, LLP Newark

20090216599 - Case managed counter-terrorism system and process: A machine-implemented Case-Managed ontology and decision support framework provides a basis for a family of machine database architectures for use in a system for countering forces of unknown intentions including fighting and winning the Global War on Terror. The system focuses resource allocation decisions on logically derived, targeted areas of... Agent: Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division Office Of Counsel Bldg 435

20090216604 - Method and system for process solution development and process solution implementation: A method for process improvement implementation by identifying a business life cycle and then characterizing at least one business focused document; identifying a product life cycle and a process improvement activity and characterizing at least one project focused document with respect to these and after inputting predetermined organizational standards, synthesizing... Agent: Saul Ewing LLP (baltimore) Attn: Patent Docket Clerk

20090216602 - Schedule analyzer: A project schedule is managed by developing a float profile area chart having a float profile with a float gradient for at least one non-completed activity within the project schedule to pictorially assess schedule viability. A schedule risk index (SRI) score is calculated to qualitatively assess a risk level associated... Agent: Exxon Mobil Upstream Research Company

20090216601 - Scheduling tool: In one embodiment the invention is a method of scheduling a meeting between a Requestor and one or more Invitees using a computer network. The method operates by defining a work time for the Requestor and each of the one or more Invitees and calculating an international meeting time within... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, Llc

20090216600 - Systems and methods for arranging a transport transaction: A requester may submit a request for transport comprising a set of transport preferences, which may include a desired starting point, ending point (e.g., destination), and pickup and/or delivery time. The transport preferences may also comprise a price and proximity thresholds indicating that non-conforming transport may be accepted within the... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP - Slc

20090216603 - Targeted product distribution system and method: A targeted product distribution system is described herein with respect to an exemplary management of product flow through a distribution center. Specifically, the system and method described herein is directed to the management and display of direct and easily-understood instructions, such that average individuals, as well as those with mental... Agent: Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

20090216613 - Availability check for a ware: Computer-implemented methods, and associated computer program products and systems, are described for checking availability of a ware for a set of demands requesting the ware. In one aspect, the computer-implemented method includes obtaining a first data structure comprising dates in a predetermined time interval, supply information for the ware associated... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.c.

20090216614 - Availability check for a ware: Computer-implemented methods, and associated computer program products and systems, for checking availability of a ware in a time interval, a resource to produce the ware being associated with the ware. The computer-implemented method can include obtaining capacity supply information comprising a capacity supply for each date of the time interval... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.c.

20090216615 - Availability check for a ware: Computer-implemented methods, and associated computer program products and systems, for checking availability of a set of wares in a time interval, each ware having associated therewith at least one resource to produce the ware. In one aspect, the computer-implemented method includes determining at least first and second wares associated with... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.c.

20090216608 - Collaborative review system: A system for collaborative review is described. The system may include a memory, an interface, and a processor. The memory may store responses, an item, ratings, user response quality scores, weighted ratings, and total ratings. The interface may communicate with users and a content provider. The processor may receive the... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090216611 - Computer-implemented systems and methods of product forecasting for new products: Computer-implemented systems and methods are provided for forecasting the performance of products newly introduced to a market. For example, a business that seeks to introduce a new product onto the market may query the data maintained by the business about the results of previous introductions of new products. Further, the... Agent: Patent Group 2n Jones Day

20090216623 - Electronic book having electronic commerce features: A viewer for displaying an electronic book and providing for electronic commerce. In conjunction with viewing an electronic book, a user can view information about products and services, view an on-line electronic catalog, and receive samples of products available for purchase. By entering a purchase request, the user can purchase... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20090216605 - Integrated acceptance testing: Contemplated validation systems provide access to a master validator, one or more remote validators, and an authorized party such that validation using a validation script can be performed in a flexible manner that allows modifications to the script in real time. Typically, modifications are requested by a remote validator in... Agent: Fish & Associates, Pc Robert D. Fish

20090216618 - Launch monitoring system of network advertisement and the method thereof: The present invention discloses a launch monitoring system of network advertisement and the method thereof, comprising: multiple advertisement browsing terminals; an advertisement management unit; an investigation information generating unit, for generating investigation information about the content of the advertisement data sent to the advertisement browsing terminal by the advertisement management... Agent: Troxell Law Office Pllc

20090216621 - Media based entertainment service: A media based entertainment service provides user requested media to a user. Video, audio, images and other media may be provided to a user for a fee or free of charge. The media may be provided from the service provider to a client device over a network. When providing media... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20090216607 - Method and apparatus for behavioral and contextual ad targeting based on user calendar data: A method and apparatus are provided for behavioral and contextual ad targeting based on user calendar data. In one example, the method includes receiving user input including calendar data, storing the user input in a calendar database, performing targeting processing on the user input, generating a user profile based on... Agent: Stattler - Suh Pc

20090216616 - Method and system for displaying correlated advertisements to internet users: Broadly speaking, the present invention fills the need of selecting correlated advertisements for displaying to users by utilizing the advertisement-viewing data collected on users of a web site. The advertisement-viewing (ad-viewing) data of users of a web site can be correlated to extract similarities and patterns of ads being viewed... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20090216612 - Method and system for procuring bids and managing assets and asset support contracts: A method and system are provided for managing assets and asset support contracts for assets of a given entity. The method includes: (a) receiving information including an identification of each of a plurality of assets of the entity and one or more asset support contracts associated with each of the... Agent: Rajesh Vallabh

20090216620 - Method and system for providing targeting advertisement service in social network: Provided is a system for providing a targeting advertisement service in a social network, the system including: a database to store information associated with a distribution of a content in the social network; an analysis unit to analyze the stored information with reference to the database, and to verify a... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20090216619 - Method for determining fair market values of multimedia advertising spaces: o

20090216610 - Method for obtaining consumer profiles based on cross linking information: A method for cross linking personal information provided by a plurality of consumers in order to offer such consumers a testing product that will match the profile of such consumer with one or more products or product groups.... Agent: Darby & Darby P.c.

20090216622 - Music-linked advertisement distoribution method, device, and system: Degrees of association between categories of songs (hereinafter, song categories) corresponding to information showing advertisement distribution target categories and distribution object advertisements are determined in advance in an advertisement DB. A song categorization module calculates degrees of association between an acoustic feature amount of a song being played (hereinafter, current... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.a.

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20090216606 - Pervasive symbiotic advertising system and methods therefor: An advertising system and methods, including an ad service that one of generates, presents and receives information pertaining to an ad presentation, an ad presentation output device that outputs the ad presentation at a presentation location, a user response receiver at the ad service that receives a user response transmitted... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20090216617 - Rewards for unseen web site activity: A method for maintaining a website by providing rewards for indirect unseen activities is disclosed. Individual reviewers are rewarded for reviewing and assigning rating scores to articles of media as a part of panel of reviewers consisting of more that one individual reviewer. The score from each individual reviewer does... Agent: Darby & Darby P.c.

20090216625 - Systems and methods for automated identification and evaluation of brand integration opportunities in scripted entertainment: A system for identifying and evaluating brand integration opportunities within scripted entertainment includes a script parser, an evaluation component, and a portfolio optimization component. The script parser receives at least one portion of a script and identifies a brand integration opportunity within the received at least one portion of the... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20090216609 - Systems and methods for providing community based catalogs and/or community based on-line services: A buying community is established by discerning customers having the same or similar business types. The business type of a customer may be discerned from a corporate, business, or other entity name that is associated with the customer. Once a buying community is established, behaviors of customers within that buying... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20090216626 - Behavior recommending for groups: Techniques are described for identifying and analyzing behavior patterns by members of a group, and determining if such behavior patterns improve or detract from the group's success. Behavior patterns which improve a group's success may then be applied by other similar groups.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090216628 - Configurable, questionnaire-based project assessment: Project assessment is initiated with receipt of project specification data that is descriptive, among other things, of at least one skill set or domain applied to the project. Based on the project specification data, one or more questionnaires, each corresponding to one of the identified skill sets, are automatically selected.... Agent: Vedder Price Pc

20090216627 - Method, system and software for talent management: A method of analysing talent within an organisation including the step of displaying a graph showing the frequency of values of a factor for a plurality of individuals within the organisation.... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090216639 - Advertising selection and display based on electronic profile information: Examples of the present invention include advertising selection and display systems that utilize electronic profiles and information received about one or more network accessible content items an entity accessed, such as a web page. The information and electronic profile is used to determine links, advertisements, or both, that may be... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090216631 - Apparatus and method for advertising in digital photo frame: A novel digital photo frame is configured to display user-loaded photographs, moving pictures, and other personal data and corporate-paid advertisements which are dynamically updatable by an advertising data distribution center or another communications service provider, such as a cellular service provider. The invention also discloses a related, novel method of... Agent: Invent Capture, Llc

20090216634 - Apparatus, computer-readable storage medium and method for providing a widget and content therefor: An apparatus is provided and includes a processor that is configured to display an advertisement for an advertised widget on a standby screen presented by a display when the apparatus is in a standby state. The processor is configured to receive selection of the presented advertisement and, in response thereto,... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090216635 - Business method and system for providing remuneration to consumers for viewing advertisements locally nationally and globally: The present invention is a business method, operable and controllable by a computer, microcomputer or like electronic means, for the remuneration to consumers for viewing advertisements or like content over a global website. The website is designed to display a variety of promotional videos, audio or written advertisements and like... Agent: Faheem Pasha

20090216649 - Capability based distributed processing: Various embodiments enable a server system to identify a workload capability factor for a distributed device and use the workload capability factor to determine an incentive for the distributed device. In one embodiment, a distributed processing system includes a server configured to be coupled to one or more distributed devices.... Agent: Sadler, Breen, Morasch & Colby, Ps

20090216630 - Content monetization system with variable ad insertion: A user's experience with content on a device can be impacted based on the disposition of the content and the type of device. The user can experience a wealth of advertisements when consuming content that has no license. Likewise, the user can experience little or no advertisements when consuming content... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.l.p. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090216632 - Customer rewarding: The present invention provides an approach for rewarding customers for use of self-checkout stations and, optionally, for being self-sufficient in such use by not requiring retailer (employee) assistance. Specifically, the under the present invention, a set of service choices made by a customer during purchasing transactions are tracked. Such service... Agent: Hoffman Warnick Llc

20090216643 - Data processing system and data processing method: Disclosed herein is a data processing system including: a user manager configured to manage user identification data for identifying a user and a page of the user by relating them each other; a data manager configured to manage service data and the user identification data by relating them each other;... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090216646 - Merchant rewards methods, systems and products thereby: A method, system and products thereby for enhanced customer loyalty program with improved access to restaurant information. The system having a server configured to perform operations including storing data including at least an identifier associated with a customer account in the customer rewards program, the identifier corresponding to a registered... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP (la)

20090216636 - Method of promotion and advertisement of a website: A method for providing a video sharing website to be created, wherein members are able to upload, share, and view video clips is presented. In addition to providing members with the rights and control to the advertising space associated with their video clips, these members are able to use the... Agent: Davis, Brown, Koehn, Shors & Roberts, P.c. The Davis Brown Tower

20090216641 - Methods and systems for indexing content: Various embodiments enable a distributed processing system to index network content. In at least one embodiment, a method of indexing content comprises distributing indexing workloads to various distributed devices over a network, receiving organized indexed workloads from the various distributed devices, and creating a master summary index to receive the... Agent: Sadler, Breen, Morasch & Colby, Ps

20090216644 - Network affinity-group commerce method involving system management fulfilment: An electronic, computer-based, system-manager-supervised, network-commerce, method featuring cloud-computing-type activity, and including (a) forming within an electronic-network a subassembly of selected, distributed, different-affinity-interest, network-connected groups, (b) creating, selectively and distributively within the network, for such groups, selected, controlled-access, physical-electronic, digital-database catalogues of relevant, affinity-interest deliverables via selecting providers of such deliverables,... Agent: Jon M. Dickinson, P.c.

20090216640 - Non-cash transaction incentive and commission distribution system: An electronic fund transfer system is disclosed wherein commissions for point-of-sale purchase transactions are determined and distributed to members of an organizational network for promoting use of a non-cash payment device that is tangible for effecting purchase transactions. Purchase data is electronically transmitted from the point-of-sale to an automated clearing... Agent: Paul And Paul

20090216647 - Pausing one or more ads, one or more ad groups, and/or one or more ad campaigns: Helping advertisers by simplifying the management of interactive advertising. Such simplification can by achieved by allowing an advertiser to pause the serving of an ad, or some grouping of ads. The pausing may continue for a predetermined time period, until a specified time and/or date, or until a restart is... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20090216642 - Privacy-enhanced internet advertising system: A system and method of advertising for determining a network location associated with a physical location. In one aspect, a system for performing this function is described which includes an advertiser module for accepting advertisements and a targeting criterion and computing a plurality of restricted identifiers satisfying the targeting criterion,... Agent: Bereskin And Parr LLP/s.e.n.c.r.l., S.r.l.

20090216645 - System and method for generating leads for the sale of goods and services: As set forth herein, a computer program embodied on a computer readable medium creates a web interface to facilitate a sales transaction between a vendor and a customer via a sales lead system. A web interface source code segment facilitates the presentation of content to a user that accesses the... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20090216629 - System and method for incentivizing a healthcare individual through music distribution: A method for rewarding a healthcare individual at a remote location is presented in one example embodiment. The method includes interacting with a participant at a remote location and delivering a music segment in exchange for a successful completion by the participant of a health related activity. The music segment... Agent: Patent Capital Group

20090216637 - System and method for making a synthetic cash advance using a purchase payment exchange: System and method provide for making a synthetic cash advance to a credit cardholder via a purchase-payment exchange. A beneficiary selects an item to be purchased by a cardholder for the beneficiary, and in exchange for the cardholder's purchase, the beneficiary transfers funds to the cardholder in an amount that... Agent: Anthony Jeremiah Bayne

20090216638 - System and method for providing consumer directed payment card: Providing a consumer directed payment card (“CDPC”). Parameters for the CDPC are established in advance of the processing of a transaction to define how transactions are to be processed. The parameters are based on attributes of the transaction, such as transaction value, fund availability, credit availability, merchant type, merchant location,... Agent: King & Spalding

20090216648 - System and method for providing paper model replicas over a wide area computer network: A system for providing paper models over a wide area computer network includes a user computer that communicates with a model server via the Internet. The model server includes a database of paper model files, e.g., the pieces of the models and assembly instructions. The corresponding method allows a user... Agent: Bryan Cave LLP

20090216633 - System, method, and computer program product for assembling and displaying a travel itinerary: The present invention generates a concise listing of low-priced travel products in an interactive itinerary format in response to a simplified user input that can include specification of a selected travel theme. The interactive itinerary can allow and/or recommend changes to the itinerary, e.g., to add, remove, or otherwise change... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP Bank Of America Plaza

20090216650 - Cyber pub (cp): The present invention relates to a Cyber-Pub (CP) that allows an easy social interchange among people. More specifically, the present invention relates to a system and method that allows the social interchange amongst people who suffer from difficulties related to shyness.... Agent: Defillo & Associates, Inc.

20090216651 - Dispensing valuable media: A method of dispensing valuable media from a self-service terminal. The method comprises: receiving a request from a customer at the self-service terminal to access an account held with a payment service provider. The terminal then forwards the request to the payment service provider and provides the payment service provider... Agent: Michael Chan Ncr Corporation

20090216652 - Point-of-sale enhancement system: A point of sale system including a point of sale register and a processor operatively coupled to the point of sale register, wherein the processor is physically discreet from the point of sale register. The system further includes a scanner operatively coupled to the processor. The scanner is configured to... Agent: Thompson Hine L.l.p. Intellectual Property Group

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20090216657 - Electronic retail order communication: Multiple users are provided the ability to add or modify items in an open order created by an originating user on an electronic retail system. The originating user has the ability to verify and authorize a final purchase order that is submitted to the retail system. The originating user forwards... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090216656 - Method and system for managing vendor information: A website for managing vendor information stores information associated with one or more purchase orders of a purchaser, including information associating the purchase order with a vendor authorized to access the website. The website is used to allow the vendor to retrieve the purchase order, automatically notify the purchaser of... Agent: Tiffany & Bosco Camelback Esplanade Ii, Third Floor

20090216653 - Method and system for selecting and conveying relevant and personalized gifts using online personal gift profile: A method and system selects and conveys relevant and personalized gifts using an online personal gift profile having personal preference data. The method includes providing, by a conveying user, the identity of a receiving user. The method includes selecting, by the conveying user, a gift-class. The method includes identifying the... Agent: Michael A. Rahman

20090216654 - Musical bouquet: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for sending a bouquet of flowers to a recipient wherein the recipient can play back a customized audio or other media recording. In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, the base of the vase is a molded plastic base... Agent: Carstens & Cahoon, LLP

20090216658 - Customer customizable lamp: A customer-customizable lamp includes a vertical support post mounted to a base plate. The customer selects from five different heights of decorative blocks to be mounted on the post. Each selected block may be provided in any one of five selectable colors or four selectable simulated wood grains. The selection... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck, LLP Chase Tower

20090216659 - Method and system for assisting cutomers in making purchase decisions: Disclosed are a method and a system for assisting a customer in making a purchase decision of a product. Information from the customer is received and a first virtual model is generated based on the information. A graphical image corresponding to the product is overlaid on the first virtual model... Agent: Jay M. Schloff Intellipex Pllc

20090216661 - Systems and methods for online garden design: A method and system for improving the way fruit, vegetable and flower gardens are planned, designed, and implemented. The present application discloses systems and methods to simplify gardening, as well as improve the overall yield while mitigating such problems as over-planting, over/under irrigating, and poor maintenance. Systems and methods are... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20090216660 - Systems and methods for providing community based catalogs and/or community based on-line services: A buying community is established by discerning customers having the same or similar business types. The business type of a customer may be discerned from a keyword within a corporate, business, or other entity name that is associated with the customer or from purchasing interests commonly shared by customers. Once... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20090216664 - Method and administration system 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

20090216663 - Secure transaction management system and method: A system (200) for managing a secure transaction comprises a secure code generator (210) for generating a first unique code and a second unique code, a database (209) for storing said first code and said second code, means for issuing (208) said first code to a first party (201) and... Agent: Fox Rothschild LLP Sanofi-aventis

20090216662 - Systems and methods for enhancing compliance with the federal reserve custodial inventory (ci) procedures: Systems, methods and consumer-readable media for enhancing compliance with the Federal Reserve Custodial Inventory procedures are provided. The system may include an inventory management system for retrieving cash balance inventory information and an information management system for receiving Fed Cash information. This information may be retrieved using specific process steps... Agent: Weiss & Arons, LLP

20090216669 - Business method and system for planning, executing and administering a public offering of revenue backed securities: The present invention discloses a system and associated method for creating, executing and administering revenue backed securities which includes direct ownership of business revenues, and which can also include ownership of defined business assets. These business and investor benefits are derived from asset-based securities in which the underlying assets consist... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20090216670 - Commission management system: The present invention relates to a commission management system and method for managing soft dollar and commission recapture services over communications network. The system and method pays the invoices from the soft dollar commission account after the client views and approves invoices online.... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP

20090216668 - Method of carrying out a business venture: This invention deals with corporations involved in new ventures, providing novel means and methods to increase the likelihood of their success. It also provides an exchanges on which corporations of these types can trade shares. The corporations use a preferred share structure which incorporates fiscal financial projections, so that there... Agent: James William Wedderburn

20090216667 - Systems and methods for enterprise financial information management: A system, method, and computer readable medium for enterprise financial information management is disclosed. Customized hierarchical representations are defined and associated with a business enterprise. The customized hierarchical representations include one or more nodes. A business process instance is associated with the one or more nodes. Financial data is received.... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20090216666 - Systems and methods for providing electronic transaction auditing and accountability: Embodiments of the invention can provide systems and methods for electronic transaction auditing and accountability. In one embodiment, a method of providing electronic transaction auditing can be implemented. The method can include determining at least one unique identifier associated with a respective transaction. The method can also include communicating the... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20090216665 - Systems and methods for providing vending network data management: Embodiments of the invention can implement systems and methods for providing vending network data management. In one embodiment, a system for vending network data management can be provided. The system can include a vend settlement manager program module operable to receive a plurality of electronic transactions from at least one... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20090216671 - Method and apparatus for electronic collection, translation, grouping, and delivery of wage assignment information: This disclosure describes a system that electronically collects, translates, groups, and delivers wage assignment information from at least one initiator to at least one recipient via an accumulator. An initiator initially receives the wage assignment information. Then, an accumulator collects the wage assignment information from at least one initiator, such... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090216673 - Method and system for modeling volatility: A method for determining the implied volatility of a swap option employs intuitive factors to arrive at a close approximation of volatility. The volatility curve is a convex shaped curve which more closely follows real market volatility than previous methods. The slope of the curve is provided by employing a... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP

20090216672 - System for storing vital records: A system for storing vital personal and business records in one secure location. A user may create an account and submit documents to be scanned and uploaded through a public kiosk. Documents may include, but are not limited to, such items as driver's licenses, birth certificates, state and federal identification... Agent: Greenberg & Lieberman, Llc

20090216685 - Method and platform for facilitating competitive virtual securities trading: A method for providing a trading platform over the Internet or other network that allows users to participate in competitive virtual trading of securities and/or derivatives, wherein the monetary returns of the participants are based on their relative performances. All of the participants must register and deposit monies in an... Agent: Ostrager Chong Flaherty & Broitman Pc

20090216684 - Price charting system and technique: The invention is directed to a market price charting method for displaying both current and historical price activity in terms of valuation rather than absolute price. The invention allows users to quantify the degree in which a market is overbought or oversold. Results may be displayed electronically or on a... Agent: Hahn Loeser & Parks, LLP

20090216674 - Volatility detection in a non-trading security's price quotation: To ensure that a security does not experience large fluctuations in price after being released from a halt or an IPO, a volatility detection process is used to monitor a pre-release stability of the security based on pre-release orders to buy and orders to sell. These pre-release orders to buy... Agent: Fish & Richardson Pc

20090216675 - Commission centric network operation systems and methods: Embodiments of the invention can provide commission centric network operation systems and methods. In one embodiment, a commission centric network operation method can be provided. The method can include receiving an electronic transaction. The method can further include determining an electronic transaction type associated with the electronic transaction. Furthermore, the... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20090216676 - Integrated mobile transaction system and methods thereof: An architectural transaction arrangement for facilitating transactions is provided. The arrangement includes a set of transaction-enabled devices and an integrated mobile transaction system. The integrated mobile transaction system is configured to include at least a set of interfaces, which is configured for managing interaction between the set of transaction-enabled devices... Agent: Michael Toback

20090216677 - System and method for virtual capital operation: A system for virtual capital operation over a network such as the internet includes a platform for a transaction between a first user and a second user of the system, a data processor for processing the flow of virtual currency occurred at the transaction between the first user and second... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090216678 - System and method for facilitating secure communication of messages associated with a project: Embodiments of a system and method for facilitating the secure communication of messages associated with a project between computing devices, including for example, a first mobile device and at least a second mobile device are disclosed. One or more intermediate computing devices coupled to the first and second mobile devices... Agent: Bereskin And Parr LLP/s.e.n.c.r.l., S.r.l.

20090216679 - Method and system for validating a device that uses a dynamic identifier: A method that comprises obtaining a currently received signature from a device; obtaining a candidate identifier associated with the device; consulting a database to obtain a set of previously received signatures associated with the candidate identifier; and validating the currently received signature based on a comparison of the currently received... Agent: Smart & Biggar

20090216680 - Systems and methods for performing file distribution and purchase: A secure computing module (SCM) is configured for connection with a host device. The SCM includes a processor for performing secure processing operations, a host interface for coupling the processor to the host device, and a memory connected to the processor wherein the processor logically isolates at least some of... Agent: Traskbritt / Battelle Energy Alliance, Llc

20090216681 - Systems and methods for performing wireless financial transactions: A secure computing module (SCM) is configured for connection with a host device. The SCM includes a processor for performing secure processing operations, a host interface for coupling the processor to the host device, and a memory connected to the processor wherein the processor logically isolates at least some of... Agent: Traskbritt / Battelle Energy Alliance, Llc

20090216683 - Interactive media content display system: A system and method is provided including a central application server with a data storage unit including a plurality of client containers corresponding to a plurality of clients. Each client container stores client media content provided by a respective client. The client media content includes at least one of audio... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090216682 - System and method of providing targeted advertisements from subscribers of directory services: Disclosed are systems, computer-readable medium and a method for delivering advertisements to user devices. The method includes storing first data associated with online and physical activity of plurality of customers, storing second data associated with current status of plurality of advertisers, matching a customer with an advertiser based on analysis... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Ndq

20090216686 - Mail franking and tracking method: The invention relates to a method of franking of mail such that it can be tracked by carriers and mail-routing services. More specifically, the invention relates to a method of franking and tracking mail, such as letters or parcels, sent by at least one sender through a distribution network which... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090216687 - Method of assessing a parking fee: A method for assessing fees for parking is disclosed. The method includes determining the length of a vehicle and assessing a parking fee based upon that vehicle length. The disclosed method may also include marking at least a portion of the selected parking area in increments of length or marking... Agent: Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20090216688 - System for battery charging based on cost and life: One embodiment of the present subject matter includes a system that includes a battery, an electric vehicle, the battery coupled to the electric vehicle to propel the electric vehicle, and a charging circuit to charge the battery. The embodiment includes a charging cost circuit to estimate a charging cost rate... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20090210245 - Drawing and data collection systems: An apparatus, system and method is disclosed herein for searching and retrieving data in the form of text and images that may be used for designing and drawings applications in industry and for crime investigation and prevention. Data is retrieved from databases optionally using a statistical profiler and observations/hunch notes... Agent: Edwin Wold

20090210241 - Emergency contact system that interfaces with government id: A system for identifying and providing emergency contacts and returning lost identification that interfaces with a government-issued ID and provides only member-provided information to properly authenticated users over the internet.... Agent: Lewis, Rice & Fingersh, Lc Attn: BoxIPDept.

20090210242 - Load balance payment: A user can be provided a variety of incentives to take a route that is different from a standard path in order to relieve path load balancing issues. Information on a primary path can be collected and analyzed to determine if it would be beneficial to encourage users to take... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090210243 - Method and system for providing electronic customs form: Methods and systems are provided for creating and processing an electronic customs declaration manifest. These methods and systems include creating a image of the customs declaration form, converting the image of the customs declaration form into an electronic customs manifest, and transferring the electronic customs manifest to a database. In... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090210246 - Statistical personalized recommendation system: A method for recommending items in a domain to users, either individually or in groups, makes user of users' characteristics, their carefully elicited preferences, and a history of their ratings of the items are maintained in a database. Users are assigned to cohorts that are constructed such that significant between-cohort... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20090210240 - System and method of age verification for purchasing age-restricted items: Aspects of the invention relate to an age verification terminal configured for verifying the age of a person and providing a purchase ticket for purchasing an age-restricted item is proposed. In one embodiment, the terminal comprises a video camera configured for capturing an image of the person and a document... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20090210244 - Trusted acquaintances network system: A trusted acquaintances network system [700] includes: providing a network system [104] with a computer system [105 ]; inputting information about a plurality of users to the network with each of the plurality of users having a different level of trustworthiness and a different rating of further information; and displaying... Agent: Law Offices Of Mikio Ishimaru

20090210248 - Adaptive intervention and management method for healthcare organizations: A computer-implemnented method to optimize the performance of a health care system, comprising creating a 3-dimensional Healthcare Adaptive Cycle space defined by a Potential dimension, a Connectness dimension, and a Resilience dimension, wherein the Healthcare Adaptive Cycle comprises a K region, a Ω region, an a region, a r region,... Agent: Dale F. Regelman

20090210249 - Medical device: A medical device is provided, comprising a data management unit for providing patient data regarding a patient's health and/or treatment status, a display for displaying the patient data provided by the data management unit, and an actuator configured to cause one or both of activation and deactivation of the device.... Agent: Roche Diagnostics Operations Inc.

20090210247 - System and apparatus for item management: Item-management systems, apparatus, and methods are described, preferably for management of items such as medicaments. In embodiments, an item-management system comprises a holder defining plural cells, a docking station configured to receive the holder, at least one indicator selectively-operable to indicate the holder cell into which an item is to... Agent: Jansson Shupe & Munger Ltd.

20090210254 - Device and method for cross-referencing: A sample, which is embedded in a paraffin block, is placed on a tissue cassette (22) which carries a label (20) which may a bar code. When the sample is to be processed, the cassette is given to a microtome operator who scans the label (20) with, for example, a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090210255 - Efficient automated system for processing refill: The present invention concerns an efficient method for processing a prescription wherein a computer system receives an electronic mail message from a patient system. The electronic mail message includes an electronic mail address having a leading string of characters that are indicative of the prescription. The computer system processes the... Agent: Winthrop D. Childers

20090210250 - Intermediation server, a method, and network for consulting and referencing medical information: An intermediation server that can be used to consult and reference medical information relating to patients and stored in a computer network (10) with a plurality of data servers (12, 14, 16), includes an element for creating a shared medical record for a patient that is referenced in the network... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090210252 - Method and apparatus for real time analysis of medical orders: A customized, automated tracking system (CATS) and method is disclosed that provides an interface between medical records relating to medication records and clinical laboratory result records. As new records are created or updated, the record is input into a central repository where medication records and laboratory records for a patient/resident... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20090210253 - Method and system for identification and management of patients for sleep disorders: The present invention provides a unique clinical workflow, scoring system, and system architecture for sleep specific applications. The present invention provides a unique logic system, identifying factors of sleep disorders and a sleepiness scale. The present invention comprises a logic system that incorporates the patient's i) medical history, ii) clinical... Agent: Diane Duan Mckay, Esq. Mathews, Shepherd, Mckay & Bruneau, P.A.

20090210251 - System and method for intelligent management of medical care: A computerized medical care system provides validation of a diagnosis of a medical condition and requested medical services for treating the medical condition. The medial care system invokes multiple filters to determine the appropriateness of the diagnosis and medical service. Real time feedback is provided based on the determination. If... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20090210259 - Internet protocol data insurance policy management system: An internet protocol data insurance policy management system including creating an insurance policy portfolio. A risk associated with an electronic transmission is determined based upon the insurance policy portfolio. An insurance policy is generated based upon the insurance policy portfolio upon receipt of a electronic transmission identifier from a first... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20090210258 - Internet protocol data transmission insurance system: An electronic transmission insurance method to insure electronic transmission between a first computer client and a second computer client. An electronic transmission identifier is associated with the electronic transmission. A claim is processed pursuant to the terms of the insurance policy if the network server does not receive the electronic... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20090210260 - Method and system for transacting short term hunting leases: A method for an online reservation and rating system for short-term hunting leases for property. In the preferred embodiment, hunters can lease hunting rights for as little as 1 day. The properties are categorized and rated on a variety of variable of interest to hunters. Relevant information on hunting laws,... Agent: James M. Francis

20090210257 - System and method for providing customized safety feedback: The present invention relates generally to systems and methods for monitoring driving behavior and providing feedback to the driver. The systems evaluate driving behavior and relay feedback to the driver in a fashion that is customized to take into account individual characteristics and demographic characteristics of the driver.... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20090210256 - System for real-time online health care insurance underwriting: A system for real-time health care insurance underwriting is described comprising a quotation module, a verification module, and an underwriting module. The quotation module receives user input relating to a user's health status via an online user interface. The verification module verifies the user input against information stored in a... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20090210264 - Conversation mode booking system: A system to book events such as trips are discloses. The system provides a conversation mode that allows a booking to be created within retentive storage in a portable format. In one embodiment, this portable format is a string written in eXtensible Markup Language (XML). This format may be stored... Agent: Unisys Corporation

20090210263 - Golf course time management system: A system is provided for tracking and visually displaying golf reservations in a computer-implemented environment. The system provides a display with a grid or array of times arranged according to golf hole numbers. A reservation designator, by its location on the grid, identifies a start time and start hole, and... Agent: Van Dyke, Gardner, Linn & Burkhart, LLP

20090210262 - Methods and apparatus for automated travel: Methods and apparatus for arranging travel according to various aspects of the present invention operate in conjunction with one or more computers. The computer may automatically identify appointment data associated with a scheduling application. The computer automatically researches one or more travel arrangements according to the appointment data.... Agent: The Noblitt Group, PLLC

20090210261 - System and method for multi-modal travel shopping: One embodiment provides a method, that may be implemented on a system, for obtaining a starting point and a destination point for a traveler; identifying multiple options of transportation modes to travel from the starting point to the destination point, and identifying a costs and travel time associated respectively with... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20090210268 - Bulk order management: A method includes creating a bulk order. The bulk order includes a plurality of action sets. Each action set represents a set of changes to a plurality of assets, and the bulk order represents, for a plurality of accounts, a plurality of services and assets. The method also includes validating... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20090210275 - Cost management of software application portfolio: An apparatus for managing a cost of ownership of a portfolio of N software applications (N≧2). A regression function is identified for each application. Each regression function expresses an approximate cost of ownership of the applications in terms of parameters and coefficients. J applications A1, A2, . . . ,... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090210269 - Method for operating a renewable energy power generation facility: A method is described for operating a renewable power generation facility having a plurality of individual power generation units for generating power from a renewable energy source. In one exemplary embodiment, the method comprises selling the power generation units in the power generation facility to individual investors 16, supplying power... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20090210272 - Methods & systems for energy, information, and business systems modeling: Systems and methods for providing visual representation of the energy and information systems, in addition to people, for representing a business and its operating efficiency.... Agent: Triangle Patents, P.l.l.c.

20090210273 - Methods & systems for visualizing business functions and/or operations: Systems and methods for providing visualizing business functions and/or operations using at least one visual representation of the energy and information systems, in addition to human resource elements, for representing a business and its operating efficiency.... Agent: Triangle Patents, P.l.l.c.

20090210271 - Methods and systems for determining quantitative benefits of travel avoidance through online web conferencing and tracking thereof: Online web conferencing methods implemented in an information handling system are provided that determine and display various savings that result from The methods herein determine and display, among other variables, the total air emissions saved by being able to forego physical transportation of the users on account of being able... Agent: HoustonIPDepartment Jackson Walker L.L.P.

20090210266 - Methods, systems and computer program products for a decision framework for valuating business transformation alternatives: Methods, systems and computer program products for a decision framework for valuating business transformation alternatives. An exemplary embodiment includes a method for framework for valuating business transformation alternatives, the method including identifying a transformation alternative, performing a strategic value analysis, performing a value risk analysis and performing a qualitative assessment... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20090210265 - Promoting sales of an establishment: Disclosed herein is a computer implemented method and system for promoting sales through a customer incentive scheme of an establishment. The establishment offers the customer a redeemable voucher of a first value on purchase of merchandise. The customer registers the redeemable voucher on an online website. The online website is... Agent: Ashok Tankha

20090210267 - System and method for automatically mapping security controls to subjects: A computer system and method is disclosed for automatically and dynamically mapping risk management controls to risk management profiles based upon criteria associated with each control and values associated with each risk management profile. A database is populated with a plurality of risk management controls which may correspond to the... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20090210274 - System and method for tracking and managing environmental attributes: A system and method for tracking and managing environmental attributes which provides a framework to facilitate the transparent listing, tracking, managing, and sale of environmental attributes. The system and method ensure greater transparency for buyers, sellers, and regulators and allow for the bundling and geographic referencing of environmental attributes.... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20090210270 - Systems and methods for providing direct communication from personalized targeted advertisements: A method of creating a personalized targeted advertisement for displaying on a webpage of a website is disclosed. The personalized targeted advertisement includes features to provide direct communication between a sender and a recipient of the personalized targeted advertisement. A selection of an advertisement template from a plurality of advertisement... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20090210276 - Ad hoc and opportunistic transportation services: Individuals can be organized into travel groups in plans constructed in advance or in real-time to save resources and travel in an efficient manner. Multi-segment trips between starting points and destinations can be constructed with several vehicles, including private, public, and commercial transportation assets. Numerous requests for real-time or planned... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090210278 - Maintenance scheduling system, maintenance scheduling method, and image forming apparatus: A maintenance scheduling system that lays out a maintenance schedule for an image forming apparatus includes an actual-use-result acquiring unit that acquires actual use result information of consumables, a failure-probability-distribution estimating unit that estimates failure probability distributions of the consumables, a cost-related-constant acquiring unit that acquires cost related constants of... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090210279 - Method for simultaneously considering customer support dates and customer request dates: The invention disclosed here is a method for achieving simultaneous consideration of multiple customer demand dates within an advanced planning system. The invention provides a method of production planning that considers multiple due dates. The invention solves a production planning model based upon the second (commit) date to produce a... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20090210277 - System and method for managing a geographically-expansive construction project: In an exemplary embodiment, a system for managing a geographically-expansive construction project includes a database of construction project data, the data including geographic location information, terrain data having geographic location information, and a geographic information system (GIS) operable to display the construction project data and terrain data in proper geographic... Agent: Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP Attn: Patent Group

20090210281 - Job matching system and method: A system for matching employment candidates to employment positions is disclosed. Measures of personality traits and optionally interests are used to match candidates to employment positions. Candidates' traits may be assessed by administering a questionnaire. A similar questionnaire may be provided to suitable employees who are already filling, or have... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20090210280 - Method and apparatus for creating a schedule based on physiological data: The invention provides a method and apparatus for creating a schedule, wherein the schedule is used for a user's schedule arrangement, the apparatus for creating a schedule comprises: acquiring means for acquiring at least one physiological health condition data of the user; analyzing means for generating suggestion on the schedule... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090210282 - Online work management system with job division support: An online work management system provides a marketplace for multiple job owner and workers. The job owners provide a job description that defines task. The job description may be processed to generate task descriptions that may be published for workers' application. The task descriptions specify the qualification or restrictions for... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090210283 - Support management method, support management system and information processing device: A trouble-shooting measure against a fault in an external device installed at a remote place is supported by receiving fault information on the fault that has occurred in the external device, acquiring an installation place of the external device in which the fault has occurred, a repair procedure acquisition unit... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090210284 - Ticket approval system for and method of performing quality control in field service applications: Methods for overseeing and assessing a locate and marking operation. A ticket is received including ticket information regarding the operation, and a first locate technician is dispatched to perform the operation pursuant to the ticket information. A locate manifest is received that includes at least one digital image associated with... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090210285 - Ticket approval system for and method of performing quality control in field service applications: Methods and apparatus for facilitating a quality assessment of a locate and marking operation. Ticket information and a locate manifest are received regarding the operation as performed by a technician. One or more electronic indications of the quality assessment are processed based on the locate manifest, the ticket information, and... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090210287 - Advertisement space allocation: A user utility function is implemented in allocating advertisement space to one or more potential advertisers. The user utility function allows advertisement space to be allocated based upon, among other things, the expected utility or usefulness that a proposed advertisement will have to a user. The user utility function, for... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090210293 - Information transactions over a network: In one example, a method for managing information in an environment that includes a client device includes accessing, at the client device, an electronic input interface. Next, the client device transmits a signal to a host system associated with the electronic input interface by entering consumer profile information into the... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090210286 - Method for automatic optimized price display: A method of updating prices, includes automatically and continually adjusting prices of goods and services provided by a company through local outlets located across a geographic area, including activating trigger sources, the trigger sources including static and dynamic causes, inputting additional parameters, the parameters including a competitor's name, location, price... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090210290 - Method for determining, correlating and examining the causal relationships between media program and commercial content with response rates to advertising and product placement: A method of determining correlations and causality between media program content and consumer responsiveness involves identifying and storing media and commercial program time occurrence and content information and consumer media reviewing actions which occur in connection with the media and commercial program time occurrence and content information. The information is... Agent: Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP Attn: Patent Group

20090210292 - Method for generating and capturing consumer opinions about brands, products, or concepts: The invention is an application for capturing and storing consumer opinions about e.g. brands, products or concepts. The system uses a web-browser interface where a number of pictures, sound-files or video-files is displayed. On the top of the page, a logo, a product or a concept is displayed (the primary... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20090210288 - Method for generating forecasting landscapes: A method of generating an aggregated forecasting landscape for a particular advertiser's bidded term constructs standardized forecasting landscapes for each marketplace, rescales, by the advertiser's clickability in the respective marketplace, each of the standardized landscapes corresponding to the previous appearance of the advertiser's ad in that marketplace and whose appearance... Agent: Yahoo! Inc.

20090210291 - Montetizing social website system and method: A system and method for monetizing social websites is described. As an example, a Monetizing Social Website System and Methods comprises the website address “ibidonyou.com.” Ibidonyou.com represents the next generation in monetizing social websites. It necessitates multiple advertisements per member page, as well as multiple ad clicks per individual member... Agent: Samir H. Safar

20090210289 - Pre-linguistic product evaluation techniques: Pre-linguistic product evaluation techniques are described. In an implementation, a pre-linguistic evaluation is obtained of one or more products and two or more anchor products, respectively, in which the two or more anchor products exhibit an intended design behavior of the one or more products. A linguistic basis is then... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090210294 - Air compressor and work management data collection system: An air compressor 1 is provided with a clocking mechanism and an RFID reader/writer 2, detects a time-in and a time-out etc. of a worker, and writes time data into an RFID tag 4 of a time card 3 held by a worker using the RFID reader/writer 2. The air... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20090210295 - System and method for enabling carbon credit rewards for select activities: A set of activities are identified that are part of a defined objective to reduce carbon emission. A baseline for the set of activities is determined. An actor's performance of any one of the set of activities is monitored in order to determine information about how the user performed the... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20090210296 - System and method for providing a normalized correlated real-time employee appraisal: A method and system for providing a performance evaluation of an at least one employee by a supervisor in an organization. The method and system provide for collecting a plurality of numerical performance goals data for the at least one employee and storing the plurality of numerical performance goals data... Agent: Pamela L. Wingood Ohlandt Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20090210297 - Ticket approval system for and method of performing quality control in field service applications: Methods and apparatus for assessing a locate and marking operation. Ticket information is received as provided to a first locate technician prior to performing the operation. A locate manifest is received including a digital marked-up image of a geographic area surrounding a dig area in which the operation was performed,... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090210298 - Ticket approval system for and method of performing quality control in field service applications: Methods and apparatus for facilitating oversight and quality control of a plurality of locate and marking operations performed by a plurality of locate technicians forming an approver group reviewed by an approver. An approver logs-in to access an approver inbox comprising a plurality of displayed locate technician windows, each locate... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090210299 - Method and apparatus for simplifying the handling of complex payment transactions: A predetermined amount, which may, in general, be zero, less than, the same as, or greater than a (yet-to-be-determined) final transaction amount, is charged upon first presentation of a payment device to a merchant. A final transaction amount is calculated, preferably at a central server, subsequent to the first presentation.... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090210306 - Advertising method and system using external memory device: Provided are an advertising method and system using an external memory device. A basic advertisement data, access information for an advertisement server, and an ID number of an external memory device is stored in the external memory device that are provided to a user as an advertisement product or a... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090210304 - Behavioral reward based community accessible via media disc: A personalized interactive media disc supported by a user-fan community having a media disc and an environment for a user to interact with other users as well as access and create data. The media disc is obtained by a user-fan via a licensed premium giveaway at a spectator event. The... Agent: Laurence J. Edson, Esq.

20090210305 - Card system for access to an information web portal: A system, method, and computer program are provided for card access to an information web portal. An identification code for a project may be generated. The identification code may be assigned to an access card. The identification code may then be received from a user associated with the access card.... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20090210301 - Generating customized content based on context data: Technologies are described herein for providing customized content based on context data from a participant of a virtual world. The context data based on participation by the participant of the virtual world is received. The customized content for the participant is generated based on the context data. The customized content... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090210307 - Method and system for promoting service providers: The present invention relates to a set of computer executable instructions and preferably an apparatus employed to promote at least one service provider. The invention operates to initially present a plurality of service provider listings to a user. The user selects and employs a service provider and then subsequently supplies... Agent: Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro, LLP

20090210302 - Route reward augmentation: Different incentives can be provided to a user for the user to take different routes. Information related to a user's specific situation can be gathered and a reward can be associated with a route. A user can input an intended destination and different routes can be taken, where the routes... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090210300 - System and method for presenting advertising data based on end user trick-play trend data: A computer readable medium is disclosed containing a computer program including but not limited to computer executable instructions that when executed by a computer are useful in performing a method for presenting advertising data, the method including but not limited to sensing current trick-play command data at an end user... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Roebuck Attn: Patent Docketing

20090210303 - System and method for providing targeted promotions to a self-selected group: A system and method for providing a targeted promotional message to a self-selected group of members. A member database includes a plurality of member profiles. Each member profile includes at least a plurality of a region designation, a promotional message preference selection, and a message quantity selection. The system further... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090210308 - Secure authorization of contactless transaction: Methods, systems, and machine-readable media are disclosed for securely authorizing a financial transaction utilizing an electronic payment credential. According to one embodiment, a method of authorizing a financial transaction utilizing an electronic payment credential can comprise maintaining information identifying an account associated with the electronic payment credential. The information can... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090210309 - Integrated interface apparatus for point-of-sale system: An example integrated interface apparatus for a point-of-sale system, an example point-of-sale system including the integrated interface apparatus, an example method and a computer-readable storage medium for performing a point-of-sale transaction have been disclosed. The integrated interface apparatus includes a base member, a vertical arm member, a display device and... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20090210310 - Data code reader: In a data code reader, an image pickup section takes an image of at least a data code attached to a commodity, a decode section decodes the data code based on image data acquired by image pickup of the image pickup section, and a data code selection guide section gives... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090210316 - Business rating placement heuristic: A system and method for distributing information (collectively the “system”) is disclosed. The system includes category-based, geography-based, and ratings-based attributes to better “focus” the information distributed by the system. In the processing of listing-based attributes (e.g. attributes limited to a particular listing), the system can also be influenced by relationship-based... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090210318 - Gift card services for mobile devices: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for gift card services. In general, data characterizing a request to provide a merchant credit service to an intended recipient is received and a message to be sent to the intended recipient is generated, where the message characterizes a phone number to call... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c

20090210311 - Method and a system for centralizing electronic activities associated with a good of interest over a data network: There is provided a method for centralizing electronic activities associated with a good of interest over a data network, the method comprising providing a user interface connected to the data network; enabling a participant to locate over the data network a good of interest in accordance with good search criteria... Agent: Brouillette & Partners

20090210315 - Method and system for purchase of a product or service using a communication network site: An item available for purchase on a communication site of a server may become the subject of a contract for purchase entered into between a purchasing party and a purchasee offering the item for purchase on the site, based on the purchasing party and potential purchasees exchanging information on the... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090210313 - Method for environmentally-friendly shipping: A method for environmentally-friendly shipping including requesting a shipment of goods, identifying available shipping options, analyzing the available shipping options, presenting the available shipping options, selecting one of the available shipping options and shipping the shipment of goods via the selected available shipping option. The method also includes considering one... Agent: James J. Winebrake

20090210312 - On-line facility for financial transactions: A computerised transaction management system is described. The system provides a secure process for conducting a financial transaction between buyer and seller, enabling them to negotiate price and accept or reject goods remotely or in person, in real time. It also holds any funds securely until the transaction has been... Agent: Intellectual Property Group Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.

20090210317 - On-line software rental: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for a rental service through a computer network. A collection of virtual containers is assigned to a set of users including one or more users. Each virtual container in the collection is configured to identify one or more software products that are... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090210314 - System and method for purchasing game and lottery tickets: A system and method for buying tickets for games or lotteries in which a seller receives predicted game or lottery outcome data communicated from a buyer over a communication path. The seller generates a printed ticket based on the received outcome data and the seller transfers the printed ticket to... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090210323 - Distributed purchasing system for user generated content and/or products/services advertised through user generated content: A purchasing system comprising a user and a purchasing server wherein the user provides electronic content to the purchasing server. The purchasing server operates to create a unique code for the electronic content and create an altered version of the electronic content having the unique code embedded therein. The altered... Agent: Intellectual Property Law Group LLP

20090210321 - Method and system for classifying and recommending wine: A method for classifying and recommending wine includes establishing a network connection between a server and a computer, recording a wine inventory within a database management system (DBMS) of the sever, and populating the inventory with information describing the different wines. A weighted value is assigned to the information for... Agent: Quinn Law Group, PLLC

20090210322 - Method for creating custom blended cosmetics: A method for custom blending eye shadow, facial and lip cosmetics by a consumer. The consumer may purchase a cosmetic color kit that contains one or more base powders, along with a measuring device, a container for mixing the ingredients, and instructions for custom blending essentially an infinite variety of... Agent: Brown & Michaels, PC 400 M & T Bank Building

20090210319 - Multi-party commercial web-site and web-publishing method: An accessory catalog system and method for displaying an accessory catalog. The accessory catalog system may include a supplier server system, having a development server configured to serve a development interface to a vendor client over a computer network. The development interface may be configured to receive predefined types of... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20090210320 - System and method for comparative sizing between a well-fitting source item and a target item: A comparative sizing method in which at least one well-fitting source item is received having at least one source item property associated therewith and a target item having at least one associated target item property for which a resultant comparative sizing recommendation is being requested based on the at least... Agent: Cheryl F. Cohen Cheryl F. Cohen, LLC

20090210325 - Inventory verification system and method: A system and method of verifying the completeness and accuracy of inventory records is disclosed. A remote verification device is deployable from a control desk to a specified area within a facility to acquire certain verification data. Once acquired, the verification data is compared with the inventory records on the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090210326 - Purchase management system and method: A purchase management system includes a database, a search module, an order receiving module, a consignment setting module, a receipt management module, and an inspection management module. The database stores order information. The search module acquires the order information from the database responding to a request and outputs the order... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090210324 - Tracking of shared inventory in a virtual universe: Generally speaking, systems, methods and media for tracking shared inventory in a virtual universe are disclosed. Embodiments of the method may include receiving indications that a plurality of users of a virtual universe have borrowed one or more shared inventory items, each shared inventory item having an associated item owner.... Agent: Ibm Corporation (end Ny) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20090210329 - Renewable energy park: A renewable energy park comprises a large-scale power generation facility having a plurality of individual power generation units for generating power from a renewable energy source. Individual power generation units are sold or leased to private investors. Energy supplied by individual power generation units in the renewable energy park to... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20090210327 - System and method for cash flow prediction: A system and a method for predicting future cash flow of a business according to at least one parameter of the business, in addition to the actual (prior and/or current) cash flow itself. The at least one parameter may optionally include but is not limited to payment time required to... Agent: Dr. D. Graeser Ltd.

20090210328 - System and method for facilitating a commercial peer to peer network: System and methods for monitoring, controlling and generating income from the copying and distribution of all forms of digital content within a membership based network of peer-to-peer clients (10, 12, 20). The system creates a controlled environment where only authorised, legitimate content is distributed and all users pay for legal... Agent: Digital Distribution Networks Limited

20090210330 - Payroll system and method: A paycheck-centric payroll system and method for generating, accumulating and reporting on payroll information including payroll deductions and payroll tax deposits.... Agent: Jackson, Demarco, Tidus & Packenpaugh

20090210331 - Methods, apparatuses, systems and computer program products for use in determining premiums: The present embodiments provide methods, systems, apparatuses and/or code for use in determining premiums. Some embodiments provide methods for use in determining premium. These methods identify a work entry; determine a payroll based on the work entry; retrieve a compensation rate based on the work entry; calculate a base premium... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery

20090210332 - method and device for switching tariffs in an electronic communications network: The present invention relates generally to a method and device for switching tariffs for charging of services in an electronic communications network, and more particularly to a method and device for switching tariffs for combining charging of a service which usage is not continually consumed at a regular rate in... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090210333 - Micro-licensing of composite content: Technologies are described herein for compensating multiple contributing participants in a virtual world. A license associated with a composite content item is received upon a sale, rental, or lease of the composite content item to a purchasing participant in the virtual world. At least a first contributing participant and a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090210335 - System and method for forming a financial instrument indexed to entertainment revenue: A method for forming a securities bundle indexed to entertainment revenue includes determining a first funding amount for a first entertainment event. A second funding amount is determined for a second entertainment event. Next, a dividend schedule is determined for the first and second entertainment events. A securities bundle is... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20090210334 - System and method for publicizing business services: A system and method for publicizing business services including objective information for use by customers or prospective customers in selecting a service provider, including verified recordings of actual interactions between service providers and their customers. Additional subjective information, rating, comment, or the like may be provided to supplement the objective... Agent: Kaplan Ward & Patel LLC

20090210354 - Real-time portfolio balancing and/or optimization system and method: A computer-implemented system and method are described for real-time portfolio balancing and/or optimization of portfolio holdings, preferably in Alternative Trading Systems (ATSs), that reduces execution risk and legging risk. The computer-implemented system and method also incorporate cash constraints to assist in reducing execution risks. A computer-implemented system and method include... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20090210353 - Weather forecast system and method: A method and system configured to receive, process, compile, and transmit weather information to selected users is provided. The weather information is generally received from a remote weather information database, processed by at least one real-time data server, and transmitted through a communication module to a plurality of users in... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090210338 - Analysis of proposed trades: A rules-based schema is designed as a directed graph to model various electronic trading markets and trading constraints inherent therein such that the executability of proposed trades having multiple trade parameters can be determined by applying the trade parameters against the constraints, and confirming the executability of the trade if... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20090210336 - Spot equivalent futures: A method and system are provided for facilitating trading of a financial derivative contract. The financial derivative contract includes a first currency and a second entity. The first currency is associated with a first underlying interest rate, and the second entity is associated with a second underlying time-dependent value. A... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP (c/o Patent Administrator)

20090210337 - System and method for integrating a dark trading facility and a securities exchange: A system and method are described for the providing securities exchange members increased liquidity for affecting trades. Securities exchange members will have access to both a Dark Trading Facility and securities exchange for trading. When trading on the security exchange, these members will be able to access the Dark Trading... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20090210339 - Method and system for flexible scheduling of repayment of a loan: The present invention relates to a method, system and computer program product for displaying a flexible schedule for repayment of a loan. The method comprises computing an effective rate of interest on the basis of a nominal rate of interest and a compounding frequency and calculating installments to be paid... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20090210340 - System and method for managing lending: An aspect of the present invention provides a method for managing lending, comprising registering participants in a network, linking registrations of participants to form connections between two or more participants, and receiving a request for a loan from a debtor participant registered on the network. The method further comprises transmitting... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090210341 - Method of postal payment for set of customized postage: A method of paying for postage stamps, that involves the generation of a plurality of postage stamps, wherein each of the stamps has a unique identification code; and the debiting of an account for the generation of the plurality of stamps when a carrier processes one of the plurality of... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc.

20090210343 - Payment system: A method for processing a payment from a payor for an asset and notifying an operator of said asset of said payment, is disclosed comprising the steps of: receiving a communication from a payer using a communication device via a communication channel, said communication comprising a request to make payment... Agent: Sonnabendlaw

20090210344 - System and method for providing data for use in reducing fraudulent transactions between holders of financial presentation devices and merchants: System and method for providing an address verification response associated with a financial presentation device being used to conduct a transaction with a merchant. The system includes a memory storing addresses of holders of financial presentation devices and a date corresponding to a last change of address associated with each... Agent: Afs/ Visa

20090210345 - Method for editing a ticket of limited duration, system therefore and resulting ticket: The invention concerns a method for editing a ticket providing access to a product or a service with specific duration and or expiry date, characterised in that it comprises a step of recording (EIA) on the ticket an authenticating information encrypted at least partly in accordance with a specific encryption... Agent: Sofer & Haroun LLP.

20090210346 - Multiple drm management: A method for enabling a single assembly of content to be played on a plurality of player devices, each having at least one available DRM algorithm, wherein the DRM algorithms for the player devices need not necessarily be the same involves registering a plurality of player devices associated with a... Agent: Miller Patent Services

20090210347 - Method and system for a virtual safe: A transaction server for performing a transaction over a network using a virtual smart card the server comprising, a virtual smart card database having a plurality of records each record including a virtual card identification and a value corresponding to a single virtual smart card; a security module; an emulator... Agent: Daniel J. Schlue, Esq Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLP

20090210348 - System and method for electronic commerce: A method of identifying altered order critical data in a system for conducting electronic commerce over a public data network in which orders are placed by a customer using a computer. The method includes the step of transmitting an electronic order of the customer over the public data network from... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20090210349 - Virtual account based new digital cash protocols: Virtual account based digital cash protocols employ two pairs of private and public keys. Each public key is certified separately and the protocols do not use any blind signature schemes. As a result, the virtual account based digital cash protocols provide strong protection of the user privacy by using two... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090210350 - Method and a system: The present invention relates to a method and a system for manufacturing of products whose design and/or price are specified individually by a set of independent customers. A customer profile of at least one customer of the set is registered through inputting customer specific data into a customer database. A... Agent: Adam Immanuel Orre

20090210351 - System and method for minimizing redundant meetings: A system and method for minimizing redundant events/meetings is provided. With the system and method, when a meeting request is made, a search of meetings currently in place for the participants involved in the meeting is performed to find potential matches and patterns between them. If a potential match is... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090210352 - Website presence marketplace: A website presence marketplace includes publishing one or more website presence catalogs, each of the website presence catalogs listing one or more groupings of website presence information for sale from a particular website, receiving website presence information from one or more websites associated with the one or more website information... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP

20090210342 - Spending vehicles for payments: A system and method for associating payments with spending vehicles so that an individual who is entitled to receive periodic or special payments such as social security checks receives in place of the payment a spending vehicle such as a discount card, rebate, or coupon for use with purchases of... Agent: Standley Law Group LLP

20090210355 - Method and system for producing optimized prices for products for sale: A computer-implemented method is disclosed. The method includes producing optimized prices for products for sale.... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20090210356 - Method, system and apparatus for providing pay-per-use distributed computing resources: Method, system, apparatus, and computer program and computer program product provide on-demand, scalable computational resources to application providers over a distributed network and system. Resources are made available based on demand for applications. Application providers are charged fees based on the amount of resources utilized to satisfy the needs of... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20090210357 - Remote power usage management for plug-in vehicles: Methods and systems are provided for controlling the charging of onboard energy storage systems of a plurality of plug-in vehicles using a remote command center. A system for directing the charging of a plurality of remotely located plug-in vehicles is provided. The system includes a communication system configured to transmit... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (gm)

20090210358 - Collaborative website presence: Website presence includes receiving aggregated website presence information describing website presence information for one or more objects of a website, and displaying the aggregated website presence information based at least in part on a website object profile for an object of the website. Cross-website presence includes receiving aggregated website presence... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP

20090210359 - Merchandising: The invention relates an apparatus (20) for merchandising including a point of sale (29), a stock of at least one product for sale (36, 38, 40), and a display point (22, 24, 26) having at least one package (30, 32, 34), the package including a replica of the at least... Agent: Lempia Braidwood LLC

20090204416 - Business unit outsourcing model: Tools for configuring enterprise applications. In an aspect, an enterprise application can be configured to account for relationships between multiple business units within an enterprise, including without limitation relationships between the business functions provided by various business units. In another aspect, the disclosed tools provide a framework for identifying and/or... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090204418 - Computerized system for demonstrating a fair settlement proposal: The invention that is the subject of this Disclosure consists of a computerized method whereby a party that is involved in a dispute can either secure a resolution of that dispute on terms that that party deems to be acceptable or be in a position to easily and credibly demonstrate... Agent: James F. Ring C/o Chu, Ring & Hazel, LLP

20090204414 - Method and system to enable in-context pre-meeting dialogue and collaboration among invitees: An embodiment of this invention enables in-context pre-meeting dialogue and collaboration among invitees and participants of meeting or event, using tools such as calendar products. An embodiment allows the invitees to send their responses on a meeting invite to other invitees and not limit or restrict the responses only to... Agent: Maxvalueip Consulting LLC

20090204419 - Purification of oil field production water for beneficial use: A method for generating new water with attached water rights comprising identifying a source of production water and treating the water in appropriate ways to provide water appropriate for beneficial use such as agriculture, irrigation, industrial or municipal or potable applications. Appropriate permits are obtained to create the new water... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20090204415 - System and method for product recall notification: A method for checking the recall status of a product. The method includes receiving product identification data in a data processing system by scanning a product. The method also includes storing the product identification data and checking the product identification data against a recall database. The method also includes determining... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20090204420 - System and method for toy adoption and marketing: A method for providing a virtual world presentation includes registering a first product on a computer system; registering a user on the computer system and associating that user with a user ID; responsive to registering the first product, displaying a virtual representation of the first product on the computer system;... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090204417 - System for product authentication using covert codes: An authentication system enabling a customer to verify the authenticity of a product in a foolproof, secure and simple manner. plurality of secret sets of numbers is generated, each set comprising a challenge portion and a response portion. These sets are stored on a remote server. Each set is associated... Agent: Daniel J Swirsky

20090204427 - Adaptable compositions of health information: The adaptable compositions of information and data on health, health-care and health-care services generate by physicians and enable by an innovative computer program and software to increase physicians' efficiency of information and data management.... Agent: Anuthep Benja-athon

20090204430 - Apparatus and methods for determining and processing medical outcomes: A data processing system is provided for determining clinical outcomes of medical data gathered by the system. The system can allow a person to define a medical study and can then administer the medical study and can collect and analyze data from potentially geographically diverse doctors, patients and other people... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090204425 - Computerized system and method for generating an immunization schedule in a healthcare environment: A computerized method and system for generation an immunization schedule for a person in healthcare environment is provided. The system receives a request for an immunization schedule for a person and obtains information from an electronic medical record of the person stored within a comprehensive healthcare system. The system obtains... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. Intellectual Property Department

20090204421 - Electronic health record touch screen form entry method: A computer implemented system and method allow users to create and edit electronic health records with the use of touch screen monitors, such that complex forms are managed by a user-friendly graphic user interface. The graphic user interface includes collapsible menus that enable the management of the complex hierarchical structure... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20090204431 - Method and article of manufacture for performing clinical trial budget analysis: An electronic method is provided of analyzing budgets for clinical trials. A clinical trial budget is entered into a processor. The budget includes activities and associated activity costs. The activities are classified into a set of standardized service categories. The processor then electronically allocates the associated activity costs with the... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20090204426 - Method and system for creating a network of medical image reading professionals: A method and system is provided for creating a network of medical image reading professionals who are highly skilled and proficient at reading and interpreting medical images. By creating such a network of medical image reading professionals, misdiagnoses can be dramatically reduced, thereby improving patient outcomes, reducing patient suffering and... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090204424 - Method and system for distributing information between patients, health care providers, caregivers, and payors: A computer-implemented method and system of distributing medical information in real time populates a network database with information on disease indications and on therapeutic products, such as natural history of disease and benefit-risk considerations; categorizes the information; displays the information and notifies of the categorization of information.... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20090204428 - Occupational health data system and method: A method and system for employee life cycle management collects occupational health data from a plurality of diverse occupational health data sources for a plurality of employees, stores the collected data in a central database, processes the data to generate employee life cycle data, stores the employee life cycle management... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20090204429 - Occupational health data system and method: A method and system for employee life cycle management collects occupational health data from a plurality of diverse occupational health data sources for a plurality of employees, stores the collected data in a central database, processes the data to generate employee life cycle data, stores the employee life cycle management... Agent: Peter L. Berger, Esq. Levisohn, Lerner, Berger & Langsam, LLP

20090204422 - System and method for remotely updating a health station: A method for remotely updating a health station is presented in one example embodiment. The method includes establishing one or more communication sessions between one or more health stations and a web server. The method includes receiving, at the one or more health stations, a user interface from the web... Agent: Patent Capital Group

20090204423 - Wound care treatment service using automatic wound dressing fabricator: A method and/or system allowing patients to receive consistent, effective and convenient reliable wound care by applying customized wound dressings fabricated at automatic wound dressing fabricators deployed in medical facilities. Wound dressing specifications are generated with the aid of a computer-based configuration algorithm based on characteristics of the wounds. The... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090204439 - Apparatus and method for managing electronic medical records embedded with decision support tools: An apparatus and a method are provided for managing health care information. The apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive health care data from information sources, and a processor configured to assign pre-specified content and context to each datum of the received health care data to structure the received health... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090204438 - Client encounter electronic data research record systems and methods: A client encounter electronic research record system, method, and computer product includes pre-populated, research specific templates, selective, specialty-specific master databases, qualitative and quantitative specific databases and templates to achieve comprehensive, accurate and compliant research/efficacy documentation that captures client data concurrently with the client encounter session. The system is enabled for... Agent: Kammer Browning PLLC

20090204434 - Healthcare tracking: A computer-implemented method is disclosed. The method includes obtaining location-time data automatically generated by a mobile electronic device associated with a healthcare provider, correlating the location-time data with a location of a healthcare patient, and using the location-time data to bill for care of the healthcare patient by the healthcare... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090204436 - Method and system for managing medical professionals: A system and method for improving medical care through tracking reported findings or diagnoses of patient medical conditions and feeding back actual medical conditions and patient medical condition outcomes to determine accuracy of the reported findings. By feeding back the actual medical conditions and patient medical condition outcomes, a quantitative... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090204433 - Method for writing medical prescriptions, storing, and accessing patient medical records with improved portability and improved patient data security using a usb dongle device: A method for writing medical prescriptions, answering prescription refill requests, and managing patient medical records using a portable USB dongle device that contains patient records and software for writing prescriptions, answering prescription refill requests, and accessing and updating the patient records all in a secure manner. The portable USB dongle... Agent: Garo B. Darian

20090204432 - Physicians' safety terminal: The Physicians' Safety Terminal, PST, uses a computer download of the physician's desk reference, PDR, or similar data as one source of reference input. The other primary source of data input is the patient's medical profile. The PST automatically calculates the perceived safety of each medication with the risk factor... Agent: Garrett S. Sayre

20090204440 - System and method for collecting, organizing, and presenting research-oriented medical information: A method and computer program manages medical research study information and laboratory test result information. The program generates an interactive user interface with elements for setting up a study (702), managing study member information (704), managing patient information (706), receiving and displaying comments (708), and configuring data to be stored... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP

20090204437 - System and method for improving diagnoses of medical image reading: A system and method for improving diagnoses of patients may include accessing diagnostic information, prepared by a treating physician, of a medical condition of a patient from a third-party collector of the diagnostic information. Medical images associated with the medical condition of the patient may be accessed. At least a... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090204435 - System for automating medical imaging diagnostic service delivery: A system and method of automatically assigning diagnostic imaging centers, uploading diagnostic data, selecting and routing data to electronically connected reviewing physicians, on-line report generation and automatic billing is presented.... Agent: Ted Sabety, C/o Sabety +associates, PLLC

20090204448 - Benefit management: Methods, devices and systems are provided for benefit management. One system includes a server including an application interface and access to a data store having one or more client files. A client file can include a definable set of business rules for managing and administering benefits and can include fund... Agent: Brooks, Cameron & Huebsch , PLLC

20090204443 - Integrated roof wind risk mitigation method and system: A method for mitigating risk in issuing wind only roof insurance comprising: receiving a request for the wind only roof insurance; determining if a roofing system complies with a predetermined set of parameters; and issuing the wind only roof insurance... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090204445 - Method and system for insurance companies contracting with and paying medical image reading professionals in a network: A system and method for insurance companies contracting with and paying medical image reading professionals in a medical image reading professionals network. The network may be independent of a medical facility and be arranged to have each of the medical image reading professionals may be an expert in reading medical... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090204447 - Method and system for mitigating risk in issuing insurance: A method for mitigating risk in issuing insurance comprising: submitting a request for the insurance; determining if a method, material, system or item complies with a predetermined set of parameters; and issuing the insurance, wherein the predetermined set of parameters is selected from the group consisting of: the installation of... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090204444 - Method and system for mitigating risk in issuing wind only insurance: A method for mitigating risk in issuing wind only insurance comprising: submitting a request for the wind only insurance; determining if a building complies with a predetermined set of parameters; if a compliant material was used in constructing the building, authorizing the request for wind only insurance; and issuing the... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090204442 - Method of valuation of life settlements and optimizing premium financing: The present invention proposes to integrate mortality table analysis and the future premium burden thereby creating a unit net asset value (“Unit NAV”) for investors holding a unit in the fund. A major component of Unit NAV in a viatical and life settlement transaction is the amount of expected premium... Agent: Brooke Schumm Iii Daneker, Mcintire, Schumm, Prince, Goldstein Et Al

20090204441 - System and method for administering dynamic security benefits and payments: Disclosed is a novel security benefits product that provides customizable benefits to the purchaser for a variety of different triggering conditions. The product of the present invention may be sold to an individual or a group. The product contains a feature that allows a purchaser to modify and/or vary his... Agent: Ward & Olivo

20090204446 - Systems and methods for valuation of life insurance policies: Computer systems and a computer-implemented method for valuing a life insurance policy in which a policy valuation program stored on a computer readable medium includes a data collection module and a life expectancy adjustment module, and a policy valuation module. In operation, according to one embodiment, the policy valuation computer... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20090204449 - Assigning and managing patron reservations for distributed services using wireless personal communication devices: A system and method for assigning and managing patron reservations to one or more of a plurality of attractions receive reservation requests at personal communication devices (PCDs). Reservation requests are transmitted to a computer associated with the selected attraction, which determines a proposed reservation time based on information describing the... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090204451 - System and method for selecting and reserving rooms at a venue: The present invention relates to a system and method for selecting and reserving rooms at a venue. The system or method transmits information relating to a plurality of available individual rooms at a venue to an application running on a general purpose computer on the wide area network for display... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090204450 - System and method for selecting and reserving time slots for an appointment: The present invention relates to a system and method for selecting and reserving time slots for an appointment. The system or method transmits information relating to a plurality of available individual time slots for an appointment to an application running on a general purpose computer on the wide area network... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090204453 - Aircraft flight plan optimization for minimizing emissions: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for performing flight planning to reduce an effect of emissions. A method is present for performing flight planning. A set of emissions data is identified for an aircraft for a plurality of route segments in a route as a function of... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090204458 - Life cycle management system for intelligent electronic devices: This invention relates to the Life Cycle Management System for distributed Intelligent Electronic Devices (IED) starting from the design phase to the end of service phase. Hence, it caters to the needs from installation via engineering, installation/commissioning phases, until asset management and remote service support of the devices during the... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20090204452 - Managing a multi-supplier environment: The present disclosure is directed to a system and method for managing multi-supplier environment. In some implementations, a method includes identifying a supplier model configured to identify information for executing different aspects of the transaction associated with different enterprise departments and a primary supplier from a plurality of selectable third-party... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090204455 - Methods for directly connecting people/jobs within a business for establishing performance-based compensation: Systems and methods for providing an automated system for directly connecting people, jobs, and/or departments within a business with business operational elements for establishing performance-based compensation to align compensation with activities that improve business efficiencies and profitability, including identifying areas of a business for implementing changes in processes, human resources,... Agent: Triangle Patents, P.l.l.c.

20090204456 - Methods for identifying areas for business change and prioritization based upon impact using diagrammatic representations of business systems: Systems and methods for providing an automated system for identifying areas of a business for implementing changes in processes, human resources, metrics, and systems, wherein the identification is provided based upon generating a visual representation of a business based on the energy and information systems of the business, and by... Agent: Triangle Patents, P.l.l.c.

20090204454 - Online hosted customisable merchant directory with search function: A method (400) and system (100) are described for providing an online hosted customisable searchable merchant directory over the Internet (101). The system (100) includes an Internet server (102) which provides storefront web page templates (1200). Merchants access the Internet server (102), though merchant computers (105n), to set up one... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090204457 - System and method for authenticating a user of multiple computer applications, networks or devices using a wireless device: An automated system and method for authenticating entities or individuals engaging in automated or electronic transactions or activities such as financial transactions, accessing computer applications, computer software, data networks or other automated or electronic devices requiring identity verification is provided. A unique Personal Identity Value is computed and stored in... Agent: Michael F. Buhrmann

20090204459 - Method and system for automatically prioritizing opportunity based customer requirements: A method and system for automatically prioritizing a plurality of customer requirements. A request for fulfilling a product-modifying customer requirement is received. Prioritization data associated with the customer requirement is obtained. The prioritization data includes revenue opportunity sizes, time constraints, the request's age, and indications of whether the product requires... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090204460 - Method and system for workforce optimization: A method, system and computer program product for workforce optimization in a service oriented industry, the method comprising planning and executing a business scheme which include providing as input business planning parameters relevant to the business scheme; developing a business plan to execute the business scheme based on the business... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20090204461 - Method and system for workforce optimization: A system for workforce optimization in a service oriented industry, the system comprising a workforce optimization unit configured for planning and executing a business scheme which include providing as input business planning parameters relevant to the business scheme; developing a business plan to execute the business scheme based on the... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20090204463 - Method, tool, and system for analyzing a project: A tool for performing project management analysis on a project. Also disclosed are a system and a method of analyzing the project. The tool includes a project manager implemented to receive project data relating to a schedule, a discrete event simulator to create a model of the project using the... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20090204462 - Trade services management system: A system (and corresponding methodology) that supports trade services back office processing to enhance efficiency and productivity is provided. The system employs a unique consolidated screen layout that significantly improves the productivity of the users. Essentially, the system and page layout is composed of the following components: Queue Well, Activity... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090204464 - Electronic device and method for determining time periods for meetings: A portable electronic device method of determining time periods for a meeting includes receiving an indication of at least two invitees for the meeting, obtaining calendar data for the invitees, determining free time periods for the invitees based on the calendar data, and creating a list of the free time... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

20090204469 - Internet method, process and system for publication and evaluation: A technical method for evaluation, publication and distillation of information, such as scientific articles and other similar work, said method, process and system comprising at least the following technical process steps (1) an interactive online reviewing process of said information before it is published; (2) a publication process of said... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090204468 - Method and system for processing web-based invitational messages: A computerized, web-based system and method allows users, or “members,” to create a system invitation, send a system invitation, update a system invitation, delete a system invitation, and to “pre-set” a system invitation for expiration. Further, the system and method allows members to receive a system invitation, and accept or... Agent: Joseph S. Heino, Esq. Davis & Kuelthau, S.c.

20090204470 - Multilevel assignment of jobs and tasks in online work management system: An online work management system provides a marketplace for multiple job owner and workers. The job owners provide a job description that defines task. The job description may be processed to generate task descriptions that may be published for workers' application. The task descriptions specify the qualification or restrictions for... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090204465 - Process and system for facilitating communication and intergrating communication with the project management activities in a collaborative environment: The computer-enabled system and method is provided to digitally capture communication related to a project and analyze the captured communication to create and manage work items of the project in a collaborative environment. The invention can be used annotate portions of a digitally captured communication that relate to a potential... Agent: Pennington, Moore, Wilkinson, Bell & Dunbar, P.A.

20090204467 - System and method for accessing business process instances through mobile devices: A BPM system is described for modeling, management and execution of business processes. A process designer component is used to graphically design a business process, which includes a set of activities linked by transitions. The business process is stored and executed using one or more engines. A mobile device can... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20090204466 - Ticket approval system for and method of performing quality control in field service applications: A ticket approval system and method of performing quality control in a field service application. The method includes obtaining a ticket, performing at least one task associated with the ticket, collecting data associated with at least one task, and transmitting the data to a work management server including database and... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090204471 - Trust level based task assignment in an online work management system: An online work management system provides a marketplace for multiple job owner and workers. The job owners provide a job description that defines task. The job description may be processed to generate task descriptions that may be published for workers' application. The task descriptions specify the qualification or restrictions for... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090204473 - Customized health beverage system: A system and method for providing a customized health beverage system based on the preferences of a consumer. The customized health beverage system provides a flavor component list identifying a number of flavor components. The customized health beverage system also provides a health component list identifying a number of health... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20090204476 - Determining effectiveness of advertising campaigns: An identifier associated with a client machine is accessed, and parameters that define a control group of client machines for a particular advertising campaign are accessed. The advertising campaign is associated with one or more standard advertisements. Whether the client machine is a member of the control group based on... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090204481 - Discovery and analytics for episodic downloaded media: Matching advertising information to media content/user combinations in which information and content are delivered to a user over a network is disclosed. Content providers and advertisers may find out about the offerings of one another as well as user profiles and preferences thereby facilitating agreement of ads with content and... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20090204477 - Ink cartridge distribution system and method: The present invention is directed to a method and system of scheduling the delivery of printer cartridges to businesses that minimizes the number of cartridges that a business needs to stock and the likelihood that a printer will not have a compatible cartridge when it runs out of ink or... Agent: Murphy Desmond S.c.

20090204475 - Media markup for promotional visual content: A classification method and system for possible content alteration of a media work may include criteria regarding content that is feasible for alteration. Such criteria may be maintained in records that are accessible to an interested party. Some embodiments may include a record of primary authorization rights applicable to a... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20090204472 - Method and system for managing customer relations: A method and system for managing customer relations by collaborating information for a group of various businesses with different or similar interests or that are complementary to one another. The businesses may even be in competition with one another. The system enables leveraging the overall information in a data collecting... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco Pl

20090204474 - Method and system for presenting targeted advertisements: A system and method may add to a web page a similar-content module which may contain information related to the context of the web page, may look like a portion of the web page, and may lead to a jump page which presents information in the similar-content module in more... Agent: Yahoo! Inc.

20090204483 - Reference price framework: A method of computer-assisted price modeling is provided, which uses a reference price to assist in evaluating discretionary pricing of transactional services provided (i) by a professional among his own transactions or (ii) by a target professional among others' transactions. A universe of pricing episode data is segmented into groupings... Agent: Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP Attn:IPDocketing

20090204479 - System and method for creating an in-store media network using traditional media metrics: A system and method for selling advertising may include operating an electronic display network operating in a retail store. The network may include electronic displays interspersed among product displays and arranged to present a shopper with each advertisement among multiple repeating advertisements a predicted number of multiple times as a... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090204482 - System and method for streamlining social media marketing: A method and system for streamlining social media marketing continuous activities are provided for finding Potential Friends (PFs) on various social media avenues, gathering information about PFs' interests and activities on an going basis, creating attractive presences (APs) on various social media sites, befriending with PFs to turn them in... Agent: Empk & Shiloh, LLP C/o Landon Ip, Inc.

20090204480 - System for providing businesses with intelligence about lost sales: A system that makes it possible for a maker, distributor, or vendor of a product to survey those who purchase a competing product, allowing them to determine why they lost that sale. An auction system for determining which questions are posed to a purchaser is also disclosed.... Agent: Mark James

20090204478 - Systems and methods for identifying and measuring trends in consumer content demand within vertically associated websites and related content: Embodiments of the invention can provide systems and methods for identifying and measuring trends in consumer content demand within a vertical network of websites and related content. In one embodiment, a method can include receiving, from a crawler, content from a plurality of webpages in at least one vertical. The... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20090204489 - Biological markers predictive of rheumatoid arthritis response to b-cell antagonists: Methods and assays examining expression of one or more biomarkers in a sample are provided for predicting or indicating the effectiveness of treatment of a rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patient with a B-cell antagonist. Methods are provided for identifying patients whose RA is likely to be responsive to anti-RA therapy using... Agent: Genentech, Inc.

20090204497 - Centralized media production system and method: A centralized media production system and its method of use is described. Web services are utilized in order processing in an electronic commerce system and fulfillment requests in a vendor manufacturing system. An XML-formatted WSDL file is used for submitting order and fulfillment requests. This process and system provides a... Agent: North Oaks Patent Agency

20090204486 - Computer system and computer-implemented method for managing funding of catastrophe relief efforts: For managing funding of catastrophe relief efforts, defined is a special purpose entity (1′) which offers a financial product linked to a charitable organization (3). A monetary donation is made (S1) to the charitable organization (3) for paying a premium assigned to the financial product. Capital payments are received (S4)... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090204488 - Delivering entertainment-enhanced content-related advertisement over multimedia networks: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer program product for delivering entertainment-enhanced content-related advertisement over multimedia networks This is done by implementing a dedicated data structure that serves as a vehicle between a mediator server and the users. The dedicated multimedia vehicle is loaded with entertaining content from... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco Pl

20090204502 - Digital media advertisement system and method: Systems and methods are provided herein that provide for advertisement and promotion via digital media.... Agent: Axios Law Group. PLLC

20090204499 - Electronic incentive distribution system: Product incentive distribution systems and methods are disclosed. One such system includes a product incentive distribution unit placed at a retail location in association with a product and configured to electronically receive product incentives. The product incentive distribution unit includes a display configured to display product information and product incentive... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20090204498 - Government targeted-spending stimulus card system, program product, and computer-implemented methods: Embodiments of the present invention, for example, provide a government stimulus card being issued and managed by a bank and using an open payment network for purchase authorization and payments. The embodiments provide flexibility in the funding of stimulus programs, including no upfront payments by the government and letters of... Agent: Bracewell & Giuliani LLP

20090204496 - Method and system to manage multiple party rewards using a single account and artificial intelligence: A system for managing an account having at least one sub-account, including: a memory element, a processor, and an interface element for at least one specially programmed general-purpose computer. The memory element stores a transaction history for the account, an incentive previously offered to the account, and an artificial intelligence... Agent: Simpson & Simpson, PLLC

20090204495 - Method of advertising: The present invention comprises a method for advertising a product comprising the selection of an updatable venture comprising updatable parameters; one or more parametric interrelationships which give, upon operating on at least one of said updatable parameters, one or more resultant values; wherein at least one of said parameters is... Agent: Shumaker Loop & Kendrick

20090204484 - Method of displaying targeted digital electronic advertising using global positioning system (gps) coordinates and associated demographic data: This invention describes a system for displaying targeted digital electronic advertising on mobile display systems based upon GPS coordinates and demographic data correlated to those GPS coordinates and current time. The display can “intelligently” download and project relevant and targeted advertising based upon (1) the displays known location, (2) current... Agent: Grayson Johnson

20090204492 - Online food ordering system and method: Restaurants register for an online food ordering system and method to have their menus presented on the online system. Registration is accomplished by payment of a fixed registration fee. A merchant account is created for each restaurant. The merchant account is associated with a unique account key that includes a... Agent: Ernest D. Buff Ernest D. Buff And Associates, LLC.

20090204500 - Online marketplace for sale of discounted stated value vouchers redeemable by vendors: A marketplace server computer for sale of stated value vouchers via an online marketplace. The vouchers are presented in a particular manner allowing for effective inventory management using rule-based approval of sales. The method involves receiving a vendor's commitment to sell vouchers, and maintaining a website for displaying a for-sale... Agent: Saul Ewing LLP (philadelphia)

20090204490 - Online professional development system and virtual manager for performance artists: A system for online artist promotion comprises an artist interface, a broadcast application, an industry interface and a virtual manager. The artist interface allows artist to input artist histories and artist biographies, and to upload multimedia performances. The broadcast application allows the system to broadcast the multimedia performances. The industry... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20090204491 - Online professional development system and virtual manager for performance artists: A professional development system comprises a user interface, a provider interface, a plurality of development steps and a navigational tool. The user interface allows a user to input a user history and a professional goal. The provider interface allows service providers to input service descriptions and professional advice. The navigational... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20090204487 - System and method for displaying partial advertising data during trick play: A method is disclosed including but not limited to initiating a trick play command having a trick play duration at the end user device during replay of video data an end user device main display; presenting an advertising data item having an advertising duration during execution of the trick play... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Roebuck Attn: Patent Docketing

20090204493 - System and method for providing advertisements in iptv service: A system and method for providing advertisements in Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) service are provided. The system includes a content server that stores content data; an advertisement server that stores advertisement data; a tag server that collects tag information input from a plurality of users, creates and updates a tag... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090204501 - System and method of marketing beauty products: The present invention relates to a system and method of marketing beauty products, and more particularly to a system and method of marketing beauty products to male customers in a male-frequented setting. In one embodiment, the method includes obtaining a display having advertising space for beauty products, locating the display... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20090204485 - Systems and methods for selling and displaying advertisements over a network: Systems and methods are provided for selling one or more advertisements and displaying the one or more advertisements a fixed placement for a set duration of time on a web page within an Internet website in combination with displaying advertisements from the same advertiser in contextually relevant locations within the... Agent: Troutman Sanders LLP Bank Of America Plaza

20090204494 - Technique for eliminating fraudulent use of printed coupons: A method for redeeming coupons, comprising the steps of storing on an electronic device an electronic coupon having encrypted data and unencrypted data, wherein the encrypted data is required for printing the coupon; reading data stored on the portable electronic device at purchase location, and comparing the unencrypted data with... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090204503 - Methods and systems for establishing investment accounts associated with presentation instruments: This disclosure describes, generally, methods and systems for establishing an investment account associated with a presentation instrument. In one embodiment, the method includes providing a presentation instrument with an associated account identifier. The method further includes establishing an investment account with an associated account identifier. The method associates the presentation... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090204504 - Method and system for pausing, migrating, and restarting retail point-of-sale transactions: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer program product for managing transactions on point-of-sale terminals comprising a peer-to-peer network in a retail data processing system. A purchase transaction for a customer is initiated on a point-of-sale terminal in the system. Responsive to receiving a first input from a... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090204505 - Method for creating a sales slip: In response to inputting order, a sales slip processor issues a sales slip with a slip code and a table code of a table at which the order is accepted, and stores order data in a sales holding file. In order to balance or rewrite sales slips, an operator inputs... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090204506 - E-commerce system and method: The present invention provides a subsystem that guarantees quality, safety, or environmental performance of the commodities. The subsystem is provided with a database that stores numerical characteristics that characterize regulations, standards, or required specifications regarding the quality, safety, or environmental performance of the commodities in the e-commerce transaction, and the... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20090204507 - Method and system for discovering and generating an insight via a network: A method and system (60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 110, 120) for discovering and generating a new insight via a network. An user intentionally enters a piece of data, information, or knowledge into a client system and sets its level of sharing. With no further action by the user the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090204509 - Storage medium for storing a program for executing the product purchasing method, and a server used therefor: A product purchase system using a network comprises a server 2 connected to a network 1, a database 5 included in the server 2 for storing order sheet data for each user, means connected to the network 1 for updating the order sheet data via the network 1, means for... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A. Ibm-rsw

20090204508 - System and method for providing a price quotation for a transportation service providing equipment selection capability: A method and system for computing the price for shipping goods. The method includes causing a computer to deliver first information to a user prompting the user to enter at the computer information about a rail transportation service for shipment of goods by one or more railcars. Information about a... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20090204511 - System and method for distributing targeted content: A system and method for distributing target content, i.e. advertising or promotional material, are disclosed. A user takes a photograph of an image meeting predefined criteria. Image data defining the photograph is extracted and transmitted to a server where the image data is matched with corresponding image data relating to... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti PC

20090204510 - System and method for paying charge of internet item using request of gift in mobile configuration: The present invention relates to wireless payment system and method in a mobile environment in which a sender makes a gift request for an internet item to a receiver using an MMS message and the sender is provided with the item according to payment of the receiver. The wireless payment... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090204512 - Method and system for determining a restocking state of a product: The present invention is directed to a method and system for determining a restocking state of a product in a retail store. A method in accordance with an embodiment includes: acquiring an image of a current state of a product at an assigned shelf location; determining a remaining number of... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090204513 - Point-of-care inventory management system and method: A system and method are disclosed for controlling an inventory of point-of-care diagnostic devices. The inventory includes a main inventory and at least one subinventory. Each device has an ambient temperature shelf life. Data associated with the devices is entered, including: the current quantity and predetermined minimum quantity of devices... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP (c/o Patent Administrator)

20090204514 - Systems, methods, and media for managing shared inventory in a virtual universe: Generally speaking, systems, methods and media for managing shared inventory in a virtual universe are disclosed. Embodiments of the method may include receiving notification of a user session being established between a user and a virtual universe simulator. The method may also include accessing a list of shared inventory items... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20090204516 - Accounting data retrieval method and system: An accounting method and system. The method includes determining by a computing system, that a second entity is dependent on a first entity for a specified time period. The computing system generates a first list comprising initially allowable purchase types list for items available for purchase by a user. The... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090204517 - Intercompany accounting data analytics: Methods and apparatuses enable finding and resolving intercompany (I/C) transaction issues in accounting data for a corporate enterprise. A data management tool receives general ledger data that defines intercompany account balances for multiple business entities of the corporate enterprise. The data management tool identifies a trading relationship and a currency... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090204515 - Intercompany transactions elimination system: A financial computer system at a holding company receives an approval of an intercompany transaction between two related subsidiary entities. The system generates an eliminating entry for the intercompany transaction at the time and every time it receives an approval, thereby providing timely and accurate financial information for the holding... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P. Oracle International Corporation

20090204519 - Method and system for generating account reconciliation data: A method and system for providing information regarding a customer account are provided. The customer account includes a plurality of entries, each entry being indicative of a request for payment where the request for payment is being issued by a biller entity to a customer entity. A payment record including... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20090204518 - System for electronically implementing a business transaction between a payee and a payor: A system for electronic implementation of a business transaction between parties thereto is disclosed. The system comprises an operably inter-connectable network which includes a transaction processing unit of a payor selected financial service provider, a transaction processing unit of a payee selected financial service provider, a payor input/output unit operably... Agent: Olson & Cepuritis, Ltd.

20090204522 - Bar coded bill payment system and method: A system and method for payment is provided, wherein consumers pay their bills at supermarkets, large retail chain, or other stores and receive immediate credit from billers for their payments. Payments are made using a bar code printed on the bill or sent to the consumer, e.g. by fax or... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090204523 - Method and apparatus for facilitating online payment transactions in a network-based transaction facility using multiple payment instruments: A method and apparatus for facilitating online payment transactions between participants in a network-based transaction facility are described. In one embodiment, user interface information is communicated to a first participant via a communications network. The user interface information identifies various payment instruments available for processing online payment transactions in the... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20090204520 - Method and system for enabling charging of non-charging controlled services: A method and apparatus for charging control of service usage in an electronic communications system. An invocation of charging control is received from a service client for service usage by a user. Charging related data and rules checked for the user and it is determined whether the session should be... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090204521 - Method of and system for web-based managing and reporting mortgage transactions: A system and method for web-based mortgage/loan reporting and management are provided. A electronic mortgage is created. The mortgage is reported to parties involved. A funds request can be sent to a funding party such as a financial institutions. When a funding acknowledgement has been received a final mortgage report... Agent: Hayes Soloway P.C.

20090204529 - Advanced budget bill control system for end users: A system and method for allowing a consumer of a commodity to set the parameters of a budget bill calculation system via an interactive user interface. The parameters are intended to help consumers control their budget bill calculations, payment structure, true-up factors and other aspects of their budget bills. Budget... Agent: Fox Rothschild, LLP Pittsburgh

20090204530 - Bar coded monetary transaction system and method: An improved financial transaction device comprising bar-coded information incorporating one of a plurality of algorithmic signatures, the signature being configured to permit at least one party involved in a financial transaction to store pertinent data in a multi-organizational payment tracking database, wherein the signature comprises a payment tracking identifier capable... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090204527 - Currency code for soft earning unit: Hard Currency is used as common denominator to value product and services. In the complete digital world, this common denominator can be dealt only in computing devices and we don't need hard currencies. Henceforth it is further referred as Soft Earning Unit(s) (SEU). The invention is intended for extending Currency... Agent: Samir Srivastava

20090204531 - Financial management and professional referral software: This invention relates generally to software, and more specifically, to systems and methods for providing financial management and professional referral software. In one embodiment, the invention includes a software application that performs the steps of establishing an account for an individual; accepting assets for the individual, the assets being associated... Agent: Ruttler Law PLLC One Union Square

20090204526 - Method and system for utilizing a flexible case model for collections: A computer-implemented method and system for creating a flexible case model for use in managing collections of multiple accounts of a customer needing collection. Attributes are defined, each of the attributes including a data source, wherein the data source can be inherited or rolled up. Plural different entity models are... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20090204525 - Payment device to issuer communication via authorization request: A method includes receiving a transaction authorization request in a server computer. The transaction authorization request is for the purpose of authorizing a payment card account transaction. The method further includes parsing the discretionary data field defined in the transaction authorization request, to receive information regarding a payment device that... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20090204524 - Security system: A credit card scanning protection system configured to send an electronic message to the cardholder's mobile phone (or other electronic device) when the cardholder's card is used in a transaction. In the event the cardholder receives notice of an unauthorized transaction, the cardholder can immediately call the issuing authority and... Agent: Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090204528 - System and method for facilitating purchase of financial investments on behalf of a beneficiary and providing interactive investment information: A system, method and software for facilitating the purchase of financial investments for the benefit of beneficiary and providing educational and entertaining interactive tools regarding same is disclosed. The system includes at least one database containing information regarding one or more financial instruments. The system further includes at least one... Agent: Moore & Van Allen PLLC

20090204548 - Method and system for executing trades in a user preferred security: A system for executing trades in a user preferred security is disclosed. The system comprises a server system (12) that is in communication with a client system (14), a security data source (26) and a trade execution location (30). The security data source (26) provides security data relating to a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090204549 - Retirement income option: An option is provided to hedge against the risk of a reduction in retirement benefits or a change in the timing of when such benefits are received. The option may also be used to hedge against reductions in returns from Social Security and retirement savings plans. The option is standardized... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP (c/o Patent Administrator)

20090204532 - Graphical trading interface for visualizing stop order data: A computer-implemented method for visualizing trading data may be used together with a graphical user interface of a computer system. The method performs the displaying of a price range including graduated price levels for a tradable item. Data of a stop order is received and evaluated to determine price levels... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20090204535 - Large block trading: Systems and methods for administering trade orders are described. An embodiment comprises receiving, from a first server operated by a first trader, a communication including a first trade order and one or more selection criteria, the first trade order including at least one of a specified instrument, a specified quantity,... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20090204534 - Method and system for providing order routing to a virtual crowd in a hybrid trading system and executing an entire order: A method of providing orders to a virtual trading crowd in an exchange prior to automatically linking the order to an away market includes receiving a marketable order at the exchange, wherein the exchange price differs from a national best bid or offer (NBBO) price, routing the order to a... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090204536 - Methods and systems for network loan marketing: Methods and systems for trading financial products such as loans over a network such as the Internet that includes receiving information relating to the financial product offered for sale on behalf of a seller, making the information relating to the financial product available over the network, receiving a bid from... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20090204533 - Stock trading limit order coupled link (lock): This invention has the potential to generate very good return on investments from stocks that are conservative in movement. This invention will greatly benefit investors that do not have the time to constantly trade stock yet want to take advantage of normal price fluctuations. The Limit Order Coupled LinK (LOCK)... Agent: Law Office Of Clay Mcgurk

20090204537 - Payment method for content, mobile equipment and content item implementing the method: The invention relates to a payment method for content, e.g. a content item protected by a Digital Rights Management (DRM) scheme. The content item contains a payment directive that automatically invokes a payment procedure before the content item may be used. The payment directive specifies how to utilise payment methods... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090204538 - User interface and system including same: A graphical user interface including a controller for redistributing funds between a first account and a second account. The controller includes a slidable element positionable over a fixed background element to define a first segment and a second segment of the background element. A length of the first segment is... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090204539 - Portable electronic financial management: An electronic wallet stores information regarding credit, membership and other accounts. The information may be accessed to facilitate monetary and other transactions utilizing the various stored accounts. The transactions are stored such that accurate account balances are maintained by the electronic wallet. Security measures prevent unauthorized users from accessing account... Agent: Allen F. Bennett Santucci, Priore & Long, LLP

20090204540 - Control features in a 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.

20090204541 - Preventing unauthorized modification or skipping of viewing of advertisements within content: A method, apparatus, and system are directed towards employing a chain of permission keys obtained during playing of advertisements within content to enable continued playing of the content. A sequence of encoded permission keys are generated with each encoded permission key, except a last permission key, incorporating a scrambling key... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090204542 - Privately sharing relying party reputation with information card selectors: A computer system accesses reputation information about a relying party. The reputation information can be stored locally or remotely (for example, at an identity provider or reputation service). A reputation information engine can be used to provide the reputation information to the user. The user can then use the reputation... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C. - Novell

20090204543 - System and method of selectively distributing media content to a consumer and preventing the unauthorized sharing of media content: The present invention is a system and method of selectively distributing media content to consumers, the system comprising essentially of a USB-type storage device loaded with media content, a network and a user interface system. The method comprises essentially of providing a USB-type storage device loaded with media content, distributing... Agent: Ruben Alcoba, Esq.

20090204544 - Activation by trust delegation: A mechanism for delegating trust to activate a target program from the vendor (or its intermediary) to a customer (or its intermediary) using an issuance license. The customer may then activate using their own authentication implementation. Also, a method for formulating an issuance license that permits such delegation. Furthermore, a... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090204545 - Electronic financial transactions: A new electronic financial transaction (EFT) system is proposed, wherein the business logic of a transaction is defined at a location remote from a secure point of sale terminal, thus having a framework wherein the business logic can be easily customised or updated.... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20090204546 - Electronic payment and associated systems: By linking together mobile telephony systems having small message service capacity and payment clearance systems such as those operated by banks and credit card companies, substantial facilitation of electronic payments may be achieved. Existing security systems designed to protect the mobile telephony system, for example SIM cards and optional encryption... Agent: Breiner & Breiner, L.L.C.

20090204547 - Transaction management system and method: Within the program store the stored instructions comprise instructions for controlling the processor to (a) implement a buyer interface to receive a purchase inquiry from a buyer, the purchase inquiry comprising purchase criteria for a plurality of product and/or service requirements including timing and/or geographical relationships therebetween (b) output seller... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20090204551 - Learning-based method for estimating costs and statistics of complex operators in continuous queries: A learning-based method for estimating costs or statistics of an operator in a continuous query includes a cost estimation model learning procedure and a model applying procedure. The model learning procedure builds a cost estimation model from training data, and the applying procedure uses the model to estimate the cost... Agent: George A. Willinghan, Iii August Law, LLC

20090204550 - Marketing plan for social change and resource reallocation through the sale and/or exchange of goods and services: A method and system for marketing goods/services based on the incomes of the suppliers of the goods/services and the purchasers of those goods/services. Those suppliers of the goods/services who have the least income will receive the most remuneration. Those suppliers of the goods/services who have the greater income will receive... Agent: Thomas R. Halkett

20090204552 - Preparation of an edible product from dough: The present invention is directed to mold control and extended shelf life methods and compositions for preparing edible dough-based products, such as, for example, breads, by treating the surface of the dough used to prepare the edible product with at least one preservative and at least one pH adjusting agent... Agent: Novozymes North America, Inc.

20090204416 - Business unit outsourcing model: Tools for configuring enterprise applications. In an aspect, an enterprise application can be configured to account for relationships between multiple business units within an enterprise, including without limitation relationships between the business functions provided by various business units. In another aspect, the disclosed tools provide a framework for identifying and/or... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090204418 - Computerized system for demonstrating a fair settlement proposal: The invention that is the subject of this Disclosure consists of a computerized method whereby a party that is involved in a dispute can either secure a resolution of that dispute on terms that that party deems to be acceptable or be in a position to easily and credibly demonstrate... Agent: James F. Ring C/o Chu, Ring & Hazel, LLP

20090204414 - Method and system to enable in-context pre-meeting dialogue and collaboration among invitees: An embodiment of this invention enables in-context pre-meeting dialogue and collaboration among invitees and participants of meeting or event, using tools such as calendar products. An embodiment allows the invitees to send their responses on a meeting invite to other invitees and not limit or restrict the responses only to... Agent: Maxvalueip Consulting LLC

20090204419 - Purification of oil field production water for beneficial use: A method for generating new water with attached water rights comprising identifying a source of production water and treating the water in appropriate ways to provide water appropriate for beneficial use such as agriculture, irrigation, industrial or municipal or potable applications. Appropriate permits are obtained to create the new water... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20090204415 - System and method for product recall notification: A method for checking the recall status of a product. The method includes receiving product identification data in a data processing system by scanning a product. The method also includes storing the product identification data and checking the product identification data against a recall database. The method also includes determining... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20090204420 - System and method for toy adoption and marketing: A method for providing a virtual world presentation includes registering a first product on a computer system; registering a user on the computer system and associating that user with a user ID; responsive to registering the first product, displaying a virtual representation of the first product on the computer system;... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090204417 - System for product authentication using covert codes: An authentication system enabling a customer to verify the authenticity of a product in a foolproof, secure and simple manner. plurality of secret sets of numbers is generated, each set comprising a challenge portion and a response portion. These sets are stored on a remote server. Each set is associated... Agent: Daniel J Swirsky

20090204427 - Adaptable compositions of health information: The adaptable compositions of information and data on health, health-care and health-care services generate by physicians and enable by an innovative computer program and software to increase physicians' efficiency of information and data management.... Agent: Anuthep Benja-athon

20090204430 - Apparatus and methods for determining and processing medical outcomes: A data processing system is provided for determining clinical outcomes of medical data gathered by the system. The system can allow a person to define a medical study and can then administer the medical study and can collect and analyze data from potentially geographically diverse doctors, patients and other people... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090204425 - Computerized system and method for generating an immunization schedule in a healthcare environment: A computerized method and system for generation an immunization schedule for a person in healthcare environment is provided. The system receives a request for an immunization schedule for a person and obtains information from an electronic medical record of the person stored within a comprehensive healthcare system. The system obtains... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. Intellectual Property Department

20090204421 - Electronic health record touch screen form entry method: A computer implemented system and method allow users to create and edit electronic health records with the use of touch screen monitors, such that complex forms are managed by a user-friendly graphic user interface. The graphic user interface includes collapsible menus that enable the management of the complex hierarchical structure... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20090204431 - Method and article of manufacture for performing clinical trial budget analysis: An electronic method is provided of analyzing budgets for clinical trials. A clinical trial budget is entered into a processor. The budget includes activities and associated activity costs. The activities are classified into a set of standardized service categories. The processor then electronically allocates the associated activity costs with the... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20090204426 - Method and system for creating a network of medical image reading professionals: A method and system is provided for creating a network of medical image reading professionals who are highly skilled and proficient at reading and interpreting medical images. By creating such a network of medical image reading professionals, misdiagnoses can be dramatically reduced, thereby improving patient outcomes, reducing patient suffering and... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090204424 - Method and system for distributing information between patients, health care providers, caregivers, and payors: A computer-implemented method and system of distributing medical information in real time populates a network database with information on disease indications and on therapeutic products, such as natural history of disease and benefit-risk considerations; categorizes the information; displays the information and notifies of the categorization of information.... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20090204428 - Occupational health data system and method: A method and system for employee life cycle management collects occupational health data from a plurality of diverse occupational health data sources for a plurality of employees, stores the collected data in a central database, processes the data to generate employee life cycle data, stores the employee life cycle management... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20090204429 - Occupational health data system and method: A method and system for employee life cycle management collects occupational health data from a plurality of diverse occupational health data sources for a plurality of employees, stores the collected data in a central database, processes the data to generate employee life cycle data, stores the employee life cycle management... Agent: Peter L. Berger, Esq. Levisohn, Lerner, Berger & Langsam, LLP

20090204422 - System and method for remotely updating a health station: A method for remotely updating a health station is presented in one example embodiment. The method includes establishing one or more communication sessions between one or more health stations and a web server. The method includes receiving, at the one or more health stations, a user interface from the web... Agent: Patent Capital Group

20090204423 - Wound care treatment service using automatic wound dressing fabricator: A method and/or system allowing patients to receive consistent, effective and convenient reliable wound care by applying customized wound dressings fabricated at automatic wound dressing fabricators deployed in medical facilities. Wound dressing specifications are generated with the aid of a computer-based configuration algorithm based on characteristics of the wounds. The... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090204439 - Apparatus and method for managing electronic medical records embedded with decision support tools: An apparatus and a method are provided for managing health care information. The apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive health care data from information sources, and a processor configured to assign pre-specified content and context to each datum of the received health care data to structure the received health... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090204438 - Client encounter electronic data research record systems and methods: A client encounter electronic research record system, method, and computer product includes pre-populated, research specific templates, selective, specialty-specific master databases, qualitative and quantitative specific databases and templates to achieve comprehensive, accurate and compliant research/efficacy documentation that captures client data concurrently with the client encounter session. The system is enabled for... Agent: Kammer Browning PLLC

20090204434 - Healthcare tracking: A computer-implemented method is disclosed. The method includes obtaining location-time data automatically generated by a mobile electronic device associated with a healthcare provider, correlating the location-time data with a location of a healthcare patient, and using the location-time data to bill for care of the healthcare patient by the healthcare... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090204436 - Method and system for managing medical professionals: A system and method for improving medical care through tracking reported findings or diagnoses of patient medical conditions and feeding back actual medical conditions and patient medical condition outcomes to determine accuracy of the reported findings. By feeding back the actual medical conditions and patient medical condition outcomes, a quantitative... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090204433 - Method for writing medical prescriptions, storing, and accessing patient medical records with improved portability and improved patient data security using a usb dongle device: A method for writing medical prescriptions, answering prescription refill requests, and managing patient medical records using a portable USB dongle device that contains patient records and software for writing prescriptions, answering prescription refill requests, and accessing and updating the patient records all in a secure manner. The portable USB dongle... Agent: Garo B. Darian

20090204432 - Physicians' safety terminal: The Physicians' Safety Terminal, PST, uses a computer download of the physician's desk reference, PDR, or similar data as one source of reference input. The other primary source of data input is the patient's medical profile. The PST automatically calculates the perceived safety of each medication with the risk factor... Agent: Garrett S. Sayre

20090204440 - System and method for collecting, organizing, and presenting research-oriented medical information: A method and computer program manages medical research study information and laboratory test result information. The program generates an interactive user interface with elements for setting up a study (702), managing study member information (704), managing patient information (706), receiving and displaying comments (708), and configuring data to be stored... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP

20090204437 - System and method for improving diagnoses of medical image reading: A system and method for improving diagnoses of patients may include accessing diagnostic information, prepared by a treating physician, of a medical condition of a patient from a third-party collector of the diagnostic information. Medical images associated with the medical condition of the patient may be accessed. At least a... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090204435 - System for automating medical imaging diagnostic service delivery: A system and method of automatically assigning diagnostic imaging centers, uploading diagnostic data, selecting and routing data to electronically connected reviewing physicians, on-line report generation and automatic billing is presented.... Agent: Ted Sabety, C/o Sabety +associates, PLLC

20090204448 - Benefit management: Methods, devices and systems are provided for benefit management. One system includes a server including an application interface and access to a data store having one or more client files. A client file can include a definable set of business rules for managing and administering benefits and can include fund... Agent: Brooks, Cameron & Huebsch , PLLC

20090204443 - Integrated roof wind risk mitigation method and system: A method for mitigating risk in issuing wind only roof insurance comprising: receiving a request for the wind only roof insurance; determining if a roofing system complies with a predetermined set of parameters; and issuing the wind only roof insurance... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090204445 - Method and system for insurance companies contracting with and paying medical image reading professionals in a network: A system and method for insurance companies contracting with and paying medical image reading professionals in a medical image reading professionals network. The network may be independent of a medical facility and be arranged to have each of the medical image reading professionals may be an expert in reading medical... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090204447 - Method and system for mitigating risk in issuing insurance: A method for mitigating risk in issuing insurance comprising: submitting a request for the insurance; determining if a method, material, system or item complies with a predetermined set of parameters; and issuing the insurance, wherein the predetermined set of parameters is selected from the group consisting of: the installation of... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090204444 - Method and system for mitigating risk in issuing wind only insurance: A method for mitigating risk in issuing wind only insurance comprising: submitting a request for the wind only insurance; determining if a building complies with a predetermined set of parameters; if a compliant material was used in constructing the building, authorizing the request for wind only insurance; and issuing the... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090204442 - Method of valuation of life settlements and optimizing premium financing: The present invention proposes to integrate mortality table analysis and the future premium burden thereby creating a unit net asset value (“Unit NAV”) for investors holding a unit in the fund. A major component of Unit NAV in a viatical and life settlement transaction is the amount of expected premium... Agent: Brooke Schumm Iii Daneker, Mcintire, Schumm, Prince, Goldstein Et Al

20090204441 - System and method for administering dynamic security benefits and payments: Disclosed is a novel security benefits product that provides customizable benefits to the purchaser for a variety of different triggering conditions. The product of the present invention may be sold to an individual or a group. The product contains a feature that allows a purchaser to modify and/or vary his... Agent: Ward & Olivo

20090204446 - Systems and methods for valuation of life insurance policies: Computer systems and a computer-implemented method for valuing a life insurance policy in which a policy valuation program stored on a computer readable medium includes a data collection module and a life expectancy adjustment module, and a policy valuation module. In operation, according to one embodiment, the policy valuation computer... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20090204449 - Assigning and managing patron reservations for distributed services using wireless personal communication devices: A system and method for assigning and managing patron reservations to one or more of a plurality of attractions receive reservation requests at personal communication devices (PCDs). Reservation requests are transmitted to a computer associated with the selected attraction, which determines a proposed reservation time based on information describing the... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090204451 - System and method for selecting and reserving rooms at a venue: The present invention relates to a system and method for selecting and reserving rooms at a venue. The system or method transmits information relating to a plurality of available individual rooms at a venue to an application running on a general purpose computer on the wide area network for display... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090204450 - System and method for selecting and reserving time slots for an appointment: The present invention relates to a system and method for selecting and reserving time slots for an appointment. The system or method transmits information relating to a plurality of available individual time slots for an appointment to an application running on a general purpose computer on the wide area network... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090204453 - Aircraft flight plan optimization for minimizing emissions: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for performing flight planning to reduce an effect of emissions. A method is present for performing flight planning. A set of emissions data is identified for an aircraft for a plurality of route segments in a route as a function of... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090204458 - Life cycle management system for intelligent electronic devices: This invention relates to the Life Cycle Management System for distributed Intelligent Electronic Devices (IED) starting from the design phase to the end of service phase. Hence, it caters to the needs from installation via engineering, installation/commissioning phases, until asset management and remote service support of the devices during the... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20090204452 - Managing a multi-supplier environment: The present disclosure is directed to a system and method for managing multi-supplier environment. In some implementations, a method includes identifying a supplier model configured to identify information for executing different aspects of the transaction associated with different enterprise departments and a primary supplier from a plurality of selectable third-party... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090204455 - Methods for directly connecting people/jobs within a business for establishing performance-based compensation: Systems and methods for providing an automated system for directly connecting people, jobs, and/or departments within a business with business operational elements for establishing performance-based compensation to align compensation with activities that improve business efficiencies and profitability, including identifying areas of a business for implementing changes in processes, human resources,... Agent: Triangle Patents, P.l.l.c.

20090204456 - Methods for identifying areas for business change and prioritization based upon impact using diagrammatic representations of business systems: Systems and methods for providing an automated system for identifying areas of a business for implementing changes in processes, human resources, metrics, and systems, wherein the identification is provided based upon generating a visual representation of a business based on the energy and information systems of the business, and by... Agent: Triangle Patents, P.l.l.c.

20090204454 - Online hosted customisable merchant directory with search function: A method (400) and system (100) are described for providing an online hosted customisable searchable merchant directory over the Internet (101). The system (100) includes an Internet server (102) which provides storefront web page templates (1200). Merchants access the Internet server (102), though merchant computers (105n), to set up one... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090204457 - System and method for authenticating a user of multiple computer applications, networks or devices using a wireless device: An automated system and method for authenticating entities or individuals engaging in automated or electronic transactions or activities such as financial transactions, accessing computer applications, computer software, data networks or other automated or electronic devices requiring identity verification is provided. A unique Personal Identity Value is computed and stored in... Agent: Michael F. Buhrmann

20090204459 - Method and system for automatically prioritizing opportunity based customer requirements: A method and system for automatically prioritizing a plurality of customer requirements. A request for fulfilling a product-modifying customer requirement is received. Prioritization data associated with the customer requirement is obtained. The prioritization data includes revenue opportunity sizes, time constraints, the request's age, and indications of whether the product requires... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090204460 - Method and system for workforce optimization: A method, system and computer program product for workforce optimization in a service oriented industry, the method comprising planning and executing a business scheme which include providing as input business planning parameters relevant to the business scheme; developing a business plan to execute the business scheme based on the business... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20090204461 - Method and system for workforce optimization: A system for workforce optimization in a service oriented industry, the system comprising a workforce optimization unit configured for planning and executing a business scheme which include providing as input business planning parameters relevant to the business scheme; developing a business plan to execute the business scheme based on the... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20090204463 - Method, tool, and system for analyzing a project: A tool for performing project management analysis on a project. Also disclosed are a system and a method of analyzing the project. The tool includes a project manager implemented to receive project data relating to a schedule, a discrete event simulator to create a model of the project using the... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20090204462 - Trade services management system: A system (and corresponding methodology) that supports trade services back office processing to enhance efficiency and productivity is provided. The system employs a unique consolidated screen layout that significantly improves the productivity of the users. Essentially, the system and page layout is composed of the following components: Queue Well, Activity... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090204464 - Electronic device and method for determining time periods for meetings: A portable electronic device method of determining time periods for a meeting includes receiving an indication of at least two invitees for the meeting, obtaining calendar data for the invitees, determining free time periods for the invitees based on the calendar data, and creating a list of the free time... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

20090204469 - Internet method, process and system for publication and evaluation: A technical method for evaluation, publication and distillation of information, such as scientific articles and other similar work, said method, process and system comprising at least the following technical process steps (1) an interactive online reviewing process of said information before it is published; (2) a publication process of said... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090204468 - Method and system for processing web-based invitational messages: A computerized, web-based system and method allows users, or “members,” to create a system invitation, send a system invitation, update a system invitation, delete a system invitation, and to “pre-set” a system invitation for expiration. Further, the system and method allows members to receive a system invitation, and accept or... Agent: Joseph S. Heino, Esq. Davis & Kuelthau, S.c.

20090204470 - Multilevel assignment of jobs and tasks in online work management system: An online work management system provides a marketplace for multiple job owner and workers. The job owners provide a job description that defines task. The job description may be processed to generate task descriptions that may be published for workers' application. The task descriptions specify the qualification or restrictions for... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090204465 - Process and system for facilitating communication and intergrating communication with the project management activities in a collaborative environment: The computer-enabled system and method is provided to digitally capture communication related to a project and analyze the captured communication to create and manage work items of the project in a collaborative environment. The invention can be used annotate portions of a digitally captured communication that relate to a potential... Agent: Pennington, Moore, Wilkinson, Bell & Dunbar, P.A.

20090204467 - System and method for accessing business process instances through mobile devices: A BPM system is described for modeling, management and execution of business processes. A process designer component is used to graphically design a business process, which includes a set of activities linked by transitions. The business process is stored and executed using one or more engines. A mobile device can... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20090204466 - Ticket approval system for and method of performing quality control in field service applications: A ticket approval system and method of performing quality control in a field service application. The method includes obtaining a ticket, performing at least one task associated with the ticket, collecting data associated with at least one task, and transmitting the data to a work management server including database and... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090204471 - Trust level based task assignment in an online work management system: An online work management system provides a marketplace for multiple job owner and workers. The job owners provide a job description that defines task. The job description may be processed to generate task descriptions that may be published for workers' application. The task descriptions specify the qualification or restrictions for... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090204473 - Customized health beverage system: A system and method for providing a customized health beverage system based on the preferences of a consumer. The customized health beverage system provides a flavor component list identifying a number of flavor components. The customized health beverage system also provides a health component list identifying a number of health... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20090204476 - Determining effectiveness of advertising campaigns: An identifier associated with a client machine is accessed, and parameters that define a control group of client machines for a particular advertising campaign are accessed. The advertising campaign is associated with one or more standard advertisements. Whether the client machine is a member of the control group based on... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090204481 - Discovery and analytics for episodic downloaded media: Matching advertising information to media content/user combinations in which information and content are delivered to a user over a network is disclosed. Content providers and advertisers may find out about the offerings of one another as well as user profiles and preferences thereby facilitating agreement of ads with content and... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20090204477 - Ink cartridge distribution system and method: The present invention is directed to a method and system of scheduling the delivery of printer cartridges to businesses that minimizes the number of cartridges that a business needs to stock and the likelihood that a printer will not have a compatible cartridge when it runs out of ink or... Agent: Murphy Desmond S.c.

20090204475 - Media markup for promotional visual content: A classification method and system for possible content alteration of a media work may include criteria regarding content that is feasible for alteration. Such criteria may be maintained in records that are accessible to an interested party. Some embodiments may include a record of primary authorization rights applicable to a... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20090204472 - Method and system for managing customer relations: A method and system for managing customer relations by collaborating information for a group of various businesses with different or similar interests or that are complementary to one another. The businesses may even be in competition with one another. The system enables leveraging the overall information in a data collecting... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco Pl

20090204474 - Method and system for presenting targeted advertisements: A system and method may add to a web page a similar-content module which may contain information related to the context of the web page, may look like a portion of the web page, and may lead to a jump page which presents information in the similar-content module in more... Agent: Yahoo! Inc.

20090204483 - Reference price framework: A method of computer-assisted price modeling is provided, which uses a reference price to assist in evaluating discretionary pricing of transactional services provided (i) by a professional among his own transactions or (ii) by a target professional among others' transactions. A universe of pricing episode data is segmented into groupings... Agent: Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP Attn:IPDocketing

20090204479 - System and method for creating an in-store media network using traditional media metrics: A system and method for selling advertising may include operating an electronic display network operating in a retail store. The network may include electronic displays interspersed among product displays and arranged to present a shopper with each advertisement among multiple repeating advertisements a predicted number of multiple times as a... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090204482 - System and method for streamlining social media marketing: A method and system for streamlining social media marketing continuous activities are provided for finding Potential Friends (PFs) on various social media avenues, gathering information about PFs' interests and activities on an going basis, creating attractive presences (APs) on various social media sites, befriending with PFs to turn them in... Agent: Empk & Shiloh, LLP C/o Landon Ip, Inc.

20090204480 - System for providing businesses with intelligence about lost sales: A system that makes it possible for a maker, distributor, or vendor of a product to survey those who purchase a competing product, allowing them to determine why they lost that sale. An auction system for determining which questions are posed to a purchaser is also disclosed.... Agent: Mark James

20090204478 - Systems and methods for identifying and measuring trends in consumer content demand within vertically associated websites and related content: Embodiments of the invention can provide systems and methods for identifying and measuring trends in consumer content demand within a vertical network of websites and related content. In one embodiment, a method can include receiving, from a crawler, content from a plurality of webpages in at least one vertical. The... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20090204489 - Biological markers predictive of rheumatoid arthritis response to b-cell antagonists: Methods and assays examining expression of one or more biomarkers in a sample are provided for predicting or indicating the effectiveness of treatment of a rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patient with a B-cell antagonist. Methods are provided for identifying patients whose RA is likely to be responsive to anti-RA therapy using... Agent: Genentech, Inc.

20090204497 - Centralized media production system and method: A centralized media production system and its method of use is described. Web services are utilized in order processing in an electronic commerce system and fulfillment requests in a vendor manufacturing system. An XML-formatted WSDL file is used for submitting order and fulfillment requests. This process and system provides a... Agent: North Oaks Patent Agency

20090204486 - Computer system and computer-implemented method for managing funding of catastrophe relief efforts: For managing funding of catastrophe relief efforts, defined is a special purpose entity (1′) which offers a financial product linked to a charitable organization (3). A monetary donation is made (S1) to the charitable organization (3) for paying a premium assigned to the financial product. Capital payments are received (S4)... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090204488 - Delivering entertainment-enhanced content-related advertisement over multimedia networks: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer program product for delivering entertainment-enhanced content-related advertisement over multimedia networks This is done by implementing a dedicated data structure that serves as a vehicle between a mediator server and the users. The dedicated multimedia vehicle is loaded with entertaining content from... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco Pl

20090204502 - Digital media advertisement system and method: Systems and methods are provided herein that provide for advertisement and promotion via digital media.... Agent: Axios Law Group. PLLC

20090204499 - Electronic incentive distribution system: Product incentive distribution systems and methods are disclosed. One such system includes a product incentive distribution unit placed at a retail location in association with a product and configured to electronically receive product incentives. The product incentive distribution unit includes a display configured to display product information and product incentive... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20090204498 - Government targeted-spending stimulus card system, program product, and computer-implemented methods: Embodiments of the present invention, for example, provide a government stimulus card being issued and managed by a bank and using an open payment network for purchase authorization and payments. The embodiments provide flexibility in the funding of stimulus programs, including no upfront payments by the government and letters of... Agent: Bracewell & Giuliani LLP

20090204496 - Method and system to manage multiple party rewards using a single account and artificial intelligence: A system for managing an account having at least one sub-account, including: a memory element, a processor, and an interface element for at least one specially programmed general-purpose computer. The memory element stores a transaction history for the account, an incentive previously offered to the account, and an artificial intelligence... Agent: Simpson & Simpson, PLLC

20090204495 - Method of advertising: The present invention comprises a method for advertising a product comprising the selection of an updatable venture comprising updatable parameters; one or more parametric interrelationships which give, upon operating on at least one of said updatable parameters, one or more resultant values; wherein at least one of said parameters is... Agent: Shumaker Loop & Kendrick

20090204484 - Method of displaying targeted digital electronic advertising using global positioning system (gps) coordinates and associated demographic data: This invention describes a system for displaying targeted digital electronic advertising on mobile display systems based upon GPS coordinates and demographic data correlated to those GPS coordinates and current time. The display can “intelligently” download and project relevant and targeted advertising based upon (1) the displays known location, (2) current... Agent: Grayson Johnson

20090204492 - Online food ordering system and method: Restaurants register for an online food ordering system and method to have their menus presented on the online system. Registration is accomplished by payment of a fixed registration fee. A merchant account is created for each restaurant. The merchant account is associated with a unique account key that includes a... Agent: Ernest D. Buff Ernest D. Buff And Associates, LLC.

20090204500 - Online marketplace for sale of discounted stated value vouchers redeemable by vendors: A marketplace server computer for sale of stated value vouchers via an online marketplace. The vouchers are presented in a particular manner allowing for effective inventory management using rule-based approval of sales. The method involves receiving a vendor's commitment to sell vouchers, and maintaining a website for displaying a for-sale... Agent: Saul Ewing LLP (philadelphia)

20090204490 - Online professional development system and virtual manager for performance artists: A system for online artist promotion comprises an artist interface, a broadcast application, an industry interface and a virtual manager. The artist interface allows artist to input artist histories and artist biographies, and to upload multimedia performances. The broadcast application allows the system to broadcast the multimedia performances. The industry... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20090204491 - Online professional development system and virtual manager for performance artists: A professional development system comprises a user interface, a provider interface, a plurality of development steps and a navigational tool. The user interface allows a user to input a user history and a professional goal. The provider interface allows service providers to input service descriptions and professional advice. The navigational... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20090204487 - System and method for displaying partial advertising data during trick play: A method is disclosed including but not limited to initiating a trick play command having a trick play duration at the end user device during replay of video data an end user device main display; presenting an advertising data item having an advertising duration during execution of the trick play... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Roebuck Attn: Patent Docketing

20090204493 - System and method for providing advertisements in iptv service: A system and method for providing advertisements in Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) service are provided. The system includes a content server that stores content data; an advertisement server that stores advertisement data; a tag server that collects tag information input from a plurality of users, creates and updates a tag... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090204501 - System and method of marketing beauty products: The present invention relates to a system and method of marketing beauty products, and more particularly to a system and method of marketing beauty products to male customers in a male-frequented setting. In one embodiment, the method includes obtaining a display having advertising space for beauty products, locating the display... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20090204485 - Systems and methods for selling and displaying advertisements over a network: Systems and methods are provided for selling one or more advertisements and displaying the one or more advertisements a fixed placement for a set duration of time on a web page within an Internet website in combination with displaying advertisements from the same advertiser in contextually relevant locations within the... Agent: Troutman Sanders LLP Bank Of America Plaza

20090204494 - Technique for eliminating fraudulent use of printed coupons: A method for redeeming coupons, comprising the steps of storing on an electronic device an electronic coupon having encrypted data and unencrypted data, wherein the encrypted data is required for printing the coupon; reading data stored on the portable electronic device at purchase location, and comparing the unencrypted data with... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090204503 - Methods and systems for establishing investment accounts associated with presentation instruments: This disclosure describes, generally, methods and systems for establishing an investment account associated with a presentation instrument. In one embodiment, the method includes providing a presentation instrument with an associated account identifier. The method further includes establishing an investment account with an associated account identifier. The method associates the presentation... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090204504 - Method and system for pausing, migrating, and restarting retail point-of-sale transactions: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer program product for managing transactions on point-of-sale terminals comprising a peer-to-peer network in a retail data processing system. A purchase transaction for a customer is initiated on a point-of-sale terminal in the system. Responsive to receiving a first input from a... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090204505 - Method for creating a sales slip: In response to inputting order, a sales slip processor issues a sales slip with a slip code and a table code of a table at which the order is accepted, and stores order data in a sales holding file. In order to balance or rewrite sales slips, an operator inputs... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090204506 - E-commerce system and method: The present invention provides a subsystem that guarantees quality, safety, or environmental performance of the commodities. The subsystem is provided with a database that stores numerical characteristics that characterize regulations, standards, or required specifications regarding the quality, safety, or environmental performance of the commodities in the e-commerce transaction, and the... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20090204507 - Method and system for discovering and generating an insight via a network: A method and system (60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 110, 120) for discovering and generating a new insight via a network. An user intentionally enters a piece of data, information, or knowledge into a client system and sets its level of sharing. With no further action by the user the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090204509 - Storage medium for storing a program for executing the product purchasing method, and a server used therefor: A product purchase system using a network comprises a server 2 connected to a network 1, a database 5 included in the server 2 for storing order sheet data for each user, means connected to the network 1 for updating the order sheet data via the network 1, means for... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A. Ibm-rsw

20090204508 - System and method for providing a price quotation for a transportation service providing equipment selection capability: A method and system for computing the price for shipping goods. The method includes causing a computer to deliver first information to a user prompting the user to enter at the computer information about a rail transportation service for shipment of goods by one or more railcars. Information about a... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20090204511 - System and method for distributing targeted content: A system and method for distributing target content, i.e. advertising or promotional material, are disclosed. A user takes a photograph of an image meeting predefined criteria. Image data defining the photograph is extracted and transmitted to a server where the image data is matched with corresponding image data relating to... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti PC

20090204510 - System and method for paying charge of internet item using request of gift in mobile configuration: The present invention relates to wireless payment system and method in a mobile environment in which a sender makes a gift request for an internet item to a receiver using an MMS message and the sender is provided with the item according to payment of the receiver. The wireless payment... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090204512 - Method and system for determining a restocking state of a product: The present invention is directed to a method and system for determining a restocking state of a product in a retail store. A method in accordance with an embodiment includes: acquiring an image of a current state of a product at an assigned shelf location; determining a remaining number of... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090204513 - Point-of-care inventory management system and method: A system and method are disclosed for controlling an inventory of point-of-care diagnostic devices. The inventory includes a main inventory and at least one subinventory. Each device has an ambient temperature shelf life. Data associated with the devices is entered, including: the current quantity and predetermined minimum quantity of devices... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP (c/o Patent Administrator)

20090204514 - Systems, methods, and media for managing shared inventory in a virtual universe: Generally speaking, systems, methods and media for managing shared inventory in a virtual universe are disclosed. Embodiments of the method may include receiving notification of a user session being established between a user and a virtual universe simulator. The method may also include accessing a list of shared inventory items... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20090204516 - Accounting data retrieval method and system: An accounting method and system. The method includes determining by a computing system, that a second entity is dependent on a first entity for a specified time period. The computing system generates a first list comprising initially allowable purchase types list for items available for purchase by a user. The... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090204517 - Intercompany accounting data analytics: Methods and apparatuses enable finding and resolving intercompany (I/C) transaction issues in accounting data for a corporate enterprise. A data management tool receives general ledger data that defines intercompany account balances for multiple business entities of the corporate enterprise. The data management tool identifies a trading relationship and a currency... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090204515 - Intercompany transactions elimination system: A financial computer system at a holding company receives an approval of an intercompany transaction between two related subsidiary entities. The system generates an eliminating entry for the intercompany transaction at the time and every time it receives an approval, thereby providing timely and accurate financial information for the holding... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P. Oracle International Corporation

20090204519 - Method and system for generating account reconciliation data: A method and system for providing information regarding a customer account are provided. The customer account includes a plurality of entries, each entry being indicative of a request for payment where the request for payment is being issued by a biller entity to a customer entity. A payment record including... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20090204518 - System for electronically implementing a business transaction between a payee and a payor: A system for electronic implementation of a business transaction between parties thereto is disclosed. The system comprises an operably inter-connectable network which includes a transaction processing unit of a payor selected financial service provider, a transaction processing unit of a payee selected financial service provider, a payor input/output unit operably... Agent: Olson & Cepuritis, Ltd.

20090204522 - Bar coded bill payment system and method: A system and method for payment is provided, wherein consumers pay their bills at supermarkets, large retail chain, or other stores and receive immediate credit from billers for their payments. Payments are made using a bar code printed on the bill or sent to the consumer, e.g. by fax or... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090204523 - Method and apparatus for facilitating online payment transactions in a network-based transaction facility using multiple payment instruments: A method and apparatus for facilitating online payment transactions between participants in a network-based transaction facility are described. In one embodiment, user interface information is communicated to a first participant via a communications network. The user interface information identifies various payment instruments available for processing online payment transactions in the... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20090204520 - Method and system for enabling charging of non-charging controlled services: A method and apparatus for charging control of service usage in an electronic communications system. An invocation of charging control is received from a service client for service usage by a user. Charging related data and rules checked for the user and it is determined whether the session should be... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090204521 - Method of and system for web-based managing and reporting mortgage transactions: A system and method for web-based mortgage/loan reporting and management are provided. A electronic mortgage is created. The mortgage is reported to parties involved. A funds request can be sent to a funding party such as a financial institutions. When a funding acknowledgement has been received a final mortgage report... Agent: Hayes Soloway P.C.

20090204529 - Advanced budget bill control system for end users: A system and method for allowing a consumer of a commodity to set the parameters of a budget bill calculation system via an interactive user interface. The parameters are intended to help consumers control their budget bill calculations, payment structure, true-up factors and other aspects of their budget bills. Budget... Agent: Fox Rothschild, LLP Pittsburgh

20090204530 - Bar coded monetary transaction system and method: An improved financial transaction device comprising bar-coded information incorporating one of a plurality of algorithmic signatures, the signature being configured to permit at least one party involved in a financial transaction to store pertinent data in a multi-organizational payment tracking database, wherein the signature comprises a payment tracking identifier capable... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090204527 - Currency code for soft earning unit: Hard Currency is used as common denominator to value product and services. In the complete digital world, this common denominator can be dealt only in computing devices and we don't need hard currencies. Henceforth it is further referred as Soft Earning Unit(s) (SEU). The invention is intended for extending Currency... Agent: Samir Srivastava

20090204531 - Financial management and professional referral software: This invention relates generally to software, and more specifically, to systems and methods for providing financial management and professional referral software. In one embodiment, the invention includes a software application that performs the steps of establishing an account for an individual; accepting assets for the individual, the assets being associated... Agent: Ruttler Law PLLC One Union Square

20090204526 - Method and system for utilizing a flexible case model for collections: A computer-implemented method and system for creating a flexible case model for use in managing collections of multiple accounts of a customer needing collection. Attributes are defined, each of the attributes including a data source, wherein the data source can be inherited or rolled up. Plural different entity models are... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20090204525 - Payment device to issuer communication via authorization request: A method includes receiving a transaction authorization request in a server computer. The transaction authorization request is for the purpose of authorizing a payment card account transaction. The method further includes parsing the discretionary data field defined in the transaction authorization request, to receive information regarding a payment device that... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20090204524 - Security system: A credit card scanning protection system configured to send an electronic message to the cardholder's mobile phone (or other electronic device) when the cardholder's card is used in a transaction. In the event the cardholder receives notice of an unauthorized transaction, the cardholder can immediately call the issuing authority and... Agent: Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090204528 - System and method for facilitating purchase of financial investments on behalf of a beneficiary and providing interactive investment information: A system, method and software for facilitating the purchase of financial investments for the benefit of beneficiary and providing educational and entertaining interactive tools regarding same is disclosed. The system includes at least one database containing information regarding one or more financial instruments. The system further includes at least one... Agent: Moore & Van Allen PLLC

20090204548 - Method and system for executing trades in a user preferred security: A system for executing trades in a user preferred security is disclosed. The system comprises a server system (12) that is in communication with a client system (14), a security data source (26) and a trade execution location (30). The security data source (26) provides security data relating to a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090204549 - Retirement income option: An option is provided to hedge against the risk of a reduction in retirement benefits or a change in the timing of when such benefits are received. The option may also be used to hedge against reductions in returns from Social Security and retirement savings plans. The option is standardized... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP (c/o Patent Administrator)

20090204532 - Graphical trading interface for visualizing stop order data: A computer-implemented method for visualizing trading data may be used together with a graphical user interface of a computer system. The method performs the displaying of a price range including graduated price levels for a tradable item. Data of a stop order is received and evaluated to determine price levels... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20090204535 - Large block trading: Systems and methods for administering trade orders are described. An embodiment comprises receiving, from a first server operated by a first trader, a communication including a first trade order and one or more selection criteria, the first trade order including at least one of a specified instrument, a specified quantity,... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20090204534 - Method and system for providing order routing to a virtual crowd in a hybrid trading system and executing an entire order: A method of providing orders to a virtual trading crowd in an exchange prior to automatically linking the order to an away market includes receiving a marketable order at the exchange, wherein the exchange price differs from a national best bid or offer (NBBO) price, routing the order to a... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090204536 - Methods and systems for network loan marketing: Methods and systems for trading financial products such as loans over a network such as the Internet that includes receiving information relating to the financial product offered for sale on behalf of a seller, making the information relating to the financial product available over the network, receiving a bid from... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20090204533 - Stock trading limit order coupled link (lock): This invention has the potential to generate very good return on investments from stocks that are conservative in movement. This invention will greatly benefit investors that do not have the time to constantly trade stock yet want to take advantage of normal price fluctuations. The Limit Order Coupled LinK (LOCK)... Agent: Law Office Of Clay Mcgurk

20090204537 - Payment method for content, mobile equipment and content item implementing the method: The invention relates to a payment method for content, e.g. a content item protected by a Digital Rights Management (DRM) scheme. The content item contains a payment directive that automatically invokes a payment procedure before the content item may be used. The payment directive specifies how to utilise payment methods... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090204538 - User interface and system including same: A graphical user interface including a controller for redistributing funds between a first account and a second account. The controller includes a slidable element positionable over a fixed background element to define a first segment and a second segment of the background element. A length of the first segment is... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090204539 - Portable electronic financial management: An electronic wallet stores information regarding credit, membership and other accounts. The information may be accessed to facilitate monetary and other transactions utilizing the various stored accounts. The transactions are stored such that accurate account balances are maintained by the electronic wallet. Security measures prevent unauthorized users from accessing account... Agent: Allen F. Bennett Santucci, Priore & Long, LLP

20090204540 - Control features in a 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.

20090204541 - Preventing unauthorized modification or skipping of viewing of advertisements within content: A method, apparatus, and system are directed towards employing a chain of permission keys obtained during playing of advertisements within content to enable continued playing of the content. A sequence of encoded permission keys are generated with each encoded permission key, except a last permission key, incorporating a scrambling key... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090204542 - Privately sharing relying party reputation with information card selectors: A computer system accesses reputation information about a relying party. The reputation information can be stored locally or remotely (for example, at an identity provider or reputation service). A reputation information engine can be used to provide the reputation information to the user. The user can then use the reputation... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C. - Novell

20090204543 - System and method of selectively distributing media content to a consumer and preventing the unauthorized sharing of media content: The present invention is a system and method of selectively distributing media content to consumers, the system comprising essentially of a USB-type storage device loaded with media content, a network and a user interface system. The method comprises essentially of providing a USB-type storage device loaded with media content, distributing... Agent: Ruben Alcoba, Esq.

20090204544 - Activation by trust delegation: A mechanism for delegating trust to activate a target program from the vendor (or its intermediary) to a customer (or its intermediary) using an issuance license. The customer may then activate using their own authentication implementation. Also, a method for formulating an issuance license that permits such delegation. Furthermore, a... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090204545 - Electronic financial transactions: A new electronic financial transaction (EFT) system is proposed, wherein the business logic of a transaction is defined at a location remote from a secure point of sale terminal, thus having a framework wherein the business logic can be easily customised or updated.... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20090204546 - Electronic payment and associated systems: By linking together mobile telephony systems having small message service capacity and payment clearance systems such as those operated by banks and credit card companies, substantial facilitation of electronic payments may be achieved. Existing security systems designed to protect the mobile telephony system, for example SIM cards and optional encryption... Agent: Breiner & Breiner, L.L.C.

20090204547 - Transaction management system and method: Within the program store the stored instructions comprise instructions for controlling the processor to (a) implement a buyer interface to receive a purchase inquiry from a buyer, the purchase inquiry comprising purchase criteria for a plurality of product and/or service requirements including timing and/or geographical relationships therebetween (b) output seller... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20090204551 - Learning-based method for estimating costs and statistics of complex operators in continuous queries: A learning-based method for estimating costs or statistics of an operator in a continuous query includes a cost estimation model learning procedure and a model applying procedure. The model learning procedure builds a cost estimation model from training data, and the applying procedure uses the model to estimate the cost... Agent: George A. Willinghan, Iii August Law, LLC

20090204550 - Marketing plan for social change and resource reallocation through the sale and/or exchange of goods and services: A method and system for marketing goods/services based on the incomes of the suppliers of the goods/services and the purchasers of those goods/services. Those suppliers of the goods/services who have the least income will receive the most remuneration. Those suppliers of the goods/services who have the greater income will receive... Agent: Thomas R. Halkett

20090204552 - Preparation of an edible product from dough: The present invention is directed to mold control and extended shelf life methods and compositions for preparing edible dough-based products, such as, for example, breads, by treating the surface of the dough used to prepare the edible product with at least one preservative and at least one pH adjusting agent... Agent: Novozymes North America, Inc.

20090198503 - Acknowledging receipt of delivered article by intended receiver: A method, system and computer program product for acknowledging receipt of an article by an intended receiver are disclosed. A method may comprise: communicating a receiver identification to the intended receiver; providing a mechanism to request an actual receiver of the article to provide the receiver identification; in response to... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090198507 - Behavior-based web page generation marketing system: One feature provides a configurable system that allows web site operators/administrators to dynamically identify consumer behavior, formulate different marketing strategies for the same product depending on consumer triggers, and dynamically generating web pages that present different marketing content to consumers based on their segments. Such configurable system may implement behavior-based... Agent: Loza & Loza LLP

20090198508 - Electronic price tag device, pop device, management system for electronic price tag device, and method and program for controlling management system for electronic price tag device: The present invention provides a solution to the following problem: when using an electronic price tag device attached to a POP panel, an advertising content of the POP panel may be inconsistent with a price displayed on the electronic price tag device, and such inconsistency is left as is until... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090198505 - Interactive path planning with dynamic costing: An interactive path planning system supports a designer's efforts to manually optimize routes for cost, constructability, environmental considerations, and the like. This permits a user to manually seek optimizations of a route cost that are not be available through automated cost optimization algorithms and techniques. Moreover, this may permit the... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20090198506 - Network-based system for enhancing cooperation among persons engaged in an enterprise: A network-based system for enhancing cooperation among persons engaged in an enterprise includes a server coupled to the network executing software providing one or more interactive displays on computerized appliances operated by the persons. and a data repository accessible to the server, the data repository storing enterprise-related profiles for individual... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20090198504 - Rater resource allocation systems and methods: Methods of allocating raters to assessment visits of studies, and tangible computer readable media including software that is adapted to control a computer to implement methods of allocating raters to assessment visits of studies, are provided. Raters are allocated by retrieving blinding information that includes at least one blinding criterion... Agent: Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein, Cohen & Pokotilow, Ltd.

20090198502 - System and method for automated radio frequency safety and regulatory compliance at wireless transmission sites: Maintaining information about radio transmission sites in a computer accessible database. In one aspect this is a living database consisting of hundreds of thousands of wireless sites and their unique characteristics. The database includes energy transmissions information including site specific physical locations and utilization characteristics of the sites. The System... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20090198512 - Medical file carrier cover: A method of storing a medical file carrier in a healthcare facility includes disposing a first portion of the medical file carrier in a first pocket of a removable carrier cover, substantially covering an outer surface of the medical file carrier with a surface of the carrier cover, and defining... Agent: Stephen B. Salai, Esq. Harter Secrest & Emery LLP

20090198513 - Method and apparatus for reconciling patient and procedure information in a medical facility computer network and imaging system: Disclosed is a method for reconciling mismatches in data in a hospital computer system by selectively preventing editing of data entered at a first location at a second location, and providing for remapping of data acquired in an incorrect data structure to a corrected data structure.... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20090198509 - Method and systems for connecting service providers and service purchasers: Service providers, service purchasers, and interested third parties may link combined expectations, resulting in real insight and greater satisfaction for all involved. A ranking of service providers is obtained from past service purchasers, the ranking comprising emotive satisfaction ratings of pre-selected attributes. Individual profiles for service providers are generated that... Agent: Fox Rothschild LLP New York

20090198511 - Methods and systems for collecting and analyzing medical data: The invention provides methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for processing medical data of a database, the medical data relating to diseases, and symptoms related to the diseases, said method including, Requesting an individual user to input data descriptive of a symptom; searching the database for data descriptive of... Agent: Ip Strategies

20090198510 - Prescription refill reminder system and method: A system and method for subscriber reminders. The method includes receiving, from a plurality of customers, prescription refill data. The method also includes processing the prescription refill data according to business rules. The method also includes sending, to a subscriber, a prescription refill reminder according to the prescription refill data... Agent: Docket Clerk, Dm/eds

20090198514 - Knowledge based clinical dental records management systems: The present invention relates to an electronic records management system. More specifically, the present invention is a comprehensive knowledge based clinical records management solution that encompasses the need for accurate records, while reducing the time and effort required to enter complete and accurate information.... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20090198520 - Method and system for routing orders and results: Order-fulfillers “claim” (route to themselves, etc.) unclaimed orders, limited to their line-of-work, using patient and/or order-creator properties or parameters to identify and select the correct order based on search engine, common database modalities and master patient/person index technologies available freely, as open source, or a combination, and once orders have... Agent: Jose E Piovanetti-perez, Md

20090198521 - Occupational health data system and method: A method and system for employee life cycle management collects occupational health data from a plurality of diverse occupational health data sources for a plurality of employees, stores the collected data in a central database, processes the data to generate employee life cycle data, stores the employee life cycle management... Agent: Peter L. Berger, Esq. Levisohn, Lerner, Berger & Langsam, LLP

20090198515 - Organization method and system for health information: A health information and health record organization system. The system is designed for use by a consumer and their physician, dentist, optometrist, veterinarian, and other health care provider. The invention can have a paper and an electronic component and carrying case for radiology films, pathology slides, and CDs. A web-based... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20090198517 - Pharmacy episodes of care: A computer-implemented method for grouping, categorizing, and profiling pharmaceutical claims data to assist health care managers in determining (a) medication treatment experience, outcomes, and medication compliance behaviors of patients and (b) appropriate drug prescribing, medication coordination, and cost-efficiency of health care providers. An objective means is provided for categorizing and... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20090198518 - Prescription drug prior authorization system and method: An online application for approving prior authorization requests for prescription drugs. The application is used by pharmacy benefits providers, physicians, and pharmacies to request prior authorizations for drugs and to receive approvals automatically if a requested drug meets authorization criteria. The online application is accessible through a group pharmacy benefits... Agent: Standley Law Group LLP

20090198516 - System and method of managing diabetes employing an interactive website: A method and system for managing diabetes employing an interactive website for processing data through an algorithm to correlate the lifestyle factors with stored vital statistics to produce a real-time assessment of diabetes management such as glucose levels. The website gives the user an interactive and real-time analysis of blood... Agent: Fulwider Patton LLP

20090198519 - System for gene testing and gene research while ensuring privacy: A system, method and program product, the method comprising, in one embodiment, providing a secure testing service for patient's identification and payment data encrypted at the data level, non-identifiable method for a patient to have a genetic tests to identify variants or mutations of their genes or combinations of genes... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090198522 - equity/interest rate hybrid hedging system and method: The present invention provides a method and system for determining hedging transactions to meet required characteristics of risks associated with an insurance instrument, and mitigating the risks associated with the insurance instrument by executing hedging transactions. The hedging transactions utilize hybrid derivatives. In general, the equity/interest rate hybrid derivative concept... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20090198523 - Computer system and method for determining an insurance rate: In a computer system and computer implemented method for determining an insurance rate for terrorism-related property insurance, one or more industry classification attributes, indicative of an industry segment associated with the property, are selected. A basic rate is determined from rate values assigned to the selected industry classification attributes. One... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090198524 - Corporate-owned life insurance settlement computer system: A computer-aided method including generating output with a computer system by processing input data and thereby producing at least one of the group including an illustration including a party without an insurable interest in a life insured by a COLI (corporate-owned life insurance) policy, wherein the party receives an assignment... Agent: Peter K. Trzyna, Esq.

20090198527 - Insurance product and related system and method: A defendant protection policy is purchased by a plaintiff in connection with pursuing a lawsuit against a defendant, and pays out to the defendant in the event of an outcome unfavorable to the plaintiff. The plaintiff can be required to purchase the defendant protection policy by law or by contract.... Agent: Herbert L. Allen Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist, P.A.

20090198525 - Method of managing a life insurance plan and a system therefor: A method of managing a life insurance plan includes receiving a premium from an insured life. On occurrence of an insured event to the insured life, a predetermined amount is paid out to the insured life and on occurrence of an insured event to a parent of the insured life... Agent: Paul D. Bianco Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco Pl

20090198526 - Payment of benefits for survivors of certain medical conditions: A method for payment of a benefit to a survivor of a subsequent medical condition. Initial and subsequent information about a person is received, the information concerning at least one specified medical condition. The initial information is inspected to determine the state of health of the person, the state of... Agent: Bryan Cave Powell Goldstein

20090198528 - System and method providing market mechanisms for trading in forward contracts on heterogeneous goods: System and method for trading in forward contracts exchangeable for tickets to events. A computerized exchange of the box office provides for trading forward contracts exchangeable for tickets to events. Instructions direct a central processing unit to receive bid and ask requests for forward contracts wherein each bid and ask... Agent: The Jansson Firm

20090198530 - Automated solution for managing ancillary working relationships in an organization: The present invention discloses a method, system, device, and/or computer program for managing ancillary relationships in an organization. The invention can include a social network graph, a directory services data store, and an ancillary relationship coordinator. The social network graph can graphically illustrate the relationships, both direct and ancillary, between... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A. Ibm-rsw

20090198533 - Business process extractor: A system and method for extracting information from business applications in real time is provided. The method comprises the steps of obtaining a message from the business applications, identifying and categorizing a business process context of the message, storing the business process context of said message, correlating the message based... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090198537 - Defining an soa strategy for a service oriented architecture: Methods and systems for defining SOA strategy for a Service Oriented Architecture (‘SOA’) are described that include identifying, in dependence upon a business's SOA vision and one or more artifacts describing a current state of a business's SOA, one or more SOA opportunity areas for the business; assessing a current... Agent: Biggers & Ohanian (end)

20090198535 - Defining service funding for a service oriented architecture: Methods and systems for defining service funding for a Service Oriented Architecture (‘SOA’) are described that include, in response to an event requiring a change in service funding, identifying a potential SOA funding model for a business's SOA, the potential SOA funding model governing funding of services implemented in the... Agent: Biggers & Ohanian (end)

20090198542 - Distributing premium content with advertising sponsorship: Distribution of rights protected content as a function of advertisement based sponsorship is provided. Rights protected content can be obtained by a user for no cost or for a reduced cost in exchange for acceptance of advertisements. The advertisements can be provided as a condition that should be satisfied before... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090198541 - Enhanced brand label validation: Enhanced brand label validation, in which identification information uniquely identifying items that have moved through one or more nodes of a supply chain is received, and event data associated with the uniquely identified items is received from the one or more nodes, based on the received identification information. The process... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090198534 - Governing a service oriented architecture: Methods and systems for governing a service oriented architecture (‘SOA’) are disclosed that include planning for implementation of an SOA governance model for governing a business's SOA including identifying compliance requirements for the SOA; defining the SOA governance model in accordance with the identified compliance requirements; enabling the defined SOA... Agent: Biggers & Ohanian (end)

20090198543 - License compliance management: Methods, computer program products and systems for determining the level of use of a program associated with a license, by one or more agents, for comparison with a predetermined licensed level of use. In one embodiment of the invention, the method comprises the steps of collecting initial data from the... Agent: Ibm Corp (ibm Austin Iplaw)

20090198540 - Method and system for determining an execution sequence of a set of sales orders: Disclosed is a method and system for receiving a work order having a set of sales orders and determining sales order parameters such as a due date of a sales order and a restriction on the sales order. The method also includes determining a work station to execute the work... Agent: Sap Ag

20090198531 - Method and system for discovering dependencies in project plans of distributed system: A method and system for discovering dependencies in project plans of a distributed system. Project plans are located by a project plan path. A project plan contains dependency information of a task to be performed, a resource necessary to perform the task, and a prerequisite task to perform the task.... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090198536 - Method and system for vendor-neutral subcontractor enablement: A method implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code, includes receiving information in support of a bid and determining if value-add eligibility criteria is met. Additionally, the method includes calculating a bid price based on the information if the value-add eligibility criteria is met, updating a record indicating... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090198532 - Method and tool for business process adaptation using goal modeling and analysis: A business process (BP) adaptation system (400) includes a High-Variability enriched Goal Model (HVGM) (402) that captures and refines goals of a business process (BP) while modeling alternative options where the model captures non-functional or quality attributes used in an evaluation of a performance of the BP and an estimation... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20090198545 - Method of qualifying small business ownership for first-time buyers: A business brokerage process is provided for identifying key issues for locating appropriate buyers and sellers for a successful business purchase. The method includes the steps of psychological testing, process awareness through coaching and education, spousal support through involvement, and access to financing through introduction to providers of capital.... Agent: Mcguirewoods, LLP

20090198538 - Mobile advertisement filtering: Disclosed is a method for filtering mobile ads, including sensing an editorial event from an advertiser user interface, wherein the editorial event comprises an advertiser creating or editing a mobile advertisement listing; enabling submission of the mobile listing multiple channel and carrier attributes; automatically checking the mobile listing with at... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20090198539 - Onscreen takeoff incorporating typical areas system, method and computer product: A system, method, and computer product for taking installation information off areas of digital plans for estimating and evaluating with predetermined material, labor rates, and costs. The system incorporates typical areas and typical groups for repeating objects in applications such as office buildings and hotels. The system automatically sums individual... Agent: Michael T. Perkins

20090198546 - System and method for dynamic management of business processes: The present invention provides a computerized system for modeling a business process, comprising a web server and a database server. The web server implements a user interface to the system. The database server is in operable communication with the web server and comprises a data architecture representing the business process.... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c

20090198529 - System and method for integrating point of sale and electronic article surveillance: System and method for integrating information concerning point of sale (POS) transactions and electronic article surveillance deactivations are disclosed. The method includes the steps of providing a POS station configured to collect and transmit first data pertaining to purchased merchandise having at least one EAS tag, the POS station further... Agent: Tyco International Ltd

20090198544 - Systems and methods for facilitating data transactions in time recording systems: Systems and methods for facilitating data transactions in time recording systems may include receiving, at a client application from a timekeeper, a timekeeper identification. The received timekeeper identification and a request for time entry data associated with the timekeeper may be communicated to a middle-tier application that accesses at least... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20090198549 - Automated repair system and method for network-addressable components: A system, and a corresponding method provide for automated repair of network-addressable components belonging to an enterprise. The system includes a service event filter that receives information related to the operation of the component and in real time determines if the received information indicates a serviceable event; and a service... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090198547 - Catering method and system: A single caterer or multiple caterers may provide individualized meals for a large number of customers at a number of different institutions. A server computer has individual accounts for each customer, caterer, institution accounts grouping the customers by the institution with which they are affiliated, and an administration account for... Agent: Barber Legal

20090198548 - System to avoid policy-based deadlocks in workflow execution: A computer-implemented method avoids policy-based deadlocks in execution of a workflow. The method includes receiving information describing a workflow. The workflow includes tasks, roles, site of tasks and security constraints related to the tasks. A data structure, representative of relationships between the tasks and the security constraints is automatically generated.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/sap

20090198550 - Defining service ownership for a service oriented architecture: Defining service ownership for an SOA including defining, in response to an event requiring a change in service ownership and in dependence upon data describing business functions within a business, a service domain; reviewing, by a service domain ownership review board, the defined service domain for approval; upon approval of... Agent: Biggers & Ohanian (end)

20090198562 - Generating social graph using market data: A social graph may be generated using a system and method to: identify a focal user, the focal user associated with a transaction; determine a related user associated with the transaction, the related user having a buyer-seller relationship with the focal user; and present the focal user and the related... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20090198560 - Graphical system for determining the relative attractiveness of investments: A system for scoring and evaluating financial investments including a server accessible by at least one client, a database including a plurality of financial indicators for a plurality of investments, software executing on the server for generating a score for each of at least a portion of the financial indicators... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20090198565 - Idea collaboration system: An idea collaboration system includes an innovation market that accepts and displays user-submitted ideas; a discussion section that allows registered users to comment on and ranking ideas; and an idea merit section that displays an indication of merit for the ideas. The indication of merit for each idea is based... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20090198569 - Method and apparatus for presenting advertisements: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a controller to determine a behavioral profile of an end user from packet traffic generated by activities of the end user, and share the behavioral profile with a network element for distributing targeted advertisements to the end... Agent: At&t Legal Department - As Attn: Patent Docketing

20090198558 - Method and system for recommending jobseekers to recruiters: A method of establishing affinities among jobseekers is disclosed. The method comprises monitoring jobseeker activity on a web site. The jobseekers are correlated by a job ID based on jobs for which a jobseeker applies or views. A list of job IDs is sorted, with corresponding jobseekers IDs of jobseekers... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20090198563 - Method for presenting promotional information on a web page: A method for presenting supplemental promotional information on a web page includes: a) providing a shopping website that includes product web pages corresponding respectively to products; b) storing browsing activity information of a user with respect to the product web pages as a history log; c) analyzing the history log... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20090198567 - Method of adaptive browsing for digital content: Providing adaptive visual browsing of digital content may be accomplished by presenting a scrolling ticker on a display for browsing of digital content available for viewing by a user of a processing system, the ticker having a plurality of items, each item including an image representing at least one of... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20090198570 - Methodologies and analytics tools for identifying potential licensee markets: A method is disclosed for use with at least one initial document describing a technical concept suitable for licensing, the method comprising: retrieving a set of intellectual property documents from a data warehouse; partitioning the set of intellectual property documents into a plurality of document categories; classifying the set of... Agent: Ibm - Arc Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20090198559 - Multi-resolutional forecasting system: Traffic to a selected network resource, such as a Web site, is forecast using a forecasting model that is based upon a selected resolution. The resolution can be a year, month, season, week, day of the week, an annual day-long event, or any other repetitive time interval for which data... Agent: Disney Enterprises, Inc C/o Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha LLC

20090198571 - Related product system and method: Computer-implemented systems and methods for automatically creating a second customized product design incorporating information from a first customized product design. Information from a first custom product design is automatically combined with additional automatically selected content to create a new custom product to be promoted to the customer. When possible, information... Agent: Vista Print Usa, Inc. Attn: Patent Counsel

20090198561 - Self learning method and system for managing agreements to purchase goods over time: 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

20090198568 - System and method for modeling and applying a people network representation: A system and method for applying a people network representation to aid contact between a member of an organization and a target individual selects a contact path between the member and the target supported by analysis of the level of interaction between members of the organization based on network communications... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20090198564 - System and method of interactive consumer marketing: A system and method of interactive consumer marketing, wherein a plurality of marketing channels are specifically and directly focused upon particular goods or services of a sponsor for a specific time period, wherein interactive engagement of a plurality of potential consumers necessarily results therefrom and wherein further dialog, broadcast and... Agent: Kaplan Ward & Patel LLC

20090198553 - System and process for generating a user model for use in providing personalized advertisements to retail customers: A process for generating a user model to be used in providing personalized advertisements to a specific user includes the steps of collecting user-specific data while the specific user is interacting with any of a plurality of retailers. The process further includes generating a user model for the specific user... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090198552 - System and process for identifying users for which cooperative electronic advertising is relevant: A process for identifying a subset of users for which a cooperative electronic advertising is relevant includes the steps of generating user models associated with originating retailers, receiving a request to advertise products related to products sold by the retailers, identifying user models by applying an advertisement specific selection model... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090198554 - System and process for identifying users for which non-competitive advertisements is relevant: A process for identifying a subset of users for which a non-competitive advertisement is relevant includes the steps of generating a plurality of user models including user-specific data, identifying a subset of the plurality of user models by applying an advertisement-specific selection model to identify users for which a specific... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090198555 - System and process for providing cooperative electronic advertising: A process for providing cooperative electronic advertising includes the steps of generating a user model associated with an originating retailer, receiving requests to advertise products sold by originating retailers, identifying products by applying advertisement-specific selection models to the user model to identify which of the products is relevant and communicating... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090198556 - System and process for selecting personalized non-competitive electronic advertising: A process for selecting personalized non-competitive electronic advertising from a plurality of competitive and non-competitive advertisements includes the steps of generating a selection model based on product data and user-specific data, generating a user model using the user-specific data and selecting non-competitive personalized electronic advertising from the plurality of advertisements... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090198551 - System and process for selecting personalized non-competitive electronic advertising for electronic display: A process of selecting personalized non-competitive electronic advertising from a plurality of competitive and non-competitive advertisements for electronic display including the steps of generating a selection model, generating a user model, selecting personalized non-competitive electronic advertising from the plurality of advertisements using the selection model and user model to identify... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090198557 - Timing commercial offers based on long-term user data: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that times commercial offers made to a user. During operation, the system starts by receiving financial history data for the user, wherein the financial history data includes purchase records for a set of purchases. The system then identifies a subset of... Agent: Pvf -- Intuit, Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090198566 - Universal targeted blogging system: A blogging system comprising a browsing page having a filtering system displayed in a first portion of a window, a list of hits in a second portion of the window, and a hits list filter in a third portion of the window, wherein a ranking threshold may be set by... Agent: Cislo & Thomas LLP

20090198573 - Advertisement insertion system and method: A method for presenting an advertisement during a video game. A rendering library used by the video game is renamed to a different name. A replacement library is named to the same name as the rendering library before the rendering library was renamed. The replacement library is coupled to the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090198578 - Auction inverse system: In a traditional Auction, Auction of any item takes place at specific date and time and who so ever bids high wins. Here is totally revolutionary auction mechanism, I named it an “Inverse Auction System or Auction Inverse System”—In this system the items are listed by the auctioneer in the... Agent: Muhammad Shams Mukhtar

20090198577 - Business process, method, system and model of commerce between a unique business entity that procures and distributes any product and/or service & its consumers whom receive said products and services by purchasing a subscription based membership pro: The present invention relates to an exclusive method, system and model of commerce created between a unique business entity that offers, publishes, and/or distributes any product and/or service through a subscription based membership program purchased by its consumers and the unique business entities' consumers who receive said products and/or services... Agent: Robert Foreman James Aldridge

20090198581 - Digital creative works widgets: A computer-implemented method includes generating a profile for a user, the profile having digital creative content associated therewith, and the user having rights in the digital creative content, selecting digital creative content associated with the profile from digital memory, generating a widget in a graphical user interface to advertise the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090198580 - Distribution and targeting of advertising for mobile devices: Advertisements are selected according to user profiles and selected advertisements may be downloaded offline to mobile devices and stored. Each advertisement may be associated with an advertisement header or auxiliary file specifying parameters of the advertisement. Content may be separately provided to the mobile device. Each content may be associated... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20090198574 - Flying foam apparatus and method of making flying foam: The present invention is an apparatus for generating foam shapes that float in air having a container, a gas source, an aeration nozzle for aerating a gas from the gas source, an outlet, and a separator for separating extruded foam into individualized foam shapes.... Agent: Robert M. Schwartz, P.A.

20090198579 - Keyword tracking for microtargeting of mobile advertising: An end-to-end mobile advertising system characterizes user behavior with regard to a mobile communication device in order to select micro-targeted advertisements. In particular, “keyword” usage in mobile applications can serve as a basis or augment a user behavioral profile. The types of keywords monitored address the particular user interface limitations... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090198575 - Software and method for producing art and art objects over a centrally managed communications network connecting art idea creators and art idea implementers/producers in a forum: The present invention provides a computer system running software with software implemented methods providing a secure private or virtual private communications network access for network users identified by the network as having permission for network access as either a member or guest and providing an enhanced way computer assisted production... Agent: J.g. Mullins

20090198576 - System and method for band promotion: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a game including a puzzle game interface pre-populated with alphanumeric characters or symbols, wherein interacting with the pre-populated alphanumeric characters or symbols of the puzzle game interface provides brand promotion.... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090198572 - System and method for rewards optimization in a computer system: A method of optimizing rewards earned by a customer of a financial institution comprises presenting data in an online banking computer system of rewards earned by a customer of a financial institution, and presenting data in the online banking computer system of rewards the customer of the financial institution could... Agent: Wells Fargo C/o K& L Gates

20090198582 - Pos device: A POS device includes a rotation shaft vertically fixed, a rotary plate provided so as to be rotatable about the rotation shaft, a rotating portion placed on the rotary plate and having at least a barcode scanner and a receipt printer, and a display device for clerk and a display... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090198583 - Method for paying invoices: For an organization having a central station and a plurality of distributed outlets, each of the outlets having a cashier's terminal, each of the cashier's terminals coupled to a respective point-of-sale (POS) controller, a method of permitting a billee to pay an invoice issued by a biller is disclosed.... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20090198590 - Industrial-design-resources operating platform: An industrial-design-resources operating platform locates at a server end for connecting buyers and designers at client ends via the internet. The industrial-design-resources operating platform comprises a primary storage module for storing at least one first industrial design draft sent by the designer; a resource depository module for depositing an industrial... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20090198584 - Management and publication of ideas for inventions accumulated in a computer database: Management in a database of inventions, ideas, and rights related to inventions including publication of ideas for inventions accumulated in a computer database. A computerized method includes establishing a contractual obligation by a prospective contributor of an idea contribution for the database to transfer property rights of a prospectively patentable... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090198587 - Method and system for authenticating customer identities: This disclosure describes, generally, methods and systems for authenticating the identities of customers. For example, a method comprising receiving a service request from a customer and retrieving customer profile information related to the customer is described. The method further comprises generating questions based on the customer profile information and receiving... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090198591 - Methods and systems for providing auctions and related broadcast communications: A computer-implemented method for conducting an auction of an item associated with an event. The method includes the steps of receiving registration information from charitable organizations, donor organizations, and bidders through a network, storing the registration information on a server, matching one or more of the charitable organizations to one... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090198589 - Seeded carrier and customized fundraising items including the same: A carrier for use in conducting a fundraiser is presented. The carrier including a first layer having a plurality of seeds disposed therein or thereon, a second layer disposed over the plurality of seeds and at least a portion of the first layer, and customizable postage indicia disposed on the... Agent: Michaud-duffy Group LLP

20090198588 - System and method for distributing media content: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a registration system having a controller to register a purchase of media content housed in a physical medium with one or more media sources to authorize a consumer of the purchased media content to electronically access from... Agent: At&t Legal Department - As Attn: Patent Docketing

20090198586 - Systems and methods to facilitate payment of shipped goods: This disclosure describes methods and systems for facilitating shipment of goods. The method includes forwarding an invoice for a purchase agreement made between a seller and a buyer. The method includes receiving a service selection indicating that the invoice is to be paid using an escrow system. The service selection... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090198585 - Vote up count down: An electronic commerce system of auctioning products on-line is provided. An auctioneer presents a list of available products to consumers. The products may be present to consumers using a web site. Customers are able to “vote up” as many products as they want. The product that the most customers have... Agent: Paul E Schaafsma, Novusip, LLC

20090198594 - Aggregation of product data provided from external sources for presentation on an e-commerce website: Aggregation of product data provided from external sources of product data for presentation on an e-commerce website. A set of product data related to a product that is offered for sale in e-commerce is accessed and subjected to an aggregation process. The set of product data is mapped for aggregation... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090198593 - Method and apparatus for comparing entities: A method and apparatus for comparing entities, such as companies or trademarks, based on available pricing and feature information regarding goods or services provided by the companies. Web services, e.g. price finding robots, are employed to obtain pricing and feature information for similar products from different companies. Products having similar... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090198592 - Sms gifting: A SMS gifting system including a computer of a commercial business in communication with a network; the computer generates a purchase authorization code (“PAC”) and an indicia that describes a purchase by a purchaser of goods, services, and gift amounts relating to the commercial business; the computer transmits the generated... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090198595 - Hand-held web browser inventory checking system: This invention provides a system and a method for real-time checking and inputting business inventory. The business operations range from a single branch to a large chain of stores or branches. The application utilizes a hand-held web-browser based system which allows store and business operators to view and input inventory... Agent: Saile Ackerman LLC

20090198598 - 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.

20090198597 - System and method for registration of valuable items: A system and method are provided for keeping track of the ownership of unique items in a system including a server computer connected to a database and at least one client computer connected to the server computer over a network. In operation information concerning the item is entered into the... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090198596 - Third-party certification using enhanced claim validation: Third party certification using enhanced claim validation, in which identification information uniquely identifying an item that has moved through a node in a supply chain is received and event data associated with the uniquely identified item is received from the node based on receiving the identification information. The process also... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090198599 - Enhanced automated capture of invoices into an electronic payment system: The recognition of invoices for multiple issuers and multiple recipients is automated. In one approach, many invoices are received. The received invoices are compared to a database of distinguishing features. These distinguishing features are for known templates of invoices from different issuers. Templates are selected for the invoices based on... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090198601 - Expense recovery system for multi-function device with smart data entry: An expense recovery system for a digital MFD in the form of a modification to the application program interface of the MFD to allow input of identifiers for the user, the client and the job and to transmit this information and other transaction data to a host computer for billing... Agent: Kauth , Pomeroy , Peck & Bailey ,llp

20090198600 - Systems and methods for the prevention of extended utility theft: Notification systems and methods are provided for identifying utility theft for an entity associated with a premise under a Continuous Service Agreement with at least one utility service provider, where utility service is never turned off such that the entity may legally use utility services while a premise is vacant.... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20090198605 - Communication system, a method of initiating a transaction, a base station and a transponder: A communication system (100) for initiating a transaction between a first communication device (101) and a second communication device (102), the communication system (100) comprising the first communication device (101) and the second communication device (102), wherein one of the first and second communication devices (101, 102) is adapted for... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property & Licensing

20090198603 - Flexible time-based disablement of equipment: Disclosed is a system and method for assuring the payment according to a repayment schedule of an obligation for using equipment by a device on the equipment. A subset of a plurality reference codes is selected. The current time and date and time are maintained. Reference codes in the subset... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090198602 - Ranking commercial offers based on user financial data: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that ranks commercial offers for a user in a set of users. During operation, the system receives financial data for the set of users, wherein the financial data includes spending data for the set of users across a set of categories.... Agent: Pvf -- Intuit, Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090198606 - Real time financial instrument image exchange system and method: A real time financial instrument image exchange system and method deliver a digital image of a financial instrument (for example, a bank check) very quickly through an image exchange network to a payor institution by promptly forwarding the digital image when it is created at a depositing institution. This may... Agent: Mcafee & Taft Tenth Floor, Two Leadership Square

20090198604 - Tracking a participant loss in a virtual world: Embodiments include an apparatus, device, system, computer-program product, and method. In an embodiment, a system includes a virtual world in which a participant may participate. The system also includes a covered-loss detection module operable to identify an occurrence of a defined loss in the virtual world suffered by the participant.... Agent: Iv - Suiter Swantz PC Llo

20090198633 - Investment classification and tracking system using diamond ratings: The present invention is directed to an asset classification system based on investment strategy. The system determines a diamond rating for peers within a selected investment strategy. The diamond ratings are based, in one configuration, on a combination of an extent to which a security or manager is outperforming or... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20090198628 - Method for pricing and processing distributed tasks: A system is described for interchange of problems and solutions by a human or computer which system has the capability to use market forces to determine a price of the solutions. The system comprises a client subsystem for solving problems, a client subsystem for submitting problems, an API by which... Agent: Paul Stadler

20090198634 - 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

20090198627 - Multi-leveled graphical representation business listing and investment portfolio evaluation method: A method of graphically representing and evaluating various business portfolios and listings. The method graphically depicts various user defined stages of use as “arrays” about a central pivot point, graphically depicts various user defined focus areas as “threads” about a central pivot point and graphically depicts various user defined listing... Agent: Lambert & Associates, P.l.l.c.

20090198631 - System and method for selecting securities for an investment portfolio: Methods and systems for selecting and weighting securities for an actively managed exchange-traded fund. An initial selection of stocks includes domestic or international stocks, which are selected based at least in part on market capitalization. Each stock is scored using a plurality of growth and value factors to generate one... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090198629 - Systems and methods for compound risk factor sampling with integrated market and credit risk: Systems and methods for generating an integrated market and credit loss distribution for the purpose of calculating one or more risk measures associated with a portfolio of instruments are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, compound risk factor sampling is performed that comprises conditionally generating multiple systemic credit driver samples... Agent: Bereskin And Parr LLP/s.e.n.c.r.l., S.r.l.

20090198630 - Systems and methods for investing: The present invention provides unique systems and methods for investors to invest in a new start-up, potential high growth or other company or business entity, and potentially make a substantial return on their investment while minimizing the risk of a loss of invested capital (i.e., having a maximized risk/investment return... Agent: Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP

20090198632 - Systems and methods for investment portfolio with fractional and virtual shares: Embodiments of the invention include a method for investor directed allocation of funds among a plurality of investments. The method includes allocating an investor's funds among investments according to a predefined allocation plan. An order processing system receives information from a reservoir of investments relating to the investments in the... Agent: Wilmerhale/dc

20090198609 - Facilitating multi-phase electronic bid evaluation: A computer implemented approach to facilitate multi-phase bid evaluation. In one embodiment, a digital processing system receives information packets (corresponding to bids) from different suppliers containing information elements associated with one of a sequence of phases. On receiving an indication (from a buyer) that a specific phase of the bidding... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20090198607 - Online map advertising: Systems and methods for selecting advertisements for presentation in a map space are disclosed. Map requests are received, map spaces identified, advertisement bids are received for advertisement space within the map spaces, and advertisements are selected for presentation in the map space based on the advertisement bids. The advertisement bids... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090198608 - Systems and methods for auctioning wireless device assets and providing wireless devices with an asset allocation option: An auction bidding system is provided. The system allows media content providers, such as advertisers, to define bidding constraints for a targeted audience and bid on wireless device assets, such as wireless device memory, application, ringtone, wallpaper and the like, if a biddable wireless device asset is defined. Additionally, the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090198610 - Credit risk prediction and bank card customer management by integrating disparate data sources: A future behavior prediction system includes a scoring engine to generate a final prediction score for a credit account holder from a combination of two or more variable summaries. Each variable summary is a summary of variable data from one of a number of data sources. The number of data... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c

20090198611 - Methods and systems for score consistency: Provided are methods and systems for determining score consistency.... Agent: Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP

20090198613 - Method and apparatus for group decision making: A method and apparatus are provided for group decision making. In one example, the method includes receiving bids from group members on choices, calculating a choice winner based on the bids, calculating a pot based on the bids, redistributing the pot based on the bids, and displaying results to the... Agent: Stattler - Suh PC

20090198612 - Non-credit account credit rating: A consumer's credit rating is derived from non-credit transactions on an account. Each transaction was a purchase by the consumer from a merchant using a pre-paid card. The derived consumer's credit rating can use a total of all of the transactions, totals for each merchant and/or for categories thereof. Here,... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20090198614 - Controlling the value of a plurality of transactions involving payment token: A method of controlling the value of at least one on-line transaction involving a token associated with an authorized user comprises the steps of: prior to the at least one proposed transaction, receiving at a pre-transaction authorisation station, pre-transaction authorisation data. The authorisation data comprises first time data relating to... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090198616 - Method and system for transferring money in business-to-business internet transactions: A method for enabling two businesses to complete a transaction that includes payment from one business (the buyer) to another business (the seller). A payment enabler operates the money transfer service over a computer network of nodes, such as the Internet. Typically, the buyer and the seller use the money... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20090198615 - Method, device, and system for completing on-line financial transaction: A method for conducting a secure transaction over a network includes the steps of receiving a price and a transaction identifier from a merchant, the transaction identifier identifying a purchase selection made by a user, receiving a user identifier from a user, receiving a financial institution selection from the user,... Agent: Mayback & Hoffman, P.A.

20090198617 - Method and apparatus for performing delegated transactions: for executing said transaction said token is transferred to the bank to which the account specified in said token belongs, said bank verifying the authenticity of said token by either performing an inverse encryption of said token or by repeating said encryption of said unencrypted token which has been reassembled... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090198618 - Device and method for loading managing and using smartcard authentication token and digital certificates in e-commerce: Device, system, and method for loading, managing and using smartcard authentication token and digital certificates in e-commerce. System for making and accepting payments in on-line transaction between parties including transaction server coupled with storage device in which subscriber data structure is defined and stores transaction subscriber information and configured to... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20090198619 - Aggregated hash-chain micropayment system: Disclosed are a system and method for aggregating micropayment hash chains. An end user (the “payer”) cryptographically signs “commitments” and transmits then to a vendor. The commitments include an “accumulated count” field which tracks the total number of micropayments made thus far in the payment transaction between the payer and... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090198620 - Mobile commerce receipt system: A mobile commerce receipt system and method providing a user of a mobile telecommunications terminal with a reliable electronic proof of reservation, purchase and/or payment made. By e-commerce means, the user places an order with a vendor or merchant and makes electronic payment. The vendor issues an electronic contract, sending... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090198626 - Electronic auction method: The invention relates to carrying out electronic auctions in a real-time mode. The time-limited rights of physical and/or legal persons, whose rights are based on the international applications for intellectual property protection under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) filed by said persons in one of the PCT member states, are... Agent: Houston Eliseeva

20090198621 - Energy price protection system and method: Protection is provided against increases in the price of energy. As an example, the protection may be provided for an agreed in advance quantity of energy and/or for an agreed in advance duration.... Agent: Gary P. Topolosky

20090198622 - Interactive system and method for transacting business over a network: A method of doing business includes allowing an individual to start a group, or Swarm, for the purpose of influencing a sale before purchasing a desired product or a service. The group is recorded in a searchable computer database such that additional individuals may join the group, and potential sellers... Agent: Lathrop & Gage LLP

20090198625 - Method and system for processing supplementary product sales at a point-of-sale terminal: A point-of-sale terminal determines an upsell to offer in exchange for a round-up amount in connection with a purchase. In one embodiment, the point-of-sale terminal preferably maintains a database of at least one upsell price and a corresponding upsell to offer a customer in exchange for a round-up amount (e.g.,... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20090198623 - System and method for executing and authenticating an activity at a remote location: Provided is a system and a method for executing a desired activity at a remote location, wherein said activity is ordered by individual in need thereof and is executed by a person incidentally occurring within a short range of the location who owns a Location-Aware Mobile Internet Device (LAMID), and... Agent: Ran Rubinstein

20090198624 - System and method for scheduling travel on a charter transport: A method is disclosed for scheduling travel on a charter transport. The method can include obtaining from a traveler a passenger accommodation request identifying an origin-destination-pair. The method can also include automatically identifying one or more charter transports having an available passenger accommodation. Moreover, the method can include notifying the... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP