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Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination November recently filed with US Patent Office 11/09

20090292547 - Auction trading interface: In an auction order display, the market is displayed on a screen where bids and offers are displayed along two lines. The corresponding bid and offer prices are, for example, in two columns, with the offer and bid columns displayed side by side, and the corresponding bid and offer prices... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20090292545 - Creating, managing, and provisioning packages of online applications: Methods and computer-readable media are provided herein for implementing custom application programming interfaces (API) for creating, managing, and provisioning packages of online applications. An offer management service API is implemented that provides methods for creating and modifying offers for packages of online applications. An offer provisioning API is implemented that... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090292546 - Human resources employment method: Various embodiments of this invention disclose a computer-aided human resources employment system and method that electronically captures and shares, in real-time, human resources and unemployment events and the completed forms that relate to those events. Other embodiments of this invention disclose a computer-aided system for managing human resources and unemployment... Agent: Marc E. Hankin, Esq.

20090292550 - Method for calculating the optimal times for an event: A method for planning an event with a computer system that includes the steps of gathering the constraints, creating filtered layers based on the constraints, intersecting at least two filtered layers, and determining at least one optimal time for the event. In another preferred embodiment, the method for planning an... Agent: Schox PLC

20090292548 - Method, system, and program product for information editorial controls: A method for information editorial controls includes a group of members in an online community receiving authorization a category of editorially-controlled content. A first editor of the group in the online community receives authorization to the category of editorially-controlled content. A member of the group rates published comments within a... Agent: Chuck Van Court

20090292549 - Social network construction based on data association: A system for social network construction. Video analytics and association may be used to develop a social network. Also, social groups may be developed from temporal proximity of persons. In the case of several social networks, they may be collapsed into one network or a weighted graph that mining algorithms... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090292552 - Integrated and interactive health-management system: An integrated and interactive health-management system allows a medical-care-recipient to transmit both physiological and non-physiological information obtained through his/her self-monitoring to a medical-service platform so that related medical personnel at the platform partaking in the medical treatment can learn the medical-care-recipient's home care status and provide the medical-care-recipient with professional... Agent: Charles E. Baxley, Esquire

20090292556 - Method and system for distributing patient referrals: Practitioners are certified to perform a medical procedure, such as an orthodontic procedure. Certified practitioners are maintained in a referral directory and classified within tiers based on criteria such as the number of procedures that they have performed. Inquiries are solicited from prospective patients, and referral lists are provided to... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP (018563)

20090292554 - Methods and apparatus for planning and management of clinical trials: A tool for planning and management of clinical trials. The tool computes a patient enrollment timeline in a clinical trial using multiple factors that bear on the rate of patient enrollment. The factors may be site-dependent factors or may be country-dependent factors. When these factors are applied, different sites may... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090292551 - System and method for mapping structural and functional deviations in an anatomical region: A data processing technique is provided. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes accessing individual patient deviation maps indicative of a structural difference and a functional difference, respectively, of at least one anatomical region of a patient with respect to standardized reference image data. The method may also include generating... Agent: Ge Healthcare C/o Fletcher Yoder, PC

20090292555 - Systems and methods for delivering on-call data for health care locations and physicians: A system which contains real-time specialist on-call data is disclosed. The system allows for the input and searching of specialist on-call data for various health care locations. The system is configured to allow a patient in need of the medical care of a specialist not currently available at the patient's... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090292553 - Tax insurance method, and system: This new kind of insurance permits a generalization of the concept ‘insured event’ thanks to a new kind of a marketing by traders of goods and services instead goods and services proper. It creates from more or less local known insurance services something much more important like ‘Insurance of Entire... Agent: Vladimir Trakhtman

20090292560 - Disease management interface system: A disease management interface system to improve the management of chronic diseases, disorders and conditions, comprising: by linking evidence-based protocols and desired management outcomes to a particular patients data through the use of rules-based decision engines, and presentation of the results of these decisions at opportune points in the process... Agent: Patent Department Larkin, Hoffman, Daly & Lindgren, Ltd.

20090292561 - Medical information access control apparatus and medical information access control program: A medical information access control apparatus including a first storage that stores information of a first access right and a second access right, a second storage that stores a determination information that determines whether or not a patient is in an emergency medical condition, an accepting unit that accepts an... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20090292559 - Medical workflow systems and methods with process workflow recordation: A medical information processing and storage system includes a medical images database storing medical images and metadata relevant to the medical images. A processor is configured to perform post-acquisition image processing on medical images. A medical images archiver is configured to store a medical image in the medical images database... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090292558 - Nursing home evaluation system: Methods, systems, and devices are described for determining resource allocation in a resident care facility, like a nursing home facility. Embodiments of the invention provide assessment questions to an assessor via a computer interface. The assessment questions may be based on a base assessment model having questions relating to a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090292557 - System and method for disease diagnosis from patient structural deviation data: A data processing technique is provided. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes accessing patient deviation data of a structural difference between a patient anatomical feature and a standardized anatomical feature. The method may also include comparing the patient deviation data to reference deviation data sets representative of multiple disease... Agent: Ge Healthcare C/o Fletcher Yoder, PC

20090292565 - Method of managing unemployment claims: Various embodiments of this invention disclose a computer-aided human resources employment system and method that electronically captures and shares, in real-time, human resources and unemployment events and the completed forms that relate to those events. Other embodiments of this invention disclose a computer-aided system for managing human resources and unemployment... Agent: Marc E. Hankin, Esq.

20090292564 - System and method for administering annuities: A computer-implemented method for administering an annuity product includes storing by a processor in memory an amount of an initial funding payment, an interest rate formula and a term for an accumulation annuity, and storing terms including a deferral term for a guaranteed income annuity. If the processor determines that... Agent: HowardIPLaw Group

20090292562 - System and method for administering fixed index annuities: A system for administering an insurance account includes a processor; a memory in communication with the processor; the processor being adapted to: access data indicative of a value of an index calculated based on a formula including as factors prices of individual equity securities; access data indicative of dividend yield;... Agent: HowardIPLaw Group

20090292563 - System and method for administering variable annuities: A system for administering a variable annuity account includes a processor and a memory in communication with the processor. The processor is adapted to: access from a memory storage device data indicative of actual performance over a time period of a fund within the variable annuity account; access from a... Agent: HowardIPLaw Group

20090292566 - Yield management of configurable restaurants: Program products, apparatuses, and methods that manage a reservation yield in a manner accounting for and utilizing the option to dynamically reconfigure resources are disclosed. Application may lead to a more efficient use of the resources and an increase in revenue. For example, the reservation yield of a restaurant and... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20090292568 - Adaptive risk variables: Methods, systems and computer-implemented processes for analyzing transactions for fraud are presented. A plurality of risk tables used by a fraud detection model is augmented with temporal change data related to risk variables associated with the plurality of risk tables. The fraud detection model is then executed using the augmented... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c

20090292572 - Concrete material dispensing system: A control system for a concrete plant adds intelligent capabilities in the concrete plant that may enhance safety, localize control of the concrete plant, and assist with troubleshooting. The control system may also enhance accuracy for determining an amount of mixed concrete dispensed, or amounts of concrete ingredients to dispense,... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP - Pdx

20090292573 - Method for optimal demanufacturing planning: A method and apparatus that maintains a database of the demands over time for all the different refurbished machines is disclosed. The invention also maintains the supply over time of all the different machines that will be returned from expired leases. The invention maintains the relationship for alternate parts which... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20090292569 - Method for sweeping a depository and an automated teller machine incorporating the same: Disclosed herein is a method for collecting information related to deposits made at an ATM and an ATM configured for collected the same. Information describing each deposit made at the ATM is collected and first and second summaries of the deposits produced. In response to a sweep command, a printout... Agent: Visa Usa C/o Duane Morris LLP Attn: James Sze, Esq.

20090292571 - Method of managing carbon reduction for hydrocarbon producers: A method and means is disclosed for managing the reduction of carbon during product transport for a large number of hydrocarbon fuel producers within a given geographic region. This reduction of carbon is accomplished at a few major sequestration hubs located within the geographic region where the sequestration hubs themselves... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20090292570 - Methods and apparatus for assessing operational process quality and risk: Methods and apparatus for assessing operational process quality and risk of an entity or a group of entities. The present invention enables a user to effectively compare one or more events, representing what actually happened, with a reference, which represents ideal performance in terms of operational process quality and risk,... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20090292567 - System and method for assessing operational risk employing market-based information processing: A method of assessing operational risk includes defining a participant set. The participant set includes a plurality of members. The method also includes identifying a set of initial risk sources, assigning risk certificates for each of the initial risk sources to each of the plurality of members of the set... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Europe

20090292575 - Coalescence of disparate quality of service matrics via programmable mechanism: A method for classifying the Quality of Service of the incoming data traffic before the traffic is placed into the priority queues of the Active Queue Management Block of the device is disclosed. By employing a range of mapping schemes during the classification stage of the ingress traffic processing, the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090292577 - Method and apparatus for determining data center resource availability using multiple time domain segments: A method, an apparatus, and computer instructions are provided for determining data center resource availability using multiple time domain segments. A reservation class is provided that includes a start time, duration and the number of units required. A scheduled resource class is provided with an availability and an available method.... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090292576 - Method for evaluating specific data in relation to cleaning up/dismantling a facility: m

20090292574 - Method to analyze economics of asset management solutions for nuclear steam generators: A method to determine corrective actions of a nuclear steam generator, having the steps of modeling of steam generator tube and deposit heat transfer characteristics by analytically deriving specific deposit characteristics and descriptive model parameters, wherein the modeling uses historical thermodynamic data for an operating plant under evaluation, identifying a... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090292580 - Ambient project management: A computer-implemented method of ambient ad hoc project management can include defining a project and associating a project decay function with the project, wherein the project decay function regulates a rate at which project health declines. Responsive to detecting a project event, one or more parameters of the project decay... Agent: Cuenot, Forsythe & Kim, LLC

20090292578 - Articulation workload metrics: A method for determining an allocation of a workload includes identifying an employee in an organization having the workload, associating the employee with an articulation workload metric, and determining the allocation of the workload to the employee according to the articulation workload metric.... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20090292581 - System, method and computer-accessible medium for making worker distribution plan on the basis of updated skill assessment data: According to exemplary embodiments of the present invention, system, method and computer accessible medium can be provided for making a worker distribution plan on the basis of updated skill assessment data. For example, a computer can be configured, programmed and/or structured to obtain a record data table collected and stored... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090292579 - Technical support routing among members of a technical support group: Computer-implemented methods, apparatus and products for technical support routing among members of a technical support group, including maintaining, by a configuration manager, a system configuration history of a user's computer system, the system configuration history including historical records of changes in configuration of the user's computer system; receiving, by a... Agent: Ibm (rps-blf) C/o Biggers & Ohanian, LLP

20090292587 - Cross-media interactivity metrics: Processes and systems for use in media and market research are provided. In certain embodiments, media usage activities relating to interactivity between two or more media are measured and correlated to produce a metric for rating the interactivity.... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP / Arbitron Inc. (c/o Patent Administrator)

20090292591 - Electronic transaction receipt system and method: In connection with a sales transaction, an electronic receipt is issued to the buyer that includes hyperlinks. A hyperlink can be associated with post-sale interaction with the product seller, the product manufacturer or parties acting on their behalf that involves the product itself, such as a product return procedure, a... Agent: Ballard Spahr LLP

20090292583 - Method and apparatus for predicting customer churn: A method and apparatus for predicting customer churn from an organization. The method and apparatus determine an interaction churn score based on analyzing an interaction between the customer and the organization and related data. Optionally, the method and apparatus determine also a transactional churn score based on additional data related... Agent: Soroker-agmon Advocate And Patent Attorneys

20090292592 - Method and apparatus for real-time reporting of electronic commerce activity: A method and apparatus is disclosed for tracking and reporting electronic commerce activity over a web site that is stored on a first server coupled to a wide area network. The web page is programmed to include data fields reflecting commerce transaction activity and data mining code. The web page... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20090292590 - Method for evaluating an employee: A method for evaluating an employee. The method for evaluating an employee can include the steps of communicating with a processor. The processor can be in communication with a database. The database can have at least one fillable employee evaluation template with at least eight non-industry specific categories. The method... Agent: Buskop Law Group, P.C.

20090292585 - Method for online selling and managing unitedly by franchise's participation of partial responsibility: In a hot chamber die casting apparatus of pressurizing molten magnesium alloy at an atmospheric pressure or higher without being exposed to the atmosphere and forming a magnesium alloy casting product in the shape of a mold, the hot chamber die casting apparatus basically configured with a melting furnace having... Agent: The Rafferty Patent Law Firm

20090292588 - Methods and systems for the design of choice experiments and deduction of human decision-making heuristics: Methods, computer-readable media and systems are designed to apply genetic algorithms to design choice experiments for the purpose of studying decision-making processes and approaches. The methods, media and systems may be used to design the choice experiments, and also to evaluate how well various combinations of theories explain experimental results.... Agent: Foley Hoag, LLP Patent Group, World Trade Center West

20090292593 - Server, information communication terminal, product sale management method, and storage medium and program transmission apparatus therefor: A product retail sales management server for managing the retail sales of a product across a communication network comprises: a retail sales management module for managing the retail sales of the product; a price update module 13 for dynamically setting the price of the product in accordance with rules and... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20090292582 - Serviceability scoring model: A system and method relate to generating overall and/or relative serviceability scores for products. The system and method may include (1) adjusting a serviceability scoring model according to a product specific service model and (2) rating serviceability requirements. The adjustment of the scoring model may include (a) weighting serviceability aspects... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090292586 - Strategic visioning system using bisociation brainstorming: The instant invention is directed to a novel approach to identification and evaluation of the trends affecting a particular organization. By use of a specially designed software package, the participants in the evaluation are able to analyze and codify opportunities and/or threats that are present in the environment of the... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20090292584 - System and method for context and community based customization for a user experience: A system and method for context and community based customization for a user experience is disclosed. The apparatus in an example embodiment includes a user experience customizer to gather context information, automatically produce user experience customization selections based on the context information, collect user activity feedback from a community of... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20090292589 - Systems and methods for sales tracking, accountability, and reporting: A system for tracking and managing sales performance of producers within an insurance agency. The system includes a database housing sales information for the agency, a sales management server interfacing with the database, a display device connected to the sales management server, a user interface module running on the sales... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090292595 - Online e-commerce and networking system with user requested sponsor advertisements: A new generation online e-commerce and networking system is disclosed. According to the embodiments of the present invention, the online e-commerce and networking system is based on: 1) a new model of meeting individuals' work and life needs and integrating entities' processes to create large online networks; 2) a new... Agent: Wenxuan Tonnison

20090292594 - System for evaluating an employee: A system for computerized employee evaluations. The system can include at least one processor in communication with a database; at least one client device for communicating with the processor. The database can have a plurality of computer instructions. The computer instructions can include computer instructions for creating at least one... Agent: Buskop Law Group, P.C.

20090292597 - Parking payment and enforcement mechanism: This application describes a means of paying for metered parking using the cell phone. It uses information from telecommunications systems to identify the region of the origin of the caller and the caller's parking location. Further input is used during the call to narrow the region to the specific city... Agent: Kristina Peckins

20090292596 - System, method and computer readable medium for toll service activation and billing: A system, method, and computer readable medium for toll service activation and billing, comprises receiving fleet information at a toll authority via a toll rental entity, receiving a service request at the toll rental entity, sending toll usage data related to the service request to a third party entity, receiving... Agent: Winstead PC

20090292598 - Credit earning system and method for obtaining media rights: A method and system for earning credits from a content rights provider/issuer (10) for obtaining content rights includes, in response to a trigger event (20), prompting (24) a user to provide a service in exchange for credits and receiving (26) a service performed by the user in favor of the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090292599 - Transactional advertising: A method of transactional advertising includes providing a transactional advertising platform for presenting offers to a user who is committed to complete an electronic transaction; selecting an offer to present based on at least two of the following associated with the transaction: a transaction amount, a payment type, a shipment... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20090292600 - Method for point of sale consumer packaged goods and lottery promotions: A method and system for point of sale consumer packaged goods and lottery promotions. A discount coupon is generated having two barcodes. The first barcode encodes standard UPC barcode data including, e.g., manufacturer ID, retail product or a retail product family, and discount value code. The second barcode encodes a... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20090292603 - Method and system for transferring funds: A system and method of transferring funds includes a communication module configured to provide a user or automated process with an option of setting up an automatic fund transfer from a first payment channel to a second payment channel.... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20090292602 - Methods, devices, systems, and computer program products for distributing electronic coupons: Electronic coupons are distributed by receiving customer preferences including a customer identifier associated with a preferred vendor identifier, a preferred vendor category identifier, a preferred product/service identifier, or a preferred brand name identifier. Vendor information is received which includes a vendor identifier, a vendor category identifier, a vendor product/service identifier,... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Cc Attn: Patent Docketing

20090292601 - Profit-sharing incentive system for account vendors: A profit-sharing incentive system for account vendors is described. In one implementation, systems and methods estimate an up-front profit share incentive to be paid to a merchant for opening a merchant account that enables credit card payments. The up-front profit share is estimated from parameters such as the merchant's transaction... Agent: Rainier Patents, P.s.

20090292604 - Data processing system and data processing method: The present invention generates coupon distribution key data in a key generation section (23) when distributing a coupon on advertising data; writes the coupon distribution key data to an IC card (50); manages memory identification data and the coupon distribution key data while associating them each other in a coupon... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090292605 - Determining complementary product content from primary product document information and providing such complementary product content in association with the primary product document, in an online environment: When purchasing a product or service from an online merchant (“first merchant”), e-commerce consumers might want to purchase a complementary product and/or service not offered by the first merchant. Such consumers are provided with an opportunity to purchase or otherwise learn about such complementary products and/or services, and secondary merchants... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20090292606 - Electronic offer management system and method therefor: An electronic offer management system and method thereof is disclosed. In particular, the system comprises means for receiving information related to a plurality of offers distributed by a plurality of different offer distributors to customer for redemption at plurality of stores, means for automatically routing the information related to an... Agent: Intellectual Property Group Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.

20090292607 - User selectable functionality facilitator: Embodiments of the present invention provide a user station or input medium allowing a user to view available functions and to enter selection information for requesting the association of one or more functions with a user operation vehicle. A verifier, responsive to the user station or input medium, can be... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing - Intellectual Property

20090292608 - Method and system for user interaction with advertisements sharing, rating of and interacting with online advertisements: A platform includes an overall system for user interaction, associated with a particular advertisement. The process enables users to interact with a widget directly associated with an advertisement and express themselves in regards to the advertisement. Advertisement displayed in the Internet or similar distributed computer network-based information distribution system. Such... Agent: Richard B. Klar

20090292610 - system and method for advertising messages on distributed document processing devices: The subject application is directed to a system and method for selective control of advertising messages on distributed document processing devices. Device identification data is first received corresponding to the identity of networked document processing devices available for display of selected advertising content. Device selection data representing a selected subset... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20090292609 - Method and system for displaying advertisement listings in a sponsored search environment: A method and system for displaying advertisement listings in a sponsored search environment is provided. The method and system may include generating an advertisement list in response to receiving a search request for a search term, where advertisements in the advertisement list are associated with the search term; defining a... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20090292611 - System and method for targeting advertisements to tenants in a building: A system and method for targeting advertisements to tenants in a building by providing a portal for a building accessible via the Internet with the portal based upon the specific needs of targeted advertising in the building. Advertisements are received from a user of the portal and the advertisements are... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20090292612 - System and method for delivering advertising according to similarities with collected media content: A system and method for delivering advertising (100) to a user is disclosed. Values for characteristic properties of advertisements and stored media content items are determined (201, 203). A comparison is made between the characteristic values of the advertisements and the stored media content items (205). An advertisement is selected... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090292613 - Method for creating a user profile: In one aspect, the present invention is directed to a method for creating a user profile, the method comprising the steps of: while scanning a group of files of a user (an individual, a plurality of individuals, an organization, and so on): searching for keywords in the group of files;... Agent: Reuben Berman

20090292614 - Rear projected expressive head: The subject matter disclosed herein relates to systems and methods for providing image projection and entertainment.... Agent: Disney Enterprises, Inc C/o Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20090292615 - Integrated system, device and use thereof: The invention describes a novel integrated data-system, a personal device for the system, and methods for operating the system. The invention produces means and technology for providing quantitative information about products. A key function of the system is to provide information about product-based emissions, such as carbon dioxide emissions.... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20090292617 - Method and system for an internet based shopping cart to calculate the carbon dioxide generated by shipping products and charge for carbon offsets to mitigate the generated carbon dioxide: Disclosed is a method and system for incorporating a carbon offset calculation into a shopping cart subsystem of a merchant website that calculates an estimated cost to offset a calculated estimate of the carbon emissions generated from shipping purchased products in order to allow the incorporation of the estimated carbon... Agent: Cochran Freund & Young LLC

20090292619 - Method for universal electronic payment processing: An efficient, secure method for processing an electronic transaction among a user (101), a billing service provider (112), a merchant (123) and a transaction facilitator (132) is provided using a transaction facilitator server (131) accessible via a data network (50). Billing service providers (112) include, for example, internet service providers,... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090292616 - Networked printing: A method and apparatus for ordering printed materials through a network of printing storefronts is presented. Printable products defined in one storefront can be defined by inheriting from products defined in another storefront. Multiple storefronts can collaborate in a virtual print community to enable clients to browse and order products... Agent: Amelia A. Buharin Patent Legal Staff

20090292620 - Server, information communication terminal, product sale management method, and storage medium and program transmission apparatus therefor: A product retail sales management server for managing the retail sales of a product across a communication network comprises: a retail sales management module for managing the retail sales of the product; a price update module 13 for dynamically setting the price of the product in accordance with rules and... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20090292621 - Server, information communication terminal, product sale management method, and storage medium and program transmission apparatus therefor: A product retail sales management server for managing the retail sales of a product across a communication network comprises: a retail sales management module for managing the retail sales of the product; a price update module 13 for dynamically setting the price of the product in accordance with rules and... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20090292622 - Server, information communication terminal, product sale management method, and storage medium and program transmission apparatus therefor: A product retail sales management server for managing the retail sales of a product across a communication network comprises: a retail sales management module for managing the retail sales of the product; a price update 13 for dynamically setting the price of the product in accordance with rules and the... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20090292623 - Server, information communication terminal, product sale management method, and storage medium and program transmission apparatus therefor: A product retail sales management server for managing the retail sales of a product across a communication network comprises: a retail sales management module for managing the retail sales of the product; a price update module 13 for dynamically setting the price of the product in accordance with rules and... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20090292618 - System & method for multiple users to conduct online browsing & shopping together in real time: These additional invited individuals or groups utilize their own devices, such as personal computer connected to the Internet and a web browser, to access the online browsing and shopping session from the server component of the system described herein using the identification code shared by the initiating user. The server... Agent: Wael Chatila Ginzawalk LLC

20090292625 - Interactive real-time online class: A system and method for an interactive real-time online class is disclosed. In one embodiment a request to create a real-time online class may be received from an instructor. The instructor then provides class materials and the class can be indexed in a browsable or a searchable catalog of classes... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090292624 - Networked printing: A method and apparatus for ordering printed materials through a network of printing storefronts is presented. Printable products defined in one storefront can be defined by inheriting from products defined in another storefront. Multiple storefronts can collaborate in a virtual print community to enable clients to browse and order products... Agent: Amelia A. Buharin Patent Legal Staff

20090292626 - System and method for interactive map, database, and social networking engine: A system and method for selling or assigning locations to a purchaser. The location can be identified or delineated in several ways. Location identifiers may be used separately or in conjunction with each other. Sale of a particular location may be exclusive, partially-exclusive, or non-exclusive, depending on the particular embodiment... Agent: W. Edward Ramage

20090292627 - system and method for monitoring consumable usage and managing consumable inventory: The subject application is directed to a system and method for monitoring consumable usage and managing consumable inventory. An order for a document processing device consumable is first received from a user account, and an inventory value corresponding to each received order is then stored. Consumable full, empty, and low... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20090292629 - Access network optimization methodology for leased switched and dedicated facilities: A methodology for optimizing the cost associated with access charges incurred by network service providers when leasing communications facilities from a local service provider has been developed that incorporates physical reconfiguration of the access network topology as a cost-saving measure, where and when appropriate. The methodology identifies opportunities to reduce... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Koba Attn: Patent Docketing

20090292631 - Electronic purchasing method and apparatus: A computer-assisted method includes hardware, software and telecommunications components that cooperatively achieve the technical effect of an improved electronic purchasing transaction system. In various embodiments of the invention, at least one master account is established for a client. A pool of limited use account identifiers or secondary account identifiers, that... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (amex)

20090292628 - Systems, methods, and computer program products for performing item level transaction processing: The present invention provides systems, methods, and computer program products for performing validation and clearance at a transaction item level for transaction received in a batch format. Each transaction of the batch is stored separately in a storage system, such as a logical database. Typically, image data and electronic data... Agent: Moore & Van Allen, PLLC For Bofa

20090292630 - Transaction accounting auditing approach and system therefor: Accounting data is classified to facilitate transaction processing and management. According to an example embodiment, data based rules are implemented for classifying transaction-related data into accounting categories. Accounting information is processed as a function of the data based rules and accordingly automatically classified. This processing involves, for example, the identification... Agent: Crawford Maunu PLLC

20090292632 - Compliance monitoring method and apparatus: A compliance monitoring system and method identifies an individual or entity to be monitored for account compliance and receives account information associated with the individual or entity. The compliance monitoring system and method obtains holdings in the account and determines whether the holdings in the account comply with a predetermined... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20090292649 - Device, system and method of automatic financial-instrument management: Devices, systems, and methods of automatic Financial-Instrument (FI) management. In some embodiments, a system includes, a memory having stored thereon financial-instrument-based (FI-based) management instructions; and a processor to execute the FI-based management instructions resulting in a FI-based management application, wherein the FI-based management application may receive portfolio data corresponding to... Agent: Shiloh Buchek PLLC

20090292648 - Diversification measurement and analysis system: This disclosure details methods for measuring and analyzing diversification of portfolio of assets. A dimension is a logical and quantitative means to measure diversification. As the number of dimensions increases so does diversification. Strong asset correlations among each other detract from the notion of independence. A positive correlation increases risks... Agent: Frost Brown Todd, LLC

20090292650 - System and method for analyzing and displaying security trade transactions: A system and methods for processing and charting security exchange trading and market information shows security traders if current transactions originated as buy orders or sell orders, and simultaneously indicates traded quantity. Security exchange trading information is received that includes the price, volume and time of each trade. In addition,... Agent: Mbhb/trading Technologies

20090292651 - System and method for analyzing and displaying security trade transactions: A system and methods for processing and charting security exchange trading and market information shows security traders if current transactions originated as buy orders or sell orders, and simultaneously indicates traded quantity. Security exchange trading information is received that includes the price, volume and time of each trade. In addition,... Agent: Mbhb/trading Technologies

20090292652 - System and method for analyzing and displaying security trade transactions: A system and methods for processing and charting security exchange trading and market information shows security traders if current transactions originated as buy orders or sell orders, and simultaneously indicates traded quantity. Security exchange trading information is received that includes the price, volume and time of each trade. In addition,... Agent: Mbhb/trading Technologies

20090292638 - Complementary trading of interests: Methods, systems, and computer program products for automatically proposing currency exchange, hedging, and other trades in financial interests. A trader proposing or accepting a trade in a financial interest is presented with terms of or a prompt regarding a proposed complementary trade in a related interest.... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20090292637 - Computer implemented trading system: A computer implemented trading system is described comprising a plurality of buy computers (1,2) connected via a communications network (3) to a plurality of seller computers (4,5), a plurality of public exchange computers (6,7) and a trading platform computer (8). The trading platform computer (8) is arranged to receive order... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090292634 - Hybrid trading system for concurrently trading through both electronic and open-outcry trading mechanisms: A system and method of allocating orders in an exchange configured for trading by a combination of electronic and open-outcry trading mechanisms is provided. One method includes permitting multiple quotes to be disseminated to the market, and providing market making rights of varying degrees to entities having a physical presence... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090292636 - Method and apparatus for network marketing of financial securities: A centralized financial market management system and method are disclosed that permit individual investors to trade over a network. The disclosed centralized financial market management system automatically identifies bids that are in proximity to one another and permits participants to negotiate directly in order to consummate a transaction. The disclosed... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090292633 - Systems and methods for viewing and trading futures: A method and system for viewing and trading futures and other tradeable objects. The invention includes improved user interfaces for use with trading systems that allows users to more efficiently execute and manage trades. A dynamic price ladder allows a trader to see price gaps while remaining in a dynamic... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20090292635 - Trading system: An anonymous trading system includes a prime broker facility that allows a third party to trade on behalf of an institution. A deal is executed between the third party and a counter-party and a further deal is then executed between the third party and the party on whose behalf it... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090292639 - Intercompany transfer profit tracking system: A system receives an intercompany transfer of a plurality of goods from a first entity to a second entity. The intercompany transfer results in an internal profit/loss. The system stores the internal profit/loss in a first entity internal profit/loss element that is assigned to the second entity. The system then... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P. Oracle International Corporation

20090292640 - Method and system for synchronizing an online application and a portable device: There is provided a method of synchronizing a portable device with an online user account. The method comprises establishing a first connection between the portable device and an online application, receiving data from the online application concerning the online user account, including a persona, updating the portable device with a... Agent: Disney Enterprises C/o Farjami & Farjami LLP

20090292641 - Universal secure registry: In one embodiment, a user device is configured to allow a user to select any one of a plurality of accounts associated with the user to employ in a financial transaction. In one embodiment, the user device includes a biometric sensor configured to receive a biometric input provided by the... Agent: Lando & Anastasi, LLP

20090292642 - Method and system for automatically issuing digital merchant based online payment card: An online payment card is a digital form card derived from a credit/debit card or bank account of a customer. A central service provider issues the online payment card electronically to a registered merchant system under the authorization of the owner of the ordinary credhVdebit or bank account. The central... Agent: Cardinal Law Group, LLC

20090292645 - Method and apparatus for network marketing of financial securities: A centralized financial market management system and method are disclosed that permit individual investors to trade over a network. The disclosed centralized financial market management system automatically identifies bids that are in proximity to one another and permits participants to negotiate directly in order to consummate a transaction. The disclosed... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090292646 - Method and apparatus for network marketing of financial securities: A centralized financial market management system and method are disclosed that permit individual investors to trade over a network. The disclosed centralized financial market management system automatically identifies bids that are in proximity to one another and permits participants to negotiate directly in order to consummate a transaction. The disclosed... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090292647 - Method, system and business model for a buyer's auction with near perfect information using the internet: A methodology, system and business model are disclosed for facilitating a fully automated buyer's auction in which the major types of transaction costs are significantly reduced by providing the buyer and the sellers with near-perfect information about one another, including information about buyer preferences and competing sellers' offers. The system... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP. (pa)

20090292643 - System and method for online publication: System and method for online publication. According to an embodiment, a user stores contents on a web site, and based on the screening process and negotiated terms, the user is compensated accordingly. In certain embodiments, a user is compensated based on results of a periodical competition program offered by the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090292644 - System and method maximizing video license utilization using billboard services: Key to overall video license utilization lies in a cooperative sharing of licenses between the different branch operators of the licenses before the expiry of the licenses. A branch operator has a region of operation and stimulating the demand for licenses that are about to expire across multiple regions increases... Agent: Merek, Blackmon & Voorhees, LLC

20090292653 - System and method for use in connection with an annuity: A method for determining one or more features of an annuity includes receiving data indicative of a prospective annuitant's personal expenses in at least a first expense category and a second expense category; storing the data in memory; accessing price index information for the first expense category; accessing price index... Agent: HowardIPLaw Group

20090292654 - Systems and methods for calculating use charges in a virtualized infrastructure: A method for calculating computing resource use charges for a data center consumer entity is disclosed. The data center consumer entity accesses one or more of a plurality of computing resources in a data center. The method includes retrieving usage data of each of the plurality of computing resources. The... Agent: Vmware, Inc.

20090292655 - Lease guaranty business model: Methods are provided for lease guaranty services. A landlord enters into an arrangement with a lease guaranty service provider including an agreed upon lease guaranty policy to cover a rental property associated with the landlord. Under the lease guaranty policy, the landlord is a beneficiary and is bound to some... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20090287499 - Method and system for automatically provisioning a device and registering vehicle modules with a telematics services provider: Upon crank-up of a newly manufactured vehicle, a TCU seeks a GPS. The TCU queries an equipment information table in a memory and determines if the table is empty. If the table is empty and the TCU detects a GPS signal, the TCU requests equipment information from modules installed in... Agent: Hughes Telematics, Inc.

20090287497 - Real-time profile-matched peer to peer personal crisis response: Real-time profile-matched peer to peer personal crisis response is provided. A personal crisis can be related to a behavioral change, such as weight loss. A user of a computer implemented social network undergoing a personal crisis can make a request for help to be broadcasted to other users. Another user... Agent: Lumen Patent Firm

20090287500 - Distributed integrated image data management system: A system and method for increasing integration within and between medical sites with medical information systems, optionally using a single device which is suitable for multiple sites. In some embodiments, the device forms a network where devices can exchange data across networks. In some embodiments, the device provides and supports... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan D/b/a Prtsi, Inc.

20090287501 - Methods for delivering a drug to a hospital patient for short-term use while minimizing long-term use of the drug: Novel methods for delivering a drug to hospital patients for short-term in-hospital use while minimizing long-term use of the drug. Embodiments are provided in which hospitals are identified which may be eligible to treat patients, for example, perform certain types of surgery, and which have measures in place to limit... Agent: Feldmangale, P.A.

20090287503 - Analysis of individual and group healthcare data in order to provide real time healthcare recommendations: A method for managing data. A datum regarding a first patient is received. A first set of relationships is established. The first set of relationships comprises at least one relationship of the datum to at least one additional datum existing in at least one database. A plurality of cohorts to... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090287502 - E-patientlink: A pharmacy management computer system sends de identified prescription record information to a health records computer system where Payloads including additional drug information are associated with the de identified prescription record. The Payloads are transmitted back to the pharmacy management computer system which in some cases electronically delivers them to... Agent: NeifeldIPLaw, PC

20090287506 - Methods and systems for improving human health using targeted probiotics: Methods and systems enable healthcare providers to identify metabolites that may cause a medical condition in a patient. The healthcare providers may then use the identified metabolite to identify a probiotic that may affect the regulation of that metabolite. Patient information, such as medical history and diagnosis data may then... Agent: The Marbury Law Group, PLLC

20090287504 - Methods, systems and a platform for managing medical data records: A method for providing an imaging study at a client terminal. The method comprises receiving a request for an imaging study from a client terminal connected to a first system of a plurality of medical imaging systems and identifying a destination of a device hosting the requested imaging study. The... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan D/b/a Prtsi, Inc.

20090287505 - Systems and methods for efficient computer-aided analysis of medical information: Systems and methods for efficient computer analysis of medical information are disclosed. A computer-implemented method in accordance with a particular embodiment includes receiving an indication of a patient study and associated modality corresponding to a patient. The method can further include associating multiple analysis services with the patient study, based... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20090287509 - Method and system for automating insurance claims processing: Techniques for automating insurance claim processing are provided. The techniques include obtaining at least one rule from historical data, using the at least one rule to segment a dataset, wherein segmenting the dataset comprises using an iterative process involving a pattern classification technique, using the segmented dataset to determine if... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20090287507 - Method for operating a return generation system and a system for generating returns: A method for operating a return generation system comprises several steps. In a first step, a group of a plurality of individuals is determined. In a further step, at least one asset is gathered from each of said individuals. Said at least one asset is subsequently transferred to a pool... Agent: Shoemaker And Mattare, Ltd

20090287511 - Method of obtaining prepayment of a contract payment: A method for conducting a transaction is provided wherein a consumer prepays for a service in a traditional retail transaction to obtain a voucher that allows the customer, at a later time and date, to complete the enrollment process in order to obtain the underlying service. In general operation, a... Agent: Barlow, Josephs & Holmes, Ltd.

20090287510 - Methods and products for providing incentive compatible mortgage loans: A method for efficient first mortgage loans including the steps of identifying suitable borrowers for a marginally priced mortgage loan, determining an aggregate asset value of property owned by the suitable borrowers, determining a capital structure of the marginally priced mortgage loan for the respective property as between debt and... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090287508 - Methods of analysis of polymorphisms and uses thereof: The present invention provides methods for the assessment of a subject's health risk and the application of that assessment to a health-related decision, in particular a financial decision. The methods are dependant on the results of at least one genetic analysis, in particular genetic analyses that are predictive of predisposition... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP - San Francisco

20090287512 - System and process for dominance classification for insurance underwriting suitable for use by an automated system: A risk classification technique that exploits the existing risk structure of the decision problem in order to produce risk categorizations for new candidates is described. The technique makes use of a set of candidates for which risk categories have already been assigned (in the case of insurance underwriting, for example,... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090287513 - System and method for processing multiple bookings to receive a transportation service: A system and method for use by a transportation service provider to process multiple bookings in a single transaction. This single-transaction processing can be initiated to place passengers of multiple bookings on a same flight, to seat passengers of multiple bookings next to one another, or to reserve special services... Agent: Unisys Corporation

20090287517 - Automated method and system for opportunity analysis using management qualification tool: An automated method, system and program product for opportunity analysis utilizing a management qualification tool is disclosed. The management qualification tool gathers a current state data concerning a complex business situation and analyzes the data in a stepwise manner through successively detailed questions. A future state solution can be calculated... Agent: Ortiz & Lopez, PLLC

20090287518 - Inventory control and optimization: A method of revenue management of an inventory of items in order to optimize the availability of one or several item(s) requested by a user, method comprising the steps of calculating an online estimate of a first element associated with the request; calculating an online estimate of a second element... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20090287515 - Monetization of offline-interface events operating on ads distributed through advertising networks: Ads servers, clients, and networks serve and/or publish ads through online networks, then track offline-interface events that operate on the ads, and charge advertisers based on the offline-interface events. An enabling network includes an ads publishing module to request an ad from an ads serving module and publish the ad,... Agent: Stattler - Suh PC

20090287514 - Rapid candidate opt-in confirmation system: A recruiting system and method includes an automated candidate opt-in confirmation system for identifying and screening job candidate resumes that permits at least one potential candidate to opt-in to seek a job opportunity. The recruiting system enables a candidate to opt-in using a telephone, the Internet, or through any other... Agent: Marcia Moy Alliance Of Professionals & Consultants, Inc.

20090287519 - System and method for equipment management: A method for managing equipment may include operating one or more equipment units, tracking operating data for the one or more equipment units, tracking equipment service data for the one or more equipment units, communicating the operating data and the equipment service data to a database, maintaining the operating data... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090287516 - System and method for the aggregation and communicating of process metadata of heterogeneous production process chains: System and method for aggregation and transmission of process metadata (52) of heterogeneous production process chains (30), which include numerous process devices (31) which co-operate in the production process of a manufactured product (40). By means of the system, production-process-chain-specific operational data (52) of a selected production process chain (30)... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090287520 - Technique for determining and reporting reduction in emissions of greenhouse gases at a site: A system for generating standardized greenhouse gas emission reduction credits based on mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions at a site resulting from use of renewable carbon as a fuel at the site to produce energy in substitution for previous use of a fossil fuel at the site, includes a computer,... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20090287521 - Managing project schedule data using separate current and historical task schedule data: A project management system manages project schedule data using separate current and historical task schedule data structures. In general, current schedule data is stored separately from historical schedule data, so that the current schedule data may be retrieved separately from the historical task schedule data. The project management system may... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20090287524 - Method for offering the user through a web portal a project to be financed by means of credits accumulated with the purchase over internet in properly selected e-commerce sites: A method by which various stakeholders may interact in order to allocate money funds to certain determined projects through a web portal to a project to be financed by means of credits accumulated with purchases over the Internet in selected e-commerce sites by web users who purchase or want to... Agent: Hedman & Costigan P.C.

20090287523 - Showing and correcting irregularities in a schedule: Technologies are described herein for showing and correcting irregularities in a schedule. A project management application allows a user to manually define tasks within a schedule. The application evaluates the manually defined tasks to determine if the tasks cause an irregularity within the schedule. If so, the application provides one... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090287525 - System and method for safety management: A computerized method of safety improvement and management within an organization may include receiving a first set of data from the organization over a global communication network. The first set of data may include organizational data, safety incident data, safety performance data, and/or workplace hazard data. The computerized method may... Agent: Julie Lovely

20090287522 - To-do list representation in the database of a project management system: A project management system manages project schedule data using separate current and historical task schedule data structures. In general, current schedule data is stored separately from historical schedule data, so that the current schedule data may be retrieved separately from the historical task schedule data. The project management system may... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20090287531 - Apparatus and method for managing schedule in portable terminal: An apparatus and method for managing a schedule in a portable terminal are provided. The method includes displaying a user interface including a whiteboard on a standby screen, receiving schedule data from a user through coordinates at which the standby screen is touched, and displaying the received schedule data on... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090287527 - Device for communicating orders for transportation, vehicle-base communication device, communication system and method: A communication system is disclosed for transportation orders. It at least one embodiment, it includes a central communication device, with a memory for recording order specifications, with a transceiver unit for receiving vehicle information and with an assignment unit which is embodied for assigning orders to vehicles on the basis... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090287528 - Dynamic selection of work flows based on environmental conditions to facilitate data entry: A system and method for selecting a work flow to direct a user to an appropriate form and facilitate the entry of data. The system identifies one or more environmental conditions that are associated with the data that is to be entered. Environmental conditions may include the size of the... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20090287526 - Dynamic work allocation system for transaction processing: A dynamic work allocation system and method is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes dynamically classifying jobs into job lists according to a predetermined classifying process by a collecting engine, a controlling engine, and a monitoring engine, dynamically prioritizing the jobs within each job list of the jobs lists... Agent: GlobalIPServices, PLLC

20090287529 - Graphical user interface system and method: A computer-implemented data processing system comprises account management logic, workflow logic, and interface logic. The account management logic is configured to manage financial accounts associated with a plurality of users. The workflow logic is configured to identify workflow items to be acted upon by users in connection with financial transactions... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090287530 - Plan execution control apparatus, plan execution control method, and plan execution control program: The invention provides a plan execution control apparatus, a plan execution control method and a plan execution control program capable of giving instructions for sensitively and efficiently maintaining even installations located in a wide range. The plan execution control apparatus includes a linkage reliability calculating section for calculating a target... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090287532 - Providing an electronic marketplace to facilitate human performance of programmatically submitted tasks: A method, system, and computer-readable medium is described for facilitating interactions between task requesters who have tasks that are available to be performed and task performers who are available to perform tasks. In some situations, the tasks to be performed are human performance tasks that use cognitive and other mental... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20090287544 - Customer managed restaurant information system: A restaurant information system includes a point-of-sale (POS) device constructed and arranged for identifying a customer at a restaurant, an amount owed for food or other items purchased at the restaurant, a financial services provider, and a restaurant customer service of which the customer is a member. A network server... Agent: Law Office Of Leo Zucker

20090287537 - Dynamic bidding and ranking system: The present invention relates to certain bidding and ranking systems, which may be used to rank objects in a computing environment, such as, for example, bidding and ranking systems that may be used to rank on-line advertisements. According to certain embodiments of the invention, such methods of ranking objects comprise... Agent: Eugene Villoso

20090287548 - Method and system for transforming informal untradeable property to formal tradeable property: A method and system for transforming informal, untradeable properties into formal, tradeable properties in is carried out by controlling the design and implementation of regulatory and/or legal changes and by aligning interests of investors and governments to those changes.... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090287536 - Method for determining consumer purchase behavior: Disclosed is a method for determining consumer purchasing behavior by corresponding received transaction data and received electronic payment data at a purchasing behavior node. The correspondence between the received transaction data and the received electronic payment data can be determined using payment and purchase amounts with timestamps in the received... Agent: Cardinal Law Group

20090287549 - Method of analyzing a sale process for a company: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a computer-implemented method, a machine, and computer program product to determine an adequacy of a process to sell an entity responsive to competition, fairness, thoroughness, and good faith. A computer evaluates a sale of an entity by rating solicitation efforts associated with potential buyers... Agent: Bracewell & Giuliani LLP

20090287533 - Methods and systems for managing an inventory of telephone numbers: A system and method in accordance with exemplary embodiments may include storing telephone number inventory data using a database associated with a network, receiving, from a user system, a request for telephone number forecast data, forecasting future telephone number usage based on at least a history of telephone number inventory... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090287547 - Sales benchmarking and coaching tool: A machine- or computer-implemented sales coaching tool and methodology provide a method for a user to evaluate a sales or marketing opportunity of interest. The sales coaching tool, method, and system are configured to present users with one or more questions related to one or more marketing conditions, receive a... Agent: Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090287539 - Sample store forecasting process and system: A method and system of predicting market information includes the steps of receiving first data, forecasting further data based on the first data, receiving second data and comparing the further data with the second data, and creating an adjustment factor to account for any difference between the further data and... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090287541 - Sample store forecasting process and system: A method and system of predicting market information includes the steps of receiving first data, forecasting further data based on the first data, receiving second data and comparing the further data with the second data, and creating an adjustment factor to account for any difference between the further data and... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090287540 - System and method for allocating prescriptions to non-reporting outlets: A method for predicting market information for a plurality of pharmaceutical outlets includes the steps of receiving first data representing purchases and sales of at least one pharmaceutical product from at least one pharmaceutical outlet over a time period in the past, calculating the amount of prescriptions that are not... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090287542 - System and method for allocating prescriptions to non-reporting outlets: A method for predicting market information for a plurality of pharmaceutical outlets includes the steps of receiving first data representing purchases and sales of at least one pharmaceutical product from at least one pharmaceutical outlet over a time period in the past, calculating the amount of prescriptions that are not... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090287545 - System and method for computer program implemented internet digital music marketplace: A system and method for modeling and implementation of a computer program to provide an individual artist the ability to access a system for marketing music on the website, a fan voting system, an artist rating system, an artist award system, music genre chat rooms that play random tracks from... Agent: The Miller Law Offices, PLC

20090287538 - System and method for determining trailing data adjustment factors: Timely projections of product sales for a reporting time period are obtained by combining actual sales data received from reporting stores and estimated sales data for non-reporting stores. The projections are adjusted to account for trailing data, which may be reported after the end of the subject time period.... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090287546 - System and method for organizing hotel-related data: A method for grouping hotels for a travel entity may include identifying a plurality of hotels stayed at in the past by members of a travel entity, identifying a subset of hotels having a particular significance to the travel entity, each hotel being associated with a position indicator, clustering hotels... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090287534 - System and method for providing contemporaneous product information and sales support for retail customers: A system and method for providing contemporaneous product information includes identifying a product by collecting information with a user device, and determining a customer location using information collected by the user device. Based upon the product and the customer location, a sales person qualified to respond to customer questions is... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20090287535 - System and method for tracking data: In one embodiment, the method comprises operating one or more commercial appliances and establishing an event count each time a preparation event is carried out in the commercial appliance. The method further comprises communicating each event count to a database and maintaining event count information at the database. The method... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090287543 - Systems and methods for facilitating aggregation of social credits: Various embodiments are directed to systems and methods for facilitating the aggregation of carbon reduction credits resulting from finance loans financing the purchase of energy technology. For example, a credit aggregator may receive from a finance institution estimate parameters describing a loan type. The credit aggregator may calculate a value... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090287551 - Multi-level real estate method and system: A method of compensating a plurality of participants, includes hierarchically representing, in a database communicatively associated with a computer, a multi-level real estate team, the team being based upon sponsoring of members in the team; collecting a membership fee from each member of the team, the membership fee being independent... Agent: George F. Wallace

20090287550 - System and method for monitoring drive thru performance: In one embodiment, the method comprises operating one or more monitoring devices for recording and interpreting vehicle presence data and communicating vehicle presence data to a remote database. The method further comprises generating performance reports, the performance reports being based on the vehicle presence data.... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090287552 - System and method for playing sweepstakes games: Systems and methods for promoting a business with sweepstakes games and for playing sweepstakes games that allows a user to access or consume computer-based services while simultaneously playing sweepstakes games.... Agent: Kaplan Ward & Patel LLC

20090287554 - Computer-implemented method and computing system for providing advertisement content, and computer-implemented method and computing system for exposing advertisement content: A computer-implemented method and computing system for providing advertisement content and a computer-implemented method and computing system for exposing advertisement content are provided. A computer-implemented method of providing advertisement content, the method includes: receiving a bid request with respect to the advertisement content associated with digital broadcast content; determining an... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20090287555 - System for attracting customers: A hierarchical system for attracting new customer comprises providing a coupon to an existing customer, the coupon identifying only the existing customer and when that coupon is redeemed by a second customer, the first customer receives value.... Agent: Sheldon Mak Rose & Anderson PC

20090287556 - Method, system, and storage medium for pre-screening customers for credit card approval at a point of sale: An exemplary embodiment of the invention relates to a method, system and storage medium for pre-screening customers for a credit card at a point of sale. The method includes receiving the customer data at a point of sale system and, during a check out process: transmitting the customer data to... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar, LLC General Electric Company

20090287557 - System and method for incentivizing consumers: The system evaluates a set of incentives based upon a variety of factors and/or predetermined rules and consumers are provided incentives when they satisfy one or more criteria of making payments for their transaction accounts. The one or more criteria include making an early payment, paying more than a minimum... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (amex)

20090287558 - Electronic coupon tracking: In accordance with one or more aspects of the electronic coupon tracking, a record of an electronic coupon that has been distributed to a user is maintained. An indication that the electronic coupon has been redeemed at a retailer via a mobile device is received, and redemption of the electronic... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090287560 - Items ratio based price/discount adjustment in a combinatorial auction: In a combinatorial exchange, rules can be input for processing bids and a desired exchange objective can be defined. A subset of the rules can be used to determine if an allocation of the bids exists that is optimal for the type of exchange being conducted. If the desired exchange... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20090287559 - Tabtab: Electronic advertisements and other types of electronic information are distributed based on user profiles and in particular, collections of widgets. User profiles may be generated based on a combination of user searches for specific items or points of interest. Alternatively user interests may be determined by the customized tabs setup... Agent: Allan Chan

20090287561 - Method and system to avoid fake metrics in advertising: A method and apparatus to avoid fake advertisement metrics from an untrusted application, the method receiving an indication from the untrusted application that an advertisement is required, assuming control of at least a portion of a user interface, providing the advertisement, compiling metrics; and reporting the compiled metrics.... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090287562 - Anonymous merchant-customer loyalty rewards program: A system of and method for rewarding an anonymous merchant-customer for performing multiple debit transactions on a defined set of merchant debit-machines comprises receiving data associated with a discrete one of the multiple debit transactions, generating and updating data associated with the anonymous customer without having the anonymous customer provide... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP - Pdx

20090287563 - Method for funding a plurality of charities or similar organizations through flexible allocation of credit card rebates and similar contributions: The disclosure relates to a method and apparatus wherein consumers, typically credit card holders, can allocate their rebates and similar financial incentives amongst a plurality of charitable or non-profit institutions or other destinations. The method and apparatus further allows additional sources of funding such as rebates from additional credit cards,... Agent: Day Pitney LLP

20090287564 - Systems and methods for maximizing a rewards accumulation strategy during transaction processing: Facilitating commercial transactions using a payment system directory are disclosed. A payment directory and/or wireless point of sale (POS) device may be configured to use predetermined rules, a multitude of data items and/or conditions to locate a payment system, and transmit a payment authorization request from a remote location to... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (amex)

20090287565 - Systems and methods for point of interaction based policy routing of transactions: Facilitating commercial transactions using a payment system directory are disclosed. A payment directory and/or wireless point of sale (POS) device may be configured to use predetermined rules, a multitude of data items and/or conditions to locate a payment system, and transmit a payment authorization request from a remote location to... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (amex)

20090287566 - User experience of advertisements by allowing users to identify advertisements that users dislike: The embodiments of the present invention fill the need of avoiding the display of advertisements that are strongly disliked by users. Displaying advertisements that are strongly disliked (or offend), web sites stand the chance of driving users away or losing users. By allowing users to identify advertisements that offend or... Agent: Mpg, LLP And Yahoo! Inc.

20090287567 - Method and system for selecting and delivering media content via the internet: A system and method for selecting portions of content, and media content sets to be delivered over a packet based network is provided. The selected portions of content (such as a web page) may be keywords such as a word or a group of words. The media content sets may... Agent: Capital Legal Group, LLC

20090287569 - Method and apparatus for providing audio advertisements in a computer network: A method and apparatus for providing audio advertisements in a computer network enables Web sites to deliver audio advertisements that cannot be bypassed by a visitor. More particularly, an advertising or sponsoring Web site receives a request from at least one user for delivery of a user-selected Web page associated... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090287568 - Method for providing daily dynamic visual information on beverage sleeves and/or cups: The present invention relates generally to method where advertising content may contain daily up to date information printed on the sleeves and/or cups or labels, such as daily national and world wide news, daily local weather report, daily comics, jokes, daily business and stock market information, daily local news, daily... Agent: Eftim Cesmedziev

20090287570 - E-commerce website: An Internet e-commerce website provides online content having incentives that motivate consumers to select affiliated vendors. After purchasing goods or services from the affiliated vendors, consumers view a purchase history and receive credit based on purchase amounts. Credits may be used to enter a sweepstakes. Consumers are also provided access... Agent: Litman Law Offices, Ltd.

20090287571 - Hypervisor and virtual machine ware: An apparatus, system and method for an instant-on environment. The apparatus, system and method may include a hypervisor instantiated by a BIOS, at least one application space instantiated by the hypervisor in parallel to, and prior to complete boot of, at least one main operating system, and a graphical user... Agent: Thomas J. Mcwilliams, Esquire Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

20090287572 - System and method for client-side advertisement retrieval: A system for retrieving advertisements includes a client configured to receive content, the content including an identification tag identifying an advertisement type that is associated with the content, the advertisement type corresponding to an advertisement, and a browser associated with the client and configured to render the content, wherein the... Agent: Michael J. Tempel Smith Frohwein Tempel

20090287573 - System and method for providing pay-per-click satellite on a user desktop: A system and method for placing a live, interactive, product specific communication conduit on user desktops. A retailer, wholesaler, or any other type of provider of goods or services having a website describing one or more products selects specific products for which the retailer desires to enable direct communication with... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (dc/orl)

20090287553 - System and method for website monetization: The present invention provides a website monetization system on a central computer, the website monetization system comprising a web page creation tool, a website hosting tool, an advertising tool, a content provision tool, a monetization tool, and a franchisee payment tool. The central server comprises a central website on a... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20090287574 - Attachment of videos to advertisements on websites: An advertisement is provided as an element of a personal space of a user. A video is added to the advertisement. The video is played in relation to the advertisement. The personal space, for example, may be a personal web page, which may be hosted by a social networking provider.... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20090287576 - Commodity sales data processing system, commodity sales data processing apparatus, and display method for transaction information: A POS apparatus includes a code scanner and a radio communication unit. A store clerk inputs a commodity code from the code scanner. The POS apparatus generates transaction information based on the input commodity code. The radio communication unit transmits and outputs the transaction information. A customer carries a cellular... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090287575 - System, program product, and computer-implemented method for loading a loan on a pre-paid card: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, program products, and methods of loading a loan on a pre-paid card. A bank receives authorization from a lender to credit loan proceeds from the lender to an approved borrower on a pre-paid card associated with the pre-paid card processor so that release... Agent: Jeffrey S. Whittle Bracewell & Giuliani LLP

20090287578 - Charging station for electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles: This invention is a pay charging station for electric and plugin hybrid vehicles. A vehicle parks at a space with the charging station and uses a credit card, debit card, cash, smart card or network connection to a database like EZ-Pass to pay for the space and the electricity. The... Agent: Fox Rothschild LLP Princeton Pike Corporate Center

20090287577 - System, program product, and computer-implemented method for loading a loan on an existing pre-paid card: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, program products, and methods of loading a loan on a pre-paid card. A bank receives authorization from a lender to credit loan proceeds from the lender to an approved borrower on an existing pre-paid card associated with the pre-paid card processor. Next, the... Agent: Bracewell & Giuliani LLP

20090287580 - Method and system for distributing, selling, and redeeming lottery tickets: A method for distribution and sale of lottery tickets includes defining sets of lottery tickets uniquely designated for a particular retail establishment, with the number and prize amount of winning tickets within each set being known to the central lottery authority. The sets of lottery tickets are provided to the... Agent: Dority & Manning, P.A.

20090287579 - Systems, methods, and apparatus for enhancing and utilizing owed-value accounts: Systems, methods, and apparatus for enhancing and utilizing owed-value accounts are provided.... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20090287586 - Automatic internet account authentication system and authentication card printer: An automatic account generation system includes an account generator having an IP address and exhibiting an account management function, a printer and at least one apparatus capable of providing wireless Internet access. The Internet user access authentication information can be acquired and printed from the account generator via an input... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20090287582 - Deploying software items from software shopping carts onto mobile wireless devices: Software/content for a mobile device may be selected by means of the web using a device other than the mobile device, and the software/content is downloaded onto the mobile device. This provides the capability to interact with an e-commerce site using some other terminal, such as desktop or laptop computer,... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20090287583 - Digital media content location and purchasing system: Systems and methods for locating digital media content. The systems and methods include receiving search terms from a client device through a single interface, searching a plurality of digital media content providers for digital media content using the search terms to obtain search results, sorting and organizing the search results,... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090287581 - Method and system for providing purchasing on a wireless device: A method and system for processing purchases from a wireless device. The method includes, responsive to a search command received from the wireless device, executing a search in a retailer database. The method includes transmitting a search result to the wireless device for display. The method includes, responsive to a... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20090287585 - Personalized gift cards for imaging products and services: A method for producing a gift card for a gift imaging product, comprises receiving an order of the gift imaging product from a user, producing the gift imaging product, producing the gift card by the user for the gift imaging product; and consolidating the gift card with the gift imaging... Agent: Dr. Xin Wen

20090287584 - Systems and methods for providing information associated with product samples: Systems and methods are described for providing information associated with a particular product to a customer possessing a sample of the particular product. An identifier that is provided with the sample of the particular product and that uniquely identifies the product is received at a server. The information associated with... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (floratech)

20090287588 - Method, a system and a user interface for shopping using a communication network: There is provided a method for enabling a user to shop with at least one other user on a data network, the method comprising providing access to a user interface enabling the user to conceive a set of at least one item of interest, to share the set with at... Agent: Brouillette & Partners

20090287587 - Systems methods and computer program products for providing augmented shopping information: Methods for providing augmented shopping information to a user of a mobile terminal in a store include providing a shopping list identifying a plurality of items and obtaining information regarding physical locations of respective ones of the items in the store. The location of the mobile terminal in the store... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20090287589 - Mobile, compact communication device including rfid: A system and process including mobile communication devices having two RFID's each, one with the device and another with the SIM. An assembly/packaging system and process is disclosed along with service provider communications network(s) including a retail distribution processing system is provided including RFID readers at selected points in the... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20090287590 - Multi-supplier transaction and payment programmed processing system and approach: In an example embodiment, a computer-based contract-management approach processes transactions involving at least one supplier (i.e., seller or sellers) fulfilling one or more sub-components of the transaction. Each of the suppliers (e.g., as well as other transaction parties) reference the transaction when communicating transaction information such as invoices, regardless of... Agent: Crawford Maunu PLLC

20090287591 - Multi-stage, multi-user engagement submission and tracking process: A method for submitting information for an engagement is disclosed. The method might include the steps of generating a tracking screen for tracking the submission of a plurality of files, including a tax file and an image file, each file having the same client identification code, receiving the tax file... Agent: Snell & Wilmer LLP (oc)

20090287594 - Methods of operating a self-service check depositing terminal to provide a tracking receipt: A method of operating a self-service check depositing terminal is provided. The method comprises receiving a check from a depositor, attempting to return the check to the depositor, printing a tracking receipt when the check is unable to be returned to the depositor, and dispensing the printing tracking receipt to... Agent: Michael Chan Ncr Corporation

20090287592 - System and method for conferring a benefit to a thrid party from the sale of leads: A computer system and method for operating a computer system to confer a benefit to a third party recipient from the sale of leads. Receiving a lead entry from the lead contributor, the lead entry having a lead description describing a desired good or service. Transmitting an alert of the... Agent: The Jansson Firm

20090287593 - Systems and methods for processing commercial financial transactions: Systems and methods for processing commercial financial transactions are provided. In one aspect, a method for processing a commercial financial transaction between a customer and a merchant is provided. The method includes approving a customer for receiving a financing package for engaging in the commercial financial transaction with a merchant,... Agent: John S. Beulick (17243) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20090287613 - Automated actions based on restrictions: A technique for resolving a violation of an investment account restriction is provided. The restriction is associated with the holding of one or more securities in an investment account. A restriction definition and an associated resolution rule are stored in a data repository. A received order to perform an investment... Agent: Sutherland Ii

20090287612 - Financial activity based on natural weather events: A financial activity network includes a central managing system connected to a plurality of participant terminals. Rules governing operation of the financial activity are stored for future reference. A participant provides investment information such as a map location for the predicted strike by the natural event and, optionally, one or... Agent: Olson & Cepuritis, Ltd.

20090287611 - Investment portfolio analysis system, dynamic link index computing module of financial asset, and method thereof: The present invention discloses an investment portfolio analysis system, a dynamic link index computing module of a financial asset and a method thereof. The system is characterized by calculating the dynamic link index with an investment portfolio associating at least two benchmark assets, so that users can evaluate that the... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090287595 - Dealer to dealer sales lead system and method: A system and method of creating a market for sales leads and financing amongst merchants of like wares that includes a central registry for receiving information about prospective buyers and their finances for compiling and communicating an anonymous sales lead including the prospective buyer's finances to merchants in the same... Agent: Cahn & Samuels LLP

20090287597 - Method and system for auctioning bad debts: A method and system for auctioning bad debts utilizing a sorting arrangement based on the geographic location where jurisdiction is present over the debtor. Clients in the public may remotely access and participate in an online auction forum for the purpose of buying bad debts. Bad debts may be classified... Agent: Marvin A. Glazer

20090287596 - Method, system, and apparatus for facilitating transactions between sellers and buyers for travel related services: A method and system for facilitating transactions between sellers and buyers for travel related services. The system includes a database which stores data associated with a plurality of sellers, and a server operably coupled to the database. A buyer interacts with the server to define and submit a request for... Agent: Gordon & Jacobson, P.C.

20090287598 - Financial institution-based transaction processing system and approach: Transaction processing for financial institution-based transactions is facilitated. According to an example embodiment of the present invention, a transaction processing approach involves the processing of financial aspects of a transaction between buying and selling parties using transaction rules associated with a sponsoring financial institution. Transaction-related information is processed as a... Agent: Crawford Maunu PLLC

20090287600 - Automatically updating records of corporate expense systems using category specific payment mechanisms based on point of sale acquired data: A solution for charging purchases and tracking corporate expenses. In the solution, at least one payment artifact having credit allocations specifically associated with an expense category of a corporate expense management system can be established. A purchase transaction involving the payment artifacts can be identified. An expense category can be... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.-ibm Accspp

20090287599 - Monetary transfer approval via mobile device: A mobile monetary transfer approval process is provided that allows clients to approve or reject monetary transfer requests by utilizing the client's mobile device, such as a cellular telephone and/or personal digital assistant (PDA). From such a client mobile device, user may view pending outgoing and incoming payments and approve... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd Attorneys For Client Number 007131

20090287601 - Network-based viral payment system: A system and method for transferring funds among registered and unregistered users of a value exchange system comprises a server system for receiving value exchange instructions from a sender, where the value exchange instructions include a recipient who may not be registered with the system. The value exchange instructions initiate... Agent: Law Offices Of James E. Eakin

20090287603 - Actionable alerts in corporate mobile banking: Techniques for alerting a client about a pending payment over a communication device by a financial institution are disclosed. The client is able to view the alert on a communication device and can reply to the alert with an answer on how to process the pending payment. A designated user... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd Attorneys For Client Number 007131

20090287604 - Desktop alert with interactive bona fide dispute initiation through chat session facilitated by desktop application: A consumer installs a desktop application on a computer which renders a user interface on the computer's desktop. Upon installation, the desktop application is registered to receive offers and alerts. Each alert includes data for a transaction on an account conducted with a merchant where the account was issued by... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20090287602 - Method for postage payment: A postage funds credit system in which the customer pays for postage funds after they are used in franking mailpieces. A postal device is initialized with postage funds advanced to the customer by a third party. The value of a descending register of the postal device is read a first... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090287605 - Pre-paid card transaction computer to load a loan on a pre-paid card: A loan transaction for a pre-paid card is approved for a borrower so that release of the loan proceeds is pending an activation of a pre-paid card. A pre-paid card transaction computer activates a pre-paid card responsive to an activation request on behalf of the borrower. The pre-paid card transaction... Agent: Bracewell & Giuliani LLP

20090287606 - System and terminal device for electronic money transaction on information and method thereof: An electronic money transferring method that enables the payment of electronic money through an electronic money transferring system with reliability. An external information processor is operated to enter the product number of a desired product, and then a host apparatus sends information about electronic money information indicating an amount of... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090287607 - Method and apparatus for verifying the legitimacy of a financial instrument: An apparatus and method for verifying the legitimacy of a financial instrument used by a shopper is disclosed. A seller accepts details about goods and services to be delivered, and information about a financial instrument to be used in a purchase by a shopper. Identifier information is send to a... Agent: Diederiks & Whitelaw, PLC

20090287608 - Multiple customer and multiple location pc service provider system: The present invention contemplates a system whereby a service provider can service a large number of customers (millions) and connect them to their rented PC from millions of locations around the world. Many customers (10 to 100 thousand) can be connected simultaneously. The service provider is responsible for maintaining the... Agent: Dunlap Codding, P.C.

20090287610 - Data processing: A data processing procedure is shown in which the processed data includes data representing negotiations for the purchasing of a package of inventory, taking the form of offers and counter offers between a single major party and a plurality of minor parties, and data stored in a database representing details... Agent: Richard M. Goldberg

20090287609 - Method and system for managing projects over a network: A method and system for managing projects on a network platform that enables a buyer to make a buy request for a project on a network platform. The buy request includes various requirements of the project. In response to the buy request, various sellers provide submissions for the project on... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090287498 - System and method for streamlined registration of electronic products over a communication network and for verification and management of information related thereto: The system and method of the present invention provide integrated or embedded components, for electronic (or other) products, each operable to securely store and selectively provide access to, a unique ID (UID) previously assigned to its corresponding specific product, where the UID of each product is registered with one or... Agent: Edward Etkin, Esq Law Office Of Edward Etkin, PC

20090287614 - Dynamic transferring of avatars between virtual universes: Interruption and degradation of service within a virtual universe leads to an unsatisfactory experience for users of the virtual universe. Dissatisfaction with service of a virtual universe may lead users to see alternate universes providing higher levels of service. Functionality can be implemented to identify alternate virtual universes that meet... Agent: Ibm Endicott- Delizio Gilliam, PLLC

20090287615 - Forward-looking expense allocation (flea): A method for managing a real-estate investment comprising the steps of employing a method for identifying a suitable investment property; identifying at least one operating expense associated with the ownership of said property and projecting the total cost of said operating expense over a period of time; securing capital, in... Agent: John Karl Buche Buche & Associates, P.C.

20090287616 - Non network cashless health insurance method: This method enables the patients to get the best medical treatment that they desire, entitle and deserve according to their will without worrying about cash payments and make them hassle free of reimbursement problems. The insured gives power of attorney to the non-net work hospital or doctor to submit claim,... Agent: Ashish B Dave

20090276230 - Amassing information about community participant behaviors: Particular embodiments provide recommendations based on community affiliation. In one embodiment, the method determines a query from a target user. A community in which the target user is a member is then determined. The community may include a plurality of members that have joined the community based on a common... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20090276233 - Computerized credibility scoring: A credibility engine creates individual credibility scores and network credibility scores that are distinguished from purely economic credit scores and which can be used to objectively rate a comparative value of credibility for entities and entity networks. The credibility engine analyzes credibility related information obtained from information providers and calculates... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090276231 - Method and system for job and career guidance, planning, strategy and workforce development: A method, system and computer program product for career guidance and planning, the method includes receiving an electronic request for guidance relating to procuring a job role in a particular job category; retrieving data relating to documented qualifications and retrieving data relating to the required qualifications necessary for at least... Agent: Cahn & Samuels, LLP

20090276234 - Method and system for predicting credit ratings transitions: A system and method is provided for allowing users to create portfolios of issuers and macroeconomic scenarios used to determine pertinent rating facts and future paths of macroeconomic drivers. The system and method use the pertinent rating facts and the future paths of macroeconomic drivers, namely unemployment rates and high... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090276235 - Methods and systems to facilitate ethnographic measurements: Example methods and apparatus to facilitate ethnographic measurements are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes transmitting a first survey question set to a wireless device associated with a respondent and receiving a response from the wireless device, the response indicative of a mood of the respondent, and transmitting a second... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20090276229 - Methods of monitoring the effect of nutritional products: Methods of measuring the effects of nutritional products on a consumer and generating revenue from products related to same are provided. In a general embodiment, the present disclosure provides a method of monitoring one or more effects of a nutritional product on a consumer. The method comprises providing a nutritional... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090276236 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing a locator service: Methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing a locator service are provided. A method includes receiving object identification information and location identification information from a vehicle. The location identification information indicates the presence of the vehicle at a parking space. The method also includes creating an occupancy record that... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Cc Attn: Patent Docketing

20090276228 - Techniques for internet cafe service provider access: Techniques for Internet café service provider access are presented. An Internet café includes one or more computers that customers use to access the Internet. Each computer of the Internet café is provisioned with a virtual machine (VM), each VM is tailored with a particular operating system (OS) and suite of... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/novell

20090276232 - Warranty monitoring and enforcement for integrated circuit: An integrated circuit (IC) including a warranty and enforcement system and a method are disclosed. In one embodiment, an IC includes a parameter obtainer for obtaining a value of a parameter of the IC; a warranty data storage system for storing warranty limit data regarding the IC; a comparator for... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090276243 - Healthcare notification method and system including a healthcare website: Methods and apparatus enabling organizations with a need to communicate with healthcare providers regarding health-related issues affecting patient health to notify healthcare providers of a health-related issue affecting patient health are disclosed. An electronic notification of the health-related issue is transmitted by one of the organizations to a healthcare notification... Agent: Vierra Magen Marcus & Deniro LLP

20090276237 - Method and arrangement for monitoring health data: The invention relates to a method and a system for monitoring health data. The invention relates specifically to data monitoring included in an enquiry presented to a patient. In accordance with the invention, an impulse is sent from the server to the terminal of a person living at a distance... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20090276238 - Method and system for providing financial data for optical labs sharing lens calculation software: A method and system for allowing multiple geographically distributed optical labs to share global resources over a telecommunications network. Each optical lab is set up as a client account on the server with privileges to access the global recourses. Each lab has its own equipment set, the settings and configuration... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20090276241 - Patient care and treatment data structure and processing system: An expected outcome data system stores data representing a plurality of different expected outcomes of patient care and treatment for use in providing healthcare to a patient. An acquisition processor acquires data representing an expected outcome of treatment associated with a medical problem for storage in a repository. A repository,... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090276240 - Patient problem data structure and processing system: A patient problem data system stores data representing a plurality of different patient problems for use in providing healthcare to a patient. An acquisition processor acquires data representing a patient problem for storage in a repository. A repository, electrically coupled to the acquisition processor, includes data representing a plurality of... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090276242 - System, method and apparatus for second opinion: A method for providing a medical second opinion includes receiving a first IDC-9 code from a physician at a computerized system. The first ICD-9 code is related to a clinical interest of the physician. A second ICD-9 code is received at the computerized system from a patient. The computerized system... Agent: Bergman & Song, LLP

20090276239 - Validated healthcare cleaning and sanitizing practices: A validated healthcare facility cleaning and sanitizing system provides a comprehensive and systematic approach to cleaning and sanitizing practices at a hospital or other healthcare facility. The validated hospital cleaning system identifies hospital vectors of contamination; that is, sources through which hospital acquired infections (HAIs) may be spread. The validated... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20090276245 - Automated healthcare image registration workflow: Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which in some implementations automatic selection of a number of options in a clinical scenario of healthcare image workflow is provided. The options include selection of datasets, registration process, display mode, fusing process and/or publication. The automatic selection provides for a fully automated... Agent: Dean D. Small The Small Patent Law Group LLP

20090276246 - Automated interdisciplinary plan of care generation system: A processing device implemented system supports providing a plan of care for a patient. A repository includes data representing a plurality of different patient problems and including data representing an individual plan of care, indicating care to be provided to a specific patient, associated with a patient problem, an expected... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090276244 - Health care financing system and method: A computer implemented method for determining eligibility of a patient to receive financial assistance. The method utilizes health care financial assistance information associated with at least a first potential health care financial assistance plan and a second potential health care financial assistance plan, wherein the patient is not enrolled in... Agent: Neal, Gerber, & Eisenberg

20090276248 - Apparatus, system, and method for funding insurance premium financing contracts: An apparatus, system, method, and computer program product for funding insurance premium financing contracts and loans by a premium financier related to an insurance contract on behalf of an insured entity. Interest can be paid from the premium finance company to an insurance company associated with the insurance contract between... Agent: Ken Burraston Kirton & Mcconkie

20090276249 - Method and system for providing healthcare insurance: A method and system for providing healthcare benefits according to the present invention may include a proposed healthcare plan having a primary component, a supplemental component, and a procedure for optimizing services consumption which is presented and customized “on-the-fly” to benefits providers, such as employers, and administered in an efficient... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20090276247 - Systems and methods for web-based group insurance/benefits procurement and/or administration: Systems and methods may include receiving a request for quote information from a customer computer via a website; responsive to the request, providing rates for a plurality of insurance/benefits products associated with one or more carriers via the website, where the plurality of insurance/benefits products includes an insurance/benefits product associated... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20090276250 - Process and system to determine commercial airline arrivals: An apparatus, a method, a system and a computer program for providing users with early and accurate information relating to a status of a particular flight. Early and accurate information relating to a status of a particular flight is provided to the user. The method includes receiving user data that... Agent: Mcguirewoods, LLP

20090276252 - System and method for displaying airline seats: The present invention relates to a system and method for displaying airline seats. The system or method transmits data to an application running on a general purpose computer, the data including information descriptive of available individual seats on one or more airplanes, the data processed by the application to generate... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090276251 - System and method for selecting and reserving airline seats: The present invention relates to a system and method for selecting and reserving airline seats. The system or method receives first data representing payment information over the network from a general purpose computer. The system or method also transmits second data to an application running on the general purpose computer,... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090276258 - system and method for estimating workforce talent supply: Systems and methods for estimating workforce talent supply. Candidate resumes are received in electronic form and expressed in natural language. The natural language expression of the candidate resumes is analyzed to extract elements expressed in candidate resumes and to convert extracted elements into a normalized form. A sampling database of... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20090276259 - Aggregating risk in an enterprise strategy and performance management system: A system for aggregating risk data in an enterprise strategy and performance management is provided. The system, in one example embodiment, includes a risk fetching module to obtain risk exposure data, the risk exposure data related to one or more objectives, a risk data parser to determine a first objective... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/sap

20090276267 - Apparatus and method for handling weight data related to transportation: The subject matter discloses a method of handling weight data related to transportation, comprising receiving weight data from a passenger, a representative, or the passenger; accumulating the weight data associated with a specific trip and determining the amount of fuel required for the specific trip as a function of the... Agent: Soroker-agmon Advocate And Patent Attorneys

20090276260 - Assessing risk: Systems, methods, and apparatus, including software tangibly stored on a computer readable medium, involve a future deadline for completion of a project milestone. An estimate of an amount of time slippage associated with the future deadline is received. A probability of missing the future deadline is calculated based on the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090276261 - Assessment method for process improvement decisions: A risk assessment method for process improvement decisions applying for semiconductor process change comprises: performing a risk assessment evaluation to compute a polarity (plurality?) of items corresponding to their values, generating a risk assessment evaluation value to determine if the risk assessment evaluation value is in a risk setting value,... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090276254 - Color formulation selection process: A computer-implemented method of repairing a vehicle is disclosed. The method includes steps of estimating the cost of performing repairs to a damaged vehicle and determining a refinish paint formulation for refinishing a vehicle by conducting a computer-based search for a refinish paint formulation that best matches the vehicle's original... Agent: Ppg Industries Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20090276265 - Communications network service deployment simulator: A decision management system simulates a communications network service deployment using business and technology changeable parameters, a base case model, a network cost model and a bandwidth model. The simulations may be performed for different sets of changeable parameters to generate multiple candidate solutions. These solutions are analyzed to identify... Agent: Mannava & Kang, P.C.

20090276263 - Framework for realization of web 2.0 features: A method to shape one or more features of Web 2.0 in the form of Web 2.0 solutions, using Web 2.0 realization framework, to the plurality of enterprises is disclosed. The method includes identifying the respective enterprises computing infrastructure and a business application needs of the respective enterprises. The respective... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090276256 - Method for computing an enterprise process compliance index: Techniques for computing an enterprise process compliance index are provided. The techniques include obtaining an enterprise process, obtaining a compliance policy, segmenting the enterprise process into at least one process step and the compliance policy in at least one policy clause, and computing an enterprise process compliance index, wherein computing... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090276255 - Prioritizing client engagements at accounting practices: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to software for prioritizing client engagements at accounting practices. The disclosure describes various data inputs, a business objectives preference module, an optimization engine, user schedule(s), and, in an embodiment, a database or data warehouse. The optimization engine receives requests for new clients, requests for... Agent: Osha - Liang L.L.P. (intuit)

20090276262 - Production management system, production management method, and storage medium containing production management program for executing the production management method: There is provided a production management system that can easily build a production system of each finished product without requiring the time and labor for management of production factors. In a production management system (10), A computer (11) extracts each of the production factors required for building the production system... Agent: Clark & Brody

20090276257 - System and method for determining and managing risk associated with a business relationship between an organization and a third party supplier: Aspects of this invention are directed to a method for determining and managing risk associated with a business relationship between an organization and a third party supplier. A further aspect of this invention relates to a system that allows the organization to manage risk and compliance processes. Further aspects of... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd Attorneys For Client Number 007131

20090276253 - System for determining shortage costs: A system that can determine shortage costs in a repeatable and sustainable manner. In certain embodiments, the system takes into account different shortage costs that impact different organizations and weight those shortage costs against the costs to expedite material in to cover those shortages. Additionally, in certain embodiments, the system... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20090276268 - Systems and methods for selecting flour: Flour may be treated to denature the proteins and modify starches. The invention includes methods and systems for determining whether to use treated flour or untreated flour. The invention also includes methods and systems for determining whether to treat flour or not.... Agent: Hodgson Russ LLP The Guaranty Building

20090276264 - 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

20090276266 - Workflow management method using an image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus determines whether workflow information is included in a received print request. When the workflow information is included in the received print request, the image forming apparatus analyzes the workflow information and calculates a limit date/time to be notified to workers taking charge of respective steps of... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090276272 - Automated tanning system: A self-service tanning system and method allows salon owners to offer tanning customization in order to meet the personal needs of various customers and to meet the various FDA regulations associated with each state. The present invention allows salon owners to customize each tanning customer session to prevent over exposure... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20090276275 - Demand breakout for a supply chain: A system for demand breakout for a supply chain includes a memory operable to store a plurality of orders for at least one product. Each product may be produced using at least one precursor. The memory is also operable to store a production schedule identifying one or more resources in... Agent: I2 Technologies Us, Inc.

20090276276 - Method for analyzing maintenance operations and assessing the readiness of repairable systems: An automated method for assessing the readiness of a plurality of repairable systems, such as a fleet of aircraft, is provided. In addition to identifying the repairable systems that will be operational, the relative state of readiness of the repairable systems is determined such that the repairable systems that are... Agent: Alston & Bird, LLP

20090276271 - Practical model for high speed file delivery services supporting guaranteed delivery times and differentiated service levels: A practical economic and technical model for building commercial-grade electronic file delivery services that provide the same scale, predictability, and differentiated service levels as physical courier services traditionally used to move electronic data on physical media. Systems and methods for providing such services using a charge-back scheme based on congestion... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090276274 - Program and apparatus for workflow analysis: A workflow extractor generates workflow information having the set names of data sets arranged in chronological order, oldest first, for each business process. A transition information generator specifies a transition relation between two continuously updated data sets to generate transition information. An important update extractor extracts update information indicating updates... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090276269 - Software identifier based correlation: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with software identifier based correlation are described. One example system includes an identifier data store to store a first identifier that uniquely identifies a discovered instance of a software title installed in an enterprise. The first identifier is discoverable from the discovered instance and... Agent: Kraguljac & Kalnay, LLC - Oracle

20090276270 - System configuration application and user interface: An interface tool is provided. The interface includes an aggregator that collects input data from a user and transforms the input data to a form suitable by a business processing system. A format component receives output data from the business processing system and transforms the output data to a form... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP Attention: Heather Holmes

20090276273 - Touchscreen entry of construction punch list items directly on a plan: A method for establishing a construction punch list system for managing and inspecting a construction project is disclosed. Plan data, of a construction project, is provided from a database in a central server to sub-contractors having field operable graphical touchscreen devices. A touchscreen device is used to display a selected... Agent: Schneck & Schneck

20090276282 - Appointment reminder and systems and methods for making and using: A service package includes a brochure that includes general information related to a service provided for a client by a service provider. An appointment notifier may be inserted into the brochure. A client-specific insert may also be inserted into the brochure. The appointment notifier may include a reminder packet with... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090276279 - Computer system and method for interim transaction diagnosis for selective remediation and customer loyalty enhancement: A customer feedback acquisition and processing system includes a data acquisition processor for receiving first and second customer feedback responses. The first customer feedback response is received by the data acquisition processor after notice of a claim is received and before the claim is resolved. The second customer feedback response... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20090276278 - Method for processing a linked list of time segments: An appointment scheduling method and associated user interface wherein an overview of appointments of a patient, an overview of the agendas of involved resources and details on an instantiated appointment are displayed on a single screen permitting verification and confirmation of an instantiated appointment by the user.... Agent: Houston Eliseeva

20090276281 - Method, system, and computer program product for effective task management: A method for effective employee assignment including determining a number of employees needed to perform each of a plurality of tasks, determining a skill flexibility index (SFI) of each employee, determining a job quality index (JQI) of each employee, determining a minimum acceptable (min. JQI) for each task, and for... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20090276277 - Optimized appointment scheduling method: An appointment scheduling method wherein available time slots for an appointment are ranked according to the result of a balancing of importance factors adhered by an enterprise to weights associated with the available time slots such as efficiency of use of resources, urgency of examination, financial impact etc.... Agent: Houston Eliseeva

20090276283 - Screening electronic service requests: A facility for screening service requests for requesting assistance is described. The facility receives from a user a service request that requests assistance with solving a problem associated with a system accessible to the user and includes information related to the system. The facility searches a collection of system status... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20090276280 - Using alerts to bring attention to in-store information: A method is provided that uses alerts to bring in-store information that is of interest to the attention of team members working in a retail store. To send an alert to a team member logged in to a device data, data from a source is evaluated against business rules. An... Agent: Target Brands, Inc.

20090276288 - Artificial intelligence platform: The present invention provides a new and unique platform for authoring and deploying interactive characters which are powered by artificial intelligence. The platform permits the creation of a virtual world populated by multiple characters and objects, interacting with one another so as to create a life-like virtual world and interacting... Agent: Pandiscio & Pandiscio, P.C.

20090276286 - Measuring product consumability: Product consumability can be measured by recording customer interaction with customer support mechanisms and mapping the resulting data into consumability characteristics. The consumability characteristics correspond to specific customer experiences with various features and processes throughout the product lifecycle. Through an examination of data mapped into the various consumability characteristics, the... Agent: Ibm Corporation C/o: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090276292 - Methods, systems and apparatus for interactive audience participation at a live entertainment event: A method and system provide interactive participation during activity occurring at a college campus venue. Enjoyment for a plurality of enrolled participants is enhanced. Participants employ wireless interactive devices that present a promotional message and include user input and output interfaces. Participants are queried, and enter answers via the user... Agent: Ernest D. Buff Ernest D. Buff And Associates, LLC.

20090276293 - Methods, systems, and products for conducting electronic commerce: Methods, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for conducting electronic commerce. A merchant participates in an online community of merchants. Sales information is shared with the online community such that each merchant is informed of each sale of each merchant participating in the online community.... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Sz Attn: Patent Docketing

20090276284 - Peer to peer network personal assistant: Methods and computer storage media for communicating an electronic gift suggestion for a first user to a second user are provided. Accessing an online social network profile for a first user created by the first user in an online social network. Determining one or more gift suggestions for the first... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090276285 - Search engine to broker advertiser with publisher: A method for brokering advertisers and publishers includes crawling internet websites to extract information from publisher websites including at least one of keywords, tags, images, digital media, or combinations thereof, collecting browser activity data as monitored from users browsing the websites; reverse indexing the publisher information in relation to corresponding... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20090276291 - System and method for networking shops online and offline: Garments are presented to a consumer using a computer by reading a database of garments, wherein the database of garments includes parameters for at least some of the garments represented by records in the database of garments, the parameters including at least a garment type, reading data representing a plurality... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090276289 - System and method for predicting likelihood of customer attrition and retention measures: The present invention relates to a system and method for customer retention. Historical transaction and customer data may be received from stores. Likewise, recent customer transaction data may be received from the stores. The transactions are linked to each customer. Attriters, historical customers who discontinued shopping, are identified. Next, risk... Agent: Kang Lim

20090276290 - System and method of optimizing commercial real estate transactions: The present invention is directed to a method for facilitating a real estate transaction comprising the steps of receiving at least one site performance criteria from at least one prospective buyer, receiving prospective site data regarding at least one prospective site from at least one prospective seller, calculating the value... Agent: Neal, Gerber, & Eisenberg

20090276287 - System for predictive analytics using real-world pharmaceutical transactions: A system for predictive analytics using real-world pharmaceutical transactions includes a computer having a processor and memory, a data collection component configured to aggregate data for a plurality of pharmaceutical transactions, and a data reduction module configured to eliminate non-compliant transactions to generate a reduced transaction data set. An analysis... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090276295 - system and method for modeling workforce talent supply to enable dynamic creation of job specifications in response thereto: Systems and methods for modeling workforce talent supply to enable dynamic creation of job specifications in response thereto. A sampling database is built of candidates using normalized form of elements derived from candidate resumes to provide an element level description of each candidate. The national or regional workforce supply of... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20090276296 - Business profit resource optimization system and method: A business profit and resource optimization system that calculates an employee evaluation, comprising an input component that is utilized to input assessment data related to characteristics for a currently assessed employee, utilizing the assessment data from a plurality of evaluators, an idea component that analyzes ideas of the currently assessed... Agent: Andrew R. Spriegel

20090276294 - Career framework: A method and apparatus for assessing eligibility for a job including providing a job description to a user of a general purpose computer, providing a plurality of skills to a user of the general purpose computer, wherein the plurality of skills is particular to the job description, providing a plurality... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20090276297 - Method and system for reviewing and managing employees: A system and method are provided for reviewing employees of a company that includes displaying a grid with potential along one axis and performance along a second axis, and placing each of a select group of employees in one of the boxes defined by the grid. The employees may be... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090276298 - Community virtual network operator: A virtual network operator without leasing bandwidths is built with subscribers paying their bandwidths, using installed customer premise equipments as the main part of its infrastructure. These CPEs work together in a P2P manner so that self-sustaining services can be offered without an operator, with only collaborating subscribers forming a... Agent: Wei Kang Tsai

20090276299 - Incentive-based waste reduction system and method thereof: An incentive-based waste reduction system and method thereof are disclosed herein. In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, an incentive-based waste reduction system comprises a collection means comprising at least a load-determining device, the collection means for obtaining a quantifiable measure of waste material from an entity, a... Agent: Maldjian & Fallon LLC

20090276300 - Network systems and methods utilizing mobile devices to enhance consumer experience: Network systems and methods for utilizing mobile devices to enhance customer experiences are disclosed herein. A first aspect of the present invention facilitates a customer to acquire a membership to a membership program and subsequently access benefits of the membership program via a mobile device. Another aspect of the present... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Pk Attn: Patent Docketing

20090276303 - Systems and methods for mobile wireless advertising platform part 1: A system of wireless advertising platform has a handheld wireless device that has an inbound wireless data function with a storage function to be able to receive and store, audio, text, image, and flash commercial messages from a message server. The device has a message exposure function that exposes these... Agent: Tara Chand Singhal

20090276304 - Apparatus and menthod for incentive marketing: An incentive marketing apparatus and method provides a purchaser of an item at a store or other retail location a chance to win an award. A unique identifier is assigned to the purchase. The purchaser provides the unique identifier to a kiosk or other customer interface device. The kiosk checks... Agent: Gable & Gotwals

20090276305 - Affiliate and cross promotion systems and methods: A method for managing referrals between a consumer, merchant, and at least one affiliate; generating a referral identifier by a referral identifier generator for an affiliate to give at least one consumer, the referral identifier representing a promotional offer for at least one consumer; accepting and tracking the referral identifier... Agent: Meredith & Keyhani, PLLC

20090276306 - Utilizing an electronic payment system to implement rebate programs: Some example embodiments described herein relate a system and method for utilizing an electronic payment system to implement rebate programs. The system includes a communication module that receives at an electronic payment system a request from a first party for making a rebate payment to a second party. The system... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20090276307 - Product couponing and sampling method: A targeted method for providing coupons and samples to consumers, that provides extensive feedback to manufacturers, identifies consumers that represent a desired demographic profile, enables a convenient consumer couponing experience, controls and contains fraud through the use of expiration methods and location data.... Agent: Wood Herron & Evans LLP

20090276301 - System and method for identifying ideas: A system and method for associating value with ideas. Unit of value indicators are issued to users. Ideas are identified by the users and submitted to the system. The users make requests to associate the unit of value indicators with the submitted ideas. As a result of an award event,... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090276308 - Online incentive management: Various methods and systems are provided to facilitate the centralized storage and access of online incentives such as coupons redeemable at associated online marketplaces. In one example, merchants may provide incentive information to payment service providers that in turn may associate such information with user accounts maintained by the payment... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090276309 - Self learning method and system for managing an advertisement: A self-learning computer-based system for managing an advertisement, including: a memory element for at least one specially-programmed general purpose computer for storing: an artificial intelligence program (AIP) and a plurality of advertisements for at least one good or service offered by a first business entity; and an interface element for... Agent: Simpson & Simpson, PLLC

20090276310 - Profit opportunities across sponsored keyword auction markets: Methods for gaining profit of a sponsored keyword auctioneer are described herein. The method begins with holding a local keyword auction, and receiving bids for it, wherein each bid is for the right to display one advertisement associated with the bid in response to the bid being allocated along with... Agent: OmikronIPLaw Group

20090276312 - Generation and application of a target specific addressable spot guide for broadcast transmission: A target specific addressable spot-guide (TASG) comprises meta-data generated from advertisement campaign criteria, the schema of available ad-spots, the characteristics of the ads to be inserted in the ad-spot, and the ad interaction pattern and preferences of the targeted end user. The TASG is transferred into a mobile handheld viewing... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20090276311 - System and method for optimizing content distribution: A system for distributing content includes a content distribution platform (CDP) analysis module configured to determine an optimal combination of one or more CDP components for distributing a specified content item based on at least one content item profile. A method of distributing content includes determining an optimal combination of... Agent: Level 3 Communications, LLC C/o Cpa Global

20090276314 - Advertising supported vpn: Described is a computerized system including a virtual private network server operable to provide a virtual private network service, the virtual private network service enabling a user to retrieve at least one internet resource; and an advertisement module operable to furnish advertisements for insertion into the internet resource retrieved by... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090276313 - Method, system and program product for displaying advertising content on a music player: A method, system and program product for displaying advertising content on a portable music player. A method, system and program product for displaying advertising content on a portable music player based on content stored therein. The method includes checking in a meta tag for a music file being downloaded whether... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090276316 - Interactive advertisements in a sponsored search environment: A method and system for displaying advertisement listings in a sponsored search environment is provided. The method and system may include receiving at a server located within a network location a search term corresponding to a search request by a searcher via a user terminal; selecting at least one interactive... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20090276315 - Multimedia advertisements in a sponsored search environment: A method and system for displaying advertisement listings in a sponsored search environment is provided. The method and system may include receiving at a server located within a network location a search term corresponding to a search request by a searcher via a user terminal, selecting at least one multimedia... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20090276317 - Dynamic inventory management for systems presenting marketing campaigns via media devices in public places: A dynamic inventory management system and method for the identification of available inventory on a network of media devices and the optimal scheduling of campaigns, treatments, and content items on the available inventory. To optimize performance of the system, the dynamic inventory management system receives input data from a variety... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20090276318 - Nagivation provision system and framework for providing content to an end user: The invention relates to navigation devices and to the provision of both data and functionality to navigation devices. The invention provides a navigation device running basic navigation framework software, supporting a complete navigation content provision framework, wherein the framework can support a fixed set of plug-in software object types. The... Agent: Vedder Price P.C.

20090276302 - Advertising revenue sharing: A method for compensating all parties involved in producing the income stream for a content distributor is presented where the content-hosting site, the content writer and the user doing the interaction with paid contents receive a fair share of the generated income stream.... Agent: Louis Ventre Jr

20090276319 - Advertisement management and display system: An advertisement management and display system includes marketing management software, a client advertisements database communicating with the marketing management software, at least one table and at least one content display device carried by the at least one table and communicating with the marketing management software. The client advertisements database is... Agent: Gold & Rizvi, P.A.

20090276320 - Bezel for vending or gaming machine: A bezel for use in a merchandising system is provided. The bezel includes an information display and a graphic display including one or more visual indicators. The bezel also includes a card reader configured to process payments from a cashless payment card. The bezel further includes a bill recycler access... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090276321 - Method and system for automated payment authorization and settlement: The present invention provides a system and method to enable a third party service provider of EIPP services to initiate authorization and settlement of payment card payments with invoice line item data (Level III data), on behalf of either Buyer/Payers or Supplier/Payees to credit card acquirers and/or transaction processors. Payment... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090276322 - Retailer debit card system: Methods for soliciting and enrolling customers for a retailer payment instrument are disclosed. For example, a method is disclosed for enrolling a customer for a retailer debit card which includes receiving enrollment data from the customer, establishing a check writer rating for the customer based on a history of checks... Agent: Target Brands, Inc.

20090276329 - Bid modification based on logical connections between trigger groups in a combinatorial exchange: In a combinatorial exchange, rules can be input for processing bids and a desired exchange objective can be defined. A subset of the rules can be used to determine if an allocation of the bids exists that is optimal for the type of exchange being conducted. If the desired exchange... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20090276330 - Low-power subsystem for portable computers: A low power subsystem for a portable computer is described. In one example, the portable computer includes a computer system and low power multimedia center. The computer system includes a central processing unit, a system memory, a mass storage device, and a user interface, the computer system having a low-power... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090276328 - Method and system for supporting secure transactions in a peer-to-peer network: At least two computer systems in a peer-to-peer network are utilized to support a secure transaction. Aspects of the present invention include allowing a shopper to create an order to purchase an item stored on a first computer system in the peer-to-peer network, and after the order is created, passing... Agent: Flashpoint Technology And Withrow & Terranova

20090276327 - Methods, systems, and products for ordering items: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for online ordering of items. An online order is received from a first user requesting to purchase an item. The first user is associated to a profile of a second user. A favorite item is retrieved from the second user's profile and automatically added... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Sz Attn: Patent Docketing

20090276326 - Rfid ionosphere: A method, system, and apparatus are disclosed wherein an RFID transponder response signal is coupled with a data file as an identifier. The RFID transponder response signal is used in its raw, or a digitized version of its raw, state.... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20090276324 - System and method for previewing and purchasing digital content with a mobile digital storage and playback device: A system and method for previewing and purchasing digital content are provided. A method for previewing and rating digital content over a network includes accessing at least one preselected web site via a network connected media player assembly. Once the web site is accessed, at least one preview content is... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20090276325 - System and method for quantitative competition and recording medium having recorded thereon program for implementing the method: A bid-opening device 20 receives from each bidding device 10m a bidding price index γm=g(hk(IVm)) (where IVm is an initial value, hk indicates k-times processing with a one-way function h and g is a one-way function) and its identifier IDm. The received information is stored on a common bulletin board... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20090276323 - Systems and methods for generating a synchronous sales stack for customer dialog: Embodiments relate to systems and methods for generating a synchronous sales stack for a customer dialog. A user can visit a Web site and load selections into a checkout basket to prepare to purchase desired products and/or services. The user can select a live chat feature, which invokes an instant... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20090276334 - Content purchasing/viewing system, content reproducing device, and content reproduction authentication server: A content reproducing device (10) capable of changing over from a title list where purchased contents and unpurchased contents are mixedly listed directly to the content purchase procedure and reproducing an unpurchased content as a purchased content. The content reproducing device (10) comprises a storage medium (13) storing purchased viewable... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090276333 - Electronic submission and management of digital products for network-based distribution: An improved system and method for submitting, distributing and/or managing digital products with respect to a product distribution site are disclosed. The submission of digital products to the product distribution site is able to be performed by numerous submitters in a uniform and computer-assisted manner. The submitted digital products can... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20090276331 - Method for linking network virtual service to physical service of a physical shop: A method for linking network virtual service to physical service of a physical shop, wherein a shop owner provides a network service platform to the customers for performing a primary virtual service, saving the service content by free or charge account and assisting the customers in finishing the physical service.... Agent: Dr. Banger Shia

20090276336 - Methods and systems for self-branding through e-commerce channels, establishing a virtual storefront, and procuring self-branded merchandise for sale therein: Methods and systems are provided for the creation and management of online businesses (e-Business). The methods and systems automate key business processes and enable intelligent business control. Through the use of the present invention, each e-Business can offer its own branded products for sale without having to maintain an inventory... Agent: Kalow & Springut LLP

20090276332 - Network-based distribution of application products: An improved system and method for submitting, distributing and/or managing digital products with respect to a product distribution system are disclosed. The submission of digital products to the product distribution system can operate to electronically submit not only the digital products but also product information, developer information and distribution parameters.... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20090276335 - System and method for selling cable products: System and method for selling cable products. Indicia are assigned to various types of cable, indicating attributes including relative data transmission capacity of each cable type. A three-dimensional graphical depiction of a series of concentric pipes illustrates data bandwidth requirements of various technologies.... Agent: Lariviere, Grubman & Payne, LLP

20090276338 - System and method for sharing information and causing an action based on that information: A physical objects tracking system and a method for sharing information about objects and causing an action based on that information is provided. Short range communication networks collect data which identify physical objects and attributes associated with the objects. Long range communication networks provide both central data processing equipment, which... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20090276337 - 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

20090276339 - Receiving check and balance system: A method for managing and fulfilling inventory requests is provided. Material orders originating from a customer are received at a material hub. Each order originates from a customer and contains a request for parts. The material orders are aggregated into a consolidated order reflecting an aggregate quantity of each part... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P.A.

20090276343 - Account communication management: The present invention relates to a method and system of managing communication with a set of accounts. The method includes the step of: allocating each account to a portfolio using a filter; selecting a communication strategy for each account using a set of rules for the portfolio; and managing communication... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090276344 - Field 55 parser: A payment device, method, and apparatus configured to parse customer exclusive data from a payment device or financial transaction data.... Agent: Visa Usa C/o Duane Morris LLP Attn: James Sze, Esq.

20090276342 - Pre-pay communication services: A method and system for crediting a user account of a pre-pay communication service is presented. The method comprises the steps of: providing a shared credit resource to which a plurality of users of the pre-pay communication service are authorized access and to which at least one user contributes credit;... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20090276340 - System and method for accounting gateway: The present invention provides an accounting gateway for facilitating and effecting translation and efficient data transfer between an accounting system and a plurality of client systems operating a variety of external bookkeeping solutions. The gateway brokers data exchanges between an accounting firm and its clients by translating data records associated... Agent: Valenti, Hanley & Robinson, PLLC

20090276341 - System and method for automated customer account creation and management: A method and system to automatically create and manage patron accounts using electronic data capture at an automated machine or kiosk, including electronically obtaining personal patron identification information from a patron identification source, such as a driver's license, determining if a patron account exists and if the identification source has... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090276345 - Method, system and article for donations on mobile communication devices: A method, system, and computer-readable medium facilitate the making of donations on a mobile communication device. A plurality of non-profit icons is displayed on the mobile communication device. Information about the non-profits possibly including its logo and donation icons may be displayed in some embodiments. After selecting a non-profit icon,... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20090276347 - Method and apparatus for use of a temporary financial transaction number or code: A temporary financial transaction number is generated for conducting a financial transaction, such as for paying for goods or services. The temporary number has limits on use, such as time, and amount limits and limits on the type of goods or services that may be purchased or on the type... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20090276346 - System and method for classifying a financial transaction as a recurring financial transaction: A system that automatically classifies a financial transaction as a recurring financial transaction based on classification data obtained from a set of users is presented. The system can also determine the frequency at which the recurring financial transaction repeats. If the financial transaction is classified as a recurring financial transaction,... Agent: Pvf -- Intuit, Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090276366 - Advisory thresholds and alerts for managing position concentration risk: Management of a position concentration risk of an account includes the establishment of a threshold level for an aggregate trader position. The aggregate trader position may be associated with one or more customer accounts that are managed by one or more clearing firms. An actual parameter value associated with each... Agent: Ip Group Of Dla Piper LLP (us)

20090276370 - Computer system architecture and computer implemented methods for enhanced custody and principal lending of securities: A computer system executes a principal lending to lend the securities from lending accounts of an entity to borrowing accounts of the entity, in which the entity acts as a principal. The system includes a computer database storing securities availability information indicating availability of the securities available for borrowing from... Agent: Wilmerhale/new York

20090276372 - Method and apparatus for enabling individual or smaller investors or others to create and manage a portfolio of securities or other assets or liabilities on a cost effective basis: Smaller investors can create and manage on a cost-effective basis a complex portfolio of securities using a mechanism that enables the investor to provide to the system the investor's preferences regarding his portfolio, to generate a portfolio, including fractional shares, that reflects the investor's preferences. The system then permits aggregation... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090276373 - Method and system for providing electronic information for risk assesement and management for multi-market electronic trading: A method and system for providing real-time electronic information for risk assessment and management for multi-market electronic trading. The method and system dramatically improve an infrastructure used by electronic traders over a communications network by separating one or more data streams from one or more trading exchange with plural different... Agent: Lesavich High-tech Law Group, P.C.

20090276367 - Method and system for providing risk management for multi-market electronic trading: A method and system for providing risk management for multi-market electronic trading. The method and system allow risk associated with one or more trading accounts for an electronic trader in multi-market electronic trading to be analyzed and managed in real-time. The method and system includes graphical display of risk assessments... Agent: Lesavich High-tech Law Group, P.C.

20090276365 - Order management system and method: The invention relates to a trading system in which an order is received, the order including a predetermined condition. The system determines the data required to fulfil the conditions associated with the order and data is obtained from an external source. The data is monitored to determine whether the predetermined... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090276371 - Program for alternative funding of employee and retiree benefits: An investment program for funding benefits by maintaining assets in the investment program that includes an employer owned trust account and at least one life, disability, health or annuity contract (including a terminal annuity) obtained directly or indirectly from a partially or wholly owned or non-owned captive insurance company. The... Agent: Jones Day

20090276369 - System and method for benefit conversion: Described are systems and methods converting a first guaranteed benefit to a second guaranteed benefit. The system may include a first computing arrangement storing first annuity data indicative of a first guaranteed benefit associated with an annuity, and a second computing arrangement sending a request to the first computing arrangement... Agent: Ostrow Kaufman & Frankl LLP Susan Formicola

20090276368 - Systems and methods for providing personalized recommendations of products and services based on explicit and implicit user data and feedback: The present describes systems and methods to support personal financial management by recommending financial products and services responsive to a user's particular financial health or situation based on explicit and implicit user data and feedback.... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20090276374 - Investment portfolio analysis system: An investment portfolio management system enables computation of hedging strategies (each including one or more hedging transactions) and presentation of the strategies to the investor. Each hedging strategy takes into consideration tax impact information that is particularized to the individual investor. Investor portfolio data identifying assets owned by an investor... Agent: David A. Einhorn, Esq. Baker & Hostetler LLP

20090276349 - Electronic securities marketplace having integration with order management systems: An electronic trading marketplace (ETM) communicates with interfacing modules interfacing directly with order management systems (OMS's) at trading institutions. The interfacing modules automatically transmit orders from the OMS databases to the ETM and update the OMS databases in response to orders executed at the ETM. Traders can communicate with the... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20090276350 - Electronic securities marketplace having integration with order management systems: An electronic trading marketplace (ETM) communicates with interfacing modules interfacing directly with order management systems (OMS's) at trading institutions. The interfacing modules automatically transmit orders from the OMS databases to the ETM and update the OMS databases in response to orders executed at the ETM. Traders can communicate with the... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20090276348 - Multiple protocol trading system: A multi-protocol trading system in which traders preferring different trading protocols may coexist within the same system, and access the same liquidity pool, while maintaining their trading rule preferences. The system supports two protocol preferences: a workup preference and a FIFO preference, and includes a single integrated order book that... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090276351 - Scaleable system and method for distributed prediction markets: Systems, methods, and software are disclosed to implement distributed prediction markets over the internet. A central platform executes web application software to host prediction markets (FIG. 1A), each of which can be initiated via a widget on a remote web site such as a blogger site (FIG. 1B). A widget... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20090276352 - System and method for displaying money management information in an electronic trading environment: A system and method for displaying a plurality of profit and risk related indicators are described. A graphical interface displays and dynamically updates a plurality of profit/loss (P/L) indicators including a realized, net, and open indicator. The net and open indicators are based on a trader's net position and a... Agent: Mbhb/trading Technologies

20090276353 - System and method for displaying profit related information in an electronic trading environment: A system and method for displaying a plurality of profit and risk related indicators are described. A graphical interface displays and dynamically updates a plurality of profit/loss (P/L) indicators including a realized, net, and open indicator. The net and open indicators are based on a trader's net position and a... Agent: Mbhb/trading Technologies

20090276354 - Method and system for transaction processing: Methods and system for transaction processing are described. In one embodiment, a plurality of default parameters may be configured for value transfer. A transfer request including a transfer amount and a user account identifier may be received. One or more of the plurality of default parameters may be selected. The... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20090276355 - Method and networked system of interactive devices and services offered for use at participating social venues to facilitate mutual discovery, self-selection, and interaction among users: A system and method for self-selection by pairs of mutually-interested individuals among current or sometime visitors to participating social venues, including interactive client devices provided on a pay-to-use basis at each venue and connected via an external network to servers hosting a secure database storing user information together with software... Agent: Mark Young, P.A.

20090276357 - Information processing apparatus and data communication method: An information apparatus switches a display at a predetermined area which includes at least a part of a portion where an electromagnetic-wave emitting unit used for data communications with a data storage device is disposed, according to data communication processing with the data storage device, and emits sound generated according... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090276356 - System and method for distribution of payment media: Systems and methods of the present disclosure provide a method for distributing payment media to a customer. In various embodiments, the systems and methods include receiving a request from a user via a network, generating a virtual payment number related to the user, associating the virtual payment number to an... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090276358 - User alerts for monitored transactions at automatic teller machines: An improved method, apparatus, and computer implemented instructions for processing a check in an automatic teller machine in a data processing system. A check is received from a user at the automatic teller machine. The check is scanned to generate an image. A transaction is performed involving the check. The... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20090276359 - Multi-product-multi-channel payment platform system and method: Described herein is a multi-product-multi-channel payment platform system and apparatus that extends the capability of current online banking/funds-transfer systems. Different types of financial accounts are modeled in a financial management system to enable types of online, electronic funds transfer transaction that were not previously possible. Among novel elements of the... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20090276360 - Product protection method and identifier for checking the authenticity of products: The invention relates to a product protection system, whereby a product piece is provided with a product-specific identification sequence (K) which is converted into a coded check sequence (C), by means of an encoding method (F1) using a secret encoding sequence (B). A product control sequence is applied to or... Agent: Venable LLP

20090276361 - Transaction system and method for advance a committed time in the future: Transaction systems and methods for advancing a committed time in the future are described herein. In the present transaction systems and methods, the first end can be permitted to pre-hatch a time capsule signature before the committed time. The time capsule signature scheme here is conducted based on an identity-based... Agent: OmikronIPLaw Group

20090276364 - Process control system: A computer system configured to provide process control is described herein. The computer system optionally includes a web proxy system, including a load balancer, and a cache cluster. An interface is configured to receive a user search query. A search engine is configured to receive the user query and to... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090276362 - Real estate commission bid system: The invention is a computerized or manual bidding system for real estate commission rates where participating registered licensed real estate brokers can acquire from participating registered real estate property owners the exclusive right to sell contract to broker a real estate property for a predetermined period of time based on... Agent: Michael I Kroll

20090276363 - Trading platform with automated negotiation and option crossing: A system and method for trading securities that include at least one options leg is provided. The system generally includes a database, handlers, a network and at least one server. The database stores user information, security information and transaction information. The handlers receive information feeds from at least one public... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20090276375 - Analysis of powder metal production of a component: A method of calculating the cost saving for producing a metallic component by the use of a powder metal process is provided. The method includes the steps of analyzing the current production method of the component, usually machining, to determine the current unit cost. The customer would agree to purchase... Agent: Amsted Industries Inc. Two Prudential Plaza

20090276376 - Diminished value represented as a percentage or decimal equivalent in the field of automobiles: This invention will provide consumer protection from any automobile industry professional when their automobile is involved in an incident that would reduce the value of a vehicle. It will also allow for the general public to have access to the same information as any industry professional needing to determine diminished... Agent: Ryan Hiller