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Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination October categorized by USPTO classification 10/10

20100274572 - Alert architecture: Systems, architecture of the systems, and methods for generating alert message are disclosed. A user enrolls in an alert messaging service. Information that the user provides during an enrollment process are sent into a database. the user performs a transaction using a portable consumer device. Transaction data are sent to... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20100274567 - Announcing information about payment transactions of any member of a consumer group: An announcement distributor distributes, or auctions an opportunity to distribute, an announcement to an announcement recipient such as a consumer, issuer, merchant, or acquirer within a payment processing system. The announcement when there has been a satisfaction of an announcement condition, such as the consumer being determined to be located... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20100274566 - Location based processing of announcements for delivery to an announcement recipient: An announcement distributor distributes, or auctions an opportunity to distribute, an announcement to an announcement recipient such as a consumer, issuer, merchant, or acquirer within a payment processing system. The announcement when there has been a satisfaction of an announcement condition, such as the consumer being determined to be located... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20100274568 - Method and apparatus for monitoring user activity in linked services: An approach is provided for monitoring user activity in linked services. A linked services enabler initiates monitoring of progress of a user towards achieving a goal corresponding to a service and for periodic reporting of the progress. The goal includes an activity to be completed in one or more linked... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20100274569 - Real-time location sharing: The present disclosure generally describes that real-time location information may be exchanged among devices and a communications system, allowing for users to locate other users in real-time for determining whether such users may advantageously engage in collective activities. An example communications system may acquire and store device location information corresponding... Agent: Jensen & Puntigam, P.s.

20100274571 - System and method for generating vehicle service leads and vehicle sales leads: A system and method for generating leads associated with a vehicle operating on at least one computer device. The system and method including receiving vehicle profile data associated with the vehicle via a network, determining, using a programmed computer, an estimated cost of ownership of the vehicle based on at... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20100274570 - Vehicle charging authorization: Methods and apparatus are provided for charging an onboard energy storage system of a plug-in vehicle using a charging station. An embodiment of the system includes a vehicle communication system configured to transmit data related to charging authorization to the charging station. The embodiment also includes an electronic device configured... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (gm)

20100274575 - Apparatus and methods for medical patient role playing/simulation activity: A health care apparatus (10) and methods for rendering audio visual content to a medical patient in the patient's home, in which a content element storage (22) stores a plurality of audio visual content elements (28) to be rendered to the patient, including role playing simulation content elements (40) in... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100274577 - Computational systems and methods for health services planning and matching: Systems and methods are described relating to accepting an indication of at least one attribute of an individual; accepting sensor data about the individual; presenting a set of health care options at least partially based on the accepting sensor data about the individual; and providing a matching system for procurement... Agent: Keller Lapuma Woodard PC - Iv

20100274578 - Computational systems and methods for health services planning and matching: Systems and methods are described relating to accepting an indication of at least one attribute of an individual; accepting sensor data about the individual; presenting a set of health care options at least partially based on the accepting sensor data about the individual; and providing a matching system for procurement... Agent: Keller Lapuma Woodard PC - Iv

20100274574 - Computerised healthcare management method: The present invention relates to a computerized healthcare management method for a patient. The method uses an interactive conversation tool which strengthens and structures prevention consultations regarding lifestyle changes. The patient is involved actively in the conversations and an overview of the measures/actions to be taken is established. According to... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20100274573 - Data relevation and pattern or event recognition: An adaptable data management system that can address situations and/or scenarios ‘on-the-fly’ is provided. The innovation discloses a system that is not bound by intended content and therefore, allows associations (e.g., patterns, trends) and functionalities (e.g., notifications) to be expressed very rapidly (e.g., in real-time) to address health-related scenarios (e.g.,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100274579 - Dynamic, interactive, web-based treatment system: A treatment system and method includes a treatment system server having a building block module to generate modular, interactive building blocks for treatment regimens. The building blocks represent a time-sensitive aspect of the treatment regimen, and are selectively assembled by a care provider client computer in substantially any combination, to... Agent: Richard L. Sampson Sampson & Associates, P.C.

20100274581 - Electronic system and method for processing drug prescriptions: Some embodiments of the invention provide an electronically-aided system and method for processing drug prescriptions in a manner that may reduce the number of lost and/or incorrectly filled drug prescriptions without disrupting existing operating procedures within a pharmacy or an inpatient health-care facility. In such embodiments, the potential for human... Agent: Bereskin And Parr LLP/s.e.n.c.r.l., S.r.l.

20100274580 - Healthcare provider performance analysis and business management system: A healthcare provider performance analysis and business management system to provide a business-centric analysis of healthcare provider performance indicators. A comparison of the healthcare provider's business performance (as indicated by data collected from the provider for a number of business metrics) against best practices at similarly-situated healthcare providers (as represented... Agent: In-ip Law Group, P.C.

20100274583 - Medical claims fraud prevention system including historical patient locating feature and associated methods: A medical claim fraud prevention system includes a first controller positioned at a medical facility and a second controller positioned at a patient information collection center and adapted to be in communication with a data center having historical location information relating to a patient locating device. The first controller may... Agent: Mark R. Malek Zies Widerman & Malek

20100274582 - Medical claims fraud prevention system including patient identification interface feature and associated methods: A medical claim fraud prevention system includes a first controller positioned at a medical facility and including a user interface and a second controller positioned at a patient information collection center and adapted to be in communication with the first controller. The first controller may send a first signal to... Agent: Mark R. Malek Zies Widerman & Malek

20100274576 - Systems and methods for enhancing the treatment of individuals: Methods and systems of managing treatment for a patient are disclosed. Data pertaining to an intervention may be received by a processor. The intervention may include one or more of a homework intervention, an in-session intervention, or a combination thereof. The data pertaining to the first intervention may be stored... Agent: Robert Jay Young

20100274586 - Automatically assessing drug interactions while protecting patient privacy: A drug interaction utility can retrieve the patient's current medications from a medication information card on the smart card by interacting with an identity selector on the provider's computer. The identity selector can transmit the current medications to the drug interaction utility without disclosing any information about the current medications... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20100274587 - Computer-implemented system and method for electronic medication administration records: A system for electronic medication administration records comprising a cart station located at a skilled nursing facility, administration web pages, and a healthcare server not located at the skilled nursing facility. The cart station utilizes a plan builder algorithm to build a plan for each patient based on data contained... Agent: Antoinette M. Tease

20100274590 - Insurance administration systems and methods: Insurance administration systems and methods including computer-accessible administration portals are disclosed. Some exemplary embodiments may include computer-accessible administration portals that are accessible after an insurance benefits package has been purchased. Some exemplary embodiments may provide post-sale functions, such as providing forms, quotes, and information associated with a previously purchased insurance... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20100274591 - Medical implant tracking and order management: An aspect of the present invention may allow medical equipment and/or implants tracking from time of ordering through distribution to the patient. A second aspect may provide a physician or user with the ability to pre-establish certain preferences for which implants to use with a particular type of patient utilizing... Agent: Hogan Lovells US LLPIPGroup, Columbia Square

20100274584 - Method and system for presenting and processing multiple text-based medical reports: A system for processing medical reports includes a network. The system includes a plurality of EMR systems. Each EMR system has an EMR database and an EMR processing unit. The processing unit of at least one EMR system generating a text report for a patient. Each EMR system remote from... Agent: Ansel M. Schwartz Attorney At Law

20100274589 - Method for outputting medical documents: A method for outputting medical documents on a terminal device is provided. The medical documents are generated and archived in a system structure for sharing medical data complying with the “Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise” guidelines. The medical documents are stored in special medicine-specific data formats containing user and meta information.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20100274585 - System and method for adding and tracking product information to a patient record: The present system and the method relate to adding product information to patient record. A product database stores the product information corresponding to a product, while a patient database stores the patient record corresponding to a patient. A product detector detects a product identifier corresponding to the product information and... Agent: Bereskin And Parr LLP/s.e.n.c.r.l., S.r.l.

20100274588 - System and method to manage a workflow in delivering healthcare: A system and method to manage progression of a patient through a workflow of events occurring in the delivery of healthcare to the patient is provided. The system can include a tracking system operable to acquire a location data of the patient relative to the at least one resource with... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20100274592 - Therapy management system: A diabetes data management system selects variable parameters and one or more devices with data that are utilized in a report. The diabetes data management system analyzes data during a selected period. The system generates reports which highlight data from one or more device during the selected period including carbohydrate,... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20100274593 - Debt disappearance protection: A method of offering and providing debt disappearance protection to a customer, comprising the steps of (i) marketing debt disappearance protection to customers through various marketing channels; (ii) selling a debt disappearance contract to a customer; and (iii), upon the happening of certain triggering events, acquiring a specific dollar amount... Agent: Darrell L. Dreher 2750 Huntington Center

20100274594 - Systems and methods for providing coverage recommendation engine: A computer system includes a data storage device. The data storage module receives, stores, and provides access to historical entity data and insurance coverage package data. A recommendation engine comprising program instructions stored in a program memory receives current entity data, creates a current entity representative record based on the... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20100274595 - Ticket management system and method using pre-sales keys: A ticket management system and method drives customer traffic in pre-ticket sales activities by issuing keys to potential ticket purchasers prior to the beginning of ticket sales for an event. Upon reading a key, the present invention provides for the issuance of one or more ticket opportunities to the potential... Agent: Thomas F. Bergert C/o Williams MullenIPDocketing

20100274606 - Computer system and method for supporting an e-commerce enterprise having online e-franchises: In one embodiment, a centralized website may be generated, stored, and executed on servers, where the centralized website has a particular “look and feel” (e.g., a template). In association with granting online e-franchise rights to a secondary entity, a secondary website may be generated, stored, and executed (e.g., on the... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20100274603 - Dynamic sustainability factor management: A dynamic sustainability factor management system that can facilitate scoring of sustainability factors associated with an industrial environment is provided. Particularly, the system can evaluate factors related to the ‘planet,’ ‘people,’ and ‘profits’ to establish a sustainability rating. This rating can be generated and applied in most any level of... Agent: Rockwell Automation For Turocy & Watson LLP

20100274600 - Method and system for managing field convertible customer replaceable components: A method and system for managing field convertible operator replaceable components associated with a rendering device. A file that defines a set of operator replaceable components can be created and remotely installed on the device. The replaceable components associated with the device can be easily changed from a designation as... Agent: Ortiz & Lopez, PLLC

20100274599 - Method and system for monitoring usage policy by manipulating usage governance logs: A method and system suitable for monitoring usage behaviors of a plurality of users, the usage behaviors related to a plurality of multifunction devices (MFDs), including a storage station for storing information related to a plurality of attempted tasks transmitted to the plurality of MFDs by the plurality of users;... Agent: Xerox Corporation (cdfs)

20100274608 - Method for creating and delivering new carrier products: The invention creates new carrier products under control of a computer. This is achieved via formal representations of postal and carrier products. It should be understood that the term new product applies to both a completely new product containing an entirely new set of features as well as an update... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. Intellectual Property & Tech. Law Dept.

20100274607 - Method of identifying positions of wheel modules: There is provided a method of identifying locations of modules (400) of an apparatus (600, 680, 690, 2200) for monitoring wheels (10) of a vehicle (900). The sensor modules (400) operatively revolving with the wheels (10). The modules (400) communicate with a processing arrangement (710, ECU 950) of the vehicle... Agent: Wrb-ip LLP

20100274597 - Methods and systems for establishing an identity confidence database: The invention provides various systems and methods for establishing an identity confidence scoring system. The method includes gathering identity information about the customers from physical locations and from remote locations. The method updates the identity profiles with the gathered identity information, and based on the gathered identity information, generates an... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20100274598 - Notification of resources of interest to members of a consumer group: An announcement distributor distributes, or auctions an opportunity to distribute, an announcement to an announcement recipient such as a consumer, issuer, merchant, or acquirer within a payment processing system. The announcement when there has been a satisfaction of an announcement condition, such as the consumer being determined to be located... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20100274596 - Performance dashboard monitoring for the knowledge management system: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system, computer program product, or a combination of the foregoing for creating a knowledge management system including a performance dashboard monitoring system that is standardized and centralized across the channels and sub-channels in an organization. The performance dashboard monitoring system is used... Agent: Moore & Van Allen, PLLC For Bofa

20100274604 - Position based operational tracking of a transport refrigeration unit: Disclosed herein is a method and system for position based tracking of operation of a transport refrigeration unit (TRU). A client application is provided on a data logger connected to the TRU. The client application determines position data of the TRU with respect to predefined geographic zones, acquires operational data... Agent: Ashok Tankha

20100274602 - Real time energy consumption analysis and reporting: The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can facilitate analysis, processing, or reporting in connection with energy consumption data and/or emissions or sustainability factors associated with an automation process. In particular, the architecture can obtain process-level or machine- or device-level energy consumption data collected during execution of an... Agent: Rockwell Automation For Turocy & Watson LLP

20100274601 - Supply chain perameter optimization and anomaly identification in product offerings: An illustrative embodiment of a computer-implemented method for maintaining a product offering suite, identifies a subset of proposals from a proposal database maintained on a data processing system, using selected criteria stored on the data processing system, analyzes the subset of proposals using conformance criteria also stored on the data... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20100274605 - System and method for managed distribution of publication assets: A system and method is disclosed for managed distribution of publication assets. The method discloses: protecting a set of assets, retrieved from the server system, in a publication component; transferring the publication component with the protected assets from the server to client computers; previewing the publication component on one client... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100274611 - Discrete resource management: Discrete resource tracking systems (and corresponding methodologies) that collect, tag and store resource consumption and usage values associated with industrial environment processes are provided. The specification can track water, air, gas, electricity, or steam consumption and usage view of a discrete (or batch) processes. Emissions and/or effluents associated with processes... Agent: Rockwell Automation For Turocy & Watson LLP

20100274614 - Mobile device management system: A mobile device management system including a method for monitoring a remote video camera and event scheduling, synchronization and modification using location information. Video from a remote camera is encoded by a computer and streamed in real time over a network to a mobile device for decoding and display. The... Agent: Hogan Lovells US LLP

20100274610 - Order aggregation system and method: A computerized system, method, and computer-readable medium implementing a method for aggregating orders for items to be filled is presented. Given a plurality of received orders, a plurality of individual orders that are aggregatable based on one or more predetermined aggregation criteria are identified and aggregated into an aggregate order.... Agent: Vista Print Usa, Inc. Attn: Patent Counsel

20100274613 - Referral sending, tracking and management system: A referral sending, tracking and management system for generating, exchanging and managing local referrals based on an input from at least one member in a business network is disclosed. The system comprises a means for searching at least one member, a means for sending referrals to at least one member,... Agent: John Alumit

20100274609 - Systems and methods for optimizing shipping practices: According to various embodiments, a load planning system is provided for simulating shipments based on a shipping entity's planned routing of packages and a shipper's (e.g., shipping entity customer) historical shipping volume. By using the load planning system to simulate shipments according to a variety of package routing plans, a... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20100274612 - Utilizing sustainability factors for product optimization: An industrial control system is provided. The system includes a processor to analyze one or more sustainability factors and a scoring component to assign a weight to the sustainability factors. An optimizer automatically adjusts a production process in view of the sustainability factors, the weight, and at least one of... Agent: Rockwell Automation For Turocy & Watson LLP

20100274619 - Enhanced calendaring notification: One or more illustrative embodiments provide a method, system, and a computer program product for configuring groups in an electronic calendaring system. In one illustrative embodiment, a group in a distribution group is created, wherein the group comprises a number of members and the distribution group is stored in a... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20100274615 - Extendable collaborative correction framework: A novel and useful system and method for a collaborative correction framework that allows external applications to interface to it in a manner that will serve specific correction goals. The framework is extendable, enabling registration of additional authorized applications to the framework. These additional registered applications are then available to... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20100274616 - Incident communication interface for the knowledge management system: Embodiments of the present invention include a method, system, computer program product, or a combination of the foregoing for creating a knowledge management system with an incident communication interface for production support incidents that is standardized and centralized across the channels and sub-channels in an organization. The incident communication interface... Agent: Moore & Van Allen, PLLC For Bofa

20100274617 - Method and apparatus for rewarding user activity in linked services: An approach is provided for rewarding user activity in linked services. A linked services enabler initiates synchronization of information related to one or more tasks and corresponding status of completion between a first service and a second service, determines whether the user has completed the one or more tasks based... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20100274621 - Method and system for integration of systems management with project and portfolio management: A method for scheduling an information technology (IT) project includes receiving a project request at an interface and determining one or more tasks associated with the project request. The method also includes identifying one or more hardware components coupled to a network operable to perform each of the one or... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20100274623 - Method of selecting and matching professionals: A method of selecting desired professionals in a system by a user which includes the process of forming a collective of repair persons on a system and allows users to sign on to the system. Once signed on to the system, users are able to search for matching repair persons... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (main)

20100274620 - Monitoring the progress of a task set within a hierarchy: Systems, methods, and software applications for monitoring a flow of related tasks by supervisors of an organization are described in the present disclosure. According to one embodiment, among many, a computer readable medium is configured to store instructions that are executable by a processing device. The computer readable medium comprises... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P. Oracle International Corporation

20100274622 - System and method for publishing collaboration: A system and method is disclosed for publishing collaboration. The method discloses: defining a publishing project requiring work product from a set of contributors; associating selectively editable project elements with the contributors; and storing the work product associated with the project elements in a project repository, which is accessible to... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100274618 - System and method for real time support for agents in contact center environments: A real-time method and system are described for automatically extracting text from the customer-agent interaction at a contact center, analyzing the extracted text to automatically identify one or more customer issues, and performing processing by contact-center agent buddies (CABs) to generate at least one response to the customer issues.... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20100274628 - Advertisement coordination: A system is disclosed for serving advertisements to a user of a client device. Based on a user requesting to view an email message in their inbox, the system provides the email message to the user. At least one header field in the header portion of the email message is... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20100274635 - Business lifecycle management methods: In accordance with the embodiments described herein, methods of applying computer-implemented business lifecycle processes are disclosed, including process lifecycle and solution lifecycle processes. These methods may further apply frameworks and models associated with industry lifecycle, customer lifecycle, product lifecycle, and knowledge lifecycle.... Agent: Manyworlds, Inc.

20100274632 - Customer satisfaction monitoring system: A monitoring system for monitoring user assessment information at a predetermined location in real time is disclosed. The system includes user input means positioned at the location to capture the user assessment information and data storage means to store the user assessment information where the user assessment information also includes... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20100274633 - Digital menu board system with cash register and kitchen interface: A product management and sales system for managing product preparation and sales. The system includes a kitchen display and input device displaying a plurality of perishable food items to be produced and receiving a production indication signal indicating production of at least one of the plurality of perishable food items.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100274630 - Economic intelligence forecast: Aspects of the invention provide for the use of transactional data in the forecasting of an index score, such as a financial index that predicts market conditions. Such forecasting may better prepare individuals and entities for depressed economic conditions. A comparison engine may be configured to compare the financial variable... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd Attorneys For Client Number 007131

20100274624 - Method and system for improving personalization of advertising for mobile devices using peer rating: For use in a wireless communication network, a method and system for targeting advertising for a mobile device is provided. The method includes receiving a plurality of advertisements from an advertising distributor. The method also includes filtering the advertisements based on meta data for each advertisement. The method further includes... Agent: Docket Clerk

20100274634 - Method and system of conducting a communication: A method of conducting a communication over a communication network, the method comprising: —registering a user of a communication device as a member user MD of a securing entity VM, the securing entity VM authenticating personal data of the member user MD via a trusted third party entity TTP, —sorting... Agent: Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP (other)

20100274629 - Product lifecycle sustainability score tracking and indicia: The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can facilitate sustainability monitoring and indicia thereof for a product over the course of the entire lifecycle of the product. In particular, the architecture can acquire a status update associated with a state of the product. Based upon the state, the... Agent: Rockwell Automation For Turocy & Watson LLP

20100274626 - Receipt of communications from announcement recipients of consumer data: An announcement distributor distributes, or auctions an opportunity to distribute, an announcement to an announcement recipient such as a consumer, issuer, merchant, or acquirer within a payment processing system. The announcement when there has been a satisfaction of an announcement condition, such as the consumer being determined to be located... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20100274627 - Receiving an announcement triggered by location data: An announcement distributor distributes, or auctions an opportunity to distribute, an announcement to an announcement recipient such as a consumer, issuer, merchant, or acquirer within a payment processing system. The announcement when there has been a satisfaction of an announcement condition, such as the consumer being determined to be located... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20100274631 - System and method for generating vehicle sales leads: A system and method for generating leads associated with a vehicle operating on at least one computer device. The system and method including receiving vehicle profile data associated with the vehicle via a network, determining, using a programmed computer, an estimated value of the vehicle based on at least the... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20100274636 - Systems and methods for personalized employee engagement: Systems and methods for human resource activities are disclosed. The system allows a user to specify an organizational structure of an entity, design survey respondents, customize items, response logic and reporting dimensions. The system also allows a user to undergo a personalized employee engagement. The system analyzes results, provides recommendations... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (main)

20100274625 - Targeting merchant announcements triggered by consumer activity relative to a surrogate merchant: An announcement distributor distributes, or auctions an opportunity to distribute, an announcement to an announcement recipient such as a consumer, issuer, merchant, or acquirer within a payment processing system. The announcement when there has been a satisfaction of an announcement condition, such as the consumer being determined to be located... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20100274638 - Distributed apparatus and system for processing client referrals and referral fees: An apparatus configured with software to create a geographical distributed referral system, assign a monetary value to referrals and to efficiently process direct cash payments to the referral source without requiring that of the referral source have knowledge about a particular provider of goods and services which will fulfill the... Agent: Absolute Technology Law Group LLC

20100274640 - Management of cleaning processes via monitoring of chemical product usage: A cleaning process management system monitors information concerning chemical products dispensed by automated chemical product dispensers. The cleaning process management system analyzes data received from the dispensers and generates reports regarding dispensation of chemical products. The cleaning process management system may also generate reports concerning recommended cleaning process improvements based... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20100274639 - Organization evaluation apparatus and organization evaluation system: Provided is an organization evaluation device, including: a reception unit for receiving data indicating a physical quantity detected by a sensor of a terminal worn by each of a plurality of persons; a personal index calculation module for calculating, from at least one of the data indicating the physical quantity... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20100274637 - Prediction of threshold exceptions based on real time operating information: A contact center includes a real time threshold prediction module that determines that a selected performance measure will, during a future time interval, likely cross a selected threshold and, in response, performs at least one of the following operations: (i) determines, for the likely crossing of the selected threshold, a... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.C.

20100274641 - Multiple rf read zone system: A multizone RF read/write system for conducting transactions with vehicles traveling at high speeds. A first RF read zone is created, preferably by use of a first gantry that extends over at least one lane and contains at least one RF source that creates a large powerful RF read zone... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20100274643 - Method and apparatus for modulating a video signal with data: A system for transmitting auxiliary data within a modulated video signal from a broadcast source to a hand-held device with a slot, the system comprising the broadcast source comprises means for transmitting auxiliary data to the slotted hand-held device via the modulated video signal; an interface device electronically coupled to... Agent: Polsinelli Shughart PC

20100274642 - System and method for estimating a parameter that represents data describing a physical system: There is provided a system and method for estimating a parameter that represents data describing a physical system. An exemplary method comprises randomizing data representative of a population of items for which the parameter is known. The method may additionally comprise generating data representative of a pseudo population of items... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100274648 - Conditional electronic coupon distribution method and system: A conditional e-coupon distribution method distributes e-coupons predefined by sellers to mobile users only if the number of mobile users requesting such e-coupons equals or exceeds a threshold. The method receives a request to browse e-coupons from a mobile user. The method receives the location of the mobile user and... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Lazaroff

20100274647 - Marketing system and method benefiting both buyers and businesses alike: System and method for providing value to both buyers and businesses. Businesses provide value to buyers by providing a searchable database containing member businesses and their products and services. Businesses also provide discounts and specials to buyers as an added incentive. Businesses are provided a means to display their goods... Agent: Hayworth, Chaney & Thomas, P.A.

20100274646 - System and method for improving e-commerce: A system and method for improving advertising response rates by allowing an electronic advertising content to be stored, retrieved, shared, and manipulated by individual users, while enabling the accurate recordation of accounting information associated with the electronic advertising content.... Agent: Reza Jalili

20100274649 - Credit card providing enhanced benefits, method and system for using same: A credit card that enables card-holders to pay for premiums on the insurance product using the credit card, while avoiding the need to pay deductibles on the insurance product (which may be used to cover auto, home, liability or health). Entities such as those underwriting the insurance product, self-insuring credit... Agent: Michael P. Mazza, LLC

20100274651 - Application enabling a short message service (sms) message with an advertisement to be sent from the mobile phone device using a pull-and-push method: A method of SMS message advertising using an mobile device application, the method includes providing the application the ability to download at least one advertisement, giving a sender the choice to select the advertisement to be attached to a SMS message, and then account for the advertisement sent by the... Agent: Marcus L. Huddleston

20100274650 - Referral-based loyalty program: A referral-based loyalty program incentivizes referrals by awarding rewards to primary customers for transactions by secondary customers. The secondary customers receive primary-account-identifying information, such as by hyperlink, and navigate to an order page of a merchant to establish an account and implement a transaction, for which the primary customer receives... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP

20100274652 - Auctioning of announcements: An announcement distributor distributes, or auctions an opportunity to distribute, an announcement to an announcement recipient such as a consumer, issuer, merchant, or acquirer within a payment processing system. The announcement when there has been a satisfaction of an announcement condition, such as the consumer being determined to be located... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20100274653 - Notification social networking: A method. The method includes a) sending a first transaction notification message comprising an original payee identifier to a user. The original payee identifier may be part of original transaction information associated with a first transaction. At some point, the user sees this transaction information and wants to correct one... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20100274654 - Method and system for wireless internet payment using mobile terminal: Provided are a method and system for wireless Internet payment using a mobile terminal through which payment is made through a wireless Internet while information regarding a payer is not released. Specifically, the wireless Internet payment system includes a participating store server providing an online shopping mall, a mobile terminal... Agent: Jason Y. Pahng And Associates, LLC

20100274655 - Point of sale device for online reward point exchange method and system: An online reward exchange system and method of operation, which includes an exchange computer that interoperates via a computer network with user computers, reward point issuer computers, and merchant computers. The merchants' products may be purchased by a user by requesting via a user computer, merchant's point of sale device,... Agent: Barkume & Associates, P.C.

20100274656 - System for managing electric energy grid-vehicle exchange devices: A system for managing electric energy exchange devices is disclosed. The system comprises a processor and a memory. The processor is configured to receive a set of predefined parameters for electric energy exchange a vehicle using an electric energy exchange device for a time increment. The processor is further configured... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20100274657 - Integrated credit exchange system for incentivizing conservation: A scalable integrated credit exchange system for incentivizing conservation of a resource is provided, which includes a credit allocation system, a consumer interface, and an online trading system. Data is utilized from a measuring system using a smart meter, geospatial monitoring system, and the utility. The incentive is provided in... Agent: Connie Masters

20100274658 - Payment rewards: A computer system enables a financial institution to award an account reward points when a customer remits a payment in a timely basis. Consequently, the financial institution encourages repayment of debt and recognizes good behavior through reward points every time a payment is received on-time. Each time a customer pays... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd Attorneys For Client Number 007131

20100274659 - System and method for redeeming vouchers: The invention includes an improved system and method for creating, distributing and storing vouchers. The method includes a loyalty system obtaining a loyalty card account having a unique identifier and loyalty points associated therewith, accessing a loyalty database utilizing the unique identifier, converting at least a portion of the loyalty... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (amex)

20100274644 - Engine, system and method for generation of brand affinity content: An advertising engine, system and method for formulation of endorsed advertising. The engine, system and method includes at least one computerized storage vault including a plurality of media assets correspondent to each prospective endorser for the endorsed advertising, and a graphical user interface for presentation of the plurality of media... Agent: Thomas J. Mcwilliams Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

20100274660 - Methods and apparatus for ordering advertisements based on performance information and price information: An ordering of advertisements requested by an ad consumer is based on scores generated for the ads. In each case, a score may be a function of at least one performance parameter associated with the ad and/or a price parameter associated with the ad. The ad consumer may generate presentation... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20100274661 - Optimization of advertising campaigns on mobile networks: The present invention provides a method and system for optimizing advertising campaigns on mobile networks using feedback from the advertisement audience community.... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20100274662 - Systems and methods for generating advertiser recommendations from users of workflow software: A method for using a workflow server to provide targeted advertisements recommended by users of workflow software includes: receiving, at a server from a user completing a workflow, information corresponding to a step in the workflow and an advertiser, the advertiser recommended by the user in connection with the step... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20100274663 - Resource optimization: A network, method and program for allocating viewable screen area resources amongst a plurality of competing portions of content in a network comprising a plurality of end-user terminals and one or more servers operatively coupled to the end-user terminals over the network, each of those servers storing data representing one... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20100274664 - Methods and apparatus for transmitting multimedia files in a data network: In one implementation a method of transmitting a multimedia file over a data network is provided that involves receiving from a device in a data network a first message in a first protocol that request first data associated with the multimedia file, the first data being useable by the device... Agent: Berenbaum Weinshienk PC

20100274665 - Media properties selection method and system based on expected profit from profile-based ad delivery: An automatic system facilitates selection of media properties on which to display an advertisement, responsive to a profile collected on a first media property, where a behavioral-targeting company calculates expected profit for an ad correlated with the profile and arranges for the visitor to be tagged with a tag readable... Agent: Louis J. Hoffman, P.C.

20100274666 - System and method for selecting a message to play from a playlist: A method for selecting at least one message from a playlist including a plurality of messages to be played by a message playing device to an exposed audience, each message directed to a target audience. The method comprises choosing a utility function, depending on one or more audience parameters, for... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20100274667 - Multimedia access: A computer-implemented method provides access to multimedia content, which include units of content that include audio components. Meta data for the units of content is formed to an association of key phrases detected in the audio components and the units. In some examples, forming the meta data includes determining a... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20100274645 - System and method for providing user directed advertisements over a network: A user directed advertisement network includes an ad server having a database for storing advertisements from one or more vendors, and a broker configured with software to receive and store claims including information of advertisement preferences of a principal, and based upon at last one claim to provide to the... Agent: Iandiorio Teska & Coleman

20100274668 - Domain sub-leasing and parameter-based content delivery system: In one embodiment, a processor-readable medium can store code representing instructions configured to cause a processor to receive a website address from a requesting device. A device identifier associated with the requesting device can be received. A geographic location associated with the requesting device can be determined based at least... Agent: Cooley LLP Attn: Patent Group

20100274669 - Bidding to receive data after a consumer is in a zone: An announcement distributor distributes, or auctions an opportunity to distribute, an announcement to an announcement recipient such as a consumer, issuer, merchant, or acquirer within a payment processing system. The announcement when there has been a satisfaction of an announcement condition, such as the consumer being determined to be located... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20100274670 - Advertisement platform: A mobile advertisement is stored in a database associated with an advertisement platform. A unique ad ID identifying a corresponding advertisement placement is associated with the mobile advertisement. The unique ad ID is communicated to an advertisement sender along with the corresponding advertisement placement. A message provided by said advertisement... Agent: HulseyIPIntellectual Property Lawyers, P.C.

20100274671 - System and method for distributing contextual information in an electronic network: A system and method for distributing contextual information in an electronic network includes an information service that is configured to provide information distribution services through said information distribution network. User devices are provided for device users to communicate with the information service for receiving the information distribution services. A transport... Agent: Gregory J. Koerner Redwood Patent Law

20100274672 - Systems and methods for tone based telephonic advertising: Systems, methods and software products advertising over a telecommunication device. One or more audio advertisements are received from at least one advertiser, each audio advertisement having zero, one or more associated advertizing criteria. One or more user profiles defining advertisement options for a subscriber of a service provider are received.... Agent: Lathrop & Gage LLP

20100274674 - Media navigation system: A media navigation system provides a user interface for navigating and interacting with streamed media objects, including video. The system may employ media markers representing time locations within a media file in addition to images or other representations derived from the media object. The system displays a tile layout representing... Agent: Bainwood Huang & Associates LLC

20100274673 - Non-intrusive media linked and embedded information delivery: A method for information delivery is disclosed. The method includes directing the display of a multimedia presentation in a first screen segment. The multimedia presentation is associated with a reference tag descriptive of an aspect thereof. An information link corresponding to the reference tag in a second screen segment is... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20100274675 - Web page retrieval and advertisement method: Disclosed is a computer-implemented method of running an Internet-based service. The method involves receiving a request for a code that identifies one or more web pages, issuing a non-URL code for the advertiser to post on an off-line advertisement in reply to the request, posting an off-line advertisement including the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20100274676 - Custom food product preparation apparatus: Custom food product methods and apparatus are provided that allow customers to participate in the preparation of food products as a part of the dining experience. A method of preparing a custom food product under the direction of a customer includes placing a customer-selected substrate on a scale of custom... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20100274677 - Electronic payment application system and payment authorization method: The system contains a virtual POS terminal's unit in the user's personal device. The mobile communication device (1) contains a virtual POS terminal's unit (4) and also a removable memory card (3), on which there are at least two physically separate secure elements (2) stored. The removable memory card (3)... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20100274678 - Systems, methods and devices for facilitating mobile payments: Mobile decoupled payments account systems and computer-implemented methods provide a decoupled mobile payments account and processing for payments made with a decoupled mobile payments account. A demand deposit account of an accountholder is associated with a decoupled mobile payments account that enables a mobile device to be used in making... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP

20100274679 - Fraud location determination: A system and method is described for alerting authorities or taking other corrective authoritative action to a possibly fraudulent credit card transaction. A cardholder is notified that a transaction has just taken place and is given an opportunity to indicate that he or she did not authorize the transaction. If... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20100274682 - distributed purchasing system: A distributed purchase system for commerce transactions comprising essentially a plurality of databases communicatively connected to an internet network over which providers and customers can communicate anonymously with an intention of completing a provision of products (which could be a commercial transaction). The communication software having inbuilt tools for synergistic... Agent: Umesh Pai Rohit Deshpande

20100274683 - Method and apparatus for ordering goods, services and content over an internetwork using a virtual payment account: A virtual payment system for paying for goods, services and content ordered over an internetwork comprising a commerce gateway component and a credit processing server component (53) is disclosed. Buyers and sellers becomes registered participants by applying for virtual payment buyer and seller accounts. Once an account is established, a... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20100274680 - Providing an announcement about transactions of a target merchant to a consumer: An announcement distributor distributes, or auctions an opportunity to distribute, an announcement to an announcement recipient such as a consumer, issuer, merchant, or acquirer within a payment processing system. The announcement when there has been a satisfaction of an announcement condition, such as the consumer being determined to be located... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20100274681 - Software application generation and implementation method and system: An application generation and implementation method and system. The application generation method includes receiving by a computing device from an application server, a copy of an application framework. The computing device retrieves reusable software engine implementations and reusable software component implementations. The computing device receives from a developer, first application... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20100274684 - Inventory analysis: A method for the control of an inventory, and hence the material flow in an inventory is provided. In the method the inventory composition and a ratio named Inventory Control Ratio is calculated and simulation regarding minimum stock and cyclic stock is performed. There is also provided a filtering function... Agent: Hans-goran Melander Imloq Ab

20100274685 - Receipt management system: A receipt management system receives receipt data including biometric data which is issued when a product is purchased at a store, and judges whether or not biometric data that coincides with an employee's biometric data is registered in an employee management table of a company.... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20100274686 - Automated purchase assembly conversion process to support a dynamic configure-to-order production operation: A computer implemented method, a tangible computer usable medium, and a data processing system allocate materials to an automated purchase assembly conversion process to support a dynamic configure-to-order production operation. A configure-to-order backlog order is analyzed to determine demand for a particular purchase assembly. If the demand for the particular... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20100274689 - Alert prioritization logic: A first embodiment of the present invention relates to systems and methods for determining a priority for a set of alert triggers and performing additional processing based on the determined priority. In some embodiments, additional processing may include generating and sending of alert messages. In other embodiments, additional processing may... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20100274687 - Customer-defined account management rules for improved linked financial institution account management: Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for customer-defined financial institution account management rules associated with linked financial institution accounts. The methods, systems and computer program products herein described allow the customer to define rules that maximize the customer's rate of return and/or minimizing the likelihood of insufficient funding... Agent: Moore & Van Allen, PLLC For Bofa

20100274690 - Method to facilitate opportunity charging of an electric vehicle: A method for electrically charging a high-voltage battery of a subject vehicle includes resolving a geographic location of the subject vehicle at a remote charging site, electrically charging the high-voltage battery through a connection of the subject vehicle to an electric power outlet at the remote charging site, monitoring cumulative... Agent: Cichosz & Cichosz, PLLC

20100274691 - Multi alerts based system: Systems and methods for defining, observing and detecting triggering user account events that initiate a user account alert message to be sent to one or more users are disclosed. Location and merchant, transaction result, device and, usage history/trend types of user account alerts and trigger criteria can be defined or... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20100274688 - System and method including indirect approval: A server computer is disclosed. It comprises a processor and a computer readable medium coupled to the processor. The computer readable medium comprises code executable by the processor for implementing a method comprising: a) receiving an authorization request message, wherein the authorization request message requests authorization to proceed with a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20100274692 - Verification of portable consumer devices: Embodiments of the invention are directed to methods, systems, and computer program products pertaining to obtaining, providing, and using dynamic card verification values for portable consumer devices, such as credit cards and debit cards. An exemplary method comprises receiving, at a server, a request for a device verification value for... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20100274693 - Method for performing a parking procedure with the help of a mobile communication device: A method for processing a parking transaction using a mobile communication device connected to a public mobile communication network includes: determining location-based data that establish a location where the mobile communication device is currently located; transmitting to a central management and monitoring device the location-based data and an individual identifier... Agent: Leydig, Voit And Mayer

20100274696 - Digital media content sharing system: A digital media sharing system (“DMSS”) for receiving digital media data (“DMD”) produced by a media device is described. The DMSS may include a network, a first set-top box in signal communication with the network, a first rendering device in signal communication with the set-top box and the network, and... Agent: M. Krietzman

20100274694 - Relay server, content distribution system and content distribution method: To enable content distributed to a user terminal to be optimized and distributed on the network side in accordance with various conditions on the user terminal side without increasing the processing load on the content server side. A gateway server (relay server) acquires content in an editable form from the... Agent: Michaud-kinney Group LLP

20100274697 - Transmission line directional awareness: An apparatus and method for coupling a charging station to a power line segment that is terminated at a first end by a charging terminal are disclosed. The apparatus includes multiple taps coupled to the power line segment and circuitry coupled to the charging station and coupled to the multiple... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20100274695 - Utility tariff engine: A system and method for creation and verification of utility bills with improved error detection is disclosed. Specifically, a user-configurable data structure is provided, which is sufficiently flexible to precisely simulate any utility tariff. The invention further relates to a computerized system and method for verifying utility bills utilizing a... Agent: LifecycleIPManagement Inc.

20100274699 - Economic intelligence: Aspects of the invention provide for the use of transactional data in the calculation of sub-scores that may be used in an index score. The sub-scores may include an account sub-score, an investment sub-score, and/or a discretionary sub-score. One or more sub-scores that represent an individual, an entity, or an... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd Attorneys For Client Number 007131

20100274701 - Method and apparatus for providing pre-existing customers and prospective customers with an immediately accessible account: A system and method for providing in real-time an immediately accessible customized transaction account via the internet is disclosed. In particular, the system and method recognizes distinct access codes which are correlated to the credit profile of a person accessing an on-line application system via a computer network. During operation... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (amex)

20100274698 - Soft limits for credit card transactions: A method, system, and article are provided for effectively managing a financial account for fraud prevention. The account is provided with a soft credit limit parameter and a tool for management of the soft credit limit parameter. The soft credit limit is in addition to a hard credit limit. More... Agent: Lieberman & Brandsdorfer, LLC

20100274700 - System and method for providing extra lines of credit: A system and method for upgrading existing credit cards with additional lines of credit is disclosed. Credit information associated with customers holding credit cards issued by a credit card issuer are analyzed to determine a level of risk associated with each customer. One or more extra line of credit may... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100274736 - Class-based distributed evolutionary algorithm for asset management and trading: A server computer and a multitude of client computers form a network computing system that is scalable and adapted to continue to evaluate the performance characteristics of a number of genes generated using a software application. Each client computer continues to periodically receive data associated with the stored genes stored... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20100274734 - Credit portfolio benchmarking system and method: A portfolio benchmarking system comprises a repository of trade data, a repository of consumer data, a build computer, and a benchmarking query application. The repository of trade data comprises a plurality of data items regarding trade lines. The repository of consumer data comprises a plurality of data items regarding consumers,... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20100274738 - Guaranteed principal investment system, product and method: A software-implemented investment system and related software product including at least one equity profile, one or more non-guaranteed investment instruments and at least one target-risk profile, wherein the target-risk profile and the investment equity profile provide a return on an initial investment amount, said return comprising at least a predetermined... Agent: Matlock Law Group, PC

20100274735 - Investment portfolio partitioning for improved returns: Described herein is a two-step elimination procedure of companies in a diversified portfolio that yields a selection of companies that overall has reduced risk and improved returns compared to the diversified portfolio.... Agent: Harriet M. Strimpel, D. Phil.

20100274737 - Method and system for monitoring for and reporting of lien distress events: A computer-based method of monitoring for and reporting of a lien distress event relatable to a lien against a property includes the steps of extracting loan data from a client loan portfolio, defining the lien distress event relatable to the loan data by using one or more lien distress event... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (1st American Re)

20100274739 - Using commercial share of wallet to rate investments: Commercial size of spending wallet (“CSoSW”) is the total business spend of a business including cash but excluding bartered items. Commercial share of wallet (“CSoW”) is the portion of the spending wallet that is captured by a particular financial company. A modeling approach utilizes various data sources to provide outputs... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (amex)

20100274740 - Business method and system for planning executing and administering a public offering of revenue backed securities: A computer system which includes both hardware and software components which develops, executes and administers public offerings providing individual investors direct participation in joint ventures. In these public offerings, investors purchase full or fractional ownership of specified operating assets, which may be sold by venture partners or acquired from other... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20100274703 - Computer system architecture and computer implemented methods for domestic and international enhanced custody and principal lending of securities: A computer system executes a principal lending transaction to lend international securities from lending accounts of a global 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 international securities available... Agent: Wilmerhale/new York

20100274702 - Console, system and method for providing an interface to a financial market trading system or to a financial market based gaming system: The present invention is a console, system and method for providing an interface to a financial market trading system or to a financial market based gaming system. The invention enables the trader to trade on financial markets using an interface simulating known and popular games from the world of sports,... Agent: Professional Patent Solutions

20100274707 - Online trading system having real-time account opening: In one embodiment, the online trading system having a real-time account opening process comprises one or more computers coupled to a network. The computers maintain a brokerage account database, and service web page requests received over the network. The web pages are preferably configured to implement a real-time account opening... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C. David A. Rose

20100274706 - System and method for displaying order information in relation to a derivative of price: Market data, such as order information, is displayed in relation to a derivative of price. A derivative of price refers to anything that bears some relationship to price, examples of which, include net change, yield, profit and loss, volatility, momentum indicators, and more. According to various aspects of the preferred... Agent: Mbhb/trading Technologies

20100274705 - System and method for providing market updates in an electronic trading environment: A system and method are provided for modifying how market updates are provided in an electronic trading environment upon detecting one or more triggering events. One example method includes defining an event to be used to trigger modification of how market updates are provided to a client entity, receiving a... Agent: Mbhb/trading Technologies

20100274704 - Transaction management device and readable storage medium: A transaction management device can executed, with a simple procedure, a plurality of if-done orders in parallel and can reduce the risk of the client. In the transaction management device, an order receiving unit receives buy and sell order application information from client terminals. An order information generation unit generates... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100274708 - Apparatus and method for creating a collateral risk score and value tolerance for loan applications: A computer implemented system for converting loan risk and property database information into a risk-adjusted value and report comprising software modules configured with instructions to retrieve electronic property value data from one or more electronic property value and property characteristic databases and calculate a property value estimate, loan risk value,... Agent: Borton Petrini, LLP

20100274710 - Computer system and method for networked interchange of data and information for members of the real estate financial and related transactional services industry: An Interchange Party Computer System (“IPCS”) comprising: a plurality of units of allocated resources, configured for a lender party, broker party, transaction party and/or investor party, each unit of allocated resources including one or more administrator user interfaces that allow a participating party to manage its allocated resources and define... Agent: Ganz Law, P.C.

20100274709 - Online method of procuring mortgage loans: A method for prioritizing candidate wholesale loan lenders in response to a loan request by a mortgage broker for a client including establishing a lender database serving as a repository of electronic client files generated by said mortgage broker in connection with a client's loan request, permitting subscribing wholesale lenders... Agent: Fulwider Patton LLP

20100274712 - Apparatus, method, and computer program product for providing a quality control mechanism for the contactless interface of a dual-interface card: Techniques for enabling performance of a quality control function on the contactless interface while the contactless interface is disabled are provided. The techniques include implementing, on a dual-interface payment device, one or more security mechanisms, wherein the dual-interface payment device comprises a first interface and a second interface, using the... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20100274711 - Computer-based payment transaction system and repository: One embodiment of the invention relates, to a method of operating a payment transaction system maintained by a first party who receives an instruction for a first transaction. The instructed first transaction is directed from a second party to a third party, and includes a transaction date on which the... Agent: Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20100274716 - Construction payment management system and method with hierarchical invoicing and direct payment features: A system and method for managing a construction payment process. One method embodying the invention can include creating an electronically-executed first request for payment on behalf of a first participant in a construction project, transmitting the first request for payment to a second participant in the construction project, creating an... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20100274714 - Sharing of presets for visual effects or other computer-implemented effects: This application describes a system and associated methods for enabling users of video editing, compositing, motion graphics, and other applications to easily store and retrieve presets, have presets modified for compatibility with other applications, share presets with each other, and search for shared presets. The users may utilize different applications... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20100274715 - System and method for legal document authoring and electronic court filing: A system for legal document authoring for a legal action and electronic court filing of such legal documents provides an online network for subscribers. The system provides a direct mechanism (and a web portal mechanism) for submitting a claim file containing party and claim information necessary for automatic legal document... Agent: Dykema Gossett PLLC

20100274713 - Wireless trading system and method of using the same: A wireless trading system used for trading by an electronic money card includes a reading device including a reading unit for wirelessly reading account information of the electronic money card and a transmitting unit for transmitting out the account information read by the reading unit, a communication device, a commerce... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property, Inc.

20100274723 - Apparatus and method for providing transaction history information, account history information, and/or charge-back information: A computer-implemented method, including processing, with a processing device, information regarding an account involved in a transaction involving an individual, wherein the information regarding the account is received by a receiver, and further wherein the information regarding the account is processed prior to a processing, a completion, a consummation, or... Agent: Raymond A. Joao, Esq.

20100274722 - Apparatus, method, and computer program product for recovering torn smart payment device transactions: Initial presentation of a payment device to a payment terminal assembly, in connection with a putative transaction, is facilitated. The payment device includes a payment device memory storing a device-side payment application, with an on-device balance, and at least one payment device processor coupled to the payment device memory. The... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20100274719 - Delayed settlement transactions: Methods for deferring settlement of a transaction are disclosed. A server computer receives an authorization request message for a transaction. The server computer then receives an authorization response message for the transaction. The server computer then receives a deferred settlement indicator for the transaction.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20100274718 - Financial institute-implemented account management system: Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for an automated system for financial institution account management. The methods, systems and computer program products herein described allow the customer to link financial institution accounts and authorize a financial institution automatically and intuitively manage the linked accounts. Automated management includes managing... Agent: Moore & Van Allen, PLLC For Bofa

20100274720 - Fraud and reputation protection using advanced authorization and rules engine: Systems and methods are presented for analyzing a credit card or other financial transaction and, based on whether a score for the transaction meets or exceeds a user-selected threshold, sending a transaction notification message to a consumer's electronic device such as a cell phone.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20100274717 - Global internet based method and system for compiling, assigning, registration, and maintenance of unique tags: A method and process of a Registrar creating unique Equipment Tags for use of one or more Equipment owners wherein there is no duplication of Tags among the participating Equipment owners. The Equipment owner requests the Tag and its registration as a service over the Internet or other network in... Agent: Law Office Of David Mcewing

20100274721 - Verification of portable consumer devices: Embodiments of the invention are directed to methods, systems, and computer program products pertaining to obtaining, providing, and using dynamic card verification values for portable consumer devices, such as credit cards and debit cards. An exemplary method comprises receiving, at a server, a request for a device verification value for... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20100274724 - Encrypted e-commerce product: A system for conducting a financial transaction in e-commerce on the internet includes objects prepared by a seller and a buyer. The seller's object includes a clear text header file (advertisement), an encrypted overhead file which contains verification data pertaining to the financial transaction, and an encrypted content file containing... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery

20100274725 - Authorization of pay usage of electricity by non-premise mobile electricity consumers: Embodiments of methods and apparatuses for authorizing a non-premise mobile (NPM) paying consumer to consume electricity from an electrical outlet are disclosed herein. In various embodiments, the electrical outlet has an associated outlet identifier, but limited, at most local communication capability. In various embodiments, a computing device may be configured... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20100274726 - system and method of contactless authorization of a payment: The system consists of a POS terminal (6), a secure element (2), a mobile communication device (1) with a display and a keyboard, such as a mobile phone. The mobile communication device (1) is equipped with a removable memory card (3), in which there are at least two physically separate... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20100274730 - Rights offering and granting: Processes and systems for offering and granting digital rights that govern distribution and usage of content, services and resources. The processes and systems provide a basis for flexible business models and negotiation transactions between content providers and users. The concept of meta-rights, which permit digital rights to be derived, permits... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20100274729 - System and method for varying electronic settlements between buyers and suppliers with dynamic discount terms: A method of making payment. A request is received to effect payment between a buyer and a seller for a transaction having established terms. The terms include a payment amount and a settlement date. Messages are exchanged between the buyer and the seller that include an offer and acceptance of... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler PC

20100274727 - System, method and computer program product for forming two or more contracts from offers sharing a plurality of unified terms and conditions: A method system and computer product are provided to drive a process that includes the aspects of method generating an executed license agreement by presenting a licensing offer via a computer and receiving an acceptance by a user of the computer of the licensing offer. The licensing offer may apply... Agent: Patrick Reilly

20100274728 - Video shipment monitoring: The present disclosure describes systems and methods for conducting remote business transactions between a client and an entrepreneur that include generating records including video verification of some or all aspects of the remote business transaction. According to one aspect of the system, the client sends a plurality of items to... Agent: Moazzam & Associates, LLC

20100274731 - Method and system for recording real estate transactions: The present invention provides a system for recording real estate transactions including, at least one buyer and at least one seller and/or at least one real estate agent, at least one property for sale, at least one real estate transaction between said buyer and seller/real estate agent and a recording... Agent: Letham Law Firm, LLC

20100274732 - Processes for verifying creators of works represented in an electronic catalog: An electronic catalog system provides an interface for users to author and post content for viewing by other users. Users who are verified as creators of works represented in the electronic catalog (e.g., authors of books) are additionally given the option to post content that is displayed on the catalog... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20100274733 - Method and system for enhanced taxonomy generation: Methods and systems to automate the taxonomy generation process and allow for automatic synchronized cross-industry taxonomy updates. A standardized cross-industry taxonomy generation procedure is provided, which is easy to use and allows for fast generation of taxonomies. The errors in taxonomy generation are reduced, while producing synchronized industry-specific taxonomies. A... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20100274741 - Metals mass production and small run reduced weight products and methods of producing the same with automatic and numerically controlled (nc) hydraulic punching and flame cutting machinery including a 5 axis nc machine with two bi-directional angling pivo: This invention pertains to all steel, aluminum, and alloys, in all available in stock forms and built up assembles from 10′ to 400′ or more in length, that can be weight reduced pattern processed without reducing structural integrity by numerically controlled (NC) multiple hole circular flame cutting punch, or NC... Agent: Michael R. Thomas Inventing Consulant

20100268547 - Breakaway interfacing of radiological images with work orders: A breakaway interface between radiological information systems, imaging equipment and picture archive and communications systems has automated filtering and handling of multiple study work orders or affiliated work orders, while passing single study work orders through unaltered. The work orders are processed by the breakaway interface to consolidate multiple procedure... Agent: Robert M. Gamson, Esquire Hodes, Pessin & Katz, P.A.

20100268545 - Examination management apparatus for endoscopic examination: An examination-schedule memory unit stores an examination schedule including a plurality of examinations. An operation-status acquisition unit acquires the operation status of a washing apparatus that washes a scope used for an examination. A rescheduling unit changes the start time of at least one examination included in an examination schedule... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20100268546 - Internet delivery system: An Internet delivery method delivers electronic information products to a plurality of users via the Internet. A plurality of display formats are stored in a database. The display formats including at least a default display format and a custom display format. Information is also stored for each user indicating whether... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing - Intellectual Property

20100268549 - Internet system for connecting healthcare providers and patients: An Internet-based system involves a database and search capabilities for connecting patients with healthcare providers, e.g., physicians, hospitals, nursing homes, treatment facilities, etc., and further enables such providers to reach patients with whom they may not otherwise come into contact. A patient may access the healthcare provider information through a... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20100268543 - Methods and apparatus to provide consolidated reports for healthcare episodes: Methods and apparatus to provide consolidated reports for healthcare episodes are disclosed herein. An example method for use with a healthcare information system includes presenting a list of reports related to a healthcare episode to a user on a display device, wherein a selection of a first one of the... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20100268548 - Pharmacy supply tracking system: A pharmacy supply container tracking system that automatically detects and tracks a pharmacy supply container within a defined area is disclosed. In a preferred embodiment the system also detects and tracks prescription orders of customers, and automatically verifies that the correct pharmacy supply is used to fill a particular prescription... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100268544 - Qualifying data and associated metadata during a data collection process: Systems and methods for processing metadata associated with a clinical trial are described. In one aspect, a computing device receives collected data with embedded metadata. The device extracts the embedded metadata, and accesses a database to determine characteristics of the embedded metadata. The device then accesses protocol rules where the... Agent: Patton Boggs LLP

20100268552 - Content integration service: Among other things, a computer implemented method is described. The method comprises identifying medical information from a plurality of information sources, the medical information having one or more data structures; converting the data structure of the identified medical information into a predefined data structure; and presenting the transformed medical information... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20100268550 - Prescription messenger: The transfer of prescription medication requests from a physician to an individual is automated through the use of a clearinghouse function that interacts with both the physician and client. Maintaining the security of prescriptions, while simultaneously providing the advantages of electronic transfer is met the secure transmission of prescription information... Agent: John Sotomayor

20100268553 - System and method for electronically managing medical data files in order to facilitate genetic research: A network server arrangement including a processor with a machine readable storage encoded with software for execution by the processor. The network server arrangement is responsive to requests to access a medical record of an individual and generates summary medical record data including summary information having a plurality of data... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20100268551 - System for data management, analysis, and collaboration of movement disorder data: Disclosed embodiments include a system for managing clinical data comprising: (a) a server configured to receive data from one or more external devices, and (b) a clinical data management application comprising one module for storing raw movement data received directly from at least one external device. The system is especially... Agent: Aboy&associates PC Www.aboypatentlaw.com

20100268554 - Life insurance cooperative: A business method and computing system for providing a death benefit to a participant having an uninsurable trait. The method collects registration information from the participant, and associates the participant with at least one other participant having the uninsurable trait to form a group of participants. The method receives a... Agent: Kenneth P. Waszkiewicz Attorney At Law

20100268555 - Multiple client/user and capital market funded participating interest in qualifying trust: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for multiple client/user and capital market funded participating interest in qualifying trust. Methods include establishing a legal trust that holds assets and issues obligations that grant participation rights in its assets. The legal trust can be a legal qualifying trust. The legal qualifying... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20100268556 - System and method for booking a performance venue: A system and method for booking a performance venue. The system comprises a booking engine enabling communication between at least two of a performer, a consumer, and a venue agent, the at least two of a performer, a consumer, and a venue agent using at least one client station connected... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20100268559 - Compensation data prediction: A method of predicting compensation data includes obtaining compensation data, associated with a job category, with at least one datum being associated with each of a plurality of characteristics associated with the job category, determining values of factors, associated with respective ones of the characteristics, and a base value that... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c

20100268560 - Distributed intelligent systems and methods therefor: A distributed intelligent system. The distributed network includes at least one gateway server configured for receiving meter data from one or more nodes of a distributed meter network and at least one subscriber station in communication with the at least one gateway server via a communication network. The at least... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20100268557 - Enrollment server: Systems, methods and apparatus for processing enrollment requests are provided. Enrollment requests may be sent from a user to an enrollment server. The enrollment server may verify the information in the enrollment request with entities that may contain authoritative data reflecting the validity of the information in the enrollment request.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20100268558 - Method and system for vendor managment: A method and system for managing business transactions, such as mortgages or other financial transactions. A business transaction between an end user and a financial institution includes sub-transactions between the end user and a vendor. A software system performs functions to complete the business transaction. Automated ordering allows an end... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20100268564 - Automatic self-optimizing queue management system: A queue management system for e.g. supermarket checkouts uses counting devices located at checkouts and optimally entrances/exits in conjunction with P.O.S. information to produce a schedule of how many checkouts are needed to avoid queue length exceeding preset limits. The system includes a dynamic learning system which can optimise calculated... Agent: Renner Kenner Greive Bobak Taylor & Weber

20100268563 - Proximity scripting: A system and method for detecting events and in response to those events, generating scripting actions that can enable communications among participants within an organization. In one illustrative embodiment, these events can be informal such as impromptu meetings, document updates, presence detections, notifications and communications sessions, to name a few.... Agent: Mitel Networks Corporation Michelle Whittington, Esq.

20100268562 - System and method for managing resource use: Therefore, the illustrative embodiments provide a computer implemented method and system for determining individual resource needs for each plant in a plurality of plants. Current conditions are identified using a sensor system. A plurality of per plant prescriptions are calculated for the plurality of plants using the individual resource needs... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20100268565 - System and method of enterprise systems and business impact management: A system architecture and a method for managing using a cellular architecture to allow multi-tier management of events such as the managing of the actual impact or the potential impact of IT infrastructure situations on business services. A preferred embodiment includes a high availability management backbone to frame monitoring operations... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20100268561 - Ten-level enterprise architecture systems and tools: s

20100268567 - Automated direct mail procurement system: A machine-implemented method receives job specifications for at least one direct mail printing job from at least one user and creates at least one workflow related to the direct mail printing job. The workflow comprises at least one job activity. The method automatically transmits requests for bids on the job... Agent: Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC Frederick W. Gibb, Iii, Esq.

20100268569 - Automated rotation tool: Various embodiments provide a scheduling system structured for generating at least one posting to fill a vacant post on a schedule. In an embodiment, the scheduling system includes a scheduling database and an automated rotation tool. The scheduling database includes a personnel roster and a schedule. The schedule includes a... Agent: Stephen C. Glazier K&l Gates LLP

20100268570 - Global concierge: A method for receiving, processing and managing service requests from a user is disclosed. The method includes receiving the service request from a user at a concierge service, generating an itinerary from the service request, sending the itinerary to a server in a consumer relation management system and automatically coordinating... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20100268566 - Improved calendaring system for managing follow-up appointments: A method, apparatus, and computer program product for managing follow-up appointments in a calendaring system. In one illustrative embodiment, a follow-up appointment is created to an original appointment using a processor and responsive to receiving a user input. Information is set for the follow-up appointment created in response to receiving... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20100268571 - System and method for determining availibility of a group to communicate with a user: The method comprises defining a group having at least one member that has a knowledge of the selected subject. A personal agent is provided for each member of the group. The personal agent is configured to discover an availability of the corresponding member through selected availability policies submitted to the... Agent: Mitel Networks Corporation Michelle Whittington, Esq.

20100268568 - Workflow model for coordinating the recovery of it outages based on integrated recovery plans: One aspect of the present invention provides a workflow model to effectively respond to outage events within an IT infrastructure. This workflow model enables a combination of manual and automated processing to effectively deploy a flexible, plannable, and testable recovery to outages and problems encountered within IT infrastructure settings. In... Agent: Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly LLP

20100268578 - Information providing system: The information providing system accurately predicts a behavior pattern of a user, selects and provides the optimal information at individual points in time. Provision information files (F1, F2, . . . ) for a number of stores are stored in the file storage section (100). When a user accesses the... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20100268572 - Inventory management system in a print- production environment: An inventory management system for forecasting demand in a print production environment may include a computing device and a computer-readable storage medium in communication with the computing device. The computer-readable storage medium may include programming instructions for updating a predictive model with intervention information comprising an anticipated demand value and... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20100268575 - Processing and display of service provider performance data: Disclosed are computing systems, apparatus, methods, and articles of manufacture for processing and displaying service provider performance data. In insurance and related industries, service providers perform assignments such as repairing smoke or water damage. Assignments may be performed pursuant to a service level agreement (SLA) between a provider and an... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20100268576 - System and method for sending data to end user data delivery vehicles: An embodiment of a method is disclosed, including but not limited to, dividing a reward token in a reward token data base into a plurality of reward token pieces based on a selection of plurality of end user data delivery vehicles on which an advertiser wants to send the reward... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Roebuck Attn: Patent Docketing

20100268573 - System and method for utilizing supplemental audio beaconing in audience measurement: An audio beacon system, apparatus and method for collecting information on a panelist's exposure to media. An audio beacon is configured as on-device encoding technology that is operative in a panelist's processing device (e.g., cell phone, PDA, PC) to enable the device to encode an acoustic tone and transmit it... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP / Arbitron Inc. (c/o Patent Administrator)

20100268577 - Systematic social commerce: A platform for brand owners to identify brand advocates, mobilize the brand advocates to act on behalf of the brand, and manage and track advocate activity. A brand manager may configure a brand advocate service on a platform provided by the present system. Brand service configuration may involve configuring how... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20100268574 - Tracking user profile influence in a digital media system: Methods and systems for tracking user profile influence in a digital media system are provided. One exemplary method includes computing connection weights of connections between a plurality of user nodes, each user node representing a user profile of the digital media system, to thereby generate an influence network. The connection... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100268580 - Network-based simulated package for enclosing digital objects: The present disclosure provides methods and systems for bundling and presenting digital information within a network environment by simulating a physical package. In one embodiment, the simulated package has an outer package level to present ancillary information about digital objects enclosed in the simulated package. An inner content level contains... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20100268579 - System and method of monitoring and optimizing power quality in a network: The operation of a power distribution network is modeled. At least one quality of the operation of the power distribution network is measured. The future operational performance of the power distribution network is predicted based at least in part upon the modeling. When the at least one measure of the... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery

20100268585 - Injection advertising technology: A method and information processing system for providing messaging through an electronic messaging system. At least one user is determined to have performed at least one of the following two acts, creating an electronic message and sending an electronic message. At least one message is selected from a data store... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20100268586 - Products and processes for managing revenue sharing: Various techniques of distributing revenue and/or other money, selecting/bonding delivery agents, and performing other tasks are providing herein. Methods include distributing portions of loan payments to one or more referrers associated with one or more loans, bonding of delivery agents, selecting delivery agents, allocating portions of credit card payments and/or... Agent: Innovation Division

20100268584 - System and methods for marketing and advertising referral over a communications network: Accordingly, in an embodiment of the present invention, a system for sharing interactive electronic information with intended recipients over a network and tracking the results of interaction with the information is provided comprising an executable code installed as an executable button in an electronic form containing the electronic information to... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20100268587 - Storefront purchases utilizing non-negotiable credits earned from a game of chance: Entertainment credits from a game of chance can be identified. The entertainment credits can be associated with an entity with which a user has previously interacted. The previous interactions can earning the entertainment credits, which are non-negotiable credits. Responsive to a user request, a conversion agency can convert a quantity... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.-general

20100268588 - Loyalty rewards optimization bill payables and receivables service: For several accounts receivable, a reward account is determined as the account that receives the largest deposit to the loyalty reward balance thereof by a payment of the account receivable. For each reward account, a deficient reward account is found if the currency balance for the reward account is not... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20100268589 - System and method for data acquisition and processing: A portable service escrowed event reporting system that may be sold through mass-market sales channels. Communications between a consumer and the provider of the event reporting system are not required in advance of the system being purchased by the consumer. After purchase of the system by the consumer, the system... Agent: Sunstein Kann Murphy & Timbers LLP

20100268590 - Method for real-time credit calculation of different loyalty programs based on call behavior and use of ip-based multimedia subsystem (ims) services: The invention relates to a method for real time credit calculation of differing loyalty programmes based on telephone usage of a user and use of IP-based multimedia sub system (IMS) services, wherein statistical data for the user is recorded and stored in a databank by means of an OSAS (Online... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20100268591 - System and method for selectively controlling the use of functionality in one or more multifunction devices and subsidizing their use through advertisements: A system and related method for selectively controlling use of functionality in one or more multifunction devices includes a communications interface in operative communication with a printer and/or a display apparatus. The communications interfaces electronically communicates data with the printer and/or the display apparatus. The data includes a data structure... Agent: Xerox Corporation (cdfs)

20100268592 - Paperless consumer coupon system and method: A system, method and computer program product for promotion processing and delivery, including a smart phone having a capture function for capturing a product code of an item, wherein the smart phone is configured to generate and display a promotion having a barcode based on the captured product code of... Agent: The Villamar Firm PLLC

20100268593 - System and method for creating coupon offers and barcodes: A system or method that enables the user to create a coupon offer by selecting a barcode type for a coupon offer. In response to the user's selection, the user is presented with an interface that is specific to the selected barcode type. The interface includes one or more fields... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20100268582 - Affiliate system on social networking: An affiliate system on social networking is disclosed and includes a method by which advertisement data of a user may be automatically associated with the advertisement data of other users based upon the users' respective blog data. In one embodiment, a contribution score of a user may be determined based... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan LLP Transition Team C/o Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell

20100268583 - Mobile internet access with proxy support: The present invention is directed to a method, a node arrangement and a mobile node for registering a Care-of-Address on behalf of a Mobile Node at a Home Agent in a home network of said Mobile Node when the Mobile Node is connected to a foreign network. The method comprises... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100268581 - Selective enablement of runtime-based application behaviors: A system and method for deploying software from a central location to a plurality of remote install sites. The system includes a network-accessible server system and a plurality of computing devices. Based on delivery of a general application deliverable from the server system, a runtime-based application is installed at each... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100268594 - Multimedia data transmission and feedback system for integrating performance evaluations: A multimedia data transmission and feedback system for integrating performance evaluations includes a server provided for an advertising owner to browse the performance of each advertising site before the advertising takes place. After the advertising owner reviews the advertising information, the advertising site and advertising device are evaluated and selected... Agent: Wang Law Firm, Inc.

20100268595 - Advertising capability for in-home display and smart appliances: A system for broadcasting at least one advertisement is provided. The system includes a database configured to store the at least one advertisement, a server communicatively coupled to the database, wherein the server is configured to schedule the playlist that includes at least one of the at least one advertisement,... Agent: John S. Beulick (17851) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20100268597 - Method and system for automated intellegent electronic advertising: A method and system for automated intelligent electronic advertising. The method and system parse electronic information messages (e.g., e-mail, IM, SMS, MMS, social networking messages, etc.) using information theory for keywords and make search engine queries or database queries for electronic links based on the identified keywords. Hierarchical electronic links... Agent: Lesavich High-tech Law Group, P.C.

20100268596 - Search-enhanced semantic advertising: Systems and methods for enhanced advertising using semantic search are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, of identifying a semantic group with which content of a search result relates, further determining a facet of the semantic group... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20100268598 - System and method for generating an alternative product recommendation: A method and system for automatically generating a naturally reading narrative product summary including assertions about a selected product. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of determining at least one attribute associated with the selected product, selecting an alternative product, retrieving assertion models to describe the product and... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP

20100268600 - Enhanced advertisement targeting: Methods, techniques, and systems for advertisement targeting are provided. Example embodiments provide an enhanced ad targeting system (“EATS”), which given one or more products, determines keywords to associate with those products and which, given one or more entities, determines related products for which ads can be targeted. In some embodiments,... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20100268599 - Method and system for proactively and remotely triggering applications for marketing campaigns on mobile devices: A method and system are provided of using a server computer system for conducting a marketing campaign directed at users of mobile communications devices, the method includes: (a) identifying a targeted subset of the users of the mobile communications devices based on their user profiles to receive and execute a... Agent: Foley Hoag, LLP Patent Group, World Trade Center West

20100268601 - Method of enhancing email text with hyperlinked word pointing to targeted ad: A computer method and device for intercepting contracting client's sent electronic messages, scanning the message body content for key words, sending the key words to a remote central computer server which analyses the key words and enhances the message by attaching a relevant, contextual advertising tag line or image/banner/words/HTML/Flash, etc.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20100268603 - Advertising platform user data store management: A computer-implemented method includes receiving, at a transaction management computing subsystem of an advertising platform, a call for an advertisement creative to be served to an impression consumer; generating, using the transaction management computing subsystem, a set of bid requests, at least two bid requests of the set including respective... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20100268605 - Method and system for managing distributed trading data: In a preferred embodiment, the invention comprises a computer-implemented system and method of managing market information across a network of data providers, comprising the steps of: (a) electronically receiving first data including confidential information regarding market participants in a first system that protects said first data behind a firewall; (b)... Agent: Patent Docket Clerk Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.

20100268604 - Method and system for providing information based on logo included in digital contents: There are provided a method and a system for detecting a logogram from a digital content, recognizing the detected logogram, and providing a user with a variety of information associated with the logogram. In detail, the method and the system acquire a plurality of logograms associated with digital content producers,... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20100268602 - System and method for direct marketing using electronic messaging to individuals within an interrogation zone: A system and method of direct marketing to individual(s) within an interrogation zone by the presentation of customize or personalize messages to the individual selected. A plurality of tags each associated with at least one individual include response capabilities which are monitored by a reader and/or associated processor facility capable... Agent: Malloy & Malloy, P.A.

20100268606 - Targeted image ads: Product information specifying products or services is received, each of the products or services being associated with an advertisement. Display criteria indicating display properties associated with the product information for displaying the product information, and one or more keywords are also received. The advertisement is identified in response to the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20100268607 - System and method for direct marketing using electronic messaging to individuals within an interrogation zone: A system and method of direct marketing to individual(s) within an interrogation zone by the presentation of customize or personalize messages to the individual selected. A plurality of tags each associated with at least one individual include response capabilities which are monitored by a reader and/or associated processor facility capable... Agent: Malloy & Malloy, P.A.

20100268608 - Campaign management of direct mail: A machine-implemented method receives job specifications for a plurality of direct mail printing jobs from a user and automatically groups the multiple direct mail printing jobs into at least one campaign, using a computerized or processor-based machine. The machine automatically creates a plurality of workflows related to direct mail printing... Agent: Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC Frederick W. Gibb, Iii, Esq.

20100268609 - Advertising platform creative approval: A system that provides an advertising platform includes a creative auditing computing subsystem including a processor that is coupled to computer readable media having computer readable instructions recorded thereon, wherein the processor is operable to execute the computer readable instructions to enable impression seller members to review and approve creatives... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20100268610 - Online advertising method and online advertising system: The present invention relates to an online advertising method and an online advertising system, and more particularly, relates to an online advertising method and an online advertising system using a knowledge providing service system which enables knowledge to be provided through questions and answers between users.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20100268614 - Apparatus, system, and method for an asset-backed purchase card: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for an asset backed purchase card. The present invention includes a house account comprising one or more assets, each of the one or more assets having a substantially continually updated spot purchase price. The invention receives funds from a consumer in exchange for... Agent: Kunzler Needham Massey & Thorpe

20100268612 - Payment processing system for use in a retail environment having segmented architecture: A payment processing system and method comprising a POS module providing an interface to effect sales of FGS in a retail environment, a device module operatively connected to at least one retail device configured to supply FGS and comprising a card reader adapted to receive a first payment card data... Agent: Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLPIPDepartment

20100268613 - Systems and methods for capturing and transmitting transactional data related to product and service sales: Systems and methods for capturing and managing information from a plurality of individual items sold in a commercial transaction between a consumer and a merchant can include capturing, at a point-of-sale, transactional data for the a plurality of individual items sold during the transaction. The transactional data can include item... Agent: Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP

20100268611 - Systems and methods for pre-paid futures procurement: A transaction processor can receive transaction information from a transaction between a customer and a merchant. The transaction information includes an account identifier associated with a financial account of the customer. The processor determines that the account identifier is associated with a fixed price futures contract. The transaction is completed... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20100268615 - Financial card account having multiple balances and end user selected debiting parameters for debiting a point of sale transaction: The present invention provides a financial card account comprising multiple available balances, debiting parameter methods, systems, apparatus, transaction cards, and the like for use in providing at least one point of sale transaction that can be debited by preset parameters relating the amount of the debit to the relative balances... Agent: Guy Kevin Townsend

20100268616 - Appratus, system and method for an automated stock ledger: An inventory stock ledger system, apparatus and method including a process by which one can track inventory efficiently, but can also utilize to perform inventory analysis on a dynamic level. The method includes recording inventory snapshots across various dimensions of a retail business and tracking the inventory levels for select... Agent: The Law Offices Of Anthony L. Meola

20100268619 - Automated consumer to business electronic marketplace system: An automated consumer to business electronic marketplace system is presented, wherein various aspects of user status, user behavior or operation of a vehicle associated with user are monitored and reported to an electronic marketplace. Suppliers of insurance products and other suppliers of automobile or personal products or services may offer... Agent: Hahn Loeser & Parks, LLP

20100268618 - Location-aware payment system: In a first embodiment, a location-aware payment system including: a smart device, the smart device including: a location sensing mechanism for detecting its location; an identification mechanism for identifying the smart device; and a wireless communication mechanism; a display device having at least one of an indicator light, a printed... Agent: Mesmer & Deleault, PLLC

20100268620 - Method and system for re-routing items sold or auctioned to a new customer: A method and system for auctioning or sales of deliverable items via the Internet permit customers to purchase or bid on items. Delivery of the item is first scheduled to a first bidder or purchaser and then in response to a second bidder or purchaser's bid or purchase, may be... Agent: Mitch Harris, LLC - General

20100268617 - Web-based purchase order processor: The present invention is directed generally to internet-based commerce, and more particularly to a method to real-time track purchase orders and aggregate similar archived purchasing agents inputs and utilize this information to reduce the customer selling price of goods and services.... Agent: Troy Broitzman

20100268624 - Method and system for dealing with non-paying bidders related to network-based transactions: A method and system for dealing with non-paying bidders related to network-based transactions are disclosed in which a submission of a complaint to a network-based facility is facilitated. The complaint is related to a party who has failed to complete a transaction. A resolution of the complaint is facilitated. A... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20100268622 - Micro personal digital assistant with a compressed bios system: A personal digital assistant module with a local CPU, memory, and I/O interface has a host interface comprising a bus connected to the local CPU and a connector at a surface of the personal digital assistant for interfacing to a bus connector of a host general-purpose computer, providing direct bus... Agent: The Marbury Law Group, PLLC

20100268621 - Network av contents playback terminal, server, and system: In consideration thereof, a method for contents viewing permission takes two types of automatic renewal and non-automatic renewal, and the type is described in a meta data transmitted to the terminal at the time of DL registration. In accordance with the meta data, when the type is of the automatic... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20100268623 - Purchase handoff in a travel search engine: A method and apparatus are provided for a dynamic information connection engine. User actions are detected on at least one client system. In response, a determination is made whether the user is searching for supported information. When the user is searching for supported information, information is extracted electronically from third... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20100268625 - Test machine for an automated light: A moving light tester includes plural sensors, each of which can test a function of the moving light. A conveyor can move the light between the sensors. Once tested, information about the test is used to characterize the light, to determine if it needs repair, or can be re rented.... Agent: Law Office Of Scott C Harris Inc

20100268626 - Dynamic prepayment risk management: A system and method are disclosed for monitoring, managing and reporting credit card prepayment risk for an issuing bank. Sales data, corresponding payment data and data indicating the fulfilment of orders are monitored. The amount required as security by the bank is dynamically adjusted, for example on a daily basis,... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20100268627 - Dating service system and method increasing member profile development and reducing unwanted communications: The present invention provides a system and method to increase the number of members in a dating service developing their profiles by providing a financial incentive. The invention further reduces unwanted communications from other members by allowing member recipients of the unwanted communication to receive a fee, paid by the... Agent: Peter Joseph Dean

20100268628 - Managing controlled content on a web page having revenue-generating code: Managing controlled content on a web page is disclosed. A web page is analyzed. Controlled content and revenue-generating code are detected on the web page. A party to contact is determined based on the revenue-generating code or the controlled content.... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20100268630 - Centralized receipt database: The present system provides a method to automatically collect and consolidate transaction information into a single database that can be accessed by a user. The system provides a unique identifier or authorization from a user and whenever that user executes a transaction of any type, whether on-line, in person, with... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20100268629 - Concrete budgeting: Apparatus and methods for supporting a budgeting process are provided. A method according to the invention may include operating an electronic information processing platform to receive an electronic confirmation of one of a purchase, a savings transaction, and an investment transaction. The method may further include performing a reevaluation of... Agent: Weiss & Arons, LLP

20100268669 - Advisor referral: An apparatus and method for an advisor referral tool for objectively matching professional services between users and advisors in an on-line or computer based environment. The advisor referral tool matches users with professional advisors by executing an advisor matching algorithm to select a subset of advisors from an advisor database... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100268665 - Cash flow rating system: Methods and systems are provided herewith for rating a likelihood of payment of one or more cash flows. A computing device receives information about a debt instrument portfolio comprising one or more debt instruments, the information comprising a quantity and a price (e.g., a purchase price) associated with each of... Agent: Innovation Division

20100268670 - Method and tool for retirement income management: The present invention is a method of monitoring a retirement income plan and managing retirement income through use of a retirement income planning tool. The retirement income planning tool is comprised of modules working together in order to facilitate planning, monitoring, management and generation of a retirement income plan. The... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery

20100268668 - Portfolio investement management method, system and computer program product: A method for an automated insured deposit portfolio management includes receiving a request from a depositor to invest funds in an insured deposit product including investment vehicles that use a combination of money market deposit accounts and CD Products, selecting a first portion of the funds for investment in at... Agent: Robert J. Van Der Wall Grand Bay Plaza

20100268666 - System and method configured for facilitating financial analysis: A method comprises determining a plurality of investment performance scores, determining a plurality of investment index performance scores and assessing each one of the investment performance scores dependent upon a respective one of the investment index. Each one of the investment performance scores corresponds to a respective investment of an... Agent: Galasso & Associates, L.p.

20100268663 - System and method for trading improved financial instruments: A computerized exchange system and computerized clearing system for matching and clearing of an improved financial instrument. The financial instruments being associated with central bank interest rates and may be used, among other things, to facilitate understanding of the price of an interest rate that is based on the central... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20100268664 - Systems, methods and computer program products for adaptive transaction cost estimation: A system, method and computer program product are provided for forecasting the transaction costs of a trade using empirical data and user-defined modeling constraints based on real-time data regarding changes in market conditions. In preferred embodiments, the invention acts as a forecaster whereby it accepts inputs from customers and identifies... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20100268667 - Venture exchange system: The Venture Exchange System uses a hardware server to connect investors and entrepreneurs over the network. The Exchange system allows the investors to invest money in business plans in a secure fashion and allows the investors to exchange security interests in business plans which they have invested in with other... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20100268635 - Credit index, a system and method for structuring a credit index, and a system and method for operating a credit index: The present invention relates to a credit index, a system and method for structuring a credit index, a system and method for operating a credit index, and a system and method for determining the liquidity of a credit.... Agent: Chadbourne & Parke LLP

20100268636 - Deal matching in an anonymous trading system: An anonymous trading system comprises an interconnected network of broking noted arranged in cliques which receive buy and sell orders from trader terminals via connected trading engines and which match persistent orders, executed deals and distribute price information to trader terminals. Where two orders are matched, a proposed deal message... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20100268638 - Linked displayed market and midpoint matching system: An automated system for matching orders to buy and sell securities including a displayed market where orders are executed at a BBO price and where information about the market is made available to investors and a midpoint matching market for matching buy and sell orders at a predetermined price, namely,... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20100268634 - Method and system for electronic trading via a yield curve: A method and system for providing automatic electronic trading via yield curves. The method and system allow automatic execution of electronic trades with yield curve trading strategies and yield curve trading indicators that that have reached a pre-determined yield curve trading limits. The yield curve trading values that have reached... Agent: Lesavich High-tech Law Group, P.C.

20100268633 - Method and system for providing electronic option trading bandwidth reduction and electronic option risk management and assessment for multi-market electronic trading: A method and system for providing electronic option trading bandwidth reduction and risk management and assessment for multi-market electronic trading. Data streams including electronic option trading information are split into plural individual data streams by a server network device and/or one or more network interface cards (NICs). The individual data... Agent: Lesavich High-tech Law Group, P.C.

20100268632 - Method and system for providing multi-market electronic trading with cloud computing: A method and system for providing multi-market electronic trading with cloud computing. Electronic trading is provided via cloud computing network using public networks, private networks, community networks and hybrid networks. The cloud computing network provides on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity and measured trading services for electronic... Agent: Lesavich High-tech Law Group, P.C.

20100268631 - Structure and mechanism for reit preferred securities: The real estate investment trust (“REIT”) structure and mechanism manages earnings distributions from the REIT to maintain REIT status. The REIT issues common stock to a bank affiliated parent (“holder”) in exchange for real estate related assets. The holder covenants to consent to consent dividends, under which the holder covenants... Agent: King & Spalding Credit Suisse Securities (usa) LLC

20100268637 - System and method for facilitating trading of multiple tradeable objects in an electronic trading environment: A system and method are provided for trading multiple tradeable objects. One example method includes displaying at least one combined quantity indicator representing a combined quantity associated with at least two tradeable objects, detecting an input associated with an order for a predetermined order quantity in relation to one of... Agent: Mbhb/trading Technologies

20100268640 - Apparatus and methods for renegotiating debt: Apparatus and methods are disclosed for renegotiating debt payment terms and similar matters. A database 10 is accessible over a network by creditors 40 and debtors 30, who can populate the database 10 with relevant debt information and use that information to attempt to renegotiate terms for repayment of the... Agent: J. Mark Holland And Associates

20100268639 - Characterizing creditworthiness credit score migration: Data comprising a request to generate a migration score is received (for example, by a first computer system). The migration score characterizes a likelihood of a change in a level of creditworthiness of a consumer subsequent to generation of a current credit score. Thereafter, future credit score migration for the... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c

20100268641 - System and method for verifying loan data at delivery: A system for verifying loan data for a loan being delivered by a seller to a purchaser includes underwriting logic that generates a set of underwriting data for a loan and delivery logic that receives a set of delivery data for the loan from the seller and processes the delivery... Agent: Fann-mke C/o Foley & Lardner LLP

20100268642 - Method and system of aggregating consideration associated with a request: In one embodiment, a method includes generating a request of an entity based on a set of attributes provided by an initiating patron of the entity using a processor of an initiator device. The method also includes associating an aggregation environment to the request. The method further includes allocating an... Agent: Raj Abhyanker, P.C.

20100268643 - Construction payment management system and method with budget reconciliation features: A computer-implemented method of reconciling a primary budget for a construction project. One embodiment of the invention includes generating a primary budget for the construction project and assigning a first primary budget line item from the primary budget to a participant. A secondary budget is then generated for the primary... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20100268644 - Data submission for anti-fraud context evaluation: Contextual data is gathered about a user's known location and/or about a user's expected location and generates contextual indicators based on at least a portion of the gathered contextual data. The contextual indicators are provided to one or more relying parties, such as an anti-fraud system to allow the anti-fraud... Agent: Gunnison, Mckay & Hodgson, L.L.P.

20100268646 - Electronic registration and transaction system: One preferred embodiment provides mobile device based registrations and transactions by providing an aggregator, in the form of a server connected to the internet for collecting and selectively distributing user data. The aggregator may obtain the user data through the mobile network operator, a third party data source (e.g., a... Agent: Inskeep Intellectual Property Group, Inc

20100268648 - Methods and systems for using an interface and protocol extensions to perform a financial transaction: A method for communicating financial transaction data between a plurality of computer devices using an interface module and an enhanced protocol is provided. The transaction is initiated by a cardholder at an input terminal using a transaction card for completing a purchase from a merchant. The method includes receiving at... Agent: Daniel M. Fitzgerald (21652) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20100268647 - System and method for securing a credit account: A system and method is disclosed for verifying a commercial transaction between a card-holder, a merchant, and a credit card company. The card-holder makes a purchase with the merchant using a full credit card number. The merchant submits a transaction approval request for approval with the credit card company. The... Agent: Henneman & Associates, PLC

20100268645 - Systems and methods providing multiple account holder functionality: Embodiments of the invention may relate to systems and methods providing multiple account holder functionality for stored value accounts. In one embodiment, a method may include executing computer program instructions by one or more processors for receiving a request to create a secondary stored value account for a recipient; creating... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20100268649 - Method and apparatus for electronic ticket processing: This document discloses an advantageous approach to using a digital rights management (DRM) system that is already available to an electronic device, for security and rights management in electronic ticketing transactions. Exploiting the digital rights management system, which may be a pre-existing “standardized” DRM solution, decreases the processing and memory... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20100268650 - Method and system for the supply of data, transactions and electronic voting: A method and system for supply of data, including generating a first digital certificate referred (empowerment certificate) signed with a first signing entity's electronic signature. The empowerment certificate includes attributes of the described entity, information identifying the first signing entity, indication of data relating to the described entity, indication of... Agent: Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole, P.C. Intellectual Property Department

20100268651 - Automatic generation of a scenario used to optimize a bid award schedule: An sourcing event management system includes a presentation layer, a business logic layer, an infrastructure layer and storage and operates to facilitate the creation of a bidding scenario, the opening of a bidding process, reception of bids from suppliers, the closing of the bidding process and the analysis of the... Agent: Robert Schuler

20100268652 - Apparatus and method for configuring a workflow: An apparatus for configuring a workflow, the workflow comprising at least one activity. The apparatus comprises a template editor for creating or editing a template of an activity implementation for the activity, wherein the template comprises computer-readable instructions and at least one editable variable.... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20100268653 - System and method for facilitating renting and purchasing relationships: A system and method for facilitating renting and purchasing relationships. The method includes receiving at least one property profile from at least one responsible party. At least one transaction request from each of a plurality of responsible parties is received. The transaction requests are matched with the property profiles. The... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20100268654 - Authentication and tracking system: A subset of unique codes are generated from a set of codes. The subset of codes are stored in a database on a secure server and each of the codes is marked on a corresponding instantiation of the product. The marked instantiations are distributed. During their distribution, the marked instantiations... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20100268656 - Method and apparatus for arranging face-to-face meetings: Individuals, couples, and families subscribe to a community for facilitating the arrangement of their outings and social meetings. Subscribers fill in wish-lists to specify their level of interest in specific attractions, in getting together with specific other subscribers, and in arranging their specific schedules for outings. An encounter generator processes... Agent: Mr. Mordechai Teicher Creative Inputs Ltd.

20100268655 - Social capital: Systems and methods for receiving social network membership information from a user, receiving social networking information for the user, and determining a social capital for the user, wherein the social capital is at least partially based on the social network membership information and the social networking information.... Agent: Joel Cheuoua

20100268657 - System and method for tracking and managing transportation of specimens: This invention is a system and method for tracking and managing transportation of specimens from a first location such as a medical office to a second location such as a testing lab for processing. A courier using a portable computing device can receive information representing that a specimen is ready... Agent: Nexsen Pruet, LLC

20100268658 - Method for collecting, testing and distributing milk: The disclosure is related generally to a method for facilitating the collection and distribution of milk over a computer nextwork among a milk provider, a milk company and a milk distribution center... Agent: Cooley LLP Attn: Patent Group

20100268659 - Shipment preparation using network resource identifiers in packing lists: Example embodiments provide a Shipment Preparation System (“SPS”), which facilitates the preparation of shipments, such as by producing shipping labels. In one embodiment, the SPS is configured to receive shipment preparation information from a bar code or other machine-readable data block in a packing list. The shipment preparation information identifies... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20100268661 - Recommendation systems: This invention deals with recommendation systems. The first embodiment is an off-the-shelf recommendation system is described, where it is easy to integrate with the website database and uses a web service for recommendations, as well as easy to integrate with email. The system receives client ID, item ID and user... Agent: Kenneth L. Levy

20100268660 - Systems and methods for verifying and rating mortgage financial companies: System and method for providing mortgage financial company ratings and verifications. A networked-based service provides a user with a lender report summarizing the mortgage loan data of the lender. Key lender loan data is gathered, analyzed, and formatted in an easy to read rating and report of an analyzed lender,... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20100268662 - Contact center data visualization system and method: A data visualisation system is disclosed that includes an interaction database, a retrieval component, a display component, and a contour generator. The interaction database is maintained in a computer memory of interaction data representing interactions between customers and at least one merchant. The retrieval component is configured to retrieve from... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson, LLP