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

20080103796 - Business process operation method and system: A format conversion decision definition generating unit 104 stores information whether or not a response message format from a service unit 134 may be utilized in all later service callings of a business process without format conversion in a repository 121 as format conversion decision information 127, by referring to... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080103804 - Country assessment: Systems and methods are disclosed for assessing a country as a relocation option. More specifically, a line of business may assess a country by generating a geographic model that may be based on data about a country. The system and method of generating a geographic model may include the generation... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd Attorneys For Client Number 007131

20080103792 - Decision support for tax rate selection: For a multi-party advertising exchange including advertising and publishing entities, each participant specifies tax rate(s), such as import tax and export tax, that apply to at least one other entity in the exchange. Since tax rate(s) can be expressed in different transactional terms by different parties, each tax rate is... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080103797 - Determining a relative measure of fault risk for a built system: The present invention discloses a method, apparatus and software for determining a relative measure of the risk of faults in a built product relative to a reference build of the product. The measure can be based on a balance between the additional risk added as a result of changes made... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080103798 - Identity protection: In general, in one aspect, the invention relates to a system for providing identity protection that, in one embodiment, includes a fraud model for specifying patterns of events indicative of identity fraud and a business rules subsystem used to identify fraud that is specified by the fraud models. The system... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20080103799 - Identity protection: In general, in one aspect, the invention relates to a system for providing identity protection that, in one embodiment, includes a fraud model for specifying patterns of events indicative of identity fraud and a business rules subsystem used to identify fraud that is specified by the fraud models. The system... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20080103800 - Identity protection: In general, in one aspect, the invention relates to a system for providing identity protection that, in one embodiment, includes a fraud model for specifying patterns of events indicative of identity fraud and a business rules subsystem used to identify fraud that is specified by the fraud models. The system... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20080103791 - Intelligent physical mail method and system: The intelligent physical mailpiece system may include a database of recipient preferences. A sender mail creation means is coupled to the recipient preference database. A processor is coupled to a scanner. A communications means is coupled between the processor and the sender mail creation means for communicating recipient preferences to... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20080103789 - Legal text distribution and processing in mobile broadcasting: Systems and methods for processing and distributing legal text information allow content providers to distribute legal text to terminals receiving broadcast content. The legal text may include terms and conditions associated with content that a user may want to purchase or subscribe. Upon receiving a content selection that a user... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080103795 - Lightweight and heavyweight interfaces to federated advertising marketplace: For a multi-party advertising exchange including advertising and publishing entities from different advertising networks, the invention provides architectures for an online advertising marketplace that range from lightweight to heavyweight implementations. A lightweight client side implementation of an interface includes centralized processing and storage of federated advertising marketplace data by centralized... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080103786 - Method and apparatus for representing and configuring flexible and extensible presentation patterns: Techniques are provided for representing and configuring flexible and extensible presentation patterns based on fine-grained architectural building blocks (ABBs). The techniques include defining ABBs, modeling the ABBs in a uniform manner, and creating at least one template using the ABBs, wherein the at least one template includes at least one... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080103784 - Method and system for constructing an interactive online network of living and non-living entities: A method and system for generating an interactive computerized biological network consisting of living and non-living entities based upon the multiple relationship types which can exist between entities. The network can consist of multiple node types. Such node types can include persons, places, objects, and animals, each connected by one... Agent: Oyen, Wiggs, Green & Mutala LLP 480 - The Station

20080103806 - Method and system for documenting and communicating automobile repair and maintenance history: A method for providing historical vehicle service data by entering vehicle service and parts replacement data and customer data by a service provider into a website; transferring the vehicle service and parts replacement data and the customer data from the website to a central server which creates the historical vehicle... Agent: Bush Intellectual Property Law Group, LLC

20080103809 - Method for preventing and/or deterring a criminal act: A method of preventing and/or deterring a criminal act, comprising standardizing a coordinated approach to a coding system for the identification of stolen property; advertising or publishing the method through a coordinated media campaign to maximize the psychological impact on the criminal mind that acts as the deterrent; and (3)... Agent: Dennison, Schultz & Macdonald

20080103787 - Methods, mobile terminals, servers and computer program products for wirelessly providing real property information: A method of providing real property information can include receiving, at a real property information server, geographic location information from a mobile terminal indicating a position of the mobile terminal and selectively transmitting real property information associated with real property included in a real property listing database from the server... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080103810 - Secure shipment method for barter transaction: Method and system for bartering between trade parties each having one or more items available for barter, via a communications network. Items available for trade are listed and the parties can browse and search the lists to locate items they want to acquire and items they have available to trade,... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080103793 - Sequence of algorithms to compute equilibrium prices in networks: The claimed subject matter provides an architecture for facilitating equilibrium solutions for resource allocation markets. One particular example of such markets can be a computer network environment. The architecture can model buyers as nodes and suppliers as edges, incorporating notions of an ascending price auction in order to provide optimal... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080103790 - System and method for duplicate detection: A duplicate detection system is provided for analyzing and processing documents received at one or more capture sites. A physical document may be electronically captured at a capture site and subsequently transmitted to a regional or central processing system. The regional or central processing system may receive capture documents from... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd Attorneys For Client Number 007131

20080103785 - System and method for providing extended warranty pricing: A method and system for quoting a purchase price for a vehicle warranty includes obtaining vehicle characteristic data based on a vehicle characteristic identifier; automatically decoding the vehicle characteristic data to determine a vehicle configuration and/or a vehicle status; and quoting a purchase price of a warranty plan based on... Agent: Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080103788 - System, method and program product for predicting commercial off-the-shelf equipment reliability: A system, method and program product for predicting equipment reliability, especially for off-the-shelf equipment. Selected off-the-shelf equipment is distilled into fundamental elements, e.g., assemblies and components in the assemblies. Reliability statistics are gathered for assemblies and components in analogous equipment. Coefficients are generated to map the reliability statistics for the... Agent: Law Office Of Charles W. Peterson, Jr. -- Boeing

20080103794 - Virtual scenario generator: A virtual scenario generator is provided that applies a virtual scenario to real-world data, such as health and fitness related data, adding a creative way to track the real-world data and/or enhancing the data by adding a competitive element. Thus, the activity related to the real-world data can be incentivized... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080103826 - Health care payment single payor facilitation system and method: The invention relates to the field of health care reimbursement, and more particularly to valuing claims generated by a health care provider for purposes of underwriting and accelerating such health care provider's reimbursement from a variety of payors.... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20080103818 - Health-related data audit: Systems (and corresponding methodologies) that facilitate tracking ‘actions’ associated with records and data maintained within a centralized health-related data repository are provided. Effectively, an audit trail helps the user keep track of all the changes and accesses that happened on the user's record and can help them understand the control... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080103821 - Inventory control over pharmaceutical sample distributions software, systems and methodologies: Methods for managing the distribution of samples in support of activities of field representatives which differentiate on-hand and in-storage inventories of samples that have been previously allocated from a master inventory, for example, from the inventory of a pharmaceutical company. Field representatives are assisted in managing an inventory of samples... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080103823 - Method for coordinating professional services: A method of doing business is practiced by a group of independent professionals to meet the varied but related needs of an individual. Professional entities, such as attorneys, physicians, pharmacists, realtors, architects, financial institutions and advisors, insurance agents, bondsman, psychologists, enter into a coalition agreement. The coalition agreement defines a... Agent: James R. Williams

20080103822 - Pharmaceutical representative expense report management software, systems, and methodologies: Electronic assigning of expense data related to sales calls to customers such as health care professionals (HCPs) aids in complying with local, state, federal, or other regulatory reporting requirements and guidelines. The method includes providing expense report data and presenting a line-item entry of the report on a display. Through... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080103816 - Physician accreditation system with mechanism for automated records extraction: A system for accrediting physicians based on pre-determined best practices by examining the records for a subset of the physician's patients as measured against a set of criteria for the desired accreditation. The system provides a mechanism for automatically extracting patient records from a physician's electronic health records (EHR) system,... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLPIPGroup, Columbia Square

20080103814 - System and method for an integrated disease management system: An apparatus, method, and system for the design, administration and implementation of integrated disease management. The integrated disease management (“IDM”) system maximizes contact and enrollment rates of traditional remote disease management alone. This is accomplished through the creation of a system that combines telephonic-delivered disease management (i.e. traditional disease management)... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080103815 - System and method for estimating cost of medical treatment: In one embodiment, a method for estimating total cost of medical treatment comprises (a) receiving medical treatment data including medical facility location data, treatment cost data, and follow-up treatment data corresponding to at least one medical treatment provided by a plurality of medical facilities; (b) receiving accommodation data including accommodation... Agent: Fountainhead Law Group P.C.

20080103813 - System and method for portable safeguard context in a patient's room: According to a patient role and permissions indicators, an origin safeguard context including a patient origin location identifier, an associated origin space safeguard profile, and at least one associated previously-established set of control parameters, limit settings, and controllable device configurations are reconciled with a patient destination location identifier and an... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rhf)

20080103828 - Automated custom report generation system for medical information: A medical evaluation system for a procedural event comprises: determining key medical images (10) and medical reports; determining a clinician's preferences (85) for medical records obtained from a physician; determining the clinician's preferences for clinical information system records; determining the clinician's preferences for display of the medical images, medical reports,... Agent: Carestream Health Inc,

20080103830 - Extensible and localizable health-related dictionary: A system that uses a health-related dictionary component to establish responses to requests from devices and applications is provided. The innovation discloses uses of a health-related dictionary to enable retrieval of standardized lists and taxonomies in the healthcare space as well as localization of health-related data. Examples of these taxonomies... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080103834 - Method and apparatus of providing a radiation scorecard: The present invention relates to a method to measure, record, analyze, and report cumulative radiation exposure to the patient population and provide automated feedback and recommendations to ordering clinicians and consultant radiologists. The data provided from this “radiation scorecard” would in turn be automatically recorded into a centralized data repository... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080103829 - System and method for trading personal health data: A system and appertaining method are provided for authorizing and transmitting patient medical data by an owner of the data to a third party. Accordingly, a consent request module that is provided with information related to the third party via which the owner enters information related to user authorization data... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20080103836 - Medical document attachment handling: Automating medical practice workflow and billing presents difficulties in many aspects, especially in interacting with the workflow, other healthcare providers, and within the constraints of payor requirements. Disclosed are methods, systems, software and means for automatically providing additional documentation to reconcile a billing claim. In one implementation, there is a... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20080103837 - Risk reduction for participants in an online advertising exchange: For a multi-party advertising exchange including advertising and publishing entities from disparate advertising networks, a framework is provided for applying insurance terms to advertising transactions in the exchange, enabling risk sensitive participants to ease their participation in a potentially volatile online advertising marketplace. Participants can use the insurance mechanism of... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080103835 - Systems and methods for providing road insurance: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing road insurance for a road construction project. In one embodiment, a customer may request a first insurance coverage amount for a road in a road insurance management system. The road insurance management system may determine, based on one or more design requirements, a... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080103842 - Travel cost estimating: In one aspect, the invention is a method to estimate travel costs using a spreadsheet application. The method includes receiving inputs in a spreadsheet file using the spreadsheet application. The user inputs include an origination, a destination, a start date and an end date. The method also includes storing prices... Agent: Raytheon Company C/o Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20080103854 - Access control within a publish/subscribe system: There is disclosed a method for access control in a publish/subscribe system. Identification information is associated with the client's connection. A request is subsequently received from the client to publish or subscribe to a topic hosted by the system and that request has an identifier associated with it. It is... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080103852 - Auction method and apparatus: An automatic system for determining outcomes to an auction process represents the auction by a directed graph and uses a K best solutions algorithm to determine the K best solutions. The system uses a particular graphical representation. Constraints may be included directly into the graph.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080103849 - Calculating an aggregate of attribute values associated with plural cases: To calculate an aggregate of attribute values associated with plural cases, at least one parameter setting that affects a number of cases predicted positive by a classifier is selected. At least one measure pertaining to the plural cases is calculated, where the at least one measure is dependent upon the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080103848 - Calculating an amount of enterprise resource to be assigned based on received parameters: A tool receives parameters relating to target enterprise objective of an enterprise, the cost of an enterprise resource associated with the enterprise, and an enterprise resource capacity. The tool calculates an amount of an enterprise resource to be assigned in an enterprise based on the received parameters relating to the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080103847 - Data prediction for business process metrics: Embodiments in accordance with the present invention include methods and systems for data prediction. A method includes analyzing time-series data in a business process with a single-metric technique and with a multiple-metric technique; and combining predictions from the single-metric technique and the multiple-metric technique to predict a predetermined change in... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080103843 - Integrating information for maintenance: Systems and techniques for integrating information for the planning and performance of maintenance activities are described. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a collection of descriptions of maintenance tasks in an enterprise, accessing one or more data stores to receive asset information characterizing assets in the enterprise, process information... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20080103844 - Method to facilitate obtaining, storing, and subsequently conveying an organization's information for the benefit of successor organization-based agents: A party obtains (101) information from a plurality of different organizations and identifies (102) information recipient criteria as a function, at least in part, of at least one specific organization-based hierarchical function. This information and the information recipient criteria is then stored (108) non-volatily under conditions designed to preserve the... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20080103845 - Method, computer program product, and apparatus for managing decision support related event information: An apparatus for managing decision support related events and solutions includes a plurality of case management elements. Each of the case management elements is in communication with at least an associated one of a corresponding plurality of portal access controllers associated with a corresponding unit within an organization. Each of... Agent: Alston & Bird, LLP

20080103856 - Methods for sales call data management and processing: Sales Tool and methodology for field representatives of products or services records the dates of site visits with customers, acquires sales data concerning consumption of a product or service in a region which is attributable to the customer, generates a chart that depicts the acquired sales data and superimposes on... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080103851 - Products and processes for determining allocation of inventory for a vending machine: According to an embodiment, an allocation of inventory for a vending machine (e.g., a mix or set of types of products and respective quantities of products to be loaded into a snack or beverage vending machine) is determined. In an embodiment, a computer or other computing device may be configured... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20080103846 - Sales funnel management method and system: A method for developing a business plan for a business entity includes providing a value indicating a predicted amount of business entity sales for one or more products. The method further includes, based on the provided value, determining, for each of one or more sales sources, an expected amount of... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080103850 - System and method for collecting advertisement information and for real-time analyzing: The present invention discloses a system for collecting advertisement information and for analyzing, the system comprising: an information carrier for carrying advertising information, for example, advertising media, advertising territory, advertiser, related contents or index of the advertising and the like; a writing apparatus for performing information compiling and generating of... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080103858 - System for evaluating distressed buildings: Systems and methods of evaluating buildings that may be physically and/or financially distressed are provided. The disclosed subject matter obtains building condition indicator measurements, applies building condition indicator measurements to a mathematical relationship, and obtains a building score from the mathematical relationship and the building condition indicator measurements.... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080103860 - Executing pages of a guided process application in parallel: One or more users can execute tasks in a guided process involving dependent and independent steps modeled with parallel processing techniques. For example, a user can open one or more parent pages in a guided process through a user interface, where each of the one or more parent pages lists... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080103861 - Fair share scheduling for mixed clusters with multiple resources: A technique for determining scheduling priorities of jobs of different types to facilitate workload management in a clustered processing environment having a plurality of managed resource types is provided. The technique includes allocating shares of multiple managed resource types to users and user groups of the clustered processing environment. The... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20080103862 - Instant messaged forms based business process decision point facilitation: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to decision point management for a business process and provide a method, system and computer program product for instant messaging forms based business process decision point facilitation. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for instant messaged... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080103863 - Interactive 3d shortage tracking user interface: The claimed method and system provides a user interface that displays a plurality of product order bars (icons) along with a set of dependencies between product orders in a single graphical view. A plurality of iconic bars are used to represent a demand or product order for a segment of... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20080103864 - Model generation and distribution system: A method of distributing 3-dimensional model data, the model data being associated with a physical item, the method of distribution including the steps of: (i) storing at a central data store full 3-dimensional model data; (ii) receiving at the central data store a request for abridged model data in a... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080103871 - Company project management system: A company project management system. The novel system includes a database server for providing multiple users with access to a project file, which includes a schedule for a project with a plurality of tasks and task dependencies, and a statusing system for concurrently obtaining performance updates from multiple users and... Agent: Benman, Brown & Williams

20080103870 - Cycle planning tool for territory management: Electronically creating a schedule plan of events which replicates one or more previously scheduled events. A source date range is acquired into a memory of a machine. A set of previously scheduled events within the source date range is identified. A target date range is received through a user interface.... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080103865 - Means and method for providing real time services and information: A system and method for real time services and information to clients. The system provides means for a consumer to enter into a service agreement with a service provider from any location in the world; the services can be requested at any time from any location, and have the service... Agent: Duncan G. Byers PC

20080103868 - Methods for planning workforce resources: Embodiments include methods, apparatus, and systems for planning workforce resources. One method includes defining workforce supply and uncertain workforce demand for plural different service projects using a set of skills that are preferred to complete the plural different service projects; and calculating costs to hire new employees having the set... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080103869 - System and method for obtaining technical support services over a network: A system and method for obtaining technical support services over a network. A registered seeker of technical support services submits a search request to a task matching server. The search request comprises search criteria for identifying one or more registered providers of technical support services. The task matching server searches... Agent: Roberts, Mardula & Wertheim, LLC

20080103867 - Systems, methods and computer program products for user-selected calendar and task alerts: A method for electronic information transfer by a sender. The method includes composing an electronic message, typically a calendar and/or task event, on a sender terminal. At least one announcement file is associated with an attribute of the electronic message, the announcement file configured for playing at a recipient terminal... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20080103866 - Workflow control using an aggregate utility function: Provided are, inter alia, systems, methods and techniques for controlling workflow by identifying an individual job that is part of an overall deliverables package that covers multiple jobs. An aggregate utility function is obtained, specifying utility based on an aggregate metric across the overall deliverables package, and a current operating... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080103872 - Managing sales and/or competition within an industry: The present invention provides systems and methods for improving overall profitability, and/or longevity of one or more businesses within an industry, by analyzing their position(s) within one or more market segment. In doing so, it is contemplated that the systems or methods may include managing sales (e.g. competition and/or volume,... Agent: Dobrusin & Thennisch PC

20080103874 - Method for forecasting a future inventory demand: A method for forecasting a future inventory demand includes receiving historical demand data associated with a part number and statistically analyzing the historical demand data associated with one or more part numbers to identify each part number as one of a seasonal part number, a quasi-seasonal part number, a high... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080103873 - Method of stimulating business development of neighborhood communities: The present invention provides a method of stimulating business development of neighborhood communities, accomplished by identifying a common aspect of target neighborhood communities, developing a brand related to the identified common aspect of the target communities, providing means for connecting these target communities using the developed brand; and utilizing the... Agent: Anna Vishev, Esq. Wolff & Samson PC

20080103875 - Methods and systems for an interactive data finder: The systems and methods disclosed herein include an interactive data finder that allows an advertisement purchaser to associate media programs with demographics and subscriber information. The data finder comprise a search module for processing input data to determine data representative of media buying opportunities as a function of search options,... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080103876 - Sales funnel management method and system: A method for evaluating opportunities in a sales funnel management system is disclosed. The method includes selecting one or more filters from one or more respective filter categories. The method further includes using the selected one or more filters to filter data provided to a data file, and providing actual... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080103880 - Computer-implemented method and system for collecting votes in a decision model: A computer-implemented method provides for collecting votes on importances in an existing analytic network process (ANP) model, the ANP model having items which are influence linked. The votes to be collected are determined, wherein the votes are with respect to items in the ANP model, the items being influence linked,... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080103907 - Apparatus and computer code for providing social-network dependent information retrieval services: Methods, apparatus and computer code for providing information retrieval services (e.g. handling search queries and providing electronic advertising) in accordance with a given user's social network are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, an information retrieval operation is handled according to the click stream and/or taste profile and/or user profile of... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20080103890 - Apparatus and method for consumer product promotion using payment device: A consumer product promotional assembly includes a consumer product, and a prize associated with the consumer product, the prize being spendable in a payment card infrastructure. The prize may employ, for example, radio frequency (RF) contactless technology or a bar coded or printed account number. In some embodiments, the prize... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080103903 - Arbitrage broker for online advertising exchange: For a multi-party online advertising exchange including advertising and publishing entities and one or more third party participants, the disclosed systems and methods enable third party participation in arbitrage opportunities in online advertising transactions. A plurality of underlying transaction details are abstracted and provided to the third party participants without... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080103886 - Determining relevance of a term to content using a combined model: A method and system for generating and using a combined model to identify whether a bid term is relevant to an advertisement is provided. A relevance system trains a combined model that includes an initial model and a decision tree model that are trained using features that represent relationships between... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080103889 - Dynamic multi-brand presentation: Products and/or services can be marketed in ways that allow configuration or selection of components, features or other attributes for which corresponding branding identities may be associated. In relation to such products, it has been discovered that consumers respond favorably to visually interconnected presentation of brands in which attributes of... Agent: Zagorin O'brien Graham LLP

20080103908 - E-commerce epicenter business system: A marketing system comprising a personal design center designed to enable depiction of customer selected choices of modified parts of actual photos of design options overlaid on existing reality images with color display and with selectable groupings of the customer selected choice options. The selected choices of design options comprise... Agent: Israel Nissenbaum

20080103884 - Inserting advertisements into a slide show: Systems and methods are disclosed for automatically adding advertisements into a slide show data feed. The disclosure includes receiving a request for a slide show data feed and generating a modified slide show data feed from the original data feed. One or more advertisements are selected and inserted as slides... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080103899 - Inserting advertisements into a ticker: Systems and methods are disclosed for automatically adding advertisements into a ticker. The disclosure includes receiving a request for a ticker data feed and generating a modified ticker data feed from the original data feed. One or more advertisements are selected and inserted as data items into the modified ticker... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080103882 - Method for cost-sensitive autonomous information retrieval and extraction: A technique is provided for acquiring desired information from one or more information sources. The technique includes assessing the one or more information sources for the desired information, searching for the desired information within the one or more information sources based on the assessment, and automatically acquiring the desired information... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20080103910 - Method for motivating behavioral changes through rewards: A method of motivating a person, through reward benefits, to participate in activities leading to a selected behavior wherein a benefactor establishes and defines a system of required behaviors for a beneficiary. The required behaviors earn the reward benefits, prior to a deadline for compliance. A program manager monitors the... Agent: Patent Law & Venture Group

20080103897 - Normalizing and tracking user attributes for transactions in an advertising exchange: For a multi-party advertising exchange including advertising and publishing entities, each publishing entity can expose user attribute space(s) for its publishing inventory to the exchange, which are normalized to a common vocabulary within the exchange. Similarly, each advertising entity can specify one or more preferences for user attributes as requirements... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080103906 - Online publishing of multimedia content: The method and system disclosed herein publishes user created multimedia content including voice, video, text, pictures, and a combination thereof on one or more publication virtual spaces, simultaneously. A client application, provided on a mobile device, creates and transfers the multimedia content to a publishing service. A protocol is provided... Agent: Ashok Tankha Of Counsel, Lipton, Weinberger & Husick

20080103902 - Orchestration and/or exploration of different advertising channels in a federated advertising network: For a multi-party advertising exchange including advertising entities and publishing entities from different advertising networks, automatic apportioning of advertising transactions across inventory from different advertising channels is provided. Optimal combinations or advertising bundles of different channels are generated for the participant based on an analysis of inventory across different advertising... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080103883 - Providing feedback to an offer for advertising space: The disclosure includes a system and method for providing feedback to an offer for advertising space. In some implementations, a method includes receiving an offer for advertising space associated with a print media. The print media is associated with a publisher. A likelihood that the offer will be accepted by... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080103901 - Resource initiated by a computer system causing printed substrate click facilitator to collect ad click-through fee: A method of causing a proportion of a click-through fee to be credited to a facilitator of a user interaction with a printed substrate, said substrate comprising user information and coded data enabling said user interaction via a sensing device, said sensing device reading at least some of the coded... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080103885 - Resource management: Also, identifying a budget, identifying a group of proposals, each proposal having a cost and an associated target party; routing a proposal in the group to the proposal's associated target party; in response to an acceptance of the proposal, reducing the budget by an amount equal to the cost of... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080103887 - Selecting advertisements based on consumer transactions: Systems, methods, and computer program products, are provided for selecting advertisements based on transactions. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method is provided that includes receiving information descriptive of a transaction, the information including an identification of an item from the transaction and identifying from a collection of advertisements one or... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080103895 - Self-serve percent rotation of future site channels for online advertising: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates establishing a true market value for an online advertisement. An interface component can receive data related to at least one of a spot market or a future market. A dynamic pricing component can dynamically establish an ad price... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080103900 - Sharing value back to distributed information providers in an advertising exchange: For a multi-party advertising exchange including advertising and publishing entities, automatic value sharing is provided for distributed users of the advertising exchange that provide valuable information to the exchange. Users provide information that has quantifiable value to the advertising exchange and/or its participants. In exchange for the information, predicated on... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080103898 - Specifying and normalizing utility functions of participants in an advertising exchange: For a multi-party advertising exchange including advertising and publishing entities, each participant can specify one or more utility functions that are invertible with respect to a common measure, such as revenue. In one non-limiting embodiment, each utility function is invertible with respect to expected revenue per standard advertising unit, e.g.,... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080103896 - Specifying, normalizing and tracking display properties for transactions in an advertising exchange: For a multi-party advertising exchange including advertising and publishing entities, each participant can specify one or more display properties as requirements or definitions for advertising transactions in the exchange. The disparate display properties of multiple participants are normalized within the advertising exchange to a common vocabulary by translating the display... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080103894 - System and method for awarding and redeeming merit points for participation, competition, and performance in sports and in the arts and sciences: A method and process for providing a merit-based incentive points system for amateur sports and competitive and non-competitive events wherein merit points are purchased from points administrator and distributed by event organizers and sponsors as participation and performance awards to contestants and participants. Such merit points functioning as points currency... Agent: Gladstone Liang

20080103893 - System and method for generating forecasted bids for advertisement keywords: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for generating a forecasted bid amount for a keyword in order to display one or more advertisements in response to a search request that includes the keyword at a given position within a ranked list of advertisements. The method may comprise... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Dreier LLP

20080103892 - System and method for generating optimized bids for advertisement keywords: The present invention is directed towards systems and method for generating a bid amount for one or more keywords for a display of an advertisement associated with a given keyword. The method comprises calculating estimates of one or more advertising metrics for one or more keywords associated with one or... Agent: Seth H. Ostrow Dreier LLP

20080103891 - System and method for managing advertisements: In one aspect, the present invention provides a computerized system and method for placing ads that is, among other things, less paper-intensive and less error prone than conventional advertising systems and methods.... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20080103888 - System and method for tracking purchases related to digital advertisements: A system and method for tracking purchases relating to digital ads is disclosed. Generally, an ad provider receives an ad request and determines whether a user requesting the ad is a registered user. In response to determining the user is a registered user, the ad provider determines whether any membership-based... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080103911 - Apparatus and method of data dependent routing for data storage: An approach is provided for data dependent routing. Sales data including a transaction key is received. One of a plurality of order databases is selected based on the transaction key. The sales data is forwarded to the one order database for storage.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080103915 - Apparatus, system and method for providing a signal to request goods and/or services: An apparatus, a system and a method for displaying a visual signal that requests a good and/or service are provided. The system and the method have a communication device having a screen to display a signal that requests the good and/or the service. The signal may be, for example, a... Agent: Patents+tms, P.C.

20080103916 - Apparatuses, methods, and systems for capital management product enrollment: An apparatus, method, and system for facilitating the enrollment of a party into a capital management product is disclosed. This system provides a centralized control structure for managing the enrollment of a party into a capital management product, such as a lockbox, and may communicate with multiple parties associated with... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080103923 - Centralized payment gateway system and method: As a company acquires commerce platforms the maintenance of integrations with payment service providers becomes an issue. The best thing is to keep the amount of developers needed to a minimum and reduce transaction costs to a minimum; therefore a centralized code base is best for a company. A gateway... Agent: North Oaks Patent Agency

20080103914 - Intelligent inventory applications and services: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for intelligent inventory applications and services. A purchase request to purchase a product is received that has a product number to be purchased, an account number to process for payment, and a purchaser's inventory information that identifies the purchaser's inventory database to update with... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, PLLC

20080103918 - Method and system for making a re-order of pre-designated items by establishing a session and by sending a single short message using short message service via a cellular communications network: A method and process for providing a single text message to re-order pre-designated items of goods or services using a cellular phone over a cellular communications network, and a method and process for receiving a single text message to accept a re-order, process the re-order, initiate shipment, or delivery and... Agent: Stephen C. Glazier Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates & Ellis LLP

20080103917 - Service order system and service carrier: m

20080103913 - System and method for guided sales: A guided sales system provides a sales person and/or a customer with guidance through a sales process including detailed information about products and technologies. The guided sales system allows a user to enter information about the customer and the customer's needs, to identify products matching the customer's needs and to... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080103936 - Automated decision assistant: Embodiments of the invention provide methods and systems for or providing automated assistance in making a decision such as selecting a product when shopping. According to one embodiment, a method of providing automated decision assistance can comprise presenting a user interface for selecting between a plurality of products identified in... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080103934 - Method and system for illustrating where a ticket is located in an event venue: A system and method of illustrating where at least one ticket is located in an event venue, comprising: accepting event criteria for at least one ticket and at least one event; accepting price criteria for the at least one ticket and the at least one event; displaying an interactive graphics-based... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC

20080103935 - System and method of global electronic trade in the internet: A system and method of global and local electronic trade in the Internet is provided. The method of global and local electronic trade for sellers and buyers via the Internet includes registering the sellers and the buyers; providing information regarding goods or services to the registered sellers and buyers; selecting... Agent: Dr. Pulnikova Valentina

20080103939 - Computerized-sensing system for a mini bar: Dispensing system with at least one dispenser 1 for articles that are available to be dispensed, preferably in form of a mini bar, an administering system for billing articles and/or administering the stock of the articles to be dispensed, or at least an interface 6 to such an administering system,... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080103940 - Digital media envelope sleeve with identification markings: An improved digital media enclosure having two primary components, a sleeve into which the digital media is placed, and an envelope into which the sleeve is placed. At least one surface of the sleeve is printed with a plurality of identification markings on at least one of the sleeve's outer... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20080103944 - Intelligent pallet: A intelligent pallet having and active RFID tag embedded therein is provided. The pallet is used within a leasing system and/or an inventory management system.... Agent: Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren P.C.

20080103943 - Method of selling a vehicle: A method of selling a vehicle to a purchaser includes the steps of providing a vehicle sales network including a primary dealer and at least one secondary dealer, the secondary dealer maintaining a vehicle inventory, the primary dealer offering a vehicle from the vehicle inventory for sale to a purchaser,... Agent: King & Schickli, PLLC

20080103941 - Methods, systems, and products for managing inventory: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for managing inventory. A layout of a building is accessed that includes the number of rooms in the building and a description of each of each of the rooms. Article information is received that describes an article to be inventoried. The article information is... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, PLLC

20080103945 - System and method for connecting entertainment media servers to local video shop inventories: A video shop access system allows consumers to receive information on title inventories available at local video shops in the consumers' geographical area through their home or wireless media servers. A video shop data center receives title information on inventory available at the local video shops and stores the title... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080103947 - Import/export tax to deal with ad trade deficits: For a multi-party advertising exchange including advertising and publishing entities, each participant specifies tax rate(s), such as import tax and export tax, that apply to at least one other entity in the exchange. Since tax rate(s) can be expressed in different transactional terms by different parties, each tax rate is... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080103948 - Method of doing business by distributing high energy gas fracturing devices: A method of doing business by making a wireline service company's use of high energy gas fracturing devices available to well owners. The method starts with owning high energy gas fracturing packets made of a shell at least partially filled with propellant and shipping at least 10 of the packets... Agent: Olympic Patent Works PLLC

20080103949 - System and method for reconciling one or more financial transactions: A system, method and computer program product for reconciling one or more financial transactions of one or more business units. The method includes capturing transaction data from the financial transactions using a first set of data logics. The capturing further includes extracting the transaction data from the financial transactions using... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20080103989 - System and method for configurably displaying market information for an asset: Systems and methods are furnished to efficiently display market information about an asset. The information displayed about an asset commercialized in a market includes a window, including a market information display area, an offer button, a graphic button, a details button in the window and a configuration button in the... Agent: Collard & Roe, P.C.

20080103988 - Systems and methods for tracking investment metrics: An interactive user interface for displaying information about one or more publicly traded companies at one time. The interface may comprise a two-dimensional chart comprising an x-axis and a y-axis and means for specifying financial metrics for the x- and y-axes. The interface may also include fields where the user... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20080103955 - Accounting for trusted participants in an online advertising exchange: For a multi-party advertising exchange including advertising and publishing entities from disparate advertising networks, flexible advertising transaction accounting methods are provided for circumstances where a relatively small number of trusted participants agree to reduce onerous reporting requirements conducted at a per transaction level. Trusted participants optionally report aggregate data for... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080103958 - Construction bidding system and method: A construction bidding system and method includes manager, general contractor and subcontractor workstations that communicate with a server hosting a website over a network such as the Internet. The server also communicates with a number of databases. A manager enters project information into a project database and selects general contractors... Agent: Patent Group C/o Dla Piper US LLP

20080103952 - Specifying and normalizing utility functions of participants in an advertising exchange: For a multi-party advertising exchange including advertising and publishing entities, each participant can specify one or more utility functions that are invertible with respect to a common measure, such as revenue. In one non-limiting embodiment, each utility function is invertible with respect to expected revenue per standard advertising unit, e.g.,... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080103953 - Tool for optimizing advertising across disparate advertising networks: An optimization tool is provided for individual participants who participate in multiple online advertising environments wherein the tool interfaces with the multiple environments in an optimal manner on behalf of the individual participants. A participant using the tool can specify goals and/or constraints for participating in one or more of... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080103959 - Location based credit: A method and system for offering credit to a prospective borrower are provided. A lender first determines a prospective borrower location, which may be a commercial outlet, such as a retail store where goods or services are offered. The lender then references a purchase history associated with the borrower at... Agent: Philip H. Burrus, Iv

20080103961 - Private institutional credit derivative: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a credit derivative to protect against the credit risk associated with a private debt on an individual basis. A financial institution lending money to a private entity may desire a credit derivative product that allows the financial institution to protect against the risk... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd Attorneys For Client Number 007131

20080103962 - Ranking systems based on a risk: A method for ranking a plurality of systems based on their susceptibility to a selected risk that is determined from a plurality of risk indicators, is described herein. The method includes obtaining benchmark values for at least one benchmark system with a predetermined level of the predetermined risk; obtaining measured... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080103960 - System and method for a website that provides homeowners with a web based tool for debt consolidation options: A system and method for a website, in the field of mortgage originating, which is a web based tool homeowners can access, free of charge, and enter their personal debt information and real property information. The website then calculates the data and provides the homeowner with a plurality of personalized... Agent: Mortgage Innovations, Inc. Dba Lionsaves.com

20080103970 - Debit card system loan provisions: Debit card systems having loan provisions, and methods of use. Such systems couple a debit card to a financial account having access to the national eft system. The debit card system satisfies the requirements of TISA Regulation DD. Debit card accounts of the invention enable the card holder to access... Agent: Wilhelm Law Service, S.c.

20080103965 - Just in time transactions: A system and method of terminating a transaction between a merchant and customer are disclosed.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20080103968 - Redemption of credit card rewards at a point of sale: Systems and methods are described for redeeming rewards at a merchant's point-of-sale. The reward redemption takes place in real time and can be accomplished without the active participation of the merchant. A single credit card with no additional information may be used with a single swipe from the consumer to... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080103967 - Refund request tool: A business may uniformly calculate and offer a fee refund to customers requesting refunds for fees charged to the customers' accounts. Rather than relying on individual employee discretion, a server may use account information and customer information to generate the fee refund amount to be offered to the customer. The... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd Attorneys For Client Number 007131

20080103966 - System and/or method for dynamic determination of transaction processing fees: Disclosed are a system and method of determining a fee for processing a non-cash transaction between a merchant and customer.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20080103969 - Value add broker for federated advertising exchange: For a multi-party advertising exchange, including publishing entities and advertising entities from disparate advertising networks, which facilitates transactions for publishing inventory, a value add broker is provided to aggregate information from third parties having valuable information for input to the exchange or to perform services that are valuable to transactions... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080103971 - Method and system for tracking conversions in a system for targeted data delivery: A system and method for tracking conversions. Specifically, the method includes collecting user information about a user and generating a user profile based on the user information. The user profile is stored such that the user profile is used to achieve delivery of data that is targeted to the user... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080103972 - Secure authentication and payment system: The present invention provides a service for allowing secure financial transactions to be carried out, the service involving authenticating a user's identity and/or status as part of a financial transaction with another party and in the event that the user is authenticated arranging for the transaction to be completed without... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080103973 - Electronic surveillance method and system: The present invention relates to an electronic surveillance method and system in a wideband wireless access system. If a law enforcement agency system requests electronic surveillance relative to a specified object, an electronic surveillance system first performs an authentication process using a codebook to authorize the electronic surveillance request. As... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080103974 - Movie key: Disclosed are a system and a method which enable utilizing rewritable portable memory devices, such as flash memory keys, for digital media content rentals, such as movies and audio files, while ensuring the security of the media content stored on the device. Users rent media content from dedicated digital media... Agent: Fleit Kain Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco

20080103977 - Digital rights management for distributed devices: DRM protected content is shared in a peer-to-peer device context. In various embodiments, systems are enabled for peer-to-peer digital rights management (DRM) content roaming via revocation and synchronization. Local license revocation and remote license creation can facilitate P2P DRM content roam using license share counts. Derivative share count licenses, or... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080103976 - Digital rights management license renewal: A method of playing back content based on digital rights management (DRM) between a portable storage and a device and a portable storage for the same are provided. The method of playing back content using a portable storage includes requesting the portable storage to transmit a right to play back... Agent: Mayer & Williams PC

20080103979 - Method of franking with early signature generation: A method of generating a digital signature at a postage meter, in which method a postal imprint is printed on a mail item once said mail item has been weighed and once its postage amount has been determined, said postal imprint being associated with a digital signature generated by means... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080103980 - Pay at pump encryption device: Embodiments of the present invention are drawn to systems and methods for securing information using cryptographically keyed units. Specifically, in one embodiment of the present invention, a system is provided for securing information that uses two cryptographically keyed units to encrypt information flowing between a fuel pump device and a... Agent: Needle & Rosenberg, P.C.

20080103982 - Terminal data encryption: A method is disclosed. The method includes generating an initial key after interacting with an access device, storing the initial key at a key storage location, altering the initial key with a public key to form an altered key, and sending the altered key to a server computer along with... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20080103983 - Method and apparatus for selling used contents: Disclosed herein is a method of reselling content in a used content server connected to a Digital Right Management (DRM) server for managing authentication information of the content of at least one computing device. The method includes the steps of receiving information of requesting the resale of the content from... Agent: Intellectual Property Law Group LLP

20080103984 - System, method, and computer-readable medium for mobile payment authentication and authorization: A system, method, and computer-readable medium for user authentication and mobile payment authorization are provided. A user operating a mobile terminal may submit a product for purchase at a point-of-sale and submit the user's phone number and personal identification number thereto. An authentication and authorization process is then performed to... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080103986 - Method and system for conducting barter transactions: Method and system for bartering between trade parties each having one or more items available for barter, via a communications network. Items available for trade are listed and the parties can browse and search the lists to locate items they want to acquire and items they have available to trade.... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080103987 - Method and system for managing multi-party barter transaction: Method and system for bartering between trade parties each having one or more items available for barter, via a communications network. Items available for trade are listed and the parties can browse and search the lists to locate items they want to acquire and items they have available to trade,... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080103803 - Contingent event rights relating to an event participant: The present invention relates to an integrated rights marketplace offering a contingent right to purchase an event ticket in a rights marketplace, wherein the contingency is based at least in part upon a performance criterion of a participant in the event.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080103802 - Contingent rights exchange relating to music production: The present invention relates to an integrated rights marketplace providing a ticket purchase right to a contingent event, wherein the occurrence of the contingent event secures a right to purchase at least one event ticket (e.g., a concert ticket). In embodiments of the present invention, the integrated rights marketplace may... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080103801 - Contingent travel rights exchange: The present invention relates to an integrated rights marketplace providing an option to acquire access rights for air travel, wherein the option is dependent at least in part upon an outcome of a contingency event. The integrated rights marketplace may enable a purchase of the access rights upon the outcome,... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080103808 - Management of contract data: A system for contract processing. Sent by a procurement contract management system (PCMS) to decentralized execution systems is a list of I identifiers identifying a contract dataset in the PCMS earmarked for archiving. The PCMS receives from each DES a return list of M of the I identifiers approved by... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080103807 - Method and a system for rating party's electronic activities: There is provided a method for rating party's electronic activities, the method comprising defining measurable parameters related to said party's electronic activities to be rated; collecting data corresponding to said defined measurable parameters; and generating an objective rating of said party's electronic activities using said collected data. There is also... Agent: Brouillette & Partners

20080103812 - Methods and apparatus for recognizing compact discs and issuing corresponding credits: For possible use in an electronic content distribution system, automatic recognition of compact discs or other storage media containing particular content, and corresponding account crediting is described. In an electronic content distribution system, such as those providing music available by digital downloading or streaming technologies, a user may ordinarily pay... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080103811 - Postal security system: The present invention is a postal security system for preventing identity theft, market profiling, and similar other activities. The present invention solves these problems by limiting access to the physical postal address of a user by assigning these physical postal addresses a virtual address, or also referred to as a... Agent: Ty Ung

20080103805 - Systems and methods for matching, selecting, narrowcasting, and/or classifying based on rights management and/or other information: Rights management information is used at least in part in a matching, narrowcasting, classifying and/or selecting process. A matching and classification utility system comprising a kind of Commerce Utility System is used to perform the matching, narrowcasting, classifying and/or selecting. The matching and classification utility system may match, narrowcast, classify... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080103827 - Drug delivery management system: The present invention relates to assisting patients in the taking of medication, and to assisting third parties in accumulating information regarding patient medication intake. The invention may be embodied a system including a portable medication monitor used in association with an instrumented medication package to provide intake data acquisition and... Agent: Gibbons P.C.

20080103824 - Medication dose calculator and associated methods: A medication dose calculator and method for comparing an inputted, ordered medication dosage with a known medication dosage range in a database including an input device for inputting a desired drug name, indicating whether the drug is for a child or an adult, an amount of the drugs that are... Agent: Husch & Eppenberger, LLC

20080103825 - Method and system for providing indexing and cataloguing of orthodontic related treatment profiles and options: Method and system for providing an orthodontic profile indexing and treatment plan including comparing an initial patient condition in each of a plurality of dentition categories with one or more reference conditions in each of the plurality of dentition categories, wherein each of the one or more reference conditions has... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20080103817 - Portable memory devices and system and method for using same in pharmaceutical transactions: The present invention provides systems and methods for administering discount and sample redemption programs for prescription and/or non-prescription drugs and other products sold in a pharmacy, and for providing patient education information, through optical discs or other portable memory devices, whether optical or not.... Agent: Serious Usa, Inc. C/o Torys LLP

20080103819 - System for communication of health care data: An apparatus for communicating health care data from a sender to a receiver is provided. The apparatus has a first computer system, a second computer system, and a rules engine. The first computer system has health care data stored therein. The second computer system is in operable communication with, and... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20080103820 - System for communication of health care data: An apparatus for communicating health care data from a sender to a receiver is provided. The apparatus has a first computer system, a second computer system, and a rules engine. The first computer system has health care data stored therein. The second computer system is in operable communication with, and... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20080103831 - Disease management information system: A system automatically, provides a clinician with cancer specific staging criteria in response to a user selected cancer diagnosis name, calculates a stage of the disease in response to selection of particular staging criteria and associates treatments and clinical documentation with the cancer diagnosis and stage. A disease management information... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080103833 - Integrated system for generation and retention of medical records: A system for populating patient records by use of evidence-based relational database, which compares the medical practitioners diagnoses to predetermined responses, to produce accurate patient chart notes and the integration of stored and generated data into clinical and administrative medical record keeping and billing. Episodic encounters are developed into cases... Agent: Lee G. Meyer, Esq. Meyer & Associates, LLC

20080103832 - System for communication of health care data: An apparatus for communicating health care data from a sender to a receiver is provided. The apparatus has a first computer system, a second computer system, and a rules engine. The first computer system has health care data stored therein. The second computer system is in operable communication with, and... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20080103840 - Financial arrangement to support implementation of a retirement medical program or to protect a users future medical needs: A method for providing a financial product that permits monies dedicated to a medical sub-account within a Dual-Purpose Profit Sharing plan (DPPSP) to maintain compliance with relevant IRS Tax Code provisions. The method comprising the steps of: establishing a document (MEDVAN) with provisions that maintain compliance with relevant IRS Tax... Agent: Tim Luedtke

20080103841 - Index and risk-linked reinsurance product: Disclosed is a novel insurance product that provides additional reinsurance coverage to mitigate risks associated with catastrophic events which adversely affect property and casualty insurance rates. The reinsurance product contains one or more tiers of protection which allows a purchaser to vary the coverage related to one or more catastrophic... Agent: Ward & Olivo

20080103838 - Insurance estimating system: A method and system for reviewing and managing insurance estimates and images. The system includes electronic storage system that can track changes to the insurance estimates, a review station that allows a reviewer to review the estimates and potentially make changes to the estimates. Optionally the system and method also... Agent: Irell & Manella LLP

20080103839 - Methods and systems for providing an insurance policy with an inflation protection option: This invention provides methods and systems for providing an insurance policy having an inflation protection option that is computed at least partially based on information useful in offering a long term care insurance policy to an individual and at least partially based on the option for the individual to purchase... Agent: Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner LLP

20080103859 - Project risk management system utilizing probability distributions: When the process plan made for execution is corrected based on the process correction condition, the variation amount in each of processes based on the process correction condition is calculated as the probability distribution using the probability distribution data generated by obtaining the probability distribution from the variation-amount prediction value... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080103855 - System and method for detecting anomalies in market data: A system and method for identifying data exceptions is disclosed. In some embodiments, data is monitored over a time period, a statistic is generated relating to the data, and it is determined whether the statistic exceeds a threshold In some embodiments, monitoring comprises monitoring the cost of a product or... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080103857 - System and method for enterprise risk management: A system and method for assessing, controlling, and reporting risk in an enterprise related to governance, risk management, and compliance activities.... Agent: Patentry

20080103853 - Time factor feature generation system, time factor feature generation method and time factor feature generation program: A time factor feature generation system includes: a use status grasping portion that extracts transition data showing variations in degree of use of a site from log data; a variation data generating portion that generates, based on the transition data, variation data expressing the variations in degree of use of... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080103878 - Determined rights and forward obligations for future items: The present invention relates to predicting, measuring, and/or guaranteeing demand for a contingent or hypothetical future item and, based upon that demand, determining whether or not to actually produce the future item. In particular, the present invention measures such demand via contingent event certificates and associated marketplaces.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080103877 - Methods and apparatus for soliciting, tracking, aggregating, reporting opinions and/or poll results: Methods and apparatus for soliciting, tracking, aggregating and reporting popular and group-specific opinion via the Internet are described. In various embodiments, editors and Internet users utilize a poll module creation tool to create individual graphical polling modules for public or private distribution. Individual polling modules can be then be posted... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20080103879 - User-specified online advertising: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for sponsoring content. Input from a user specifying one or more content items for inclusion in a property is received. Determinations are made as to whether the user satisfies one or more user criteria and whether the specified content items satisfy one... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080103881 - Advanced voting system and method: An advanced voting system is provided that includes one or more computing devices. The computing devices receive input of authentication data and utilize the authentication data to determine whether a voting session by a voter is authorized and to unlock ballot information specific to the voter or a group of... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080103904 - Fine-grained criteria targeting: A system and method for efficiently querying a network of logical digital advertising units by creating a list of named criteria meaningful for the particular network and then associate relevant criteria with each unit. A simplified query system is disclosed having two selection lists, one for choosing criteria of interest... Agent: Technology Law Group, LLC

20080103905 - Incentive imaging methods and devices: A method of providing incentives to customers which involves providing customers with cards having changeable display areas. During a transaction, the cards are received from the customers and an incentive image is displayed on the display areas of the cards when they are returned to the customers. The incentive images... Agent: Butzel Long

20080103909 - Promoting customer loyalty: A method and system for promoting customer loyalty with respect to any transactional activity is disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, the method includes an accumulation phase and a disbursement phase. In the accumulation phase, a recency, a frequency, and an intensity of the customer's purchases is monitored and a loyalty... Agent: Crompton, Seager & Tufte, LLC

20080103912 - Method of providing transaction data, terminal, transaction method, method of enhancing bank statements, server, signals and computer program products corresponding thereto: A method is provided for supplying data representative of transactions between a client and at least one merchant, via a banking institution. The banking institution issues a statement to the client which, for each transaction, includes a statement line containing at least one reference for said transaction and/or the merchant,... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20080103921 - Contingency-based options and futures for contingent travel accommodations: Disclosed herein is a system for allowing a remote user to purchase, over a distributed computer network (e.g., the Internet), an option for a ticket and/or accommodations for a ‘contingent event”, e.g., an event which is certain to occur but for which the participants, content and/or location(s) are not predetermined.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080103922 - Contingency-based options and futures for contingent travel accommodations: Disclosed herein is a system for allowing a remote user to purchase, over a distributed computer network (e.g., the Internet), an option for a ticket and/or accommodations for a ‘contingent event”, e.g., an event which is certain to occur but for which the participants, content and/or location(s) are not predetermined.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080103924 - Contingency-based options and futures for contingent travel accommodations: Disclosed herein is a system for allowing a remote user to purchase, over a distributed computer network (e.g., the Internet), an option for a ticket and/or accommodations for a ‘contingent event”, e.g., an event which is certain to occur but for which the participants, content and/or location(s) are not p