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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

20090276264 - Targeted product distribution system and method: A targeted product distribution system is described herein with respect to an exemplary management of product flow through a distribution center. Specifically, the system and method described herein is directed to the management and display of direct and easily-understood instructions, such that average individuals, as well as those with mental... Agent: Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

20090276337 - Targeted product distribution system and method: A targeted product distribution system is described herein with respect to an exemplary management of product flow through a distribution center. Specifically, the system and method described herein is directed to the management and display of direct and easily-understood instructions, such that average individuals, as well as those with mental... Agent: Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

20090271208 - Automatic data transmission in response to content of electronic forms satisfying criteria: Automatic transmission of information is generated when the content of a posted electronic form matches a predefined criteria. An interface allows the user to create a criterion template to specify the match criterion without requiring the user to have the skills of a professional programmer. The person to be notified... Agent: Michael O. Scheinberg

20090271211 - Device including user exclusive data tag: A consumer device is disclosed. The device comprises a body, and a memory comprising a computer readable medium disposed on or within the body. The computer readable medium comprises user exclusive data tag, which can be placed in a user exclusive data tag.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20090271210 - Employee benefits management system: A Web-based, computer-driven health and welfare benefit system that groups employees into Eligibility Groups, limits available Business Rules to those available on a centrally authored pick list, allows disparate data files to be imported and offers flexible tools for employees to build customized internet interfaces for benefit management. End users,... Agent: John F. Letchford

20090271207 - Facility access management system: An enhanced delivery system (300) for field service providers is disclosed. In its simplest form, the delivery system (300), can comprise the steps of: granting (305) permission to a service provider to provide a designated service at an assigned location; traveling (310) to the assigned location to provide a service;... Agent: Gary J. Cunningham

20090271212 - Method, system, and storage device for user matching and communication facilitation: A method, system, and storage device for user matching and communication facilitation capable of receiving responses to at least one profile from at least one user. The profile having at least two sections. The first section having answers about the user and the second section having answers about what the... Agent: HulseyIPIntellectual Property Lawyers, P.C.

20090271205 - Preferred customer service representative presentation to virtual universe clients: The present invention is directed to presenting customer service representatives to a virtual universe client. A method for presenting a customer service representative (CSR) to a virtual universe client includes obtaining a preference(s) of the virtual universe client, and then presenting a virtual universe customer service representative (CSR) to the... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090271209 - System and method for tailoring privacy in online social networks: In accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a method is provided that includes maintaining a plurality of identification bits associated with a user and a minimum personal privacy level identifying if any of the plurality of identification bits are authorized for disclosure, and receiving a request for... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Ws Attn: Patent Docketing

20090271206 - Virtual world subgroup determination and segmentation for performance scalability: A system and method of decreasing server loads and, more particularly, to decrease server load by automatically determining subgroups based on object interactions and computational expenditures. The system includes a plurality of servers; a subgroup optimization module configured to segment a plurality of objects into optimal subgroups; and a server... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090271213 - Combination treatment selection methods and systems: Methods, computer program products, and systems are described that include accepting at least one attribute of at least one individual, querying at least one database at least partly based on the at least one attribute, selecting from the at least one database at least one prescription medication and at least... Agent: Iv - Suiter Swantz PC Llo

20090271216 - Diagnostic image security system: A method for restricting unauthorised access to a patient's diagnostic images. Patient identification data is stored in a first database and diagnostic images associated with the patient are stored in a remote second database. The patient is issued with an access code which is provided to a user who is... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090271215 - Methods and systems for detecting a bioactive agent effect: Methods, computer program products, and systems are described that include accepting at least one indication of bioactive agent use by an individual and/or presenting an indication of an artificial sensory experience programmed to detect at least one effect of the bioactive agent at least partly based on the at least... Agent: Iv - Suiter Swantz PC Llo

20090271214 - Rules engine framework: An apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises a computer system and an integrated development environment application. When executed on the computer system, the integrated development environment application promotes defining a plurality of rules based on a plurality of generic templates and automatically incorporating input value validation based on a type... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20090271220 - Electronic patient registration verification and payment system and method: A patient registration record and payment system creates, maintains and transfers all relevant data electronically. The system captures patient registration and payment data, such as personal, demographic and insurance coverage information, medical history, frequently accessed healthcare providers, and data specifying one or more funding sources to pay for the amount... Agent: Bodner & O'rourke, LLP

20090271221 - Method and apparatus for providing medical records registration: A method and network for managing and transferring medical information are disclosed. A network, in one embodiment, includes a portable medical device and a medical records registration (“MRR”) system for handling and transferring medical information. The portable medical device includes patient or client verification information and it is capable of... Agent: James M. Wu Jw Law Group

20090271219 - Methods and systems for presenting a combination treatment: Methods, computer program products, and systems are described that include accepting an indication of an individual's compliance with an artificial sensory experience and presenting an indication of a bioactive agent at least partly based on the indication of the individual's compliance with the artificial sensory experience.... Agent: Iv - Suiter Swantz PC Llo

20090271218 - Patient-directed healthcare quality improvement system: Particular embodiments provide a quality adherence guide. In one embodiment, a plurality of medical records from a plurality of medical providers are received. A quality adherence guideline is used to determine if a standard of care is being adhered to by various medical providers. A quality adherence guideline is then... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20090271217 - Side effect ameliorating combination therapeutic products and systems: Combination therapeutics, computer program products, and systems are described that include at least one combined prescription psychiatric medication and at least one artificial sensory experience for ameliorating at least one side effect of the psychiatric medication.... Agent: Iv - Suiter Swantz PC Llo

20090271223 - Incentive compatible and resetting first mortgage loans and methods, systems, and products for providing same: A method for creating marginally priced reverse mortgage loans (MPRML) including the steps of identifying a borrower for a MPRML against a property owned by the borrower, determining an aggregate asset value of the property, determining a life expectancy, obtaining consent for a lender to own life insurance on the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090271224 - Methods, systems, and products for efficient annuitization: A method of creating a variable universal life anti-martingale immediate annuity (VULAMIA) including the steps of soliciting preferences from an annuitant for annuity income and timing of annuity income versus a risk of loss of an annuity purchase price from early death, determining an annuity cashflow start date and a... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090271222 - Monthly income reversionary annuity insurance policy: A life insurance product provided with one or more mediums and indicia recorded on the one or more mediums identifying an insured, an irrevocable beneficiary, a fixed term ending upon a predetermined age of the insured for the life insurance product, a payment schedule for premiums, a determined death benefit... Agent: Dunlap Codding, P.C.

20090271226 - Cache poller for providing travel planning information: Systems and techniques for travel planning are described. A travel planning system is queried with travel queries specifying parameters of trips. Answers to the queries are received from the travel planning system, and seat availability of flights in the itinerary information in the answers is predicted. Only those answers for... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090271225 - Systems, methods, and media for managing transfers of existing reservations: Generally speaking, systems, methods and media for managing transfers of existing reservations are disclosed. Embodiments may include enrolling business members with the reservation manager and receiving and storing indications of reservations to list for sale. Embodiments may also include receiving from a buying user a request to search reservation listings... Agent: Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20090271227 - Methods and systems for monetizing empty space inventory as empty adjacent space: Methods and systems for facilitating the sale, lease, rental, or other monetization of unsold space inventory (e.g., seats, berths, cabins, rooms, etc.) to customers or passengers as guaranteed, empty adjacent space, after the passenger has already purchased a reservation and check-in has commenced. The empty adjacent space (EAS) may be... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090271235 - Apparatus and method for generating survival curve used to calculate failure probability: A part fault table indicating the number of days used, a fault flag and a first weight is generated for each of plural parts. A survival curve and a hazard function for each of the plural parts are also generated. Then, convergence is determined by calculating a hazard value using... Agent: Ohlandt, Greeley Ruggiero & Perle, L.l.p

20090271228 - Construction of predictive user profiles for advertising: A system that facilitates targeted advertising is described in detail herein. The system includes a receiver component that receives user data that includes historical searching and browsing activity of a user. A profile generator component generates a user profile based at least in part upon a subset of the user... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090271236 - Dynamically routing salvage shipments and associated method: A system and method is disclosed for managing salvage shipments in a transportation network. The system includes a transportation planner coupled with one or more entities in the transportation network. The transportation planner determines an optimized transportation plan for delivery and pick-up of shipments throughout the transportation network.... Agent: I2 Technologies Us, Inc.

20090271232 - Event resolution: Apparatus, systems, and methods that operate to assist in resolving both expected and unexpected events that occur in the course of business operations are disclosed. Activities may include detecting the occurrence of an alert event, determining whether the alert event is an expected event or an unexpected event, presenting a... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/sap

20090271234 - Extraction and modeling of implemented business processes: A system and method in which an implemented business process to model is identified, and one or more markup language files are automatically generated specifying metadata and a structure of the business process.... Agent: Sap Ag C/o Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20090271230 - Method and system for solving stochastic linear programs with conditional value at risk constraints: An apparatus including a calculator to determine an optimal solution to a stochastic linear programming problem or a stochastic mixed-ineteger linear programming problem with conditional value at risk constraints (CVaRs). The optimal solution is determined by generating a sequence of solutions that converge to the optimal solution.... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090271229 - Method for generating a flexible model for joint profit and environmental optimization: A method for generating a flexible model for joint profit and environmental optimization. The flexible model comprises an input-to-output activity conversion table being applied on projects, processes, markets, and products of the organization. The conversion table includes a five-step pattern that captures a wide range of conversion behaviors. The flexible... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090271237 - Optimizing rail shipments for commodity transactions: Embodiments for optimization of at least one previously established rail shipment of a commodity are described herein. More specifically, one embodiment of a method includes receiving data related to a first previously established rail shipment the first previously established rail shipment established via a first supplier and exchanging at least... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090271231 - Solution utilizing commodity-oriented correction guidelines to correct defective electronic business transactions: The present invention can include a solution for correcting defective electronic business transactions using a commodity-oriented approach. In this method, a defective electronic business transaction can be received from an automated processing system. A correction value can be calculated for the defective transaction. The calculated correction value can be compared... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A. Ibm-rsw

20090271233 - Valuing future information under uncertainty: The invention relates to a method of performing an oilfield operation of an oilfield having at least one well having a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation for extracting fluid from an underground reservoir therein. The method steps include analyzing the oilfield operation to generate a decision tree comprising a first... Agent: Schlumberger Technology Corporation/osha Liang Mr. Bryan Galloway, ManagingIPCounsel

20090271241 - Computer-implemented systems and methods for pack optimization: Computer-implemented systems and methods are provided for optimizing the distribution of packs of an item across an entity's distribution network. Constraint values may be specified to limit the values that may be included in a planned distribution of packs. Also, heuristics may be used to reduce the computation time required... Agent: Patent Group 2n Jones Day

20090271240 - Method and system for strategic headcount planning with operational transition management of workforce: A method and system are disclosed for planning a workforce headcount for a given business process. The method comprises the steps of providing as inputs, i) productivity ramp-ups to model the level of experience and to measure the performance of both new hires and current employees, and ii) industry/market attrition... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090271238 - System and method of managing a workflow within and between a criminal case management side and a criminal intelligence management side in the justice and public safety domain: A method for managing a workflow within and between a criminal case management side and a criminal intelligence management side in a justice and public safety domain that includes tracking workbook sharing across organizations. Each workbook contains a unique reference number. The history files in each workbook displays where it... Agent: Michael D. Himley Eagle Intelligence LLC

20090271239 - Test requirement list for diagnostic tests: A diagnostic system for a vehicle, including a memory receiving and storing vehicle specific information, and storing diagnostic test requirements of a plurality of diagnostic sequences, and a processor identifying the test requirements for a selected diagnostic sequence according to the vehicle specific information in advance of executing the diagnostic... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20090271242 - Calendar-driven business intelligence: Techniques for aiding individuals in managing work activities. In one set of embodiments, information about work activities for an individual is received from a plurality of different business applications. The work activities relate to business transactions facilitated by the plurality of different business applications. Calendar entries are then generated for... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090271243 - System and method of providing product quality and safety: In a particular embodiment, a portable, hand-held device to manage product quality and safety includes a processor and a memory accessible to the processor. The memory includes instructions executable by the processor to collect data related to a particular location and to generate a graphical user interface (GUI) including a... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20090271245 - Assortment planning based on demand transfer between products: A computer-implemented method described for facilitating selection of an assortment of products to offer for sale. The method includes receiving transaction data representing characteristics of a plurality of commercial transactions including a first product and a second product. Product attribute data representing attributes for at least the two products are... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c

20090271249 - Computer-based rating system and method having mid-quartile filter: A method for a rating system identifies user-selected performance indicators associated with one or more properties. A rating is computed for each of the user-selected performance indicators and for each entity in an entity class by applying at least the user-selected performance indicators to a rating algorithm. The entity class... Agent: Leason Ellis LLP

20090271246 - Merchant recommendation system and method: Automated generation of a merchant recommendation list is disclosed. When a financial processor obtains rich and relevant information related to consumers and merchants, collaborative filtering, profiling, clustering and predictive modeling techniques are combined to provide merchant recommendations to a consumer. The system analyzes consumer attributes which relate to target consumer... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (amex)

20090271250 - Method and system for providing an in-site sales widget: Commerce widgets placed on webpages allow a full purchase transaction (browsing, selecting, and buying the product) to take place on the content owner's site (the host site). Webmasters may set the sale price and collect statistics on buyer behavior and habits. By keeping the entire transaction on the webpage, a... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20090271251 - Point of view shopper camera system with orientation sensor: A point of view shopper camera system is provided to generate and analyze shoppers' view data. The point of view shopper camera system may comprise a head device including an eye camera and a head orientation sensor, a position tracking sensor to identify a shopper's position, and an analysis computing... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20090271248 - Precalculation of trending attributes: A credit attribute delivery system receives consumer financial data and generates trending attributes. The trending attributes are stored in a precalculated trending attribute database. The credit attribute delivery system may respond to a request for consumer trending attributes in a real time manner by accessing and providing the trending attributes... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090271244 - Situation-aware ad-hoc social interaction: In one embodiment, a method for social networking is provided. A social profile is automatically built for a first user by monitoring the usage of an electronic device operated by the first user. A social network appropriate for the first user is determined by examining the first user's social profile.... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP

20090271247 - System for creating a social-networking online community: A system and method are provided for creating a social-networking community and enabling the social-networking community to interoperate with other social-networking communities within a network of social-networking communities. The method includes creating a core profile that links a user member's identify to plurality of social-networking communities of the network. The... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20090271252 - Method for developing and implementing an employee incentive plan: The employee incentive plan provides a method and system for tracking, calculating and implementing a self-adjusting employee incentive plan. The present invention provides a method and system for establishing an incentive plan, aligning the incentive plan to the employer's management and human resources goals, determining key attributes and related ranges,... Agent: Robert L. Rispoli Clayman , Tapper & Baram , LLC.

20090271256 - Advertisement campaign system using socially collaborative filtering: In one embodiment, a method comprises identifying, in a network, user selection preferences of an identified user having accessed the network, the identifying based on an accumulation of user selection inputs executed by the identified user, the user selection inputs accumulated relative to input options presented to the user and... Agent: Leon R Turkevich

20090271254 - Advertisements driven by user: Systems, methods and computer-storage media are provided for distributing advertising content with improved accessibility for users and with a reduced-cost architecture for the web site provider. An advertising service directory (ASD) intercepts advertising requests containing registered words and phrases so that their location can be determined in a data structure.... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090271262 - Authorization system with split messaging: A computer readable medium is disclosed. It includes computer readable program code embodied therein, said computer readable program code adapted to be executed to implement a method, the method including receiving a first authorization request message from a merchant and at a server computer, analyzing the first authorization request message... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20090271255 - Commerce and advertisement based on explicit consumer's value cost proposition: System(s) and method(s) are provided to drive commercial transactions and advertisement based on explicit consumer's value-cost propositions. Value-cost propositions express consumer's desires with respect to parameters related to a commercial transaction product price point, sensitivity to price and time, preferred shipping mechanism(s), contractor reputation, supply chain utilized by contractor, and... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090271253 - Electronic issuing of gift cards: A method of issuing and managing an electronic gift card is presented. A gift card purchase order for a primary electronic gift card is received by a gift card issuing server. The gift card issuing server transmits a unique gift card identifier to the purchaser of the primary electronic gift... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090271259 - Method and system for directed personalized marketing: An improved method and system for conducting a directed marketing/advertising campaign is provided that combines personalized mailings and individualized URL addresses in an integrated manner in order to increase customer response rates and improve the ability of the advertiser to obtain relevant feedback and product information from the potential customer.... Agent: Barlow, Josephs & Holmes, Ltd.

20090271258 - Method for using carbon credits with micro refineries: A carbon credit coupon system is used to provide incentives to micro refinery operators to produce ethanol and reduce the CO2 emissions by replacing gasoline with ethanol. The distribution of carbon credit coupon is based upon an accurate and quantifiable reduction in the emissions of CO2 gas based upon the... Agent: Dergosits & Noah LLP

20090271257 - Model for early adoption and retention of sources of funding to finance award program: System(s) and method(s) are provided to drive early adoption and retention of disparate sources of funding and financing an award program, with application to a consumer compensation scheme subsidized through advertisement revenue. A component that manages advertisement revenue, or received funds, allocates a portion of revenue to subsidize a rebate... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090271261 - Policy driven customer advertising: A system and methodology for providing policy driven, user requested advertising is disclosed. Networked users may be provided with selected advertisements to a targeted network access device during a specified broadcast event based on user preferences. The system includes a computing device coupled to at least one communications network and... Agent: At& T Legal Department - Monka Attn: Patent Docketing

20090271260 - Systems, methods and computer program products for researching, planning, building, purchasing and tracking digital online media advertising: Improved systems, methods and computer program products are provided for improving the efficiency and quality of the process of purchasing digital and online advertising. Through the use of the invention, one may more effectively use competitive research, build a media plan, generate a creative piece from scratch for an advertising... Agent: Kalow & Springut LLP

20090271263 - Promotional programs with electronic receipts: Tools for improving interactions between promoters and consumers of products. These tools can enable promoters of products to employ more effective promotional programs, and consumers to receive promotional information about products of interest, while avoiding the excessive overload of information about promotions that are not of interest. Some such tools... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090271264 - Promotional techniques, systems and methods: Tools for improving interactions between promoters and consumers of products. These tools can enable promoters of products to employ more effective promotional programs, and consumers to receive promotional information about products of interest, while avoiding the excessive overload of information about promotions that are not of interest. Some such tools... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090271265 - Electronic receipt system and method: A system and method are provided for generating and storing electronic receipts from any type of public facing business having a live point-of-purchase and utilizing electronic payment systems, namely, a point-of-sale (POS) system having a credit card terminal or electronic cash register (ECR). A user can associate with his or... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20090271266 - Employing consumer intelligence in promotions: Tools for improving interactions between promoters and consumers of products. These tools can enable promoters of products to employ more effective promotional programs, and consumers to receive promotional information about products of interest, while avoiding the excessive overload of information about promotions that are not of interest. Some such tools... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090271267 - Mobile device marketing and advertising platforms, methods, and systems: A mobile marketing campaign platform and method including: a planning module including: a definition module for setting budget and objectives; and a design module for designing the campaign utilizing a plurality of templates; an execution module including: design tools for designing an executable campaign from the campaign design made from... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090271268 - Method and system for providing advertisements in communication service: A method for providing advertisements in a communication service includes: obtaining the corresponding advertisement resource of the user in the current communication service according to the registration information of the subscribed advertisement in the process of using the communication service; and embedding the advertisement resource into the communication service. Through... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090271269 - Method for integrating interactive advertising into visual content: The present invention is a method and apparatus that relates to inserting contextual advertising into interactive visual content. The present invention provides a means to visually highlight elements within images, video, interactive applications and other visual content and then connect those elements to relevant content and messages from advertisers.... Agent: Adam Lieb

20090271270 - Managing lists of promotional offers: Tools for improving interactions between promoters and consumers of products. These tools can enable promoters of products to employ more effective promotional programs, and consumers to receive promotional information about products of interest, while avoiding the excessive overload of information about promotions that are not of interest. Some such tools... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090271271 - System and method for situational location proactive search: Situational location dependent information is transmitted from a server data processing system to a receiving data processing system. The server data processing system communicates with the receiving data processing system in a manner by pushing content when appropriate. A candidate delivery event associated with a current positional attribute of the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090271272 - Electronic marketing system: An apparatus for creating and distributing marketing materials comprises a message template and a messaging manager. The messaging template includes a suppler information field and an identity field. The supplier information field is configured to store marketing information that describes an offering of a supplier, is preapproved by the supplier,... Agent: Ulmer & Berne LLP Attn: Diane Bell

20090271273 - Internet news compensation system: A computerized compensation system of disseminating a plurality of news and information items offered, contributed, and submitted by a plurality of independent submitters to an internet provider site. The provider site accepts, indexes, catalogs, tracks, meters, and calculates viewer exposure to each submitted news and information item chosen by a... Agent: Christopher Paul Mitchell

20090271275 - Cross-promotional techniques, systems, and methods: Tools for improving interactions between promoters and consumers of products. These tools can enable promoters of products to employ more effective promotional programs, and consumers to receive promotional information about products of interest, while avoiding the excessive overload of information about promotions that are not of interest. Some such tools... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090271274 - Systems and methods for listing, buying and selling patents and patent applications online: A system for listing patent or patent application intellectual property assets for sale or license may comprise means for receiving an intellectual property asset document number through an online interface, means for automatically extracting textual data regarding an intellectual property asset using the number received as input to a remote... Agent: Jeremiah J. Baunach

20090271276 - Electronic payment system: The specification and drawing figures describe and show a system for making a payment across a point-of-sale device that includes at least one a payment instrument having financial data required to conduct a financial transaction across a credit network. The system also includes a mobile wireless instrument having a data... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090271278 - Systems and methods for routing a transaction request to a payment system via a transaction device: Facilitating commercial transactions using a payment system directory are disclosed. A payment directory and/or wireless point of sale (POS) device may be configured to use predetermined rules, a multitude of data items and/or conditions to locate a payment system, and transmit a payment authorization request from a remote location to... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (amex)

20090271277 - Systems and methods for transaction processing based upon an overdraft scenario: Facilitating commercial transactions using a payment system directory are disclosed. A payment directory and/or wireless point of sale (POS) device may be configured to use predetermined rules, a multitude of data items and/or conditions to locate a payment system, and transmit a payment authorization request from a remote location to... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (amex)

20090271288 - Category expert workbench: A computer system is provided that maintains information about products and provides for transactions between users buying and selling those products as well as providing a public exchange for valuing those products. The system also tracks the users who set up products in the system as well as maintain product... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090271284 - Community based electronic bartering network: An electronic bartering system which associates each user with at least one community and enables users to create their own communities. Each user can specify at least one barterable item in a wish list and at least one barterable item in a trade list. Within a given community, the system... Agent: Alex Porat

20090271281 - Computer-implemented reservation system: A Web service based, real-time booking engine in which reservations Web pages include a “One Click Search” implemented using a global navigation menu located in the Web pages, facilitating easy switch to search other destinations at any time. The reservations Web pages also include a reservation search form. From any... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20090271287 - Financial lifestyle navigator and banking system: Methods and systems for electronic financial management integrate many aspects of the typical banking system with exciting educational and social tools to engage users to participate in and learn about the value of fiscal management. A web application for a network site may be employed to allow users to establish... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20090271291 - Method and system for conducting a block auction: The present invention relates to a system and method for performing a block auction. In a block auction, a block request is enabled to be executed against the plurality of quotes of different bidders, which comprise at least a part of the request volume. In accordance with the present invention,... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20090271286 - Method and system for customizing marketing services on networks communicating with hypertext tagging conventions: The present server based communications system provides dynamic customization of hypertext tagged documents presented to clients accessing the system. The customization, which pertains to the content of the documents, is based on the specific requirements of a class to which the client belongs to. The class may be defined by... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090271279 - Motion star casting and auditioning system: A Motion Star Casting (MSC) and auditioning system for directly connecting the casting directors and artist is disclosed. MSC is an innovative and user-friendly website for casting directors, production companies, agents and other industry professionals to upload a document or video illustrating their casting need. The artists can read their... Agent: Lauson & Tarver LLP

20090271283 - Network media distribution: A network media distribution system includes a web server. The web server generates web data defining a plurality of web pages of a web site. Media items are stored on a media database which is accessible to the web server. The web server distributes the media items through the web... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20090271280 - Retail customer service and system: A retail customer service process, method, system and apparatus that includes a bypass queue that is available to customers to enable them to place orders, pay for them, and to submit the bypassing order into a production queue as quickly as possible, preferably avoiding the first serial queue. The method... Agent: Patent Law Offices Of Michael E. Woods

20090271285 - System and method for allocating business to one of a plurality of sellers in a buyer driven electronic commerce system: A system and method for allocating conditional purchase offers (CPO) among a plurality of agency-based and broadcast-based sellers in a buyer-driven commerce system. In one embodiment, the system determines which agency-based or broadcast-based sellers can fulfill or satisfy the CPO and orders those sellers in a priority order. In another... Agent: Chadbourne & Parke LLP

20090271289 - System and method for propagating endorsements: An e-commerce system, comprising a clone server coupled via a data network to an endorsement network comprising at least a shopping cart adapted to manage endorsements and wherein the clone server, upon receiving a request from a user of an endorsement network to clone an endorsement, retrieves from the shopping... Agent: Brian R. Galvin

20090271292 - Systems and methods for exchanging direct response marketing phone leads: Systems and methods for managing a phone lead transaction between a lead seller and a lead buyer as part of a first transaction between said lead seller and a consumer. The method, for example, includes enabling a plurality of lead buyers to bid for phone leads from at least, one... Agent: Ipsg, P.C.

20090271290 - Systems and methods for facilitating a transaction by matching seller information and buyer information: Systems and methods are provided to facilitate a transaction between a seller and a buyer. According to one embodiment, seller offer information is received at a controller. The seller offer information is associated with an item, such as a secondary market item, being offered for sale by a seller. Buyer... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20090271282 - Universal shopping center for international operation: An international transaction system for operation over the internet/intranet provides a pre-transactional calculation of all charges involved in any international transaction. Upon the option of the customer, the goods can be viewed on catalogue sheets translated to a language of the customer's choice, and the price provided in a currency... Agent: Lev Intellectual Property Consulting

20090271293 - Methods and systems for dynamically generating personalized shopping suggestions: Methods and systems of establishing a shopping assistant utility are described. The method may include receiving product information for products, and based on the received product information, automatically generating a product profile for each of the products. Each product profile includes attributes assigned to the product. The method may further... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090271296 - Motor vehicle remarkating service: A system and method in combination with a nationwide alliance of professional car care enterprises for remarketing privately owned motor vehicles. Consumers register with the system. Successfully registered consumers present their motor vehicles at a participating professional car care enterprise for processing into the system. The computer-implemented system employs a... Agent: Craig Duncan Romero

20090271295 - Online ordering system and method for keyed devices: An online product ordering system first displays images of different product categories, such as different types of padlocks, and then displays all product models available in a category when the user clicks on a selected category image. The user selects a product model and then customizes various aspects of the... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20090271294 - System and method for delivering real time remote buying, selling, meeting and interacting in a virtual reality environment: A virtual reality interactional system and a method of use in which remote shoppers, remote advisors, remote sales consultants, remote product display agents, real time inventory status, live and stored audio and video content, and client server based virtual programming logic interact in real time to complete soft touch, high... Agent: Altaf Hadi

20090271297 - Management of communications purchasing and use: A system for tracking and presenting communication services consumed by an organization from a plurality of communications service providers is provided. The system includes an invoices data store for information relating to communication services expenses of the organization from two or more separate providers, a services data store for information... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20090271300 - Ad-hoc updates to source transactions: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with handling a change to a transaction at an application level are described. One exemplary method includes receiving, in a sub-ledger accounting (SLA) logic, from a sub-ledger logic, data that characterizes a transaction(s) receivable from a sub-ledger. The data includes a field of interest... Agent: Kraguljac & Kalnay, LLC - Oracle

20090271301 - Multiple rate currency consolidator: A multiple currency rate consolidator addresses the needs of multi-national companies that do business in different currencies and tax localities. A consolidated view of financial data may be provided in real time. The multiple currency rate consolidator allows each subsidiary within a subsidiary hierarchy to enter and manage transactional data... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090271299 - Negative balance management: A system, apparatus, and method for managing account data for accounts having a negative balance. The invention embodiment includes a method, process or workflow for processing data for accounts associated with a debit, credit, pre-paid card or other form of financial instrument that have a negative balance. The data processing... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20090271298 - Securitized commodity participation certificates securitized by physically settled contracts: Techniques are described for securitizing, administering and trading various derivative shares securitized by derivative, physically-settled instruments on underlying assets that is, physical commodities.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090271302 - System and method for ensuring accurate reimbursement for travel expenses: An Expense Verification System (EVS) checks for fraud and errors in reimbursement requests. The EVS stores requests including reference numbers, and receives travel reservation records from a payment clearinghouse system. Each record includes a reference number and associated reservation data. The EVS selectively denies stored reimbursement requests as a function... Agent: Saul Ewing LLP (philadelphia)

20090271303 - Electronic bill process automation: Disclosed are apparatus and methods for processing an electronic statement. In one embodiment, an electronic mail message addressed to an electronic mail address is received, the electronic mail message including bill information associated with a bill, where the bill information indicates a bill amount, a due date of the bill,... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson - Yahoo!

20090271304 - Image processing apparatus, method, and storage medium: An image processing apparatus that charges a user for executing a predetermined image process holds charging information in a storage device, charges a user for executing the predetermined image process based on charging information held in the storage device. When the charging information held in the storage device is updated,... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090271307 - Method and system for providing real estate information: An interactive, computer-implemented system for providing a comparison of at least two real estate properties is provided. The system includes a database that stores a plurality of data relating to real estate properties. The data includes at least one of address data, ownership data, size data, geographic location data and... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP (la)

20090271305 - Payment portfolio optimization: A method and system of payment portfolio optimization that retrieves information associated with a plurality of consumers in a consumer portfolio, separates by a diagnostics module on a computer the plurality of consumers into consumer segments based on segment definitions, analyzes by a diagnostics module on the computer the consumer... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20090271306 - System and method to facilitate secure payment of digital transactions: System and method for facilitating verification that an authorized user of an account initiated use of the account in a digital transaction online are described herein. A preferred embodiment employs an application supplied by a third party to associate the account with a client device that is, in turn, associated... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP - Portland William A. Birdwell

20090271332 - Computer system and method for generating and maintaining a financial benchmark: A method for generating and maintaining a benchmark using a long/short investment strategy is disclosed herein. The method for generating and maintaining a benchmark using a long/short investment strategy may involve generating a benchmark by selecting a group of securities from a broad-base index; evaluating the securities included in a... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090271333 - Method and system for transactions involving a mortgage product that is backed by a mortgaged property and additional financial instruments: A method and system for creating and transacting a mortgage product that is backed by a mortgaged property and additional financial instruments. The mortgage product requires the determination of the value of a property to be purchased to be associated with an index for real estate in a region where... Agent: Wolff & Samson, P.C.

20090271327 - Payment portfolio optimization: A method and system of payment portfolio optimization that retrieves a plurality of consumer segments of a consumer portfolio from a diagnostics module where the consumer segments have potentially profitable opportunities. The method and system also develop a propensity model on a computer based on at least one performance metric,... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20090271326 - Retirement fund and method for generating increase revenue stream: A retirement fund and method for operating to produce an ever increasing revenue stream to a group of investor participants who are selected statistically based on the longevity into a pool of investors. An investment partnership is created with the selected investor participants. A financial portfolio is created from monies... Agent: Malin Haley Dimaggio Bowen & Lhota, P.A.

20090271328 - Securitized commodity participation certifices securitized by physically settled option contracts: Techniques are described for securitizing, administering and trading various derivative shares securitized by derivative, physically-settled instruments on underlying assets that is, physical commodities.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090271334 - System and method for providing mortality rate information and employing it for structuring and analysis of financial instruments: The invention provides methods of extrapolating at least one future mortality rate by calculating a current year mortality rate for a particular age cohort, and applying a series of improvement factors to the current year mortality rate. The invention further provides methods of structuring a derivative financial instrument by providing... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090271330 - System and method for providing the execution probability of a limit order: A system, method and computer program product are described for providing the execution probability of a limit order within a given time period based on historical and current information and for adaptively and dynamically adjusting to intra-day trade data. For a given financial interest, the frequency of trade execution, the... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20090271331 - Systems and methods for providing a combination financial product: The present invention relates to systems and methods for administering combination annuity products and to combination annuity products themselves. Certain embodiments of the invention can be used in connection with variable universal life insurance and variable life insurance contracts.... Agent: Richard G. Gervase Mints Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky And Popeo PC

20090271325 - Trading system and method: A system for managing risk in a trading environment, the system comprising at least one trading portfolio, wherein the trading portfolio comprises a plurality of trading elements and wherein the system further comprises: means for obtaining data relating to trading elements in the trading environment; means for calculating the value... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090271329 - Utility management system: A utility management system is provided that makes it possible for an Internet user to more easily know the status of his/her own utility usage in realtime. An AMR (Automated Meter Reader) system and ISP (Internet Service Provider) include means for sending digital data that indicates the status of utility... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090271308 - Complex order leg synchronization: A system is provided for trading complex orders for financial instruments, including complex orders that include legs that are to be executed on different markets. The legs of the order are optionally specified to be executed in a particular ratio, at net price, and/or at a range of net prices.... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20090271311 - Equitized currency trust for real-time currency trading: An equitized currency trust has its underlying value based solely on currency, rather than on securities and/or commodities. Shares of the equitized currency trust are priced in a currency other than the currency that forms the underlying value.... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20090271309 - Media exchange system and method: A media exchange. The media exchange uses an exchange database. The database supports interoperation between an exchange component, a media user component and a first media provider component. The media user component enables a media client to access a media component. The media component is supplied from a media provider... Agent: Jellett Law, Ps Matthew Jellett, Esq.

20090271312 - One-price home mortgage lending method and system: A method and system for an online one-price home mortgage lending is disclosed. House buyers use the system to obtain a mortgage with autonomous interest rates. The system provides a loan to members to allow them to get their house in advance or to pay off an existing home mortgage.... Agent: Kamrath & Associates P.A.

20090271310 - System and method for creating and managing intellectual property investment trusts: A system and method for creating and managing a system for extracting value from intellectual property. The method includes the steps of collecting intellectual property assets in an investment vehicle, selling shares in the investment vehicle, and licensing the collected intellectual property through the investment vehicle. Shares in the investment... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20090271313 - Method and system for balance account utilization: Methods and system for balance account utilization are described. In one embodiment, a balance account may be linked to a credit card account of a user. A determination of whether there is an amount due for the credit card account may be made. A determination of whether at least a... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20090271314 - Electronic money system and electronic money terminal: An electronic money system terminates communication to a management center indistinguishably from a case in which the communication to the management center is completed within a predetermined period when it is impossible to complete the communication to the management center within the predetermined period. By switching an operation mode, a... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090271315 - Portable device including alterable indicator: A consumer device is disclosed. It includes a body, and a memory element coupled to the body, the memory storing a first account identifier associated with a first account, a second account identifier associated with a second account, and an alterable flag linking the first account and the second account.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20090271316 - Mailing kiosk with safeguards and methods of use: A self service kiosk for mailing prohibited items from TSA checkpoints has the following features: an easy-to-touch screen, full computerization, visual and auditory prompts, clearly displayed shipping options, an automatically calculated price, an instantly-produced address/postage label and payment receipt, secure credit card processing, daily emptying by the USPS, transaction logging... Agent: John R. Casperson

20090271317 - Method and apparatus for a cryptographically assisted commercial network system designed to facilitate buyer-driven conditional purchase offers: The present invention is a method and apparatus for effectuating bilateral buyer-driven commerce. The present invention allows prospective buyers of goods and services to communicate a binding purchase offer globally to potential sellers, for sellers conveniently to search for relevant buyer purchase offers, and for sellers potentially to bind a... Agent: Chadbourne & Parke LLP

20090271318 - Digital data licensing system: The invention provides a method for securing ownership of data and/or performances which are broadcast and/or performed in public, said method including an identifier in the broadcast and/or performed data, transmitting the identifier at a frequency and/or modulation which is neutral to the primary purpose of the data, receiving the... Agent: Arthur M Reginelli

20090271319 - Embedded licenses for content: In accordance with one or more aspects, a license for content is retrieved, the license having been previously embedded in the content. A requested action is allowed to be performed with the content only if a standalone license, or both a leaf license and a root license, indicate that the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090271320 - System for electronic business transactions: An electronic business transaction system is provided. The electronic business transaction system requests an ordering party to select an electronic business and input order information for the electronic business through a terminal of the ordering party, receives the order information for the electronic business from the ordering party, announces a... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.

20090271321 - Method and system for verification of personal information: In one form, there is disclosed a system (100) for storing, validating and disseminating credential information about an entity. The system (100) generates data representing at least part of the credential information and a data representation of at least part of a document supporting that information and stores the credential... Agent: Grant Stafford

20090271322 - Electronic receipt system and method: A system and method for auto generating an electronic receipt from virtually any type of public facing business having a live point-of-purchase and utilizing an electronic payment systems, namely, a point-of-sale (POS) system having a credit card terminal and/or an electronic cash registers (ECR). The system includes a software add-on... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20090271324 - Systems and methods for metered software as a service: Systems and methods are provided for facilitating software as a service (SAAS) by receiving information of SAAS offerings and metrics for tracking a users use of the SAAS offerings. The systems may be used to create SAAS orders and provide compliance and auditing of the SAAS, as well as generating... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20090271323 - Transactional method for building three-dimensional objects: The present invention is a method (10) for manufacturing a three-dimensional object. The method (10) includes receiving (14) digital information of the three-dimensional object over a communication line and building (30) the three-dimensional object based at least in part on the received digital information, where at least part of the... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20090271336 - Environmentally-friendly fitness center systems: This invention provides an environmentally-friendly system for operating a green fitness facility. It also provides for the use of a human-powered renewably energy source in a fitness facility. It further provides for the monetization of surplus power generated, carbon-credits earned through its operation method, and the promotion of an ecologically-minded... Agent: Travis Frank

20090271335 - Totipotent, nearly totipotent or pluripotent mammalian cells homozygous or hemizygous for one or more histocompatibility antigent genes: The present invention relates to totipotent, nearly totipotent and pluripotent stem cells that are hemizygous or homozygous for MHC antigens and methods of making and using them. These cells are useful for reduced immunogenicity during transplantation and cell therapy. The cells of the present invention may be assembled into a... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090265180 - Machine-readable end user license agreement with automated acceptance: A method of representing a first end-user license agreement (EULA) offered to a user and automatically responding to a subsequent EULA offered to the user is disclosed. The representation may be in a logical language having parameters corresponding to legal terms of the EULA, logical operators, and the capability to... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090265178 - Referral lists for tracking distributed content: Various embodiments described above can enable referral lists to be used in connection with distributed content to protect a referral infrastructure that is used with such content. In at least some embodiments, referral lists are protected using digital rights management (DRM) techniques. The DRM techniques can be used for a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090265177 - Scheduled telecommunication service suspension: A user may selectively schedule or otherwise control the temporary suspension of telecommunication services to which they subscribe. In one implementation, a request to temporarily suspend a telecommunication service may be received from the user. The user's telecommunication service may be temporarily suspended and then later restarted at times indicated... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090265179 - System and method for providing a packaging recommendation to a shipping customer: A system and method for providing a packaging recommendation to a customer is disclosed. The system presents the customer with a merchandise list of merchandise, receives merchandise information from the customer about the particular characteristics of the merchandise, and generates a packaging recommendation via an interface to the customer. This... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090265181 - Valuation using credit score: A method of appraising the value of a property based on obtaining a credit score of an owner of a property and assigning an ownership responsibility indicator to the property. The ownership responsibility indicator provides insight into the condition of the property without performing a complete inspection. A more accurate... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20090265182 - Method and system for point-of-dispensing management of anticoagulation agent therapy: A method and system for point-of-dispensing, point-of-sale, or retail pharmacy management of an anticoagulation agent therapy for a subject, includes reviewing an anticoagulation regimen and obtaining data for a subject relating to anticoagulation therapy, determining an International Normalized Ratio (INR) level for the subject, determining any potential interaction of the... Agent: Dinesh Agarwal, P.C.

20090265184 - Method for the fractionation and separation of particles by step-wise gradient density extraction: A method for the separation of particles of different densities using a step-wise gradient density extraction method as described herein where a sample is suspended in a liquid volume of an extracting medium of specific density and the particles that have a density less than or equal to that of... Agent: Intellevate

20090265183 - Method of managing a wellness programme and a system therefor: A method and system for managing a wellness programme includes obtaining personal information pertaining to an individual, the personal information including at least the individual's age and gender. In addition, health information pertaining to the individual is obtained. The health information typically includes at least one of exercise, diet, smoking,... Agent: Paul D. Bianco Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco Pl

20090265185 - Care coordination information system: Systems and associated methods are disclosed for coordinating health services delivery within a patient population. In certain embodiments, a system and associated methods facilitate the presentation of patient-specific information on a shared site accessible by a group of users. Edits may also be made to the patient-specific information by specific... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. Intellectual Property Department

20090265188 - Graphical representation of medical knowledge: The present invention relates to a method for graphical representation of medical knowledge, as well as to methods and supports using the same.... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090265189 - Medication therapy review methods: A method for population and patient-specific medication therapy review using a computer particularly adapted for a medication therapy management or health care delivery organization is provided, wherein the method includes at least the steps of: collecting patient claims data; reviewing the patient claims data for accuracy and data integrity; identifying... Agent: Adams And Reese LLP

20090265186 - System and method for communicating environmentally-based medical advice: A method and system for delivering advice to patients suffering from respiratory conditions based on changes in environment, such as weather or air quality changes. This system includes a patient specific model which uses input environmental data to predict changes in the patient's condition. The model is developed from an... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090265187 - Systems and methods for storing and locating claim reimbursement attachments: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a clinical document storage and locator system including a clinical database component, a document retriever component, and a query mapper component. The clinical database component is adapted to store a plurality of clinical documents. The document retriever component is adapted to receive a... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090265193 - Methods and systems for automated property insurance inspection: Methods and systems for automated property insurance inspection include a remote inspection device having video inspection equipment capable of providing video images of property for use by an insurance company. The images may be used for expediting claim processing, inspecting damage in hazardous or hard to reach places, loss avoidance/risk... Agent: Wilmerhale/new York

20090265191 - Online life insurance document management service: An online life insurance document management service includes a host server having a web-based interface adapted to facilitate secure customer access to the host server. The host server is configured to receive life insurance data communicated from the customer through use of a computing device. A processing module is in... Agent: Xerox Corporation (cdfs)

20090265190 - System for classification and assessment of preferred risks: A method of evaluating a set of risk assessment rules for an insurance product is provided. The method includes the steps of providing a set of risk assessment rules, applying the risk assessment rules to at least a portion of a test population to generate a classified population, deriving a... Agent: Robert E. Cannuscio Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

20090265192 - Usefulness: A novel divorce insurance annuity insurance business structure that demonstrates the use of this type of insurance with or without a divorce occurrence. The divorce insurance business structure is a model plan to allow businesses to develop this type of benefit for their employees or clientele. The business structure provides... Agent: Susan Mapes

20090265194 - Universal business to media reservation system, process and standard: A computer network based universal reservation system (CNBURS) architecture, process and standard that enable reservations between one or more service providers and one or more customers relating to offers of services by the service providers. In one embodiment, the architecture of the CNBURS includes a scheduling agent system, one or... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20090265196 - Apparatus, system, and method for collecting metrics from a non-monolithic website: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed to collect metrics from a non-monolithic website having external content. The method includes monitoring a pointer movement in a web page. The web page displays a content feed of the external content. The method also includes identifying a pointer movement representative of an... Agent: HolmanIPLaw/ibm Rsw

20090265201 - Method and apparatus for determining security solution:

20090265202 - Method and system for processing a customer request: A method for processing customer requests includes: generating a service request according to a business subscribed by a customer, wherein the service request carries service request information; acquiring business attribute information required in business processing corresponding to the service request, according to the service request information; and determining a corresponding... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090265195 - Method for visualizing a processing status of an order: In order to achieve simple handling and administration with a high degree of reliability, and simultaneously, with a high degree of flexibility with respect to changing requirements profiles, it is suggested that the processing status for each visualization is determined from the stored status reports on the fly through a... Agent: Ursula B. Day, Esq.

20090265198 - Reputation evalution using a contact information database: A contact information database, including records such as those stored in a personal address book, is applied to evaluate the reputation of a user and/or conduct fraud or spam detection. A number of different factors selected for reputation/fraud prediction value can be used in a statistical model to evaluate reputation... Agent: Banner & Witcoff , Ltd Attorneys For Client Number 007412

20090265197 - System and method for building shared itineraries: A method implemented by a computer allows a user to create an electronic itinerary, parts of which may later be purchased through an electronic reservation system and, at the same time, to find a suitable traveling companion. The method provides compatibility between user itineraries to be determined based upon a... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20090265199 - System and method for governance, risk, and compliance management: In particular embodiments, the present invention provides a system and method for governance, risk, and compliance management. For example, a method for governance, risk, and compliance management includes providing an interface for defining a control to be used to reach a goal of an organization. The control provides a procedure... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090265200 - System and method for governance, risk, and compliance management: A method for governance, risk, and compliance management includes, at a user interface, enabling a user to define a plurality of goals of an organization. The method further includes at the user interface, enabling the user to input a plurality of controls, each control comprising a measure implemented by the... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090265204 - Interface for bidding on a resource: Facilitating determination of an amount to bid for a resource is disclosed. In some embodiments, market condition data indicating for at least a currently indicated bid amount a corresponding likely wait to obtain the resource under current conditions in an auction-based market used to allocate the resource is received. A... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20090265205 - Pricing, allocating, accounting and distributing internal resources using a market mechanism: A market based approach to allocating a resource within an organizational entity is disclosed. In some embodiments, a request comprising a bid indicating an amount of a purchasing power asset that a requester with which the request is associated is prepared to provide within the organizational entity to obtain the... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20090265203 - User prioritized search engine for automated meeting scheduling: The present solution provides a new concept of ranking whereby calendar users will be allowed to prioritize a variety of meeting attributes. For prioritizing their meeting requirements, users can place meeting requirements into one of two lists: “Must/mandatory” and “preferred.” The system will then search for meeting times that satisfy... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090265211 - Method and system for detecting fraud: A system and method for detecting fraud when facilitating a payment transaction over a global wide area network. The method comprises receiving a sale information, receiving a payment information from a buyer, and analyzing a transaction information for fraud. If the analyzing indicates fraud, an enhanced transaction information is communicated... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20090265208 - Method for outsourcing technology based services: A computer implemented method of defining the outsourcing of technology based services, the method including the steps of: defining a plurality of technology based services that are to be provided by one or more service providers to a customer; defining a plurality of activities associated with the services; displaying the... Agent: Unisys Corporation

20090265207 - Property management system and method for operating the same: A method for operating a property management system is disclosed. The method includes the steps of identifying one or more maintenance needs of one or more real property units; and utilizing a communication device for creating one or more virtual work orders related to the one or more maintenance needs,... Agent: Honigman Miller Schwartz & Cohn LLP

20090265209 - System and method for governance, risk, and compliance management: A method for governance, risk, and compliance management may include at a user interface, enabling a user to define a project template including a list of related controls, one or more control templates, and a testing project configuration (“TPC”) file for each control of a plurality of controls. The user... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090265206 - System and method for managing a chaotic event: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for managing a chaotic event. A management location is determined for managing a chaotic event in response to receiving an indication of the chaotic event. Resources necessary for managing the chaotic event are identified. The availability of the necessary resources... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090265210 - Systems for store associate management in a store: Described herein is a system for managing at least one store associate in the operation of a store through wireless electronic communication through a communication network between a manager and at least one store associate. The manager uses a manager's communication device and the at least one store associate uses... Agent: Theodore P. Cummings, Attorney At Law

20090265214 - Advertisement in operating system: Among other disclosures, an operating system presents one or more advertisements to a user and disables one or more functions while the advertisement is being presented. At the end of the advertisement, the operating system again enables the function(s). The advertisement can be visual or audible. The presentation of the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090265212 - Advertising in a streaming media environment: A method, system and apparatus of advertising in a streaming media environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes selecting a media content from a content database having content of a plurality of artists and media labels based on a request of a user of a social community environment,... Agent: Raj Abhyanker LLP

20090265223 - Estimated time of arrival (eta) systems and methods: A system on a network provides estimated time of arrival information to a client located on the network. The system is adapted to present to the client pages for eliciting a product inquiry including a product number. The system receives the product inquiry, determines estimated time of arrivals for various... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090265224 - Generation of automated reports and matching using online surveys and collaborative filtering: A method and apparatus for providing targeted online compensation reports that accounts for unique individual job characteristics by using dynamic profiles is described. The invention uses a survey engine having a collaborative filtering engine that determines appropriate questions to ask the user during the survey, and may further provide suggested... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20090265220 - Intelligent multi-channel targeted telecommunications advertisement campaign manager: The present invention is a system and method to enable advertisement subsidized telecommunications services, which can deliver a campaign comprised of multiple advertisements, each advertisement using a different format (text, audio and video), to user's different terminals (cell phone, soft phone, PDA, PC, etc.) by using different telecommunications channels (text... Agent: Ip Authority, LLC Ramraj Soundararajan

20090265219 - Local content management & distribution system: A method and system for the publishing, management and distribution of local content via a plurality of Internet media types. The method and system provides for single entry of local content and automated mass distribution via the Internet. A key component of the method and system is the categorizing and... Agent: Jon S Zaccagnino

20090265216 - Method and apparatus for customer specific based food preparation prediction: A food preparation predicting system and method in one embodiment includes a detector for obtaining customer information, a memory including program instructions for obtaining customer information from the detector, associating the customer information with stored customer specific preference information, generating a pseudo-order based upon the associated preference information, generating food... Agent: Paul W. Martin

20090265218 - Method and system for media initialization via data sharing: A method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium estimate media performance on advertising space inventory. The method selects at least one media cell that shares one or more common attributes with a target media cell. The method subsequently estimates mean revenue per impression (RPI) of the selected media cell, and then defines... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090265215 - Methods and apparatus to monitor audience exposure to media using duration-based data: Example methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to monitor audience exposure to media using duration-based data are disclosed. A disclosed example method involves determining a duration of exposure to an information medium based on transaction information associated with access to a public establishment, determining a first duration value based on... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20090265213 - Relevant content to enhance a streaming media experience: A method, system and apparatus of relevant content to enhance a streaming media experience are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes selecting a media content from a content database having content of a plurality of artists and media labels based on a request of a user of a social... Agent: Raj Abhyanker LLP

20090265217 - System for triggering terminals: A method and a system are proposed, wherein all the terminals of a physical unit and a control appliance are connected to a physically separate control center via a base terminal appliance. This control center has the base terminal appliances of further physical units connected to it. In addition, the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090265221 - Systems, methods, and apparatus for analyzing the influence of marketing assets: In various embodiments, the influence of marketing assets upon an individual are analyzed. In particular, a record of the individual's interactions with a first marketing asset of a first marketing campaign may be stored in a database. Thereafter, the database may be queried to determine whether the individual interacted with... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20090265222 - User grouping apparatus and user grouping method: An RFID aggregate storage stores a radio-frequency ID aggregate structure. The RFID aggregate structure is an aggregated data structure of a plurality of RFIDs, in which each RFID is associated with a location and time read out from a RFID tag, and RFID related information, hierarchically constructed by classifying RFIDs... Agent: Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20090265225 - Transfer methods, systems and devices for managing a compliance instruction lifecycle: An instructional management system using an instructional game to provide support to a compliance learner as they encounter variance during operational execution, require redirection and or intervention and necessitate a metric for transfer, during and within an instructional compliance lifecycle, relative to rules of law, policy, standards of treatment and/or... Agent: Melinda Kathryn Puente

20090265237 - Advertising light fixture and method for distribution of same: Disclosed is a system, method, and program for promoting the replacement of lower energy efficiency equipment with higher energy efficiency equipment, and more particularly less energy efficient lighting systems with more highly energy efficient lighting systems, is disclosed. High energy efficiency lighting fixtures are fitted with preferably removable and replaceable... Agent: Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, LLP Attn: Gregory M Stone

20090265236 - Aggregation and use of information relating to a users context for personalized advertisements: Information, called context information, relating to a current state of a user may be aggregated. In one implementation, the context information may include information that is automatically generated by communication devices of the user and information, submitted by the user, that relates to the user's state. The context information may... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090265235 - Apparatus and method for providing cell-based advertisement broadcast service in broadband wireless communication system: Provided is an apparatus and method for providing a cell-based advertisement broadcast service in a broadband wireless communication system. In an advertisement broadcast service of a service interface server in the broadband wireless communication system, an advertisement content transmission request message containing at least one of information about advertisement broadcast... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090265238 - Method and system for providing content: A method for providing content through a content providing system, including permitting access to the system through a media device; outputting a screen including a plurality of menu items including a view brand content item; when the view brand content item is selected by a user, outputting a screen including... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20090265234 - Method for processing digital rebates and coupons: There is provided a method for processing retail price discounts or rebates in connection with the purchase of merchandise. A data center is provided for processing discounts or rebates. The data center has at least one (1) computer to perform at least a portion of the processing. Consumers are notified... Agent: David M. Carter Carter & Schnedler, P.A.

20090265226 - Methods and apparatus for interactive advertising: Methods and apparatus for interactive advertising. A user may optionally select some or all of the interactive advertising for storage for later viewing or use. For example, in one embodiment, the user may have access to a personalized storage space for digital information and by, e.g., selecting a hyperlink, store... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20090265227 - Methods for advertisement display policy exploration: An exploratory ordering of advertisements is generated using an exploration policy that is a modified version of an existing policy. The exploration policy is defined to swap a pair of adjacent advertisements in an ordering of advertisements generated by the existing policy so to generate the exploratory ordering of advertisements.... Agent: Mpg, LLP And Yahoo! Inc.

20090265233 - Methods for providing incentives for use of online services: A system and method permits a primary online service to award and redeem incentive points to users of a social networking or other third-party site that operates independently of the primary online service. The primary online service publishes copies of a widget on the social networking site. The widget communicates... Agent: Young Basile

20090265231 - Online discount optimizer service: An online shopping discount optimizer service includes a host server having a web-based interface adapted to facilitate secure customer access to the host server through a computing device. The customer is prompted by the web-based interface to sequentially communicate customer affiliation data from the computing device to the host server.... Agent: Xerox Corporation (cdfs)

20090265228 - Point of sale coupon systems and methods: Systems and methods of offering incentives such as electronic coupons at a point of sale. Transaction information gathered at a point of sale system is received at a host computer. The transaction information relates to a transaction performed by a consumer at a merchant, and includes a consumer account identifier... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090265230 - Ranking using word overlap and correlation features: A system for and method for ranking results. The system includes a server configured to receive a query and an advertisement engine configured to receive the query from the server. The advertisement engine ranks advertisements based on various features, including at least one word overlap feature and a correlation feature.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20090265232 - System and method for processing travel expense vouchers: This invention relates to reimbursement of travel expenses. In a first embodiment of the present invention, a computer-implemented method processes a travel expense voucher. The method determines whether the travel expense voucher satisfies a condition. If the travel expense voucher satisfies the condition, the method allows a payment corresponding to... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20090265229 - System, method, and program product for buyer driven services e-commerce: A buyer driven e-commerce for services is presented. The buyer connects to a web site for the purpose of locating a provider of a service. The buyer, choosing to place an ad on the web site, chooses a category of services that corresponds to a required service. The buyer then... Agent: Ranbir S Sidhu

20090265239 - Electronic commerce portal: An electronic commerce portal (36) for electronic commerce over the World Wide Web, the portal (36) comprising a portal web site (31) and a collection of merchant web sites (33) linked to the portal (36), and merchant tools (21) to build and maintain merchant web sites (33); wherein the tools... Agent: Dla Piper LLP (us)

20090265240 - Commodity purchasing system: A group commodity purchasing system for performing a purchasing operation by causing a commodity list to be downloaded and displayed onto a user terminal, the system includes a database of the server contains a commodity master in which at least a commodity code and a price are associated with each... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090265241 - Systems and methods for determining a rewards account to fund a transaction: Facilitating commercial transactions using a payment system directory are disclosed. A payment directory and/or wireless point of sale (POS) device may be configured to use predetermined rules, a multitude of data items and/or conditions to locate a payment system, and transmit a payment authorization request from a remote location to... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (amex)

20090265242 - Privacy-centric ad models that leverage social graphs: The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can mitigate privacy concerns in connection with ad targeting or data collection. In particular, architecture can be included in a personal mobile communication device such as a cell phone. During communication transactions between the host device and a peer device, shared... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090265243 - System and method for creation, distribution and tracking of advertising via electronic networks: A system and method for creation, distribution and tracking of advertising via electronic networks, enabling creation of advertisements using licensed third party content and placement of said ads at desired network locations, utilizing an auction of ad spaces based on bids placed by advertisers to have their ads displayed at... Agent: Greenberg Traurig Attn: Manuel Valcarcel, Esq.

20090265244 - Methods and apparatus for surveillance and targeted advertising: Methods and apparatus are shown for providing targeted media through video surveillance. One or more video streams are received at a computing system from one or more video cameras in a consumer environment. Content of at least one of the one or more video streams is analyzed at the computing... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20090265245 - Communications platform for enabling bi-directional communication between providers consumers and advertisers using a computer network and/or mobile devices using desktop and or mobiletop interactive windowless video: A system and method for enabling continuous, interactive, bi-directional communication between providers and consumers/recipients of information and advertisement in a Browser Free environment displayed on a computer desktop and mobile device utilizing traditional media, but with transparent borders with no visible video or media player. The platform provides entertainment, exchange... Agent: Buhler Associates Buhler, Kirk A.

20090265246 - System and method for connecting users based on event planning and available venue space: A process and system for connecting event organizers and venues on a neutral platform is disclosed and described herein. In an exemplary embodiment, organizers post an event with requirements, the events are listed, and venues review the list and express interest by responding with a profile. Organizers then select a... Agent: Catalyst Law Group, Apc

20090265247 - System and method for enhanced customer kiosk ordering: The present disclosure is directed to a system and method for presenting restaurant items for ordering through a customer ordering kiosk, comprising the steps of displaying a list of restaurant items within an ordering interface screen, receiving a selection signal indicating one or more of the restaurant items has been... Agent: Neal, Gerber, & Eisenberg

20090265248 - virtual concierge for shipping services: A virtual concierge for shipping services is disclosed. One aspect of certain embodiments includes providing an automated computer-implemented self-service front-end shipping system to business concerns for self-service access by the customers of the respective business concern for shipping the customer's packages.... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20090265250 - Systems and methods for processing a transaction according to an allowance: Facilitating commercial transactions using a payment system directory are disclosed. A payment directory and/or wireless point of sale (POS) device may be configured to use predetermined rules, a multitude of data items and/or conditions to locate a payment system, and transmit a payment authorization request from a remote location to... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (amex)

20090265249 - Systems and methods for split tender transaction processing: Facilitating commercial transactions using a payment system directory are disclosed. A payment directory and/or wireless point of sale (POS) device may be configured to use predetermined rules, a multitude of data items and/or conditions to locate a payment system, and transmit a payment authorization request from a remote location to... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (amex)

20090265253 - Method and system for providing gift registry services through a gift registry network: Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system that provides gift registry services to a user. During operation, the system enrolls a business with a registry system and identifies a first set of items offered for sale by the business. Next, the system populates the registry system with the... Agent: Pvf -- Intuit, Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090265252 - Money pooling with electronic invoice: An electronic invoice is associated with a transaction code. The electronic invoice may be provided by a merchant. The transaction code may be generated by a payment processing system. Two or more consumers may retrieve the electronic invoice using the transaction code. Based on the electronic invoice, the consumers may... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20090265251 - Systems and methods for searching a defined area: Embodiments of the present invention include systems and methods for searching a defined area. In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method comprising receiving a plurality of product data, wherein the product data describes a plurality of products offered for sale by a plurality of businesses. Product data may... Agent: Fountainhead Law Group, PC Chad R. Walsh

20090265254 - Universal business to media transaction system, process and standard: A computer network based universal transaction system (CNBUTS) architecture that enables transaction between one or more offer providers and one or more customers relating to offers of wares (e.g., goods/services) by the offer providers. In one embodiment, the architecture of the CNBUTS includes a universal agent system, one or more... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20090265257 - Method and system for monetizing content: An e-commerce system, comprising an endorsement engine, a first interface software coupled to the endorsement engine and adapted to interact with one or more content sources connected over a network and adapted to enable subscriptions from users using a protocol, and a second interface software coupled to the endorsement engine... Agent: Brian R. Galvin

20090265256 - Product characteristic selection website: The present invention is an Internet wire-mesh merchandising system that comprises a webserver for generating a web presence. Potential customers looking to select and buy wire mesh are allowed to log-on to a website operated by a wire-mesh retailer, distributor, and manufacturer. An HTML product page includes navigation buttons that... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20090265255 - Systems, devices, and methods for supporting decisions: Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a method that can include: sending software to a first information device and to a second information device, the software adapted to cause display of information regarding user-selected items; receiving an identifier of a selected item; and providing the identifier to the software on the... Agent: Michael N. Haynes

20090265258 - Bag tracking system and bag counting rack associated therewith: A sensor-based bag counting system for monitoring bag use at a check out stand or the like. The preferred embodiment teaches a scale, pressure switch, or like sensor unit which integrates with a bag rack to sense the load generated by a bag as it is loaded and use same... Agent: Joseph T. Regard, Ltd PLC

20090265259 - Method for triggering a cost entry: In order to allow cost entries after the completion of particular processes in the context of a job, it is being suggested that status reports arriving at the management information system are stored, categorized through a parser, and that a cost entry is triggered, when a status report is stored... Agent: Ursula B. Day, Esq.

20090265260 - Prepaid chip card exception processing: A portable consumer device may have money stored therein, which can be calculated using an accumulator record and an exception record. The accumulator record can be incremented by the amount of any initiated transaction using the portable consumer device. The exception record can be incremented by the amount of any... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20090265261 - Determining time histories for financial information: Embodiments of a computer system that determines a time history are described. During operation, the computer system receives a single command which accesses information associated with the time history, wherein the command is received from a user, and the information is to be used by financial software. Then, the computer... Agent: Pvf -- Intuit, Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090265262 - Method and system for installment payment utilization: Methods and system for installment payment utilization are described. In one embodiment, a revolving balance of a credit instrument associated with a user may be accessed. The revolving balance may be at a revolving balance interest rate. An installment balance may be designated for the credit instrument. The installment balance... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20090265281 - Account portfolio risk characterization: Input characterizing one or more economic indicators and a portfolio of accounts can be used to estimate a portfolio level effect of the economic indicators on the portfolio of accounts is estimated. Based on this estimation, an account level effect of the economic indicators is simulated for each of the... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c

20090265285 - Apparatus, method, and computer program product for characterizing user-defined areas: A method of specifying a boundary for an area is provided, which includes receiving a first input from a first user regarding a first configuration of a boundary of an area. The first input may serve to establish an area of arbitrary and possibly irregular configuration, such as an area... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090265284 - Netting and position matching for portfolio compression: A netting method replaces a set of trades between a pair of counterparties. The method includes a selection of multiple trades having equivalent terms and a determination of the net notional and net coupon. Replacement trades are created, the combined net notional and combined net coupon of which respectively equal... Agent: Ip Group Of Dla Piper LLP (us)

20090265282 - System and method for managing trading orders with decaying reserves: A system comprises a memory operable to store a trading order for a particular quantity of a trading product, wherein a first portion of the particular quantity is a displayed quantity and a second portion of the particular quantity is a reserved quantity. The system further comprises a processor communicatively... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20090265283 - Systems and methods for ranking investors and rating investment positions: Systems and methods for rating a plurality of investment positions are described. The rating comprises identifying a set of investors corresponding to each investment position of a plurality of investment positions. An investor is one who owns the investment position. The rating comprises, for each set of investors, generating a... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20090265263 - Apparatus, system, and method for concurrently trading securities via multiple strategies: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for trading securities. Trading software 102 receives recent market data history from a market data stream via a broker having direct access to a securities market. A trading strategy determination module is comprised of a plurality of strategies which concurrently analyze the recent... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20090265267 - Derivatives trading methods that use a variable order price: Methods and systems for an exchange to handle variable derivative product order prices are disclosed. The price of a derivative product order (bid or offer) is updated based on changes in the price of a related underlying product. Price determination variable(s), such as delta and gamma, are used to determine... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd., Attorneys For Client No. 006119

20090265266 - Methods of pricing and allocating capacity: A method of assigning a settled unit capacity price for the purchase of transmission capacity by resource suppliers including the steps of specifying an available capacity for bidding, receiving bids from a plurality of resource suppliers, selecting the bids with the highest personal unit capacity prices until the aggregate desired... Agent: Kolisch Hartwell, P.C.

20090265264 - Request for market stream: Systems and methods are provided to implement request for stream functionality (RFS) into the trading environment. A request for stream may be submitted to determine liquidity of a particular financial instrument of interest to a customer. In response to a request for stream, quotes may be submitted by market markers... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd., Attorneys For Client No. 006119

20090265265 - System and method of auctioning a defaulted loan: A method and system for conducting an online property auction whereby the system allows for identifying an owner of property willing to sell his property by an online auction, entering into a contract with the owner obligating him to complete the sales of his property conducted pursuant to terms of... Agent: Rutan & Tucker, LLP.

20090265268 - Method and system for match making in virtual currency exchange: A method, system and computer program product are disclosed for matching virtual currency exchange requests. The method comprises the step of creating a virtual currency exchange network comprised of a set of nodes and a set of edges connecting the nodes together. Each of the nodes represents a virtual currency... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090265269 - System and method for providing a swap system in a network environment: A swap system is provided that includes an interchange platform operable to receive and process transaction information from one or more companies that are included in a group of network companies. The transaction information being generated by one or more end users transferring a first monetary value from a first... Agent: Patent Capital Group

20090265272 - Money transfers utilizing a unique receiver identifier: Methods, systems, and machine-readable media are disclosed for financial transfers utilizing a unique identifier to facilitate flexible payment options for the transaction. According to one embodiment, a pull transaction model can be implemented. According to such embodiments, a money transfer can be initiated in a conventional manner via an agent... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090265271 - Prepaid portable consumer device including accumulator: A portable consumer device may have money stored therein, which can be calculated using an accumulator record. The accumulator record can be incremented by the amount of any transaction using the portable consumer device. The accumulator record can retain the value of the prior transactions, upon additional funds being collected... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20090265270 - Token activation: A method of activating a taken at a self-service terminal is described. The method comprises receiving an active token (such as a financial card) from a customer. The terminal then authenticates the customer using the active token and an associated identifier, which may be a PIN. The terminal then receives... Agent: Michael Chan Ncr Corporation

20090265274 - Automated transaction processing system and approach with currency conversion: Transaction management for contract and contract-related approaches is facilitated. According to an example embodiment of the present invention, a transaction management system automatically sets contract terms including currency conversion terms for a transaction based on business rules previously established between parties to a transaction. In one implementation, the transaction management... Agent: Crawford Maunu PLLC

20090265276 - Method for authorizing at least one transaction by a bank system: The invention relates to a method and a system for authorizing at least one transaction by a bank system, wherein at least one client application handled by the bank system is connected to at least one server application outside the bank system. With the help of the client application, at... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090265275 - Systems and methods for time variable financial authentication: The systems and methods of the invention provide a technique for authenticating a finance related transaction. The method may include providing a token which contains a token counter, the token counter periodically advancing to generate a changing token value, the token counter being synchronized to a base counter that generates... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090265273 - Transaction authorization: A transaction authorization method and system. The system includes a host coupled to a plurality of transaction request channels (telephone, PC, and the like) for receiving and authorizing transaction requests for a specific self-service terminal. The system also includes a self-service terminal coupled to the host for receiving a transaction... Agent: Michael Chan Ncr Corporation

20090265277 - Universal content catalog: A content catalog suitable for electronic distribution of digital media to interactive media services devices such as cellular phones, digital cameras, television, and printers over the internet. The content catalog includes digital media sourced from online catalog and different content providers. The content catalog also includes metadata associated with the... Agent: Lester H. Birnbaum

20090265278 - Digital rights management of content when content is a future live event: A system for managing use of digital content within a trusted community. An access list defines the trusted community. License requests for use of content made from outside the trusted community are handled in accordance with a license request policy process.... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20090265279 - System and method for managing and distributing hedge fund data: A system for managing hedge funds includes a storage unit operable to store hedge fund information. The hedge fund information comprises at least one of a fund name, a fund share class, and denominated currency of a fund share class for a hedge fund. The system further includes a determination... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090265280 - Managing real time meeting room status: Presence information within a meeting room is detected and published to users for managing room availability and real time status. Various means such as motion detectors, card readers, log-in mechanisms associated with in-room computers, and the like, are used to detect presence information. Different status indicators are assigned to each... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090265286 - Customized system and method of billing for printing service costs by examining the contents of printed pages: A system and method of billing for printing service costs is provided to examine content of a page and apply a cost function to approximate the cost of printing the page. Examining the page may include detecting an object in the page, determining a type of the detected object, and... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP Xerox Corporation