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20120123795 - Business method and system for ordering, purchasing and storing stem cells: An online business method and system enables donors or parents or guardians of donors to order and purchase stem-cells extracted from biological tissue sampled from the donor, such as, for example, cord-blood stem cells of a newborn baby, wherein the ordering process interfaces directly with the attending medical services, and... Agent: Hydrojoule, LLC

20120123790 - Medical professional appointment scheduling and payment system and method: The present invention relates to a method of scheduling and paying for visits with a medical professional. Specifically the present invention relates to a web based appointment service that relies on prepayment to schedule appointments from available doctors.... Agent:

20120123793 - Method and apparatus for clinical decision support for patient behavior modification: Apparatus, computer readable medium, and a method for clinician decision support for behavior modification of a patient, the method including in response to receiving information identifying the patient, retrieving stored patient data from a database, and displaying portions of the retrieved patient data for a clinician to update during a... Agent: The Nemours Foundation

20120123794 - Method and system for adjudicating claims in a health services environment: Methods and systems for adjudicating claims in health services environments are presented. An exemplary method for processing service provider claims for payment includes scheduling appointments with service providers, receiving claims from the service providers, determining whether at least one scheduled appointment corresponds with at least one received claim and determining... Agent: Mdi Technologies, Inc.

20120123791 - Personalized coordinated perinatal care system: A system to provide personalized coordinated perinatal care for a woman and her baby. It includes an electronic database on an internet-connected server comprising a comprehensive list of perinatal care services and at least a first completed detailed questionnaire about a woman's personal situation. A comprehensive perinatal risk-scoring and selection... Agent:

20120123796 - System and method for consumption and utilization analysis in an organization: A method and system for analyzing consumption and utilization patterns of organizations. The usage of materials and the behavior of people is tracked in an organization. These factors are analyzed and used in order to reduce the costs associated with usage of materials and services.... Agent:

20120123789 - System and method for facilitating healthcare volunteering: Computer-implemented methods and systems for connecting and facilitating communication among healthcare volunteers, organizations, patients and donors are disclosed. A matching system to match volunteers, donors, organizations and patients to coordinate and manage providing low cost or free health care services is disclosed. An donation inventory management system is also disclosed.... Agent:

20120123792 - System for making available individual or pooled, also anonymous patient data on the basis of molecular genome, transcriptome, proteome, epigenome, or metabolome data: The invention relates to a system for automatically, rapidly, and dynamically funding biological cells for transplantion, treatment, or research purposes between collection centers or banks (storage places) and hospitals, transplant centers, or research facilities, monitoring and assisting with processes from the transmission of requests, the delivery of cell preparation suitable... Agent: Cytolon Ag

20120123805 - Collection of medical data: A system for collecting medical data includes a database server programmed to receive data in a number of different formats from respective different data sources. The database server is connectable to a communications network. A number of remote data collection arrangements are associated with respective medical operators and each is... Agent:

20120123798 - Health care financing systems and methods for determination of the patient specific prospective lump sum payment for an episode of care arising from an insurable event: This invention includes a health savings and financial application that analyzes an electronic medical record with patient data and with protocol and complexity data to determine if there is a new insurable event. If no, then the patient pays for discretionary care. However, if there is a nondiscretionary insurable event,... Agent:

20120123799 - Interactive organ diagrams: An interactive organ diagram facilitates that input of clinically-related data regarding the condition of a patient's organ and storage of the clinically-related data in a patient's electronic medical record. The interactive organ diagram includes a graphical depiction of an organ with data entry elements that allow for the entry of... Agent: Cerner Innovation, Inc.

20120123803 - Method and system for transforming patient care: A method and system of transforming patient care including a multi-disciplinary strategy consisting of the adoption of a “code” alert used to mobilize and coordinate all treatment caregivers, improve regional paramedic education, and a database to track the progress of a patient as they move through the emergency medical system... Agent: Summa Health System

20120123800 - Patient monitoring system having a patient history slider: A patient monitoring system designed to monitor a patient located in a home or residence and to provide information to a health care manager located at a healthcare facility. The system includes a base station configured to be located at a residence or home of a patient. The base station... Agent:

20120123801 - Pet/ct based monitoring system supported by a clinical guideline navigator: An oncology monitoring system comprises: an image analysis module (42, 44) configured to perform an oncological monitoring operation based on images of a subject, for example acquired by positron emission tomography (PET) and computed tomography (CT); and a clinical guideline support module (10). The clinical guideline support module is configured... Agent: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.v.

20120123802 - System and method for utilizing incentives to promote patient compliance and improve patient outcome: The invention generally relates to a system and method for utilizing incentives to promote patient education and compliance. More particularly, the present invention provides a user-accessible website in which various rewards are provide to a patient upon completion of various education and other health-related tasks in order to promote education,... Agent: Healthy Outcomes Incentive Systems, LLC

20120123797 - System for media recommendation based on health index: A system for providing health information is provided. The system includes a wellbeing-index (WI) providing unit and a recommendation media providing unit. The WI providing unit receives a user's health information obtained through one or more health information measuring devices and calculates a WI indicating the user's health condition based... Agent:

20120123804 - Systems and methods for providing an inducement to purchase incident to a physician's prescription of medication: Systems and methods for providing targeted content to a patient who has received a prescription for medication. The systems and methods generally provide the content prior to the Point of Sale (POS) of the actual prescription allow patients to review the content and possibly act on it prior to actually... Agent:

20120123809 - System and method for processing data related to insurance coverage for a plurality of risks: A computer system for processing of data associated with insurance coverage includes a data storage device storing data indicative of: an insured; an aggregate benefit amount, the aggregate benefit amount being a maximum benefit amount payable under the insurance coverage; a first category of health risks; a second category of... Agent: Hartford Fire Insurance Company

20120123808 - Systems and methods for insurance verification: Systems and methods for verifying insurance coverage are provided. A method may include registering data for one or more users, the data including information designating one or more insurance providers for the users. The method may further include transmitting, via a communications network, an insurance verification request to the designated... Agent:

20120123806 - Systems and methods for providing a safety score associated with a user location: Pursuant to some embodiments, insurance systems, methods and devices are provided which include a data storage device for storing, updating and providing access to loss risk score data. In some embodiments, a request for information associated with a user's location identified by user location data may be received over a... Agent:

20120123807 - Systems, methods, and apparatus for enterprise billing and accounts receivable: Systems, apparatus, methods and articles of manufacture provide for an integrated operations management system for revenue management and/or billing and accounts receivable (e.g., in an insurance or other financial context). In some embodiments, an operations management system provides for determining a complexity rating for an account (e.g., a loss sensitive... Agent: The Travelers Companies, Inc.

20120123810 - Using commercial share of wallet to manage vendors: Commercial size of spending wallet (“CSoSW”) is the total business spend of a business including cash but excluding bartered items. Commercial share of wallet (“CSoW”) is the portion of the spending wallet that is captured by a particular financial company. A modeling approach utilizes various data sources to provide outputs... Agent: American Express Travel Related Services Company Inc.

20120123812 - Evaluating customers: Scarce resources, such as goods and/or services, can be allocated to customers according to score values associated with each customer that is a candidate to receive such resources in order to achieve an optimal allocation of resources, as determined by a business or other entity or organization that provides the... Agent:

20120123811 - Interactive live political events: An interactive political event allows clients to provide feedback to political candidates speakers and/or event producers relative to the event being observed. Feedback options include shout outs, emotapplause, and voting. Ticket scarcity management system adjusts event marketing, and/or ticketed sales methodologies, which include free and paid to maintain optimal conditions... Agent: Deep Rock Drive Partners Inc.

20120123813 - Sports and concert event ticket pricing and visualization system: A system and method for selecting inventory pricing for an event at a venue is disclosed. The method comprising determining a rate at which a first inventory of seats have sold for an event at a venue. The method further comprising calculating a demand for a second inventory of seats... Agent: Tixtrack, Inc.

20120123814 - Product assortment planning system and method utilizing scaled performance metric values: A product assortment planning system determines scaled performance metric values for an assortment of products. The system includes a data store storing performance metric values for an assortment of products including a target assortment of products and a source assortment of products, an equivalization unit and a scaling unit. The... Agent: Accenture Global Services Limited

20120123816 - Selecting suppliers to perform services for an enterprise: One embodiment is a method that receives historical data of suppliers and applies, to the historical data, a mathematical optimization system that includes a set of mathematical equations and inequalities that express capabilities and capacities of the suppliers. The mathematical optimization system includes an objective function that minimizes a number... Agent:

20120123815 - Wavelenght regeneration in a network: An optical network including a plurality of gateway nodes interconnected with a plurality of intermediate nodes with segments of fiber. The network includes a plurality of devices, such as reconfigurable optical add drop multiplexors, optimally placed at various nodes throughout the network. The device placement is optimized with an integer... Agent:

20120123817 - Agricultural management using biological signals: A method and system for customizing agriculture management using biological signals and making decisions according to pre-programmed algorithms, including decisions related to irrigation, prediction of future yield, characterization of plant varieties, and administration of topical applications.... Agent: Smartfield, Inc.

20120123818 - Virtual meeting savings: A method comprises receiving, by a processor, a number of participants for a virtual meeting and a home location for each participant. For each participant, the method further comprises ascertaining, by the processor, an environmental emissions savings associated with the participant in participating in the virtual meeting compared to having... Agent:

20120123819 - Forecasting demand and availability of resources of a military installation: Methods and computer systems for forecasting demand and availability of resources of a geographic region are provided. Physical, operational, traffic and construction data for a geographic region for a specified time period is utilized to compare the operational needs for at least one resource for a geographic region to the... Agent: Hntb Holdings Ltd

20120123820 - Supply chain demand satisfaction: Systems and methods for supply chain management and identification of feasible plans. Identification of feasible plans includes collecting demands for one or more items having the same level code; and for each of the collected demands, determining a first demand shortage quantity, searching the data storage for available unallocated supply... Agent: Oracle International Corporation

20120123822 - Computerized complex system event assessment, projection and control: Systems, methods and computer readable media for computerized event risk assessment, event projection and control of events associated with complex systems are disclosed. The assessment can include using statistically processed survey data to determine risk category performance. Event projection can be based on data retrieved from a past events database.... Agent: Projectioneering, LLC

20120123821 - System and method for risk assessment of an asserted identity: A system for providing a risk assessment for an asserted identity comprising an identity database, a first risk database, a second risk database, an identity module that receives the asserted identity and searches the identity database to retrieve one or more known identities and calculates a probability score for each... Agent: Raytheon Company

20120123823 - Method and system for online user feedback on websites and software: A system for collecting and analyzing structured user feedback on websites, the system including website user structured feedback form generation functionality operative to generate structured feedback forms for providing website user feedback on website user interaction with a website-based process and website user feedback analyzing functionality operative to automatically collect... Agent: Kampyle Ltd.

20120123824 - Personalized interactive network with knowledge management system: Systems and methods are disclosed for personalizing interaction between an information/service/product provider using a knowledge management (KM) system that tracks data exchanged between users and the provider over multiple communication channels. User requests to an information/service/product provider can made via multiple different channels, such as by using ATMs, PDAs, cell... Agent: Jpmorgan Chase, Na

20120123825 - Concurrent scheduling of plan operations in a virtualized computing environment: Systems and methods for planning the execution of one or more plans in a virtualized computing environment are provided. In one embodiment, the method comprises computing an order for execution for one or more plans, and the corresponding operations in said one or more plans; validating whether a plan and... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120123826 - Shopping cart accountability using coupon incentives with participation option: A system and method encourage shopper compliance with a monitoring schedule is provided. When signing up for a customer loyalty card, a shopper is invited to participate in an incentive program. The incentive program provides more valuable benefits to the shopper compared to customers who do not opt-in to the... Agent:

20120123827 - System and method for an electronic gift key: A system and method facilitating delivery of a fully-integrated physical item providing access to non-physical content is presented. The method includes enabling access to an electronic greeting card, exclusive content, promotion, and/or store credit from a remote system after a gift key is linked to a local system. The system... Agent:

20120123832 - Stored value exchange method and apparatus: An apparatus and method for exchanging one form of stored value for another form of value. In one embodiment, a method for exchanging stored value for an alternative form of value comprises receiving stored value account information relating to the stored value from a remote user device, sending at least... Agent:

20120123833 - Stored value exchange method and apparatus: An apparatus and method for exchanging one form of stored value for another form of value. In one embodiment, a method for exchanging stored value for an alternative form of value comprises receiving stored value account information relating to the stored value from a remote user device and generating a... Agent:

20120123834 - Stored value exchange method and apparatus: An apparatus and method for exchanging one form of stored value for another form of value. In one embodiment, a method for exchanging stored value for an alternative form of value comprises receiving stored value account information relating to the stored value from a remote user device and sending a... Agent:

20120123835 - Systems and methods of managing tasks assigned to an individual: In embodiments of the present invention, a method for managing tasks comprises assigning a task to an individual, associating the task with a points value, receiving an indication that a task is completed, grading the completed task, and awarding points for a completed task to an individual. In other embodiments... Agent:

20120123836 - Systems and methods for driving internet traffic: A system and method for driving internet traffic to a coupon website is described. The website can provide low-cost, high traffic advertising to vendors by providing coupons. Traffic to the website can be enhanced by providing a variety of incentives. The incentives can include points, free prizes, and cash incentives.... Agent: Adtriad, LLC

20120123838 - Incentives for media sharing: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing incentives for media sharing. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a request from a first user to share a media item with a second user, and providing the second user with access to the... Agent: Google Inc.

20120123837 - Social network shopping system and method: A method and computer system for combining functions of social networking and shopping are disclosed. In one embodiment, a server stores user information including information concerning products recommended by a user. The user may notify a friend or a group of people of a recommended product and receive credit when... Agent: Wellstar Gmbh & Co Kg

20120123839 - System and method for providing advertising to a wireless user device: A system and method for providing wireless service includes a user device and a service provider. The service provider communicates the advertisement to the user device. The user device has a display control module that generates a first screen display at the user device comprising the advertisement and a lockout... Agent: Conexus, LLC

20120123828 - Fast and versatile graphical scoring device and method: A graphical user interface presents an image to a user and two labeled axes of that image corresponding to evaluations by the user of the image or of something represented by the image. The user moves a computer mouse or other input device to select a single location on the... Agent:

20120123840 - Low cost and effective means for generating sales and raising finance: A method for enabling low cost and effective sale transactions between buyers and sellers is provided, wherein the method is enabled by a system comprising one or more client interfaces and at least one server. Sellers list one or more Price Credits (PCs), and one or more goods on a... Agent:

20120123841 - Smart wallet: A service provider provides one or more “best” total value suggestions for one or more items specified by a user. The suggestions are based on one or more of user preferences, user location, available funding options, available local merchant incentives, available manufacturer incentives, and local merchants offering the item. In... Agent: Ebay, Inc.

20120123843 - Food product scale system and method for providing in-store incentives to customers: A food product scale system includes a video commercial advertisement feature that is linked to an incentive item associated with a food product being weighed, where a coupon or other incentive label may also be printed for the incentive item.... Agent: Valassis In-store Solutions, Inc.

20120123842 - Method and apparatus for delivering an identification representing a medication adherence incentive: Generating an identification representing a medication adherence linked incentive and initiating a transmission of the identification to an identification display device by receiving a request from user at the server, generating the identification, associating the identification with the user, associating the combined user and identification with a medication adherence inventive... Agent: Rxconverge, LLC

20120123844 - System for individualized customer interaction: A method and system for using individualized customer models when operating a retail establishment is provided. The individualized customer models may be generated using statistical analysis of transaction data for the customer, thereby generating sub-models and attributes tailored to customer. The individualized customer models may be used in any aspect... Agent: Accenture Global Services Limited

20120123847 - System and method for distribution, redemption and processing of electronic coupons: In a method of executing a transaction using an electronic coupon, coupon campaign information is provided to an engine. The coupon campaign information defines a discount value, a product family and a number of coupons to be distributed. Each coupon within the coupon campaign has a coupon identification (ID). Coupon... Agent:

20120123846 - System and method for providing locally applicable internet content with secure action requests and item condition alerts: Optimized delivery of locally applicable Internet content to users. A cache of locally applicable Internet content is maintained in a local content server, based upon a monitoring of locations of users requesting Internet content. Requests for Internet content are received from user equipment through a wireless network base station, and... Agent: Sellerbid, Inc.

20120123848 - System and method to initiate a mobile data communication utilizing a trigger system: A system and method to enable a user to initiate a communication with an organization using a mobile communication device by means of a trigger system. A system and method to enable an organization to acquire a user mobile device address by means of a trigger system. A system and... Agent: M-qube, Inc.

20120123845 - Systems and/or methods for fraud detection in award point programs: Certain exemplary embodiments described herein relate to the field of electronic registration (ER) of purchased items and, more particularly, to improved electronic registration techniques that provide validation and/or verification services for an award points program and/or products having associated award points. Certain exemplary embodiments provide electronic award points management techniques... Agent: Nintendo Of America Inc.

20120123849 - System and methods for purchase reward investment communities: Purchase rewards account holders accumulate rewards currency. A network-based investment management system allows account holders to purchase shares in investments using reward currency. When all the shares for a particular investment have been purchased, the underlying investment is acquired. Account holders owning shares in an investment may sell shares to... Agent: Capital One Financial Corporation

20120123850 - System and method for actively ranking and filtering information: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a method, which includes receiving a request for specific information, wherein the request is associated with a first reward limit and a second reward limit, determining a first reward amount within the first reward limit based on a number of information providers,... Agent: Haison Technology Inc.

20120123829 - Independent carrier ethernet interconnection platform: A communications system is provided for enabling a plurality of service providers to interconnect via an Ethernet platform, the plurality of service providers employing disparate Ethernet protocols. The system includes a central server and a plurality of switching locations. Each one of the plurality of switching locations is communicatively connected... Agent: Cenx, Inc.

20120123852 - method and system for providing advertising effect report: A system and method for providing an advertising effect report are provided. The method for providing an advertising effect report may include measuring an advertising effect of a search advertisement, storing an advertisement management history for the search advertisement, and providing the advertising effect in association with the advertisement management... Agent: Nhn Business Platform Corporation

20120123851 - Click equivalent reporting and related technique: Techniques are provided for use in online advertising, such as sponsored search advertising. Information may be obtained that includes historical online advertising information including information relating to conversion rates associated with bid amounts or bid amount ranges, as well as a proposed advertiser bid amount or bid amount range. Based... Agent: Yahoo! Inc.

20120123853 - Competitive advertising server: Competitive content item serving is provided. Competitive content item serving can include the ability to receive a request for a content item and to compare an expected return for a first network content item to an expected return for a second network content item. Based upon the comparison, it can... Agent: Google Inc.

20120123854 - Data mining to determine online user responses to broadcast messages: In a networked system, a method and apparatus for measuring advertising effectiveness involves broadcasting an advertisement at a broadcast time, monitoring at least one social network or other online forum following the broadcast time, filtering social network traffic to identify messages, search engine queries to identify queries, or other traffic... Agent: Disney Enterprises, Inc.

20120123855 - System and method for suggesting recommended keyword: Provided are a system and method of suggesting at least one recommended keyword. The recommended keyword suggestion system may include a database storage device, the system including a keyword extracting unit to extract at least one keyword associated with a certain keyword from a related search word database stored in... Agent: Nhn Business Platform Corporation

20120123856 - Dynamic pricing for content presentations: A request for content is received. First content is selected for the request. The first content is selected from among multiple content items based on information in the request, a characteristic of how the first content is to be presented, and a stored pricing threshold value selected based on the... Agent: Google Inc.

20120123857 - Bidding model for sponsored search advertising based on user query intent: A method and a system are provided for sponsored search ad bidding based on user query intent and matching one or more ads to a user's query intent. In one example, the system receives a bid intent of an advertiser for an ad, a query intent of a user, a... Agent:

20120123858 - Crowdsourced advertisements sponsored by advertisers in a social networking environment: Users of a social networking system are provided with advertisements when accessing content associated with the social networking system. The content of such advertisement may be generated by other users of the social networking system. An advertiser may provide an advertising template containing an advertised message and fields wherein a... Agent:

20120123860 - Graphical internet search system and methods: A system and methods for web based graphical internet searching for locating unique items sought by buyers of designs, furnishings and accessories through use of the internet. The invention includes a search interface where both a seller and buyer will use the same graphical alphabet, which divides an item into... Agent: Rosetta Holdings, LLC

20120123859 - Online advertising with enhanced publisher involvement: Techniques are provided for use in connection with online advertising exchanges. Methods are provided in which information is obtained, including, for each of multiple publisher sites, a set of publisher site tags, and for each of multiple advertisements, a set of advertisement tags. Methods are provided that include, in selection... Agent: Yahoo! Inc.

20120123861 - Online educational program and instruction process: An improved online medical education program that allows a user to access the site and input information into the system relating to their medical condition is provided. Once information has been inputted into the system, the individuals may be directed to an area which allows them to learn information relating... Agent:

20120123830 - User generated photo ads used as status updates: Systems and methods are disclosed for generating and utilizing photo advertisements (“ads”). In one embodiment, a photo advertisement is posted as a status update for a user via a social networking service. More specifically, first, one or more photo ad templates are obtained for the user, where each photo ad... Agent: Teaneck Enterprises, LLC

20120123862 - Method and apparatus for selective delivery of ads based on factors including site clustering: For each of various sites, a mathematical representation is computed according to prescribed characteristics of users that have conducted one or more predetermined types of interaction with the site. Cluster of the sites are identified whose computed representations are similar according to prescribed criteria. Responsive to notification of an opportunity... Agent:

20120123863 - Keyword publication for use in online advertising: In a technique for publishing keywords for use in an online advertising system (OAS), keywords are extracted from product information that is received from entities that provide products. Based on calculated performance metrics associated with the extracted keywords, an estimated viability of the keywords (such as an estimated profitability) when... Agent:

20120123864 - Method and apparatus for selecting a supplemental product to offer for sale during a transaction: According to some embodiments, a supplemental product or service may be offered to a user during a transaction, either in addition to products and/or services the user is purchasing, or as a replacement to one or more of the products and/or services that the user is purchasing. The functionality may... Agent: Walker Digital, LLC

20120123865 - Enhanced shopping experience for mobile station users: An enhanced shopping experience is provided via a graphical user interface of a mobile station. The shopping experience may include a categorical hierarchy for a catalog of downloadable content items. The catalog may support any or all of several additional features, such as animated promotions, search capabilities, sharing a wishlist... Agent: Cellco Partnership D/b/a Verizon Wireless

20120123866 - Targeted advertising in a peer-to-peer network: A method is described including requesting content from a directory service, receiving a list of peers in a peer-to-peer network having the requested content, selecting a peer from the received list of peers, establishing communications with the selected peer, receiving a list of chunks of content and ads available from... Agent: Thomson Licensing

20120123869 - Location blocking service from a web advertiser: Location-blocking and identity-blocking services that can be commercially offered by a service promoter, e.g., a cellular service provider or a web advertiser. In the identity-blocking service, the service promoter may disclose the current physical location of a mobile subscriber (i.e., a cellular phone operator) to a third party (e.g., a... Agent:

20120123867 - Location event advertising: Information about physical places is gathered to develop quality scores for targeting advertisements to users of mobile devices sharing geographic location events with service providers. A scoring model incorporates selected attributes about places (e.g., created by a service provider vs. user-generated, category, keywords, census data providing population density by location,... Agent:

20120123868 - System and method for physical-world based dynamic contactless data emulation in a portable communication device: A system for dynamically adjusting the contactless data emulation used by a portable communication device based on its geo-location. The system determines a geo-location of the portable communication device by transmitting the current geo-location data using a most appropriate channel to a server; receiving data regarding payment systems potentially co-located... Agent:

20120123870 - Systems and methods for enabling personalization of data service plans: Systems and methods for enabling personalization of data service plans are disclosed herein. According to an aspect, a method can include receiving profile and network usage data of a subscriber. Further, the method can include generating a personalized data service offer for the subscriber based on the profile and network... Agent: Genband Inc.

20120123872 - Cooperative personalized promotion method according to consumer-store interactive transaction history and system using the same: A system performs cooperative personalized promotion based on consumer-store interactive transaction history at multiple stores of different categories. The system includes a cooperative personal promotion platform. The cooperative personal promotion platform is provided for multiple stores of different categories to register a number of promotion information and to display at... Agent:

20120123871 - Serving ad requests using user generated photo ads: Systems and methods are disclosed for generating and utilizing photo advertisements (“ads”). In one embodiment, a computer server obtains and stores user-created photo advertisements. Each of the user-created photo advertisements is generated based on a corresponding photo ad template having one or more photo wells such that filler images of... Agent: Teaneck Enterprises, LLC

20120123874 - Method and apparatus for providing multiple online advertisements using location information of scroll bar: According to the present invention, if multiple advertisers transmit advertisement providing requests, the advertisers' advertisements can be provided to various web sites or web pages and the like, while the advertisers' advertisement providing requirements are reflected thereupon. In addition, as online advertisements using the location information of scroll bars are... Agent: Cdnetworks Co., Ltd.

20120123873 - Method for providing data service and system for providing data service applying the same: A method for providing a data service and a system for providing a data service applying the same are provided. The method includes selecting a content that is assigned a data assignment quantity indicating a quantity sufficient for using a service; comparing a data generation quantity indicating a quantity of... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20120123831 - Media rights management using melody identification: A content recognition system operates in conjunction with a media hosting service to identify hosted media content and ownership rights associated with the hosted content. By applying melody recognition, the content recognition system can identify compositions embodied in hosted media content even when these compositions do not precisely match any... Agent: Google Inc.

20120123875 - User generated ads based on check-ins: Systems and methods are disclosed for generating and utilizing photo advertisements (“ads”). In one embodiment, a photo check-in process is performed for a user located within a geographic check-in zone which results in a photo advertisement that is utilized as a photo check-in for the user. In another embodiment, a... Agent: Teaneck Enterprises, LLC

20120123877 - Point of interest tracking with specific retailer accreditation: A method and system is provided for crediting presenters of product advertisements for purchases related to a consumer's initial point of interest. A presenter provides a previously generated, point of interest tracking (POIT) code on advertising media, the POIT code having an internet address for fulfillment website site, and the... Agent: Enthrill Distribution Inc.

20120123876 - Recommending and presenting advertisements on display pages over networks of communication devices and computers: An aspect of the present invention recommends and presents ads of interest to a user requesting display pages by maintaining a Click Through Rate (CTR) matrix containing terms extracted from prior display page request URLs and associated parameters as the row index and corresponding terms extracted from ad URLs, ad... Agent:

20120123878 - Method and apparatus for associating menu information: Methods and Apparatus related to generating representations of information. The information may include menu information for merchants such as restaurants. Referring to menus, methods may include receiving potential information for a first menu, and receiving indications of associations of the information with the first menu and/or any number of additional... Agent:

20120123882 - Cardless challenge systems and methods: Systems, methods, and apparatus for handling and/or authorizing payment requests by a consumer for a transaction are provided. Challenge questions may be presented from the non-merchant to the consumer after receiving the payment information, thereby allowing a judicious determination of when to ask such challenge questions and allowing complex and... Agent:

20120123880 - System and method for on demand diagnostics of a device utilizing secure data to interact wirelessly with one or more third party systems: A system and method for remotely diagnosing a failure in a mobile transaction is disclosed. The system includes a portable communication device having a diagnostics agent configured to transmit the communication device's unique identification number and present status over a mobile network. The system further includes a retailer subsystem in... Agent:

20120123881 - Systems and methods for risk triggering values: Systems and methods for facilitating risk assessment for point of sale transactions utilizing at least one risk triggering value (RTV) is disclosed. An RTV is a condensed version of a set of complex risk data and strategies usually found in central processing sites. After receiving a request for payment authorization,... Agent: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.

20120123879 - Verification of a transactor's identity: A system for facilitating a financial transaction between a prospective transactor and a transactee has an identity and account verifying facility for verifying the identity of the prospective transactor and an account that the prospective transactor has with a financial institution, the identity and account verifying facility being operated by... Agent:

20120123883 - Nfc transaction server: A near field transaction system includes a first transaction device having near field communication circuitry, and a portable device having near field communication circuitry. The system also includes at least one transaction server having a memory area with at least one application program, and a mechanism for establishing a data... Agent: Inside Secure

20120123885 - Activating licensable component of consumer electronic device at point of sale: A purchaser of a CE device informs a retail clerk, at the point of sale (POS) of features of the CE device the purchaser wishes to employ, some of which require a license. The CE device is vended without the licenses but the clerk can upload the desired features to... Agent: Sony Corporation

20120123884 - Store management via remote point of sale data management system: The present invention provides a method and system for accessing and managing business data stored in a POS system through a mobile device. The method enables a remote user to access and manage the business data present on the POS system in real time and effectively manage a store. The... Agent:

20120123886 - Managing service demand load relative to infrastructure capacity in a networked computing environment: Embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for implementing service level agreements (SLAs) having variable service delivery requirements and pricing in a networked (e.g. cloud) computing environment. Under embodiments of the present invention, a plurality of SLAs, each having a different price level, is made available to a consumer.... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120123888 - Method and use of point-of-sale terminal, which receives, transmits, stores, authorizes, reconciles, and calculates transactions electronically: A point-of-sale terminal, which receives, stores, transmits, authorizes, reconciles and calculates electronic transactions of data. It is also an on-line document delivery system which allows access, download, viewing and printing from a client's desktop, receive and send documents via facsimile to any location, and do virtually any other transaction offered... Agent: Patent Imaging Corporation

20120123890 - System and method for augmenting a user environment with customized information: A system and method is provided which utilizes wireless communications to provide a client with timed, geo-referenced information to augment the user experience in a physical environment. The present invention enriches the user environment by providing targeted information regarding the venue, products, services, customer services, social networking, gaming, targeted advertising,... Agent:

20120123889 - System and method for streamlined acquisition, download and opening of digital content: A system and method for the purchase, downloading and opening of digital content, which is accomplished with one or two gestures, e.g., button or taps. Digital content items are displayed on the user's local device along with a button, i.e., a “Buy” button that can be selected to purchase a... Agent:

20120123887 - Systems and methods for face-to-face mobile phone mercantile transactions: Methods and arrangements for processing face-to-face mobile phone transactions. An agreed-upon price for a product is accepted from a buyer mobile phone and a seller mobile phone. Distinct random numbers are assigned to each of the buyer and seller mobile phones. The random number assigned to the seller mobile phone... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120123891 - Professionally-qualified bidding system for a user seeking professional services: A professionally-qualified bidding system for a user seeking professional services is presented. The teachings are generally related to a professionally-qualified bidding system for a user seeking professional services. From the user perspective, the system generally includes a component operable for receiving a user's request for a professional service, an optional... Agent:

20120123901 - Method for on-line parts ordering: The present invention is a method of selling replacement parts for a product over a computer network including providing a plurality of product manufacturer selection options for a customer to select from, receiving a manufacturer selection of one of the product manufacturers, providing a plurality of product selections for the... Agent: Brownell's, Inc.

20120123893 - Device, system, and method for trading units of unique valuable assets: Device, system, and method for trading units of Unique Valuable Assets (UVAs). For example, a method for securitizing a Unique Valuable Asset (UVA) may include: transferring custody and ownership in the UVA from a settling owner of the UVA to a fiduciary entity; issuing by the fiduciary entity a plurality... Agent: Splitart S.a.

20120123892 - Methods and systems for real-time bidding: A method and a system to provide real-time bidding in online auction. For example, a system may comprise a notification module to generate and transmit a notification to a client machine. The notification may be generated based on a defined end time of a selected auction. A subscription module may... Agent: Ebay Inc.

20120123902 - Method and system to automatically qualify a party to participate within a network-based commerce transaction: A system to facilitate computer-based commerce includes receiving information relating to an item to be transacted via a computer-based commerce system from a first party. Criterion information specifying at least one criterion to be satisfied by a second party in order for the second party to be qualified to transact... Agent:

20120123903 - Method of conducting transactions over the internet: A method of conducting transactions over the Internet, comprising the steps: opening an online market; applying membership, wherein a member is classified into classes A, B or C; class A member is a professional institution/person who provides security services for a market transaction order; class B member is a seller/provider... Agent: Afcc LLC

20120123894 - Decentralized transportation dispatching system and method for decentralized transportation dispatching: A method for decentralized transportation dispatching is disclosed. The method bypasses utilizing a centralized dispatch call center and includes announcing a transportation requirement via broadcasting directly by at least one user, and replying to the transportation requirement with a plurality of competitive bidding information directly from a plurality of transportation... Agent: Institute For Information Industry

20120123896 - Decorative end caps for fixtures: Decorative caps for various fixtures that are easy to install, customizable, and interchangeable. The decorative caps can have custom decorations thereupon and when installed are held in proper alignment by mechanical locking such that the custom decoration does not change alignment.... Agent: Amerikam, Inc.

20120123895 - Method and apparatus for personalized content-sharing and gifting via a communication medium: The present disclosure describes one or more apparatuses and methods to allow users to generate a greeting card by defining a theme, a personalized message, content, and optionally a gift.... Agent:

20120123897 - Methods for online selection and ordering of custom furniture: The present invention relates to methods and computer systems for ordering customized furniture pieces to be upholstered and an upholstery covering. In particular, the methods of the present invention relate to calculating the amount of a covering needed based on the fabric repeat size in the case of a fabric... Agent:

20120123904 - Searching for goods and services based on keywords and proximity: Techniques for keyword-based searching are described. Some embodiments provide a Merchant Information Search System (“MISS”) that allows a potential customer to search for information about proximately located merchants that provide goods and/or services that match one or more keywords provided by the customer. In some embodiments, multiple keywords are associated... Agent:

20120123898 - Generating configuration options for a computing system: A computer-implemented method includes receiving, at a configuration server, requirements data identifying computing requirements of a customer. The computer-implemented method includes receiving, at the configuration server, inventory information descriptive of a computing inventory of the customer. The computer-implemented method also includes accessing compatibility rules that specify hardware and software to... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120123899 - Social network shopping system and method: A product discovery method displaying products and social media in random order from a preselected list. The user provides comments for individual products or social media. Based on user comments, a preselection of products and social media is filtered to the interests of the individual user. The method therefore focuses... Agent:

20120123905 - Purchasing-assistance device and system and method using the same: A assistance device and a system for purchasing and a method using the same. The method includes the following steps. A portable body is provided for a shopper to carry with. A code of a merchandise is read by the portable body to confirm the type and price of the... Agent:

20120123906 - Method, system and program product for approving item requests: Under the present invention, an approver will log into a purchase application or the like. Upon logging in, the approver will be presented with a view of all item requests for which he/she must make an approval determination. The approver can also be presented with informational messages for the requested... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120123900 - System and method for swapping of tangible and intangible items: A first user, second user, and third user are registered. Names of a first, second, and third item are stored a website for the first, second, and third users. The items can be tangible items or intangible items. The first user requests the second item. A first credit is removed... Agent: National Book Swap, LLC

20120123910 - Consumer shopping and purchase support system and marketplace: A system including an Internet based server running a central data repository database, and deploying spiders to scour the Internet analyzing the millions of product-oriented web pages and newsgroup postings, plus a server application for classifying and indexing all of the information derived from the spiders. The web server pushes... Agent:

20120123909 - Discovering and reserving travel solutions: A system and method to facilitate discovery and reservation of travel options suitably include routing processing, flight selection processing, and fare validation processing. Flight selection processing generates flight combinations for each routing discovered by the routing processing. Not all flight combinations are allowed to proceed thus permitting better flight combinations... Agent: Vayant Travel Technologies LLC

20120123908 - Multiple location electronic device communication: An in-vehicle control system for communicating data between at least one of an office control system and a residential control system including a transceiver configured to be in communication with the office control system and the residential control system. The in-vehicle control system further including a memory device in communication... Agent: Johnson Controls Technology Company

20120123907 - System and method for online integrated multiple tablet ordering: A system and method for ordering a plurality of tablets is described. The system comprises a server accessible via a network by at least one client. An online application is hosted on the server and accessible by the client. The online application comprises a user interface configured to receive a... Agent:

20120123911 - System and method for managing a plurality of tires: Systems, methods and computer program products are provided for managing a plurality of tires from their procurement through their disposal. An embodiment may include a method for determining all the costs of a tire over its total service life including procurement costs, repair costs, retread costs and disposal costs. An... Agent:

20120123913 - Automated payroll reconciliation: Various embodiments of systems and methods for automated payroll reconciliation are described herein. One or more identifiers, one or more payment parameters, and one or more time references for one or more data entering operations of a plurality of related systems are captured and stored. A query is initiated based... Agent:

20120123915 - Casino operations management system: A system, computer program and computer-based method for managing casino operations. The system provides for employee management and information storage and retrieval for a significant number of casino operations. The system includes an attendance controller that receives, stores and displays attendance information for casino personnel. Casino personnel are issued cards... Agent:

20120123916 - Coordinating license activation of licensable audio video (av) device components between contract manufacturer and brand manufacturer: A contract manufacturer (CM) makes a consumer electronics (CE) device under the auspices of a brand name manufacturer (BNM) associated with the CE device, paying royalties immediately on licensable components in the CE device that are activated for sale and not paying royalties on licensable components in the CE device... Agent: Sony Corporation

20120123918 - Determination of interchange categories: This document describes tools capable of auditing and/or determining reductions to card-issuer interchange fees charged for credit-card transactions. The tools may do so automatically and with user interaction for large amounts of transactions.... Agent: Pe Systems, Inc.

20120123912 - Method and system for account parallel processing: A method for account parallel processing used by an account processing center to process a request for account operation is disclosed. The method comprises: (1) categorizing accounts as high parallel occurrence accounts and common accounts; (2) when receiving the request from the client for processing operation of an account, firstly... Agent: Alibaba Group Holding Limited

20120123914 - Method for choosing an alternate offline charging system during an overload and apparatus associated therewith: A method for using a charging system to account for service provided by a network element in a service provider network is provided. The method may include storing load information records for multiple charging control function (CCF) servers at the CCF servers, receiving status messages from the multiple CCF servers... Agent: Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc.

20120123917 - System and method for variable time-based licensing: A system and method for variable time-based licensing is provided, which includes a chips cache which stores activated chips and a chips pool which stores inactive chips. In this context “chips” can be considered a currency which can be traded to use software tools for a period of time associated... Agent: Helic S.a.

20120123919 - Method and system for billing in a communication network: A method and system for charging for services delivered by a communication network. After receiving a request for service in the network, usually initialed by a UE, an online charging system retrieves subscriber information, typically including subscriber account balance information, and compares the retrieved subscriber information with reverse rating policy... Agent: Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc.

20120123921 - Systems and methods for international shipping and brokerage operations support processing: Systems and methods are disclosed for a brokerage operations support system to facilitate international shipping of goods into a country. The system receives information pertaining to a shipment and rates the shipment for a specific country by applying rules defined for the country's customs regulations. Status information of the shipment... Agent: United Parcel Service Of America, Inc.

20120123920 - User authentication system and method thereof: An authentication system for use in a secure communication system having a verification means (6) for verifying the identity of a user attempting to access a database server (2). In order to complete authentication, the user is required to enter personal authentication data (PAD) into a client terminal (1). The... Agent:

20120123922 - Stored value exchange method and apparatus: An apparatus and method for exchanging one form of stored value for another form of value. In one embodiment, a method for exchanging stored value for an alternative form of value comprises sending stored value account information relating to the stored value to at least a first value provider, receiving... Agent:

20120123923 - Stored value exchange method and apparatus: An apparatus and method for exchanging one form of stored value for another form of value. In one embodiment, a method for exchanging stored value for an alternative form of value comprises receiving stored value account information relating to the stored value from a remote user device, and determining a... Agent:

20120123924 - Virtual currency configuration apparatuses, methods and systems: The VIRTUAL CURRENCY CONFIGURATION APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“VCC”) transform requests for on-demand and flexible monetization and related services via VCC components into currency transfers, purchase receipt notifications, social networking communications and transaction analytics reports. In some embodiments, the VCC obtains a request to convert a sale price provided in... Agent:

20120123963 - Market forecasting: Methods, machine readable media, and systems for market forecasting are provided. An example of a method for market forecasting includes modeling market characteristics of market participants for a type of product and deriving variability of an attribute corresponding to a market characteristic coefficient of the type of product for each... Agent:

20120123964 - Method and system for creating and trading corporate debt security derivative investment instruments: A method of creating and trading corporate debt security derivative investment instruments on an exchange, as well as a trading facility for trading such derivatives, is disclosed. Corporate debt security derivative investment instruments are created by identifying a credit rating service that includes a plurality of risk categories. Unique monetary... Agent: Chicago Board Options Exchange, Incorporated

20120123966 - Multidirectional distributed recursive portfolio allocation: A system and method for sharing portfolio allocation information among various participants while dispensing with the notion of specific roles of advisors and followers. The system and method includes a mechanism for allowing any participant to follow any other participant while creating greater diversity. The system and method may also... Agent: Collective2 LLC

20120123967 - System and method for flexible spread participation: A system and method for risk analysis of a portfolio of derivative products is disclosed which is conducted based on a set of flexible rules. The system and method allow creating predefined sets of products for the purpose of future risk offsets. If a futures trade as a subset of... Agent: Chicago Mercantile Exchange

20120123965 - Systems and methods for providing direct to capital swaps: In one aspect, the present invention comprises a computer system for market making, comprising: (a) a computer component for receiving data identifying a user-specified basket of securities; (b) a database storing the data identifying a user-specified basket of securities and storing data describing inventory of a market maker; and (c)... Agent: Barclays Capital Inc.

20120123968 - Using commercial share of wallet to rate investments: Commercial size of spending wallet (“CSoSW”) is the total business spend of a business including cash but excluding bartered items. Commercial share of wallet (“CSoW”) is the portion of the spending wallet that is captured by a particular financial company. A modeling approach utilizes various data sources to provide outputs... Agent:

20120123927 - Apparatus and methods for handling trading data: A manually-assisted computer and communications apparatus is provided for periodically fixing a price of a currency or commodity. Successive rate samples of said currency/stock/commodity are received from a plurality of sources (80) over a period of time, recorded and filtered automatically (90) by reference to said historical record and predetermined... Agent: The World Markets Company PLC

20120123926 - Interactive information system: According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an interactive information system for providing user data is stated, in which a control unit pre-processes data selected from raw data received from at least one individual data source. The selected pre-processed data is then transmitted to a user interface device... Agent: Carryquote Ag

20120123928 - Sports share trading system and method: The sports share trading system provides a web site in which users, using real money, trade equitable shares of athletes in a closed market. Rookie sports cards are tokens representing the shares of stock in the athletes and are traded as financial instruments via the web site. Users who buy... Agent:

20120123929 - System and method for estimating order position: A system and method for providing order queue position information are disclosed. In this application, market updates are received for a tradeable object from at least one exchange. To the extent that the market updates do not include enough details to compute the queue position of a trader's working orders,... Agent: Trading Technologies International Inc.

20120123930 - System and method for providing electronic price feeds for tradeable objects: System and methods for a price feed generation are described. According to an example method described herein, upon receiving market information including a plurality of linear prices and order quantities, a reference price level is selected and a price feed message is generated to include the reference price level and... Agent: Trading Technologies International, Inc.

20120123925 - System and method for routing a trading order according to price: A system for routing a trading order to a market center according to price comprises a memory and a processor. The memory stores policy information, cost information, and rebate information associated with a plurality of market centers. The processor receives a trading order specifying a trading product, a plurality of... Agent:

20120123931 - Credit score and scorecard development: Share of Wallet (“SOW”) is a modeling approach that utilizes various data sources to provide outputs that describe a consumers spending capability, tradeline history including balance transfers, and balance information. These outputs can be appended to data profiles of customers and prospects and can be utilized to support decisions involving... Agent:

20120123932 - Routing for direct to account payments: Various systems and methods are described for analyzing multiple money transfer routing schemes. Each of these multiple money transfer routing schemes may comprise a route to transmit funds from the source for the money transfer transaction to the destination for the money transfer transaction. An internal money transfer routing scheme... Agent: The Western Union Company

20120123933 - System and method for consumer control over card-based transactions: A system and method for consumer control over card-based transactions and associated accounts. An interface is provided between a merchant or the merchant's bank and the bank or banks at which the consumer has accounts for card-based transactions. The interface acts as an intermediary, accessible to the consumer so that... Agent: Citizens Financial Group, Inc.

20120123934 - System and method for consumer control over card-based transactions: A system and method for consumer control over card-based transactions and associated accounts. An interface is provided between a merchant or the merchant's bank and the bank or banks at which the consumer has accounts for card-based transactions. The interface acts as an intermediary, accessible to the consumer so that... Agent: Citizens Financial Group, Inc.

20120123937 - Portable e-wallet and universal card: Universal cards are used in place of all the other traditional cards which a person may want to carry. The universal card can include a short range communications transceiver to communicate with a mobile device. The mobile device can include a user interface and an e-wallet application so that the... Agent:

20120123936 - Prepaid value account with reversion to purchaser systems and methods: Systems, methods, and devices are described for a refundable prepaid transaction cards. The methods and systems include a prepaid transaction card funded with funds by a purchaser. Also included is an issuer. The issuer receives the funds a distributes a prepaid transaction card associated with the funds. The methods and... Agent: The Western Union Company

20120123935 - System and method for physical-world based dynamic contactless data emulation in a portable communication device: Disclosed is as system and method for automatically selecting a credential among a plurality of credentials on a portable communication device based on a geo-location of the portable communication device and based on a user preference, for use in an electronic wallet transaction. The system includes a geo-location device configured... Agent:

20120123938 - System and method for performing financial transactions on a network: Embodiments of the present invention include a computer-implemented method of performing a financial transaction on a network comprising storing a plurality of risk factors and associated severities in a web-enabled remote policy database, the severities defining actions taken when a specific risk factor is detected, storing a plurality of hold... Agent: Ensenta Corporation

20120123939 - Wireless mobile communicator for contactless payment on account read from removable card: A wireless mobile communications apparatus reads removable cards and can communicate an account corresponding to the removable card in order to conduct a wireless transaction with a merchant on the account with the wireless mobile communications apparatus. A total currency amount for the transaction, and remaining balance in the account... Agent:

20120123942 - Global customer identification network: A computerized system conducts customer identification processing for customers who remotely open accounts with personal identification information that cannot be verified through available data sources.... Agent:

20120123941 - Internet facilitation of fraud services: A system and method for fraud prevention is provided. The computer based system and method comprises receiving a request for verification services by a merchant transmitted via an Internet browser based platform, performing a fraud assessment by a verification services tool resulting in a verification message, and transmitting a reply... Agent: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.

20120123944 - Method and system using universal id and biometrics: A universal ID and biometrics systems and methods are disclosed. A method includes receiving an authentication request message originating from a user. The authentication request message includes a first identifier and a second identifier, where the second identifier includes biometric data. The method further includes determining a third identifier based... Agent:

20120123940 - Methods and systems for universal payment account translation: A method and system of transferring value from a payer participant of a first online community website to a payee participant of a second online community website through a payment account translation system is provided. The method includes initiating a first payment request, validating that the payer and payee are... Agent:

20120123943 - System and method for checkless cash advance settlement: Methods, devices, and systems for conducting a checkless cash access settlement are provided. In one embodiment, a cash advance method includes the following: a customer initiates a cash access transaction with a financial card via a cash access system; the customer receives authorization or denial; the customer provides identification and... Agent: Global Cash Access, Inc.

20120123946 - 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:

20120123945 - Nfc transaction method and system: A method for performing a transaction between a portable device and a transaction device includes: providing at least one transaction server having at least one application program configured to receive, process and emit application data, establishing at least one data link between the portable device and the transaction server, establishing... Agent: Inside Secure

20120123947 - Late binding token in system and method for verifying intent in a card not present transaction: A system for verifying intent in a card not present transaction is provided. The system includes a late binding token that is distributable to consumers without necessarily being bound to an account. The system also includes a client software that locates a token server configured to facilitate managing and communicating... Agent:

20120123948 - Judging methods and systems: An approach to judging contests, competitions, and events in which aspects of crowdsourcing are applied to the judging, so that skill and/or talent and/or merit will predominate the voting outcomes rather than chance when using non-expert demographically diverse voters as judges. A contest, competition, or event judging method includes: accepting... Agent:

20120123949 - Method and system to automatically modify task status in a project management system via keywords in source code version control commit logs: A server maintains a project management data store. The project management data store comprises tasks of a project and corresponding current task status data for the tasks. The server obtains a commit log from a source code revision control system, wherein the commit log comprises new task status data for... Agent:

20120123950 - System and method for operating a product return system: A system and method for operating a product return system. One or more electronic devices are received from a carrier at a return provider. A determination is made whether the one or more electronic devices include customer personal information. The one or more electronic devices are quarantined in response to... Agent:

20120123951 - Service management platform for fleet of assets: A system for managing a plurality of assets and a plurality of parties related to those assets includes a plurality of data sources with information related to the parties and the service of the assets and a first service management server. The service management server may be configured as first... Agent: Decisiv Inc.

20120123952 - System and method for managing transfer of rights using shared state variables: A method, system and device for transferring rights adapted to be associated with items from a rights supplier to a rights consumer, including obtaining a set of rights associated with an item, the set of rights including meta-rights specifying derivable rights that can be derived from the meta-; determining whether... Agent: Contentguard Holdings, Inc.

20120123953 - Methods and systems for assessing the environmental impact of a product: Embodiments consistent with this disclosure provide systems and methods for analyzing manufactured products and more particularly, for combining laboratory analysis with life cycle analysis to assess manufactured products with respect to the products' impact on the environment. Systems and methods consistent with this disclosure may produce assessment results in the... Agent:

20120123954 - Product certification system and method: Systems and methods are provided for generating a certificate of compliance for a product. A product control system (PCS) retrieves specification and/or regulatory data for a particular product and compares the retrieved data to test result data obtained for that particular product. The PCS generates a product certification if the... Agent:

20120123955 - Calculation engine for compensation planning: A method for managing compensation of users. The method includes identifying a first formula that is associated with a first compensation metric, where the first formula includes reference to a second compensation metric; computing a value for the second compensation metric based on evaluating a second formula associated with the... Agent:

20120123957 - Computerized system and methods for matching a project and at least one applicant: A computerized system or method having a project management interface for an employer to describe the project, an applicant interface that allows an applicant to key in his/her profile, and a system module that, based on certain characteristics of the matches previously accepted by any employer, assigns a score for... Agent:

20120123958 - Employer-candidate time and information manager: A method of online human resource management for hiring employers of prospective job applicants. First, job seekers may apply to an employment posting listed on a region-specific employment listing website by submitting a resume. Applicants are notified through an online messaging system when certain actions are taken by the employer... Agent:

20120123956 - Systems and methods for matching candidates with positions based on historical assignment data: Systems and associated methods for matching candidates with positions through an automated scoring and ranking process utilizing a scoring function based on previous assignments. The ranking of candidates includes identifying the position requirements, mining relevant candidate information, prioritizing mined information based upon past assignments, and ranking candidates based on how... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20120123959 - Methods and systems to help detect identity fraud: The disclosed technology generally relates to methods and systems to aid in verifying a person's identity, e.g., in connection with applying for an identity document (such as a passport or driver's license), or in connection with qualifying to enter a secured area (such as at an airport). Many arrangements involve... Agent:

20120123960 - Product integrity tracking system, shipping label, and associated method: A product integrity tracking shipping label includes a label body for attaching to a product to be shipped or to packaging containing the product. One or more movement monitoring configured with the label body detects a movement metric of the product. A microprocessor configured with the label body and in... Agent: Phatrat Technology, LLC

20120123961 - Performance reporting for products and services using web-based portals: A method includes obtaining performance information from sources, where the performance information relates to products and/or services, enabling the performance information to be reviewed to thereby produce vetted and categorized performance information, receiving the vetted and categorized performance information, where the vetted and categorized performance information includes the performance information... Agent: Sphere E, LLC

20120123962 - Consistency checks for business process data: A business process master data vector for a business process of an organization can include master data coordinates corresponding to a plurality of business object node fields of a plurality of business objects involved in the business process. Values of the master data coordinates can indicate whether a corresponding business... Agent: Sap Ag

20120123969 - Methods and processes of road use evaluation and regulation: Methods manage the damage of heavy road users on a municipal road network through the implementation of Road Use Agreements between municipalities and heavy road users. Specifically, methods accomplish one or more purposes including, but not limited to, quantifying the in situ traffic capacity of a road, the routine traffic... Agent:

20120123970 - Dimensional rating of a mail piece using a touch screen on a mail kiosk: A system and method for determining the dimensions of a mail piece using a built-in touch screen of a mail kiosk. A mailer is instructed to place the mail piece into a specified corner of the touch screen of the mail kiosk. The user is then instructed to touch the... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc.

20120123973 - Method of assigning a relative seminality score to individual patents within a patent landscape: A method for assigning a relative score to patents within a patent landscape is described, with the objective of being able to compare any two or more patents. A patent is considered seminal if the novelty of the invention is not a product of variations of prior art and spawns... Agent:

20120123974 - Method of assigning a relative seminality score to individual patents within a patent landscape: A method for assigning a relative score to patents within a patent landscape is described, with the objective of being able to compare any two or more patents. A patent is considered seminal if the novelty of the invention is not a product of variations of prior art and spawns... Agent:

20120123971 - Print and/or electronic advertising on medical waiting room paging systems either on a uhf pager, ipod mp3 or similar device: The technical disclosure of my invention consists of print or electronic advertising on paging devices which are placed in medical provider offices. The patent is not on the paging device, only on the invention of advertising on these devices.... Agent:

20120123972 - Systems and methods for managing and utilizing excess corn residue: Systems and methods for managing excess above-ground corn residue are disclosed. Systems and methods for combusting corn residue to produce heat for generating steam are also disclosed. Additionally, methods and systems for harvesting and pre-processing corn residue prior to combustion of the corn residue are disclosed.... Agent: