Allocating Resources Or Scheduling For An Administrative Function

Allocating Resources Or Scheduling For An Administrative Function patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.

11/23/06 - 20060265265 - Method and apparatus for providing virtual capacity to a provider of services
Method and apparatus for providing virtual capacity to a service provider. A service provider contacts a third party service provider when the service provider can not perform services for a customer. A solicitation is sent by the service provider and accepted by the third party service provider. After acceptance, status ...

11/23/06 - 20060265264 - Scheduling with layovers and layover charge computation in transportation planning
A computer, for planning moves of freight automatically adds one or more layover(s) to a mission. Next, the computer determines one or more charge(s) for the layovers, using carriers' rules. Thereafter, the computer uses the charge(s) in deciding whether to include the mission in a transportation plan to be executed. ...

11/23/06 - 20060265263 - System and method for preventing the lapse of a recurring event using electronic calendar system
A system and method for preventing the lapse of a recurring event includes an electronic calendar program having the capability of establishing a recurring event with a predetermined end date. A processor is operative for notifying an organizer of the event at a predetermined time of the end date for ...

11/23/06 - 20060265262 - Distributed conference scheduling
A conference room endpoint facility enables a user to schedule conferences directly with the conference room endpoint facility without the need for a central data store to save the conference-specific information. For each scheduled conference, the conference room endpoint facility may store the conference data in a blob, and the ...

11/09/06 - 20060253312 - System and method for throughput measurement
A computerized method for determining throughput includes generating a demand array of item orders and generating a supply array of manufacturing inventory. The method includes selecting an item order in the demand array, and matching manufacturing inventory in the supply array with the selected item order. The method also includes ...

11/09/06 - 20060253311 - Maintenance event planning and scheduling for gas turbines
A method for scheduling a project such as the inspection and maintenance of a gas turbine utilizes a branch and bound technique for arriving at a solution. The branch and bound technique is improved by using an all-pair longest path algorithm in preprocessing to tighten the set of possible start ...

11/09/06 - 20060253310 - Capability assessment of a training program
Methods and apparatuses for profiling and modifying the training program of a company. Characteristics of the training program are aligned to a set of training supply chain components of a capability assessment model. The components are assessed and reported to show a comparison of the company with the leader in ...

11/02/06 - 20060247963 - System and method for designating a facility and promoting a designated facility as ready for cardiac emergencies
There is disclosed a system and method for offering to designate a facility as having a designated cardiac emergency readiness (CER) program, for designating the facility's CER program, and for promoting the facility as having a designated CER program. The designation serves as an indication that the facility has satisfied ...

11/02/06 - 20060247962 - Contact management system and method
A contact management system is described having a first database containing proprietary information and a second database containing public information. Where appropriate, the publicly available information is displayed with the proprietary information to give the user more information about a contact. The multiple relationships provided by the public database allow ...

11/02/06 - 20060247961 - Method and system for providing aggregation and display of notifications
An approach is provided for electronic calendaring services. Notification information from a notification provider is converted to a tracking event. The tracking event is updated to reflect status information. ...

10/26/06 - 20060241994 - Automated support for monitoring and managing knowledge work
A system for activity tracking of a project on a network is disclosed. The system comprising means for configuring desk and non desk based activities and applications. The system further comprises means for tracking and monitoring the configured activities and application depending on the priority assigned to each configured activity ...

10/26/06 - 20060241993 - Method and system for importing and exporting assessment project related data
A system of hardware and software provides a systematic and systemic method for performing assessment of the effectiveness of different levels within an institution. The system includes template driven definitions that span multiple tiers of hierarchically arranged operating units within the institution thereby providing flexibility and customization to handle a ...

10/26/06 - 20060241992 - Method and system for flexible modeling of a multi-level organization for purposes of assessment
A system of hardware and software provides a systematic and systemic method for performing assessment of the effectiveness of different levels within an institution. The system includes template driven definitions that span multiple tiers of hierarchically arranged operating units within the institution thereby providing flexibility and customization to handle a ...

10/26/06 - 20060241991 - Internal audit operations for sarbanes oxley compliance
A system provides audit opinions on an enterprise's organizations, processes, risks, and risk controls. The system first evaluates the enterprise's set of risk controls. The audit opinions of the set of risk controls are used to evaluate the set of risks associated with the set of risk controls. The audit ...

10/26/06 - 20060241990 - Transportation planning with multi-level pooling model
Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with multi-level pooling in transportation planning are described. One exemplary method embodiment includes, co-operatively and in parallel choosing pooling points and order-legs to consolidate. The example method may also include constructing a cost-optimal trip based, at least in part, on the contemporaneously chosen ...

10/19/06 - 20060235737 - Quality control of authoring work flow within a benefits content system
A first change request is generated in a work flow process to implement a first change to a portion of content within the benefits content system. A first status indicator, indicating whether the first change has passed a quality check, is associated with the first change request. A second status ...

10/19/06 - 20060235736 - Method and apparatus for providing process guidance
A context-sensitive process guidance system provides process guidance based on context data from a system used in performing the process. The system may be a work item tracking system or similar project management tool. Process guidance may provide information to a user performing actions related to a process. Context data ...

10/19/06 - 20060235735 - Method and system of channel resource allocation
The present invention relates to a method and system of transmissions and retransmissions of packet data in a communications system, where the communications system uses switched channels, switching between rates or channels of different characteristics, and connection control and management in such a system. Particularly, the invention relates to radio ...

10/12/06 - 20060229925 - Automatic discovery and maintenance of business processes in web services and enterprise development environments
A method, an apparatus, and computer instructions are provided for automatic discovery and maintenance of business processes in Web services and enterprise development environments. A set of agents are deployed to a set of enterprise containers to collect user function calls and report events to a central business workflow language ...

10/12/06 - 20060229924 - Data driven dynamic workflow
A method, system and article of manufacture for workflow processing and, more particularly, for managing creation and execution of data driven dynamic workflows. One embodiment provides a computer-implemented method for managing execution of workflow instances. The method comprises providing a parent process template and providing a child process template. The ...

10/12/06 - 20060229923 - Definition of workflow patterns using complex event processing
A method for workflow management includes modeling a workflow as a set of nodes linked by transitions. At least one of the nodes is defined as an action triggered by a situation using a complex event processing (CEP) engine. During execution of the workflow, the CEP engine is invoked in ...

10/05/06 - 20060224430 - Agenda based meeting management system, interface and method
A system, interface and method provide for agenda based meeting management that enables an agenda to be determined and utilized for managing one or more meetings that may include locally located participants, remote participants or both. Various embodiments enable meeting management to be conducted in an independent manner or in ...

10/05/06 - 20060224429 - Touchless and touch optimized processing of retail and other commerce transactions
A computer implemented method for reducing input performed in a commerce based application is provided. The method includes receiving a sequence of input values from an input device and associating the sequence of input values with an object in the application based on the sequence. A context of the application ...

10/05/06 - 20060224428 - Ad-hoc and priority-based business process execution
A system and method of executing ad-hoc extensions of a business process instance is disclosed. One or more anchors are provided in a business process definition, where each anchor includes a link to at least one ad-hoc process fragment. User input signals are received to activate or deactivate selected ones ...

10/05/06 - 20060224427 - Method, system, and program product for individual and group work space allocation and utilization
The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for individual and group work space allocation and utilization. The method comprises: providing a plurality of free spaces in a work environment; and dynamically mapping one of the plurality of free spaces to a user based on a set ...

10/05/06 - 20060224426 - Transportation planning with system assisted exception resolution
Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with manipulating a transportation plan based on system assisted exception resolutions are described. One exemplary computer-implemented method embodiment includes accessing transportation orders and an actionable plan of loads. The method may also include identifying planning exceptions, identifying candidate planning actions for resolving the ...

09/28/06 - 20060218030 - Work item rules for a work item tracking system
Work item rules for a work item tracking system are provided. Work item rules may be accessible, usable and subject to interpretation by multiple software entities. Further, work item rules may be configured to be subject to creation and change by users, for example, by exposure to users through a ...

09/28/06 - 20060218029 - Smart reminders
Systems and methods for scheduling appointment reminders are based on multiple conditions including estimated travel time. An estimate of the time needed to travel between the user's location and the location of the appointment cam be determined by retrieving location information from a global address list (GAL), a local address ...

09/28/06 - 20060218028 - Work item tracking system for projects
A work item tracking system that provides for processing of more than one type of work item. Work item types may be defined using a data structure. Fields and characteristics of the work item are defined within the work item type definition. Programs within the work item tracking system may ...

09/28/06 - 20060218027 - System and method for single user interface window event scheduling
A system and method for single user interface window event scheduling are presented. A user sends an event request to a scheduling tool, whereby the scheduling tool provides participant schedules, location schedules, and equipment schedules for the user to easily view in a single user interface window. In turn, the ...

09/28/06 - 20060218026 - Administrative system
An apparatus for processing data for the administration of an organisation includes a data storage device storing element data representing details of workplace elements. At least one recordal device is configured to record activity data associated with the workplace elements by recording the element data during workplace activities associated with ...

09/21/06 - 20060212335 - Methods and systems for mass data handling in a preference processing context
Methods and systems are provided for generating vendor declaration requests in a trade preference processing context. In one implementation, an electronic database is utilized that contains at least one of purchase order data sets and goods receipt data sets that include information about vendors and about goods purchased from the ...

09/21/06 - 20060212334 - On-demand compute environment
An on-demand compute environment comprises a plurality of nodes within an on-demand compute environment available for provisioning and a slave management module operating on a dedicated node within the on-demand compute environment, wherein upon instructions from a master management module at a local compute environment, the slave management module modifies ...

09/21/06 - 20060212333 - Reserving resources in an on-demand compute environment from a local compute environment
Disclosed is an on-demand system and method for managing resources in an on-demand compute environment from a local compute environment. The method comprises receiving information at a local resource broker that is associated with resources within an on-demand compute environment, based on the information, communicating instructions from the local resource ...

09/21/06 - 20060212332 - Simple integration of on-demand compute environment
Disclosed are a system and method of integrating an on demand compute environment into a local compute environment. The method comprises receiving a request from an administrator to integrate an on demand compute environment into a local compute environment and, in response to the request, automatically integrating local compute environment ...

09/21/06 - 20060212331 - System and method for work flow templates in a professional services management system
There is disclosed method and apparatus for organizing intellectual property data according to activities related to intellectual property. Each activity is represented by an activity data structure containing at least some data pertinent to the activity. A plurality of activity data structures are made accessible through a user interface display ...

09/21/06 - 20060212330 - Network based processing of calendar meeting requests
A meeting request is created by one of a group of users having respective electronic calendars maintained by calendar applications on a communications network and is processed before being forwarded to any of the users invited to the requested meeting. The processing occurs through interaction between the calendar applications of ...

09/21/06 - 20060212329 - Consolidated management of administrative tasks in an aynchronous, multi-application environment
The systems, methods, and data structure described herein relates to the consolidated management of administrative tasks in an asynchronous, multi-application environment. An information technology (IT) system management application is configured to manage administrative tasks for multiple work centers. Processes associated with the administrative tasks are initiated on the work centers ...

09/21/06 - 20060212328 - Integrated market research management and optimization system
A market research management and optimization system includes a plurality of geographically dispersed market research centers and a centralized computer management system, accessible via a single client interface, for coordinating the plurality of geographically dispersed market research centers and human capital requirements in order to conduct research exercises in the ...

09/21/06 - 20060212327 - Methods and apparatus for associating and displaying project planning and management information in conjunction with geographic information
Systems and techniques for entry and presentation of project planning information, showing activities in their geographic context. Information relating to activities and groupings of activities is entered, updated and presented. Information associated with one or more groupings of activities is associated with a graphical icon, with the appearance of the ...

09/07/06 - 20060200372 - Method and system for generating a timeline associated with a project schedule
A timeline is generated from and fully integrated with a project schedule. The project schedule may be any graphical representation for displaying detailed information associated with a project. The timeline visually represents certain tasks, dates and other information associated with the project schedule such that an overview of the project ...

08/31/06 - 20060195351 - Internet-based system and method for leasing rental property to a prospective tenant based on criminal history
System and method for landlord analysis of the suitability of a prospective tenant based on the tenant's criminal history. Landlord predetermines via web-based interface various parameters under which an “accept” or “decline” report is issued. Landlord analysis is automated and provided via web-based interface. ...

08/31/06 - 20060195350 - Design review, progress check information transmission method and apparatus
A design review, progress check information transmission method includes: a monitor condition selection and setup step (S15) of selecting and setting a plurality of desired monitor conditions based on a project name, check items, unique codes, a scheduled job start date and end date, an actual job start date and ...

08/31/06 - 20060195349 - Weight estimating system and method for products of orders
A weight estimating system and a weight estimating method are proposed for products of orders. The weight estimating system includes an order database for storing order related data for clients; a pallet database for storing pallet weights and product quantities per pallet; a declaration product list database for storing data ...

08/31/06 - 20060195348 - Transportation planning with drop trailer arrangements
Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with transportation planning in light of drop trailer arrangements are described. One exemplary computer-implemented method embodiment includes receiving orders that describe items to be delivered to facilities as controlled by order requirements. The method may also include accessing a transportation planning model that ...

08/31/06 - 20060195347 - Distributed workflow techniques
Techniques for distributed workflow processing are presented. A first workflow system and a second workflow system process actions of a workflow. The workflow is coordinated through one or more identity services. The identity services also establish trusted and secure communications between the first and second workflow systems. ...

08/24/06 - 20060190313 - Calendar overlays
Implementing an electronic calendar can include accessing a first electronic calendar owned by a first party, accessing a second electronic calendar owned by a second party, and presenting a view that combines at least one existing entry from within each of the first and second electronic calendars. Source information for ...

08/17/06 - 20060184411 - System for creating maintenance plans
The invention relates to a system and a method for creating maintenance plans for machines and/or installations simply, dynamically and at low cost, in particular an automation system from production automation and/or process automation. The said machines and/or installations comprise one or more components, wherein the components contain maintenance information, ...

08/17/06 - 20060184410 - System and method for capture of user actions and use of capture data in business processes
Systems and methods are disclosed for capturing data representative of user interactions with a desktop computer, and processing the capture data to identify and analyze business processes performed by the user. The disclosed system comprises listeners that capture key actuations, mouse-clicks, screen information, and other data representative of user interaction ...

08/17/06 - 20060184409 - Comprehensive goal management through the use of an integrated software application
A method, system and computer program product for managing goals. A goal to be achieved by a goal-setter is defined. At least one action to be completed is defined. The at least one action is associated with an achievement of the goal by the goal-setter. One or more goal-setter attributes ...

08/17/06 - 20060184408 - Method and system for modeling a call center transformation process
A computer-implemented method, system and program product for modeling a business transformation process. In accordance with one embodiment, a transformation modeling tool receives as input multiple operational resource values associated with a specified transformation process. The operational resource values include at least one value expressed as a labor resource metric ...

08/10/06 - 20060178924 - Information processing system, image processing system, execution control apparatus, execution control method, and computer product
A network-information managing unit manages first information on a device included in an information processing apparatus that is connected to a network. A device-information acquiring unit acquires, when setting an execution device that executes a service of a workflow in which the service is defined, second information on a device ...

08/10/06 - 20060178923 - Method and system of managing a business process
A method of managing capacity in a business process on demand for providing a service to a service requester. The method comprises the steps of providing a business process having one or more service inputs, at least one service output, at least one capacity constraint having a capacity level and ...

08/10/06 - 20060178922 - Project management software
A method for managing fees and profitability is provided by calculating the number of hours that employees should be assigned to a specific project and stay within the available fees. The method derives the direct labor from fees, profitability, direct expenses, and overhead. The direct labor is then used to ...

08/10/06 - 20060178921 - Project management system and method therefor
A project management system is disclosed. The project management system contains a schedule management subsystem and a progress management subsystem. The schedule management subsystem contains a schedule generator and a task assignment notification unit. The schedule generator generates a schedule table from project management information and task status information. The ...

08/10/06 - 20060178920 - Processing and creation of strategy information
A software-based tool that is described may assist an organization with formulating and implementing a corporate strategy and producing a blueprint of the corporation's strategy that can be monitored and adapted. The tool allows a user to enter a strategy for an organization, to analyze the strategy in two separate ...

08/10/06 - 20060178919 - Method, framework and system of position or job sharing between individuals for vertical organization replication and operation duplication
This invention is a concept, method, framework and system of position or job sharing between individuals for the purpose of replicating an existing vertical organization or a defined vertical group within an existing vertical organization to duplicate the performance or execution of the existing vertical organization or defined vertical group's ...

08/03/06 - 20060173726 - Online business case software and decision support system
The present invention provides an on-line computer systems (herein defined to include software) that includes processes, technologies, facilities to manage comprehensively a “project.” Management defined as spanning the time from the idea or inception that inspired the project to the resulting products' or processes' ends-of-life. The system provides a central ...

08/03/06 - 20060173725 - Integrated treatment planning and scheduling system
A system maps components of prescribed treatments to multiple appointments of a patient, tracks patient progress through a course of treatment by recording results of treatment in a clinical information system and replaces multiple manual processes to improve concurrent monitoring of a treatment plan versus actual results. A system schedules ...

08/03/06 - 20060173724 - Methods and apparatus for work management and routing
Methods and apparatus for service-level based and/or skills-based assignment of a work item to one (or more) of a plurality of resources based on fitness, for example, of skills required by the former to those provided by the latter. Assignment takes into account the level of stress on the work ...

08/03/06 - 20060173723 - Scheduler
Provided is a method for scheduling activities. The method includes receiving an activity having a designated priority, a life span, a preferred implementation time, and a scheduling time budget. The schedule is searched to determine the availability of the preferred implementation time and amount of available execution time. The activity ...

08/03/06 - 20060173722 - Method and system for managing documents
There are provided a method and an apparatus in which data created by scanning bits of information such as characters and figures depicted on the depiction board of an electronic blackboard are stored and managed as image data (documents). According to the apparatus and method, when the image data is ...

07/27/06 - 20060167735 - Method and system for customer service process management
A method and system for managing customer service processes for individual customers and populations of customers. In a specific embodiment within the health care field, a clinician creates or updates a draft care plan for a patient using generic or locally-adapted template metadata and tailors the draft care plan to ...

07/27/06 - 20060167734 - Delivery operations information system with route and unit maintenance feature and methods of use
The present invention provides a system for managing information related to a delivery service provider and systems of using such a system. The system and systems provided herein allow a delivery service provider to coordinate with efficiency the volume of mail or packages to be delivered with the carrier resources ...

07/27/06 - 20060167733 - Delivery operations information system with performance reports feature and methods of use
The present invention provides a system for managing information related to a delivery service provider and systems of using such a system. The system and systems provided herein allow a delivery service provider to coordinate with efficiency the volume of mail or packages to be delivered with the carrier resources ...

07/27/06 - 20060167732 - Method and system for planning and managing multiple projects on demand with critical chain and replenishment
Disclosed are a method, system and computer program for managing multiple projects. The method comprises the steps of defining a plurality of projects requiring resources, each of said projects having a project manager; and managing said resources with resource buffers and replenishment times. Said replenishment times are incorporated by said ...

07/27/06 - 20060167731 - Automatically scheduling meetings
Methods, machines, and machine-readable media storing machine-readable instructions for automatically scheduling meetings are described. In one aspect, a meeting request is received. The meeting request specifies a meeting duration, a set of non-fungible resources, and a number of required fungible resources of a specified type. A potential-meeting-time set of timeslots ...

07/27/06 - 20060167730 - System and methods for workflow management
The workflow management system includes various modules that manipulate incoming messages from a variety of clients, translate and route the messages to the appropriate backend applications, monitor completion by the backend applications and provide responses to the clients. A common database is operatively connected to the applications and modules to ...

07/27/06 - 20060167729 - Method and system for scheduling a customer service callback
A method and system for scheduling a callback time for customer service. The system calculates estimated handling resources for a customer interaction system (14) and forecasts a customer service transaction workload for the estimated handling resources of the customer interaction system (14). The system then determines the scheduled callback time ...

07/20/06 - 20060161468 - System and method for reducing the steps involved in searching for available appointment times and scheduling appointments in a health care environment
A system and method for searching for and scheduling appointments in a health care environment. The present invention is a computerized searching and scheduling system and method for scheduling appointments. The computerized searching and scheduling system and method comprises a plurality of search definitions for defining a plurality of standard ...

07/20/06 - 20060161467 - System and method for strategic budgeting of initial response for managing wildfires
The present invention provides a system and method for strategic budgeting of initial response for managing wildfires. According to the present invention, stochastic-integer-programming-based constrained optimization techniques are employed to develop a strategic budget by optimally allocating disaster management resources to disaster events belonging to scenarios associated with occurrence probabilities. According ...

07/06/06 - 20060149612 - Customer service reporting system
A product service reporting system, method and program product for reporting product problem resolutions. A service code database contains service code records of previously encountered product problem and associated problem solutions. The service code database is sorted based on service code. Problems and associated problem solutions for specific products are ...

07/06/06 - 20060149611 - Peer to peer resource negotiation and coordination to satisfy a service level objective
Techniques are provided for allocating resources. Performance metrics for a transaction are received. It is determined whether one or more service level objectives are being violated based on the received performance metrics. In response to determining that the one or more service level objectives are being violated, additional resources are ...

07/06/06 - 20060149610 - Visual representation of sub-intervals of time
The method may include creating a first time span where a time span comprises a start time, an end time and an attribute, creating a second time span; wherein the end time of the first time span and the start time of the second time span are set according to ...

07/06/06 - 20060149609 - Calendar rule definition, ranking, and expansion
The method may include providing at least one primary calendar, providing a plurality of calendar rules, each of the plurality of rules comprising a rank and a rule-scope. The method may also include providing a representation of the primary calendar and the plurality of calendar rules, and allowing expansion of ...

07/06/06 - 20060149608 - Method and apparatus for evaluating a proposed solution to a constraint problem
A method of evaluating constraint functions, the evaluation being based at least in part on a control blade movement criteria. ...

06/29/06 - 20060143063 - Systems, methods and computer program products for compact scheduling
Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for allocating resources in a plannable process, wherein a number of resources is used for executing an order comprising a chain of related activities to be executed on the number of resources. In one implementation, a method comprises, for each order, identifying ...

06/29/06 - 20060143062 - Dynamic capacity demand profile construction with a persisted capacity demand profile and a collision buffer
A method is described that involves locking a capacity demand profile of a resource for the use of a transaction. The method also involves obtaining a portion of the locked capacity demand profile. The portion describes the capacity demand profile over a time interval in which a locked out transaction ...

06/29/06 - 20060143061 - Multipass scheduling system
A method and apparatus for generating schedules are disclosed. Method includes executing a current algorithm in a sequence of algorithms performing specified scheduling functions and determining a level of progress made by the current algorithm. Method further includes executing the current algorithm while the level of progress meets predetermined criteria ...

06/29/06 - 20060143060 - Integrated scheduling system for health care providers
A technique for scheduling health care resources includes identifying particular characteristics of either the resources required for a procedure to be scheduled, or characteristics of a scheduling request. The characteristics may include a particular type of resource, its capabilities, skill levels of personnel, and so forth. Characteristics of requests may ...

06/22/06 - 20060136278 - Work management system
A headquarters manager's terminal is used to prepare work instruction information and to transfer the prepared information to a headquarters server, and the headquarters server sends the work instruction information to a mobile terminal through a store server. The mobile terminal is used to prepare work report information for reporting ...

06/22/06 - 20060136277 - Automatic generation of a globalization project schedule
Project schedules do not include tasks for Globalization. This method defines and automatically creates globalization tasks that are to be performed during the development of an international product. In this method, a table is created containing various volumes of data and the amount of time required to translate each volume ...

06/15/06 - 20060129445 - System and method for scheduling a litigation event
A system and method for scheduling witness depositions and other litigation-related events has been developed. The computer communications network-based system provides improved systems and methods that are more efficient and less costly than currently available scheduling systems and methods. ...

06/15/06 - 20060129444 - Appointment arbiter
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for setting up an appointment. Briefly described, in architecture, one embodiment of the system, among others, can be implemented as follows. The system includes first logic configured to receive a request for establishing an appointment and second logic configured to establish ...

06/15/06 - 20060129443 - Content aware workflow builder and workflow engine
Devices, methods, and computer programs are disclosed for providing a graphical workflow programming environment for routing documents. First a workflow design platform is provided that comprises a process canvas for receiving at least one graphical workflow programming object. Next, a graphical representation of the graphical workflow programming object is provided ...

06/15/06 - 20060129442 - Audio-visual electronic secretary device and method for the same
An AV electronic secretary suite is used in a computer, performed as an electronic calendar providing with AV records kept on one's own. A video and audio capture device is incorporated as peripherals on a PC. Prompts for an appointment may be recorded at a specified time, automatic AV reminders ...

06/15/06 - 20060129441 - Apparatus, method, and system for documenting, performing, and attesting to internal controls for an enterprise
A system that creates documentation of internal controls for a business to meet its financial and legal obligations. The method of using the documentation itself to automate the actions assigned by the documentation to specific performers which actions can be tracked and measured enables management and audit personnel to assert ...

06/15/06 - 20060129440 - Device and method for producing a processing tool
In an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a method for producing a processing tool is provided. In the method, the processing tool processes at least one electronic workflow comprising working steps on a first data processing system, and a second data processing system is used for producing the processing ...

06/08/06 - 20060122875 - Web-based, industry specific, staffing interactive database
The present invention is directed towards an interactive web-based database for use by one or more hiring facilities in a particular industry and associated with temporary staffing professionals to coordinate the availability of the staffing professionals with the temporary staffing requirements of the hiring facilities. The database, and access thereto, ...

06/01/06 - 20060116918 - Network scheduler with linked information
A system and method of scheduling events offered and or created by one or more sales target having a network association with one or more rep and linking information to the event. ...

05/25/06 - 20060111956 - System and method for managing purchasing contracts
A system and method of managing purchasing contracts between supplier entities and customer entities for the purchase of products includes the step of generating at least one purchasing contract between at least one supplier entity (e.g., a product originator such as an airline company or a distributor such as travel ...

05/25/06 - 20060111955 - System and method for mobile resource management with customer confirmation
A customer appointment management system and method with mobile resource management including a customer communication module configured for transmitting to a customer a notification of a pending arrival of a mobile agent at the customer location for an appointment and receiving a confirmation from the customer confirming the appointment. The ...

05/25/06 - 20060111953 - Virtual knowledge management system
It is an object of the present invention to provide a virtual knowledge management system which controls the flow of information relating to the performance of business in an enterprise. The flow of information that is intensively administered by a virtual knowledge base 20 is automatically controlled on the basis ...

05/18/06 - 20060106662 - Rendering variable data at a point-of-purchase
A method according to an embodiment is used to render materials at a rendering station. In an embodiment, a job production subsystem may receive campaign data, which defines a promotional campaign, and generate multiple job documents, based on the campaign data. At least some of the multiple job documents identify ...

05/18/06 - 20060106661 - Methods and apparatus for project schedule estimation
One embodiment of the invention is directed to automatically extending a task in a project schedule. If certain information items associated with a task are not specified, the scheduled completion time for a task may be automatically extended under the assumption that if these information items are unknown, the task ...

05/18/06 - 20060106660 - Route input system
A software-enabled Route Input System (RIS) process facilitates consistent communication among the various entities involved in route creation, where the entities have different tasks and objectives. The primary teams are the process flow definers (IE), individual process owners (PE) and the execution team that assembles the process steps into a ...

05/04/06 - 20060095309 - Method for application and infrastructure rationalization
A method for application rationalization to assist clients in reducing the complexity of information technology (IT) and expedite the benefits of IT transformation. One exemplary application is described using the disclosed methodologies within the communications industry. ...

04/27/06 - 20060089867 - Inventory control system and method
The invention suppresses stock excess or deficiency of circulation items through a life cycle of the circulation items. In an inventory control system, an information processing device calculates an index (KPI) which shows a current phase of a circulation item from actual data of the circulation item, at predetermined timing ...

04/27/06 - 20060089866 - Computer system for exchanging workflows and methods thereof
A computer-readable storage medium (100) for exchanging workflows (112), said workflows (112) presented by way of a graphical user interface (GUI) (102), the storage medium (100) comprising computer instructions for selecting (502) at least one workflow (112) from a plurality of workflows, and associating (506) the at least one workflow ...

04/27/06 - 20060089865 - Computer-aided method for managing a part shipping apparatus development project
A computer-aided method for managing a part shipping apparatus development project including a plurality of predetermined processes or procedures is provided. The method includes receiving information about the part and storing a first set of data which identifies the part in at least one database. The method further includes filling ...

04/20/06 - 20060085244 - Systems and methods for distributed resource management
Systems and methods for distributed resource management are provided. The systems and methods may simulate a plurality of supply schedules for a family of parts, compare the plurality of supply schedules, and store a supply schedule selected from the plurality of supply schedules. Each supply schedule may be respectively associated ...

04/20/06 - 20060085243 - Business process management method and system
A service-oriented architecture includes applications, business services, business functions, and data repositories for developing human resource or other applications. A business service provides a set of business functions. The applications access business functions within business services. The business functions provide mechanisms for accessing and processing data in the data repositories. ...

04/20/06 - 20060085242 - Asset management system and method
An asset management system comprising data storage means capable of storing data and arranged to store asset data relating to a plurality of assets and datacenter data relating to at least one datacenter comprising at least one element, processing means capable of processing data and generating an output, the processing ...

04/20/06 - 20060085241 - Decentralized warehouse management
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products and systems, implementing and using techniques for managing data related to contents and operations of a warehouse. A request is received from one enterprise resource planning system from among two or more enterprise resource planning systems that are operable to exchange information with ...

04/13/06 - 20060080157 - Method of improving administrative functions of a business using value streams with display of status
A method for improving an administrative function of a business is disclosed comprising the steps of selecting an administrative value stream, preparing a future state value stream map based on lean concepts to create a future state administrative value stream comprising a series of steps, and implementing the future state ...

04/06/06 - 20060074738 - Computer-implemented system and method for generating construction specifications
Computer-implemented systems and methods for generating specifications for construction projects. A method can be configured to generate user interfaces in order to obtain construction project details from a user. The construction project details can include what types and conditions are related to the construction project. Textual specification data is retrieved ...

04/06/06 - 20060074737 - Interactive composition of workflow activities
Visual composition of an activity for re-use in a composite activity or in a workflow. A user declaratively and/or programmatically generates reusable composite activities from existing activities interactively using a visual designer. The activity has one or more configuration properties associated therewith that define the behavior of an aspect of ...

04/06/06 - 20060074736 - Programming interface for a componentized and extensible workflow model
Building a componentized workflow model via an application programming interface. Each step of the workflow is modeled as an activity that has metadata to describe design time aspects, compile time aspects, and runtime aspects of the workflow step. A user selects and arranges the activities to create the workflow via ...

04/06/06 - 20060074735 - Ink-enabled workflow authoring
An ink-enabled user interface for building a componentized workflow model. A touch screen display device allows each step of the workflow to be modeled as an activity that has metadata to describe design time aspects, compile time aspects, and runtime aspects of the workflow step. A user selects and arranges ...

04/06/06 - 20060074734 - Declarative representation for an extensible workflow model
Representing a componentized workflow model via a declarative markup language. Each step of the workflow is modeled as an activity that has metadata to describe design time aspects, compile time aspects, and runtime aspects of the workflow step. A user selects and arranges the activities to create the workflow via ...

04/06/06 - 20060074733 - Framework for seamlessly authoring and editing workflows at design and runtime
Modifying a componentized workflow model during execution of the workflow. Each step of the workflow is modeled as an activity that has metadata to describe design time aspects, compile time aspects, and runtime aspects of the workflow step. A user selects and arranges the activities to create the workflow via ...

04/06/06 - 20060074732 - Componentized and extensible workflow model
Building a componentized workflow model. Each step of the workflow is modeled as an activity that has metadata to describe design time aspects, compile time aspects, and runtime aspects of the workflow step. A user selects and arranges the activities to create the workflow via user interfaces or application programming ...

04/06/06 - 20060074731 - Unified model for authoring and executing flow-based and constraint-based workflows
Designing and executing a workflow having flow-based and constraint-based regions. A user selects one or more activities to be part of a constraint-based region. Each constraint-based region has a constraint associated therewith. The workflow is executed by executing the flow-based region and the constraint-based region. The flow-based region executes sequentially. ...

04/06/06 - 20060074730 - Extensible framework for designing workflows
A user interface for building a componentized workflow model. Each step of the workflow is modeled as an activity that has metadata to describe design time aspects, compile time aspects, and runtime aspects of the workflow step. A user selects and arranges the activities to create the workflow via the ...

04/06/06 - 20060074729 - Managed services supply chain integration
A method for providing managed services which includes synchronizing managed services product fulfillment with a manufacturer supply chain. ...

04/06/06 - 20060074728 - Rounding to transportation quantities
A method and apparatus to efficiently round requested quantities to efficient transportation quantities in the supply chain. Target locations are organized in a sequence. A tolerance interval around the requested quantity is calculated for each target location. The requested value is then rounded to an efficient transportation quantity for each ...

04/06/06 - 20060074727 - Method and apparatus for collection and dissemination of information over a computer network
A system for managing relationships in an industry community having various groups of parties, each of which has a common interest in the industry. The system includes means for collecting and sharing information between the parties. The collected information is classified in accordance with the group from which it came ...

03/30/06 - 20060069601 - Systems and methods for scheduling reoccurring deliveries and pickups
An improved scheduling system for scheduling, in real time, two or more customer visits (e.g. pickups, deliveries, or service visits) in response to a single request. The single request preferably specifies a date and a time window for a first customer visit, and a periodic schedule according to which the ...

03/30/06 - 20060069600 - Date calculator
A date calculator for calculating significant dates associated with processing of an intellectual property comprising, a display having a plurality of columns. The columns having a series of significant dates associated with the processing. A sliding portion having one column where significant events in the processing are listed and a ...

03/30/06 - 20060069599 - Workflow tasks in a collaborative application
Workflows designed to take advantage of the capabilities of workflow-enabled application programs are disclosed. Examples of workflow-enabled application programs are word processing application programs and e-mail application programs. In response to determining that an incomplete workflow task exists, forms data is sent to a workflow-enabled application program. In response to ...

03/30/06 - 20060069598 - Methods and systems for distributing stock in a distribution network
Systems and methods are disclosed for distributing stock in a distribution network. The distribution network may include a source location and a plurality of target locations. In the disclosed systems and methods, the stock requirements of the target locations may be categorized into a plurality of requirement types, wherein each ...

03/30/06 - 20060069597 - Pegging resources to shipments in a pre-existing production plan
In software systems for resource-constrained production planning (RCPP), it is often beneficial to determine a detailed association, or “pegging”, between the resources and the shipments that are enabled by those resources. The method implemented in the software systems is called “Pegging By Explosion” (PBE), for constructing a pegging of a ...

03/23/06 - 20060064337 - Calendaring and messaging device
A limited functionality display device is disclosed. The display device comprises a display arrangement comprising one or more screens that display data, such as schedule related data or calendar data, as well as graphics. The display device has a user interface, such as a series of buttons or scrollbars, that ...

03/16/06 - 20060059030 - Method and decision support system for optimal allocation of expendable resources in internet marketing with resource-dependant effectiveness and use of a-posteriori information
A method and decision support system for optimal allocation of expendable resources in any type of repetitive business transaction with resource-dependant effectiveness and use of a-posteriori information i.e., internet marketing (IM) transaction, in which the computerized system: creates the list of IM providers to be considered, contacts them over the ...

03/16/06 - 20060059029 - Autonomic installation and configuration of an enterprise business process on-demand
The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for the autonomic installation and configuration of an enterprise business process on-demand. The method comprises: providing a business process document for expressing the business process, wherein the business process comprises a plurality of components and a workflow; providing a ...

03/09/06 - 20060053043 - Enterprise project management system and method therefor
A project management system uses a work breakdown structure to define the project tasks. The work breakdown structure is organized as set of hierarchical related project tasks. The work breakdown structure can be loaded in part from a template. A calendar breakdown structure defines events associated with project resources. The ...

03/09/06 - 20060053042 - Material distribution system, material distribution method and computer program product
A material distribution apparatus includes a storage area for storing materials, a storage area for storing conference schedule information that indicates persons to whom the material is permissible to be distributed, a user ID input portion for entering a user ID of a person who wants the material, a distribution ...

03/09/06 - 20060053041 - Scenario information analyzer and scenario information analyzing method
An apparatus and method for analyzing scenario information are provided, which automatically calculate and produce output information such as appropriate shooting schedules. The apparatus for analyzing scenario information of the invention comprises a scenario information storage section which holds scenario information divided into scenes, a reference information storage section which ...

03/02/06 - 20060047554 - Rules based resource scheduling
A method and apparatus or use with at least one resource associated with resource clients according to a schedule wherein the schedule indicates association of the resource with specific clients during time slots, the method for scheduling client association of the at least one resource and comprising the steps of ...

03/02/06 - 20060047553 - Utilization indicating schedule scanner
A method and apparatus for use with a processor, a database and an interface including a display screen, the database including schedule information associated with utilization of time for at least one medical resource that may be scheduled for use over a period including several sub-periods, the method for aiding ...

03/02/06 - 20060047552 - Smart appointment recall method and apparatus
A method and apparatus for use with a resource scheduling system that includes a schedule that associates resource time slots with scheduled client matters and associates scheduled recall procedures with schedule times, each scheduled recall procedure for generating at least one recall notice at a corresponding schedule time indicating a ...

03/02/06 - 20060047551 - System and method for staffing promotional events with qualified event personnel
Systems and methods coordinate the attributes of event personnel with the needs of particular promotional events. Event profiles for promotional events specify one or more desired attributes for event operators to staff the event. Employee profiles also record the attributes of a plurality of event personnel. The event profiles are ...

03/02/06 - 20060047550 - Autonomic determination and location of product support infrastructure resources
A method and system for enabling autonomic determination and allocation of product support resources. The automated process allocates support resources based on a combination of product and market requirements and historical data on resources used by similar products in similar markets. Projects requiring a support infrastructure are algorithmically classified by ...

03/02/06 - 20060047549 - Computer-implemented decision support system and method
The invention concerns a computer-implemented decision support system and method, that determines the availability of work items and areas of responsibility, determines the feasibility of completing the work item tasks based on the determined availability of work items and the determined areas of responsibility, determines precedence of the work item ...

03/02/06 - 20060047548 - Automatic electronic timesheet filler
A method for automatically filling an electronic timesheet includes extracting one or more calendar entries from an electronic calendar and matching each calendar entry of the one or more calendar entries to a corresponding project of a list of projects. An electronic timesheet is then filled based on each calendar ...

03/02/06 - 20060047547 - System and method for automated product design and approval
The present invention is a system for automated product design and approval comprising a design creation and approval subsystem, an ordering and quotation subsystem, a purchase authorization subsystem, a work orders and production subsystem, a shipping subsystem and an invoicing subsystem. The system includes numerous features that facilitate product design ...

02/23/06 - 20060041461 - Project management device and method
Embodiments of the present invention improve project management. In one embodiment the present invention includes a project management system comprising a plurality of task wedges arranged around a center. The task wedges may be keyed to tasks or vendors. In one embodiment, the project management system further comprises a plurality ...

02/23/06 - 20060041460 - An electronic calendar
An electronic calendar is provided to a user that receives a request to schedule an event from the user. Additional information related to the user and/or the event is obtained by prompting the user for the additional information and/or obtaining the additional information from a database communicatively coupled to the ...

02/23/06 - 20060041459 - System, method and computer program product for total effective cost management
A method for total effective cost management in an organization includes creating a maintenance plan for the organization, the maintenance plan including at least one task performed during maintenance of the organization. Then, a plurality of different maintenance schedules are created for performing the task(s) of the maintenance plan. A ...

02/16/06 - 20060036478 - System, method and computer program for interactive voice recognition scheduler, reminder and messenger
A system, method and computer program for automated appointment scheduling is provided. The system includes a computer linked to a voice messaging utility and to a database and the computer program of the present invention. The computer program defines a scheduling engine that includes a two-way interactive voice response engine, ...

02/02/06 - 20060026052 - Scheduling system
A scheduler combines characteristics of a forward and backward schedulers to determine a schedule for activities that require the use of resources. The system handles conflicting requirements for resources by considering target dates and the relative priority of the activities. As a result, higher priority activities are more likely to ...

02/02/06 - 20060026051 - System and method for directly scheduling health care patient appointments
A direct scheduling system (100,300) that permits automatic appointment scheduling in a computer network environment (304). The system includes a scheduler (108,320) that utilizes scheduling parameters (124,336) to schedule appointments (104) of various types. A user interface (112,324) allows a requester to request that the scheduler schedule an appointment by ...

02/02/06 - 20060026050 - System and method for global delivery
A method, system, and computer program product for providing a service offering to an IT services provider client and managing the capabilities of the IT services provider is provided. In one embodiment a market is organized into market framework components. The resources of the IT services provider are organized into ...

02/02/06 - 20060026049 - Method for identifying and prioritizing customer care automation
A method of identifying and prioritizing automated customer care applications for use in connection with interactive voice response systems is disclosed. The method includes receiving a first set of data produced by a first data-driven evaluation process relating to a call center environment responsive to calls received by the interactive ...

01/26/06 - 20060020501 - Benefit plans
A computerized system for dynamically generating an on-line questionnaire for collecting operational parameters of an employee benefit plan includes a component development module for developing application components with multiple attributes, a subset of which collectively effect the functionality of other components, a business rule parser for translating business rules into ...

01/19/06 - 20060015387 - Activity browser
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for an activity browser. A computer system includes a user interface linked to a processor arranged to perform instructions in accordance with a business application stored in a memory, the business application including context code portions representing at least one context, the context ...

01/19/06 - 20060015386 - Avoiding conflicting requests for resources or meetings
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for avoiding scheduling conflicts in resource reservations and meeting reservations. A method includes receiving personal and/or resource data in a meeting appointment form presented by a system, retrieving current schedules for the received personal and/or resource data residing in back end systems, and ...

01/19/06 - 20060015385 - System for managing business processes by means of a computer system
A system is described for managing business processes by means of a computer system. These processes have a number of consecutive process phases, wherein one or more of these processes can be started and accessed through a plurality of input channels. A process management module can be started upon receipt ...

01/19/06 - 20060015384 - Business management and procedures involving intelligent middleman
A system of infrastructure and communications networks that will enable employees (“intelligent middlemen”) located in offshore areas to facilitate the exchange of economic assets and information among themselves. Such assets include: cultural, technical and legal rights and remedies, software engineering and various other business skills, from buyer to seller. There ...

01/12/06 - 20060010024 - System construction guide system
To provide a system capable of executing a project of constructing a basic system accurately at a lower cost and in a shorter period. There are provided a system construction guide server in which work plan information for constructing a predetermined system is registered, and an operator terminal operated by ...

01/12/06 - 20060010023 - System, method and computer program product for managing meeting planning operations
Systems, methods and computer program products are provided for planning meetings or conferences. The present invention establishes methods and procedures to define, organize, share, maintain and report essential information especially financial information associated with an individual meeting or a collection of meetings especially the collection of all of a particular ...

01/12/06 - 20060010022 - Method for allocating advertising resources
A method of allocating advertising resources uses a database that includes a number of business unit characteristics, one being an average allocation of advertising costs over time. A regression coefficient is produced based on the characteristics, wherein a non-linear specification is used for the average allocation of advertising cost characteristic. ...

01/05/06 - 20060004619 - Collaboration session recording model
A decision tracking object model and interface which captures and stores administrative and substantive meeting information, along with their associated relationships, in an object model database is presented. Each object model includes information and relationships that are accessible via a publicly defined interface. ...

01/05/06 - 20060004618 - Explaining task scheduling for a project
Techniques for causing project management software to explain task scheduling for a project are provided. A technique for explaining task scheduling for a project analyzes every task of the project, stores an indication of an explanation relating to a primary consideration for determining a schedule for the task, and then ...

12/29/05 - 20050288985 - System and method for facilitating a sales transaction of an employment position between an individual possessing the position and an individual seeking employment in the position
A system and method is provided for facilitating a sale of an employment position with an employer (“firm”) from an employee (“seller”) possessing the employment position (“job”) to an individual seeking employment and desiring the position (“buyer”). The method is most preferably implemented via an Internet web-based system providing one ...

12/29/05 - 20050288984 - Outsourcing simulation system and method
A method for creating a relationship with an outsourcing client is disclosed. A two way service relationship is simulated between two or more legal entities. This is facilitated by providing metrics that interrelate between the two or more legal entities, and then applying known service management principles to define an ...

12/29/05 - 20050288983 - Methods and systems for a multi-level scheduling framework
A method for providing a planning framework for use in managing a project to be planned in a supply chain, comprising providing a first software layer for storing and manipulating planning data relative to the planning project; providing a second software layer for communicating with the first software layer, the ...

12/22/05 - 20050283393 - System and method for event-based forecasting
A system and related method to forecast based on events defined by event segments. The system includes a database or set of databases populated with selectable event segments characterized by known information and predictive information deemed by the user to be relevant to a particular organization for which future resource ...

12/22/05 - 20050283392 - Planning and scheduling modification of a configuration
A method and system of planning modification of a configuration of an item of equipment supports an integrated approach toward managing one or more configuration modifications and planning and scheduling issues. Planning factors are tracked. One or more planning factors are relevant to a modification of a configuration of an ...

12/15/05 - 20050278209 - Hierarchical projects in a computer-enabled project management method and system
Methods and systems are provided for establishing a hierarchical relationship between a parent or master project schedule and sub-project schedules including tasks and phases required for completion of the parent or master project. When changes are made to data contained in a given parent or master project schedule or to ...

12/15/05 - 20050278208 - Method and system for restarting a project management system scheduling engine based on user input of contractual start/finish data
Methods and systems are provided for managing automated project management scheduling based on user input of contractual project milestone start and/or finish data. A project scheduling engine may be managed by provision of contractual start/finish data. The scheduling engine may restart a project management schedule at any point in the ...

12/15/05 - 20050278207 - Script-based information retrieval
One implementation provides a method for providing a solution to a problem durring an interaction. In this implementation, the method includes displaying to the user a first question and possible answers to the first question in a graphical user interface (GUI) upon identification of the problem. Each possible answer to ...

12/15/05 - 20050278206 - Method and system for scheduling organization
A method and system for efficiently and effectively scheduling contractors for participation in a contract. All communications between the contractors and a manager can be accomplished electronically, and all contract details can be provided electronically. The contract details are accessible through a global computer network. Acceptance of a subcontract by ...

12/08/05 - 20050273375 - Control system interface for flexible order transaction sytem
The present invention provides a control system interface for accessing a plurality of functions relating to a flexible order transaction system. ...

11/24/05 - 20050261949 - Method of providing visual access to comment markings
Meeting documents are provided to N meeting participants of a meeting. Each meeting document comprises a human-readable content marking related to the subject of the meeting and a storage address marking. At the meeting, the meeting participants supply comment markings to the meeting documents, thus forming commented meeting documents. The ...

11/24/05 - 20050261948 - Method and system for merging orders in a flexible order transaction system
A method and system for merging an order with a surviving order where production of the order is currently in progress in a flexible order transaction system where yield, scrap, and work-in-process (WIP) are calculated for reporting points in the merging order process and yield, scrap, and work-in-process units are ...

11/24/05 - 20050261947 - Method and system for changing an order in a flexible order transaction system
A method and system for changing an order for a product where production of the order is currently in progress in a flexible order transaction system and where yield, scrap, and work-in-process (WIP) are calculated for reporting points in the order process and are transferred to the new order for ...

11/24/05 - 20050261946 - Scheduling method and system for rail networks
The present invention provides a method and system for calculating a plan for moving trains on a network that reduces the cost of delays or late running. The invention is useful for timetable development, for real-time dynamic rescheduling of the trains on a network, and for assessing proposed changes to ...

11/17/05 - 20050256754 - Accommodating preparatory work for electronically scheduled meetings
Method, apparatus, and computer program products for scheduling and tracking preparatory work associated with electronic meeting invitations. When a meeting invitation is received and tentatively accepted, the user is prompted to enter the expected duration of the associated work. A floating block of time is created, subject to the constraint ...

11/10/05 - 20050251436 - Method of separating reporting definitions from execution definitions in a business process
Provided is a system and method for separating a reporting and execution definitions in a business process management system such that a change in the execution definition does not affect the reporting definition. Reporting and execution definitions are separated by defining tracking definitions and points that define the data collection ...

11/10/05 - 20050251435 - Systems and methods for managing resources
Systems and methods for managing human resources are provided. In one embodiment, a resource management system includes a network resource management server including at least one database containing data related to human resources and at least one resource management system application. The resource management system may further include business rules ...

11/03/05 - 20050246216 - Systems and methods for managing information at various levels
A method for managing information at various levels is provided. The method includes obtaining information regarding a sample by scanning a barcode of the sample, generating, via a computer, at least one of a schedule of a task to be performed and a contact designated to perform the task, where ...

10/27/05 - 20050240459 - Virtual referral service
An on-line referral system. According to a preferred embodiment, individuals in need of having services rendered on their behalf post situations, preferably via a billboard maintained on a website. Service providers meeting certain competency thresholds capable and willing to perform services on behalf of such posted situations are enable to ...

10/27/05 - 20050240458 - Methods and apparatus for transaction and project management
Systems and techniques for project management and reporting. A specification manager suitably operates in the context of a business management system. The specification manager collects project information useful for constructing a high level overview of a project and creates a project model describing high level functional elements of the project. ...

10/20/05 - 20050234758 - Task progress management method, task progress management device and program
In estimation of a task scale, information on the start and completion dates of a task, non-operation information such as holidays and information on man-days of other task plans are used to attain high-precision estimation. The number of man-days is estimated from the task scale for the next week by ...

10/20/05 - 20050234757 - System and method for scheduling and train control
A scheduling system and method for moving plural objects through a multipath system described as a freight railway scheduling system. The scheduling system utilizes a cost reactive resource scheduler to minimize resource exception while at the same time minimizing the global costs associated with the solution. The achievable movement plan ...

10/20/05 - 20050234756 - Management system for integrating multiple logistic bodies and method thereof
A management system and method integrates account information and trade information of multiple logistic bodies on an enterprise data platform. The logistic bodies register their basic information in the system; the system receives trade information among the enterprise and the logistic bodies, analyzes the correlations among them and generates a ...

10/13/05 - 20050228707 - Method for real-time allocation of customer service resources and opportunities for optimizing business and financial benefit
A method and systems architecture for allocating and adjusting service delivery resources in real-time on the basis of predicting associated financial profits and/or benefits to an organization. The method includes the steps of: a) determining service resource costs and characteristics, b) predicting service demand, c) setting service objectives are determined ...

10/13/05 - 20050228706 - Incorporating a repair vendor into repair planning for supply chain
One embodiment includes a computer-implemented system for incorporating a repair vendor into repair planning for a supply chain. The system accesses a logical representation of the supply chain, access an inventory plan for the supply chain, and generates a replenishment plan for meeting the inventory plan for the supply chain ...

10/13/05 - 20050228705 - System and method for effectuating the planning and management of shipment pick-up and delivery appointments between buyers, sellers, and transportation and warehousing providers in a supply community
A method and apparatus for effectuating the shipment and appointment making process between buyers, sellers and third party service providers in a supply community. Any shipping location may create and maintain an appointment calendar within which one or more other participants may seek and select open time slots and request ...

10/13/05 - 20050228704 - Method of distributing leads to a recipient
A method, a system, and an apparatus for distributing leads to a recipient. The present invention provides a system that distributes leads to recipients based, in part, on their sales history with previous leads and, in part on how expedient a particular recipient is in acting upon a potential lead. ...

10/06/05 - 20050222888 - Method of creating production plan of demand variation input type and method of creating production plan minimizing risk of demand variations
A production plan is created so as to minimize risk of demand variations. Forecasted values of amounts of requests are entered for each different item of products, markets, dates, past accuracy of demand forecasts, and order achievements at the time when the plan is created. Scenario information is created in ...

10/06/05 - 20050222887 - Planning a supply of items to a first location associated with a supply chain from one or more second locations associated with the supply chain
One embodiment includes a computer-implemented system for planning a supply of items to a first location associated with a supply chain from one or more second locations associated with the supply chain. The system accesses a logical representation of the supply chain and identifies one or more controlling locations and ...

10/06/05 - 20050222886 - System and method for planning a tour of activities
A method and system for managing scheduled events facilitates the planning of a tour of activities. Customer information and appointment information is received. A tour of activities is planned based on the customer information, the appointment information, and planning drivers. A status is generated for the tour of activities, a ...

10/06/05 - 20050222885 - Method enabling real-time testing of on-demand infrastructure to predict service level agreement compliance
Provided is an apparatus and method for demonstrating the efficiency and effectiveness of a customer's information technology (IT) system and applications operating in a shared IT, or electronic business on-demand, environment. A test suite mimics hypothetical settings in an on-demand services environment (129) and then determines how the settings affect ...

10/06/05 - 20050222884 - Capacity planning of resources
Some implementations provide a resource planning system for receiving a first scheduling request for a resource's time. This first scheduling request may include a date range and the estimated amount of time needed from the resource, but does not necessarily include concrete date and time facts. This first scheduling request ...

10/06/05 - 20050222883 - Market expansion through optimized resource placement
A company's ability to expand its market presence by delivering value to emerging and immature markets is influenced by its ability to develop a rich and differentiated value net within these emerging markets. Techniques are disclosed for making resource placement decisions in an objective manner, using results from a value ...

09/29/05 - 20050216325 - Procurement workbench
The successful monitoring of procurement processes requires that dates in the supply chain be calculated exactly and tracked accordingly. The central calculation of dates ensures that different applications arrive at the same results, optimizing their accuracy. Monitoring the dates will allow a user to quickly gain an overview of the ...

09/29/05 - 20050216324 - System and method for constructing a schedule that better achieves one or more business goals
A system and method for constructing a schedule that better achieves one or more business goals by generating a schedule optimized for at least one business goal comprising either a business objective or a business constraint. The present system and method, in addition to using information about the set of ...

09/22/05 - 20050209902 - Worker management system, worker management apparatus and worker management method
A worker management system, which includes a plant 100 divided into a plurality of work areas each in correspondence to specific task contents, a database 220 having stored therein task identification information correlating each work area 112 with contents of tasks performed therein and worker detection sensors 130 installed in ...

09/22/05 - 20050209901 - System and method for engineering project tracking
A system and method for engineering project tracking where engineers can enter data for each task of each project they worked on for many different clients. Each type of task can have a work code. The system manages engineering projects for a large number of projects and a large number ...

09/22/05 - 20050209900 - System and method for organizing an enterprise
A system, method and program product are provided for organizing a store into a department store having shops associated therewith. The method includes receiving a designation of at least one store as being a department store. The department stores of the enterprise defining a department store organizational level. A designation ...

09/22/05 - 20050209899 - Segregation of duties reporting
An embodiment of the invention is an audit system including a set of business processes that describe the operations of an enterprise. The audit system has a registry of incompatible business functions. The registry of incompatible business functions is created from a library of business processes. Additional business functions can ...

09/15/05 - 20050203789 - Activity management system and method of using
An activity management system, and a method of using thereof, is described for a service process in semiconductor manufacturing. The activity management system includes a data collection system configured to receive service activity data associated with at least one service component and a service operator, and relate the service activity ...

09/15/05 - 20050203788 - System and method for capacity management
A system and method for capacity management. The system includes at least an order management module and a pull-in engine. The order management module receives at least a first order having a period delivery demand directing a supplier to deliver products corresponding to the order before the end of the ...

09/08/05 - 20050197880 - Method for visually programming instruction set for process
A method for visually programming an instruction set for a process is proposed. The method is based on receiving a request to design the process, providing a process designer interactive display, storing a library containing at least one function, accepting via the process designer interactive display function-related information concerning the ...

09/08/05 - 20050197879 - System and method for program management
System and method for managing a program plan includes creating a business needs statement by determining a scope and concept; developing an understanding of objective's for a solution; designing, developing, and testing the solution; implementing the solution; and maintaining the solution. The system may include a computer implemented interface between ...

09/08/05 - 20050197878 - System and method for performing assortment definition
A system and method for performing assortment definition is provided. The method comprises inputting information regardin