Automated Electrical Financial Or Business Practice Or Management Arrangement

Automated Electrical Financial Or Business Practice Or Management Arrangement 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.

11/30/06 - 20060271397 - Construction payment management system and method with automatic workflow management features
A system and method for managing a construction payment process. One method embodying the invention can include storing a plurality of workflows to control automatic electronic notification sequences of the construction payment process, electronically receiving information related to a construction project from a first participant, automatically electronically transmitting a first ...

11/30/06 - 20060271396 - Method of certificating message, terminal thereof and system thereof
A method of certificating a message, terminal thereof and system thereof are disclosed. By the present invention, in transmitting various messages via a prescribed communication service, a validity of the message is certificated. By the present invention, without checking contents of a message, a recipient can confirm whether a received ...

11/30/06 - 20060271395 - Distributed object identity in a virtual machine cluster
Technology for sharing data among multiple virtual machines in a cluster of virtual machines is disclosed. Each virtual machine identifies “managed” objects of an instance of an application running at the virtual machine. Operations performed by an instance of one application which affect the state of managed objects are detected ...

11/30/06 - 20060271394 - Dietary restrictions/preferences tracking and meal planning process and system
Software resident in a computer- or Web-accessible database allows event planners, hosts and hostesses to track their guests' food and beverage restrictions and preferences. Individuals enter their dietary needs/restrictions/preferences in the database. When a host or hostess enters a list of potential attendees to an event, the invention generates a ...

11/30/06 - 20060271393 - Computer system for efficient design and manufacture of multiple component devices
Embodiments of the disclosed computer systems provide rapid design of multiple component products, especially medical products, as well as determination of manufacturing costs, pricing, physical attributes, component bonding techniques, sterilization techniques, and government regulatory approval. Certain embodiments also generate work orders, product labels, and audits for multiple component devices. ...

11/30/06 - 20060271392 - Circumstance information management system and management method therefor
A history concerning circumstances surrounding each item during distribution is obtained from a reusable measuring apparatus attached to the item or measuring apparatuses placed in locations such as rooms. Information about items of products in a distribution channel are managed by associating position information indicating the locations at both ends ...

11/30/06 - 20060271391 - Multi purpose business card and method therefor
The present invention provides a multi-purpose business card that includes contact information of a contact, as well as an e-value that can be redeemable by a recipient of the business card at a point-of-sale in exchange for wares and/or services. The e-value associated with the business card serves as an ...

11/30/06 - 20060271390 - Integrated system, tools, and methods for designing automated business process applications
The present inventors have devised, among other things, an application design interface and related tools that facilitates development of business process applications. ...

11/30/06 - 20060271389 - Pay per percentage of impressions
An advertisement sales system comprises a receiver component that receives a request to purchase impressions on at least one of web pages and application programs based at least in part on one of an exact and approximate keyword match. A sales component sells a percentage of all such impressions to ...

11/30/06 - 20060271388 - Derivative securities utilizing commercial real estate indices as underlying
Standardized derivatives markets cover a wide array of risks including energy, credit, and weather. However, one major asset class is conspicuously missing from this list: commercial real estate. Indeed, commercial property markets are the last of the major institutional asset classes not to have liquid futures and options markets. Thanks ...

11/30/06 - 20060271387 - System for providing a user with shipping information
A method of providing a user with shipping information includes receiving a request from a user for shipping information regarding the shipping of an item, the request including an item identification which identifies the item. A database is accessed containing historical shipping information of items whose shipping information has previously ...

11/30/06 - 20060271386 - Methods and apparatus for locating devices
Assets, such as, for example, scanners, can be managed through an asset management network. In one exemplary function, the asset can receive a signal to enter a locate mode. In a locate mode, the asset or a peripheral attached to the asset can make perceptible cues to identify itself. The ...

11/30/06 - 20060271385 - Apparatus and method for providing a construction warranty program
Disclosed is an apparatus and method for providing a construction warranty program that includes a number of purchasable construction warranty plans that when purchased by a registered contractor, do not require the registered contractor to provide evidence of equity or working capital equal to a contract price for a service ...

11/30/06 - 20060271384 - Reference data aggregate service population
The present invention provides a method for registering a service with an aggregation service, and storing data within the aggregate service. The process of registration is performed by a service explicitly notifying or being discovered by the aggregation service. In one embodiment there are four steps to the registration process. ...

11/30/06 - 20060271383 - Entity synchronization using filtering
The present invention provides a filtering mechanism for filtering data synchronized from an entity in an owning service to a consumer. The filtering mechanism can include one or more of temporal filtering, filtering based on security permissions, filtering based on organization structure or roles, and user-defined filters. Different and additional ...

11/30/06 - 20060271382 - Entity projection
The present invention provides an entity projection in a client. The entity projection is an encapsulation of data, from an owning service, and residing on a consumer of that service. The entity projection provides an abstraction that conforms to an entity programming model on the consumer. The entity projection may ...

11/30/06 - 20060271381 - Internet-based wedding planning device with multiple-interactive capabilities and method of use
This invention is directed toward an internet-based, interactive wedding planning and management program which allows a wedding group, including the brides, grooms, guest, and wedding planner to interactively plan the wedding, where the bride is the primary account owner and can give each invited guest different usernames and passwords, along ...

11/30/06 - 20060271380 - Systems and methods for managing product satisfaction
Software hosted on a server aids a user having a possibly defective product at a user workstation coupled by a network to the server in performing diagnostics of the product; and, as needed, preparing a label for shipping the product to a service depot for analysis, test, maintenance, repair, upgrade, ...

11/30/06 - 20060271379 - Intellectual property analysis and report generating system and method
A method and apparatus for analysing intellectual property information and generating a report is disclosed. A user input is received which comprises a user selection of one of a plurality of templates defining a plurality of predetermined intellectual property analyses, or user selections of a plurality of predetermined intellectual property ...

11/30/06 - 20060271378 - System and method for designing a medical care facility
Systems and methods for designing a medical care facility are provided. The method includes receiving usage data relating to a medical care facility and selecting at least one metric for evaluating a medical care facility design. The method further includes processing with a processor the usage data to determine a ...

11/30/06 - 20060271377 - Seamless transfer technique
The Seamless Transfer Technique is a real estate investment technique that allows an Investor to purchase a property and then re-sell the property to an end Buyer for a profit within a short period of time without breaking the chain of title. This is a accomplished by following a series ...

11/30/06 - 20060271376 - Fastfix - the cargo fixture system
Freight prices agreed between charterers and ship owners, to transport dry, liquid, refrigirated and all other types of bulk commodities, are believed to be the best pricing of shipping asstes specific to a transaction expressed as per metric ton freight rate. The FastFix system offers a comprehensive solution that maintains ...

11/30/06 - 20060271375 - Project information providing system and project information providing method
By managing and providing information such as know-how from a product using registration of the product as a trigger, it is possible to rapidly and effectively provide information on a project product. As a result, for example, it is possible to provide timely service utilizing this information. ...

11/23/06 - 20060265243 - System and method for establishing or verifying a person's identity using sms and mms over a wireless communications network
Individuals asked to present two forms of picture identification face a problem as individuals usually only have one form of picture ID, that form of identification generally being a state-issued driver's license. The disclosed invention is a system and method for a party, generally a Customer or Patron, to establish ...

11/23/06 - 20060265242 - Image processing apparatus, method of controlling the apparatuses, and computer-readable storage medium
In this invention, reading conditions for registration are determined in accordance with a document. This allows a user to read a document under recommended reading conditions without any special knowledge, and register the document in a predetermined server after performing anti-tampering processing on the document. For this purpose, a document ...

11/23/06 - 20060265241 - System for sorting discarded and spent pharmaceutical items
A system for disposing of medical waste is generally configured to sort waste items into a plurality of containers according to applicable rules and regulations governing the handling and/or disposal of such items. In some embodiments, a system comprises sorting stations each of which houses a number of disposable containers. ...

11/23/06 - 20060265240 - Method and system for displaying a cursor on a trading screen
A method, system, and computer program products are provided for updating the location of a cursor in a display window on a trading screen when certain events occurs. In a preferred embodiment, as market conditions change, the market information may be rearranged on a screen. To reduce the chances of ...

11/23/06 - 20060265239 - Method and system for displaying a cursor on a trading screen
A method, system, and computer program products are provided for updating the location of a cursor in a display window on a trading screen when certain events occurs. In a preferred embodiment, as market conditions change, the market information may be rearranged on a screen. To reduce the chances of ...

11/23/06 - 20060265238 - Systems and methods for enabling information management incorporating a personal computing device
Systems, methods, and computer-readable mediums, consistent with principles of some embodiments of the present invention provide for storing location information of a plurality of products, receiving information from a remote electronic device, wherein the received information includes information relating to a position of the remote electronic device and identifying information ...

11/23/06 - 20060265237 - System and method for ranking academic programs
A computer-implemented method for ranking a plurality of academic programs includes receiving a plurality of records corresponding to the plurality of academic programs, respectively, combining elements of the plurality of records to determine respective z-scores according to a predetermined metric, and ranking the plurality of academic programs according to the ...

11/23/06 - 20060265236 - Method and apparatus for communicating product notices through digital broadcasting
Disclosed are a method and several embodiments for issuing and receiving a product notice message by incorporating a product notice message into at least one of a control data stream and a program data stream carried in digital broadcast data stream. This is accomplished by combining at least one of ...

11/23/06 - 20060265235 - Method and system for managing vehicle leases
An improved lease management system is disclosed herein for use by fleet managers to manage customer vehicle leases for a variety of management issues that arise throughout the lifecycle of a lease. According to one aspect, the system comprises a system for management of a plurality of vehicle leases, the ...

11/23/06 - 20060265234 - Mission-specific vehicle capacity constraints in transportation planning
A computer, for planning moves of freight using vehicles, determines one or more attributes of a mission, based on a group of shipments being consolidated into the mission, computes a total amount of freight to be moved, and decides on feasibility of performing the mission, using a vehicle of a ...

11/23/06 - 20060265233 - Systems and methods for facilitating stock product returns
Systems and methods are disclosed for providing enhanced visibility to all parties involved in the process of stock product return, accurate and convenient product data capture, timely shipment of return product, and effective quality controls over the entire product return process. Specifically, advanced notifications and product data are automatically sent ...

11/23/06 - 20060265232 - Adaptive customer assistance system for software products
An adaptive customer assistance system that can serve as an integrated online and offline help platform for a suite of software products is provided. The assistance system includes a customer-interaction interface and a data management component and a download management component for distributed customer interaction. The data management component includes ...

11/23/06 - 20060265231 - Aggregation-based management of a distributed business process application
A system for managing an application set is disclosed. The system includes a wrapper that designates a component as belonging to the application set and an interface that provides access to the component. The system also includes a control module that uses the interface to manage the component. Methods of ...

11/23/06 - 20060265230 - Environment rating evaluation method and system thereof
The present invention provides a method and system for performing an environment rating evaluation using objective numerical value data. The present invention relates to an environment rating evaluation method, and a system thereof, which comprises the steps of: having a rating subject such as a rating subject business enterprise input ...

11/23/06 - 20060265229 - Client schedule information management system
A customer planning information management system is provided in which customer planning information storage means (15) stores a plurality of types of customer planning information (planning for customer visits to a place of business or planning for staff members visiting customers) inputted via customer planning information input means (16), and ...

11/23/06 - 20060265228 - Terminal device, business designation method, contents provision device, contents provision method, recording medium, program, business management system and business management method
The present invention enables the continuous designation of appropriate business at an appropriate timing and in appropriate order with minimal operation, and enables the management side to comprehend the business condition. A master control unit 101 controls the output of an aggregate based on an event response control program associated ...

11/16/06 - 20060259321 - System for automating and managing an enterprise ip environment
An intellectual property management method and system. The method and system enter information associated with an innovation, store the information and a date the information was stored in a database, and receive a certification including the information associated with the innovation and the date the information was stored in the ...

11/16/06 - 20060259320 - Transitive trust network
Methods, data structures, and systems by which entities can efficiently discover, extend, validate and establish business relationships over a digital network are disclosed. A transitive trust system can be utilized by any number of interconnected entities in which at least two of the entities are capable of sharing information. One ...

11/16/06 - 20060259319 - Methods for managing a product carrier
Methods are provide for dispensing a product to a user, the product releasably incorporated within a carrier. In one embodiment, the method comprises the step of providing a first user comprising at least one storage vessel for receiving and storing fresh and at least one vessel for receiving and storing ...

11/16/06 - 20060259318 - Method and apparatus for managing features on a gaming device
In accordance with one or more embodiments, a method for managing features for use on gaming devices is presented, wherein the method comprises determining a measure of performance of a feature, and determining a payment due to a provider of the feature based on the measure of performance of the ...

11/16/06 - 20060259317 - Apparatus, method, and program for managing network instrument connected to network
An information processing apparatus for managing a network instrument connected to a network is disclosed. This apparatus includes a storage device storing setting information of a network instrument as a management target, a receiving device receiving the setting information of the network instrument, a comparing device comparing the setting information ...

11/16/06 - 20060259316 - Sarbanes-oxley compliance system
A system for bringing and maintaining an entity into compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act including business process templates that can be edited, deleted or added and a central repository of control actions and data that can be utilized by the Sarbanes-Oxley compliance system. Documentation of each of the business process ...

11/16/06 - 20060259315 - Intellectual property trading exchange and a method for trading intellectual property rights
An intellectual property trading exchange is disclosed for facilitating the trading of intellectual property rights. The exchange includes at least one intellectual property license contract relating to intellectual property rights and a forum configured to allow a plurality of participants to trade the license contract. The plurality of participants includes ...

11/16/06 - 20060259314 - Reading device
A reading device comprises a handle or Grabbing surface, a labels identification head and means for outputting an audio sequence corresponding to each label being identified. The label has bi-dimensional distinguishing features. The identification head includes a bi-dimensional sensors array adapted to read the distinguishing features in the label without ...

11/16/06 - 20060259313 - Enhanced brochure display stands
An interactive, enhanced brochure display stand is provided. The display stand includes both traditional printed brochures as well as multimedia content delivered through any number of communication devices providing multisensory stimulation to a consumer. The communication devices may also include input devices allowing the consumer to interact with the display ...

11/16/06 - 20060259312 - Methods and apparatus for producing and financing media productions
A method of producing and financing a media production is disclosed. This method comprises the steps of selecting a media production to be produced and developing a budget for the production costs of the selected media production, and developing a marketing plan which is comprised of a plurality of advertising ...

11/16/06 - 20060259311 - Method and system for targeted marketing through online sporting group registration and maintenance website
This invention relates generally to the use of public websites for allowing individuals to register participant for sports leagues, camps, and events and providing targeting advertising for a marketing partner dynamically based on inputted information relevant to the participant. More specifically, this invention relates to a system and method which ...

11/16/06 - 20060259310 - Methods and apparatus for management and analysis of costs and savings
Systems and techniques for management and analysis of cost and savings information. Products sold by an enterprise, and the components used in the creation of those products are identified. Transaction data relating to purchases of components by the enterprise is gathered from various sources and used to generate cost information ...

11/16/06 - 20060259309 - Method and system for managing property cleaning services
A method and system for managing property cleaning services that tracks work orders requesting cleaning services, such as specialty services and additional services, and customer complaints to ensure that the services and complaints are responded to in a manner consistent with company goals and objectives. With regard to customer complaints, ...

11/16/06 - 20060259308 - Method for production refactoring of a producing entity
A method for production refactoring of a company comprises quantifying risks stemming from regulations, in particular from an introduction of new regulation. It further comprises identifying actions to take in order to reduce an exposure to risk, quantifying costs of said actions and determining a revenue at risk depending on ...

11/16/06 - 20060259307 - Real-time professional communication and translation facilitator system and method
A system and method for providing real-time interpretation, translation, and cross-culture communication expertise for delivery over the global communication and wireless networks, mobile communication devices and kiosks. The system provides an end-to-end global communication and interpretation service for users including registration, listing, profiling, matchmaking, authentication, scheduling, reservation, delivery, billing, feedback, ...

11/16/06 - 20060259306 - Business method protecting jokes
The specification describes a method of protecting jokes by filing patent applications therefor, and gives examples of novel jokes to be thus protected. Specific jokes to be protected by the process of the invention include stories about animals playing ball-games, in which alliteration is used in the punch-line; a scheme ...

11/09/06 - 20060253298 - Fishing gear maintenance cost estimation system and fishing gear maintenance cost estimation program
A fishing gear maintenance cost estimation system uses a fishing gear maintenance cost estimation program to estimate cost of maintenance of fishing gear. The fishing gear maintenance cost estimation system has an information acceptance component, a replacement part determination component, a cost computation component and a display. The information acceptance ...

11/09/06 - 20060253297 - Method for sorting discarded and spent pharmaceutical items
A system for disposing of medical waste is generally configured to sort waste items into a plurality of containers according to applicable rules and regulations governing the handling and/or disposal of such items. In some embodiments, a system comprises sorting stations each of which houses a number of disposable containers. ...

11/09/06 - 20060253296 - Medical advisory system
Disclosed is a medical advisory system for providing recommendations to a user for actions to be taken. The system comprises input means for receiving a number of input parameters, processing means configured to determine from at least the input parameters a recommended action to be taken, and output means for ...

11/09/06 - 20060253295 - Billing apparatus for direct drawing apparatus
A billing apparatus, for a direct drawing apparatus in which drawing data generated based on layout design data and necessary for drawing is supplied to a drawing engine in real time during the drawing and, based on the drawing data, the drawing engine forms a drawing pattern on a drawing ...

11/09/06 - 20060253294 - Services in a communication system
A user device (20) is provided with information relating to a service wherein content is communicated to the user device via an access system provided by a communications network (22). In the method information regarding access charges from a charging entity (26) associated with the access system is provided to ...

11/09/06 - 20060253293 - Method for maintaining the value of home inspections over time
The present invention provides the home inspection industry with an easily implemented method for creating and maintaining an organized history of home inspections for a particular property over time. The inspector performs an original inspection, then maintains a file of updated inspections over time. The file may be maintained on ...

11/09/06 - 20060253292 - General charging method
The present invention provides a general charging method applicable to a charging system in the communication field, comprising steps of establishing a charging strategy and performing the charging based upon the charging strategy. The charging strategy comprises a plurality of priorities each of which comprises a plurality of periods of ...

11/09/06 - 20060253291 - Contact point navigation system and method, recording medium on which the method is recorded, and transmision medium transmitting the method
It is desirable to provide systems that select prospective consumer contact points producing high advertising effects and that carry out navigation for distribution of a budget among the contact points, taking into account every opportunity to introduce brand information to prospective consumers. The present invention provides methods and systems that ...

11/09/06 - 20060253290 - Electronic commerce system and method thereof
Disclosed are an electronic commerce system utilizing a specific terminal number, a digital camera and an item specific code, and the method thereof. In this invention, data transmission between terminals or between a terminal and a server is carried out by a wireless transmission module such as RF, infrared, ultrasonic ...

11/09/06 - 20060253289 - Quality information management system
Computer system for controlled creation, processing, administration and display of quality information within an enterprise. Linkages may be defined among enterprise entities, process/product development attributes, strategies, goals, process improvement opportunities, etc. Visual analysis of data associated with the linkages is provided in an interactive fashion. Linkages may also be defined ...

11/02/06 - 20060247946 - System and method for soliciting reviews of local businesses
A method and system for actively encouraging clients of businesses such as retail stores and service providers, to submit reviews of such businesses to an Internet yellow pages website. Using the methods and system, a business will employ any of several methods to provide encouragement and/or incentive at the physical ...

11/02/06 - 20060247945 - System and method for integrating disparate systems within a network
A method is provided for performing system integrations between at least first and second systems including operating an integration operation on only a third system with no adapters installed on the first and second systems. The integration operation includes generating a plurality of integration processes, each process configured to perform ...

11/02/06 - 20060247944 - Enabling value enhancement of reference data by employing scalable cleansing and evolutionarily tracked source data tags
Provision for scalable cleansing and value enhancement of data in the context of a multi-source multi-tenant data repository. The source data comes from multiple sources and on multiple topics. Evolutionarily tracked source data tags are used to hold tracking information reflecting the nature and sources of each change to the ...

11/02/06 - 20060247943 - System and method for generating and evaluating an innovation
A method for systematically generating and evaluating an innovation. The method includes identifying and selecting an entrepreneurial opportunity. The method also includes conceptualizing the entrepreneurial opportunity into a plurality of potential products and distributing an economic risk. The economic risk is associated with the opportunity. The method also includes envisioning ...

11/02/06 - 20060247942 - Method, system and apparatus for object-event visual data modeling and mining
A system and method are provided for facilitating the allocation support resources. One or more information handling systems are provided to analyze data obtained elsewhere. The information can be displayed in a plot of time and history timeline, with specific types of problems indicated by color. If the same type ...

11/02/06 - 20060247941 - Systems and methods for managing line card capacity
A coordinated, or “joint-replenishment,” system to manage the plug-in circuit card capacity in Remote Terminals or any remote location is advantageous for managing ongoing telecommunications growth, Methods and systems facilitate decisions about when to send a technician to an RT to add ADSL line cards, how many, and to which ...

11/02/06 - 20060247940 - Compatibility scoring of users in a social network
The compatibility score of individuals in a social network is computed based on the compatibility of interests expressed by these individuals. The compatibility score between any two interests is calculated as the log of the estimated probability that a member of the social network will express both interests as his ...

11/02/06 - 20060247939 - Method and apparatus combining control theory and business performance management
A control methodology and component in Business Performance Management (BPM) Systems. This enables firms to exploit control theoretic techniques for Business Performance Management. Information from BPM systems is used to calibrate models of the business process. This model is then used to assess and optimize control actions to manage business ...

11/02/06 - 20060247938 - Method and system for activity reporting
A method for producing an activity report is disclosed. The method includes identifying at least one device in a system, generating the activity report with the activity report including information about the at least one device in the system, delivering the generated activity report to a remote location from the ...

11/02/06 - 20060247937 - Method and apparatus for a context-based service look up
The present invention relates to a context-based service look up, wherein a service instance, having a scope (O), comprises at least one service instance data set (b) having a hierarchy of levels. A service consumer data set (a), having a hierarchy of levels is received from a service consumer (1), ...

11/02/06 - 20060247936 - Business activity creation using business context services for adaptable service oriented architecture components
A method, system and apparatus for adapting commerce system components in an SOA through business contexts. A method for adapting commerce system components in an SOA through business contexts can include determining a set of required business processes for a proposed solution. Existing ones of the commerce system components in ...

11/02/06 - 20060247935 - Method for admitting an information provider to a data transmission process, and transmission device
A method is for admitting an information provider to a process for transmitting data between information providers and information searchers via a transmission device. According to the method, test data that is transmitted by an information provider to a transmission device and represents data supplied by the information provider is ...

11/02/06 - 20060247934 - Intellectual property management device and intellectual property management program
An intellectual property right is listed at an appropriate price by monitoring an initial price set by a broker, and circulation of the intellectual property right is promoted. A Web site references a database including a right situation of a right to be sold and evaluation data used to evaluate ...

10/26/06 - 20060241967 - Playable media delivery capacity exchange method
A network based distribution system and method is disclosed for exchanging capacity between subscribers for distribution of playable media items, such as movies in a digital format. The system allows subscribers to exchange capacity directly between themselves, and/or to have such exchange performed automatically on their behalf. ...

10/26/06 - 20060241966 - Vending machine system and method for encouraging the purchase of profitable items
This invention relates generally to systems and methods for delivering products-on-demand to individuals and, more particularly, to delivery via vending machines. In accordance with a preferred embodiment, the method of the instant invention is initiated when a customer makes an initial product selection. Based the customer's product choice, a determination ...

10/26/06 - 20060241965 - Vending machine system and method for encouraging the purchase of profitable items
This invention relates generally to systems and methods for delivering products-on-demand to individuals and, more particularly, to delivery via vending machines. In accordance with a preferred embodiment, the method of the instant invention is initiated when a customer makes an initial product selection. Based the customer's product choice, a determination ...

10/26/06 - 20060241964 - Method and system for anonymous communication of information about a home
A system for establishing anonymous communications includes a plurality of party terminals, a plurality of requester terminals, and a central controller. The system receives and stores party data about respective parties. In some embodiments, a party may be a homeowner. Upon receiving criteria for parties of interest from a requester ...

10/26/06 - 20060241963 - Method and system for anonymous communication of information about a home
A system for establishing anonymous communications includes a plurality of party terminals, a plurality of requester terminals, and a central controller. The system receives and stores party data about respective parties. In some embodiments, a party may be a homeowner. Upon receiving criteria for parties of interest from a requester ...

10/26/06 - 20060241962 - Context-driven transaction reports
Reports are automatically generated based on data currently displayed in a user interface such as a transaction register. The report generation is unobtrusive, allowing the user to continue to work with the current portion of the user interface before, during, and after the report is displayed. The report generation is ...

10/26/06 - 20060241961 - Methods of optimizing legacy application layer control structure using refactoring
In accordance with embodiments of the present invention, methods and systems redesign a business application composed in a first programming format by receiving a model representing the business application in a second programming format and processing the model using a code refactoring tool in the second programming format. A modification ...

10/26/06 - 20060241960 - Business function control method for a print type calculator
A business function control method for a print-based calculator, having a printer, a display screen, a key set, and COST, SELL and MARGIN % buttons. A first condition input step is provided to input a value of one of the COST, SELL and MARGIN % conditions as a first condition ...

10/26/06 - 20060241959 - Business alerts on process instances based on defined conditions
System and method for notifying a user of an occurrence of a defined condition in a process. The process includes a plurality of event records associated with the process; each of the plurality of event records includes a plurality of data fields having data relating to the process. A subset ...

10/26/06 - 20060241958 - Method and apparatus for providing compatible components for purchase
Online purchasing of components compatible with particular hardware devices of a computer system. In one aspect, the identity of a hardware device capable of communicating with computer systems is automatically determined. At least one component for the hardware device is displayed on a computer system based on the identity of ...

10/26/06 - 20060241957 - Proactive support process using case activity rate
A system and method are presented for analyzing service case data in order to optimize the amount of physical material and human resources needed to maintain operation of complex systems, such as information handling systems. A first set of data related to the one or more customer's experience with one ...

10/26/06 - 20060241956 - Transforming business models
The present invention extends to transforming business models. A business model representing a business layer of a business architecture is accessed. An indication that the business model is to be transformed is received. Transformations can include transforming the level of detail in a business model of transforming a business model ...

10/26/06 - 20060241955 - Data compilation system and method
A method, computer program product, client, and server application configured to store information associated with a subset of users of a media distribution service in a memory. At least one distribution history data set is compiled for each member of the subset of users. The at least one distribution history ...

10/26/06 - 20060241954 - Method and system for adaptive action management for business solutions
A method (and system) of adaptive action management for business solutions includes detecting a business situation, adaptively deciding an action for a detected business situation using information from a knowledge base, and invoking an action service for implementing the action. ...

10/26/06 - 20060241953 - Real estate matching by predetermined design
A method of matching buyers and sellers of real estate with specific, predetermined designs for alteration, reconstruction, and renovation of a seller's property with a buyer's requirements. The method includes reviewing property by a skilled home designer for possible modifications to make the property more desirable to potential buyers. Creating ...

10/26/06 - 20060241952 - Online multidisciplinary collaborative divorce system
An online system providing an internet-based programmed application service in support of multidisciplinary collaborative divorce proceedings. The system includes an interactive introduction web page for viewing and entering information identifying the divorce proceeding and the parties involved including a bulletin board for viewing and entering short messages, an interactive information ...

10/26/06 - 20060241951 - Embedded renewable energy certificates and system
A novel means of marketing the environmental attributes of renewable energy or emissions credits. By selling these attributes together with the item whose energy or emissions impact they neutralize, Mainstay Energy offers to make more concrete and compelling the value these attributes represent. The sale may take the form of: ...

10/26/06 - 20060241950 - Decision support system and method
The invention provides a decision support method comprising: for two or more predefined criteria each criterion associated with one or more pre-defined categories, determining a point value for each category on each criterion by the pairwise ranking of profile pairs wherein each profile comprises a set of two or more ...

10/26/06 - 20060241949 - Imaging process for financial data
An imaging system, including a visualisation module for generating image display data representing at least one three-dimensional object at the origin of a spatial coordinate system, the dimensions and colour of each object being determined on the basis of financial data for a corresponding financial product. The colour of each ...

10/19/06 - 20060235723 - System and method for management of content associated with digital distribution and updatable storage media
A system and method for accessing and managing digital content associated with updatable storage media is provided. An exemplary management engine is initially installed onto a user computing device where the updatable storage media is utilized. The exemplary management engine comprises a content interface module which works in conjunction a ...

10/19/06 - 20060235722 - Networked system for interactive communication and remote monitoring of individuals
A system for remotely monitoring an individual. The system includes a server system for generating a script program from a set of queries. The script program is executable by a remote apparatus that displays information and/or a set of queries to the individual through a user interface. Responses to the ...

10/19/06 - 20060235721 - System and method for managing marketing applications for a website
A system and method for managing marketing applications for a website is disclosed. The website has webpages that perform e-commerce transaction by offering products to users and customers of the website. The website is coupled to a database having database tables. The database tables include information in performing marketing processes ...

10/19/06 - 20060235720 - System and method for managing marketing applications for a website
A system and method for managing marketing applications for a website is disclosed. The website has webpages that perform e-commerce transaction by offering products to users and customers of the website. The website is coupled to a database having database tables. The database tables include information in performing marketing processes ...

10/19/06 - 20060235719 - Intellectual property management method and apparatus
An intellectual property management facility for proactively creating, developing and managing an intellectual property portfolio includes: determining available resource capacity for an intellectual property activity in a tracking system; assigning technical attributes to the activity in the tracking system; apportioning resource capacity for the activity by technical attribute based on ...

10/19/06 - 20060235718 - Album provision system and method
An album provision system is provided to prevent an album from being copied before it has not been charged for creating the album when the album is provided to a user. The album provision system includes: an image acquiring section for acquiring an image; an album creating section for creating ...

10/19/06 - 20060235717 - Method and system for manufacturing solar panels using an integrated solar cell using a plurality of photovoltaic regions
A method and system for manufacturing solar panels using an integrated solar cell using a plurality of photovoltaic regions. The method includes purchasing a first photovoltaic solar cell from a first entity for a first value. The method includes dicing the photovoltaic solar cell into a plurality of photovoltaic regions ...

10/19/06 - 20060235716 - Real-time interactive completely transparent collaboration within pacs for planning and consultation
Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a system for improved conferencing and collaboration in a healthcare environment. The system includes an initiator workstation capable of sharing data over a network with a participant workstation and manipulating the shared data based at least in part on input from an initiator. ...

10/19/06 - 20060235715 - Sharable multi-tenant reference data utility and methods of operation of same
A multi-source multi-tenant reference data utility and methods for forming and maintaining the same, delivering high quality reference data in response to requests from clients, implemented using a shared infrastructure, and also providing added value services using the client's reference data. Included are data cleansing and quality assurance of the ...

10/19/06 - 20060235714 - Enabling flexible scalable delivery of on demand datasets
A method, apparatus and software for responding to a request for an on demand dataset by configuring and then executing a workflow process tailored to the requester's needs. The generated workflow gathers identified information from a repository, organizes its format and delivers it to the requester. The on demand dataset ...

10/19/06 - 20060235713 - Tools and techniques for redirected expenditures fundraising
In a charitable donation arrangement (300), individual members (302) select (702) a service provider (308) using one interface (202), select (704) a charity (304) using another interface (204), and specify how funds from their payments (214) of recurring bills from the service provider should be redirected (328, 334) to the ...

10/19/06 - 20060235712 - Electronic system and method to retrieve, process, and manage comparison asset information for investments and risk management information systems
An asset information management system is provided to facilitate investment information gathering, managing, trending, and sharing of information. In the preferred configuration, at least one computer system is connected to the Internet or other data source via a communications device. The communications device provides electronic data such as public data, ...

10/19/06 - 20060235711 - System and method for online transaction
This invention discloses a system and a method for online transaction. The system sets a communication protocol of Digital Video Broadcasting-hand-held into a portable communication apparatus to receive and watch the multimedia commercials from a digital television provider. In addition, the system further sets a software program in the portable ...

10/19/06 - 20060235710 - System and method for tracking items
The preferred embodiment of the present invention is directed to a method of operating an online rental program by a rental retailer. Specifically, rental items are delivered to a subscriber via an independent mail carrier such as the United States Postal Service, wherein a rental item is sent to a ...

10/19/06 - 20060235709 - Dynamic distributed customer issue analysis
Methods and systems for managing a distributed and dynamic review of a set of information are described. A set of information instances (e.g., case summaries) are distributed over a computer system network to reviewer nodes. A list of review items (e.g., problem types) against which the information instances are to ...

10/19/06 - 20060235708 - Method and apparatus for assessing products
An improved method, apparatus, and computer instructions for evaluating acquisition costs for a software product. A set of questions regarding the software product is presented. The set of questions are selected from a source. Costs for acquiring the software product are identified in response to receiving a user input to ...

10/19/06 - 20060235707 - Decision support method and system
In accordance with the invention, there is a decision support method comprising collecting data about a set of components of an asset, wherein the data comprises information about the status of each component in the set of components. The method also comprises comparing the data to a set of requirements ...

10/19/06 - 20060235706 - System and method to improve manufacturing
A system and related method for the rapid response to one or more product fabrication bid requests. The system includes a translation function for translating received product information into information suitable for a manufacturer to produce fabrication information. The system further includes a product fabrication function for generating product fabrication ...

10/19/06 - 20060235705 - Method and system for time-sequential authentication of shipments in supply chains
In one embodiment of the present invention, a source point, or security management entity, within a supply chain labels a shipment to be shipped through the supply chain with numbers, text strings, or other type of label information. Different label information may be placed at each of multiple levels of ...

10/19/06 - 20060235704 - America & europe reputation membership for overseas companies, enterprises, manufacturers, representatives
America & Europe reputation membership policy is created to augment reputation of overseas membership manufacturers, enterprises, companies, representatives in their own countries, its value is over a traditional advertisement, its purposes are to make their companies famous in business and to collect taxes by local government. ...

10/19/06 - 20060235703 - Electronic transmission of documents
As a method which allows the most efficient possible exchange of electronic data and documents of a sender with multiple receivers, a method for the electronic transmission of data of at least one document from a sender to a receiver, particularly for the transmission of invoices, is suggested, in which ...

10/12/06 - 20060229908 - System and method for managing marketing applications for a website
A system and method for managing marketing applications for a website is disclosed. The website has webpages that perform e-commerce transaction by offering products to users and customers of the website. The website is coupled to a database having database tables. The database tables include information in performing marketing processes ...

10/12/06 - 20060229907 - System and method for managing marketing applications for a website
A system and method for managing marketing applications for a website is disclosed. The website has webpages that perform e-commerce transaction by offering products to users and customers of the website. The website is coupled to a database having database tables. The database tables include information in performing marketing processes ...

10/12/06 - 20060229906 - Apparatus and method for tracking and managing physical assets
A computer based system automatically gathers, analyzes, and delivers information relating to the procurement and utilization of a plurality of such assets, such as a fleet of industrial equipment, so as to maximize productivity and to reduce operating costs and administrative burdens. Each of the assets is preferably provided with ...

10/12/06 - 20060229905 - Animal food supplement compositions and methods of use
An animal food supplement particularly useful in treating gastrointestinal problems, such as colic. Psyllium husks are provided in dry form for convenience of handling prior to feeding. In example embodiments, psyllium husks are admixed with binding material and the admixture is formed into pellets, crumbles, mashes, or licks. Upon consumption ...

10/12/06 - 20060229904 - Music distribution systems
Music is blanket transmitted (for example, via satellite downlink transmission) to each customer's user station where selected music files are recorded. Customers preselect from a list of available music in advance using an interactive screen selector, and pay only for music that they choose to playback for their enjoyment. An ...

10/12/06 - 20060229903 - Project-planning method and system
A method for planning a project comprises a step of distributing the project and the step of distributing the project includes a step of planning a master project, which is established by a master project initiator who inputs information about the master project to an information processing device which notifies ...

10/12/06 - 20060229902 - Match-based employment system and method
A method of operating an employment system is provided. The method includes generating a score for each of a plurality of possible results compared to information associated with a user, enabling the user to access a result of the plurality of possible results if the score generated for the result ...

10/12/06 - 20060229901 - Method of facilitating social communication
A method of facilitating social communication from a person to a recipient is presented. Initially, a social communication device with a message is selected by the person. The message may be pre-affixed, random, or customizable. When the message is customizable, the person customizes the message. The person then attaches the ...

10/12/06 - 20060229900 - System and method for managing real estate investments
A data processing method and system of selling tenant-in-common interests as non-security investments by a real estate sponsor is disclosed. A real estate property is purchased at a purchase price. An investment price of a tenant-in-common interest in the real estate property is calculated by a computer system utilizing the ...

10/12/06 - 20060229899 - Job seeking system and method for managing job listings
A computer system and method for capture, managing and presenting data obtained from various often unrelated postings via the Internet for examination by a user. This system includes a scraping module having one or more scraping engines operable to scrape information data sets from listings on the corporate sites and ...

10/12/06 - 20060229898 - Methods and articles for facilitating software product implementation
Methods and articles are provided which may be employed to establish a common understanding within a customer organization as to the business drivers that led to the purchase of a software product. In one embodiment, a method is provided which includes convening a session that includes members of the supplier ...

10/12/06 - 20060229897 - Method of facilitating social communication
A method of facilitating social communication from a person to a recipient is presented. Initially, a social communication device with a message is selected by the person. The person then attaches the social communication with the delivery device for delivery to the recipient, thus facilitating social communication between the person ...

10/12/06 - 20060229896 - Match-based employment system and method
In one embodiment of the present invention, a match-based employment system and method of operation are provided. The match-based employment system collects a plurality of employer seeker and employee seeker profiles, bi-directionally matches the employer seeker and said employee seeker profiles and displays at least a portion of the results ...

10/12/06 - 20060229895 - Next generation visibility package tracking
The present invention involves systems and methods for tracking one or more shipped items that are shipped via a carrier. A set of expected occurrences are established for each item shipped. The items are then shipped and the shipment of the one or more shipped items is monitored for an ...

10/12/06 - 20060229894 - System and method for estimating expense and return on investment of a dynamically generated runtime solution to a business problem
Provided is a method for estimating expenses and return on investment (ROI) in a dynamically generated business solution based upon reusable components. Each component is assigned to one or more categories based upon attributes such as the business problems that the particular component addresses. Categories are also based upon particular ...

10/12/06 - 20060229893 - Systems and methods of partnering content creators with content partners online
Systems and methods of partnering content creators with content partners online are disclosed. In an exemplary implementation a method may include receiving registration information from a content partner and building a profile describing desired creative content for the content partner and receiving creative content. Based on at least the profile, ...

10/12/06 - 20060229892 - Efficient content production
A method of producing content includes the steps of: transporting a plurality of customers to a facility for producing content, to which facility a plurality of performers are also transported; producing the content at a first site at the facility, the content including depictions of at least a first portion ...

10/12/06 - 20060229891 - Drive-up dispensing device for car wash facility
A drive-up product dispensing system for a car wash facility having a pay station that is connected to a car wash assembly and a dispensing device is connected to the pay station. ...

10/12/06 - 20060229890 - Method and system for employee compensation planning
Methods and apparatus for compensation planning are provided. A request to initiate a compensation planning process for an organization may be received at a compensation planning application program executing on a computer system. The compensation planning application may generate a query to one or more databases to obtain performance indicator ...

10/12/06 - 20060229889 - Context proposed items mechanism for natural language user interface
Roughly described, a context reactive user interface which offers user-selectable on-screen choices or hints to help the user follow up in the context of his or her previous interactions. Alternatively or additionally, the system can offer on-screen choices which, when selected by the user, can invoke one or more back-end ...

10/12/06 - 20060229888 - Defining transaction processing for a computer application
A user, such as a computer programmer, computer architect, or software developer, is able to configure a software framework to define business processing to be performed on a business object type by a computer application. To do so, the user associates methods (or other types of collections of computer instructions) ...

10/12/06 - 20060229887 - Warehouse management system
A warehouse management system is applied under a network environment to integrate warehouses of suppliers and retailers in the network environment and provide an information communication channel between the suppliers and retailers. The warehouse management system includes a logic management module for allowing the suppliers and retailers to enter information; ...

10/12/06 - 20060229886 - Method and apparatus for web design layout record delivery
The present invention presents TIRKS DLRs over a extranet web interface to a user. The DLRs are presented via secure access to the TIRKS system via an intranet. The Web DLR Delivery (WDD) project consists of the DLR facilities of TIRKS, a midrange-hosted application for gathering DLR information and responding ...

10/12/06 - 20060229885 - Coin laundry management system
There is provided a coin laundry management system including a coin laundry concentrated control section and a network camera which are arranged in a coin laundry store and a central control device which is arranged at an administrator side and connected to the coin laundry concentrated control section and the ...

10/12/06 - 20060229884 - Method for enabling a combination of several individual products to be identified clearly
The invention relates to a method for enabling a combination of several individual products (product bundle) to be identified clearly in order to track said products according to the components thereof for the sale and premiumization thereof when said product bundle is purchased. The product bundle comprises a mobile radio ...

10/05/06 - 20060224412 - System and method for selecting and protecting intellectual property assets
The present invention relates to systems and methods for intellectual property asset selection and protection. In an embodiment, an intellectual property selection system receives from an innovator an innovation submission describing an innovation. An intellectual property protection system receives at least a portion of the innovation submission and manages obtaining ...

10/05/06 - 20060224411 - Method of constructing and using a memorial
A method of constructing and using a memorial comprises the steps of: taking a sample of a physiological composite of a biological individual, such as oral squamous cells of a person; packaging the physiological composite in a sealed unit to produce a memento; storing the memento in a custodian place; ...

10/05/06 - 20060224410 - Carbon dioxide emission trade system
A carbon dioxide emission right trade system of the present invention comprises: a database memory means which stores carbon dioxide fixation technologies using seawater with grade, technology evaluation scores, exploitable seas and areas of the ocean; and an input means of a value amount of carbon dioxide emission and a ...

10/05/06 - 20060224409 - System and method for intelligent information gathering and analysis
A system and method for intelligent information gathering and analysis. Information is gathered from a plurality of open sources such as markets, investigations, government databases, internet intelligence, and public records. The gathered information is parsed and linked based on marketplace activities including threats. The parsed and linked information is sent ...

10/05/06 - 20060224408 - System and method for evaluation of problem solving measures and corrective actions
A system and method used for the evaluation of problem-solving measures and corrective actions, including, but not limited to, actions associated with accident prevention, for the purpose of quantifying organizational effectiveness and identifying safety improvement performance. ...

10/05/06 - 20060224407 - System and method for automatic response piece information retrieval
Disclosed is a system, method, and medium for automatically analyzing response pieces. The system may scan the response piece, identify the response piece, and generate an image from the response piece. The system also processes the image. Processing the image may include determining response piece identification information and sending the ...

10/05/06 - 20060224406 - Methods and systems to browse data items
Methods and Systems to browse data items. There is provided a method and system to enable a buyer to browse listings that are listed by sellers on a network-based marketplace and stored in a data resource. There is further provided a method to cancel characteristics used to identify listings that ...

10/05/06 - 20060224405 - System and method for completing treatment authorization request forms
A system and method are provided for completing treatment authorization request forms that includes receiving a pharmaceutical prescription's data, choosing a treatment authorization request form, associating the form's fields with the prescription data, and merging the data and the form into an integrated file where the prescription data is represented ...

10/05/06 - 20060224404 - Web-based system and method for screening job candidates
A web-based system and method for screening job candidates comprising designing a website having essential screening components for one or more specific job openings. The screening components comprise a list of one or more job candidates who have been pre-qualified for a specific job opening according to designated screening components. ...

10/05/06 - 20060224403 - Systems and methods for establishing the colors of a customized stamp
The field of the invention relates to online postage systems, and more particularly to systems and methods for establishing the colors of a customized stamp purchased through an online postage system. In one embodiment, a method is employed for customizing the colors of a customized stamp having a panel and ...

10/05/06 - 20060224402 - Devices and methods for monitoring distributed services
Devices and methods monitor the service being provided to a specific customer from a service provider, such as communications services including television and Internet access as well as non-communications services including water, gas, and electricity. A characteristic of the service is measured and it is detected whether the measured characteristic ...

10/05/06 - 20060224401 - Meal data objects having recipes and food items
A meal data object is generated by a user, where the meal data object includes recipes and food items. The meal data object may more specifically include a description and a meal type for the meal data object. For each recipe of the meal data object, the meal data object ...

10/05/06 - 20060224400 - Business event notifications on aggregated thresholds
A system and method for notifying a user of an event indicated by aggregated data relating to a status of activities, where the aggregated data is stored in a plurality of independently managed applications. An interface receives from the user an identification of an event relating to the aggregated data. ...

10/05/06 - 20060224399 - Method and system for decision making based on information requirements
A method is provided for decision making based on information requirements of a business system. The method includes reading a decision information matrix that includes at least one process step related to a process of the business system, input information requirements associated with each of the at least one process ...

10/05/06 - 20060224398 - Method and system for transit characteristic prediction
A method and system for transit characteristic prediction. In one embodiment, a method may include determining respective transit latencies from a source location to a number of destination locations, and grouping the destination locations according to a similarity criterion into a number of subsets corresponding to respective geographical regions, where ...

10/05/06 - 20060224397 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for saving form submissions
Methods, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for saving form submissions. At a user agent in a communication network, a first form is received from a remote endpoint in the communication network, a current value is associated with a control of the first form, a user input is monitored ...

10/05/06 - 20060224396 - Data-processing system
A system for processing metadata and associated raw data, is designed to aggregate the data in order to establish a plurality of types of reports. The system is automated with the combined use of the following two units: a first unit (1) known as the initialization unit which assembles all ...

10/05/06 - 20060224395 - Program for generating user-compatible business application data, recording medium containing the program, and user-compatible business application
A definition database contains stored definition data. With regard to each of a plurality of folders required by each of a plurality of application systems, the definition data defines how to generate the following from a report: data items, the type of report and range of dates thereof used in ...

10/05/06 - 20060224394 - Timeslot sharing over different cycles in tdma bus
The invention relates to a method of transmitting user data via a communications medium (2) between subscribers (3) connected to the communications medium (2), wherein the data are transmitted in recurrent cycles (8) and at least one slot (9, 10) in each cycle (8) is intended for the user data ...

10/05/06 - 20060224393 - Support system, server, translation method and program
A management computer (21) is placed in a home country, and an instructor terminal (31) and a driver terminal (32) are placed in a delivery area overseas. The management computer (21) generates screen information, displayed in a domestic language and including a delivery instruction for a package, and transmits the ...

09/28/06 - 20060218006 - Controlling expenditures by applying rules specified for categories of purchased items
A monetary account, such as a prepaid account or credit account, that is used as payment for purchases is divided into categories of purchased items. When a purchase is attempted, a request to apply the monetary account specifies the category of the item being purchased. Rules associated with each of ...

09/28/06 - 20060218005 - Computerized agent and systems for automatic searching of properties having favorable attributes
An electronic agent for performing property-related searches and notifications based on search parameters provided by a user includes a first device configured to receive information about residential properties and a second device configured to receive information from the first device about a first property determined to be offered for sale, ...

09/28/06 - 20060218004 - On-line slide kit creation and collaboration system
A slide kit is assembled with the collaboration of a number of reviewers who may be geographically separated. The slides are posted to a web site which is accessible by the reviewers. The reviewers post comments relating to particular slides. The comments are collated and considered, and a new version ...

09/28/06 - 20060218003 - Automated communication of neighborhood property value information for real estate marketing
A method for automating the periodic communication of relevant information to potential real estate customers based on recent sales transactions in predefined geographic areas. Geographic neighborhood areas are identified through a unique process that allows all elements in the program to cohesively work together. Proper identification of neighborhoods not only ...

09/28/06 - 20060218002 - Medical waste sorting system with sensing capabilities
A system for disposing of medical waste is generally configured to sort waste items into a plurality of disposable containers according to applicable rules and regulations governing the handling and/or disposal of such items. In some embodiments, a system comprises sorting stations, each of which houses a number of disposable ...

09/28/06 - 20060218001 - Medical waste sorting system with container identification
A system for disposing of medical waste is generally configured to sort waste items into a plurality of disposable containers according to applicable rules and regulations governing the handling and/or disposal of such items. In some embodiments, a system comprises sorting stations, each of which houses a number of disposable ...

09/28/06 - 20060218000 - System and method for providing collaboration communities in a computer portal environment
A system and method for providing collaboration communities in a computer portal environment. The system comprises a community portal tool for creating community portals, portal applications, or portal web applications. In one embodiment, the portal can be one of a number of enterprise applications on server software. The portal can ...

09/28/06 - 20060217999 - Document management system
A method and a system for managing a plurality of administrative files of various different categories stored in a file storage facility. Each of the files allow for amending, such as by putting therein one or more documents of various different nature. The method includes assigning a pre-structured format to ...

09/28/06 - 20060217998 - Cashless vending system
There is provided a cashless vending system including a vending machine 12 having a device 16 that reads transaction history information from a medium 11 and a communication device that sends transaction history information to an information center 13; and an information center 13 having a device that receives transaction ...

09/28/06 - 20060217997 - Ip telephone system
When a trouble is developed in an IP exchange (TM) 2 or a circuit (network) 5, a backup exchange 6 (backup TM) is switched over from a waiting system to an operating system, and all IP terminals Eqi inside lodgments A, B, . . . N also log out from ...

09/28/06 - 20060217996 - Point-of-sale activation of media device account
This method and apparatus may activate removable or portable media devices (or accounts associated therewith), such as flash drives, USB drives, external hard drives, thumb drives, memory cards of various formats (SD, CF, xD, Memory Card Duo), SIM cards, other phone cards, or other devices containing a writable and/or readable ...

09/28/06 - 20060217995 - Managing maintenance of serviceable items based on unique identification labeling
A system and method for tracking and managing maintenance of serviceable items based on unique identification labeling affixed to the items is disclosed. The serviceable items are described as filters within a common environment that require routine maintenance to adhere to certain expectations relative to the operability of the items. ...

09/28/06 - 20060217994 - Method and system for harnessing collective knowledge
The present invention provides a method of aggregating information, the method including: receiving at least one first prediction; and rating the at least one first prediction based at least in part on at least one actual event, thereby providing at least one prediction rating. ...

09/28/06 - 20060217993 - Management of vehicles based on operational environment
A method and system for managing fleet health of vehicles comprises gathering environmental data for potential mission locations. A data processing system collects vehicle data, including historical use data and maintenance data associated with corresponding vehicular components of vehicles within a fleet. A mission planner establishes a list of candidate ...

09/28/06 - 20060217992 - Method and apparatus for control lockout and transfer during service for systems controlled by multiple devices
A printer, fax machine, copier, scanner, or any other office device used by multiple users from multiple locations is provided with improved apparatus and/or software for locking out all incoming commands from reaching the device's internal controller except for commands coming from a newly-designated primary controller used by the service ...

09/28/06 - 20060217991 - Method and apparatus for providing an information service
An information service such as an airport information system relies on a network of Bluetooth™ transceivers to transfer information to a user's mobile phone, which is equipped with basic calendar functionality. The transceivers are connected to (an information server, which downloads the calendar from each of the devices and writes ...

09/28/06 - 20060217990 - Method and device for organizing user provided information with meta-information
The present invention provides a method for organizing user provided information being available in a mobile terminal device with meta-information for allowing retrieving of the user provided information and a device being capable to perform the method. The user provided information is obtained in consequence on any user operation against ...

09/28/06 - 20060217989 - Ecommerce benchmarking
The present invention comprises an electronic processing system for guiding a person through the stages of a project for benchmarking commerce over the internet, the system being adapted to generate sequences of screen displays in response to the inputs from the user, the screen displays containing data relevant to the ...

09/21/06 - 20060212310 - Methods to finance, acquire, register, manage and lease aircraft with increased liability protection and wireless connectivity
The embodiments relate to methods to buy, inspect, finance, structure and manage aircraft begins by firt identifying and aircraft to purchase. After inspection of the aircraft, financing for procurement of the aircraft is exchanged. The method then calls for purchasing the aircraft followed by registering the aircraft with the proper ...

09/21/06 - 20060212309 - Method for determining the best day of the week for a recipient to receive a mail piece
A computer method that determines the best day of the week for a recipient to receive a mail piece that is part of a mailing campaign. The method includes by applying a unique code to each mail piece in the mailing; tracking the mail piece to determine when the mail ...

09/21/06 - 20060212308 - Information posting system and information posting method
An information presentation system 1 comprises a user information DB 9 storing a telephone number of each user terminal and user attribute information in association with each other, a gateway 11 for acquiring an access address URL and a telephone number with reception of an access request for access to ...

09/21/06 - 20060212307 - Handheld medical waste sorting method
A system for disposing of medical waste is generally configured to sort waste items into a plurality of containers according to applicable rules and regulations governing the handling and/or disposal of such items. In some embodiments, a system comprises sorting stations each of which houses a number of disposable containers. ...

09/21/06 - 20060212306 - Handheld medical waste sorting device
A system for disposing of medical waste is generally configured to sort waste items into a plurality of containers according to applicable rules and regulations governing the handling and/or disposal of such items. In some embodiments, a system comprises sorting stations each of which houses a number of disposable containers. ...

09/21/06 - 20060212305 - Method and apparatus for ranking candidates using connection information provided by candidates
A method and apparatus for permitting candidates to connect with a company to enhance their potential ranking is provided. Preferably, the method includes steps of and/or the apparatus performs steps of assisting candidates to contact employees of a company, either directly or via non-employee referrals, to obtain referrals to the ...

09/21/06 - 20060212304 - Automated item forwarding system and method
Rental items are directly forwarded from customer to custom using a method whereby a supplier's computer communicates with a postal computer via an electronic link when an item identified with a unique machine readable code is returned by a customer to the postal service and identified with the code, the ...

09/21/06 - 20060212303 - System and method for litigation risk management
A method for corporate litigation risk management for managing claims and legal actions including: forming a team including a managing attorney, a business owner, and an outside counsel for managing the claim or legal action, where the team forming step occurs within three days of notice of the claim or ...

09/21/06 - 20060212302 - System and method for a user interface in an ip management system
There is disclosed various embodiments of methods and apparatus for organizing information related to intellectual property wherein such related information includes personnel, messages, docket items, information disclosure documents and matters associated with intellectual property assets. Access to the intellectual property information is provided by providing a first graphical user interface ...

09/21/06 - 20060212301 - Entity property management
Methods and data structures for the management of a data entity during an entity lifecycle. An entity having a property and at least one operation having a property characteristic are defined. The operation may be performed on the property according to the characteristic. An entity lifecycle having the at least ...

09/21/06 - 20060212300 - System and method for providing vehicle information from a telematics window sticker
A method of receiving vehicle sales information at a telematics unit in a vehicle via a wireless connection from a control node includes receiving a trigger input at the telematics unit and providing the vehicle sales information to a local customer responsive to the received trigger input. ...

09/21/06 - 20060212299 - Crm office integration
The method and system claimed recognizes phrases or segments within an electronic document, where the phrase or segment acts to trigger a function call to a sever component that connects to a CRM system or a CRM database and retrieves relevant information relating to and based on the recognized phrase. ...

09/14/06 - 20060206355 - Search engine account monitoring
A system and method of generating an ordered search list via a search engine by determining various account balances to determine where a search listing will appear, if at all, in a search results list. If a web site advertiser's account is below a threshold, the search listing associated with ...

09/14/06 - 20060206354 - Method for facilitating medical waste disposal
A system for disposing of medical waste is generally configured to sort waste items into a plurality of disposable containers according to applicable rules and regulations governing the handling and/or disposal of such items. In some embodiments, a system comprises sorting stations, each of which houses a number of disposable ...

09/14/06 - 20060206353 - Method and system for intelligent queue management
A system and method for intelligent queue management uses a virtual destination locator to guide any queue members with pre-allocated final destination assignment. The guiding arranges the queue members into a sequence and then guides them to the final destination by moving the virtual destination location in accordance with the ...

09/14/06 - 20060206352 - System for seamless enablement of compound enterprise-processes
This invention relates to activities pertaining to life-cycle-stages of enterprise-processes, whether implemented within the boundary of a single organization or spanning several organizational boundaries. In particular it relates to (1) establishing a community of participant-systems and a schema to create collaborative capabilities (2) establishing a combination of one or more ...

09/14/06 - 20060206351 - Registered traveler systems and methods
The present invention provides systems and methods for registering frequent travelers and for confirming traveler identities so that a more streamlined procedure may be used during security checks prior to departure of the registered traveler. One such method includes receiving a customer data set and a customer biometric with a ...

09/14/06 - 20060206350 - Security method and apparatus for preventing credit card fraud
A security method comprises inputting into a database on a computer system (2) data as to a forecast of transfer relative to the database, and inputting into the database data as to actual transfers relative to the database, the computer system taking appropriate action in the event that the transfers ...

09/14/06 - 20060206349 - Search equity program system and method
The invention provides for a method for receiving revenue by brokering searches for content available over a communication network. The steps of the method include providing a private communication network secured from a publicly available communication network, transmitting a request for bids to a plurality of search engines, accepting a ...

09/14/06 - 20060206348 - System and method for business process integration
Embodiments of the present invention relate to an automated way for a non-technical person to create or modify software functionality in support of a business process without needing expertise in software. According to the invention, an automated matching tool may apply user input expressed semantically to a database of semantic ...

09/14/06 - 20060206347 - Network centric system and method for processing information
A network centric method and system for processing information, wherein a hierarchical database populated with an organizational construct of an integrated system is accessed to decompose the organizational construct into separate franchises of the integrated system. Each franchise of the integrated system is classified according to a network centric taxonomy ...

09/14/06 - 20060206346 - Activity forms for automated business processes
A method and computer-readable storage medium for performing the method of creating a business process workflow user interface (“activity form”) featuring process data and process-related data where no manual coding is required to integrate different data sources into the user interface. An activity form associated with an activity from a ...

09/14/06 - 20060206345 - System and method for obtaining and disseminating secured on-line data
There is disclosed method and apparatus for downloading private intellectual property information from a first secured data source maintained by a government agency, wherein access to the private intellectual property information is secured with one or more security mechanisms, and storing at least some of the downloaded information into a ...

09/14/06 - 20060206344 - scientific formula and system which derives and creates a standardized data table in a personnel recruiting system
The present invention relates to a data processing system, engrained with value-added methodologies to create a highly structured and automated recruiting system. The invention will create and retain a content database from the system and enriched by the entries specified by a candidate for a position and the company hiring ...

09/14/06 - 20060206343 - Information storage device and information processing device
The present application is to make an information storage device (card) with a plurality of communication functions perform a process by one of the communication functions in cooperation with another process performed by the other communication function. A card 30 includes contactless communication means and contact communication means so as ...

09/14/06 - 20060206342 - Automated self-storage reservation and management system
An automated self-storage reservation and management system is disclosed. The system enables customers to make a reservation for a self-storage unit, view a map for a storage facility, enter or update customer information, make a payment, view payment history and print receipts. Facility personnel can utilize the system to manage ...

09/07/06 - 20060200365 - Apparatus for facilitating medical waste disposal
A system for disposing of medical waste is generally configured to sort waste items into a plurality of disposable containers according to applicable rules and regulations governing the handling and/or disposal of such items. In some embodiments, a system comprises sorting stations, each of which houses a number of disposable ...

09/07/06 - 20060200364 - Vehicle remote control interface for controlling multiple electronic devices
An interface device for interconnecting fixed controls of a vehicle to electronic devices. The interface device is capable of receiving control signals from fixed controls, such as steering wheel controls, backseat controls, handlebar controls, and the like, and then transmitting corresponding control signals to the electronic devices. In one aspect, ...

09/07/06 - 20060200363 - Network interface card and the connection method thereof
The present invention discloses a network interface card, adapted for connecting to an electronic device, comprising: a button; an interface, for coupling to the electronic device; a storage device, for storing a connection information and a connection program; and a network receiving module, connecting to the interface, the storage device ...

09/07/06 - 20060200362 - Presentation instrument insert systems and methods
A method of providing a postcard presentation instrument for use in a transaction includes applying an information storage medium to a postcard to create a postcard presentation instrument, delivering the postcard presentation instrument to a destination via a distribution system, and settling a transaction involving the postcard presentation instrument. A ...

09/07/06 - 20060200361 - Storage of administrative data on a remote management device
According to an embodiment of the invention, a remote management device is integrated into a processing system, such as a filer or other storage server, and the remote management device and administrative data (such as console data) generated by the processing system are accessible even if the processing system becomes ...

09/07/06 - 20060200360 - Online auction of leads
A method of directing a service provider to a prospective client is provided. The method comprises the steps of providing a lead category, receiving bids from at least one service providers to purchase leads categorizable under the lead category, and receiving a lead of a prospective client categorizable under the ...

09/07/06 - 20060200359 - Method of organizing map data for affinity relationships and application for use thereof
An affinity relationship index and a method for using it are disclosed. The affinity relationship index captures, for any given place name, an affinity to one or more potentially more important place names. Each such more important place subtends an affinity domain within which other places are deemed to lie. ...

09/07/06 - 20060200358 - System and method for graphical display of multivariate data
Multivariate graphs specific to a company's performance, alone or in relation to a benchmark, and methods for producing same include defining on a display screen an origin having a first value, extending from the origin at least three axes on the display screen, the axes being generally equidistant from each ...

09/07/06 - 20060200357 - Policy based data shredding for storage controller
Policy based data shredding is provided to be executed in a storage controller. A logical volume stored on media, such as magnetic disk drives, may be assigned one or more possible shredding policies. Storing and executing the policies in the controller is more efficient than performing host-based shredding and requires ...

09/07/06 - 20060200356 - On demand real-time knowledge-based connectivity
A system and method for providing, on demand, real-time knowledge-based connection and communication between a layperson and an expert provider is disclosed. The system operates by receiving a request query from a user; providing the user with a plurality of appropriate providers; mapping an available provider based on user specifications; ...

08/31/06 - 20060195338 - Web-based customer prospects harvester system
A web-based customer lead harvesting system. The system is based on an application service model, with the programming for the system being accessible to users of the system via web browsers and the Internet. The users, who are typically business enterprises, may access the system to search unstructured Internet data ...

08/31/06 - 20060195337 - Direct passthrough system for financial contributions
A system for direct donation utilizes an Internet-connected server accessible by potential donors using an Internet browser and a data store accessible to the server and storing information about potential recipients pre-qualified for donations. A software suite executing on the server has at least a first facility enabling a potential ...

08/31/06 - 20060195336 - Methods and systems for dynamic parallel processing
Systems and methods are disclosed for dynamic parallel processing of a plurality of subprocesses of a process initiated by a parallel processing framework. The plurality of subprocesses may include processing of one or more data objects in a computer system including a plurality of servers for processing the plurality of ...

08/31/06 - 20060195335 - System and method for career development
A computer system and method is disclosed that aids in career development. Several client workstations and servers are coupled together over a communications network. A web server provides access to a career development web site to client computers. The web server provides various career development modules, such as an information ...

08/31/06 - 20060195334 - Integrated environmental emission reduction data management system and method
A system for tracking environmental performance of a producer of environmental emissions and of associating individual environmental emission reductions to the producer, to a variety of collected data, or both includes selecting a production practice of the producer and an appropriate protocol for converting the production practice to a measure ...

08/31/06 - 20060195333 - Registry/repository based private market generator
A method for creating an electronic marketplace includes receiving from a first client a request to create an electronic marketplace and receiving information about a product associated with the marketplace. The information includes at least one of first product information and a reference to second product information. The method also ...

08/31/06 - 20060195332 - Method and computer program product for generating a lightweight ontological data model
A method, computer program product, and a data processing system for representing service relationships of a business process. A plurality of services are read, and first and second services of the plurality of services are selected. An output and effect of the first service is compared with an input and ...

08/31/06 - 20060195331 - Computerized method and system for generating a display having a physical information item and an electronic information item
Methods and systems for generating a display, for instance, on an integrated message board, the display having at least one physical information item and at least one electronic information item are provided. The physical information item may include, by way of example only, a tagged physical object, hand-written data, and/or ...

08/31/06 - 20060195330 - Method and computer program product for enabling dynamic and adaptive business processes through an ontological data model
A method, computer program product, and a data processing system for selecting services of a business process for execution is provided. Ontological data is read from a data store, and an ontological model representative of the ontological data is then generated. The ontological model is mapped to a business process ...

08/31/06 - 20060195329 - Dynamic credit amount and salary information display during flexible benefit enrollment
A method for updating a benefit program with a plurality of plans receives an input from an individual indicating a change to the benefit program, and updates the benefit program and the salary information of the individual consistent with the input. The individual is presented with a summary of the ...

08/31/06 - 20060195328 - Enhancing web experiences using behavioral biometric data
A computerized method that provides a Web page having control structures for gathering behavioral biometrics. The method can receive behavioral biometric data in accordance with the control structures and in accordance with interactions of a user with the Web page. Additionally, the method can compare the received behavioral biometric data ...

08/31/06 - 20060195327 - Method and system for reporting and processing information relating to railroad assets
Method, system, and computer program product are provided for reporting and processing information relating to railroad assets to user entities that form part of a railroad transportation network. The entities may comprise a plurality of entity groups performing distinct functions relative to the railroad assets, such as forming, operating, maintaining ...

08/31/06 - 20060195326 - Database employment and transitional housing program for ex-offenders
A database/software program containing information on ex-offenders, employers willing and able to hire them, and housing to the offenders for a period upon their release from prison. Employers use the information contained in the software to decide which individuals best suit their employment situation. Ex-offenders use the software to search ...

08/31/06 - 20060195325 - Data retrieval system
A browsing process is driven by user interaction. The user is presented with a selection of items 511, 512, . . . etc from a range. The user can give inputs representing interest in one or other of the items displayed. The inputs represent rewards, which are distributed to attribute ...

08/24/06 - 20060190293 - Responding to requests for data
A user information item is associated with a data set selected by a user for delivery over an electronic network. The user's present and previous data selections are analyzed to identify a user information category related to at least one of these data selections, and the user information item is ...

08/24/06 - 20060190292 - Systems and methods for evaluating the appearance of a gemstone
Of the “four C's,” cut has historically been the most complex to understand and assess. This application presents a three-dimensional mathematical model o study the interaction of light with a fully faceted, colorless, symmetrical round-brilliant-cut diamond. With this model, one can analyze how various appearance factors (brilliance, fire, and scintillation) ...

08/24/06 - 20060190291 - Time phased configured product reutilization sales model
A time-phased reutilization of configured products is provided. Partially configured products are detected. Each partially configured product is analyzed to determine if the partially configured product is a valid partially configured product, suitable for being modified into other configurations. A time phased management process is applied to the valid partially ...

08/24/06 - 20060190290 - Systems and methods for distributing electronic files
An electronic content exchange system according to various embodiments of the invention is configured for super distribution of digital media data such as music, movies, games, software, and other copyrighted materials from content owners to consumers, while enabling content owners to retain control of their digital media assets. In certain ...

08/24/06 - 20060190289 - Detecting test fraud and theft from the analysis of test event and response data
The principles of the present invention provide for detecting anomalous test event and response data indicative of test fraud and/or test theft for numerous administered tests. A computing system accesses test event and response data for one or more administered instances of the test either during “real-time” or following the ...

08/24/06 - 20060190288 - System and method for allocating prescriptions to non-reporting outlets
A method for predicting market information for a plurality of pharmaceutical outlets includes the steps of receiving first data representing purchases and sales of at least one pharmaceutical product from at least one pharmaceutical outlet over a time period in the past, calculating the amount of prescriptions that are not ...

08/24/06 - 20060190287 - Fraudulent address database
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system and method to collect information about potentially suspect addresses across many members of a commerce platform or a fraudulent address database system, thus reducing the chance of exposure to fraudulent charges for merchants providing services as members. ...

08/24/06 - 20060190286 - Electronic systems and methods for information process automation
Systems and methods of the embodiments of the inventive subject matter provide for automation of information service work, for example the work of financial advisors and for enforcing and facilitating the adherence of such information workers to regulatory requirements. ...

08/24/06 - 20060190285 - Method and apparatus for storage and distribution of real estate related data
Systems, methods, and software for storage and distribution of real estate related data. Some embodiments include a database of data representing three-dimensional topographic views of geographic areas and a computer system adapted to present a topographic view of a geographic area based on a query by a user for information ...

08/24/06 - 20060190284 - Reporting a participant loss in a virtual world
Embodiments include an apparatus, device, system, computer-program product, and method. In an embodiment, the system includes a covered-loss detection module operable to identify an occurrence of a defined loss in a virtual world suffered by a participant of at least two participants (hereafter referred to as “the participant”) that participate ...

08/24/06 - 20060190283 - Participating in risk mitigation in a virtual world
Embodiments include an apparatus, device, system, computer-program product, and method. In an embodiment, a system includes a computing device couplable to a virtual world via a public network, and instructions. The instructions when executed on the computing device cause the computing device to activate a virtual character that represents a ...

08/24/06 - 20060190282 - Providing risk mitigation in a virtual world
Embodiments include an apparatus, device, system, computer-program product, and method. In an embodiment, a method includes operating a protection entity associated with a virtual world configured to interact with a participant via a network, participating in a risk management arrangement with the participant, and saving a record of the arrangement. ...

08/24/06 - 20060190281 - Systems and methods to facilitate self regulation of social networks through trading and gift exchange
The subject invention provides a unique system and method that facilitates self-regulation of a social network system based at least in part on user behavior, and in particular on good or desirable user behavior. The system and method involve monitoring user behavior such as user activity and user interactions with ...

08/24/06 - 20060190280 - Method and apparatus for management for use in fleet service and logistics
An apparatus and a method for managing a fleet of assets and their associated logistics are disclosed. The apparatus includes an Autonomic Product Support (“APS”) system, a simulator, and fleet data including logistical data. A user can interact with the fleet data to make management decisions both in maintenance and ...

08/24/06 - 20060190279 - System and method for marketing and managing real property
A system and method for marketing and managing real property including a transaction server managed by a system administrator and a data manager that may be placed in communication with a remote terminal or client computer via a network communication line such as the Internet. The transaction server preferably provides ...

08/24/06 - 20060190278 - Online real estate transaction system
An apparatus, method and program product to provide an online marketplace to enable real estate sellers, passive, real estate investors, and master lessees and sponsors of TIC transactions to contract regarding fractional and other real estate interests, including TIC property, remainder interest, estate for years, subordinated fee interest and sale-leaseback ...

08/24/06 - 20060190277 - Online transaction system for fractional interests in real estate
An apparatus, method and program product to provide an online marketplace to enable real estate sellers, passive, real estate investors, and master lessees and sponsors of TIC transactions to contract regarding fractional and other real estate interests, including TIC property, remainder interest, estate for years, subordinated fee interest and sale-leaseback ...

08/24/06 - 20060190276 - System and method for reserving ground transportation
An inventory of ground transportation vehicles is stored at a server. The inventory includes information about each ground transportation vehicle including fees for travel in a respective ground transportation vehicle as a function of geographical zones to be traveled. A request is made by an end user from a remote ...

08/24/06 - 20060190275 - Intellectual property management system
The present invention provides a system for managing and maintaining information related to unique and limited edition products, including graphics and “cartoon” characters used on those products as well as the issuing and tracking of certificates of authenticity for those products. The system also maintains legal rights information such as ...

08/24/06 - 20060190274 - Cooperative product promotion system and method
Computer-implemented systems and methods for presenting personalized custom product designs to the customers of a second company. Email content promoting customizable products and containing images of product designs is prepared by the product vendor and supplied to a second company. The second company creates and sends an email containing the ...

08/24/06 - 20060190273 - Method, system, and storage medium for implementing transaction-based data exchange
A method for implementing transaction-based data exchange. The method includes transferring information relating to a product via a transmission means selected by an individual at a computing device requesting the information. The information includes at least one of warranty information, accounting information, pricing information, and product details. The method further ...

08/24/06 - 20060190272 - Method for the estate transaction by network of member store
Since conventional real estate portal sites are one-directionally provided by real estate portal site operators, wrong information may be provided. Also, since a large amount of real estate information must be frequently provided and changed, material and human resources must borne. Also, customers must visit corresponding real estate agents in ...

08/24/06 - 20060190271 - Method for forming rate compatible code using high dimensional product codes
Provided is a method for forming a rate compatible code using high dimensional product codes and a computer-readable recording medium for recording a program that implements the program. The rate compatible code, which can provide various encoding rates, is formed by discriminating parity blocks and determining a punctured pattern for ...

08/17/06 - 20060184386 - Methods and systems for providing combination gift card and greeting card
Systems and methods for providing a combination gift element and greeting element may comprise receiving a request to create a greeting element, the greeting element comprising at least one of an electronic greeting element and a physical greeting element. Furthermore, the systems and methods may include receiving a request to ...

08/17/06 - 20060184385 - Serving signals
Output signals are served from a serving device to a plurality of browsing devices connected to a network. The output signals represent commands executable by each browsable device so as to display viewable data in accordance with specified page formatting. Requests from browsing clients are identified which contain information relating ...

08/17/06 - 20060184384 - Method of community purchasing through the internet
In accordance with the present invention, a method and system of communal purchasing is disclosed. The preferred embodiments describe a community purchase model where a product can be purchased a particular price only if enough buyers are willing to purchase at that price. The preferred embodiments pool together the collective ...

08/17/06 - 20060184383 - Methods and systems for pricing parts and components
A method and system for sourcing a part is provided. The method comprises specifying a generic part description for a part. In addition, the method comprises mapping the generic part description to one or more specific part descriptions across a plurality of vendors. Further the method comprises generating a list ...

08/17/06 - 20060184382 - Structured real estate analysis
A method of selecting a real estate option according to a structured analysis. The structured analysis may be used to determine a preferred real estate option for a user based on criteria such as the preferences and financial resources of the user. The structured analysis may be used to facilitate ...

08/17/06 - 20060184381 - Computer-implemented method and system for matching a consumer to a home service provider
A method and system for matching ready-to-act consumers and pre-qualified service providers are described. Consumer-to-Business commerce transactions can be facilitated by pre-qualifying both consumers and service providers and matching a consumer who selects a single, pre-qualified service provider. For example, according to one exemplary embodiment of the invention, using information ...

08/17/06 - 20060184380 - Xml-based resource data structures and networks managed by xml-based resource data structures
A network that uses XML-based resource data structures. The network comprises: i) a plurality of network elements; 2) a configuration manager for managing and configuring the plurality of network elements; and iii) a plurality of resource data structures suitable for configuring the plurality of network elements of the network. Each ...

08/17/06 - 20060184379 - Embedded warranty management
Methods and systems for obtaining and analyzing data from embedded sensors in electronic products for warranty management. A data collection unit in an electronic product collects and reports data about environmental factors that is relevant about a warranty agreement and transmits the data over a communications link to a data ...

08/17/06 - 20060184378 - Methods and apparatuses for delivery of advice to mobile/wireless devices
Methods and apparatuses to connect consumers to diverse advice sources of experts. In one embodiment, a method includes: providing a list of experts to a mobile device via a wireless media channel for presentation to a consumer; responsive to receiving from the mobile device a selection of one expert from ...

08/17/06 - 20060184377 - Embedded warranty management
Methods and systems for obtaining and analyzing data from embedded sensors in electronic products for warranty management. A data collection unit in an electronic product collects and reports data about environmental factors that is relevant about a warranty agreement and transmits the data over a communications link to a data ...

08/17/06 - 20060184376 - Use of location awareness to detect potentially supsicious motion or presence of equipment in a healthcare environment
A system for detecting potentially suspicious motion of a piece of equipment in a healthcare establishment. The system comprises a first functional entity adapted to determine a set of authorized clinicians associated with the piece of equipment; a second functional entity adapted to determine, based at least in part on ...

08/17/06 - 20060184375 - Branded content
Configuration of an application module to utilize branded content is described. In an implementation, a method includes identifying one of a plurality of business relationships which correspond to a request sent by a client over a network. A configuration file is the formed for communication to the client and for ...

08/17/06 - 20060184374 - Data collection, identification, and notification system
A system including a processor and a memory coupled to the processor. The memory has stored therein a property offering database of properties for sale, a client database, and a contact database, wherein each contact is associated with a client. The system further includes software stored in the memory and ...

08/17/06 - 20060184373 - Method and system for quick and automatic police canvas operation of an identified crime scene area using an autodialer
A data processing system to automatically canvass for witnesses within an identified crime scene area. After an incident report is received, the locus and boundary of the crime scene is determined. Telephone calls are automatically initiated to a list of compiled telephone numbers within the boundary of the identified crime ...

08/17/06 - 20060184372 - Intelligence value index calculation method
It is possible to judge an enterprise value which does not appear in finance tables. For each of the enterprises stored in a database, the technical innovation power of the enterprise, relationship with a customer and a business partner, productivity of employees, usefulness of the facility, benefit brought about in ...

08/17/06 - 20060184371 - Risk management
A risk management process is provided that has steps of defining a risk by providing: (a) a descriptive title; (b) a risk impact value; and (c) a likelihood value. (a), (b), and (c) are then set as a first set of initial conditions for the risk. A node for the ...

08/10/06 - 20060178905 - System and method for managing product sales data for external reports
A computerized method and system for managing product sales data includes receiving product sales data from one or more external systems and deriving predetermined information from the product sales data. Where the product sales data is replaced or modified, the original product sales data may be maintained. In other embodiments, ...

08/10/06 - 20060178904 - Interactive system that is useful in cosmetics and a method of building a database
An interactive system for advising at least one person may be configured to acquire at least one estimated or measured appearance characteristic of a person to be advised. The system may: interrogate a database, the database including information relating to appearance characteristics desired by a reference population as a function ...

08/10/06 - 20060178903 - Method and system for converged communications directory search and advertising services
A method and system for end-to-end delivery of directory search and advertising services is implemented on a converged communications content distribution architecture. Merchants may directly engage the content distribution platform to schedule, target, and provide multimedia content for their directory listings. Service providers enable access to end-users via converged communications ...

08/10/06 - 20060178902 - Method and system for documenting assets with certified digital imager
A home or small business inventory is documented by acquiring and processing a set of digital images. The processing includes sequencing and categorizing the images in a useful manner; associating receipts, audio testimony, video testimony, or other related information to the images; and providing a tamper-evident certification for the set ...

08/10/06 - 20060178901 - Home movies television (hmtv)
The purpose of home movies television is to bring pirating to an end. This invention was developed to allow the public access to new release movies currently in theatres from home. METHODS: The main components of this invention would include a motion detector and the HMTV unit. The motion detector ...

08/10/06 - 20060178900 - Method and system for use with the internet
A method of increasing the awareness of users of the Internet to services and products provided by web sites, wherein the method includes establishing a hosting web site on the Internet having a data processor for registering web site owners (WSO's) as subscribers to a hosting service. The method also ...

08/10/06 - 20060178899 - Identifying a participant loss in a virtual world
Embodiments include an apparatus, device, system, computer-program product, and method. In an embodiment, system includes a computing system couplable to a virtual world via a network, and instructions. The instructions when executed by the computing system cause the computing system to generate a signal responsive to a received participant input ...

08/10/06 - 20060178898 - Unified event monitoring system
The present invention provides a system that integrates requests and responses thereto for Operation and Business Support Systems (OSS/BSS) that comprise many discrete and non-inclusive systems with disparate interfaces. The integration of these systems poses a complex problem. Moreover, costs of licenses, maintenance fees, and training for day-to-day use are ...

08/10/06 - 20060178897 - Prospect resource information management environment
PRIME© is an advanced Business Intelligence Environment, at its core is a preference capturing/preference profiling automated Business Intelligence Engine. It is designed to operate in a CRM (Customer Resource Management) and CEM (Client Experience Management) framework. It is a hybrid, heuristic, internet enabled advanced marketing environment which can enable any ...

08/10/06 - 20060178896 - Method and system for making connections between job seekers and employers
It is an object of the invention to create a new way of connecting job seekers with employers that will change the way traditional employment searches are conducted by both parties. Our aim is to subordinate the importance of a resume behind or below a more objective matching of a ...

08/10/06 - 20060178895 - Business method selling a good
A computerized method for awarding a product, service, or activity package by the steps of: receiving from a participant a request for a chance to obtain the product, service or package; storing a record of the request and identification of the participant in a database; transmitting to the participant instructions ...

08/10/06 - 20060178894 - Disaster pairing method
A disaster pairing method has a disaster plan (1) for willing-and-able provider-household members (5) to help disaster-stricken recipient-household members (6) in paths of disasters. Standard procedures (3) for operating the disaster plan (1) include classifying and listing qualifications, capabilities, characteristics and preferences of the provider-household members (5) and the recipient-household ...

08/10/06 - 20060178893 - System and method for brokering requests for collaboration
A system and associated methods facilitate brokering on behalf of a particular clinician of requests for an electronic collaboration session that originate from another entity. According to one method of the invention, inbound messages are received by a brokering system, and then converted into a format suitable for screening. Each ...

08/10/06 - 20060178892 - Method of uniquely associating transaction data with a particular individual, and computer-based messaging system for communicating such associated data
The invention concerns a method of uniquely associating transaction data with a particular individual. Further, the invention relates to a computer-based messaging system for communicating data associated in accordance with this method. In one form, a method of uniquely associating transaction data with a particular individual is provided, comprising the ...

08/10/06 - 20060178891 - Customer assistance system for stores
A customer assistance system for stores with a very large sales area, particularly hypermarkets, as they are called, in which a plurality of information output devices, for example, display panels, which are arranged so as to be distributed over the sales area for outputting information directed to the customers and ...

08/10/06 - 20060178890 - Method for automating the implementation and updating of an information system
The invention relates to a method of automating the implementation and updating of an information system. The inventive method comprises the following phases: an electronic specifications phase (Block 1) corresponding to a first status of a given version of the information system; a phase involving the automatic generation (Block 2) ...

08/10/06 - 20060178889 - Method and system for performing electronic commerce
The present invention relates generally to electronic commerce, and more particularly, to a method and system for performing electronic commerce over the Internet. ...

08/03/06 - 20060173707 - Electronic information management system for abstracting and reporting document information
An electronic information management system abstracts and reports document information. The system utilizes a computer communicating with an electronic database. An input device is operatively connected to the computer for entering document information into the database. A plurality of electronic indexing tags are provided at predetermined locations within the stored ...

08/03/06 - 20060173706 - Method of and system for evaluating financial risk associated with a construction project
A system and method for managing a construction payment process. One method embodying the invention can include evaluating financial risk associated with a construction project by electronically aggregating construction project data associated with participants in a construction project, the data aggregated from a software application that manages payment workflows for ...

08/03/06 - 20060173705 - Systems and methods for preparation of an intellectual property filing in accordance with jurisdiction-and/or agent-specific requirements
A facility has been developed whereby an applicant (or his representative) may file corresponding applications in multiple jurisdictions using multiple associates while automating the preparation of filings in accordance with jurisdiction- and/or associate-specific requirements and/or procedures. An intellectual property filing portal or hub is employed, which in some realizations is ...

08/03/06 - 20060173704 - Secure computer system
A secure computer system is shown and described. The computer system includes (1) a network power controller that has slots and (2) removable cards that are inserted into the slots. The computer system may also include peripheral devices that are coupled to the network power controller through a digital current ...

08/03/06 - 20060173703 - Fee transaction system and method for intellectual property acquisition and/or maintenance
A facility has been developed whereby an applicant (or his representative) may initiate performance of an intellectual property service such as the making of a maintenance fee, annuity, renewal, tax or other payments and transact the associated fees coincident therewith. Such a facility has several advantages including the ability to ...

08/03/06 - 20060173702 - Network-based interaction and review service for facilitating communication in a network-based commerce environment
A network-based interaction and review server allows a user (e.g., a purchaser) to obtain reviews, collaboratively shop and consult experts with respect to a topic, web domain, website or product without being limited to engaging a service specific to a particular web domain, website or the network location. An interaction ...

08/03/06 - 20060173701 - Electronic system and method coupling live event ticketing and interactive entries with the sale, distribution and transmission of event recordings, mastering system and intelligent terminal designs
The present disclosure provides a method and system of electronically associating one or any combination of the production, balancing, editing, transmission, distribution and sale of live event “Recordings” with the sale of a “ticket” [defined to include any entrance payment/receipt, (tournament) entrance fee or logged placed bet] to or during ...

08/03/06 - 20060173700 - Mail consolidation tool
a mail consolidation system. The system includes a delivery option integration device with a user interface that allows a user to enter shipping address information for a mailpiece into the integration device. A shipment analysis device uses the shipping address information to determine a best delivery service for the mailpiece. ...

08/03/06 - 20060173699 - Virtual technology transfer network
A Virtual technology transfer Office and method for a) accessing a secure on-line system for entering, retrieving, displaying, editing, storing and printing technology transfer and intellectual property information; b) utilizing voice commands or manually entered numeric, alpha or alphanumeric characters to navigate through the an on-line electronic interactive environment. c) ...

08/03/06 - 20060173698 - Approvals management production-rule engine
Methods and apparatus for processing of transactions within an approvals management system that utilizes production rules stored in a relational database are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a management approval system includes a database and an engine. The database is arranged to store a set of ...

08/03/06 - 20060173697 - Method and system for value added international mail service
A method for providing mailing services between countries includes applying a tracking number to a mailing, encoding actual sender and recipient information of the mailing being sent from one country to another, and monitoring postal tracking to the destination using the tracking number. ...

08/03/06 - 20060173696 - Method and apparatus for product management
A method for selecting products includes solving a maximal s-t flow in a bipartite graph to obtain a minimum cut for the bipartite graph and selecting products bounded by the minimum cut. An apparatus for product selection is also described. ...

08/03/06 - 20060173695 - Marking system for identifying baby care articles suitable for particular stages of child development
A marking system for assisting identification of baby care articles appropriate for a particular baby includes an array of pictorial representations including at least a first set of pictorial representations corresponding to a first stage of development and a second set of pictorial representations corresponding to a second stage of ...

08/03/06 - 20060173694 - Information processing system, information processing device, method, and program
An information-processing system, which allows a specific apparatus in a movement-destination space to be operated with the anonymity of the user kept as it is even when the user moves to the movement-destination space, information-processing apparatus, information-processing methods and information-processing programs are provided. A mobile terminal 11-2 issues a request ...

08/03/06 - 20060173693 - Computerized trading system and methods useful therefor
A computerized trading system including a price information cache including a multiplicity of price information items originating from more than one transaction queries posed by more than one trader from among a population of traders, each of the price information items having a cached life cycle, and a trading query ...

07/27/06 - 20060167717 - System and method for listing and finding goods and services over the internet
The present invention provides an improvement over prior art search engine techniques in various ways. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a system and method for enabling searchers to locate content stored on an Internet web site. A user interface is preferably provided that is operable to receive from ...

07/27/06 - 20060167716 - Method of extracting and reporting death information
A method of extracting and reporting death information includes monitoring reports of death from various sources, and selectively transmitting extracted data to persons who subscribe with a provider of the method. A database is created of persons whose deaths are to be reported to consumers of the information. The consumer ...

07/27/06 - 20060167715 - Method and a corresponding system for creativity and innovation management
A methods and a corresponding systems for creation, sharing, disseminating, gathering, tracking, developing, archiving, and managing of information regarding: business goals, creative ideas in coherence with specific business goals, and implementations of these creative ideas. The first preferred main step is propagating required goals from predefined decision makers to predefined ...

07/27/06 - 20060167714 - Channel-aware enterprise service
Various embodiments of systems, methods, computer programs, services, software components, etc. are provided. One embodiment comprises an enterprise platform for providing banking solutions to financial service providers. Logic embodied in a computer readable medium, the logic implemented on an enterprise platform in a financial service environment, the logic comprising: a ...

07/27/06 - 20060167713 - Automatic transmission for use with a power take-off device, and method of use
An automatic transmission adapted to receive a power take-off device at a rear portion thereof and kit for providing power take-off components. Due to size constraints around an automatic transmission, a rear mounted power take-off device avoids the difficulties common to side mounted power take-offs. The automatic transmission includes a ...

07/27/06 - 20060167712 - Franchise arrangement that supports physician provided medical services
A franchise arrangement is provided that supports physician administered medical services. The franchise arrangement include: a franchisor licensed to practice medicine by a government entity; and a franchisee licensed to practice medicine by the same government entity. The franchisee includes at least one practicing physician administering medical services in accordance ...

07/27/06 - 20060167711 - Systems and methods for generating electronic spare parts catalogs for complex systems and machines
Systems and methods are provided for generating and publishing electronic spare parts catalogs that support electronic business processes for managing and selling spare parts for complex machines and systems, such as gas turbines. Automated systems and methods for generating electronic catalogs of spare parts employ an extensible, template-based framework to ...

07/27/06 - 20060167710 - Method and system for registering potential acquirers of assets that are not currently on the market
A register interest system receives from a potential acquirer of assets an indication that the potential acquirer is interested in acquiring rights in a specific asset that is not currently on the market. The register interest system stores indications that the potential acquirers are interested in specific assets. When a ...

07/27/06 - 20060167709 - Managing a limited-use electronic mail account
In one aspect, a method related to a limited-use electronic mail account. In addition to the foregoing, other method and system and program product aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present application. ...

07/27/06 - 20060167708 - Method of leasing a gaming machine for a flat fee amount
A method of leasing a gaming machine is provided that includes determining a monetary average machine net win in monetary units per gaming machine per unit of time for a group of existing gaming machines, receiving the leased gaming machine, and determining a monetary payment amount for the leased gaming ...

07/27/06 - 20060167707 - Method of leasing a gaming machine for a percentage of a total coin-in amount
A method of leasing a gaming machine is provided that includes determining a monetary average machine net win in monetary units per gaming machine per unit of time for a group of existing gaming machines, receiving the leased gaming machine, and determining a monetary payment amount for the leased gaming ...

07/27/06 - 20060167706 - Design for outsourcing contracts
A method suitable for generating a legal contract between an offeror and an offeree. The method comprises the steps of determining a contractual attribute utility function based on offeror preferences; determining a contractual attribute utility function based on offeree preferences; and generating a legal consideration profile by correlating the attribute ...

07/27/06 - 20060167705 - System for handling refunding of value-added tax
System for handling of refunding of value-added tax to a consumer who has purchased goods in a foreign country includes a central database and first terminals, placed in shops) connected to the system. The first terminals include equipment for entering purchase data. The system creates electronic cheques on the basis ...

07/27/06 - 20060167704 - Computer system and method for business data processing
The system enables business people to understand the impact of business transactions, changes and events in real-time using advanced rules and analytics to filter, categorize and interpret the significance of streams of real-time information. Most business performance analysis today is done manually and this process is a time consuming and ...

07/27/06 - 20060167703 - Dynamic resource allocation platform and method for time related resources
A resource allocation platform for allocating resources between a provider and a plurality of users at a certain price differentiated for different users, the resources being time dependent resources such as communication data capacity, the platform comprising: an agent-based interaction mechanism for allowing said provider and said plurality of users ...

07/27/06 - 20060167702 - Method of preventing theft to vehicles using intensive marking
A method for preventing theft of a vehicle using intensive marking comprises, establishing a service network (10) including a service center (12) having a databank (14) for data processing and storage, and a number of service stations (16) providing anti theft service to clients. At the service stations, an agent ...

07/27/06 - 20060167701 - Estate group purchasing matching system
In a network where a person who wants to sell an estate is connected to an estate purchase broker so that data communication can be performed, there is provided a database of information on estates to be sold which are provided by a person who wants to sell an estate, ...

07/27/06 - 20060167700 - Analysis result providing method and analysis result providing system
An analysis management server 1 makes a large variety of question contents from a question providing unit 4 available, registers a group of questions for analyzing an audience in correspondence with selection of a client terminal 3, obtains replies to the question contents corresponding to the client terminal 3 in ...

07/27/06 - 20060167699 - System and method for managing messaging services
Messaging manager is a system that manages the deployment and use of heterogeneous messaging services, controls the said services, and makes reports. It is located between the users and services, so that the messages of the users and services are routed via the messaging manager. When a user sends a ...

07/20/06 - 20060161452 - Computer-implemented methods, processors, and systems for creating a wafer fabrication process
Computer-implemented methods, processors, and systems for creating a wafer fabrication process are provided. One computer-implemented method includes determining individual error budgets for different parameters of the wafer fabrication process based on an overall error budget for the wafer fabrication process and simulated images that illustrate how reticle design data will ...

07/20/06 - 20060161451 - Method for protecting the privacy of phone numbers entered by internet consumers by forwarding calls through intermediary phone numbers
A method is presented for protecting the privacy of phone numbers entered by consumers on the internet by using a third party to assign intermediary phone numbers which can be used by online vendors to make calls that are forwarded to the consumers' actual phone numbers, thereby masking the online ...

07/20/06 - 20060161450 - Method and system for tracking and budgeting energy usage
An energy tracking and reporting system can receive data inputs from multiple sources regarding one or more properties. A central database receives the information and correlates the information for numerous outputs. Information received by the central database can include, for example, property location, property size, property type and property use. ...

07/20/06 - 20060161449 - Automated real estate data replication
A method of replicating real estate data includes automating synchronization of datastores and validating permissions and membership. The method also includes access methods on the device party to replication allowing access to data when computer networks are of insufficient availability or bandwidth. ...

07/20/06 - 20060161448 - Method and system for rating / ranking third parties
A method of rating a third-party includes, in response to a third-party participating in a transaction concerning a company, monitoring the level of research coverage initiated by the third party concerning the company. A score is assigned to the third-party based, at least in part, upon the level of research ...

07/20/06 - 20060161447 - Strategic occupancy planning
The present invention relates to a computerized space programming method. In the method five critical phases are utilized to determine the optimal space programming for a business. These phases are (1) validation phase, to get an accurate snapshot of the current space, (2) forecasting phase, interpreting the future, (3) adjacency ...

07/20/06 - 20060161446 - System, method, and computer program product for accessing electronic tickets by paper-based travel service provider
A system, method, and computer program product receive a first request document using a first format at an intermediate location in response to a request by a paper-based travel service provider to access an electronic ticket, convert the first request document to a second request document using a second format, ...

07/20/06 - 20060161445 - Binding a device to a computer
A device, such as a component or a peripheral, and corresponding computer are adapted to be bound such that the device will only operate with that computer after the binding process. Cryptographic messages are sent between the device and computer to confirm the relationship. When the device cannot confirm it ...

07/20/06 - 20060161444 - Methods for standards management
One embodiment is directed to a method of instructing at least one operator in a best practices implementation of a standards facility for managing at least one standard in an information technology (IT) environment comprising a plurality of standards to be managed, the IT environment being managed in accordance with ...

07/20/06 - 20060161443 - Systems and methods for collecting and managing animal-related information
The invention relates to methods and systems for collecting and managing animal-related information. One aspect of an embodiment of the invention includes a method for collecting and managing animal-related data. The method includes logging in a network user, and receiving a selection of an animal management function. The method also ...

07/20/06 - 20060161442 - System and method for analyzing or identifying customer requirements
A method or system is provided for analyzing or identifying customer requirements. The identified requirements may be used to design a product family or redesign a process. The product can be, but is not necessarily, a computer program. For the analysis or identification, a master diagram is used in which ...

07/20/06 - 20060161441 - Application outsourcing
The invention relates to the coordination of application logic and an associated resource. Application logic is received from an application service provider (ASP) and a request is received from a client requesting a service from the ASP. The application logic from the ASP is matched with the client request. The ...

07/13/06 - 20060155575 - Media delivery prioritization system and method
A network based distribution system and method is disclosed for automatically prioritizing distribution of playable media items, such as movies in a digital format. The system automatically allocates priority based on title supply/demand or subscriber satisfaction criterion to enhance retention of subscribers. ...

07/13/06 - 20060155574 - Process for obtaining greenhouse gas emission credits
The invention concerns a process for obtaining credits for the emission of greenhouse gases produced by the circulation of a vehicle powered by a heat engine, in which: in a first stage, means are identified that can contribute towards a variation of the greenhouse gas emissions produced due to the ...

07/13/06 - 20060155573 - Method and system for secure information brokering
Secure information brokering according to the present disclosure provides a technique for a potential tenant seeking to rent or to lease real estate to have their credit and identity information verified by a secure information broker. The secure information broker may then provide the verified information to the property owner ...

07/13/06 - 20060155572 - Methods and systems for buying, selling and trading intellectual property and other interests
A method of assigning value to intellectual property such as a patent application. First, a starting price for the intellectual property is determined prior to undergoing a prosecution phase. A price modifier is then associated with each of a number of various prosecution factors, with each prosecution factor related to ...

07/13/06 - 20060155571 - Automated, multiple order generation to vendors and creation of alerts and reminder using single entry of walkthrough data
The present invention property walkthrough results in a complete survey of the house with all the appropriate vendors contacted for preparing the house for listing. The present invention method and system comprises online/offline walkthrough forms that allow the agent to conduct a walkthrough, which, at the end, automatically results in ...

07/13/06 - 20060155570 - Aggregation and control of documents in the document repository using meta data and context information and creation of online info binder
The present invention discloses a method and system for electronically aggregating and controlling of documents in a real estate transaction by the assignment of various meta-attributes to the documents when they are uploaded to the system. Based on the attributes, the documents are put into folders having the same attribute-associated ...

07/13/06 - 20060155569 - Style trend tracking tool
A system and a method are provided for mapping a portfolio of products. ...

07/13/06 - 20060155568 - Systems and methods for data processing
Methods and systems are disclosed for managing bundle pricing of services. In one implementation, a system comprises a database for storing master contracts and billing customizing tables. The master contracts refer to the data of the billing customizing tables by means of result and condition attributes. This has the advantage ...

07/13/06 - 20060155567 - Method and apparatus for facilitating a selection of a postal mailing list
A mailing list test service is disclosed that involves at least one postal mailing list, the at least one postal mailing list including information about a plurality of list members. The service includes sending an e-mail message to each of at least a subset of list members. At least one ...

07/13/06 - 20060155566 - Internet dating system and method
An Internet dating system and method that systematically documents and stores evaluations by participants of their dating experiences. Each evaluation is then sent, by, for example, email and or SMS, to the other participant in the date. Advantageously, the system processes each evaluation to determine a date rating and prompts ...

07/13/06 - 20060155565 - Method for merchandising a product
A method for merchandising a premium bed support system. The method includes advising various parties in the distribution system for selling a bed support system to a retail consumer as to the benefit of a premium bed support system so that the retail consumer has the opportunity of purchasing the ...

07/13/06 - 20060155564 - Method and system for automatically creating and maintaining business systems using relationships
A method of automatically and intelligently maintaining business systems, including information technology assets. A management system automatically maintains a business system based on relationships among resources within the business system and/or on a priority rank that establishes the value or importance of a particular resource. The management system, and optionally ...

07/13/06 - 20060155563 - Method, system and article for advance lease negotiation in dhcp
DHCP lease negotiation is performed in advance of a specified time when the IP address is needed. The client sends a DHCP discover message with an advance lease option indicating a future time when an IP address is needed. The DHCP server reserves an IP address available at the requested ...

07/13/06 - 20060155562 - System and method for analyzing and managing business performance
A system and method for analyzing and managing business performance by designing and evaluating the performance of a business process model comprising a flow of business tasks and artifact sources that generate business artifacts. Business processes may be parsed to identify transformation opportunities meeting transformation conditions specified in a transformation ...

07/13/06 - 20060155561 - Mass customization of liquid packets
A method is provided comprising the online design of an insert by a user and the subsequent packaging of the custom insert with liquids. The insert is designed, approved, and ordered by the user through an internet interface that in turn supplies the insert design to an extremely scalable assemblage ...

07/13/06 - 20060155560 - Semiconductor market development and resource management method
A semiconductor market development and resource management method compriseing collecting at least one client's data regarding a semiconductor industry. The data is collected and a client management database is established. The collected data in the client management database cooperates with at least one assessment condition to analyze and convert the ...

07/13/06 - 20060155559 - System for examining title to a real estate parcel
The above and other needs are met by a system for examining title to a real estate parcel including software operable on a processing device in electrical communication with a display for viewing information associated with the software. A database of electronic real estate documents is in electrical communication with ...

07/13/06 - 20060155558 - System and method of managing mentoring relationships
A method is provided and includes receiving a plurality of completed mentor applications. Further, a plurality of completed protégé applications is received. One of the one of the plurality of completed mentor applications can be matched with one of the plurality of completed protégé applications to create a mentoring relationship. ...

07/13/06 - 20060155557 - Customized one time use vapor deposition source
A method of providing a customized one time use vapor deposition source to a user includes a supplier receiving an order from the user; the supplier providing the one time use vapor deposition source to the user, wherein the one time use vapor deposition source includes at least a boat ...

07/13/06 - 20060155556 - Business method of encouraging participation in an association
The present invention relates to a business method for encouraging participation in an association of competitive entities through exclusive access to a desired product. This method is designed for use in individual industries that are dominated by small scale local businesses. Particular local businesses will be selected and offered an ...

07/13/06 - 20060155555 - Utility computing method and apparatus
A method, system, and computer program product that provide for more uniform pricing of utility computing resources, such as a computing grid. One aspect of the present invention is a method of calculating costs in a utility computing environment comprising receiving a request to process a work unit from a ...

07/13/06 - 20060155554 - Graphically representing goods management in supply chain
A method of graphically representing management of goods in a supply chain includes receiving goods management data in a computer system from participants in a supply chain, the goods management data being sent upon the participants managing individual goods, and generating a graph in the computer system using the goods ...

07/13/06 - 20060155553 - Risk management methods and systems
Risk management methods and systems are disclosed. Information regarding implicit social contracts affecting an organization is collected from one or more sources which are external to the organization. A reputation risk to the organization is then identified based on the collected information, and an indication of the identified reputation risk ...

07/13/06 - 20060155552 - Event handling mechanism
A method and apparatus for an event handling mechanism are described. Under an embodiment of the invention, a method comprises setting a timer for a plurality of time intervals; calling a polling function at the end of each of the plurality of time intervals, the polling function being performed by ...

07/13/06 - 20060155551 - Probabilistic pulse generator and differential absolute value computing element and manhattan distance arithmetic unit using this
A stochastic pulse generator (1) of this invention includes a variable signal generator (61) operative to generate a variable signal (Vc) which varies randomly, and a comparator (3) operative to output a binary signal (Vout) of High or Low depending on which of one input signal and another input signal ...

07/13/06 - 20060155550 - Method and system for automatic storage of business management data
Methods and systems automatically file records concerning business events in a computer system so that the records are accessible to a business application. An identification code is assigned to a business event having a data structure that is represented in the computer system. At least one set of input data, ...

07/06/06 - 20060149586 - Lodging attribute inventory
A method of utilizing and inventorying variable attributes for rooms associated with Hotels and other similar services. A database comprising multiple data sets is compiled, where the data sets available may comprise any of the following: room availability; room attributes; attribute weight; and Guest weight. The attribute weight reflects the ...

07/06/06 - 20060149585 - Delivery control device, delivery control method and computer product
A device controls delivery of an article from a sender to a receiver. The device retrieves a street address of the receiver based on data pertaining to the receiver. The data is specified by the sender. The device instructs to forward the article to the street address retrieved. ...

07/06/06 - 20060149584 - Hangover-mitigating nutritional supplement dispensing system
A system for providing for display/dispensing of a nutritional supplement useful in mitigating the deleterious effects of over-imbibation at a location convenient to guests at an overnight accommodation, and can include providing same in guest rooms and can include providing for adding a cost of use of same to the ...

07/06/06 - 20060149583 - Method and apparatus for using software automatically and without user interaction the same way people would use such software
The present invention provides a METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USING SOFTWARE AUTOMATICALLY AND WITHOUT USER INTERACTION THE SAME WAY PEOPLE WOULD USE SUCH SOFTWARE. This method and apparatus pertains specifically to a method and system for automating the use of software to ensure that data is entered consistently procedures are ...

07/06/06 - 20060149582 - Acting on a subject system
In an active system, an actor is able to effect action in a subject system. The actor and the subject system exist in an environment which can impact the subject system. Neither the actor nor the subject system has any control over the environment. The actor includes a model and ...

07/06/06 - 20060149581 - Method and system for aggregating data from various sources and forwarding it to end users
A method and system for aggregating data from various sources that compiles data from public institutions, parses it according to system-defined and user-defined criteria, and transmits it to end users in a time sensitive manner. The data can be violations data, hearing data, and judgment data, and the data is ...

07/06/06 - 20060149580 - Fraud risk advisor
A fraudulent business transaction application (FBTA) is provided for monitoring application based fraud. When a consumer supplies account access information in order to carry out an Internet business transaction, the FBTA uses an online fraud mitigation engine to detect phishing trusions and identity theft. Methods are also provided for calculating ...

07/06/06 - 20060149579 - Monitoring method and system
A method, computer program product, and server computer for monitoring at least one paid-for opinion issued by an analyst to determine a paid-for qualitative statistic for the analyst. The paid-for qualitative statistic is indicative of the quality of at least a portion of the at least one paid-for opinion issued ...

07/06/06 - 20060149578 - Paid-for research method and system
A method, computer program product, and server computer for maintaining an information resource that defines a pool of qualified analysts. Each member of the pool of qualified analysts is capable of providing paid-for research concerning a specific company. A user is allowed to contract with a third-party facilitator to have ...

07/06/06 - 20060149577 - System and method for the customized processing of returned merchandise
A system and method for providing macro based returns services that may be customized for particular retailers, customer or items. Forward files may be used to trigger particular actions in the return process. Analytics may be gathered and used to differentiate customers utilizing the returns process in order to optimize ...

07/06/06 - 20060149576 - Managing compliance with service level agreements in a grid environment
A computer-implemented method, system, and program for managing compliance with service level agreements in a grid environment are provided. A grid service for managing compliance with service level agreements in a grid environment detects a grid job passing a timing entry point, and flowing towards a grid environment provided by ...

07/06/06 - 20060149575 - Software engineering process monitoring
A computer software engineering process monitoring application for monitoring a project including a software engineering process is disclosed. The computer software engineering process monitoring application comprising, a plurality of software engineering process monitoring program modules. Each module is configured to monitor at least one attribute of the software engineering process ...

07/06/06 - 20060149574 - Method of evaluating business components in an enterprise
A method of evaluating architectural fit of business software applications employed in an enterprise. The method comprises providing a computer tool with a defined rating system for each one of a set of business technology factors and with a set of defined keys having respective key values, inputting into the ...

07/06/06 - 20060149573 - Computerized system and method for building a system of test components for a healthcare orderable procedure
A computerized system and method of building a system of test components for an orderable healthcare procedure is provided. An orderable healthcare procedure is received and associated with a discrete ontology concept. An ontology is traversed for the discrete ontology concept to identify test components related to the discrete ontology ...

07/06/06 - 20060149572 - System and method for asset sharing
The present invention provides for private coordination of the borrowing of items from an aggregate inventory contributed by system participants. A request is received from a system participant. The request is compared with item information associated with a universe of items maintained by the system to determine if a match ...

07/06/06 - 20060149571 - Multi-channel enterprise communication management framework
Various embodiments of systems, methods, computer programs, etc. for unifying management of customer messages and responses in an enterprise across a plurality of channels are provided. One embodiment is an enterprise system comprising: a plurality of enterprise applications for interacting with customers via a plurality of channels; and a communication ...

07/06/06 - 20060149570 - Interacting with consumers to inform, educate, consult, and assist with the purchase and use of personal care products
Educating a consumer about a personal care product. A request for information regarding a personal care product is received from a consumer. A description of one or more physical characteristics associated with the consumer and related to the personal care product is also received from the consumer. In response to ...

07/06/06 - 20060149569 - Method for transitioning foreign employees
The present invention provides a method for transitioning a foreign national employee from a foreign location to a domestic business location using a web-based employee service center. The method comprises providing a web-based employee service center comprising an information center, a form download center, a frequently asked question center, an ...

07/06/06 - 20060149568 - Multi-perspective business process configuration
A computer-implemented method for configuring a business process includes configuring a solution map and deriving a pre-configured set of collaborative business scenarios based on the solution map. The pre-configured set of collaborative business scenarios is then configured and a pre-configured set of event driven process chains is derived based on ...

07/06/06 - 20060149567 - Method, system, and computer program product for dynamic field-level access control in shared documents
A method, system, and computer program product for dynamic field-level access control in shared documents. The method comprises: providing a field in a shared document, wherein the field is not owned by a user and can be edited by any user; and assigning sole ownership of the field to a ...

07/06/06 - 20060149566 - Distributed management service for an auto-identification system
An auto-identification system is described that includes a plurality of distributed auto-id nodes that are operable to track physical objects as they move through an operation of an enterprise, such as, for example, a supply chain network or a sales network. The auto-id nodes are distributed across sites of the ...

07/06/06 - 20060149565 - Local item extraction
A system identifies a document that includes an address and locates business information in the document. The system assigns a confidence score to the business information, where the confidence score relates to a probability that the business information is associated with the address. The system determines whether to associate the ...

07/06/06 - 20060149564 - System and method of doing business for multi-vendor network infrastructure solutions, training, and research and development
Virtual Innovator is a Solutions/Training/R&D Multi-Vendor Laboratory, built for the customers of the Information and Communications Technology industry. A customer can come to Virtual Innovator for Solutions, Training, or R&D for their single or multi-vendor network infrastructures. At Virtual Innovator a customer can resolve the simplest or most complex network ...

07/06/06 - 20060149563 - Business method for video counseling of relocating students
The invention is of a novel business method for a secure Interactive Counseling Center (ICC) Network providing point-to-point voice, video, data, and document image communication over the Internet in real time. The video counseling system provides a connection between losing and receiving school districts during transitions of military-connected students and ...

07/06/06 - 20060149562 - Management system for business invenstment
In a system for managing project investment according to the present invention, a trustee 3 is entrusted with components of the particular project by a project holder 1 having the particular project, an investor 2 invests in the particular project, and the trustee 3 performs investment recovery management using a ...

07/06/06 - 20060149561 - System and method for jackpot wagering
A jackpot wagering system (1) includes a player terminal (3) operable by a player to place a wager on a number of games of chance a random event generator (8) that generates random events upon which outcomes of the games o chance are based, and a determination facility that determines ...

07/06/06 - 20060149560 - Business application generation system
Systems and methods are disclosed for generating a business software application. In one embodiment, a business application generation system for automatically generating a business software application is provided. The business application generation system may include a central processing unit, a repository containing a set of meta data, a generation tool, ...

06/29/06 - 20060143040 - Icfoundation web site development software and icfoundation biztalk server 2000 integration
A system and method for use in managing a system site for e-commerce. The system accepts user input via a wizard to create objects which function to at least retrieve data from a database and accepts user input via a wizard to create scripts which function to at least convert ...

06/29/06 - 20060143039 - Apparatus for designing and a machine for franking a personalized mail template
The franking machine for franking a mail item comprises: obtain and read means for obtaining and reading a computer file representing a certified personalized mail template, as created by design apparatus, on the basis of a general template and of personalization data for personalizing said general template; and conveyor means ...

06/29/06 - 20060143038 - Method of and system for distributing secure items
A method of and system for distributing secure items, monitoring the distribution process and producing alarms in the event of errors are disclosed. The method comprises the steps of receiving pre-delivery data at a distribution server, the data detailing a plurality of secure items which will be received at a ...

06/29/06 - 20060143037 - System for taking over and operating services and installations at a site
The system for taking over and operating services and installations at a site comprise portable means for collecting data at the site and a central unit comprising a module for analyzing the services and technical installations of the site, a computer-assisted maintenance manager module, and a module for following up ...

06/29/06 - 20060143036 - Facility usage information processing apparatus, method for information processing thereof and portable terminal apparatus
Usage status in a facility is comprehended so that service information such as user waiting times is quickly offered to users and others. This is configured to comprise detection units (antennas) detecting unique information of tickets carried by visitors in areas for keeping the visitors waiting, and a calculation unit ...

06/29/06 - 20060143035 - Semiconductor-integrated device, electronics device using the same, and accounting method concerning the use thereof
Since a semiconductor-integrated device or software that runs on the device is conventionally of a business model to sell it as a component, such device or software does not earn stable profits. In addition, a dynamic reconfigurable processor which dynamically reconfigures a functional cell is capable of realizing a high ...

06/29/06 - 20060143034 - System supported optimization of event resolution
A system being monitored generates alerts directed at participants as events to be resolved occur. As a participant resolves an alerted event, the system logs the steps taken by the participant to resolve the event and stores the event resolution log associated with the event. From that event resolution log, ...

06/29/06 - 20060143033 - Method for providing advanced notification of mailpiece contents
A method for providing mailpiece notification to a mailpiece recipient prior to delivery of the mailpiece from a postal carrier system in which a database is accessible by the postal carrier system that contains a recipient's prescribed mailpiece address information and preferred communication channel for receiving the advanced notification regarding ...

06/29/06 - 20060143032 - Advanced electronic notification for a mailpiece
A system and method for providing mailpiece notification to a mailpiece recipient prior to delivery of the mailpiece from a postal carrier system in which a database is accessible by the postal carrier system that contains a recipient's prescribed mailpiece address information and preferred communication channel for receiving the advanced ...

06/29/06 - 20060143031 - Method and system for dynamic creation of web services
A method (50) of dynamic creation of web services includes exposing (51) a flow of a service being built to other service providers in a network, soliciting (52) for services needed by a flow node of the flow, and enabling (55) other service providers to fill-in the services needed for ...

06/29/06 - 20060143030 - Systems and methods for best-fit allocation in a warehouse environment
In accordance with some embodiments of the invention, an optimal allocation of items to meet a particular order is calculated. The items, then, may be allocated to the order according to the calculated allocation. In one set of embodiments, a procedure may be implemented to allocate items so as to ...

06/29/06 - 20060143029 - System and method for identifying, representing and evaluating information and decision flow requirements and processes in a transactional business system
A system for representing information and decision flow requirements in a transactional business process is provided. The system comprises an information gathering object and a decision object. The information gathering object represents a piece of information used in the transactional business system and the decision object represents a satisfying condition ...

06/29/06 - 20060143028 - Network analysis system and method using business value
A network analysis system and method is disclosed. In one embodiment, the invention includes a method for analyzing a network having a plurality of network links. The method includes determining network subscriber usage associated with each link. A subscriber business value associated with each link is determined. A link business ...

06/29/06 - 20060143027 - Network usage analysis system using subscriber and pricing information to minimize customer churn and method
A network usage analysis system includes a data collector that is coupled to a network. The network has a first and a second network service provider and the first network service provider has a selected subscriber. The data collector collects usage data corresponding to a usage metric for the selected ...

06/29/06 - 20060143026 - Network usage analysis system using cost structure and revenue and method
A network usage analysis system includes a data collector that is coupled to a network comprising a plurality of links over at least one selected geographic area. The data collector collects usage data corresponding to a level of use of the plurality of links, the cost of maintaining the plurality ...

06/29/06 - 20060143025 - Live dissatisfaction alert & management system
A Dissatisfaction Alert and Management System and process for monitoring, Alerting and managing in real time negative Customer Experience's in retail and retail service environments. A system which Alerts clients in real time to poorly scoring pre-defined performance parameters flagged as important to a positive Customer Experience and Satisfaction with ...

06/29/06 - 20060143024 - Methods and systems that calculate a projected utility of information technology recovery plans based on contractual agreements
In at least some embodiments, an apparatus and method may receive parameters of an information technology (IT) infrastructure and formulate one or more IT recovery plans based on the parameters. The apparatus and method may further calculate a projected utility for one or more of the IT recovery plans based ...

06/29/06 - 20060143023 - Questionnaire software module
A software questionnaire module, which is adapted for use online, permits a questionnaire to be electronically distributed, monitors deadlines and effects reminders, when necessary, and automatically collates and distributes results of a questionnaire to relevant users of the module. ...

06/29/06 - 20060143022 - Consumer care management method and system
In the consumer care management system and method of the present invention, a system and method is provided for evaluating the needs of the visually impaired as well as providing a uniform service quality to the consumer through uniform assessments and analyses regardless of the extent of the consumer's impairment. ...

06/29/06 - 20060143021 - Procedure and interactive communication unit for initiating purchase through the internet between a seller and a buyer
The invention relates to a procedure according to the invention for initiating purchase through the Internet between a seller and a buyer, in the course of which the virtual data units of the seller's products and/or services is sent to the buyer's communication unit through a signal forwarding network, and ...

06/29/06 - 20060143020 - Device capable of easily creating and editing a content which can be viewed in three dimensional way
A depth in a z axis direction is set for each figure drawn on a xy plane in an image that includes figures, so that each figure exists in each layer that has been set for each depth in the z axis direction, and thereby, stereoscopic contents are prepared in ...

06/22/06 - 20060136257 - Enterprise based issuance of identification cards
Methods and associated systems for enterprise-wide issuance of identification cards. A single enterprise server component and a plurality of card issuance machine controller components are distributed over an enterprise network. Each card machine controller component controls one or more devices for the production of identification cards including, for example, embossed ...

06/22/06 - 20060136256 - Publish/subscribe messaging system
A broker determines that a publication received from a publisher is transmitted to at least one subscriber. When a publication is received from a publisher, it is determined whether there are any subscribers registered as interested in the received publication. The received publication is retained in storage at least until ...

06/22/06 - 20060136255 - Method and system for metering usage of software products with fast run-time identification
A method (300) for metering usage of software products in a data processing system is proposed. The products to be metered are identified in a global catalogue (325) by means of multiple attributes of a corresponding executable module (340); the verification of these attributes requires accessing the module through its ...

06/22/06 - 20060136254 - System and method for dispatching transportation to persons who want transportation
A system and method for providing for the computer-implemented matching of persons who provide transportation and those who purchase such services, using the position of each party and possibly incorporating variable pricing that takes into consideration supply and demand and traffic. ...

06/22/06 - 20060136253 - Anonymous information system, information registering device and information storing device
An anonymous information system is capable of maintaining anonymity of data while improving safety with regard to loss of anonymity caused by hacking of secret information, or the like. Conversion processing for converting from individual specifying information to anonymous individual information is split between an information providing device and an ...

06/22/06 - 20060136252 - Method for handling and tracking baggage
A method for handling baggage comprises the steps of: (a) collecting at least one piece of baggage from an off-airport site designated by at least one passenger, the collecting being performed by an agent of a commercial shipping business; (b) delivering the collected piece of baggage to an off-airport site; ...

06/22/06 - 20060136251 - System and method for providing electronic business-card service using open service interface
Provided are a system and method for providing an electronic business card service using an open service interface. In the system, a business card information register receives electronic business card information from terminals of presentities who provide an electronic business card, and publishes it on an open service gateway, each ...

06/22/06 - 20060136250 - Method, computer program product and computer system for measuring the impact of a proposed change in an organisation
A computer-based method, a computer program product and a computer system for measuring the impact of a proposed change in an organisation are disclosed. The method comprises the steps of inputting financial data relating to the organisation; inputting human resource data relating to the organisation; inputting data relating to one ...

06/22/06 - 20060136249 - Method for recycling used items
A method for recycling used items, such as automotive parts, includes a manufacturer and a network of service centers that are contractually obligated to return used components to a manufacturer in exchange for warranty payment by the manufacturer. The used items are preferably received by the manufacturer without charge from ...

06/22/06 - 20060136248 - Computer techniques for distributing information
In a representative embodiment, a computerized method provides information to a user and allows electronic communication between the user and selected workers. A list of action items for selectable workers is provided, the listing of action items identifying actionable events according to a plurality of categories. A list of financial ...

06/22/06 - 20060136247 - Sound reproducing apparatus
The sound reproducing apparatus includes a replay section receiving unit that receives a request for reproducing a specific part of sound file from a user, a replay section determining unit that determines a replay section based on the request and conversation structure information stored in a sound data holding unit, ...

06/22/06 - 20060136246 - Hierarchical program guide
Methods and apparatus for implementing a hierarchical content guide. In one implementation, a method of selecting a scheduled content item includes: selecting a first level content item from a first list of content items; selecting a second level content item from a second list of content items, wherein said second ...

06/22/06 - 20060136245 - Methods and systems for applying attention strength, activation scores and co-occurrence statistics in information management
Methods and systems for applying attention strength, activation scores and co-occurrence statistics to information management. Attention strength values used in computing the base activation scores of information items are derived from user interactions with such items. Co-occurrence strength values used in computing associative activation and partial matching scores of information ...

06/22/06 - 20060136244 - Method to dynamically view and update adaptive process document
A computer-implemented method for managing a partially completed dynamic process execution (PCDPE). The PCDPE represents a dynamic process that is partially completed by a user. The method includes ascertaining whether a change has occurred to at least one of a prompt component and a response component associated with the dynamic ...

06/22/06 - 20060136243 - Apparatus and method for administering a scholastic application program
The invention is an apparatus and method for administering a scholastic application program. An electronic transcript of a candidate is received by a clearinghouse from a school. The candidate selects one or more institutions and instructs the clearinghouse to transmit the electronic transcript to the institutions for the purpose of ...

06/22/06 - 20060136242 - Documents between services exchange and visualization of negotiation
A system, method and program product usable in a computer network in which a first service on a first node is seeking connection to a second service on a second node. A system is provided for the exchange and visualization of negotiation documents between the services when one of the ...

06/22/06 - 20060136241 - Method and system for work scheduling on calendars
A method of and system for handling allocation of task work to resources with flexibly configured availability contours (work calendars) is disclosed. The method includes defining one or more base calendars, a resource calendar associated with each resource, wherein the resource calendar inherits from a base calendar. A calendar reader, ...

06/22/06 - 20060136240 - System and method for assessing and improving the extent of diversity in business organizations
A system and method of evaluating and enhancing diversity of an entity utilizes employee responses, entity self-assessment responses and relevant objective data to determine a rating indicative of a current level of diversity. The responses and data can be analyzed to determine steps to be taken to enhance the current ...

06/22/06 - 20060136239 - Method for recycling used items
A method for recycling used items, such as automotive parts, includes a manufacturer and a network of service centers that are obligated to return defective, worn out, broken, or otherwise used components to a manufacturer/franchisor in exchange for warranty payment by the manufacturer. The used items are preferably received by ...

06/22/06 - 20060136238 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for monitoring compliance in reporting unclaimed property
Methods, apparatus and computer program products are provided for monitoring compliance in reporting unclaimed property. The method is capable of identifying both potential non-reporters and potential under-reporters. In this regard, potential under-reporters may be identified as a result of a multilevel review that may take into account the recent reporting ...

06/22/06 - 20060136237 - Method and system for anticipatory package shipping
A method and system for anticipatory package shipping are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method may include packaging one or more items as a package for eventual shipment to a delivery address, selecting a destination geographical area to which to ship the package, shipping the package to the destination ...

06/22/06 - 20060136236 - Systems and methods for providing a digital image and disposition of a delivered good
Systems and methods are disclosed for determining the disposition of a shipped good, such as a car, damaged during transit. After the damage is detected, a digital image of the is obtained. The image is uploaded to a server typically along with the vehicle identification number and/or other identification data. ...

06/22/06 - 20060136235 - Dynamic grid paths
A system, method, data structure, and computer-readable medium for processing a command entered into a command processor interface in a data processing system. In accordance with the method of the present invention, a command is entered by a user into a command processor interface input line. A command path specified ...

06/22/06 - 20060136234 - System and method for planning the establishment of a manufacturing business
A method for planning the establishment of a business comprising the steps of providing partner characteristic information representing objective representations of characteristics of potential partners, providing location characteristic information representing objective representations of characteristics of potential business locations providing a minimum profit desired for the operation of said business, determining ...

06/22/06 - 20060136233 - Vpn communication control device, communication control method in vpn, and virtual dedicated network management device
VPNID which is an information for identifying each of VPN is added to each link information which is formed by categorizing a link information in a common DB for each VPN to which the link information relates. The link information for the same VPNID is extracted from the link information ...

06/22/06 - 20060136232 - Selection method for distributing options to target points
The information carriers 1 allocate confidence values 2 for which figures are exemplarily shown in FIG. 1 to sets of criteria 3 according to their preferences. In this respect, each information carrier 1 can allocate a certain number of confidence values 2. These sets of criteria are associated with options ...

06/22/06 - 20060136231 - System and method for conducting residential financing transactions
As provided by the exemplary method described herein, a single-asset trust would be established by the originator, as settlor, naming a special purpose entity as the trustee. The trust would be subject to the terms of a written indenture designed for this specific purpose which would be used generically by ...

06/22/06 - 20060136230 - Position budgeting and control system
The technical field of this invention is in the area of electronic data processing. More particularly, the invention relates to methods, computer program products and systems for evaluating human resource budgets and controlling human resource budgets. ...

06/15/06 - 20060129424 - Cross language advertising
Disclosed is a method and system for providing cross language advertising service over the Internet. In one preferred embodiment, while a user is performing a cross language search on the Internet, she receives the search results and concurrently receives one or more advertisements in her input language which are relevant ...

06/15/06 - 20060129423 - Vehicle lead generation system using byer criteria
The invention is directed to a system for generating a lead by determining an estimated for a vehicle. The system may receive vehicle identifying information; receive seller identifying information; receive information for a sample of vehicles of the same make and model as the vehicle; determine a value for vehicle ...

06/15/06 - 20060129422 - Method for creating an on-line leads marketplace by automatically submitting contact information in a standard electronic format
A method is presented for creating an on-line leads marketplace by capturing contact information and transmitting it electronically to an on-line leads marketplace. Contact information from visitors to websites or registrants to Podcasts or RSS feeds is electronically submitted to an on-line leads marketplace in a standard format, where it ...

06/15/06 - 20060129421 - Business method for novel ideas and inventions evaluation and commercialization
A novel business method of novel ideas, inventions and scientific proposals evaluation and commercialization is suggested. A private, government or universities supported (virtual from the very beginning) an Internet connected agency (entity) open for every scientist has to be created. Every scientist can submit his IIPs to the agency and ...

06/15/06 - 20060129420 - Method providing asset protection by specifying location, recipients of information and terms for the release of information
The invention provides a system and method for individuals to protect their assets and important documents. The method includes a safe keeping institution providing three forms for the user to complete and return. One form entitled “Location” allows the individual to record the location of the individual's assets and important ...

06/15/06 - 20060129419 - Coupling of a business component model to an information technology model
A method for managing a business. At least one relationship is determined between N business components (B1, B2, . . . , BN) and respective N costs (C1, C2, . . . , CN) and respective N values (V1, V2, . . . , VN) pertaining to the N business ...

06/15/06 - 20060129418 - Method and apparatus for analyzing functionality and test paths of product line using a priority graph
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for analyzing functionality and test paths of product line using a priority graph. The apparatus includes: a parser for analyzing a use case scenario expressed in a text format, in a unit of word to separate a word from the analyzed ...

06/15/06 - 20060129417 - Systems and methods for logo design
Systems and methods for interactively designing a logo present a list of desired characteristics to be conveyed by the logo, and allows the user to select from among the desired characteristics, such as image and/or type of industry. A group of symbols are presented to the user based on the ...

06/15/06 - 20060129416 - Sale of footwear by subscription
A user enters into a subscription to receive footwear having one or more specified performance characteristics. As the user finishes wearing one set of footwear, the user can obtain a replacement set of footwear that also will have one or more specified performance characteristics. The performance characteristics may be consistent ...

06/15/06 - 20060129415 - System for linking financial asset records with networked assets
A computer system to reconcile hard assets carried on the financial data reporting computer systems of a corporation or government entity with actual inventory assets discovered on the networks of said entity. Automatic discovery of inventory assets is performed by executing scripts specified in fingerprints of the types of machines ...

06/15/06 - 20060129414 - Transaction control arrangement for device management system
The invention relates to a method for arranging transaction control in a device management system. A required transaction control operation is defined in a managing device for arranging transaction control of a management task for a managed device. At least one device management command is defined for the transaction control ...

06/15/06 - 20060129413 - Power plant life assessment
A method of evaluating a power plant having a design life based on operating the plant within an allowable chemical exposure range includes accumulating a history of a chemical exposure of a steam generating portion of the power plant (e.g., 10). The method also includes determining a remaining life of ...

06/15/06 - 20060129412 - Technology budget manager for mobile employees
An automated system and method for budgeting technology expenses for an individual based on an objective standard, wherein the system comprises a database comprising a list of technologies used by the individual; a controller connected to the database, the controller being adapted to establish a monetary budget allotment for the ...

06/15/06 - 20060129411 - Method and system for cosmetics consulting using a transmitted image
Embodiments of the present invention recite a system for providing product consulting using a transmitted image. In one embodiment, the present invention comprises an image capture device for capturing an image of a user and a reference color set. In embodiments of the present invention, the image capture device does ...

06/08/06 - 20060122862 - Processing payment on the internet
A method of operating a computer on a network of computers for the purpose of collecting payments due a remote computer on the network (such as the Internet). The method for payment processing includes the steps of: receiving the customer's account data and amount data; establishing an authorization indicia; and, ...

06/08/06 - 20060122861 - Corporate introduction system and method
Corporate introductions are based on data on event attendees, with whom introductions will be made. From the information relating to attendees, a group of sponsors is identified and a schedule of introductions at a corporate introduction event is produced. Dynamic scheduling and introduction changes can be implemented at the event, ...

06/08/06 - 20060122860 - Method of producing a paint film part
Methods for producing decorative laminate composites are described. The method includes the owner of intellectual property covering the use and manufacture of paint film technology selectively licensing the technology to various automotive component suppliers and manufacturers. In this manner, the total number of suppliers in the supply chain can be ...

06/08/06 - 20060122859 - Communities of practice environment
Methods and apparatus, including systems and computer program products, for implementing environments that provide user groups with the ability to post, discuss, and manage group content, and the ability to organize and make group decisions, based on the content of documents. One method includes managing documents according to a respective ...

06/08/06 - 20060122858 - Item management systems and associated methods
The present invention is directed generally toward item management systems and associated methods. Aspects of the invention are directed toward receiving items, inducting the items into the item management system and storing the items. In certain embodiments, inducting the item can include imaging at least a portion of the item ...

06/08/06 - 20060122857 - Computer systems, methods, computer models, and computer software for enhancing a customer list for a targeted marketing campaign
Various computer systems, methods, computer models, and computer software are provided for enhancing a customer list for a targeted marketing campaign. One embodiment is a computer system comprising: a data storage device comprising: a customer list comprising customer information for a plurality of customers; and a survey results database for ...

06/08/06 - 20060122856 - System and method for enabling consumers to add personal charitable contributions and transfer the right to designate a beneficiary to other consumers
A method for enabling registered consumers to direct matching charitable contributions donated by a plurality of program partners to a plurality of designated beneficiaries through a directed giving service provider based on consumer purchases during a predetermined purchase period. The method also enables registered consumers to donate their own funds, ...

06/08/06 - 20060122855 - Identifying and locating eligible wic items in a store
A method, computer program product and system for identifying and locating items, e.g., eligible WIC items, in a store. A shopping device, such as one located on a shopping cart, may obtain a WIC participant's personalized food package that was stored on a smart card provided to the WIC participant. ...

06/08/06 - 20060122854 - System and method for generating warranty and pricing information for data storage apparatus
Embodiments of the present invention provide a system and a method for generating warranty and pricing information for one or more data storage apparatuses. In one embodiment, a system for processing status parameters of one or more data storage apparatuses comprises at least one host system configured to retrieve one ...

06/08/06 - 20060122853 - System and method for managing supplier contracts
According to one embodiment, a method of managing supplier contracts includes receiving a request for assistance on a contract from a requester, the request including a plurality of data, automatically associating a request number with the request, and automatically notifying, based on at least some of the data, a contract ...

06/08/06 - 20060122852 - System and method for delivery of goods ordered via the internet
The system and method for delivery of goods ordered via the Internet utilizes a delivery box having a front door with an electronic lock and electronic key reader for receipt of goods ordered via the Internet. Goods are shipped in a transport box having an interior space and a device ...

06/08/06 - 20060122851 - Method and system for communicating delivery information in a mail distribution system
A method and system facilitating the delivery of a mailpiece in a mail distribution system. The method includes the steps of: (i) reading a mailpiece identifier, disposed in combination with the mailpiece, upon initial mailpiece processing, (ii) developing tracking information corresponding to various mailpiece processing activities in the mail distribution ...

06/08/06 - 20060122850 - Real-time professional services facilitator system and method
A method and system enabling users to access a plurality of professional service providers and knowledge experts to engage their services in real-time over the global computer networks and mobile phones. Prior to scheduling a session, the user has the option to bid on the services of a provider or ...

06/08/06 - 20060122849 - Technique evaluating device, technique evaluating program, and technique evaluating method
There is disclosed a technical information evaluating device for determining whether an objective technique such as of intangible assets of a target company is a new technology or not by making use of easily available technical literatures disclosing the technical information of the objective technique. The technical evaluating device of ...

06/08/06 - 20060122848 - Information processing method and information processing apparatus
As a preferred embodiment, an information processing method of distributing across a network a control program for controlling a network device to a client apparatus for managing the network device, comprising, a designation step of designating range information for searching for a network device connected to the network, and a ...

06/08/06 - 20060122847 - Method for paying a user fee proposed by a service provider
The invention relates to a method for paying a user fee proposed by a service provider by means of the terminal of a service user. The inventive method consists in calculating a payable amount with the aid of a billing device and in paying the payable amount by the bank ...

06/08/06 - 20060122846 - Apparatus and method for providing traffic information
A system and method for providing traffic information is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method comprises, for each segment of a route between an origin point and a destination point, performing a time-dependent journey planning calculation, based on a time during which a vehicle is predicted to be travelling through ...

06/08/06 - 20060122845 - Method and apparatus for the analysis of complex systems
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for the analysis, particularly, of computing systems. The invention implements an architecture based analysis. The architecture of the system to be analysed is first of all modelled, using a hierarchical model comprising Connections, Components, and other entities. The modelling requires the ...

06/08/06 - 20060122844 - Accelerated transmission of hypertext documents
When a HTML page is requested, an indicator is set by a browser and is used to enable the server to send back an archive, in the place of the HTML page, which is unpacked by the browser in the cache. The archive contains, for example, the images which are ...

06/08/06 - 20060122843 - Electronic customs release slip (e-crs)
A computer controlled system and method of using the system for control of shipping a quantity of product either domestically or internationally. The system comprises a number of user input stations for entering a shipping request. Product release information stored in the computer is added to the request which is ...

06/01/06 - 20060116901 - Information providing method, recording medium, and server
An information providing method comprises the step of detecting a predetermined operation on first information displayed on a client terminal, the step of detecting a predetermined operation on second information displayed on the client terminal, the step of generating comparative information by comparing the first and second information when the ...

06/01/06 - 20060116900 - Method and system to enable, to organize, to facilitate, and to transact communications for a fee or cost born by a sender party (also known as a caller party) utilizing a network such as the internet
The present invention is a method and system for enabling, organizing, and facilitating the transmission of communication for a fee or cost over a network such as the Internet. ...

06/01/06 - 20060116899 - Apparatus and methods for processing items
Apparatus and methods for processing assets in a lockable container are disclosed. A decoupler receives information from the container or the asset in the container. The container may be associated with a security status, and the item may be associated with a processing status. The decoupler may move the container ...

06/01/06 - 20060116898 - Interactive risk management system and method with reputation risk management
An interactive risk management system and method using reputation risk reduction and an impact measurement analysis matrix are used for a business or other organization to generate a graphic display to the user, through the browser, to display a mapping of processes used in conducting the business or the affairs ...

06/01/06 - 20060116897 - Server borrowing apparatus allocating server to user group and computer product therefor
A server borrowing apparatus, includes a storing unit that stores lender installation setting information which includes a setting item determined by a server lender for installation of a server which is lent out as resource, a receiving unit that receives a request to lend out the server as the resource ...

06/01/06 - 20060116896 - User-maintained contact information data system
There is provided a method and system to maintain published contact information. The system includes a storage facility to store contact information of a first entity at the system. The system further includes an interface to electronically publish, via a communications network, the contact information of the first entity to ...

06/01/06 - 20060116895 - Business method for preserving the value of business assets
A business method for preserving the value of business assets, and more particularly, the value of assets that are subject to associated license agreements. ...

06/01/06 - 20060116894 - Talent management and career management system
A multi-purpose talent management and career management system for connecting buyers and sellers of talent, directly or via intermediaries such as recruiters, through the use of visual and persistent talent pools. Individual hiring managers and recruiters can create and manage their own talent pools of highly attractive active and passive ...

06/01/06 - 20060116893 - Apparatus and method of collecting and monitoring shipment data
A system is described for colleting and monitoring shipment data, wherein one or more service providers can enter into the system shipment data that is indicative of the attributes of a plurality of customer shipments as one or more customers forwards at least one customer shipment through a shipment-cycle. The ...

06/01/06 - 20060116892 - Mobile telecommunications billing routing system and method
A system and method of enabling a transaction by a remote user for a service having an associated access number is described. The present invention enables a mobile user to pay for services and/or goods using their mobile telephone. A routing system is provided that is adapted to select the ...

06/01/06 - 20060116891 - Method for using an electromagnetic scratchcard to provide services
The invention pertains to a system and a method for using an electromagnetic scratchcard (1) to provide services between a terminal (6) accessible to a service customer and an infrastructure. The system comprises a network (7) and a server (8) of a service provider, whereby an activation code (3) is ...

06/01/06 - 20060116890 - Electronic apparatus, method for controlling functions of the apparatus and server
An electronic apparatus, having functions on which use limitations can be imposed, in which a variety of functions are loaded on the electronic apparatus by hardware circuitry or by computer programs. Use of a certain function(s) is limited by setting a function limiting flag to “1”, provided that an other ...

06/01/06 - 20060116889 - Fax order acceptance/order settling system
It is an object of the present invention to provide a FAX order receiving and placing settlement system, which is cheap and simple, and has high security, wherein, when order acceptance and placement for purchase goods are performed by using facsimile, settlement of account is performed automatically, thereby eliminating the ...

06/01/06 - 20060116888 - Method and device for the transmission of notifications
The disclosure relates to a method for the transmission of notifications wherein data from at least one data bank are transmitted to a central dispatch center, converted there into notification information, and the notification information transmitted to a communication interface and from the communication interface onto one or several receiver ...

06/01/06 - 20060116887 - Balance management system
A system for enabling a user to simply and precisely grasp various information on balances occurring in one or more processes. The balance management system comprises a server (100) and is provided with a DB (information management means) (110), information acquiring means (120), information updating means (130), and information providing ...

05/25/06 - 20060111932 - System and method for defining occupational-specific skills associated with job positions
A method includes identifying a plurality of tasks associated with at least one job position. The method also includes grouping the plurality of tasks into one or more groups. Each group includes at least one of the identified tasks. The method further includes identifying, for each of the one or ...

05/25/06 - 20060111931 - Method for the use of and interaction with business system transfer functions
A method for using and interacting with mathematical or algorithmic business system transfer functions in support of a business information, analysis, decisioning and control system. The method includes developing at least one high-level business system view wherein the transfer function is configured to quantitatively express the business system view; identifying ...

05/25/06 - 20060111930 - Automated refund process
A method and system to provide aggregate transit time. In one embodiment, the method, which may be performed by a system, comprises receiving information identifying a shipping destination; and in response to the information, providing data related to on-time performance for one or more shipping vendors providing shipping services to ...

05/25/06 - 20060111929 - Method and system for optimizing use of shipping containers
A network-based application enables participants to “street-turn” or “road-turn” ocean containers amongst themselves with ease and minimal liability exposure. A database that includes both static and dynamic memory is provided for storing information relating to each container. By interfacing with this database, participants may search for specific criteria relating to ...

05/25/06 - 20060111928 - Customer specific catalogs based on a set of standard catalogs
Customer specific catalogs based on a set of standard catalogs are described. In one aspect, a computer-readable medium includes computer-program-instructions executable by a processor. The computer-program instructions are for implementing an application programming interface (API) to design and/or maintain an electronic catalog that is based on one or more base ...

05/25/06 - 20060111927 - System, method and program for estimating risk of disaster in infrastructure
Method, system and computer program for estimating risk of a future disaster of an infrastructure. Times of previous, respective disasters of the infrastructure are identified. Respective severities of the previous disasters are determined. Risk of a future disaster of the infrastructure is estimated by determining a relationship between the previous ...

05/25/06 - 20060111926 - Realizing legally binding business contracts through service management models
Methods and apparatus for managing business interactions between opposing parties. Business interactions are mapped to service contracts. The service contracts are mapped to machine readable code. The machine readable code is defined by business transaction patterns and service interaction patterns. The machine readable code is consumed by an IT system. ...

05/25/06 - 20060111925 - Method and system for tool management
The method and system tool management. Tools are classified as either material tools or equipment tools. Tools are reserved via generation of a use reservation indicating when a user will obtain and use the tool and a return reservation indicating when a user will return the tool. The present invention ...

05/25/06 - 20060111924 - Method and system for warranty claim processing
A method and system for processing a warranty claim generated on the basis of a service order. A warranty relating to the service order is checked. On the basis of the data included in the service order, warranty data is found and a determination is made as to whether a ...

05/25/06 - 20060111923 - System and a method for selecting a property based on prioritized criteria of a purchaser
A method and a system for using a computer network to select a list of available properties based on prioritized criteria of a potential purchaser are provided. The method and the system use a computer network to evaluate and/or to weigh criteria prioritized by the purchaser. The computer network matches ...

05/25/06 - 20060111922 - Home planner system
A method of preparing a customized house plan includes providing a single interface menu that includes an image of a floor plan, itemized floor plan options, and more than one option of an elevation view for a selected house plan, modifying the image of the floor plan based on the ...

05/25/06 - 20060111921 - Method and apparatus of on demand business activity management using business performance management loops
An architecture, system, and method are provided for a commitment loop solution for on demand business activity management. A Business Performance Management (BPM) loop is defined as a set of nodes each relating to different tasks for processing performance management trigger data generated by a business entity in real time, ...

05/25/06 - 20060111920 - Method of generating post-delivery revenue and recording post-delivery activity associated with preloaded inactivated resident applications
A system for generating a post-sale revenue receivable based upon a remote activation of a preloaded inactivated core application. The system also includes incorporating the preloaded inactivated core application in an integrated circuit chip. The system also includes generating a post-sale revenue receivable based upon a remote activation of a ...

05/18/06 - 20060106638 - System and method for defining occupational-specific skills associated with job posistions
A method includes identifying a plurality of tasks associated with at least one type of work. The method also includes grouping the plurality of tasks into one or more groups. Each group includes at least one of the identified tasks. The method further includes identifying, for each of the one ...

05/18/06 - 20060106637 - Business system decisioning framework
A business system decisioning framework for using and interacting with a business system transfer function is presented. The framework includes a high-level business system transfer function that quantitatively describes the operation of the business system. A primary display layer presents a representation of the status of the operation of the ...

05/18/06 - 20060106636 - Internet-based job placement system for creating proposals for screened and pre-qualified participants
The present automated job placement system uses a multi-step process, with advanced screening and pre-qualification of candidates and positions, to match qualified prospective employees with job openings. The system supports two types of participant match processes that involve participants acting simultaneously. One match process involves prospective employees offering proposals for ...

05/18/06 - 20060106635 - Emission remediation
An emission remediation system and methods are disclosed. An emission remediation indicator associated with an emission-related activity is vended. At least a portion of proceeds from the vending of remediation indicators is aggregated into a fund. A remediation activity by an emission producer is funded using the aggregate fund. ...

05/18/06 - 20060106634 - System and method of vehicle upfit
A vehicle upfit configurator tool is made available to customers purchasing one or more of a vehicle upfit and an upfitted vehicle. Also, human assistance relating to use of the configurator tool is made available to the customers. Further, one or more of vehicles, vehicle upfitting components, and vehicle upfitting ...

05/18/06 - 20060106633 - Real-time online commerce system
A real-tine online commerce system is disclosed. Such a system provides protection and security for the middleman and efficiency for the customer while keeping the ultimate manufacturer invisible and anonymous. ...

05/18/06 - 20060106632 - Method and system for financing home ownership
A method and system of financing real estate ownership involving forming a title holder entity to own equity in each property, forming a pooling entity to own most of the title holding entity, the pooling entity owned by the general public directly or through equity pools, screening applicants to determine ...

05/18/06 - 20060106631 - Social preference and occupation tag system
A system and method to create and define a universally identifiable icon which may be employed by a individual as a way to visually display one's interest in having a specific social relationship, whether it be romantic or platonic in nature, by means of displaying one's common interest, participation, affiliation ...

05/18/06 - 20060106630 - Utilization of visual auxiliary inspection devices for vehicle servicing system and method
A utilization of visual auxiliary inspection devices for vehicle servicing system and method, with an image take-up and recorder sensing head of a visual inspection device to display the image on a liquid crystal display, capable of using a digital multimedia audiovisual storage facility and the Internet or directly providing ...

05/18/06 - 20060106629 - Record transfer
Record transfer is described herein. The record transfer may include receiving a request over a network from a record owner to transfer a record from a record holder to a recipient. In one embodiment, the request is sent over the network to the record holder. A first version of the ...

05/18/06 - 20060106628 - Centralized system and method for notifying occupant of completion of home showing
Methods and systems for facilitating sale of a home in which an occupant is absent are provided. A resident communications system is installed at the home. Upon completion of a showing at the home by a real estate agent, a signal is transmitted from the resident communication system. The signal ...

05/18/06 - 20060106627 - Integrated idea management method and software with protection mechanism
An idea management system for a company or other entity is implemented in a computer network that can be accessed from employee work sites. The system has a pre-defined workflow and built in security process. Submitters of ideas and those authorized to review the submission are electronically notified about the ...

05/18/06 - 20060106626 - Method and apparatus of model driven business solution monitoring and control
A model-driven approach is used in Business Solution Monitoring and Control environment. The solution is first described by the high level abstract Platform Independent Model (PIM), which is independent from platform and implementation technologies. This PIM is presented as a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) that is constructed by a series ...

05/18/06 - 20060106625 - System and method for coordinating real estate transactions through a global communications network
A system and method to facilitate real estate transactions over a global communications network. The system includes a listings database to store information of real estate to be sold, a registration module to obtain qualifying information from a potential buyer, a system processing module to qualify a potential buyer to ...

05/18/06 - 20060106624 - System and method for providing home remodeling services
A system for providing home remodeling comprising at least one computer connected to a network, and at least one database connected to the network, wherein the at least one database comprises approved contractors, approved homeowners, projects submitted by the approved homeowners, and bids for projects, wherein the bids are placed ...

05/18/06 - 20060106623 - Interactive printed page optical code data access system and method
An interactive wide area computer network system and method for accessing and transmitting data using a printed page optical code. The code includes a system configuration mode identifier which configures the system to perform specified functions and allow the user certain interactive options. Based of the configuration mode and the ...

05/18/06 - 20060106622 - Method for obtaining traffic information using billing information of mobile terminal
The present invention relates to a method for obtaining traffic information using the billing information of a mobile terminal. A specified number of a mobile terminal is obtained from billing information necessary for performing a billing operation when a telephone call is made using the mobile terminal on a highway ...

05/18/06 - 20060106621 - Cipher information-containing material, its identifying method, and its identifying system
A material for preventing forgery and false alteration. The material comprises a particulate information presenting substance. The information presenting substance is one or more elements, a compound of two or more elements, or a substance containing the elements or compounds. The fluorescence emitted from the substance is different depending on ...

05/11/06 - 20060100898 - Method for booking and scheduling actors for projects using a computer network
A method for creating and storing actor profiles in a computer database which may then be searched by producers seeking to cast background or extra roles for projects. The actor profiles are detailed, including all desired physical appearance data, typically including a headshot or bodyshot, which may be used by ...

05/11/06 - 20060100897 - System for assessing and improving social responsibility of a business
The invention pertains to a system for assessing the level of social responsibility of a business and for monitoring improvements using the assessed level as a baseline. The system includes a self-assessment testing method which establishes a score or “grade” indicative of the level of social responsibility of the business ...

05/11/06 - 20060100896 - Web based restaurant management
A method and system for providing an online marketplace for registered buyers making frequently recurring purchases of multiple products or services simultaneously from multiple sellers is described. The invention is particularly useful for smaller companies that purchase a large number of different items on a weekly, twice-weekly, or other frequent ...

05/11/06 - 20060100895 - Method for providing digital payload data
A method for providing digital payload data is provided wherein payload data (PD) belonging to a copyright owner (CO) are provided from an intermediate customer (CO) to a final customer (FC) upon a payload payment (PP) by said final customer (FC) to said copyright owner (CO). According to the present ...

05/11/06 - 20060100894 - Method and system for generating qualified sales leads for off-site third party vendors
Generation of qualified sales leads and market research data comprises use of an interactive device at a first commercial location by a customer of a particular vendor. Customer information is input into the interactive device and that information can be—but need not be—related with a pre-existing record of information about ...

05/11/06 - 20060100893 - System and method for managing imaged freight documents
A system and method for managing imaged documents includes a manager computer with a scanner and a database connected thereto. The manager computer includes a program for managing the imaged documents. Information within one or more predetermined zones within an imaged document is read and compared against a database of ...

05/11/06 - 20060100892 - System and method for neighborhood affinity based online environments
A system, method, and computer program product are provided that implement integrated on-line solution for related users (business or otherwise) of a NAF neighborhood the ability to interact with each other and automate and keep track of such interactions. In one embodiment, users/members of a NAF EC can enter requests/offers ...

05/11/06 - 20060100891 - System and method for pricing products and maintenance /administration service cost
An assisting system for pricing products and maintenance/administration service costs is provided which includes: a project data storing section for storing data regarding business contents; a task requirement defining section for decomposition into task units for which risks can be individually assessed based on data regarding contents of the complex ...

05/11/06 - 20060100890 - Evaluation of a business case baesd on the cost of poor process opportunities
Evaluation of a business case based on the cost of poor process opportunities. In at least some embodiments, an evaluation of a cost of poor process opportunity (COPPO) in an “as-is” process can include calculating a cost per step for each of the plurality of steps or tasks in an ...

05/11/06 - 20060100889 - Customer-hosted automated configuration catalog
A system and method allows a purchaser to configure products for one or more products. The method includes receiving a data file, incorporating the data file into a procurement system of the purchaser, and configuring the products using the data file, the products including non-commodity products configurable according to business ...

05/11/06 - 20060100888 - System for managing identification information via internet and method of providing service using the same
The present invention relates to a system for managing user identity information via the Internet and a method of providing a service using the same. The identity information managing system including: an electronic identification certificate issuing device for issuing an electronic identification certificate to authenticate and secure a user identity ...

05/11/06 - 20060100887 - Apparatus, system, and method for a motion based business decision
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for making a motion based business decision. A motion module senses a component of motion such as acceleration or a derivative of acceleration. A log module calculates a motion summary from the motion component and stores the motion summary in a memory module. ...

05/11/06 - 20060100886 - Telematics service method
A telematics service method comprising the steps of: monitoring vehicle location; inferring vehicle title transfer from the monitored vehicle location, wherein the monitoring and inferring steps are performed autonomously in the vehicle. ...

05/04/06 - 20060095293 - Method and system for providing and using ticket
A method and system for providing a ticket to a user using a portable terminal and using the provided ticket are provided. The method for providing a ticket involves a server capable of issuing the ticket and a ticket issuer issuing the ticket requested to be issued by the portable ...

05/04/06 - 20060095292 - Conditional rate modelling
A system for generating a model of unknown values of several rate series at specified times includes a computing device configured to receive input indicative of the parametric model type of the unconditional rate dynamics; receive input indicative of a known or unknown rate value for each rate series and ...

05/04/06 - 20060095291 - System and method for authenticating users for secure mobile electronic transactions
A method for authenticating a wireless device on a secure network includes transmitting a first communication from the wireless device to the network. The first communication includes an application code selected according to a type of the wireless device. A second communication is transmitted from the network to the wireless ...

05/04/06 - 20060095290 - System and method for authenticating users for secure mobile electronic gaming
A method for authenticating a wireless device on a secure network includes transmitting a first communication from the wireless device to the network. The first communication includes an application code selected according to a type of the wireless device. A second communication is transmitted from the network to the wireless ...

05/04/06 - 20060095289 - Warranty tracking systems and methods
A warranty tracking system associates products and/or their sub-components with warranties and/or guarantees on them, and with the consumer who owns the product. When the consumer needs to investigate whether a warranty claim can be made on the product, the system provides information on the warranty, and optionally can provide ...

05/04/06 - 20060095288 - Transaction network
The systems, methods, and software of the present subject matter utilize data translation objects in translating data between trading partner specific data formats and a general data format. Each trading partner creates a data translation object for translating data to and from their proprietary formats to the general format. Upon ...

05/04/06 - 20060095287 - Interaction between service providers and customers
A document is described which has on it both printed information and a memory tag. The memory tag is a transponder device with a memory for storing digital content. The memory contains information relating to the progression of a transaction between a customer and a service provider. ...

05/04/06 - 20060095286 - Rental service server and rental service system
A rental service server includes a storage unit and search unit. The storage unit stores rental product information containing rental product identification information and at least one feature information, rental information containing information representing whether a rental product has been rented, and reservation information containing information representing whether the rental ...

05/04/06 - 20060095285 - Manipulation of information embedded in content
System and method involving the manipulation of information that may be embedded in content in a variety of ways and for a number of reasons, such as for protecting the embedded content from unauthorized users. Additionally, application program interfaces are disclosed that expose one or more methods relating to encoding ...

05/04/06 - 20060095284 - System and method for saving the rainforests
The destruction of the rainforests in the last decades has become the biggest crime against humanity and against nature and against other entire species of animals, and also the biggest irreversible folly of the late 20th century and beginning of the 21st. Various statistics show that at the current rate ...

05/04/06 - 20060095283 - Servicer linkage system, portfolio generation support system, portfolio generation support method, relay computer and recording medium
Provided are a servicer linkage system, a portfolio generation support system, a portfolio generation support method, a relay computer and recording medium storing a computer program capable of deciding an appropriate combination of financial products and specifying the trading order thereof. A relay computer connected with dealer computers and a ...

05/04/06 - 20060095282 - Method and system for displaying prioritization of metric values
A computing system, method, and computer program product display a plurality of metric values by forming a plurality of cells within a two-dimensional array and generating and displaying, within the plurality of cells, an indication of mutual importance for a set of metric values associated with two entities. The two ...

05/04/06 - 20060095281 - Systems and methods for estimating click-through-rates of content items on a rendered page
Systems and methods for determining the value of bids placed by content providers for placement positions on a page, e.g., a web page, rendered according to a given context, for instance, the search results listing for a particular query initiated on a search engine web site, are provided. Additionally, systems ...

05/04/06 - 20060095280 - Method and apparatus for paying for printing materials in a printer over the usage time of a printer cartridge
An improved printing system is provided in which the toner or ink printing material is paid for in portions of a the total amount contained in an ink or toner cartridge. Only a portion of the printing material is authorized for use when the cartridge is new, and further amounts ...

05/04/06 - 20060095279 - Network support for post office box mail deposit notification
Embodiments of the method and system provide for notifying a post office box renter when mail is available for pickup. The method in an embodiment may have the steps of: detecting at least one mail item in a post office box; sending a signal indicative of the mail item being ...

05/04/06 - 20060095278 - Evaluating worker initiative in a work system
A method is provided for evaluating worker initiative. The method includes receiving a response to a questionnaire from a person. The questionnaire includes a plurality of questions related to a worker initiative characteristic. The questions include: whether the person determines when to start working on a task; whether another person ...

05/04/06 - 20060095277 - Tracking system
Provided is a tracking system preferably utilized to track bus passengers as they travel. Identifying information is contained in cards carried by the passengers, and scanned upon entry or exit of a bus. The information may be transmitted to a base station and validated in real time to ensure that ...

05/04/06 - 20060095276 - Role-oriented development environment
This invention relates to a business application development and execution environment that recognizes and supports various development and user roles. Aspects of the method and system are adapted to builders, assemblers, power users and end users. ...

05/04/06 - 20060095275 - Method and structure for implementing b2b trading partner boarding
A computerized method (and structure) of implementing a business-to-business (B2B) boarding process includes providing a set of questions related to the B2B boarding process to a new business to be boarded into an existing B2B system. ...

05/04/06 - 20060095274 - Execution engine for business processes
An execution engine is disclosed for executing business processes. An executable object model is generated for a business process document. Executable object models of business processes are assigned to virtual processors. ...

05/04/06 - 20060095273 - Method , a system and a generator of a script for routing a script-oriented dialog between an operator of a call center and a customer
A system (6) arranged to route a dialog between an operator of a call center and a customer. Said system comprising a communication script (44) arranged to follow a scenario corresponding to a customer's case by means of presenting a plurality of messages to the operator. Said system further comprising ...

05/04/06 - 20060095272 - System for ordering, tracking and payment of goods and services
A management interface hub mediating between a procurer of goods or services and providers of goods or services, wherein communication between said interface hub and said providers is via any one of a selection of communication methods. ...

05/04/06 - 20060095271 - Research development technology transfer method,program, and recording medium
Matching between seeds of technology developed and needs required by an enterprise is found and the technology as the study result is transferred. A processing unit discloses technology seeds information including a study/development plan, study result, expected result, study cost, balance, and the like via a communication network. Upon reception ...

05/04/06 - 20060095270 - Brand/generic classification system
A method and system for categorizing a medical or a pharmaceutical product. The method includes determining an originator indicator for the product (220), determining a-patent status (240), determining a tradename indicator for the product (250), and categorizing the product (260) as a branded product or a generic product, using the ...

04/27/06 - 20060089852 - Production system and production method
To provide a product development and manufacturing system to be used in the increasingly competitive electronic equipment market, which enables the process from product planning to design, manufacturing, and sales of a product to be performed efficiently while incorporating newly developed techniques, to thereby minimize or avoid risks. The present ...

04/27/06 - 20060089851 - Informing consumers about carbon usage based on purchases
A method of processing financial data may include determining if a relationship exists between a particular item of said financial data and a quantifiable quality-related characteristic. It may further include generating data quantifying usage of the quality-related characteristic based on a particular item of financial data. ...

04/27/06 - 20060089850 - Method of conducting a blackjack-like game
The player places an initial wager and a target sum game, such as blackjack, is played by dealing an initial hand to the player and at least one card to a dealer. If the player has obtained a qualifying initial hand, the player is rewarded according to a pay table ...

04/27/06 - 20060089849 - Product definition system
A data processing system defines products that a service provider may offer to customers. A completed product definition may include product definitions, price definitions, discount definitions, and commitment definitions. Each of the definitions may be employed as a re-useable component building block for establishing completed product definitions. ...

04/27/06 - 20060089848 - Political party donations from consumer goods sales
A computer-implemented method for causing a donation to be made to a political party. The method includes receiving, from each of a plurality of consumers, order data indicative of a desired consumer transaction and a proposed donation to a political party; consummating the desired consumer transaction; on the basis of ...

04/27/06 - 20060089847 - System and method for providing automated real estate transaction management with centralized transaction information storage
A system and method for providing automated real estate transaction management with centralized transaction information storage is described. Transaction information is centrally maintained and includes a plurality of transaction specifications. Each such transaction specification includes one or more deadlines that provide an agent component and a client component. An agent ...

04/27/06 - 20060089846 - Linked hierarchical airline maintenance process modeling
A plurality of display files representing aircraft maintenance processes are generated and linked in a hierarchy. A general level display file defines a number of divisions of aircraft maintenance processes that can include managerial as well as labor related divisions. Linked display files appearing below the general level file in ...

04/27/06 - 20060089845 - Golf course management system
A golf course management system has an administration manager for managing administrative information including member information, a golf service manager for managing golf services using the member information; an auxiliary service manager for managing auxiliary services, the auxiliary service manager being linked with the golf service manager to handle golf ...

04/27/06 - 20060089844 - Dynamic replenisher management
Replenishable device asset management comprises accumulating device usage information for fleet assets comprising a plurality of replenishable devices and vehicles associated with the replenishable devices, storing the device usage information for the fleet assets in a global memory, and using the device usage information to manage the fleet assets. ...

04/27/06 - 20060089843 - Programmable, interactive task oriented hotspot, image map, or layer hyperlinks within a multimedia program and interactive product, purchase or information page within a media player, with capabilities to purchase products right out of media programs and
Described is a system and method whereby special layers, hotspots or image maps can be programmed in to media displayed through common Internet enabled media players so that users or viewers of the media can interact in a minimally obtrusive fashion with the media being shown to perform a host ...

04/27/06 - 20060089842 - System and method for finding, analyzing, controlling, timing and strategizing real estate investing online
The present invention teaches a computer implemented method for providing comprehensive real estate services to subscribing users via a remote computer network comprising the acts of: providing a computer network for researching real estate; receiving a plurality of property listings from a plurality of property listing sources including realtors, owners, ...

04/27/06 - 20060089841 - Method of gift giving utilizing a reusable gift container
A method of gift giving, utilizing a reusable gift container, whereby a gift container history is generated including one or more items of past user personal information. The gift container has at least one unique physical feature; a container history document; and an identifier, whereby the gift container can be ...

04/27/06 - 20060089840 - Health tracking method and apparatus
A health and fitness system that maintains fitness data for members. Members can update their information in kiosks in health clubs or other locations. Members can belong to teams or departments, and progress and health goals of each team can be monitored and compared. A team which has surpassed the ...

04/27/06 - 20060089839 - Enhanced customer design visual integration (ecdvi)
An Enhanced Customer Design Visual Integration (ECDVI) utilizing a Web based application to support Interior and Exterior Painting, Decorating, Landscaping, and other design integration efforts. This solution will provide customer with the capability to take a digital picture of a setting and integrate it into a future concept or solution ...

04/27/06 - 20060089838 - Method of streaming multimedia data
The invention relates to a method of streaming multimedia for providing seamless stream switching. The method consists in streaming multimedia data from a server (15) to a client (14) over a network (13) having a variable bandwidth. The client is intended to decode a subset of streams within a set ...

04/27/06 - 20060089837 - Apparatus, system and method for dispute resolution, regulation compliance and quality management in financial institutions
An apparatus, system and method for multimedia capturing, logging and retrieval are disclosed. The apparatus provides time synchronized voice and data interactions capturing and logging, secured playback and retrieval functionality for dispute resolution, for detecting negative and positive conduct, for business analysis and performance, and for quality management. The apparatus ...

04/20/06 - 20060085220 - System and method for selecting and protecting intellectual property assets
The present invention relates to systems and methods for intellectual property asset selection and protection. In an embodiment, an intellectual property selection system receives from an innovator an innovation submission describing an innovation. An intellectual property protection system receives at least a portion of the innovation submission and manages obtaining ...

04/20/06 - 20060085219 - System and method for managing intellectual property
The present invention relates to methods and systems for intellectual property management. In an embodiment, a system includes an intellectual property asset inventory system to manage an inventory of intellectual property assets. A product inventory system manages an inventory of products, where the inventory of products correspond to a plurality ...

04/20/06 - 20060085218 - Vehicle downtime reporting tool
A vehicle downtime reporting tool comprises a computer-implemented interface to a database, wherein the database contains time-related information pertaining to a repair order for a vehicle, a computer-implemented downtime calculator that calculates the vehicle downtime by determining the time from a triggering event to an ending event, and a computer-implemented ...

04/20/06 - 20060085217 - Self-management system and method
According to the invention, a self-management system and method for organizing the key aspects of one's life is disclosed. The system and method include a core manager configured to allow central pooling of data and services that relate to common aspects of life. The system and method also include at ...

04/20/06 - 20060085216 - Method and apparatus for discouraging non-meritorious lawsuits and providing recourse for victims thereof
A method for discouraging non-meritorious malpractice claims and providing recourse for victims thereof is provided. The method comprises collecting record data relating to medical malpractice litigation, selecting desired data from the record data using a case evaluation algorithm, and storing the desired data in a user accessible site database. The ...

04/20/06 - 20060085215 - Using execution points to customize transaction processing in a computer application
Techniques enable a user, such as a business analyst or a system administrator, to define business process rules that control the processing of transaction data by a computer application. A data structure is used to store business process rules. The data structure includes a condition portion and an execution portion ...

04/20/06 - 20060085214 - Using customized data to control transaction processing in a computer application
Techniques enable a user, such as a business analyst or a system administrator, to define business process rules that control the processing of transaction data by a computer application. A data structure is used to store business process rules. The data structure includes a condition portion and an execution portion ...

04/20/06 - 20060085213 - Customizing transaction processing in a computer application
Techniques enable a user, such as a business analyst or a system administrator, to define business process rules that control the processing of transaction data by a computer application and to assign a collection of business process rules to one of multiple predefined points in a business process of a ...

04/20/06 - 20060085212 - Optimization of a materials recycling facility
Methods and systems are provided for controlling a Materials Recovery Facility. An input stream of recycled materials is provided, wherein the composition of the input stream is subject to variation during a time interval. The input stream goes to a separator that separates it into first and second output streams ...

04/20/06 - 20060085211 - Measurement tool for effective sales management
The invention is a tool to improve sales force effectiveness. The tool includes an assessment, and analyzing the assessment according to defined dependencies. The organization addresses the issues presented by the assessment according to the dependencies. Data is gathered and parameters are computed from the data to provide an ongoing ...

04/20/06 - 20060085210 - System and method for facilitating like kind exchanges
An interactive computer system, preferably hosted on the Internet, has interfaces that obtain entity-specific information regarding a property owner, obtain property-specific information of the property to be exchanged in a 1031 exchange, and establish a contract that engages the services of a facilitator to handle the exchange. An inducement to ...

04/20/06 - 20060085209 - Establishment of vehicle item categories
At year-end, vehicles in a dealership's inventory are programmatically assigned an item category and base price for each vehicle is validated, as may be required to take advantage of favorable tax treatment. Manufacturer-provided vehicle model codes are often not consistently unique or specific enough for this purpose. Preferred embodiments compare ...

04/20/06 - 20060085208 - Vehicle identification system
According to the present invention, a method for identifying a vehicle for sale is disclosed. In one step, an indicia or code is registered. A least one fact about the vehicle, such as the vehicle price, the vehicle mileage, and the vehicle seller contact is registered. An interested party makes ...

04/20/06 - 20060085207 - System and method for appraiser-assisted valuation
A system and method that allows an appraiser, real estate broker or other professional, based on preliminary information about a requested appraisal, to use any of a plurality of automated valuation products to effectively calculate an appraisal value. In one embodiment, a lender places an order electronically with or through ...

04/20/06 - 20060085206 - System and method for a controller to define, determine, and execute cross-application processes
Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to providing flexible process configurations for software systems and to the execution of those software systems. In one embodiment, a user may use a cross-application process controller to select and arrange the methods that constitute a software system. In an embodiment, the cross-application ...

04/20/06 - 20060085205 - Method, program and system for the implementation of cognitive business processes
A cognitive business process (CBP) for use by an enterprise. A knowledge engine and knowledge base are used by an end user when information is received regarding a potential business transaction. The knowledge engine uses the information about the potential business transaction, goals of the business enterprise and knowledge residing ...

04/20/06 - 20060085204 - Method and system for testing information handling system components
A method and a system are provided for determining whether an information handling system (“IHS”) component is in condition for a warranty return. In response to determining that the IHS component is in condition for a warranty return and in response to an encryption algorithm, an encrypted return authorization number ...

04/20/06 - 20060085203 - Computer-implemented method and system for determining vehicle delivery estimated time of arrival
An integrated computer-implemented method for determining a delivery estimated time of arrival (“ETA”) for a vehicle. The method includes receiving post-release quality hold information, upfitter throughput information and historical delivery segment performance information relating to an undelivered vehicle; and determining a delivery ETA for the undelivered vehicle based on the ...

04/20/06 - 20060085202 - Method and a system for responding to a request for access to an application service
The present invention relates to a method and a server for responding to a request for access to an application service, which service is deployed in a system that associates specific areas of a position coded surface with corresponding application services. According to the invention, an enterprise paper look-up service ...

04/20/06 - 20060085201 - Customs inspection and data processing system and method thereof for web-based processing of customs information
A multi-user, multi-organization web-based system for processing customs information is provided. The system includes a server device connected to a communication network and having a communication server module for communicating over the network. The server device receives a declaration pertaining to a consignment, including identification of specific goods in the ...

04/13/06 - 20060080136 - System and method for managing intellectual property
The present invention relates to methods and systems for intellectual property management. In an embodiment, a system includes an intellectual property asset inventory system to manage an inventory of intellectual property assets. A product inventory system manages an inventory of products, where the inventory of products correspond to a plurality ...

04/13/06 - 20060080135 - System and method for managing intellectual property
The present invention relates to methods and systems for intellectual property management. In an embodiment, a system includes an intellectual property asset inventory system to manage an inventory of intellectual property assets. A product inventory system manages an inventory of products, where the inventory of products correspond to a plurality ...

04/13/06 - 20060080134 - Virtual system for accessing services for job seekers, employers, training providers, benefit applicants and others
A computerized information system of workforce development services having a server having services for job seekers, staff, employers and training providers; a database of stored procedures coupled to the server; and input/output clients also coupled to the server for accessing information from a standardized database as well as additional information ...

04/13/06 - 20060080133 - Method and system for enterprise-level unassisted customer shipping
A system and method for unassisted enterprise-level unassisted customer shipping is described providing for payment of shipping and item costs in a single transaction. In one configuration, a customer utilizes a kiosk to process a shipping bill of materials for presentment at a point of sale terminal. ...

04/13/06 - 20060080132 - Method for generating, accessing, and managing property inspection reports
The present invention provides a system and method for use by a property inspection company to receive requests for property inspections from customers, dispatch the requests to inspectors, receive inspection reports prepared by the inspectors, and store the reports in a database for retrieval by customers via a computer network. ...

04/13/06 - 20060080131 - Land description tract index
The instant invention is a method of indexing and displaying interests in real property tracts comprising accepting input of real property descriptions, maintaining a database containing interests in real property descriptions, creating an array index representing interests in real property tracts where each index in the array index represents a ...

04/13/06 - 20060080130 - Method that uses enterprise application integration to provide real-time proactive post-sales and pre-sales service over sip/simple/xmpp networks
A system and method provides customer support to a user. In one embodiment, it includes providing the user access to a knowledge database for the user to query the knowledge database regarding a support issue. It also provides, in response to the user querying the knowledge database, an interface to ...

04/13/06 - 20060080129 - Methods and systems for providing access to remote, descriptor-related data at an imaging device
Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems, methods and devices for providing access to remote, descriptor-related data at an imaging device user interface. ...

04/13/06 - 20060080128 - System and method for providing customized employment interviews
A method, system, and computer program receive an identification of one or more skills associated with a job. The method, system, and computer program also receive a selection of one or more questions associated with the one or more skills. In addition, the method, system, and computer program provide an ...

04/13/06 - 20060080127 - Buyer listing service and method of use
A method of using a buyer listing service (BLS) includes receiving buyer profile data of a prospective residential real estate buyer; storing the buyer profile data to a BLS database; receiving prospective residential real estate sales data to a residential real estate sales database; receiving a search query for buyer ...

04/13/06 - 20060080126 - System and method for calculating employee expenses
A method and apparatus for calculating employee expenses is disclosed herein. One embodiment of the method may comprise transferring first data from a first computer to a second computer. The first data causes the second computer to display text, wherein a portion of the text is a first inquiry related ...

04/13/06 - 20060080125 - Carpet simulation method
A new method of electronically distributing files containing information to permit the simulation of surface patterns is presented in which color characteristics, texture characteristics, and manufacturing characteristics are included in the file and once the file is loaded, no reference to external databases is required by viewing software. ...

04/13/06 - 20060080124 - Methods and sytems for imaging device job definition
Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems, methods and devices for imaging device job definition. ...

04/13/06 - 20060080123 - Methods and systems for imaging device job configuration management
Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems, methods and devices for imaging device job configuration management. ...

04/13/06 - 20060080122 - Multi-print stream processing module optimizer for document processing
Multiple print streams destined for individual print stream processing modules are optimized prior to printing. The process of optimizing includes receiving an input representing a plurality of documents to be printed and determining an attribute of each document of the plurality of documents represented by the input. The attribute relates ...

04/13/06 - 20060080121 - Third-party confirmation of self-populated data
An online information system, such as a dating service, that provides third-party verification of self-populated data is provided. A user may initially provide their own data that identifies themselves as well as their desired match, for example, for a date. The system may then collect data from third-party sources, such ...

04/13/06 - 20060080120 - Publish/subscribe mechanism for web services
A method for managing events in a web service environment is provided. A request for a subscription to desired events in an event class in an associated catalog namespace of a catalog repository is received from a subscribing application. The subscription request includes an event filter to select the desired ...

04/13/06 - 20060080119 - Method, system and program product for funding an outsourcing project
Under the present invention when a business process is desired to be outsourced from a client (e.g., a company or governmental unit) to a third party outsourcer, an outsourcing project is initially planned. Typically, the plan includes a plurality of overlapping phases that extend over several time periods. Thereafter, a ...

04/13/06 - 20060080118 - Method and system for self-remuneration of published material
The present invention introduces the notion of a service bureau that efficiently and automatically helps publishers receive, track, and reward consumers for finding errors in published material such as books, manuals, multimedia presentations, and e-books. In particular, described is a system and method for receiving one or more errors associated ...

04/13/06 - 20060080117 - Maintaining integrity within an adaptive value chain involving cross enterprise interactions
The present invention is a method, system and apparatus for maintaining transactional integrity within an adaptive value chain involving cross enterprise interactions. In the present invention, transactional integrity can be maintained in a cross-enterprise business process management system by managing business transformation operations among cross-enterprise interactions to produce an adaptive ...

04/13/06 - 20060080116 - Web-based employee onboarding management and tracking software
The current system design is an network connected client (including but not limited to any Internet browser, Intranet client, PDA device, etc.)-based employee onboarding and tracking software. The present invention utilizes a very detailed and comprehensive system of checklists. These checklists create structure, accountability, accuracy, and completeness with built in ...

04/13/06 - 20060080115 - System and method for the assembly of programs
Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to a system and method for the assembly of a program having one or more methods. In an embodiment, one or more sequences for the methods of the program are determined based, at least in part, on data format information provided by the ...

04/13/06 - 20060080114 - Method and system for providing real estate search information
A computerized system is provided for managing commercial real estate properties comprising a core database including a property listing database and a member listing database. A data module is coupled to the core database. The data module provides commercial real estate data to the core database. At least one working ...

04/13/06 - 20060080113 - Just-in-time insurer's flooring evaluation and replacement system
The present invention is directed to a system, and method for making and using the same, for an on-site evaluation of flooring materials, condition, and value, and further, for providing replacement flooring. The present invention provides an effective and uniform way to more objectively evaluate flooring and/or provide replacement flooring ...

04/13/06 - 20060080112 - Method and apparatus for ownership transfer of transactions in peer-to-peer systems
This invention relates to a method of, a device and a protocol for performing ownership transfer of a change in a peer to peer network (30). The device or a peer can be a car, a garage, a video cassette recorder (VCR), a personal digital assistant (PDA), a mobile phone, ...

04/13/06 - 20060080111 - Mobile electronic transaction system, device and method therefor
Disclosed herein as a system, device and method for conducting electronic transactions utilizing a wireless communications device adapted to receive a transaction program and data. The device comprises memory storage for storing a transaction program, a microprocessor and a display screen. The microprocessor executes instructions contained within the transaction program ...

04/06/06 - 20060074707 - Method and system for user management of a fleet of vehicles including long term fleet planning
A system for providing a user with historical sales data having relevance to a plurality of vehicles comprising a fleet for assisting users with defining residual values for fleet vehicles and performing cost going forward analyses and/or depreciation analyses of fleet vehicles. In one embodiment, such data can be useful ...

04/06/06 - 20060074706 - Method of handling reply envelopes
A method of automatically sending a reminder from a sender of a mail item to the addressee of the mail item, the addressee having an obligation to return a sealed reply envelope by a given due date, the method including an operation of sending a reminder letter to the address ...

04/06/06 - 20060074705 - Method and system for residential property data capture, process, and distribute on-line for sale or lease purpose
A method for collecting, processing, and distributing residential data. Client accounts are established. A message is transmitted to the client accounts requesting the submission of primary residential data. The primary data is then received, including primary apartment data relating to apartment rental events and primary home data relating to home ...

04/06/06 - 20060074704 - Framework to model cross-cutting behavioral concerns in the workflow domain
Selecting and applying a behavioral component to a portion of a componentized workflow. The behavioral component defines error and exception handling, among other concerns, to the portion of the workflow selected by a user. During execution of the workflow, the behavioral components executes responsive to output from the selected portion ...

04/06/06 - 20060074703 - Providing and managing business processes
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for providing a business process over a network. A network connects several network nodes and a central repository. Each network node is associated with an organizational entity and represents a user, a service, or a computer application. The central ...

04/06/06 - 20060074702 - Method and system for managing a fleet of vehicles
A system for providing a user with historical sales data for a plurality of vehicles comprising a fleet, the system comprising: (a) a database configured to store actual sales data for a plurality of vehicles that have previously been sold; and (b) a computer in communication with the database, the ...

04/06/06 - 20060074701 - System and method of multi-account dynamic resource allocation via portable equipment
In a method of multi-account dynamic resource allocation via portable equipment, a user inputs parameters and issues an execution command via the portable equipment after registration. According to the execution command, the server performs correspondent computation. According to the computation results and the parameters set by the user, resources are ...

04/06/06 - 20060074700 - Method, system and program product for planning and managing a call center study
Under the present invention, a call center study is planned and managed. Specifically, a call center study is first designed based on specific parameters such as customer segments, products, call types and population size. Thereafter, target values and assumed resource values are provided so that a target sample size and ...

04/06/06 - 20060074699 - System and method for processing mass action litigation on a jurisdictionally dispersed basis through geographically dispersed personnel and automated data systems
A system and method whereby similarly situated plaintiffs can efficaciously process a large volume of legal actions requiring mass customization and standardization in a narrow legal area against similarly situated defendants on an unconsolidated case by case basis (or “Mass Action Litigation”) through a technologically and organizationally unified operational structure. ...

04/06/06 - 20060074698 - System and method for providing a rf payment solution to a mobile device
A process for providing an RF module configured to convert a nontraditional transaction device for traditional transaction completion is disclosed. The RF module is placed in physical and logical communication with a microprocessor of a nontraditional transaction device for providing user account information to the microprocessor and for receiving data ...

04/06/06 - 20060074697 - Wrapping/filling method, wrapping/filling device, commodity providing method, and commodity management method
There is provided a wrapping/filling method that can be used by anybody anywhere for easily selecting a commodity content and commodity wrapping vessel and wrapping/filling the commodity content in a small scale including a test wrapping/filling. When a client requests wrapping/filling, a computer (21) of the client having a request ...

04/06/06 - 20060074696 - Information processing device, information processing method, information processing program and medium
An information processing apparatus includes a determining portion for performing, on an object of which element or procedure can be described based at least on information related to time, a process based on time information for determining an element or procedure of said object, an executing portion for executing a ...

04/06/06 - 20060074695 - System and method for reporting and delivering sales and market research data
A system and method for accessing pharmaceutical data is described The method includes receiving a username and a password from a web page, and identifying an account having the username and the password associated therewith. The method further includes reading a service level associated with the identified account, determining at ...

03/30/06 - 20060069590 - Intelligent trust management method and system
Intelligent Trust Management provides a centralized security facility that gives system components a flexible mechanism for implementing security policies. System components such as applications create a request describing an action that needs to be checked against an appropriate security policy. The request is given to a trust system that determines ...

03/30/06 - 20060069589 - Topical sentiments in electronically stored communications
The present application presents methods for performing topical sentiment analysis on electronically stored communications employing fusion of polarity and topicality. The present application also provides methods for utilizing shallow NLP techniques to determine the polarity of an expression. The present application also provides a method for tuning a domain-specific polarity ...

03/30/06 - 20060069588 - Method for recycling products
With the method and the data carrier of the invention, a reward or debiting linked with the recycling of the product (3) is automatically determined and credited or billed on an account linked with the identification module (50). ...

03/30/06 - 20060069587 - Retained publish/subscribe system
Publications are retained in a publish subscribe broker hierarchy. The hierarchy includes publishers publishing to publishing brokers and subscribers subscribing to receive publications from the publishing brokers. A subscriber subscribes to receive publications on at least one topic from at least a subset of publishing brokers in the hierarchy. The ...

03/30/06 - 20060069586 - Methods and apparatus for brokering services via a telephone directory
Methods and apparatus for brokering services are disclosed. The methods and apparatus described herein provide services to guests of hotels. A services directory is placed in each hotel room. The services directory includes a toll-free telephone number and a plurality of extension numbers. Each extension number is associated with a ...

03/30/06 - 20060069585 - Method for performing retail sales analysis
The invention provides a user with substantial flexibility in requesting and generating analysis projects on transaction and/or consumer data that is stored in one or more databases. Exemplary embodiments of the invention provide a method for retailers and other authorized users, such as suppliers, to access and perform sophisticated, highly ...

03/30/06 - 20060069584 - Determining a term score for an animated graphics file
A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, determine a term score based on frame scores, frame weights, and effect bonuses. The frame score represents a probability that the frame will be displayed, and in an embodiment is based on whether the frame may be skipped via ...

03/30/06 - 20060069583 - Fundraising system and method thereof
A method for raising funds. A source prints brochures identifying items available for purchase, where at least one of the items are transferable gift certificates having a monetary value and are redeemable for classes of products offered for sale by the source. The source delivers the brochures to a youth ...

03/30/06 - 20060069582 - System and method for community development
A method for community development is provided. A community platform is transported to and installed in an undeveloped area. A distribution system is connected to the community platform. At least one building in the undeveloped area is connected to the distribution system. Training is provided to a resident of the ...

03/30/06 - 20060069581 - Method and apparatus for warranty cost calculation
Method and apparatus for calculating warranty cost includes determining values for a plurality of parameters that characterize a corresponding plurality of physical conditions of a product that is returned under warranty, determining values for a plurality of variables that characterize a customer profile for the product and evaluating an expression ...

03/30/06 - 20060069580 - Systems and methods for providing user status information
In some embodiments, systems and methods for providing user status information may include providing information associated with a description of a user status. According to some embodiments, a mouse-over of an icon associated with a user may cause a status and information describing the status to be displayed. In some ...

03/30/06 - 20060069579 - Method of monitoring a facility
The present invention provides an efficient and simple method of monitoring a facility including entertainment functionality, wherein a first data set relevant to operational purposes of the facility is acquired and a second data set relevant to entertainment purposes is inputted. After selecting either the first or the second data ...

03/30/06 - 20060069578 - System and method for managing data concerning service dispatches
A system and method is disclosed in which service dispatch data records are generated and sorted for display. Service dispatch records are generated from data in a product database and a service provider database. A dispatch generation tool generates the service dispatches, and a service dispatch management module sorts and ...

03/30/06 - 20060069577 - System and method for managing data concerning service dispatches involving geographic features
A method and system are disclosed that enable a seller of equipment to dispatch service personnel and parts to a remote location while taking into account geographic-specific conditions. The geographic-specific conditions can include, for example, inclement weather, planned activities and unplanned events that affect traffic to/from the remote location. The ...

03/30/06 - 20060069576 - Method and system for identifying candidate colleges for prospective college students
The invention relates to the method for a prospective college student college search and recommendation system. The invention is generally includes a method of receiving survey data gathered from a prospective college student, analyzing the survey data for relationships between one or more variables which correlate with actual college student ...

03/30/06 - 20060069575 - Process for advance payment real estate listing
A process for advance payment real estate listing. with the steps of: Payment for listing real estate is made in advance where the real estate has not yet come to market. Process will use proprietary computer and web based systems for management of information systems and data processing. (a) computer ...

03/30/06 - 20060069574 - Selling system and selling method for pictures through internet and computer solftware thereof
A picture selling system using the internet and selling method thereof are disclosed. According to the present invention, an artist, a picture purchaser, a picture selling agency, a picture provider and a web server of a picture selling site are connected one another through the internet network. The web server ...

03/23/06 - 20060064317 - Extended work program
An extended work program (EWP) is provided in which unemployed and under-employed workers perform atomic units of work. The inventive system and method includes an administrative system, employer systems and participant systems, each of which communicates over the Internet. Employers locate EWP participants by querying an administrative system, which provides ...

03/23/06 - 20060064316 - Interactive computer system in the field of family and children adoption services
An event-triggered computer system and method to facilitate the organization, maintenance, and processing of information resources in the field of family and children adoption services, as well as the distribution and communication of such information over the Internet. The system uses a number of relational databases that include a unique ...

03/23/06 - 20060064315 - Budget proposal and reimbursement application processing system and method
A system and method for managing cost containment within a plurality of projects. Standardized tasks for each of the projects and a schedule for the standardized tasks is defined. Resource data including pricing data for each of the standardized tasks is collected. Based on the defined schedule and the collected ...

03/23/06 - 20060064314 - Multimedia floral merchandising system
A graphical user interface for a floral merchandising system. The graphical user interface includes a selection bar having one or more floral product tabs, each floral product tab representing one of a number of floral products. The graphical user interface further includes one or more user-selectable item buttons, each item ...

03/23/06 - 20060064313 - Benefits administration system and methods of use and doing business
An automated benefit administration system and methods of use and doing business. The full system includes a wide range of features including application of business rules to enrollment, eligibility, and maintenance data input, making of business decisions based on the specific data entered, and issuing of notices based on business ...

03/23/06 - 20060064312 - Method of providing time sensitive information and a system for accomplishing the same
A method and system for providing time sensitive information by applying an advertisement to an outer surface of a plurality of individual pieces of mail. The advertisement is applied to the individual pieces of mail by either printing it directly onto the outer surface or by adhesively applying a label ...

03/23/06 - 20060064311 - High speed postage metering device and method utilizing a single postal security device with multiple printing modules
A high speed mailing system that utilizes a single postal security (PSD) device in conjunction with multiple printing modules is provided. The control unit with which the PSD is associated is coupled to each of the printing modules through a multiplexer capable of switching between each of the printing modules. ...

03/23/06 - 20060064310 - Tattoo studio control and management system
An apparatus and method for tracking use of an electrical device, such as a tattoo machine, by an operator in the tattoo industry. A power switch is coupled to a power source and a computer system. The computer system executes software which in response to user input activates the power ...

03/23/06 - 20060064309 - Method and article of manufacture for promotion and memorialization of a person's life and/or career or the life of an organization
A method and article for the promotion, celebration, and memorialization of the life and/or career of an individual or the life of an organization comprising an article of manufacture which has embodied on its surface images of selected indicia from different periods in the life and/or career of the individual ...

03/23/06 - 20060064308 - Method, device and system for a machine-readable code enabled device enabling e-commerce transactions
A method, device and system for enabling electronic commerce transactions. The method in a data processing system comprises the steps of displaying vendor information in a readable format to a user. Next, the vendor information is read and transmitted to a server. The server retrieves the vendor data associated with ...

03/23/06 - 20060064307 - Method and system for session management wherein a client session identifier is used
An application server (113) receives, from a client mobile terminal (101), a request to initiate a first client application session, as well as first client specific data, where the data comprises a first mobile terminal identifier, e.g. a mobile station integrated services digital network number and a hash code. An ...

03/23/06 - 20060064306 - On-line credit information system
An on-line credit information System to collect information on businesses and individuals, and to disseminate the same to the seeker of the information alone. Participants to the System include a System Administrator, Subscribers and Non-Subscribers. Subscribers and Non-Subscribers can be either individuals or businesses. A Subscriber seeks information on a ...

03/23/06 - 20060064305 - Security and property management system
A comprehensive real property management system having an interactive system for reporting, tracking, and rectifying security and maintenance incidences and for generating alerts and reports for a building, for an office complex comprising a number of buildings, and/or for a real property management company having multiple buildings and multiple sites. ...

03/23/06 - 20060064304 - System and method for assisting in the selection of products and or services
Systems and methods for a data processor implemented system monitor for assisting in the purchase or lease of products or services which may consider various factors including quality, price and convenience in a manner that is free from or ameliorates the traditional conflicts of interest in previous systems is disclosed. ...

03/16/06 - 20060059011 - Systems for automated proposal generation
The present application describes certain exemplary embodiments of systems and methods for automated proposal generation, tracking, and/or management. Certain exemplary embodiments of the systems and/or methods can be viewed as web-based software tools adapted for use by sales entities and/or related support personnel, such as Application Engineers (AEs), that seek ...

03/16/06 - 20060059010 - Product and price determination system
Price structures and product structures may be associated with price structure determinants and product availability determinants. A price structure and its associated price structure determinants may define the conditions under which a price is applicable to a customer purchasing a specific product. A product structure and its associated product availability ...

03/16/06 - 20060059009 - Enhanced trade compliance system: country of origin certifications
Methods and systems are described that allow supplier information to be captured and processed for imported or exported products that have multiple supply sources. Each of the products may be classified under a plurality of HTS (Harmonized Tariff Schedule) codes, which may then be assigned to the product. The assigned ...

03/16/06 - 20060059008 - Method and system for determining a costing sequence for transfers between a plurality of cost groups
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method for sequencing cost calculation. In one embodiment a processing sequence, comprising a plurality of hierarchy levels, is created for a plurality of cost groups. The processing sequence is used in an iterative process for calculating the cost of an item ...

03/16/06 - 20060059007 - Systems and methods for integrating course data
A system and method for integrating course data is provided. A receiver comprises a computer and a mobile device. A server provides the receiver with at least one on-line course page, and transmits at least one mobile course page to the mobile device of the receiver via instant message or ...

03/16/06 - 20060059006 - System method and article of manufacture for internet based affiliate pooling
The present invention provides a method, system and computer program for affording Virtual Affiliates access to an existing affiliate system. First, having been assigned a unique identifier within a source affiliate system, a Webmaster operates a web site. Next, a request for a target Merchant Web site triggers a correlation ...

03/16/06 - 20060059005 - Systems and methods for managing data in an advanced planning environment
Systems and methods are disclosed for managing data in an advanced planning environment. In one exemplary method, data is managed during the execution of a plurality of planning services, the planning services using one or more objects represented by data stored in a database. The method may include reading a ...

03/16/06 - 20060059004 - Apparatus and method for managing account information
A method includes receiving account information associated with a user. The account information includes an electronic mail (“email”) address associated with the user. The method also includes storing the account information in an account associated with the email address. The method further includes validating the email address associated with the ...

03/16/06 - 20060059003 - Context data in upnp service information
A system, device, and method provide for the selection of a device to perform a service using context information for the device. The context information may be included in a request from a control point device to the device or may be included in a response from the device to ...

03/16/06 - 20060059002 - Rental estimation method
In a rental estimation method according to the present invention, rental information with regard to rental devices is provided to a customer through a data exchange between a terminal (9) of the customer and a management server (5) of a rental company. The rental estimation method includes a data input ...

03/09/06 - 20060053031 - Method of monitoring the production history of consumable animal primal cuts
A method of monitoring the production history of consumable animal primal cuts. Data collected from animal breeders and animal feeders is provided to a centralized data management system. An independent auditor also collects data on the operations of animal feeders. The data is analyzed to identify trends or relationships between ...

03/09/06 - 20060053030 - Method of recycling a liquid cartridge
A container is provided with a liquid container for containing a liquid and a liquid supply for discharging the liquid of the liquid container. An electronic component is allowed to store data concerning the liquid contained and exchange data with an external device. A takeout step is to take the ...

03/09/06 - 20060053029 - Methods and systems for providing an enterprise supply management portal
Exemplary systems and methods for providing an enterprise supply management portal are disclosed. The enterprise supply management portal of the present invention may provide an efficient, easy to use, and reliable system for suppliers and enterprise personnel to conduct business over, for example, a web-based platform. This platform may transform ...

03/09/06 - 20060053028 - Methods and systems for generating and collecting real-time experiential feedback on the operation of fishing equipment
Methods and systems for generating real-time feedback on the use of fishing equipment. Data collection including user input enable the present invention to monitor and receive information relating to fishing equipment use and success rates under differing environmental conditions and with specific fish species, while providing users access to a ...

03/09/06 - 20060053027 - Transport logistics systems and methods
A logistics system manages the shipments of goods supplied from a plurality of different shippers by a plurality of carriers. It has a variety of modules integrated with each other to perform various functionalities. For example, it may have a purchasing module evaluating proposals by shippers for respective shipments of ...

03/09/06 - 20060053026 - Machine lubricant and coolant distribution system
A system provides for the delivery of lubricant or coolant to multiple machines simultaneously. The system comprises a single source of fluid where the single source is fluidly connected to a controller. The controller has a plurality of fluid connections to workstations. At least one fluid conduit extends between the ...

03/09/06 - 20060053025 - Method of labeling and authenticating products
A method of labeling and authenticating a product, particularly a pharmaceutical package, for anti-counterfeiting purposes, the method comprising: generating original identification data referring to the product; encrypting the original data to generate encrypted identification data; storing the original data and the corresponding encrypted data in a database system; labeling the ...

03/09/06 - 20060053024 - Lifting partner groups for allocation of lifted product consistent with production sharing contracts
An embodiment of the invention regards allocating lifted product volumes to specific entities of a Production Sharing Contract (PSC) through the use of Lifting Partner Groups (LPG) and an Entitlement Percentage (EP), which is itself calculated, consistent with the terms of the PSC. Through this system, specific PSC members no ...

03/09/06 - 20060053023 - Customer support system
A method is provided for centrally monitoring machines running at remote customer sites and providing customers with adequate support. The method includes collecting machine operating data, including data for each process stage, at the customer sites, and analyzing, at a central location, the collected machine operating data for each machine. ...

03/09/06 - 20060053022 - Www.hi22.com is easy to find and share local information for towns from around the world
At www.hometowninteractive.com (www.hi22.com) it's easy to share and find local information. Towns from around the world are only a few mouse clicks away from each other. A system is set for the web surfers to go to any towns in the world very quickly, in a matter of seconds. Once ...

03/09/06 - 20060053021 - Method for monitoring and managing an information system
The method of monitoring an information system and has a real-time engine unit in communication with a broker unit. The engine unit has an event source unit and a metrics source unit and receives an event signal from the source unit in a first protocol language. The engine unit obtains ...

03/02/06 - 20060047536 - Product environmental information sharing management system
A product environmental information sharing database is connected to a network, and a data registration processor in the database receives raw data from companies. A product information memory section stores product information regarding the raw data, products' component/composition data, hazard data and usage/quantity data. A forward chain processor calculates and ...

03/02/06 - 20060047535 - Method and system of business management
A method and system for uniformly presenting, communicating, and implementing an idea through an organization's structure or portion thereof. The management method and system ensure that an original idea formulated at upper levels of a business or organization is implemented through the business or organization's hierarchal structure without being modified ...

03/02/06 - 20060047534 - Method and system for collecting data to facilitate real time online access and efficient reporting
A computer-readable signal capable of being propagated across a full-time public network, the signal carrying computer-readable instructions executable for enabling the performing of a method for collecting data to facilitate real time access and efficient reporting. A sub-account is authorized by a master account, via the full-time public network, to ...

03/02/06 - 20060047533 - Multi-drop bus to personal computer interface
A Multi-Drop Bus to personal digital computer interface converts standard vending protocols into personal digital computer standards for RS-232, Universal Serial Bus (USB) and wireless Ethernet 802.11x protocols using framing transposition, modal management, and microprocessor based conversion algorithms. ...

03/02/06 - 20060047532 - Method and system to support a unified process model for handling messages sent in different protocols
A server system in typical operation has a process manager, multiple listeners (each to receive requests for its protocols) and multiple worker processes that are each able to handle requests in multiple protocols. At server start-up, each listener connects with the process manager via a pipe published by the process ...

03/02/06 - 20060047531 - Automated system for content acquisition using a web portal
Described are techniques and mechanisms that implement an automated process for content acquisition using a Web portal. The process allows a content provider to visit a location on a wide area network and interact with one or more resources to upload a document. Within the process, several tasks are automated ...

03/02/06 - 20060047530 - Job placement system and method
In one preferred embodiment, job information and candidate information are compared to select a set of eligible candidates from a plurality of job candidates. A weight is assigned to each of a first plurality of parameters included with the job information. The candidate information is compared with the job information ...

03/02/06 - 20060047529 - Practice management consulting system
A practice management consulting system and related methods are provided for facilitating the communication of business consulting information and advice to a user, without the need for hiring a business consultant. A user of the system can interact with a user interface provided by a browser running on a computing ...

03/02/06 - 20060047528 - Internet service for facilitating delivery of inquiries and answers, and accounting for associated financial transactions
An internet service for facilitating delivery of inquiries and answers thereto, and accounting for financial transactions associated therewith includes means for (i) a user of the service to specify a geographic region of interest to the user, (ii) the user to broadcast an inquiry to a subscriber population, with the ...

03/02/06 - 20060047527 - Determining, pricing, and/or providing well servicing treatments and data processing systems therefor
Novel well characteristic methodologies for determining, pricing, and/or providing well servicing treatments are provided and data processing system therefor. A method of pricing a well servicing treatment based on well characteristics, that comprises obtaining one or more well characteristics of the well servicing treatment, and generating a price of the ...

03/02/06 - 20060047526 - cost based control of air pollution control
A controller for directing operation of an air pollution control (APC) system, requires a consumable to perform a process to control emissions of a pollutant. The process has multiple process parameters (MPPs). One or more of the MPPs is a controllable process parameters (CTPPs) and one of the MPPs is ...

03/02/06 - 20060047525 - Method and system for integrating user-defined objects into a business management application
A method and system for integrating user-defined objects into a business management application. A mode is selected with which to add a user-defined object in the application having a base class of objects with a base class of services. Information is received to define the user-defined object. A selection is ...

03/02/06 - 20060047524 - Method of opportunity solicitation, referral, and data management
A method of identifying and expanding a database of potential employees from a predetermined pool of prescreened candidates supplied by the initiating entity. The predetermined pool being the first of infinite generations of prescreened candidates who may be rewarded for referring other qualified candidates. The initiating entity will create and ...

02/23/06 - 20060041449 - Method for producing programming elements for broadcast stations
A method for producing a programming element for a broadcast station entails generating an order in a database to produce a recorded announcement and identifying the script for the order. The script and an order are stored at a first location in the database by the salesman. The method continues ...

02/23/06 - 20060041448 - Number of new and unique manufacturing and assembley methods and processes to cost effectively refit and market legacy implements like the gilhoolie presently names the wili grip tm
The invention: involves a unique set of mass production process and evaluation tools to reappraise intricate otherwise costly products to produce or reproduce and manufacture them best in a high cost of living society and low cost of living society. The techniques described here are to specifically bring back a ...

02/23/06 - 20060041447 - Project management systems and methods
Embodiments of the present invention provide improved project management systems and methods. In one embodiment the present invention includes a project management system comprising a plurality of radial task regions displayed around a focal point and a plurality of time regions displayed around the focal point, wherein each time region ...

02/23/06 - 20060041446 - Electronic arranger
An electronic arranger is provided to a user that receives a request to arrange 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 - 20060041445 - Electronic butler for providing application services to a user
An electronic butler interface application service providing module is provided in a framework for providing computing device executed application services to a user using a plurality of application service providing modules, each of which provides a subset of the application services to the user. The electronic butler has an associated ...

02/23/06 - 20060041444 - Integrating enterprise and provider contact center resources to handle workload on-demand
A method for handling contact center requests can include the step of identifying a contact center request and a resource type to handle the request, where a resource of the resource type can be selected from a multitude of contact center resources. The contact center resources can include at least ...

02/23/06 - 20060041443 - Variable data business system and method therefor
A variable data business system and method provide improved production of documents in support of business operations. The system includes a server that stores business data and provides a network interface for access via a client browser. The system provides for entry, maintenance, and reporting functions of business data such ...

02/23/06 - 20060041442 - Information model for property records management
An information model for a party and property records management system includes a legal party role object for maintaining relationships between objects, such as legal party objects and revenue-object objects, within the information model. A legal party object could have several associated objects, such as an identification number object or ...

02/23/06 - 20060041441 - System and method for managing legal services
A system and method for managing legal services is disclosed. The method includes receiving a request for legal services from a member of a pre-paid legal service, collecting information from the member about a legal problem, storing the information as a record in a computer database and determining whether one ...

02/23/06 - 20060041440 - Method, system and program product for managing a project
An improved solution for managing a project comprising one or more shared artifacts is described. In particular, an interactive event can be detected on a user system, and a notice of the interactive event can be generated. The notice can be provided to one or more other user systems that ...

02/23/06 - 20060041439 - Adaptive handling of pulse-train signals in a voice gateway
A system and method provide for adaptively monitoring and reporting pulse train characteristics. In one embodiment a DSP operating within a voice media gateway (VMG) is initialized with signal processing criteria, at least one control parameter and, optionally, one or more pulse train characteristic indicators for indicating pulse train characteristics ...

02/23/06 - 20060041438 - Bass tracking
Tracking of fish and publishing results on the Internet for the purpose of profit. I. Attach a frequency transmitter to a legal size fish caught by conventional methods. A. A fiberglass transmitter will be attached to the fish via a nylon cord through the gill plates to allow the transmitter ...

02/23/06 - 20060041437 - Method and apparatus for windshield repair during vehicle servicing
Automotive servicing, such as that offered by a lubrication center, and windshield repair may be conducted in parallel. The use of low-profile, integral windshield repair resin applicator and UV shield and self-powered, low-profile UV light source facilitate windshield repair without interfering with the performing of the vehicle servicing. Use of ...

02/23/06 - 20060041436 - System, method, service method, and program product for managing entitlement with identity and privacy applications for electronic commerce
A system, method, service method, and program product for defining and/or managing entitlements and/or authentication entitlements to resources in a computer networking environment is disclosed. Upon receiving one or more dynamic events, the invention verifies one or more users (a selected user) has (entitlement) attributes that satisfy one or more ...

02/23/06 - 20060041435 - Spatial marketplace system
A method of managing the delivery of offers via a spatial marketplace system involves registering potential customers as members of the system by recording their names and contact details in a database. A spatial identifier, sourced from the contact details supplied during a registration process, is assigned to each database ...

02/16/06 - 20060036468 - Healthcare organization record identifier assignment management system
A system (100) for providing multiple facility healthcare corporations the ability to assign and maintain shared medical record numbers (43) across multiple entities. The system establishes a parent/child relationship among the entities to share medical record number ranges, formats, and data. A patient record identifier database (102) contains patient records ...

02/16/06 - 20060036467 - System and method for providing custom stock images
A method for providing images includes assigning a rating to each of a plurality of photographers in a photographer network. Software on a computer server is used to select a plurality of photographers from the photographer network in fulfillment of a customer request. The selection is based at least in ...

02/16/06 - 20060036466 - System and method for providing custom stock images
A method for providing images to a customer includes receiving a request for an image from a customer. The request identifies at least one image criteria. A set of automation parameters is used to select a plurality of shooters to submit one or more images in fulfillment of the request. ...

02/16/06 - 20060036465 - Online interactive interface and automated processing for loan origination and underwriting
A user is provided an online interactive interface to fill in a loan origination form, to finance the purchase of a business. The form requests information about the business, including expense items associated with operating the business. Information that is reflected in the filled form is then transmitted to a ...

02/16/06 - 20060036464 - Method of reducing hypothetical bias in jury studies
A method for reducing hypothetical bias in jury studies. The method utilizes an incentive-based approach to jury studies to help to reduce and/or remove hypothetical bias from these jury studies. The present invention uses an incentive that is to be awarded to an independent third person. This incentive is structured ...

02/16/06 - 20060036463 - Liquid computing
Liquid computing can include using a service bus to interact with a number of heterogeneous systems. ...

02/16/06 - 20060036462 - Aggregate analysis of text captures performed by multiple users from rendered documents
A facility for analyzing text capture operation traffic is described. The system receives indications of operations for capturing text from rendered documents performed by a plurality of users. The system performs collective analysis on the received indications, and outputs a result produced by the analysis. ...

02/16/06 - 20060036461 - Active relationship management
Methods and apparatus for active relationship management. A computer implemented method for relationship management includes receiving a list of one or more enterprises. The method includes identifying one or more individuals associated with at least one of the enterprises. The method includes receiving information related to a topic of interest. ...

02/16/06 - 20060036460 - System and method for optimizing the effectiveness of an educational institution
A system and method for optimizing the effectiveness of an educational institution. Means are provided for establishing a relationship between educational institution and a student wherein the student's progress is monitored from registration through and beyond graduation. Monitoring means allow the student's progress to be measured and the student's need ...

02/16/06 - 20060036459 - User configurable one click punchout tracking
Techniques for tracking shipments of items are provided. A graphical user interface is provided for setting up a tracking service for a carrier. A tracking service may be set up for any number of carriers. Website access information is then received for the carrier. The website access information includes any ...

02/16/06 - 20060036458 - Data processing system and method for commodity value management
Embodiments include receiving into one or more computer databases a plurality of cost factors associated with supplying a commodity for vehicle manufacturing. A zero-based cost estimate for the commodity is calculated based on one or more of the plurality of cost factors. A current cost for the commodity is received ...

02/16/06 - 20060036457 - Systems and methods for facilitating romantic connections
Methods, systems and computer-readable medium are provided for facilitating a romantic connection between a first entity and another entity. The first entity can communicate using a client computer to deliver to a server over a network profile data describing at least one aspect of the first entity that would be ...

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