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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6721713 | Business alliance identification in a web architecture framework A system, method and article of manufacture are provided for identifying alliances among a plurality of business entities in components of a network framework. First, alliances are identified among a plurality of business entities in terms of components of a current... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6134530 | Rule based routing system and method for a virtual sales and service center A rule based routing system and method is disclosed. The rule based routing system and method matches employee skills with a customer profile thereby facilitating improved customer service and identifying cross-sell opportunities. The rule based routing s... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6115693 | Quality center and method for a virtual sales and service center A Quality Center for a Virtual Sales and Service Center. The Quality Center is responsible for monitoring the "customer experience" across the telephone customer access resource. The Quality Center assists in managing the business of operating multiple ca... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6070142 | Virtual customer sales and service center and method A virtual customer sales and service center is disclosed that connects a customer to a customer access resource through any access method at any time from any customer location. The virtual customer sales and service center includes customer access resour... | 05/30/2000 |
| 6064973 | Context manager and method for a virtual sales and service center A context manager for providing a framework for enabling continuous customer access resource innovation by maximizing open business processes. The context manager allows multiple combinations of users to access various business processes through multiple ... | 05/16/2000 |
| 5966121 | Interactive hypervideo editing system and interface An apparatus and method for interfacing with a hypervideo multimedia application when composing and playing same is disclosed. A novel hypervideo control and interface provides for either user-actuated or automatic transitioning between a plurality of vid... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5838973 | System and method for interactively transforming a system or process into a visual representation A computerized modeling system is provided. The present invention is a computer-implemented, interactive, real-time software tool, for physically transforming a system or process into a visual representation. The software tool includes a class developer f... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5839117 | Computerized event-driven routing system and method for use in an order entry system A computerized system and method for providing event-driven routing to provide user assistance and marketing functions in an order entry system is provided. One or more user-initiated events capable of being recognized by the computer are defined, as are ... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5832459 | Computerized source searching system and method for use in an order entry system A computerized source searching system and method for the placement of an order for at least one offer via a terminal having a display is disclosed. The system includes system storage for storing offer information, and for storing electronic reproductions... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5752244 | Computerized multimedia asset management system A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for providing computerized management of multimedia assets of various types, including image, video, audio, text, and program code media types, is disclosed. Multimedia assets are checked into a computer sys... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5737726 | Customer contact mangement system A customer contact management system is described. The system can be customized in order to provide custom contact types and sub-types for the types of contacts relating to individual customers, groups of customers, and business entities. User preferences... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5592378 | Computerized order entry system and method A computerized order entry system for the placement of an order by a user via a terminal having a display is disclosed. The system includes a data capture mechanism for capturing order information and a storage device for storing the order information cap... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5311438 | Integrated manufacturing system A manufacturing system utilizes a common database structure and product definition to achieve true integration of multiple systems. The production definition includes an item and specification to define material or resources used in or related to a manufa... | 05/10/1994 |
| 5301270 | Computer-assisted software engineering system for cooperative processing environments A computer-assisted software engineering system facilitates the design, implementation, and execution of applications in cooperative processing environments. Design tools create, store, retrieve, and edit system specifications in a repository. Constructio... | 04/05/1994 |
| 5270921 | Virtual fare methods for a computerized airline seat inventory control system An airline seat reservation system wherein seat reservations are controlled using, in part, a computerized seat inventory control system. The seat inventory control system, based on a concept termed Network-Based Expected Marginal Seat Revenue (EMSR), doe... | 12/14/1993 |
| 5265006 | Demand scheduled partial carrier load planning system for the transportation industry Method and apparatus for a demand scheduled partial carrier load planning system for the transportation industry, designed to distribute planned and random orders, each order having a source point and a destination point in the territory served, and for d... | 11/23/1993 |
| 5260866 | Expert configurator A multi-level system generates multiple custom work orders for the manufacture of an end item and lower-level configurable items comprising the end item. The system includes an order entry configuration for obtaining option values that define specificatio... | 11/09/1993 |
| 5255184 | Airline seat inventory control method and apparatus for computerized airline reservation systems An airline reservation system implemented using a computer wherein reservations are controlled by a seat inventory control system. The inventory control system produces optimal reservation control using network-wide booking limits while taking into accoun... | 10/19/1993 |
