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| 20120130844 | AUTOMOTIVE DIAGNOSTIC AND ESTIMATE SYSTEM AND METHOD The method provides users with estimates for vehicle repairs. The user, typically the vehicle owner, provides details sufficient to identify the vehicle, and location details to enable the system to locate suitable mechanics and replacement parts, and determine labor co... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120109852 | REACTIVE LOAD BALANCING FOR DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS The subject disclosure relates to load balancing systems and methods. In one embodiment, a reactive load balancer can receive feedback from a first database node, and allocate resources to the first database node based, at least, on the feedback. The feedback is dynamic... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109851 | Providing Sensor-Application Services In one embodiment, a method includes receiving at a sensor-application-service provider sensor data from sensors associated with persons. The method includes, based on a service information model at the sensor-application-service provider, determining whether the sensor... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109853 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING TRACKING SERVICES TO LOCATE AN ASSET The present invention is directed to a method of asset location. Location data is received from a cellular transmitter associated with a selected asset, which location data includes data representative of a cellular receiver with which direct communication with the cell... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109705 | DATA CENTER SYSTEM THAT ACCOMMODATES EPISODIC COMPUTATION A data center system is described which includes multiple data centers powered by multiple power sources, including any combination of renewable power sources and on-grid utility power sources. The data center system also includes a management system for managing execut... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120084231 | Fiber Project Evaluation Tool and Related Methods, Graphical User Interfaces, and Computer-Readable Media Fiber project evaluation tools and related methods, graphical user interfaces (GUIs), and computer-readable media to provide and display cost estimates for a plurality of fiber solutions options that can be employed to deploy a fiber optic network for a fiber project ar... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084232 | FLAT RATE PRICING WITH PACKET-FREQUENCY-AWARE BILLING SYSTEM FOR MOBILE BROADBAND COMMUNICATION An information processing apparatus stores a first threshold of a common carrier, the common carrier charging according to the first threshold to be applied to a packet communication volume in each first unit period; performs a packet communication to and from a communi... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084233 | Technique for Producing Constructed Fares A technique for producing constructed fares that include an arbitrary added to a published fare is described. The techniques determine interior cities that appear with gateway cities in arbitraries for the airline and searches for gateway cities corresponding to the det... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120072375 | METHOD, SYSTEM, APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM FOR INSTANTLY ESTIMATING THE NUMBER OF STITCHES FOR AN EMBROIDERED DESIGN A method implemented on a computer having a processor and a memory coupled to the processor for determining an estimated number of stitches for an embroidered design. The method includes uploading a file containing a design comprised of at least one of art and text; fla... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072374 | RECORDING AND TRANSCRIPTION SYSTEMS Computer systems facilitating requesting recordings and/or transcriptions of proceedings including computer-implemented price estimation for recording transcription services.... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072376 | OPTIMIZING A PRINTER SYSTEM IN CONSIDERATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL LOAD A print server selects a printer system to execute a print job received from a client, the printer system selected from among a plurality of printer systems connected to the network, the print server comprising a basic information acquiring section that acquires, at pre... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120053985 | MULTI-CUSTOMER UNIT CAPITAL COST DETERMINATION SYSTEM A computing-device implemented method for generating cost to connect information associated with multi-customer premises may include receiving, from a productivity tracking system, labor time information associated with a number of service installation orders, wherein t... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120047092 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PRESENTING AN INDICATION OF A COST OF PROCESSING A RESOURCE Methods and systems are described for presenting an indication of a cost of processing a resource. Resource information is received that identifies a resource for processing by a hardware component in performing an operation. A measure of a processing cost is determined... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120047023 | DISPLAY MANAGEMENT Technologies are generally described for managing display of data on a display. In some examples, the display includes a display area. In some examples, a method for managing display of data on the display includes receiving a first request from a first user, to display... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120041671 | INFORMATION PROVIDING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM An information providing device, having a route acquisition unit that acquires a reference travel route between two points, a route finding unit that finds a fuel-saving travel route between the two points, a fuel cost calculating unit that calculates a difference in co... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120041675 | Method and System for Coordinating Transportation Service A method and system for coordinating transportation service is provided. A request is received for a trip generated by a client application executing on a mobile device. Which one of a set of transportation vehicles is best suited to provide the trip is determined. The ... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120041899 | DATA CENTER CUSTOMER COST DETERMINATION MECHANISMS A data center management system may include a data center customer profile corresponding to a data center customer. The data center customer profile may include a data center resource usage model and a service level agreement (SLA). A data center resource optimization m... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120036090 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING DELIVERED PRICING Embodiments of the invention relate to a system, method, computer product and computer system for providing delivered pricing for at least one product. The method comprises receiving at least one delivery zone; providing at least one order threshold for the at least one... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120036088 | Price display apparatus having bistable display panel and method thereof The configurations of a price display apparatus and a method thereof are provided in the present invention. The proposed price display apparatus includes a bistable display panel displaying a selling price of an item.... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120036089 | System and Method for Dynamic, Real-Time Data Management and Processing to Facilitate Business Decisions A system and method for integrating pricing components in real-time includes synthesizing a pricing formula obtained by eliciting relevant information from a user. The system and method may associate the pricing formula with identifiers representative of condition table... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120030143 | CHARGING FOR DATA OFFLOADING A method performed by a wireless node including receiving charging policies for data offloading; performing data offloading with respect to a user data flow; generating charging information associated with data offloading based on the charging policies; and sending the ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120030037 | Measuring Quality of User Interaction with Third Party Content An online services system provides monitoring of user interaction with third-party content. The monitoring is performed by a script in a web page provided by the online services system, which script provides a timer invoked when the browser leaves the online services sy... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120016813 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE A communication device includes: a communication unit that is configured to execute communication of data according to one of a plurality of bandwidth guarantees with different communication charges per time unit; and a selection unit that is configured to select a firs... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120011515 | Resource Consumption Template Processing Model In one embodiment, a method determines a task to execute in a computer processing system. A resource consumption template from a plurality of resource consumption templates is determined for the task. The plurality of resource consumption templates have different priori... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120005025 | METHODOLOGIES AND SYSTEMS FOR ENHANCED CONTACT DIRECTORY-RELATED FUNCTIONALITY An enhanced contact directory application and associated enhanced contact directory for provisioning in a mobile device that enables the mobile device user to have access to information identifying the cost or likely cost of communicating with listed contacts via the mo... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110320321 | Establishing and Utilizing Custom Prices Between a Customer and a Manufacturer Establishing and utilizing custom prices between a customer and a manufacturer. A plurality of product catalogs may be stored. Information regarding special pricing agreements for a plurality of customers may be established and stored. The special pricing agreement info... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110313822 | Method of Assessing Parking Fees Based Upon Vehicle Length A method for assessing fees for parking is disclosed. The method includes providing vehicle length or information about a vehicle which is associated with the vehicles length to a parking meter or other fee collection device. The parking fee collection device communicat... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110313950 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGEMENT OF SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS UTILIZING VOLUME PRICING Methods and apparatus for flexible management of applications and volume pricing models provided by one or more application service providers and accessible to one or more client devices such as multi-function devices (e.g., MFPs). A management system registers new appl... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110313951 | Vehicle Repair Cost Estimate Acquisition System and Method A computer-based method for obtaining repair estimates for a vehicle, and a related network server, are provided. The method comprises receiving a vehicle identification number (VIN) over a network from a customer computer, retrieving vehicle information, associated wit... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110313798 | SHORT-TERM HOUSING RENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD As will be discussed in greater detail herein, a short-term housing rental management system and method provides tools for housing property managers, owners, renters, and others to better facilitate processes involved with offering and renting housing on a short-term ba... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110307509 | Conversion Path Performance Measures And Reports Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing conversion path performance measures and reports. In one aspect, user interaction data are obtained, were the user interaction data specify user interactions... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110307141 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING EQUIPMENT UTILIZATION A method for measuring vehicle utilization includes determining, with an ignition sensor, an ignition status of a vehicle and determining, with a motion sensor, a motion status of the vehicle. The method further includes determining a utilization of the vehicle based, a... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110302013 | MULTI-DIMENSIONAL PRICE DETERMINATION A system and method are provided. The method includes establishing a current belief about the multidimensional distribution of buyers' valuations for at least one item, and, based on the current belief, proposing at least one pricing mechanism, each pricing mechanism es... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110302041 | LIMITED LOTTERY INSURANCE A system and method for conducting a lottery for at least one item are provided. The method includes, for each of a plurality of buyers, receiving a buyer's declared valuation for each of at least one item being offered in a lottery by a seller, the item having an assig... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110302062 | Management server and method of charging for printing A method of charging for printing including setting a basic charge in the image forming apparatuses, receiving information about a recording agent installed in the image forming apparatus at predetermined intervals, determining whether or not the recording agent of the ... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110301964 | Auction Methods and Systems Known auction techniques are modified to provide various benefits. In one arrangement, a pseudo-random function is employed to determine whether a nominally-ended auction should be extended, allowing an unsuccessful remorseful bidder a possible further chance to win the... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110276518 | FEE MODELS BASED ON PLUG-IN USE A method and apparatus for calculating fees charged to users based on the plug-in use is disclosed. An application framework is provided as an extensible software platform. Users may integrate plug-in components into the application framework. Each plug-in component may... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110276167 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND SOFTWARE FOR AUTOMATED DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING OF HVAC CONTROL PANELS The present inventors devised, among other things, systems, methods, and software that radically simplify and reduce the time necessary to specify, design, manufacture, and document control panels and wiring harnesses for semi-custom and custom equipment, such as HVAC e... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110270722 | CHARGING METHOD SELECTION FOR SERVICE DATA FLOWS BASED ON THE DATA SERVICES BEING REQUESTED Systems and methods are disclosed for performing Policy and Charging Control (PCC) for packet core networks. One embodiment comprises a PCC architecture that includes an online charging system (OCS). The OCS receives a request for charging rules for an initial data serv... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110264571 | BROKERING AND PAYMENT OPTIMIZATION FOR CLOUD COMPUTING A system includes a receiving module to receive a purchase inquiry for a cloud computing service from a consumer in a first currency. A pricing module is used to price-out the cloud computing service from a provider where the cloud computing service is provided in a sec... | 10/27/2011 |
