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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7386466 | Continuously updated data processing system and method for measuring and reporting on value creation performance that supports real-time benchmarking The invention affords a data processing system and method for assessing the performance of a business enterprise in creating and realizing value. More particularly, the invention affords a data processing system and method that supports the provision of real-time be... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7383233 | Method of designing an electronic transaction system A method for designing an electronic transactions system and forming a proposal for doing business on a global communications network is disclosed. The invention includes reviewing existing direct sales screening processes, creating new processes, integrating new an... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7383202 | System and method for automatic pricing of remotely hosted applications Automatic pricing of remotely hosted applications permits users to enter customer data and flexibly prices various product offerings, product lines, and applications. An initial build of a computer system, modifications to an existing computer system configuration, ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7383201 | Demand forecast device, method, and program product Conventionally, for a product accompanied by supplies such as a copy machine or a printer, the demand figures relating to the supply which such a main machine consumes have been determined empirically from the transition of the past sales records of the supply, the ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7383200 | Method and apparatus for collecting and categorizing data at a terminal A method and system for collecting and categorizing survey data includes receiving customer information from a customer. A query is identified based at least in part on the customer information. The query is output for presentation to the customer. In one embodiment... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7383165 | System and method for diagnosing faults utilizing baseline modeling techniques System, method and computer product for baseline modeling a product or process. A service database contains process data. A preprocessor processes the data into a predetermined format. A baseline modeling component builds a baseline model from the preprocessed data,... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7380217 | Method of graphical presentation of relationships between individuals, business entities, and organizations A method of graphical presentation of relationships with business significance between business related entities such as individuals, business entities, and activities of human endeavor. Information retrieved from databases about relationships between business relat... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379898 | System and method for generating market pricing information for non-fungible items A system for generating market pricing information for a non-fungible target item includes one or more databases containing historical pricing information for at least one reference item, historical pricing information for at least the target item, and market pricin... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379891 | System and method for reallocating and/or upgrading and/or selling tickets, other event admittance means, goods and/or services A method, system, server architecture and/or tangible medium upgrade and award admittance of events to an event customer, preferably via a data communication network. The method includes, for example, receiving a communication from the event customer, the communicat... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379890 | System and method for profit maximization in retail industry A computer-based method and system accomplish automatic optimization of a preferred merchandising figure of merit like revenue, profit, etc. by concurrent optimization of prices and in-store promotion schedules for groups of interrelated products in a supermarket or... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379882 | Architecture designing method and system for e-business solutions The invention provides a method for designing an architecture for e-business solutions. A business description of the e-business solution is developed. The business description describes each actor and each business function in the e-business solution. The business ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379879 | Incident reporting system and method A computer-based method of collecting and processing incident reports received from witnesses who observe incidents such as criminal acts and legal violations. The method automates the collection and processing of the incident reports and automatically sends the inc... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379781 | Constraint based order optimization system and available to promise system A computer system which uses customer-based business rules that are customized for each customer. These business rules, along with order information, are provided to a linear programming engine. The linear programming engine determines the priority of customer order... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7376912 | Interactive user interface for displaying supply chain information An interactive user interface is disclosed. According to various embodiments, the interface includes a first field and at least one additional field. The first field lists a focal item and the at least one additional field contains a listing of items related to the ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376618 | Detecting and measuring risk with predictive models using content mining Computer implemented methods and systems of processing transactions to determine the risk of transaction convert high categorical information, such as text data, to low categorical information, such as category or cluster IDs. The text data may be merchant names or ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376603 | Method and system for evaluating customers of a financial institution using customer relationship value tags A computerized method and system for evaluating customers of a financial institution using customer relationship value tags and associated customer treatment actions includes automatically analyzing information about a customer from a database of the financial insti... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376647 | Method for evaluating activity-based costs of a company Methods and systems consistent with the present invention provide a survey tool for allocating costs of a company. A survey is presented to an employee of the company via a network, for example, the Internet. The survey includes a list of activities and asks the emp... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376574 | System and method for optimizing benefit plan designs A computer-based system and method to enable a benefit plan sponsor to design benefit plans for a given participant population by enabling the plan designer to select the plan design options that maximize the perceived benefit to the participant population subject t... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376578 | Computer-implemented product valuation tool A method of valuing products based on demand probabilities. Products are designed by identifying product components, and combining the components in various combinations to provide standard and non-standard products. Components are valued using an algorithm that con... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376579 | Business process analysis tool A strategic management tool that derives relevant business processes. The tool provides a set of business processes based on information from at least one of a market force and an industry trend and applies a method to identify a subset of the business processes. Th... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7373371 | Method, system, and storage medium for facilitating excess inventory utilization in a manufacturing environment An exemplary embodiment of the invention relates to a method, system and storage medium for utilizing excess inventory comprising parts used in end products. The method comprises: translating sales specific terminology describing end products into bill of material t... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373599 | Method and system for optimum placement of advertisements on a webpage A method and system for placement of graphical objects on a page to optimize the occurrence of an event associated with such objects. The graphical objects might include, for instance, advertisements on a webpage, and the event would include a user clicking on that ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373303 | Methods and systems for estimating building reconstruction costs Systems and methods are provided for estimating a reconstruction cost for a building as well as for a designated area within a building. Reconstruction pricing data based on builder-supplied full reconstruction-cost data are stored in a database from which the data ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373290 | Method and system for reducing storage requirements of simulation data via keyword restrictions Disclosed herein is a method of managing data results of simulation processing of a hardware description language (HDL) model based upon keywords. In accordance with the method, a restriction list associated with the HDL model is received. The HDL model has a maximu... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373310 | Workflow system matrix organization search engine A rule-based search engine is used in conjunction with an automated network-based workflow system (which in turn is interfaced with an organizational database) to efficiently determine service routing requests from users/clients. The search engine employs search tec... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373311 | Method for constructing an updateable database of subject behavior patterns Disclosed is a method for maintaining compact descriptions of the behavior of customers in a database of information relating to customer transactions. Of all possible variables that might be used to characterize customer transactions, a limited number are selected ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373318 | Information recommendation apparatus and information recommendation system An information recommendation apparatus selects and recommends contents coincident with or similar to conditions input. The conditions are represented by predetermined items and attribute values corresponding thereto, from among contents formed of plural pieces of d... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373323 | Method and system for multi-enterprise optimization using flexible trade contracts A method of multi-enterprise optimization at a buyer computer (20) includes accessing a forecasted demand for at least one item and generating one or more proposed flexible trade contracts (500, 530, 560) using the forecasted demand for the item. The p... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373338 | Access control to shared resources Controlled access is provided to a shared resource 23 such as an ontology (knowledge database) in order to maintain its quality without restraining the ability of users 21a, 21b, 21c . . . to contribute to that resour... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373325 | Automated trading for e-markets A system for use on an electronic network for negotiating contracts between at least one buyer and at least one seller, in which proposals may be made or called for by buyers and/or sellers, and in which each party is represented by a software agent. ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373346 | Methods and apparatus for improved security services An apparatus and method for providing and/or obtaining security services includes a database of information which relates to security services provided for at least one client. A computer that is Internet accessible hosts the database. The database includes security... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7370366 | Data management system and method A data management system and method are provided. Specifically, the present invention includes a system for controlling access to data and ensuring that the confidentiality of the data is maintained. In addition, the present invention provides a system for updating ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370342 | Method and apparatus for delivery of targeted video programming A system residing preferably in a television set-top box monitors the television watching habits of one or more viewers and creates one or more profiles for each viewers descriptive of various characteristics of each viewers, including television watching preference... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370276 | Interface for collecting user preferences Various techniques are disclosed for accepting preference information from a user, where the preference information is specific to content elements within a media asset, and the preference information is collected while the user is viewing a display of the media ass... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370285 | Receiving and reporting page-specific user feedback concerning one or more particular web pages of a website In one embodiment, a method for receiving page-specific user feedback concerning a particular web page of a website includes using a comment icon viewable on the page to solicit one or more page-specific open-ended comments concerning the page from a user. The metho... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370009 | Extreme capacity management in an electronic marketplace environment A system (10) for managing a capacity extreme at a first entity (12) in a supply chain includes a planning application (36) that receives status data for at least the first entity (12) reflecting the capacity extreme at the first entity (... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370016 | 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 ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370001 | Method and system of forecasting unscheduled component demand A method of forecasting unscheduled component demand for a plurality of components in a fleet of assemblies includes establishing a set of models to be used for forecasting unscheduled component demand, selecting a best model for each component, and determining a da... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370002 | Modifying advertisement scores based on advertisement response probabilities Advertisement response probabilities are utilized to alter advertisement scores. A plurality of possible advertisements is accessed from, for example, an advertisement database or advertisement pipeline. A response probability for each advertisement is determined. A... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370045 | Method and apparatus for implementing a corporate directory and service center A method and apparatus for implementing a corporate directory and service center is described. The method includes and the apparatus performs querying for common characteristics, displaying information in a varied manner of displays and switching between the manners... | 05/06/2008 |
