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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185440 | Data processing system for pricing, costing and billing of financial transactions The present invention provides methods and systems for pricing financial transactions by defining product rules, providing links to appropriate price tables, and calculating a price for a financial transaction. A data processing system in accordance with one embodim... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8117063 | System and methods for creating probabilistic products and for facilitating probabilistic selling A method for creating a probabilistic product is provided. The method includes creating a set of product identifiers corresponding to a plurality of products offered by a single seller, each of the plurality of product identifiers uniquely corresponding to one of th... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8095421 | Method and apparatus for pricing products in multi-level product and organizational groups The invention organizes various pricing tables and price adjustment tables and various products and purchasing organizations based on “who” (i.e. which purchasing organization) is purchasing “what” (i.e. which product). The invention utilizes a denormalized ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8050976 | System for on-line merchant price setting A method for setting a price for a product sold online by a subject merchant is provided. The method comprises accessing price information of at least one other merchant of the same product by applying a shopping robot to two or more shopping sites, including at lea... | 11/01/2011 |
| 7945478 | Historical vehicle parts database system A computer system, method and computer readable media for processing historical vehicle replacement part database queries is disclosed. The system can include a data preprocessing unit, a database server coupled to the data preprocessing unit, a web server and an ap... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7933804 | Methods and apparatus for self-diagnosing electronic price labels A self-diagnosing electronic price label. The label communicates with a central processor in order to receive price information for display and to report the status of the label to the central processor. The label periodically runs a self-test program to verify prop... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7885855 | Cost based dynamic pricing of goods Methods and systems (200) for reducing losses related to perishables are disclosed. The perishables are grouped based on the use-by-date (UBD) and a quantity of at risk perishables are determined (210). A financial impact of the at risk perishables is ... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7873541 | System and method for aggregating advertising pricing data The present invention relates to a method and system for aggregating advertising pricing data and providing that data to one or more clients. This data may be provided to the client in the form of various reports that allow a client to gauge the advertisement market... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7827064 | Data processing system for pricing, costing and billing of financial transactions The present invention provides methods and systems for pricing financial transactions by defining product rules, providing links to appropriate price tables, and calculating a price for a financial transaction. A data processing system in accordance with one embodim... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7765125 | Trunk branch repeated transaction index for property valuation A repeated transaction index (RTI) for estimation of a home price index (HPI) that controls for systematic bias. Purchase transaction records are used to estimate an HPI for areas large enough to have sufficient transaction data. Bias is removed from non-purchase tr... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7660738 | Collecting competitive pricing information via a merchant web site for use in setting prices on the merchant web site A facility for collecting pricing information is described. The facility serves a web page to a client computing system. The served web page contains a first control operable to order a selected item from a selected vendor. The web page further contains a second con... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7529687 | In-store customer display device and method A system and method for displaying information to a customer during a point-of-sale transaction by showing the information about the customer's purchase and infomercial on a single display screen. A PC-based POS system with the ability to control two display units i... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7461009 | System and method of sending messages to electronic shelf labels based upon priority An electronic shelf label system which sends messages to electronic shelf labels based upon priority. The system includes an electronic shelf label, and a computer for assigning a priority to an unsent message to the electronic shelf label, for comparing the priorit... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7433831 | Automatic price display control by emulation of electronic cash register price lookup A system and method for distribution of product price and/or sales data in a retail establishment. Product price and/or sales data is stored locally, either in a central computer or master electronic cash register (ECR) or remotely at a master computer. The product ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7413121 | Multi-use wireless display tag infrastructure and methods A multiuse system for use with Wireless Display Tags (WDTs) includes, in one or more exemplary arrangements, techniques for automatically maintaining synchronicity between pricing data for a product and advertising, marketing or promotional data associated with that... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7411503 | System and method for disabling data on radio frequency identification tags The disclosed embodiments of the present invention are used to permanently disable or destruct an RFID so that it is no longer possible to read some or all of the data encoded on the RFID tag. In one method for disabling data on a radio frequency identification (RFI... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7403909 | Systems and methods for asynchronous processing of electronic shelf label communication responses An electronic price label (ESL) system for performing asynchronous ESL transactions. An event notification technique allows a communication base station (CBS) manager to directly notify an ESL manager when responses from an ESL are received, without the ESL manager ... | 07/22/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7376290 | Method and system for providing a photo album to a user of a digital imaging device A method and system for providing a user with an album including a plurality of pages is disclosed. The method and system include allowing a user to purchase at least a portion of the album including a portion of the plurality of pages. The user is allowed to set a ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7370806 | Label for an electronic product that provides failure information when the product fails A label on an electronic product may be written electronically and maintains the last display state when power is removed from the label. There are many different types of digital paper and electronic paper known in the art that would be suitable for use as such lab... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373317 | Method and apparatus for facilitating sales of goods by independent parties A method for facilitating sales of goods of independent sellers. The method involves receiving a standard identification code, such as a UPC or ISBN code, of readily identifiable goods. The standard identification code is transmitted by a seller to a third-party mar... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7367498 | POS terminal and system including the same by which a transaction log can be revised and registered as a new transaction A terminal apparatus and a transaction information management system consisting of the terminal apparatus and a management apparatus that can revise transaction information, which is stored in the management apparatus, connected to a previous transaction when a cust... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370006 | Method and apparatus for listing goods for sale A method for using a telephone to list a seller's good for sale on a website including the steps of receiving good-identifying information from a seller via a telephone and presenting the good for sale on a website. The good-identifying information may be received a... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7363234 | System and method for providing a price quotation for a transportation service based on equipment ownership A method and system for computing the price of a railway transportation service for the shipping goods is provided. A computer delivers first information to a user prompting the user to enter at the computer information about a rail route for shipment of goods by on... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363271 | System and method for negotiating and providing quotes for freight and insurance in real time A system for negotiating logistics and insurance transactions may include interfaces configured to connect logistics providers, insurance providers, and emarketplaces. An agent software module may be configured to search the Internet for pricing information that is ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7358847 | IC tag An integrated circuit tag includes an item information storage unit that stores item information related to the item, an item information controller that provides control to change the item information, and an item information display unit that displays the item inf... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359872 | System and method for calculating parameters for a commerce system A method and system for processing a parameter for an item in an electronic order processing system is provided. The method has a first step of associating a calculation code with the item. The second step of the method is applying the calculation rule to the item t... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356571 | System, method and processor readable medium for downloading information within a predetermined period of time to a device in a network responsive to price selection A method, system, and processor readable medium allows a user to download information to a device within a predetermined period of time at a predetermined price. In an embodiment of the present invention, a processing device is coupled to a wide area network, includ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7349868 | Pre-qualifying sellers during the matching phase of an electronic commerce transaction A system providing seller pre-qualification during the matching phase of an electronic commerce transaction includes a directory structure 44 comprising multiple hierarchically organized product classes, each product class categorizing multiple products and d... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7346588 | Cost estimation method and system, and computer readable medium for the method A part cost estimation system including a processing cost information storage device; a shape designating device configured to designate the shape of the part; a processing designating device configured to designate contents of processing to be performed on a materi... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343344 | Electronic payment system using accounting function in a mobile communication network A method of readily realizing electronic payment service at low cost with a high level of convenience and security for a consumer is disclosed. A personal information input terminal notifies a purchase price, an MSN (Mobile Subscriber Number) of an MS (Mobile Statio... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343420 | Data contents distribution system A data contents distribution system in which a contents distribution server puts contents and trial contents of the contents in question on a Web site on a network and a client side device of a user reproduces the trial contents to confirm the details of the content... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340419 | Method and apparatus for product display Systems and methods are provided for receiving a request to display a type of product. Thereafter, a substitute product for the product is selected from a plurality of substitute products. The selection is based on expected revenue from display of the selected subst... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340412 | Methods and apparatus for performing delta updates of an electronic shelf label An electronic price label (ESL) system providing a delta update of an ESL's registers. In one aspect, an ESL manager receives and indication that an update to one or more of the registers of the ESL may be necessary. The ESL manager sends a data request to a data re... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7334727 | Store management system A store management system executes store operations, employing a communication apparatus In the store, connected with at least one store terminal by way of a first line Inside the store and connected with a server by a second line outside the store. The communicatio... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7337125 | System and method for enhancing sales for service providers utilizing an opportunistic approach based on an unexpected change in schedule of services Sales associated with service providers is increased using an opportunistic approach based on an unexpected change in a schedule or services (time, location). Windows of opportunity (time, physical location) are automatically identified, and once such a window of op... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333942 | Networked international system for organizational electronic commerce A networked computer architecture (AgoraNet) facilitates and conducts secure electronic commerce based on national deployment independent of the Internet. A “publish and subscribe” model is used in which vendors may publish catalogs and information about product... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7334225 | Method, system, and computer program product for on demand enablement of dormant computing resources A method for enabling dormant computer hardware resources in a computer system having a set of dormant computer hardware resources. The method includes accepting a customer request to enable a set of dormant hardware resources, and providing computer readable instru... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330829 | Providing market feedback associated with electronic commerce transactions to sellers An electronic commerce system (10) providing market feedback to sellers includes a server (40) operating on one or more computers. The server (40) records query information associated with a search query for a buyer (20) of one or more da... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7324071 | Segmented character display A character display comprises fifty-nine segments arranged into rows and columns. Twenty eight of the fifty-nine segments define a periphery of the display, eleven additional segments define horizontal and vertical dividers that define four quadrants, and five addit... | 01/29/2008 |
