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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8170919 | Method and system for on-line, real-time, interactive collaborative visualization An inventive system and method for collaborative commerce is presented. The invention comprises activating an art board, placing items onto the art board, inviting users to interact with the art board, and collaborating with the invited users. Additional features an... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8160935 | Payment service capable of being integrated with merchant sites A computer-implemented service acts as an intermediary between merchant sites and users thereof, and enables the users to purchase items on the merchant sites without having to create accounts with such sites. A user may invoke the service from a web page of a merch... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8140408 | Systems and methods for facilitating internet shopping Systems and methods for facilitating online comparison shopping, including a similarity engine, a navigational system, and a step skipping system. The systems and methods according to the invention include a method for determining similarity between two preferably d... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8117088 | Method for on-line parts ordering The present invention is a method of selling replacement parts for a product over a computer network including providing a plurality of product manufacturer selection options for a customer to select from, receiving a manufacturer selection of one of the product man... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8103557 | Online merchandising system, online catalog presenting method, server, computer program product, and computer data signal The shopping server provides an online shopping service with retrieving information of items handled, relations among the items, user's purchase history, user's request, and the like via the internet or the intrafirm network. The shopping server generates electronic... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8060415 | Method for generating sales of a conversational voice response system In one aspect, the invention provides a method for generating a sales lead for the sale of a CVR system. The method comprises initiating a call in which a human calls an organization and interacts with an interactive voice response (IVR) system that defines an inter... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8036907 | Method and system for linking business entities using unique identifiers A corporate linkage system and method provides customers with complete, accurate, and timely lists of corporate linkage locations, including monitoring company lists for changes to location lists, matching stored locations to a company or third party list of locatio... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8015077 | E-commerce activity log An activity log is displayed in a dedicated area in a business to consumer e-commerce web site that tracks activities that occur during a current e-commerce account session. The activity log is updated automatically, without requiring user intervention. The activity... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8005726 | Method and system for interactive rate plan recommender A method and system for analyzing rate plans for communication services may include obtaining usage data for a user from a database of historical usage data for the user and determining rate plan costs based on the usage data. The method and system may include obtai... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7983963 | System, program product, and method of electronic communication network guided navigation Systems, program product, and methods of electronic communication network guided navigation which allow users to obtain more relevant product search results much more quickly, are provided. An example of a system can allow a user to enter or start a product search r... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7974890 | Inventory sales system and method A computer system and method of facilitating a sale which permits inventory information to be used in connection with a technology enabled selling (TES) system to facilitate a sale. The inventory information may be used during configuration of an item to be sold to ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7949576 | Method of providing product database A category recommendation method includes maintaining a category database including an internal identifier and an internal category to which the internal identifier belongs; externally receiving a foreign identifier and a foreign category where the foreign identifie... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7945486 | Network photograph service system By providing a network photograph service, prompt service can be provided to a customer without losing the advantages of easier understanding of where to access when placing an order and easier collective data management. A service center receiving an order of a pri... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7933813 | End-to-end management of carrier services for enterprises and resellers The present invention provides a software based system for end-to-end handling of communication services that includes a set of Web based interfaces. The set of Web interfaces can permit a user to view, search and select a set of communication services of different ... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7925548 | Methods of purchasing products through a client portal A client portal that is optimized to fulfill a specific function. The portal can include a browser that is dedicated to performing a particular task, such as reviewing and purchasing electronic books. For example, to better perform the specific function, the browser... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7904348 | System and method for eCatalog supplier portal A Supplier Portal is provided to allow a Supplier to self-author the business process elements (BPEs) of a business process (BP) to create, manage and publish rich-content for use in eCatalogs, Data Pools, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, and other knowle... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7899716 | System and method for integrated payment and shipping information A product distribution module integrated with a payment module. Actions in the distribution module trigger actions in the payment module. For example, a user clicking a “buy” button triggers the creation of a product mailer for a seller, and triggers the payment... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7895088 | System permitting the display of video or still image content on selected displays of an electronic display network according to customer dictates Commercial advertisers, such as consumer product companies and the advertising agents that represent them, directly access a network of thousands of large, high resolution electronic displays located in high traffic areas and directly send their own advertisements e... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7885864 | Network photograph service system By providing a network photograph service, prompt service can be provided to a customer without losing the advantages of easier understanding of where to access when placing an order and easier collective data management. A service center receiving an order of a pri... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7877299 | Payment service capable of being invoked from merchant sites A computer-implemented service acts as an intermediary between merchant sites and users thereof, and enables the users to purchase items on the merchant sites without having to create accounts with such sites. A user may invoke the service from a web page of a merch... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7870039 | Automatic product categorization Techniques are provided for automatic product categorization. In one aspect, the categorization is based on text and one or more other values associated with a product offering. In another aspect, a first categorization of a product offering is performed and, if the... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7870037 | Method for graphically presenting auction information A method for graphically presenting auction information. Characteristics of an auction for an item are received, wherein the characteristics comprise a target price for the item and a close time of the auction. The auction is then published to at least one bidder. A... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7870040 | Systems and methods for searching for entertainment tickets via internet Systems and methods are provided for collecting and listing entertainment ticket information from multiple data sources, and facilitating the sales of entertainment tickets over a network. In accordance with one implementation, a computer-implemented method is provi... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7870038 | System and method for managing electronic catalogs within an enterprise A system and method to facilitate the management of an electronic supplier catalog within an entity, wherein authorized entity employees purchase products and services relating to the operation of the entity. The system provides a product approval utility for receiv... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7865407 | System and method for automating association of retail items to support shopping proposals A shopping server proposal system includes a mechanism that enhances the online retailer's existing database system with the necessary information to provide the desired services. The existing catalog of items is analyzed based on a set of predefined rules for a giv... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7856378 | Method and system for facilitating trading of media space A system for trading media space includes a server node which receives requests for media space from buyers and offers of media space from sellers. The server node includes a set of rules for matching one of the requests and one of the offers to form a matched reque... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7853489 | System and method for agent based developer self selection A method, system, and computer program product for matching developers or entities with certain skills with work projects is provided. In one embodiment, a project manager utilizes a bid management agent which receives project specifications from the project manager... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7853490 | Dynamic comparison text functionality A system is provided comprising a plurality of listings, a plurality of labels associated with at least some of the listings. Additionally, a plurality of form inputs are provided, each associated with one of the labels, wherein selection of a form input causes a tr... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7848966 | Method and system for managing real property transactions having internet access and control In general, the invention is directed to a system for managing real estate transactions that includes a data interface and an application server. The data interface is configured to access property data for a number of properties listed for sale. The application ser... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7844504 | Routing based on the contents of a shopping cart The present invention is directed to a method and system for routing contacts in a contact center based on a number of factors including the value or nature of items in an order of the customer associated with the contact. The invention is particularly useful in E-c... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7840448 | System and method for automatically generating a narrative product summary A system and method for automatically generating a naturally reading narrative product summary including assertions about a selected product. The method includes the steps of determining an attribute associated with the selected product, retrieving an assertion mode... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7835950 | Method and apparatus for product display Systems and methods are provided for receiving from a customer a selection of a product category. At least one product is determined that is associated with the selected product category. A substitute product for the determined product is selected. In one embodiment... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7831485 | Flexible magazine management service A method for managing a magazine subscription management service is disclosed. A magazine package is associated with a consumer, wherein the package includes a price based on a number of magazines in the package. Selections for the number of magazines are received f... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7831484 | Seller-controlled publication of question and answer sets An auction mechanism that would allow a buyer to submit a question to a seller, and optionally have the seller post the relevant question as well as a response for inclusion within a listing. ... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7827075 | Periodically reloading image in order to obtain any changes to the images A method of managing images between computers over a network. The method includes receiving a first product description and a first image location of the first product, the first image location referencing a first storage computer on the network; receiving a second ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7818219 | Electronic realty and transaction system and method therein The electronic realty transaction system (ERTS) automates real estate processes and provides web-based accessibility to residential, commercial, and land markets. The system will provide a “one-stop-shop” for all real estate related transactions and will include... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7813971 | Method of generating a recommendation or maintaining a supply of a type of coating composition considering environmental conditions A system and method are provided for recommending at least one coating composition for coating substrates considering the particular geographical location and the environmental conditions associated with that location. The computer based system and the method can al... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7814028 | 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... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7809612 | Image receiving apparatus An image receiving apparatus includes: an image acquisition part for acquiring image data; a display control part 21 for displaying the acquired image data on a monitor screen; an image correction select part 23 for selecting image correction to be mad... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7805338 | Method of constructing a digital content play list for transmission and presentation on a public access electronic terminal The present invention relates to a method of constructing a play list of a plurality of digital content for transmission and presentation on a public access electronic terminal for use with various data processing resources. The method establishes a virtual terminal... | 09/28/2010 |
