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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7280979 | Methods and apparatus for intelligent, purpose-based selection of goods and services in telephonic and electronic commerce Apparatus and methods are provided for effecting remote commerce, such as in telemarketing (either inbound or outbound) and in electronic commerce, which are particularly adapted for the intelligent selection and proffer of products, services or information to a use... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7281044 | SAN infrastructure on demand service system The present invention provides improved techniques for managing storage resources, such as disk drives, I/O ports, and the like according to user demand for these storage resources. In a specific embodiment, a centralized SIoD system manages installed storage resour... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7275685 | Method for electronic payment The invention is a system for facilitating credit card transactions. The system operates in a setting that includes a merchant platform, a System platform and a subscriber mobile device. The merchant platform is in electronic data communications with the System plat... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7275720 | Actively cooled ceramic thermal protection system An apparatus and method for thermal protection is provided. A thermal protection apparatus includes a porous layer attached to an inner structural member requiring thermal protection. The porous layer serves as both a cooling air plenum and a transpiring medium. The... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7274950 | Method, apparatus and article to remotely associate wireless communications devices with subscriber identities and/or proxy wireless communications devices Apparatus and methods provide remote access to subscriber identity information and subscriber configuration information stored on one or more subscriber identity modules (SIMs), to allow remote configuration of wireless communications devices. A SIM server provides ... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7275095 | Internet subscriber management A subscriber information management system for use with a broadcast system, and a method of managing subscriber information, are described. The system includes storing subscriber internet parameters relating to internet services access and storing subscriber broadca... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7269279 | Currency bill and coin processing system An integrated system for processing currency bills, coins, and other media includes a compact currency bill processing device, a coin scale, a keyboard, and a processor integrated into a housing as a single unit. The bill processing device is used for counting curre... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7266519 | Billing system with authenticated wireless device transaction event data A system, method, and computer program for billing wireless device subscribers based upon billable interaction with applications and services resident on third party computer devices that are accessible through a wireless network. The system uses authenticatable tra... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7266525 | Invoiceless trading and settlement method and system Methods and systems consistent with the present invention overcome the shortcomings of existing trading systems by providing an invoiceless trading system that creates incentives for customers to pay suppliers within a predetermined period of time, such as a settlem... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7266520 | Digital computer system and methods for managing an auction market for preferred-return securities A digital computer machine and a data processing system, methods involving the same and products produced thereby, as well as data structures and articles of manufacture pertaining thereto, as pertains to an auction for trading preferred return securities. The metho... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7266531 | Mail processing system with unique mailpiece authorization assigned in advance of mailpieces entering carrier service mail processing stream A mailing list is created including destination addresses for mailpieces to be submitted to a carrier service for delivery. A unique mailpiece identifier associated with mailpieces on the mailing list is generated by the carrier or other trusted third party. The uni... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7263558 | Method and apparatus for providing additional information in response to an application server request A method and apparatus are disclosed for providing additional information, such as advertisements, to a client device via the response signal to an application (or web) server request. A client device is in communication with a server device, and sends a request for... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7263527 | Grouping selected transactions in account ledger At the time transactions are entered into accounting software data records, a user is given the option of creating a transaction group for transactions expected to appear in an external statement as a single entry. A persistent record of the association of selected ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7263503 | Capital allocation in a net interest revenue implementation for financial processing in a relational database management system A financial processing system that accesses account, event and organization attributes from a relational database management database, wherein: (1) the account attributes comprise data about accounts being measured, (2) the event attributes comprise data about accou... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7260559 | Method for simultaneously improving educational, economic, ecological, environmental, and other processes vital to communities A method serving as a catalyst and tool for improving the fundamental processes vital to a community by applying a quantitative, interlaced, simultaneous, multi-disciplinary, systems engineering approach to improve and maximize achievement of goals and processes occ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260195 | Call management service A system and method that enables a telecommunications consumer to define groups to be included in a monthly bill, and then periodically generate a bill in accordance with the consumer's specifications. In one embodiment, the invention includes a plurality of portabl... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260549 | Method and system for managing risk A data processing system and method of using said data processing system for assessing and managing risk is disclosed. The preferred embodiment of the method includes the steps of identifying a set of risk elements; determining an importance for each said risk eleme... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7257672 | Error protection for lookup operations performed on ternary content-addressable memory entries Lookup operations are performed on ternary content-addressable memory (TCAM) entries, with error protection provided. Groups of TCAM entries are programmed such that each of its entries differ by more than a predetermined calculated count of ones distance of k bits,... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7257560 | Cost minimization of services provided by multiple service providers A technique for efficiently and accurately minimizing costs associated with services provided by a plurality of service providers (SPs) that bill for their services based on a tiered cost structure. Target tiers are generated based on the utilization of the SPs' ser... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7257611 | Distributed nonstop architecture for an event processing system Methods and architectures for implementing a fault tolerant real time event processing system are provided. The system includes at least one satellite and at least one primary data center. The system remains operational when the primary data center is unavailable to... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7254558 | Method and system for prioritizing debt collections A collections prioritization method and system for use in a financial services business is disclosed. The system is configured to generate a collection priority value from information stored on the system and queue the accounts for collection action based on the pri... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7254554 | Accounting system and method for processing transaction data Transaction data representing a transaction to be processed is input through an input terminal. An interface unit assigns the input transaction data a business code identifying the business activities of a company involved in the transaction represented by the trans... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7254550 | Interactive symptomatic recording system and method utilizing symptomatic memory The Internet provides communication between a plurality of service sites and a plurality of equipment sites at which equipment needing periodic service and emergency service are operated. Each piece of equipment includes a sensor array and a manual actuator that is ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7254606 | Data management method using network This invention has been made to manage data possessed by a user on a network. One of this invention is a data management method using a network system which includes a server and a client terminal, including the step of making a control server receive a user's data ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7254584 | Relationship-based inherited attributes system A relationship-based inherited attributes system provides an Inheritance Table where each object in the table has an Inherited Object ID. Each ID is listed with all of the ID's that the object inherits from with sequence number that indicates the order of the inheri... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7249709 | Holder for papers of value, and method of registering the contents thereof The register (1) for papers of value (4), such as bank notes and vouchers, comprises a reading unit (2) for reading out the memories of the integrated circuits (40) of the papers of value (4), and is further provided with a clock a... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7249032 | Selective merchandise price optimization mechanism A method for optimizing the prices of products for sale. The method includes utilizing a computer-based scenario/results processor within an optimization server to present a sequence of data entry templates to a user, whereby the user specifies an optimization scena... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7249033 | Apparatus and method for selective merchandise price optimization An apparatus is provided for determining optimum prices of products for sale. The apparatus includes a scenario/results processor through which a user prescribes an optimization scenario, and through which optimum prices are presented to the user. The optimum prices... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7248937 | Demand breakout for a supply chain A system (100) for demand breakout for a supply chain includes a memory (112) operable to store a plurality of orders (118) for at least one product. Each product may be produced using at least one precursor. The memory (112) is also oper... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7249074 | Method, apparatus and computer program for managing accounting system interfaces The Accounts Receivable System's (ARS) functions are divided into five separate modules, which includes a Credit Inquiry Module, a Remittance Processing Module, an Accounts Receivable Claim Module, a Maintenance Module, and an Administration Module. These modules ar... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7249081 | Load aware optimization A process utilizing a modification to the inputs to a standard portfolio optimization is provided for facilitating load aware optimizations. First, each loaded financial product, such as a mutual fund having a front end or back end load, of a set of available financ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7248731 | Method and apparatus for currency discrimination An improved method and apparatus for discriminating between currency bills of different denominations uses an optical sensing and correlation technique based on the sensing of bill reflectance characteristics obtained by illuminating and scanning a bill along one of... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7248855 | Convergent communications system and method with a rule set for authorizing, debiting, settling and recharging a mobile commerce account A rule set is used to determine at least one rule for authorizing a transaction debiting an account of an authorized user. Subsequently, the account is debited, according to the at least one rule, in real time if the transaction is authorized. The real time debit is... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7249073 | Methods and apparatus for a personal financial service provider Systems are provided for administering employee funds and transactions utilizing a personal financial service provider system which allows comprehensive administration of employee accounts. A system for administering employee funds includes a worksite employer havin... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7249138 | Parallel selection processing for financial processing in a relational database management system A Value Analyzer system is a data-driven computer-facilitated financial model that provides accurate and consistent profitability calculations using account and event data stored in a relational database managed by a relational database management system (RDBMS), wh... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7246169 | Content distribution reservation method, content distribution method, reservation management device, and program To allow a distributor to take into account the capacity of content distribution targets or service fee when making a reservation for live distribution of content. In a content supply system 100, in order to use a streaming server 102 to perform a live... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7246110 | Product feature and relation comparison system A method of presenting data regarding products. Feature categories are assigned to each product category based on available data. A weighted importance is assigned to each feature category of each product category based on the available data. The items in the produc... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7243334 | System and method for generating user interface code A system for generating user interface code is provided. The system includes a user interface class system generating a user interface class that has two or more user interface features that can be assembled into a user interface by an operator, such as field entry ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7243143 | Flow probe connectivity determination An accounting system inserts flow probes into various locations within a network to measure certain parameters. The flow probes capture Internet Protocol (IP) packets and determines if the captured IP packets contain messages relating to error reporting. If the IP p... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7243080 | Systems and associated methods for wireless services for package tracking during delivery The present invention provides systems and methods that allow a user to track packages throughout the course of delivery without requiring the user to completely reenter tracking information such as an 18 character tracking number and also allow the user to use a wi... | 07/10/2007 |
