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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8005763 | Method and system for providing a distributed adaptive rules based dynamic pricing system A system for providing distributed control to process transactions is disclosed. The system includes a service provider system having associated therewith a number of rules and a number of meta-rules, a point of service device having associated therewith a number of... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8001131 | Method and system for ranking of keywords for profitability A physical computing device receives information regarding a total number of people who are searching on the search term. Information is received regarding an amount advertisers pay for the search term. Information is received regarding a click through rate of the s... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8001059 | IT-system design supporting system and design supporting method Inputting data necessary for designing an IT system leads a throughput evaluation part to draft a system idea meeting a design standard value for throughput and leads a reliability evaluation part to draft the system idea meeting a design standard value for failure ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7996331 | Computer-implemented systems and methods for performing pricing analysis Computer-implemented systems and methods for regular pricing optimization. A system can include decomposing a pricing situation into sub-problems. A non-linear optimization problem is solved to determine continuous optimal prices. A mixed integer linear programming ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7996329 | Profit optimization Profit optimization methods and systems for a supply chain are described. An implementation of the technique includes determining the initial cost of components required to manufacture a product, dynamically determining the cost for substitution of at least one prod... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7996330 | Automated system for generating proposed markdown strategy and tracking results of proposed markdown The present invention discloses a method, program product and system for controlling pricing of a product or service using a markdown profile. The method includes: selecting a markdown profile to be used for the product or service, selecting a retail price for the p... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7996332 | Method and system for forecasting usage costs and computer capacity The present invention provides at least a method and system for forecasting usage costs and computer capacity. With respect to the present invention, performance data and information related to transactions collected from computing devices are used to calculate corr... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7979360 | Error propagation in calculation with conditional alternatives The result of a first calculation may be determined by one of two alternative calculations. Each of the alternative calculations has an error associated therewith (due to factors such as measurement imprecision, rounding, etc.), and these errors propagate to the fir... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7979299 | Methods and apparatus for optimizing markdown pricing The invention provides methods and apparatus for optimizing markdown scheduling that group multiple retail sites into bins (or buckets) for purposes of scheduling markdown pricing on an item (or group of related items) sold by those sites. The groupings can be based... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7974932 | Service utility pricing model In one embodiment a method comprises a method of determining a price level for a computer-based service utility comprises determining a base price for the service utility, determining a loss premium for the service utility, and adding the loss premium to the base pr... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974851 | Method and system for price planning A price planning workbench includes an automated pricing engine, a manual pricing engine, and a user interface. The user interface is configured to receive price planning information from one of the automated pricing engine and the manual pricing engine to generate ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7970713 | Method and apparatus for automatic pricing in electronic commerce An automatic pricing method and apparatus for use in electronic commerce environments is described. Automatic pricing uses live price testing to estimate and measure demand for specific products—taking into account where appropriate, a vendor selected segmentation... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970619 | System and method for determining a weight of an arriving aircraft A method for receiving data for an aircraft landing at an airport, the data including an aircraft type and one of an owner and an operator of the aircraft, the data excluding a unique identifier for the aircraft, retrieving additional data related to the aircraft ba... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7966266 | Methods and systems for cost estimation based on templates Systems and methods are disclosed for generating cost estimates. In one implementation, a cost estimation system includes cost object metadata describing a mapping between functions at a cost estimation system and corresponding functions at a cost evaluation system.... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7962357 | System and method for calculating potential maximal price and share rate System and method for determining maximal price for projects are provided. A project scope of a project based on a plurality of selected criteria is defined, and total cost of the project is estimated. A value model of the project is generated and estimated value of... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7949663 | Enhanced project predictor A computer implemented system for project prediction is provided. The system includes a data manager to obtain historical project data. The system also includes an analyzer to analyze the historical project data and an analysis cycle time to generate models for a pr... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7921060 | Methods and systems for pricing products that enhance productivity A method for pricing a productivity enhancing product or method, such as a feed additive, a fertilizer, or the like, that includes consideration of an expected or realized added benefit from the productivity enhancing product or method to an end user and the price t... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7921061 | System and method for simultaneous price optimization and asset allocation to maximize manufacturing profits Systems and methods in accordance with various embodiments of the present invention provide for a system and method for simultaneous price optimization and asset allocation to maximize manufacturing profits. In one embodiment, a set of price points for the item and ... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7917452 | System and program product for optimizing usage based pricing and availability for a resource A system and program product for determining a price “P” to bill a customer for a resource. Amounts “U” and “Ci” of the resource provided and committed, respectively, to the customer during the billing period are determined. The price P=F(C | 03/29/2011 |
| 7917451 | Methods, apparatus, and program products to optimize semiconductor product yield prediction for performance and leakage screens An apparatus, method, and program product are provided to predict yield loss associated with performance screens or leakage screens. A leakage model is correlated to an on-chip measurement. Current limited yields are determined from the leakage model. A database is ... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7917450 | Information technology integration cost estimator A method is provided for estimating information technology integration costs. Capital data, staffing data, and integration goal data associated with a target enterprise are recorded. Capital data includes at least one of infrastructure data, computer data, network e... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7912791 | Method and device for synthesising an electrical architecture A method and device for synthesizing an electrical architecture. The method synthesizes a routing that obtains the following parameters: different configurations of service variants and calculator variants and rate of occurrence of the configurations, a sum of the r... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7912794 | Computerized cost estimate system and method A method and system for computing a cost estimate for a company that may be the client of a supplier providing information system equipment and consulting. An estimate is calculated according to a model with input characterizing circumstances of the client. The prog... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7912854 | Registration and maintenance of address data for each service point in a territory A computer system and method is disclosed for mining current and archived address data in order to identify a preferred address for each service point in a territory. The data mining system may start in response to the presentation of a candidate address for matchin... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7912792 | Systems and methods for making margin-sensitive price adjustments in an integrated price management system Systems and methods for generating margin sensitive pricing quotation in an integrated price adjustment system including: a) selecting products in selected product sets; b) providing pricing data corresponding to the products in selected product sets; c) providing g... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7912793 | Computer-implemented method and apparatus to allocate revenue from a derived avatar component A computer-implemented hierarchical revenue model includes providing a first revenue value associated with a first avatar component, providing a second revenue value associated with a second avatar component, and combining the first revenue value with a second reven... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7908228 | Accruals determination A computer-based method of determining freight cost accruals pertaining to shipments provided by transportation providers for an ordering party having cost units. The method includes using input data which comprises shipment-related data, at least some of which is r... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7895134 | System to form an actual sales or delivery value for all components of a commingled hydrocarbon fluid stream A system to form an actual sales value or actual delivery value for all components of a commingled hydrocarbon fluid stream using mass, volume and energy, to create a theoretical commingled hydrocarbon fluid stream molecular composition and present the information o... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7895133 | Pricing method and system A pricing method and system. The method includes receiving, by a computing system, data associated with a business. The data comprises a first list of negotiated pricing rates and associated skills, a second list of requesters, and a third list of suppliers. The com... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7860806 | System and method for charging for data reception Systems and methods that make use of acknowledgments in the charging of users for data reception. Certain of these systems and methods additionally consider quality of service. ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7860807 | Web page creation supporting system, Web page creation supporting apparatus, Web page creation supporting method, computer program, and record medium A Web page creation support system includes a customer terminal unit (300), a Web page creation support server (100) which is accessible from the customer terminal unit (300) via a network, and a creator terminal unit (400) for performing... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7860858 | Closed-loop predicate analysis Processing of a request is optimized. The request has one or more predicates. A list of the one or more predicates in the request is created and predicates for which an actual cost has not been stored or for which a cost cannot be estimated are pruned from the list.... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7831628 | System and method for management of building department services The present invention, known as, a Building Department Integrated Solution (BDIS), provides a new method and system of municipality building information management in a municipality's building department by providing a management tool that provides accuracy and impr... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7827121 | Maintenance cost management device and user device A user of devices (1) to (3) pays a predetermined accumulated fee to a device maker through a finance company every month. For each device of each user, a server (B) of the maker converts the sum of the accumulative fee into maintenance points and stor... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7822692 | Automated control of pricing using markdown profiles A method, program product and system for controlling pricing for sale of a product, where the method includes: selecting a markdown profile to be used for the product; selecting a retail price for the product; acquiring updated sales data regarding the product; and ... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7814031 | Apparatus for handling mail on the fly This mail-handling apparatus includes a feed module for feeding in mail items, a weigh module and a franking module. The weigh module includes regulator means for regulating the speed of advance of the conveyor means of the weigh module, which regulator means are ad... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7809581 | Rule relaxation and subset optimization system A method for computing a preferred set of prices for products in a subset of a plurality of products is provided. Generally, initial prices for a plurality of products are stored. A subset of products of the plurality of products is designated, where the number of p... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7805383 | Price planning system and method including automated price adjustment, manual price adjustment, and promotion management The present invention discloses a method, program, product and system for managing the sale of a product. The system can determine if the product is a slow seller, determining a markdown to be applied to a price of the product, reconciling a markdown budget with the... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7801834 | Method and apparatus for estimator tool A software estimator tool implements an estimation process. The tool implements a bottom-up estimation process and a top-down estimation process. The bottom-up estimation process calculates an cumulative estimated level of effort for selected stages during the imple... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7792762 | System and method for providing a price quotation for a transportation service providing route selection capability 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 information about a rail transportation service including an origin and a ... | 09/07/2010 |
