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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7680685 | System and method for modeling affinity and cannibalization in customer buying decisions A computer system models customer response using observable data. The observable data includes transaction, product, price, and promotion. The computer system receives data observable from customer responses. A set of factors including customer traffic within a stor... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7680686 | System and methods for business to business price modeling using price change optimization The present invention relates to business to business market price control and management systems. More particularly, the present invention relates to systems and methods for generating price modeling and optimization modules in a business to business market setting... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7672867 | Optimized deployment of parts in a distribution network A method for deploying parts is disclosed. Locations that include supply locations and demand locations are defined. A supply location supplies parts to a demand location. A demand is computed for each part at each location. An availability lead-time is estimated fo... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7672868 | Creating an incentive to author useful item reviews A facility for rewarding the provision of useful item reviews is described. The facility receives a plurality of item reviews, each from a source. The facility publishes each of the plurality of received item reviews, and assesses the usefulness of the published ite... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7672866 | Econometric optimization engine A preferred set of prices for a plurality of products, generally demand coefficients is provided. Cost data including activity-based costs is also received. A preferred set of prices that will provide a local optimum for the preferred set of prices which maximizes p... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7672865 | Method and apparatus for retail data mining using pair-wise co-occurrence consistency The invention, referred to herein as PeaCoCk, uses a unique blend of technologies from statistics, information theory, and graph theory to quantify and discover patterns in relationships between entities, such as products and customers, as evidenced by purchase beha... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7672864 | Generating and displaying level-of-interest values Attendees or viewers of a presentation provide input marking specific points corresponding to a high level of interest. Received bookmarks are aggregated to generate overall level-of-interest values for various points in the presentation. A graphical depiction of th... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7664671 | Methods and systems for profile-based forecasting with dynamic profile selection Disclosed herein are systems and methods for profile-based forecasting with dynamic profile selection. Some method embodiments may comprise determining a reference set of profiles from a source set of profiles, and using the reference set of profiles to generate a f... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7664669 | Methods and systems for distributing information within a dynamically defined community One embodiment of the present invention distributes data via a network to remotely located individuals. Evaluation feedback by one or more of the individuals is transmitted to others so that the feedback may be used by others to quickly locate the more useful data. ... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7664670 | Product development and assessment system The present invention discloses a method, program product and system for conducting product assessment and development. One preferred embodiment relates to a concept and product development technique. An exemplary system and method relates to a web-based survey tech... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7660736 | 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... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7660734 | System for creating optimized promotion event calendar Methods and apparatus for creating a promotional event calendar are provided. A sales model and a cost model are created The value of offers and promotional events using the sales model and cost model is determined. Combinations of offers and promotional events base... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7660735 | Method and system for creation of consumer segmentations using maturation and exogenous curves A system and method for segmenting and clustering consumer segments is disclosed. The system and method disclosed decompose micro-segments into maturation curves, exogenous curves and scaling parameters. The system and method of the present invention use these gener... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657455 | Method and system for analyzing a plurality of parts The present invention includes a method and system configured to analyze a plurality of parts, each of the parts having at least one part characteristic. The method includes the steps of establishing at least one repository of the part characteristics, establishing ... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7653568 | System and method of identifying individuals of influence This invention relates to a system and method for identifying target individuals who possess certain characteristics statistically indicative of their ability to influence others in their decision making regarding consumer goods, consumer products, political issues ... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7650294 | Knowledge base system for an equipment market A system and method for managing and processing supply and demand information in an equipment market comprises a business logic engine, a database and interface engine and communications engine on a web host server. The communications engine is configured to enable ... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7647241 | Computer program product for determining and reducing customer service impact In general, in one aspect, the invention features a computerized method for determining customer service impact. The method includes receiving item orders having a requested completion date. The method also includes scheduling a scheduled completion date for each it... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7644009 | Method for forecasting and revenue management A method and system that enables users to generate and manage forecasts through an integrated software tool. Forecast administrators are enabled to create forecast series data that define a forecast's structure and provide search criteria that is used in generating ... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7644010 | System and method of identification codes to allow tracking of outbound mail and corresponding inbound reply mail A system and method to provide identification codes to track outbound mail and corresponding replies. Tracking is enabled where an intended recipient is not determined until after physical components of the mailpiece are assembled. A first ID code is associated with... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7640180 | Demand planning using exchange balances A method for demand planning includes determining a demand value representing a demand quantity of an end product that a manufacturer is to produce. Production of the demand quantity of the end product includes production of a quantity of an intermediate product usi... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7636671 | Determining, pricing, and/or providing well servicing treatments and data processing systems therefor An embodiment includes a method of pricing a well servicing treatment based on well characteristics, that comprises obtaining one or more well characteristics of the well servicing treatment, and generating a price of the well servicing treatment based on the one or... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7634423 | Computer-implemented system and method for web activity assessment A computer-implemented system and method for evaluating customer activity. Data about the customer activity is received and is used to generate actual data values associated with preselected business metrics. One or more business metric score cards may be generated ... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7630916 | Systems and methods for improving collaborative filtering The present invention provides collaborative filtering systems and methods employing statistical smoothing to provide quickly creatable models that can efficiently predict probability that a user likes an item and/or similarities between items. Smoothing is accompli... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7630917 | Automatic learning for mapping spoken/text descriptions of products onto available products A method, processing device, and machine-readable medium are provided. Costs of states of a state space are calculated. Each state represent one or more available product attributes having zero or more decided attribute values. The calculating is based, at least in ... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7627494 | Systems, methods and computer program products for modeling a monetary measure for a good based upon technology maturity levels A systems, methods and computer program products are provided for modeling a monetary measure of a good, such as a cost or revenue associated with the good. A method begins by selecting at least one qualitative measure of maturity for at least one technology associa... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7627495 | Systems, methods and computer program products for modeling demand, supply and associated profitability of a good Systems, methods and computer program products for modeling demand, supply and associated profitability of a good. According to one method, a price sensitivity distribution is determined, and then a market potential distribution of a number of units of the good is d... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7624036 | Change management analysis and implementation system and method The present invention involves an analytical method of providing change management statistics in an organization which includes a plurality of individuals. The method involves the steps of: creating a survey including a plurality of questions relating to the subject... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7620563 | Method, system and computer program product for grouping items in a grocery store An embodiment of the present invention is a method for grouping items in a grocery store containing a plurality of existing products. The method comprises categorizing each existing product by type. Shelf space is assigned to each existing product. Assigning include... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7620564 | Sales territory planning tool and method A method for making and organizing a sales territory plan includes guiding users through the development of sales goals, strategies, and targeted lists of accounts derived from the quantifiable characteristics. Historical sales data and strategy are reviewed to defi... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7620565 | Customer-based product design module A network, including a product sub-system that interacts with a user, gathers information from the user, communicates the information to the product's vendor, and receives new pre-programmed interactions from the vendor for future interactions with the user. The sub... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7617119 | Price optimization with rule relaxation A price optimization system computes a preferred set of prices for a plurality of products. The optimization system stores a plurality of rules. The system may also prioritize the plurality of rules, and further relax lower priority rules to allow higher priority ru... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7613626 | Integrated price management systems with future-pricing and methods therefor The present invention presents systems and methods of future-pricing in an integrated price management system. The invention provides a method of maintaining at least one deal with a lowest price status for at least one product in the price management system by inpu... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7610214 | Robust forecasting techniques with reduced sensitivity to anomalous data Robust forecasting techniques are relatively immune from anomalies or outliers in observed data, such as a stream of data values reflective of the operation or use of a computer system. One robust technique provides a relatively accurate forecast of seasonal behavio... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7606726 | Interactive survey and data management method and apparatus An interactive survey and data management method and apparatus for collecting and processing survey information in which a questioning series of core item questions is asked of a sample participant and only when a core item response is within a predetermined range a... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7606727 | System and method for identifying optimal marketing offers The present invention provides for a system and method for identifying optimal marketing offers in a mass marketing campaign. An optimal offer for a particular prospect at a particular time in the multi-wave campaign is determined. In accordance with one embodiment ... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7606728 | Shopping environment analysis system and method with normalization A system and method are provided for analyzing a shopping environment. The method typically includes tracking a plurality of paths of a plurality of persons in the shopping environment, and recording corresponding path data. The method further may include normalizin... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7603286 | Demand-model based price image calculation method and computer program therefor A demand control process (42) includes a price-image computation subprocess (44) and an optimization subprocess (46). The price-image computation subprocess (44) tunes a demand model to both price (76) and non-price (78) dem... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7599849 | Systems, methods and computer program products for determining a learning curve value and modeling associated profitability and costs of a good Systems, methods and computer program products for determining a learning curve value and modeling an associated profitability of a good are provided. According to one method of determining a learning curve value, recurring costs of producing each unit of the good a... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7596506 | Method and apparatus for evaluating visitors to a web server Different web pages on a web server are associated with different qualification profiles, each of which is assigned a value by the web-site proprietor. Traffic data hits at the web-site are analyzed to determine which web pages the visitor viewed on the web server. ... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7596505 | System to quantify consumer preferences A user interface includes a plurality of selectable graphical elements, each of the graphical elements representing a respective attribute level of a product attribute, a first area for presenting at least one of the plurality of selectable graphical elements that h... | 09/29/2009 |