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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8117062 | Digital online exchange A system for dynamically pricing media content is operatively coupled to one or more clients over a network. The system dynamically adjusts pricing of the media content and delivers the media content to the clients that order the media content at a dynamically adjus... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8117061 | System and method of using demand model to generate forecast and confidence interval for control of commerce system A method for transforming transactional data into a forecast and confidence interval for controlling a commerce system involves moving goods between members of a commerce system, and recording transaction data related to movement of goods between the members of the ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8117134 | Neutral pixel correction for proper marked color printing A system calculates appropriate billing within an imaging pipeline. An input component receives an image that is described as a plurality of pixels. A PDL component receives the image and determines a location, a color and a designation for each of the one or more p... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112303 | Digital online exchange for pricing items to exhaust inventory by an expiration time A dynamic pricing system for pricing items for sale by a seller which items are available in a limited quantity comprises a pricing server and various types of data stored in memory. The pricing server includes memory, a processor and a clock. One type of data store... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8108246 | System and method for pricing a product A system, method, and program product is described that is constructed to establish a database of market information, relating to a target product and its competitors in the market. The database is processed to allow the user to establish a price for the target proc... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103541 | Device and method for pricing repair services A list of pricing information for repair services includes a potentially large number of repair services grouped into a limited number of price categories such that the price of any given pricing category represents the price of each different service included in th... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103521 | Flexible mail delivery system and method The principles of the present invention provide the ability to flexibly change the delivery point and time for a mail item, while the item is en route. The recipient, sender, or mailer may flexibly change the delivery point of the item alone or in combination with e... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8090667 | Charging in a communication system This invention relates to a method of charging in a communications network, said method comprising including a first charging identity in at least one of a plurality of messages relating to a service, said first charging identity being specific to said at least one ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086545 | Charging in a communication system A method and a system for determining a charge for a communication in a communications network is provided. A message is received from a user equipment. The message comprises a payload and is addressed to a plurality of destinations. A first message is sent towards ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086544 | Analysis of energy-related factors for selecting computational job locations The selection of an optimal data center location for running a computational workload is based on multiple energy criteria. The location is chosen based on multivariate and predictive analysis of total direct and indirect energy costs, and other user-defined factors... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8082214 | System and methods for rating plural products A system and method for rating of each of plural products comprising identifying plurality of attributes associated with a category of product, applying a scalar structure for each attribute to provide scalar value of each attribute for each of the plural products, ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8078547 | Method of calculating and displaying premium freight costs Methods for calculating and displaying premium freight costs are provided. The methods comprise the steps of: A) selecting a time period of interest; B) selecting all shipments occurring within the selected time period and indexing the shipments into a list; C) for ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073729 | Forecasting discovery costs based on interpolation of historic event patterns A computer-implemented method of forecasting discovery costs captures historical business events, which are aggregated and statistically analyzed by matter type and business event types. Statistical data is used to calculate probabilities of occurrence of future bus... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8069054 | Automated transaction processing system and approach Transaction management for contract and contract-related approaches is facilitated. According to an example embodiment of the present invention, a transaction management computer is programmed to automatically set contract terms for a transaction based on business r... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8069122 | Predictive cost reduction based on a thermodynamic model Predictive cost reduction based on a thermodynamic model, in which parameters associated with a process are accessed. The parameters include a quantity of units of work-in-process at first and second times, and first and second constants respectively indicative of g... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8065238 | Performing robust cost analysis of a gas laser application A system that performs an analysis of a gas laser application comprises a receiver component that receives an identity of a gas laser and parameters relating to intended use of the gas laser. An analysis component automatically generates a cost analysis of the gas l... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8055521 | Optimized component selection for project completion A method is provided for determining the best combination of components/supplies/goods matched to a price provided by a supplier of those components/supplies/goods, such that costs are minimizing subject to a given supply function, fixed costs and various considerat... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8055530 | System and method for composite pricing of services to provide optimal bill schedule System and method for service pricing optimization enables analysis of multi-phased, multi-business unit, multi-process, multi-geo/country deal structure with its parts and phases having different pricing implications, and provides a flexible composite pricing sched... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8051017 | Practical model for high speed file delivery services supporting guaranteed delivery times and differentiated service levels A practical economic and technical model for building commercial-grade electronic file delivery services that provide the same scale, predictability, and differentiated service levels as physical courier services traditionally used to move electronic data on physica... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8051015 | Method and system for automated control of pricing A method, program product and system for automated control of pricing of a product or service. The method includes determining an initial price of the product, monitoring actual sales of the product at retail outlets, and adjusting the initial price during a selling... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8051016 | System and method of billing for printing service costs by examining the content of a page A method of billing for printing service costs is presented. The method entails examining the content of a page and applying a cost function to approximate the cost of printing the page. Examining the content of the page may include detecting at least one object in ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8024275 | Method and system for monitoring a business process A method and system for monitoring and fine tuning a business process are disclosed. A system for monitoring and fine tuning a business process, according to an embodiment of the invention, includes a process cost definition engine to generate and define a cost defi... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8019617 | System for optimizing transportation scheduling A computer modeling application is disclosed for finding the optimal solution to maximize total net margin, for the assignment of vehicles (e.g., especially vessels) in an available fleet to perform a set of voyages to transport cargo comprising one or more bulk pro... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8019694 | System and method for estimating forward retail commodity price within a geographic boundary Embodiments disclosed herein provide a new way to generate estimated forward retail prices for a retail commodity within a geographic boundary that represents a target market. Using estimates for local retail prices, combined with knowledge of current and historical... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8019643 | System and method for incorporating packaging and shipping ramifications of net profit/loss when up-selling An up-sell and down-sell method and system that considers a ranking of the individual marginal profit/loss of adding every product SKU of a merchant to an order (or a certain subset of SKU's based on other criteria), considering not only certain traditional fixed me... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8019695 | Customized system and method of billing for printing service costs by examining the contents of printed pages A system and method of billing for printing service costs is provided to examine content of a page and apply a cost function to approximate the cost of printing the page. Examining the page may include detecting an object in the page, determining a type of the detec... | 09/13/2011 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
