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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8160968 | Digital media methods Many digital media methods are detailed. In one, consumers are provided incentives for viewing commercials. In another, charges for entertainment content are assessed based on the percentage actually rendered to a consumer. Signature data can be derived from the adv... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8135650 | Method and apparatus for a cryptographically assisted commercial network system designed to facilitate buyer-driven conditional purchase offers The present invention is a method and apparatus for effectuating bilateral buyer-driven commerce. The present invention allows prospective buyers of goods and services to communicate a binding purchase offer globally to potential sellers, for sellers conveniently to... | 03/13/2012 |
| 7856406 | System and method for managing accounts payable and accounts receivable A system and method for managing accounts payable that allocates at least a portion of an invoiced dollar amount to a virtual account associated with a vendor, allows the vendor to request that a dispersal dollar amount be transferred from the virtual account to a r... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7788185 | Electronic payment system, a recording medium recording an electronic payment program and an electronic payment apparatus The computer of a relay agency holds the money which a buyer pays for a commodity in a relay account. Then, the computer of the relay agency makes a payment transfer card and a notification card, and sends the notification card together with the request of purchase ... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7769698 | Navigation through components This disclosure provides various embodiments of software for navigating through components. In one aspect, the software associates a transactional process with a first component, triggers navigation from the first component to a second component, and performs the tr... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7580899 | Offline code based reloading system An offline code-based reload device and method for adding value to a reconfigurable memory storage means in a portable storage medium. Reload is effected using a reload device not directly connected by telephone or any other communication network to a value supplier... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7444588 | Methods, systems, and storage mediums for providing multi-media content storage and management services Exemplary embodiments include methods, systems, and storage mediums for providing multi-media content storage and management services. From a single user interface, the method includes creating a library of content items including at least one of a photo library and... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7437331 | Short message service (SMS) e-commerce A method for making a purchase of products or services via the Internet by a customer from a vendor includes transmitting, by the customer, a purchase request and mobile subscriber identification data representing the mobile subscriber identification number to the v... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433848 | System for carrying out a transaction A system is proposed for performing transactions with terminals which fundamentally allow a plurality of different transactions to be performed. The terminals (10, 11) are connected for this purpose via a terminal network (30) with at least one node co... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7426638 | Controlling access to information on a network using an extended network universal resource locator Systems and methods for controlling access to information on a network where a first network entity receives a message requesting access to stored information via a network communication. The received message includes a first component encrypted with a first crypto-... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7421583 | System, method and article of manufacture for determining a price of cryptograph IC services based on a computational burden thereof A system, method and article of manufacture are provided for pricing a cryptographic service. A request for a cryptographic service is received. An identification is made of one or more of a computational burden required to perform the cryptographic service, a priva... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7415610 | Facilitating access to information stored on a network using an extended network universal resource locator Systems and methods for facilitating access to stored information associated with a user, where a service provider receives, from a network entity controlling access to the stored information, a first message component encrypted with a first crypto-key associated wi... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7412423 | Charging system and charging method A user, in requesting a service provider to provide predetermined service, sends to a service provider data and signature data created based upon the data. The service provider calculates a fee based upon this data and requests a bank to collect the fee from the use... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7412424 | Third party certification of content in electronic commerce transactions A system for providing third-party certification of content in an electronic commerce transaction includes one or more servers operating on one or more computers. The one or more servers receive a first set of attribute values from a first party, the first set of at... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7406472 | Integrated import/export system An integrated import/export system includes a database of records relating to a plurality of shipments of goods, a database server and an application server. The application server communicates with the database server to provide members of a supply chain for a ship... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7401052 | Method for validating warranty compliance and ink compatibility assurance A method for validating warranty compliance for compatible fluid use of a printing system entails fluidly engaging a replaceable fluid container with a print station. The container includes a smart card adapted to track volumetric credits. Through use, the print sta... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7363499 | Blinded encryption and decryption A method and system for utilizing and encryption or decryption agent so as to preclude access by the encryption agent or decryption agent, respectively, to the information being encrypted or decrypted. To preclude access by the encryption agent, a blinding function ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7349541 | Method and apparatus for controlling content consumption A method and apparatus is provided in which playable content is transmitted in response to a playable-content request; a key for the playable content is separately transmitted in response to a key request. Quality information about the playable content is used to ge... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7346587 | Intelligent method of order completion in an e-commerce environment based on availability of stored billing information An intelligent method of e-commerce order completion automatically completes an order using either stored billing information, or information supplied at purchase if none is stored. User sends an order to a merchant. On receipt, user's authentication level is checke... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7340436 | Communication network charging method and system A method and system for changing subscribers in communications networks. In communications networks, more and more information providers (referred to as content providers) are making available WML/HTML pages (data contents) on their servers which subscribers can req... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7334128 | Accessing information on a network using an extended network universal resource locator To facilitate access to information on a network, an extended network universal resource locator is generated. The generated extended network universal resource locator has (i) a network address, such as an Internet URL, at which stored information, such as detailed... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7328844 | Point-of-transaction machine with improved versatility and related method A system and method for conducting sales transactions in a manner that permits a user to access all aspects of their finances to debit or withdraw funds from an account to fund a sales transaction. The system employs a universal account card that permits the user to... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7324973 | Gaming system and method of securely transferring a monetary value A cashless gaming system and method of securely transferring a monetary value. When “cashing-out” of a first terminal of the system, the monetary value is encrypted with an encryption key and an encryption algorithm to produce an encrypted monetary value. A tran... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7293066 | Methods and apparatus supporting access to stored data A data processing device, such as a television set top box, receives user-selected content data from a remote source over a network in response to user initiated content selection information. The data processing device stores the user-selected content data (e.g., r... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7286818 | Apparatus and method for increased security of wireless transactions A mobile communication device with security mechanisms is provided for enabling wireless personal information transfer with increased security. In another embodiment of the invention, a mobile communication device is used to confirm a transaction. ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7272582 | Fee determination device Methods and electronic architectures for volume based handling and processing electronic data, for which a fee is determined based on a selectable metric, are provided. One embodiment includes program instructions for collecting non-aggregated data in an encrypted f... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7269647 | Simplified network packet analyzer for distributed packet snooper A method, system, apparatus, and computer program product are presented for a dynamically locatable packet analyzer spread across a distributed network of endpoints for determining packet generating applications is provided. In particular, the analyzer determines wh... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7264153 | Final sale merchandise card A system for activating a merchandise card and account that permits a card user to initially purchase or reload cash value into a merchandise account using a card issued by an issuer such as a merchant, bank, or card association via a terminal, with or without a PIN... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7263493 | Delivering electronic versions of supporting documents associated with an insurance claim Methods and systems for requesting and delivering supporting documents to an insurance carrier to enable the carrier to process an insurance claim for services rendered by an institutional health care provider. Hard copies of supporting documents are converted to el... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7263491 | On-line degree and current enrollment verification system and method The present invention provides a new and useful system and method for processing on-line degree and current enrollment verification inquiries. The system includes a requestor computer and an institutional computer each connected to a server computer via the Internet... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7257391 | Wireless data system A system and method for enabling a user to request and receive product information, participate in voting or polling activities, reprint an article or other publication, request and authorize a purchase of a magazine subscription, music sound clip, or other product,... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7254562 | Rule-based packet selection, storage, and access method and system A rule-based selection, storage and access method and system for processing packets from network traffic. First, packet intercepted from network traffic are selected based on at least one rule. Second, the selected packets are stored in an in-kernel storage buffer, ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7251656 | Electronic payments using multiple unique payee identifiers To make a payment to a payee on behalf of a payor, the payment service provider receives, via a network, a first payment request to make a first payment to a payee on behalf of a first payor and a second payment request to make a second payment to the payee on behal... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7249112 | System and method for assigning a funding source for a radio frequency identification device A transponder-reader payment system includes a RFID reader for interrogating a transponder, and a fob including a transponder which is associated with fob data file funded by one or more funding sources. In exemplary operation, the fob identifying information may be... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7249097 | Method for ordering goods, services, and content over an internetwork using a virtual payment account A virtual payment system for ordering and paying for goods, services and content over an internetwork is disclosed. The virtual payment system comprises a commerce gateway component (52) and a credit processing server component (53). The virtual paymen... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7246149 | Negotiated wireless peripheral systems Methods, apparatus, and business techniques are disclosed for use in mobile network communication systems. A mobile unit such as a smart phone is preferably equipped with a wireless local area network connection and a wireless wide area network connection. The local... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7240032 | Customer privacy protection systems and methods A method for protecting consumer personal data by giving the consumer a choice of privacy preferences linked to their financial payment instruments such as credit cards, checks and the like. The privacy preference data is stored electronically in a database and on t... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7240031 | Bill payment system and method with a master merchant database A method and system for paying bills. A service provider receives, via a network, a request to pay a bill on behalf of a consumer. The consumer can request that any merchant be paid. The service provider searches a master database containing names of merchants to de... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7237255 | Method and system to dynamically present a payment gateway for content distributed via a network A method and system to dynamically present a payment gateway to a content requester commences when a content distributor receives a request for access to a content item provided by a content provider. The content distributor determines whether a first payment gatewa... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7231068 | Electronic transaction verification system An electronic transaction verification system for use with transaction tokens that gathers and transmits information about the transaction token and biometric data. The electronic transaction verification system preferably digitizes various indicia of the token and ... | 06/12/2007 |
