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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5852808 | Method and apparatus for providing professional liability coverage A system and method are provided that, in the case of professionals having large numbers of publicly traded corporate clients, are able to use the relative probabilities of different ones of those clients suffering a professional liability triggering even... | 12/22/1998 |
| 5844798 | Method and apparatus for machine translation A method and apparatus settles the ambiguity of the meaning of a word having a plurality of meanings in a first language to make source sentences in the first language correspond in the most appropriate way to translated sentences in a second language. So... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5835897 | Computer-implemented method for profiling medical claims A computer-implemented program for profiling medical claims to assist health care managers in determining the cost-efficiency and service quality of health care providers. The software program allows an objective means for measuring and quantifying health... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5836011 | Implementation of teams and roles within a people oriented work environment A method and apparatus for efficiently representing, maintaining and managing a project and enclosed lifecycles in a data processing system used to support a people-oriented work environment. An object-oriented language environment is utilized to represen... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5822736 | Variable margin pricing system A variable margin pricing system and method that generates retail prices based on customer price sensitivity. Products are grouped into pools from a first pool for most price sensitive products to a last pool for least price sensitive products. A logical ... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5809513 | Text editing method and text editing processor A text editing method updates one or a plurality of historical files which store text data by historical data of edited results. The text editing method includes the steps of (a) developing, at a start of an editing, text data of a specified historical le... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5806078 | Version management system A version management system for storing and retrieving changes to spreadsheet and word processor documents on a digital computer. The version management system is preferably integrated into the interface of existing spreadsheet or word processing software... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5788645 | Method and apparatus for event processing in biological application A method and apparatus for processing biological signals on an event basis. An event low pass filter (LPF) is provided which passes variations in event features below an event cut-off value, which is analogous to the time-based cutoff frequency. An event ... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5778346 | System and methods for appointment reconcilation A system for processing multiple schedules, constructed in accordance with the principle of the present invention, includes an information processing system having a memory and a processor; an input device for entering user information; a display device f... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5778345 | Health data processing system A method and system for evaluating health care provider performance, forecasting health care resource consumption on a macroeconomic scale, and optimizing the allocation of health care resource. The method includes the steps of a) providing patient discha... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5774879 | Automated financial instrument processing system An integrated data processing system is described which comprises an execution control processor (10) that itself comprises a security processor (12) and data base processor (14). Bidirectional communication with a printer (30) is provided through a print... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5764898 | System for task tracking and controlling electronic mail An office information system has a plurality of work stations connected via a network to mutually exchange electronic mail, each work station including a control information definition unit for defining control information representing what kind of proces... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5765138 | Apparatus and method for providing interactive evaluation of potential vendors An arrangement (apparatus and method) for providing an interactive evaluation of suppliers as proposed vendors for a project. A supplier evaluation system comprises a database storing a plurality of maturity requirements and recognized quality standards, ... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5765142 | Method and apparatus for the development and implementation of an interactive customer service system that is dynamically responsive to change in marketing decisions and environments A customer service system interface development tool is disclosed for use by an interface designer in creating an interface for customer interaction. The interface created by the development tool may be incorporated into a customer service system for pres... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5761646 | Technique for assisting a user in setting attributes of selected screen objects by use of a preview display of a replica object A user interface technique for applying attributes to screen objects. The user selects a screen object, and causes the display of a dialog box for changing an attribute of the screen object. The dialog box includes an attribute palette or other controls u... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5754872 | Character information processing system In a character recognizing system having a plurality of terminals interconnected by a network, a dictionary for recognizing a character pattern inputted in an image form is distributed to each terminal. When a dictionary necessary for recognizing a charac... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5752236 | Life insurance method, and system Life insurance methods, systems and products which revolve around having an insurance plan with at least two separate but related insurance contracts on the same insured or insureds. The contracts are developed using life insurance product data to develop... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5752237 | Method and apparatus for providing professional liability coverage A system and method are provided that, in the case of professionals having large numbers of publicly traded corporate clients, are able to use the relative probabilities of different ones of those clients suffering a professional liability triggering even... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5745886 | Trusted agents for open distribution of electronic money A system for the open distribution of electronic money is provided having a customer trusted agent associated with a first money module, a merchant trusted agent that establishes a first cryptographically secure session with the customer trusted agent and... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5734838 | Database computer architecture for managing an incentive award program and checking float of funds at time of purchase In an advanced intelligent network based information distribution system including a central office switching system connected to communication lines including at least one service switching point for selectively providing switched communications between ... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5732276 | Machine translation device A system for helping the production of a desired translation by aiding the operator to make revisions within the text results of each stage of the translation process. The system achieves this goal by receiving text inputted by the operator and conferring... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5729695 | Method and device for acknowledgement of transmitted information The present invention provides a method and a device for increasing the coverage in a shop data system for each individual information module (B1-B10), which has a low output power for its message acknowledgement at the reception of information, ensuring ... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5726884 | Integrated hazardous substance tracking and compliance Apparatus that provides an integrated approach for all management activities for hazardous substances used or generated at a facility, including form generation and compliance with the reporting requirements. The apparatus includes eight functional groupi... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5724597 | Method and system for matching names and addresses A method and system for matching textual strings representing customer names/addresses is disclosed. The textual strings are first transformed by a plurality of predefined filters. The transformed textual strings are then compared utilizing a plurality of... | 03/03/1998 |
| 5724594 | Method and system for automatically identifying morphological information from a machine-readable dictionary A method and system for determining the derivational relatedness of a derived word and a base word. In a preferred embodiment, the system includes a machine-readable dictionary containing entries for head words and morphemes. Each entry contains definitio... | 03/03/1998 |
| 5715468 | Memory system for storing and retrieving experience and knowledge with natural language A memory system for storing and retrieving experience and knowledge with natural language. The primary components of this memory system include syntactic processes, function word processes, morphology processes, ellipsis processes, concrete and abstract n... | 02/03/1998 |
| 5712984 | System for funding future workers' compensation losses A system funds future losses incurred by an insurance carrier on active workers' compensation insurance claims. Statistical models are used to predict future costs and durations of claims. The statistical models are generated by applying statistical analy... | 01/27/1998 |
| 5710886 | Electric couponing method and apparatus A method and apparatus for distributing, generating, and redeeming discount coupons, rebate or gift certificates or the like tracks each coupon using a consumer ID number printed on the coupon. Coupons may be distributed electronically, for example, in th... | 01/20/1998 |
| 5704046 | System and method for conducting cashless transactions In a commercial transaction system, a system user uses a card device to interact with sales or transaction terminals to conduct cashless transactions. Each terminal processes data including a balance stored on the card device and updates the stored data a... | 12/30/1997 |
| 5692125 | System and method for scheduling linked events with fixed and dynamic conditions In a scheduling system, events and/or groups of events are checked at a scheduling time to insure that certain fixed conditions associated with the event(s) are satisfied. The events are also checked at one or more times, between scheduling time and a per... | 11/25/1997 |
| 5689233 | Emergency information offering system An emergency information offering system collects and offers information of lifeline facilities upon emergency properly by combining information infra-structures and public infrastructures. In the system, a center monitoring apparatus detects abnormality ... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5675815 | Language conversion system and text creating system using such A language conversion system converts an original sentence in a source-language into a translated sentence in a target-language. The language conversion system includes a original analysis unit for analyzing the original sentence so as to obtain an interm... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5671362 | Materials monitoring systems, materials management systems and related methods An inventory monitoring system which is operative at a point of storage automatically to sense the presence and number of materials or product items stored in a storage volume generating a logical inventory map of the storage volume so that time-related m... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5664577 | Method and apparatus for distortion product emission testing of hearing Apparatus and method for the recording of distortion product emission (DPE) levels in human beings. At least one microphone and a sound-delivery system is inserted in the external ear canal. Two primary tones Tf1, Tf2 are applied sim... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5664110 | Remote ordering system A remote ordering system provides a user the ability to build and edit one or more order lists, resident in memory within a user device, and the further ability to review and manipulate a user interpretable display of the contents of such lists. A system ... | 09/02/1997 |
| 5655128 | Electronic dictionary An electronic dictionary includes a central processing unit which performs retrieval of a first language information and then stores the first language information in a history area. When the first language information and the corresponding second languag... | 08/05/1997 |
| 5652897 | Robust language processor for segmenting and parsing-language containing multiple instructions Apparatus and method are provided for segmenting, parsing, interpreting and formatting the content of instructions such as air traffic control instructions. Output from a speech recognizer is so processed to produce such instructions in a structured forma... | 07/29/1997 |
| 5651117 | Method and system for disseminating obituaries and administering a depository to achieve this This is a system for disseminating obituaries by a depository that monitors reports of death and selectively transmits some of them to persons who have contracted beforehand with the depository to be notified of certain deaths when report of them is recei... | 07/22/1997 |
| 5646840 | Language conversion system and text creating system using such A language conversion system converts an original sentence in a source-language into a translated sentence in a target-language. The language conversion system includes a original analysis unit for analyzing the original sentence so as to obtain an interm... | 07/08/1997 |
| 5642279 | Technique for utilizing a computer system to provide price protection to retail customers A technique for utilizing a computer system to provide price protection to retail customers of a dealer for its least selected goods. Information on each retail transaction for the goods and information on selected goods advertised for sale by others with... | 06/24/1997 |
