Did You Know...
...Chester Carlson was a patent agent who tired of having to make multiple copies of patent applications using the only duplication method available at the time: carbon paper. In 1959 he came up with a new copying system and took it to IBM for evaluation. The "experts" at IBM determined potential sales to be only 5,000 units because people wouldn't want to use a bulky machine when they had carbon paper. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, the company founded on the system is Xerox.
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| 8108317 | System and method for restricting access to a terminal A method for authenticating data comprising the steps of: providing data to a first device having at least two initial cryptographic keys; generating authentication information required to authenticate the data utilizing the at least two initial cryptographic keys; ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 7865444 | License tracking and management Example embodiments herein include a license manager process that receives a license query from a server device. The license query requests usage data associated with a permanent license on a client device. In response to receiving the license query, the license man... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7860803 | Method and system for obtaining feedback for a product The embodiments disclosed herein include new, more efficient ways to request, create, send, and receive product reviews from the Internet. One aspect of the invention is an email message for a customer. The email message includes a request to review a product obtain... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7850516 | Payout distributions for games of chance Based on a metric that represents a value of a game of chance, a payout distribution is optimized with respect to the metric. ... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7853532 | Information processing apparatus and method, and data communication system and method A client obtains license information. The client has a client module for using content under conditions defined in the license information. When the client module is updated and a new function is added, the client obtains updating license information including permi... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7761382 | Method and system to protect electronic data objects from unauthorized access The invention concerns a method and a data processing system to protect an electronic data object from unauthorized access. Via a method, a) in a first step, an electronic data object identifier is generated dependent on the content of the data object, b) in a furth... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7523065 | Risk transfer supply chain system An automated method and system (100) for supplying risk transfer products to a client company on a continual basis. After the client company provides data to the risk transfer supply chain, swaps and/or insurance products that provide the desired risk transfe... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7464059 | System and method for purchase benefits at a point of sale A system and method of providing users with an accessible system and convenient method for conducting purchase benefit transactions. When enrolling in a biometric authorization system, a user may authorize the system to apply for purchase benefits on the user's beha... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7461029 | Method for clustered data transmission The present invention relates to the field of data transmission from a server to a remote workstation. According to the present invention, data is grouped into groups of data and, by merely comparing group identifiers, only the contents of the groups modified by an ... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7457782 | Electronic settlement system, settlement apparatus and terminal An electronic settlement system for settling a transaction through a communication network comprises a settlement apparatus which performs the settlement of the transaction; a billing terminal connecting to the settlement apparatus via the communication network; and... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7454385 | Transaction signature The present invention provides systems and methods for protecting transaction information stored in a database of a gaming network. To accomplish this, a transaction signature is generated each time the user completes a transaction on a gaming machine. The transacti... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7454384 | Information distributing method and system When the amount of money billed each time the information is distributed once is determined depending on the number of times that the information is distributed within a predetermined time period, the intention of information offerer and the estimation of user refle... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7447663 | Method for on-line client set-up and authorization of automatic electronic funds transfers There is provided a method for a client to authorize an automated clearance house (ACH) transaction comprising the steps of providing an online web interface on a financial services provider network, allowing a client to securely access the online web interface via ... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7440926 | Rights establishing system and method A system and method for providing a present consideration to a consumer and coincidentally establishing a future right for a holder to offer or to provide, at the holder's option, a defined set of goods or services in response to a trigger event. ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437330 | System and method for categorizing transactions A system and method of allowing individuals to categorize transaction information. A user of the system may establish transaction identifiers that may be employed during or subsequent to a transaction in order to categorize transaction information. ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7428512 | Information distribution system, information distribution device, information receiving device, information distribution method, information distribution program, recording medium recording the information distribution program, information receiving method, information receiving program, and recording medium recording the information receiving program In the case of modifying available copy count information which is contained in distribution data, the distribution data being distributed from a distribution server and stored in a PC which serves as a receiving device, the PC sends a reuse request to the distribut... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7424458 | Method and system for generating characterizing information descriptive of printed material such as address blocks and generating postal indicia or the like incorporating such characterizing information A method and system for generating and printing an indicium, such as a postal indicium, on an object such as a mail piece. A digital image of other printed material, such as an address block, on the object is obtained, and the image is processed to abstract characte... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7418429 | Method and system for facilitating a trusted on-line transaction between insurance businesses and networked consumers The present invention establishes a trusted market place which allows insurance goods and services to be transacted on the Internet between insurance business entities and certain type of consumers called “networked consumers” who can be properly authenticated w... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7418398 | Stored value cards and methods for their issuance A method for issuing both a virtual card and a physical card to a cardholder comprises issuing a virtual card to a cardholder, with the virtual card comprising an identifier and an associated database record of a stored value. A physical card is also issued to the c... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7415424 | System and method for reallocating and/or upgrading and/or selling tickets, other event admittance means, goods and/or services A method, system, server architecture and/or tangible medium determines and/or transmits and/or establishes communication with a mobile device user. The method includes, for example, receiving a communication from and/or transmitting a communication to, an event cus... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7415423 | Method, algorithm, and computer program for optimizing the performance of messages including advertisements in an interactive measurable medium Method, procedure, algorithm, system, and computer program for improving and attempting to optimize the performance of messaging campaigns, particularly to marketing campaigns in which advertisements or other messages are distributed over an interactive measurable m... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7412422 | Method and system for securing user identities and creating virtual users to enhance privacy on a communication network A method of enabling a real entity to access a service on a communication network using a virtual entity, the method including the steps of establishing a user account including at least first data corresponding to the identity of the real entity and second data cor... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7406426 | System and method for integrated customer management An automated system and method for customer management deploys customer databases to profile customer service requests for distribution to appropriately assigned agent representatives. The representatives adopt particular roles according to customer care volume, inq... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7403925 | Entitlement security and control A system, apparatus, and method are provided for entitlement security and control. According to one embodiment, an entitlement request is received from a user seeking entitlement permission, the entitlement request is matched against entitlement rules and roles that... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7398251 | Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a decoding key encoded with specific information to decode encrypted information of a record medium A data recording apparatus capable of preventing easily copying of information is disclosed with which, even if information is copied, the copied information cannot be reproduced, the data recording apparatus having a terminal to which encoder ID specific for the da... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7395246 | Delegating digital credentials The system includes receiving, from a delegator, a designation of a role and a delegate to assume the role, receiving, from a credential service provider, an indication that the designation is valid, issuing a delegation credential in response to receiving the indic... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7395226 | Transaction tracking, managing, assessment, and auditing data processing system and network An improved processing system for tracking commerce on the Internet provides for subvariable processing and includes web page scanning to discern fraud or improper content to insure proper promotion of select products within the network environment. ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7392226 | Electronic ticket, electronic wallet, and information terminal A network electronic ticket 1003 is provided in an electronic ticket 1000. Start page data 1016, a ticket owner secret key 1017, an electronic ticket possession certificate 1018, and a network service program 1019 are provid... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7389269 | System and method for activating financial cards via biometric recognition The present invention is a system and method for activating financial cards via biometric authentication of an individual presenting the card for activation. Information from the financial card presented for activation is entered into the system and is stored in ass... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7386517 | System and method for determining and/or transmitting and/or establishing communication with a mobile device user for providing, for example, concessions, tournaments, competitions, matching, reallocating, upgrading, selling tickets, other event admittance means, goods and/or services A method, system, server architecture and/or tangible medium determines and/or transmits and/or establishes communication with a mobile device user. The method includes, for example, receiving a communication from and/or transmitting a communication to, an event cus... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7383231 | Performing automatically authorized programmatic transactions Techniques are described for facilitating interactions between computing systems, such as by performing transactions between parties that are automatically authorized via a third-party transaction authorization system. In some situations, the transactions are progra... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7379920 | System and method for facilitating electronic financial transactions using a mobile telecommunication device A transaction processing system for processing a transaction between a supplier and a customer, said system comprising a supplier device for initiating the transaction, a system server and a mobile communication device, said device containing a message processing pr... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379919 | Method and system for conducting secure payments over a computer network A method is provided for conducting a financial transaction by a purchaser with a merchant having an acquirer bank, over a communications network. The method includes the steps of sending a first authorization request using a pseudo account number associated with a ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379918 | Method and system for single reactivation of software product licenses A method for reactivation of software products includes activating a first software product associated with a reactivation policy group. A hardware identifier derived from the computer hardware configuration is bound with the first software product activation. A sec... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379891 | System and method for reallocating and/or upgrading and/or selling tickets, other event admittance means, goods and/or services A method, system, server architecture and/or tangible medium upgrade and award admittance of events to an event customer, preferably via a data communication network. The method includes, for example, receiving a communication from the event customer, the communicat... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7376629 | Method of and system for effecting anonymous credit card purchases over the internet A transaction system for performing secure transactions over a communication network includes (i) a merchant server system including a computer processor and associated memory, the merchant server system offering items for sale; (ii) a buyer system including a compu... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376625 | System and method for activating individualized software modules in a digital broadcast environment A system and method is disclosed for enabling individualized software functions in a device. In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention software is distributed as omnibus installations containing various software modules that are initially turned off... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376627 | Method of licensing functionality after initial transaction Methods for licensing functionality after an initial transaction are provided. One such method is directed to licensing after an initial transaction of a customer obtaining a supply item including the step of prompting the customer to acquire a usage license for the... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7373331 | Joint subscriber management system and receiving terminal A joint subscriber management system includes a joint subscriber management unit for acting as a surrogate in performing a registration activity for enabling a receiver to receive a broadcast and/or an electronic commerce transaction. A reception unit receives a rec... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373304 | System and method for integrated customer management An automated system and method for customer management deploys customer databases to profile customer service requests for distribution to appropriately assigned agent representatives. The representatives adopt particular roles according to customer care volume, inq... | 05/13/2008 |
