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7165047 Web-based account management for hold and release of funds  
A system and method for qualifying a bidder over a global network for an auction helps to significantly reduce or eliminate commerce fraud. An auction site, for example, enlists the system to...
7165036 System and method for managing a procurement process  
A method of managing contracts is provided. The method includes storing a storing a plurality of electronic contracts including unstructured text. The method further includes determining one or...
7164754 Control of access for telephone service providers using voice recognition  
A telecommunications network includes a plurality of subscriber stations, a plurality of network elements and a voice recognition module. The voice recognition module is associated with a network...
7162456 Method for private personal identification number management  
A method for private personal identification number (PIN) management comprises ascertaining a first delay period of a preceding PIN. The first delay period is greater than zero if the preceding PIN...
7162448 Auction market with price improvement mechanism  
A system for auctioning financial products over a distributed, networked computer system includes a plurality of workstations for entering orders for financial products into the distributed,...
7162444 Method, system and computer program product for valuating natural gas contracts using weather-based metrics  
A method, system and computer program product for valuating natural gas futures and options contracts using weather-based metrics. The method and computer program product allow gas buyers and...
7162431 Educational institution selection system and method  
A system, method, and computer program product for selecting an educational institution, including determining selection criteria for an educational institution, including a location of the...
7162430 Information processing method and system as to evaluation information  
This invention is to provide a technique enabling to efficiently collect effectiveness information as to evaluation information for evaluation objects, with reliability. An informant tourist A...
7162429 System and method for managing sponsorships  
A system and method for managing sponsorships by a sponsor, in which the party requesting the sponsorship requests to use content owned and protected by the sponsor, such as trademarks, logos, and...
7162428 System and method for online creation and integration of service of process functions  
A system and method for online creation and integration of service of process functions is provided, for use in conjunction with paper or electronic filing of court papers. By logging on to a web...
7162427 Structure and method of modeling integrated business and information technology frameworks and architecture in support of a business  
An enterprise architecture ( 30 ) for a business is divided into a business architecture ( 32 ), an information technology architecture ( 34 ), and an enterprise management framework ( 36 ). The...
7158937 Encounter tracker and service gap analysis system and method of use  
Methods and systems for tracking whether an individual has received required services and for analyzing service gaps. In one embodiment, the present invention tracks special education students to...
7158252 Real-time distribution of imaging metrics information  
In a distributed computing environment, the following arrangements and procedures provide an imaging device and an imaging metric information server to distribute the imaging device's operational...
7155723 Load balancing service  
A load balancing service for a plurality of customers performs load balancing among a plurality of customer Web servers. Requests for Web content are load balanced across the customer Web servers....
7155663 Technique for implementing browser-initiated user-transparent network-distributed advertising and for interstitially displaying an advertisement, so distributed, through a web browser in response to a user click-stream  
A technique for implementing in a networked client-server environment, e.g., the Internet, network-distributed advertising in which advertisements are downloaded, from an advertising server to a...
7155435 Method for resolving issues within a team environment  
A system and method is adapted to utilize the Internet as a medium for providing information and data management and sharing between diverse project team members. The project team members may be...
7155414 License compliance verification system  
A license compliance verification system and method includes a license manager that internally monitors the use of licensed property and gathers data over specified time periods about the usage of...
7155411 Integrating payment accounts and an electronic wallet  
An electronic wallet including is made available to a user and is capable of storing a wide variety of different types of accounts (including both payment accounts and traditional credit card...
7155405 System for communicating product and service related information to a user based on direction of movement  
Architecture for presenting m-commerce transaction data to a user. An m-commerce device includes a device reading apparatus adapted to read a dataform. At least one item for purchase has associated...
7155395 Preprinted print rolls for postal use in an image processing device  
A print roll for use in a camera imaging system said print roll having a backing surface having a plurality of formatted postcard information printed at pre-determined intervals.
7153470 Method of modeling sanitation levels in food processing equipment  
A method of creating a sanitation level model with respect to a predefined microorganism in food processing equipment is provided. The method includes generally three steps. First, a temperature...
7152049 Method and system for dispensing virtual stamps  
A method and system for a virtual stamp dispensing metering system is provided wherein indicia of varying values are calculated at a data center and downloaded to a mailing machine on a periodic...
7152037 System, method and computer program product for facilitating real estate transactions  
A method for facilitating a real estate transaction includes engaging an initiating party in communication with an initiated party regarding a property, where the parties are engaged for an...
7152036 Method and apparatus for matching pets to appropriate pet products and supplies  
The present invention is a method and apparatus for matching pets, particularly dogs and cats, with an appropriate product by a pet owner. A breed code is assigned to each breed of pet based on...
7152035 Apparatus and method for tracking and managing physical assets  
A computer based system automatically gathers, analyzes, and delivers information relating to the procurement and utilization of a plurality of such assets, such as a fleet of industrial equipment,...
7149958 Technique for implementing browser-initiated user-transparent network-distributed advertising and for interstitially displaying an advertisement, so distributed, through a web browser in response to a user click-stream  
A technique for implementing in a networked client-server environment, e.g., the Internet, network-distributed advertising in which advertisements are downloaded, from an advertising server to a...
7149774 Method of facilitating access to IP-based emergency services  
A method for reporting a user's emergency condition by sending an emergency help request message in a TCP/IP format to an emergency service center (ESC). The help request message may be sent over...
7149723 System and method for determining computer access with electronic payment mechanism  
A method of public access computing comprises providing a computer system for accessing computer software applications, and selectively permitting access to the computer system with an electronic...
7149722 Retail transactions involving distributed and super-distributed digital content in a digital rights management (DRM) system  
To distribute digital content from a retailer to a customer, the content as issued by a content provider is retrieved. The as issued content has license acquisition information for acquiring a...
7149704 System, method and computer program product for collecting information about a network user  
A system, method and computer program product are disclosed for collecting information about a user. A set of one or more rules for collecting information is obtained by a first application on a...
7149698 Business alliance identification in a web architecture Framework  
A method is provided for identifying alliances among a plurality of business entities in components of a network framework. First, alliances are identified among a plurality of business entities in...
7149697 Printer-based consumables price searching  
A printer comprising one or more consumables and a network connection searches a network connected via the network connection for pricing for the one or more consumables. A user is notified when...
7149696 System and method for accepting information from information providers, mediating the received information, and providing mediated information to information beneficiaries  
The object of this invention is to offer an information mediating system which can mediate the specific information out of the received information from an information provider. The specific...
7147155 Global origin and departure information system  
Embodiments consistent with the invention provide a method for managing traveler information of a traveler having a country of origin and traveling from a country of embarkation to a country of...
7146344 Method and system for making small payments using a payment card  
A system for conducting a financial transaction over a payment network is disclosed, which system includes a micropayment system interfaced with the payment network for allowing identification of...
7146342 Payment system and method for use in an electronic commerce system  
A method and system of payment of goods and services in an electronic commerce system reduces the transfer and processing costs for each purchase made by a customer from a merchant. A customer...
7146325 Sales data processing system, portable electronic terminal, and home delivery receiving method  
The present invention permits a data related to a destination used in an order reception operation of a goods delivery service to be acquired from an address information stored in an address...
7143337 Apparatus and accompanying methods for network distribution and interstitial rendering of information objects to client computers  
A technique for implementing in a networked client-server environment, e.g., the Internet, network-distributed advertising in which advertisements are downloaded, from an advertising server to a...
7143052 Transitive trust network  
Methods, data structures, and systems by which entities can efficiently discover, extend, validate and establish business relationships over a digital network are disclosed. A transitive trust...
7143049 Method and system for registering tickets  
A method and a system for registering tickets includes defining a waking zone with a transceiver unit having a transmitting unit, defining a registration zone with a registration transceiver unit,...
7143048 System and method for managing real estate  
A method of managing a real estate property on which the lease parameters of the property are established in a computer database and a computer data file of the database contains at least one user...
7139737 Apparatus and method for managing software licenses and storage medium storing a program for managing software licenses  
An inventory information collecting unit automatically collects inventory information including inventory information regarding software installed in each of a plurality of computers within an...
7139733 Method and structure for bid winning probability estimation and pricing model  
A method (and structure) for developing a distribution function for the probability of winning a bid by a seller for a product or service, using the seller's own historical data for winning bids...
7139723 Privacy compliant multiple dataset correlation system  
A system and method for using inverse mathematical principles in the analysis of compatible datasets so that correlations and trends within and between said datasets can be uncovered. The present...
7139694 Method and system for tranferring an electronic sum of money from a credit memory  
Method for transferring an electronic sum of money from a credit memory associated with a money sender to an account or to a credit memory associated with a money receiver via a telecommunications...
7138918 System for sorting waste  
A system for disposing of medical waste is generally configured to sort waste items into a plurality of disposable containers according to applicable rules and regulations governing the handling...
7136880 Method and apparatus for compiling business data  
The present invention provides a method and apparatus of compiling and providing business data in a distributed computer system, preferably the Internet or any other type of computer linked network...
7136837 Providing a discounted payment schedule for utilizing and deleting stored images  
A method of selecting images from a plurality of images previously transferred from a user and stored by a service provider, and ordering services to be provided utilizing the images, including...
7136831 Collection information management server and collection information management method  
Collection status and delivery status of recoverable products are stored in a database in association with a plurality of suppliers, and unitarily managed at a collection center....
7136823 Business method for quality assurance of services  
The quality of information technology services provided by an organization to a customer is assured. Assurance reviews of a first solution are performed and a second solution is defined to correct...