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7047207 |
Method for customizing consumer product packaging by varying images appearing on packages
The invention provides a method for customizing consumer product packaged thereby. The purpose of this method is to attract, increase, or retain consumer interest by varying the images appearing on...
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7043007 |
System and method to allocate transactions
A method to determine transaction distribution among a plurality of transaction processing systems may include calculating estimated handling resources for each of the plurality of transaction...
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7039953 |
Hierarchical correlation of intrusion detection events
A method, computer program product, and apparatus for presenting data about security-related events that puts the data into a concise form is disclosed. Events are abstracted into a set data-type....
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7039594 |
Method and system for content management assessment, planning and delivery
A method is disclosed for designing a coordinated content management and delivery system, using key considerations related to the client environment, and using key processes, and applying these to...
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7039592 |
Agricultural business system and methods
A new system for providing agricultural financial services is provided. The system includes crop insurance services, where a proper level of crop insurance is determined necessary to assure income...
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7039602 |
Configuring products with default sections determined according to optimization functions
A default selection to be presented to a user at configuration time is determined at the time a selection list is presented to the user. A desired function, such as profit maximization or price...
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7039615 |
Retail transactions involving digital content in a digital rights management (DRM) system
A retailer facilitates issuance of a digital license from a licensor to a customer for a corresponding piece of digital content. The retailer receives payment for the license from the customer,...
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7039699 |
Tracking usage behavior in computer systems
A system and process for tracking users' usage of content in computer systems. The tracking and accumulation of content usage information allows content providers to understand more about their...
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7035823 |
Telecommunications system for generating a three-level customer behavior profile and for detecting deviation from the profile to identify fraud
Telecommunications apparatus and method for detecting any unusual activity in customer behavior. A comprehensive behavior profile of a customer is generated on the basis of customer transactions....
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7035810 |
***WITHDRAWN PATENT AS PER THE LATEST USPTO WITHDRAWN LIST***
Feature centric release manager method and system
A feature centric method of and system for monitoring the development and release process of a product, monitoring the development and release of a product, where the product is characterized by...
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7035811 |
System and method for composite customer segmentation
The profitability and effectiveness of a marketing program is increased by segmenting the customer population according to a combination of different segmentation strategies. A number of...
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7031931 |
Portable device attached to a media player for rating audio/video contents
A portable rating apparatus for rating one of audio and video content. The apparatus includes a user-manipulable control dedicated for generating a signal indicating a rating of a media content....
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7027999 |
Method of and apparatus for forecasting item availability
A method and apparatus is described for determining the probability that an item will be available at a particular location at an expected time of transaction for the item. Variances for both...
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7025674 |
Method and apparatus for awarding and redeeming promotional points at an electronic game
An electronic game including at least one display exhibiting a plurality of windows or segments each displaying a different subject matter is disclosed. The different subject matter in each of the...
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7028000 |
Estimating base sales volume using a low-pass filter approach
Within each iteration of an iterative process: (1) a low-pass filter is applied to an actual sales volumes series to extract low frequency components representing a base sales volume series for the...
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7020621 |
Method for determining total cost of ownership
A method for determining the total cost incurred per user of information technology (IT) in a distributed computing environment includes obtaining base costs and ongoing costs of an IT system and...
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7020620 |
Computer-implemented vehicle repair analysis system
A computer-implemented method of tracking a vehicle during a vehicle-related multi-step process. A vehicle identifier is received for uniquely identifying a vehicle. A daily time target for each...
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7019753 |
Textual and graphical demarcation of location from an environmental database, and interpretation of measurements including descriptive metrics and qualitative values
A computerized system allows for collecting data for a spatially distributed group of objects or networks by either skilled or unskilled personnel and for analyzing the collected data in an...
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7016882 |
Method and apparatus for evolutionary design
The invention involves generating and presenting, typically electronically, a number of design alternatives to persons who are participating in the design, selection, or market research exercise....
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7013285 |
System and method for data collection, evaluation, information generation, and presentation
The present invention relates to a system and method for data collection, evaluation, information generation and/or presentation. More particularly the present invention relates to a system for...
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7013109 |
Assessment tool for training analysis
An automated interactive form of data collection is disclosed that addresses the deficiencies of the standard method of personal interviews and the typical paper-based and computer-based surveys....
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7010494 |
Performing predictive pricing based on historical data
Techniques are described for using predictive pricing information for items to assist in evaluating buying and/or selling decisions in various ways, such as on behalf of end-user item acquirers...
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7010496 |
Supplier performance reporting
A system and method is provided for improved reporting of supplier performance. A system receives and processes data to enable reporting of on-time performance relative to a plurality of order...
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7010495 |
Methods and systems for analyzing historical trends in marketing campaigns
Method and systems using models for evaluating marketing campaign data in the form of database scores, stored procedures, and OLAP multidimensional structures. Models are used to target segments...
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7006979 |
Methods and systems for creating models for marketing campaigns
Methods and systems for increasing efficiency of a marketing campaign are disclosed. The method uses a system including a database containing customer demographic data and includes the steps of...
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7006981 |
Assortment decisions
Historical information is stored about demand behavior associated with different sizes of styles of items of commerce. A size assortment recommendation is generated based on the stored historical...
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7006980 |
Method and system for selecting optimal commodities based upon business profile and preferences
A system and method for assisting a customer in choosing among commodities based on a business profile of the customer that includes asking the customer for a definition of its business; searching...
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7007020 |
Distributed OLAP-based association rule generation method and system
A distributed OLAP-based method and system for generating association rules. An architecture is provided for processing transaction data to generate summary information, customer profiles, and...
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7006982 |
Purchase selection behavior analysis system and method utilizing a visibility measure
A system and method for analyzing shopper behavior of a shopper within a shopping environment is provided. The method typically determining the position of a product within the shopping...
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7003517 |
Web-based system and method for archiving and searching participant-based internet text sources for customer lead data
A text mining system for collecting business intelligence about a client, as well as for identifying prospective customers of the client, for use in a lead generation system accessible by the...
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7003476 |
Methods and systems for defining targeted marketing campaigns using embedded models and historical data
Methods and systems for increasing the efficiency of marketing campaigns are disclosed. A targeting engine is used for analyzing data input and generating data output. The method includes the steps...
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6999938 |
Automated reply generation direct marketing system
A system for automatically preparing customized replies in response to communications from a plurality of clients. To facilitate automation and tracking, each original communication to the client...
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6999987 |
Screening and survey selection system and method of operating the same
A screening and survey selection system, method of screening and selecting for a survey and a computer system employing the system and method. In one embodiment, the screening and survey selection...
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6996560 |
Method, system, and device for typing customers/prospects
Exemplary embodiments provide a computer-assisted method for typing customers/prospects, including the activities of: refining a survey via bestfit clustering; refining survey results via...
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6993503 |
System and method for allocating a conditional purchase offer for a travel related services reservation to one of a plurality of entities in a buyer driven electronic commerce system
A system and method of allocating a conditional purchase offer for a product or service to one of a plurality of entities in a buyer-driven system. The conditional purchase offer for the product or...
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6993495 |
Dynamically assigning a survey to a respondent
A method and apparatus for assigning a survey to a respondent are provided. According to one technique, a set of one or more screening questions are generated and provided to the respondent. Input...
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6993494 |
Resource price management incorporating indirect value
A method and system of managing value from a resource such as hotel rooms by taking into account indirect value, such as gaming value, in determining recommended bid prices. Observed and/or...
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6993497 |
Integrated, interactive telephone and computer network communications system
A method comprising the steps of: receiving via internet a time, a date and a telephone number for a reminder telephone call (such as a wakeup call); storing in a database the time, date and...
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6993496 |
Method and system for determining market demand based on consumer contributions
The present invention provides a method and a system to determine a market need before any monies are spent to produce and commercialize an artist. A method and system for determining the market...
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6993590 |
Method of creating data streams for user-specific usage data gathering systems
A method and apparatus are provided for capturing and managing user-specific data, where the user-specific data contains information on the user's interaction with the Net. The method generally...
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6993396 |
System for determining the health of process control feedback loops according to performance assessment criteria
A method for calculating the health of a process control loop based on multiple key assessments of the loop's performance. The method uses the concepts of baselines and thresholds. The typical...
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6990460 |
Dynamic demand management
A system, method, and apparatus for allocating demand for a number of time periods is presented herein. The business volume is monitored during each time period, and wherein the business volume is...
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6988092 |
Method for evaluation of energy utilities
A computer implemented method uses a database of detailed, comprehensive utility operating and financial information. The method comprises: ( 1 ) feature based matching or similarity based...
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6985880 |
Method of risk management and of achieving a recommended asset allocation and withdrawal strategy, and computer-readable medium, apparatus and computer program thereof
The new and improved method and apparatus of the invention generates a hypothetical illustration of a distribution of possible portfolio values and withdrawal amounts for a designated time period....
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6983263 |
Electronic boardroom
Methods and systems for organization management using an electronic boardroom to facilitate review of business specific information in a uniform format are described. In one embodiment, the method...
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6983258 |
Trading information managing system and software including a community management function
A trading information exchange system includes a gateway allowing access of suppliers and retailer workstations and retailer systems to a backbone sub-system. An application layer interacts with a...
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6980870 |
Method and apparatus for optimizing, managing and scheduling personal relationships
The present invention is a method and apparatus to assist a user in optimizing a relationship with a contact person. The method includes inputting information regarding the relationship into the...
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6980959 |
Configuring mechanical equipment
A method and system of managing a configuration of mechanical equipment provides a structured procedure for managing information on parameters of the mechanical equipment to facilitate the...
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6978248 |
System and method for mailing list testing service
A mailing list test service is disclosed that involves a plurality of mailing lists, each mailing list including information about a plurality of list members. The service includes sending an...
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6978267 |
System and method for personalized information retrieval based on user expertise
A search request is received at an information retrieval system from a searcher. The search request preferably contains at least one search term and a user identifier. A plurality of objects are...
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