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6912502 System and method for compliance management  
A system and method for use in compliance management is disclosed. Various compliance requirements and issues may be identified for business process and products. The individuals or entities...
6910016 System and method for identifying the workload queued by a monitor  
A method and apparatus identifies the status of a system by determining average queue waiting periods of commands in one or more queues, and identifying the trend of average queue waiting periods...
6910017 Inventory and price decision support  
From data that includes prices and unit sales of an item of commerce for a succession of time periods during which the item was sold, a relationship is derived that represents variation of unit...
6898474 Method and system for creating and managing engineered time standards  
According to one embodiment of the invention, a computerized method for managing time standards includes receiving a set of work instructions associated with the manufacturing of a part and...
6895385 Method and system for ascribing a reputation to an entity as a rater of other entities  
A method and system for ascribing a reputation of an entity as a rater of other entities is provided. A first rating indicative of a rating of a rated entity by the first entity, and one or more...
6895292 Predictive and preemptive planning and scheduling for different job priorities system and method  
For an automated manufacturing system having a number of modules with numerous alternative capabilities, a computer-controlled system provides for configuration-specific reprioritization of jobs....
6895324 Methods and apparatus for storing, accessing, generating and using information about speed limits and speed traps  
Methods and apparatus for storing, accessing, generating and using information about speed limits and speed traps are described. The system includes a positional sensor such as a GPS device....
6895405 Computer-assisted systems and methods for determining effectiveness of survey question  
A computer-assisted method is disclosed for determining a potential effectiveness of a survey question. The disclosed method includes segregating a plurality of responses to a survey question into...
6892238 Aggregating and analyzing information about content requested in an e-commerce web environment to determine conversion rates  
A computer system and method computes conversion rates for individual products and/or product categories in an e-commerce Web site for measuring the effectiveness of the marketing in the Web site,...
6892179 System and method for ascribing a reputation to an entity  
A method and system for determining a ratee reputation of an entity based at least in part on the rater reputation of one or more of the entities that have rated the rated entity. A ratee...
6889195 System and method for utilizing a computer network in conjunction with traditional telemarketing  
A system for contacting an interested party utilizing a computer network includes an interested party database including a field containing a first e-mail address used to address an e-mail message...
6885996 Method of providing price-per-unit discounts for fuel to a customer  
A method of providing multiple level, price-per-unit (PPU) discounts on gasoline to a customer who purchases at least one cross-marketed product at a point of sale (POS) checkout. The customer is...
6882977 Method and facility for displaying customer activity and value  
A method and facility for displaying information about a multitude of different customers. The method includes, for each customer, receiving a set of numeric values, each associated with one of a...
6876980 Methods and systems for purchasing and inventory of paper and extended media products  
A system and method in a network-based inventory management system for providing information concerning inventory amounts and inventory ordering to at least one computer. In operation, a server...
6873965 On-line method and apparatus for collecting demographic information about a user of a world-wide-web site and dynamically selecting questions to present to the user  
An on-line method and apparatus for collecting demographic information from a user of a home WWW site and for dynamically selecting questions to present to the user is disclosed. A plurality of...
6871163 Behavior-based adaptation of computer systems  
Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer program products, for behavior-based adaptation of one or more computer systems. A method in accordance with the invention includes receiving...
6871220 System and method for distributed storage and retrieval of personal information  
A system for distributing, storing and retrieving information associated with an end user from one or more information providers between a host computer and a client computer associated with the...
6871183 System and method of preparing and processing data for trade promotion  
A system and method for the preparation of data into an organized and effective methodology provides users with a data modeling tool. Data is confirmed and baseline calculations, event extraction,...
6868395 Business transactions using the internet  
In a campaign, a customer's file is reviewed to determine the offer or solicitation to send to the customer and the time such will remain open, and an e-mail message is sent to the customer that...
6868390 Business support system  
A business support system producing service information request data for an external processing system in a predetermined form in response to a request from a terminal and converting the form of...
6868389 Internet-enabled lead generation  
A method of generating intender leads in a distributed computer system includes the steps of identifying purchase indicators and extracting prospect identifiers from the purchase indicators....
6865574 Method for client-side personalization  
A method for data processing system readable medium can be used for communications between a user and a network site. The method or medium may allow a user to determine what, if any, personal...
6865542 Method and system for accurately forecasting prices and other attributes of agricultural commodities  
Using a general-purpose computer, the method and system of the present invention enables the forecasting of agricultural commodity prices and amounts of consumption, production and trade flows...
6865541 Replaceable outcome decider  
Disclosed is data processing apparatus comprising: means for receiving inputs indicative of results from one or more participants of said one or more sets of data processing tasks; means for...
6865544 Method of administering a rebate system  
In a method of administering a rebate system, rebate-related information is electronically transmitted from a rebate issuing entity and is received by a central processing authority. The...
6862574 Method for customer segmentation with applications to electronic commerce  
The customer segmentation software according to the present invention automatically finds or creates profiles of prototypical customers in a large e-commerce database. The software matches all...
6862573 Automated transaction management system and method  
An automated knowledge dependent transaction management system for processing both the front-end and back-end of a transaction is provided. The system contains hard-coded transaction management...
6862585 System and method for managing product development  
A system, method, and computer readable storage medium for managing product development include a relational database containing draft, approved, and archived versions of product, package,...
6862596 System and method for retrieving and displaying data, such as economic data relating to salaries, cost of living and employee benefits  
A system and method for retrieving and displaying data, such as economic data. The method can include receiving over a computer network a user request for a first item of economic data, retrieving...
6859768 Computer-implemented automated building design and modeling and project cost estimation and scheduling system  
A computer-implemented automated building design and modeling and construction project cost estimating and scheduling system (“DMES system”) is described. The DMES system provides a central...
6859783 Integrated interface for web based customer care and trouble management  
A system and method for opening and tracking trouble tickets over the public Internet. A customer service management system provides information included within a customer profile record to a Web...
6859784 Automated research tool  
A method and apparatus for automatically gathering research data for a website. The method includes forming questions in a question set that are a measure of a research metric to be gathered for...
6856963 Facilitating electronic commerce through automated data-based reputation characterization  
The present invention addresses the problem of using reputation to establish trust between strangers in a person-to-person transaction in an electronic commerce system without the drawbacks of...
6850613 Customer service request allocations based upon real-time data and forecast data  
A method and apparatus for performing customer service request allocations based upon real-time data and forecast data, calculates estimated handling resources for each of the transaction...
6850896 Method and system for managing and providing sales data using world wide web  
A method and system for managing sales data. One embodiment is a software application that assists in classification, review and approval of data to be stored in a database for the use of a product...
6847945 Method for conducting a financial analysis  
A method is disclosed for conducting a financial analysis. The method includes creating a financial analysis utility having a standardized format, and providing access through a communication...
6842738 System and method for providing property value estimates  
A system preprocesses property value estimates based on stored property data. It stores the computed property value estimates in a forecast data repository. The system obtains updates or new...
6839681 Performance measurement method for public relations, advertising and sales events  
The present invention is a system and method for the evaluation and measurement of the performance of public relations, advertising and sales events to a particular user in order to provide value...
6839680 Internet profiling  
A system, method, and various software products provide for consistent identification of web users across multiple web sites, servers and domains, monitoring and capture of data describing the...
6836773 Enterprise web mining system and method  
An enterprise-wide web data mining system, computer program product, and method of operation thereof, that uses Internet based data sources, and which operates in an automated and cost effective...
6832205 System and method for automatically predicting the timing and costs of service events in a life cycle of a product  
A system and method for automatically predicting timing and costs of future service events in a life cycle of a product. A database contains a plurality of service information and performance...
6832211 System and method for producing technology-based price targets for a company stock  
Target valuations for company stocks are produced based on the strength and quality of their technology. The valuations are derived from a combination of indicators that measure the quality of...
6832204 Train building planning method  
A train building planning method is utilized to determine a state of a train yard and a status of resources within the yard. When a resource becomes available, a determination is made regarding...
6826547 Printer service denial  
In a system in which a user obtains documents, a method of controlling what is supplied to the user, the method including providing one or more user accounts for the user and providing the or each...
6826565 Method and apparatus for serving files to browsing clients  
Output signals are served from a serving device to a plurality of browsing devices connected to a network. The output signals represent commands executable by each browsable device so as to display...
6826596 System for categorizing and displaying reply messages in computer facilitated discussions  
A system for operating news groups or discussion groups requires a user who posts a message to specify two or more categories for reply messages. The system associates the categories with the...
6823320 Automated valuation system and method  
An automated valuation system and method for: storing, in a database, a first feature element and an offered price for each of a plurality of specimens; generating, through the use of the first...
6820060 Apparatus for generating sales probability  
A method and apparatus for predicting analytically the probability of closing a sale. The apparatus comprises a general purpose computer having a central processing unit (CPU) and a memory for...
6816839 Demand planning for configure-to-order and building blocks-based market environment  
A method for demand planning of products. The method comprises the steps of constructing a configure-to-order operation/multiple building block environment; and, forecasting the demand of the...
6810384 Method and apparatus for sales volume and share decomposition  
Methods and systems for improved volume or share decomposition are described. A request for sales volume or share information for a particular product is sent to a database. The sales volume or...