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7395222 Method and system for identifying expertise  
A system and method of identifying entities having expertise in one or more subjects. Among other features, the method includes querying a database for documents (e.g., articles, papers,...
7395501 Techniques for annotating portions of a document relevant to concepts of interest  
An automatic reading assistance application for documents available in electronic form. An automatic annotator is provided which finds concepts of interest and keywords. The operation of the...
7392205 System and method for directing and instructing customers to deal with specific merchants using incentives  
A buyer-seller matching system that uses incentives to verify commissions from matching the buyer with a seller. An item locator system that comprises a repository of information about items for...
7392222 System and method for providing promotional pricing  
A system and method for providing promotional pricing is disclosed. One or more pricing offers may be provided to a plurality of credit accounts, wherein the pricing offers may be directed to...
7392204 Method for selecting cosmetics  
An average face composition is produced by computer graphic methods surveying average facial features, skin color, lip color and eye color among plural faces representing different human races....
7389239 System and method for managing intellectual property  
The present invention relates to methods and systems for intellectual property management. In an embodiment, a system includes an intellectual property asset inventory system to manage an inventory...
7389276 Method of determining pricing to ensure profitability  
A method of determining pricing to ensure profitability for performance of a task by a business includes entry of employee data, business costs, job costs and business revenues; calculating a...
7389285 Process for distributed production and peer-to-peer consolidation of subjective ratings across ad-hoc networks  
A rating program on a mobile computing device communicates with other mobile devices regarding collected ratings. A user enters ratings and requests for information; the mobile computing device...
7386512 Method and system for controlling and auditing content/service systems  
An improved interactive network system is provided that allows the Network Operator to control the transfer of information to and from the network end users, the system preferably using triggers or...
7386519 Intelligent clustering system  
A method for forming a plurality of stores into a plurality of clusters is provided. Store specific information is collected. Optimized combinations for each individual store are provided based on...
7386466 Continuously updated data processing system and method for measuring and reporting on value creation performance that supports real-time benchmarking  
The invention affords a data processing system and method for assessing the performance of a business enterprise in creating and realizing value. More particularly, the invention affords a data...
7386496 System and method for evaluating real estate financing structures  
The present invention relates to a system and a method for evaluating real estate financial structures. Specifically, the present invention provides a method for determining an optimal financial...
7383233 Method of designing an electronic transaction system  
A method for designing an electronic transactions system and forming a proposal for doing business on a global communications network is disclosed. The invention includes reviewing existing direct...
7383201 Demand forecast device, method, and program product  
Conventionally, for a product accompanied by supplies such as a copy machine or a printer, the demand figures relating to the supply which such a main machine consumes have been determined...
7383200 Method and apparatus for collecting and categorizing data at a terminal  
A method and system for collecting and categorizing survey data includes receiving customer information from a customer. A query is identified based at least in part on the customer information....
7383202 System and method for automatic pricing of remotely hosted applications  
Automatic pricing of remotely hosted applications permits users to enter customer data and flexibly prices various product offerings, product lines, and applications. An initial build of a computer...
7383165 System and method for diagnosing faults utilizing baseline modeling techniques  
System, method and computer product for baseline modeling a product or process. A service database contains process data. A preprocessor processes the data into a predetermined format. A baseline...
7379898 System and method for generating market pricing information for non-fungible items  
A system for generating market pricing information for a non-fungible target item includes one or more databases containing historical pricing information for at least one reference item,...
7379879 Incident reporting system and method  
A computer-based method of collecting and processing incident reports received from witnesses who observe incidents such as criminal acts and legal violations. The method automates the collection...
7380217 Method of graphical presentation of relationships between individuals, business entities, and organizations  
A method of graphical presentation of relationships with business significance between business related entities such as individuals, business entities, and activities of human endeavor....
7379882 Architecture designing method and system for e-business solutions  
The invention provides a method for designing an architecture for e-business solutions. A business description of the e-business solution is developed. The business description describes each actor...
7379781 Constraint based order optimization system and available to promise system  
A computer system which uses customer-based business rules that are customized for each customer. These business rules, along with order information, are provided to a linear programming engine....
7379890 System and method for profit maximization in retail industry  
A computer-based method and system accomplish automatic optimization of a preferred merchandising figure of merit like revenue, profit, etc. by concurrent optimization of prices and in-store...
7376574 System and method for optimizing benefit plan designs  
A computer-based system and method to enable a benefit plan sponsor to design benefit plans for a given participant population by enabling the plan designer to select the plan design options that...
7376603 Method and system for evaluating customers of a financial institution using customer relationship value tags  
A computerized method and system for evaluating customers of a financial institution using customer relationship value tags and associated customer treatment actions includes automatically...
7376579 Business process analysis tool  
A strategic management tool that derives relevant business processes. The tool provides a set of business processes based on information from at least one of a market force and an industry trend...
7376618 Detecting and measuring risk with predictive models using content mining  
Computer implemented methods and systems of processing transactions to determine the risk of transaction convert high categorical information, such as text data, to low categorical information,...
7376647 Method for evaluating activity-based costs of a company  
Methods and systems consistent with the present invention provide a survey tool for allocating costs of a company. A survey is presented to an employee of the company via a network, for example,...
7376912 Interactive user interface for displaying supply chain information  
An interactive user interface is disclosed. According to various embodiments, the interface includes a first field and at least one additional field. The first field lists a focal item and the at...
7373371 Method, system, and storage medium for facilitating excess inventory utilization in a manufacturing environment  
An exemplary embodiment of the invention relates to a method, system and storage medium for utilizing excess inventory comprising parts used in end products. The method comprises: translating sales...
7373311 Method for constructing an updateable database of subject behavior patterns  
Disclosed is a method for maintaining compact descriptions of the behavior of customers in a database of information relating to customer transactions. Of all possible variables that might be used...
7370003 Method and apparatus for implied attribution of responses to promotional contacts  
Method and apparatus for performing automatic implied attribution is described, and in particular implied attribution in connection with a campaign. The campaign can be a marketing campaign in...
7370001 Method and system of forecasting unscheduled component demand  
A method of forecasting unscheduled component demand for a plurality of components in a fleet of assemblies includes establishing a set of models to be used for forecasting unscheduled component...
7370002 Modifying advertisement scores based on advertisement response probabilities  
Advertisement response probabilities are utilized to alter advertisement scores. A plurality of possible advertisements is accessed from, for example, an advertisement database or advertisement...
7364068 Methods and apparatus for intelligent selection of goods and services offered to conferees  
Computer-based methods, computer readable media, and computer program products for offering upsell items to conferees accessing a conferencing platform utilizing, for example, an electronic...
7366285 Multi-modal communications method  
A method of collecting information is provided. The method includes sending an interactive text markup programming language script, using a session initiation protocol (SIP) message, to a...
7366680 Project management system and method for assessing relationships between current and historical projects  
A method and system for objectively determining potential success of a new project and similarity of the new project to historical projects. By defining a master set of processes, practices, and/or...
7366679 Residual value forecasting system and method thereof, insurance premium calculation system and method thereof, and computer program product  
A residual value of goods based on data is forecast based on a secondhand price database storing transaction data including the residual value of objects and age of the objects. A standardized...
7366682 System, method, and code for providing promotions in a network environment  
According to an embodiment of the present invention, techniques are disclosed for providing promotions to users of communication networks, such as the Internet. Information related to a plurality...
7366683 Methods and apparatuses for offline selection of pay-per-call advertisers  
Methods and apparatuses to connect telephone calls and track information about the telephone calls resulting from advertisements for groups of advertisers. In one embodiment, a method includes:...
7360693 System and method for a card benefit program providing benefits to program members based on program performance  
The present invention comprises an apparatus and method for a card payment instrument providing that a share of program profits above a pre-designated level is returned to participating recipients...
7363279 Method and system for calculating importance of a block within a display page  
A method and system for identifying the importance of information areas of a display page. An importance system identifies information areas or blocks of a web page. A block of a web page...
7363246 System and method for enhancing buyer and seller interaction during a group-buying sale  
A method and system are provided that enable buyers and sellers to communicate with each other and to negotiate the purchase terms of featured merchandise in a group-buying opportunity. Sellers and...
7360697 Methods and systems for making pricing decisions in a price management system  
Pricing decisions and policies in a price management system are made based on a unified database populated with correlated commitment data and transaction data. A historical database is populated...
7363243 System and method for predicting external events from electronic posting activity  
A system and method for collecting and analyzing electronic discussion messages to categorize the message communications and the identify trends and patterns in pre-determined markets. Electronic...
7363254 Automated web ranking bid management account system  
The present invention relates to an automated web ranking system. The system monitors online marketing media (“OMM”), such as search engines, portals, affiliate programs, and other websites...
7359886 Injection-molding cost estimation system  
An estimation system for estimating an injection-molding related cost comprises an input unit, storage, a data processing unit, and an output unit. The storage stores a mold estimation function for...
7359865 Generating a risk assessment regarding a software implementation project  
A computer-implemented method for generating a risk assessment regarding a software implementation project includes accessing a previously specified importance value and maximum score for each of a...
7359840 Remote order acceptance design system and elevator remote order acceptance method  
A specification plan of an order-made product suitable for a building structure plan is generated promptly. A WWW server 11 and a database server 12 are provided to the equipment designer's...
7360251 Method and system for monitoring online behavior at a remote site and creating online behavior profiles  
A method and system for monitoring users on one or more computer networks, disassociating personally identifiable information from the collected data, and storing it in a database so that the...