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7593872 Method and system for designing a probe card  
A method and system for designing a probe card from data provided by prospective customers via the Internet is provided. Design specifications are entered into the system by prospective customers...
7593902 Communication system, communication method, server apparatus, and client apparatus  
The present invention is intended to lighten the user load for the distribution of content in an album form. In order to look at/listen to album content, a user executes album content purchase...
7593869 Method and system for electronically executing sale transactions across a plurality of networked terminals  
The present invention includes a system and method of electronically executing transactions with a preprogrammed main computer having data and image storage and retrieval equipment. A plurality of...
7594004 System, computer product and method for event monitoring with data centre  
A system, computer product and method for monitoring and disseminating data form a plurality of electronic devices via the Internet is provided. The plurality of electronic devices, or further...
7593867 Interactive networked product container  
Networked product containers such as vending machines identify the presence of a potential customer via sensors, and present customized interactive marketing content to consumers. Consumers...
7593864 Method and apparatus for managing ownership of virtual property  
A method and apparatus for managing ownership of virtual property accessible to users is provided by a computer-implemented system connected to a network. This method and apparatus further...
7590558 System and method for facilitating electronic commerce transactions  
A global content directory ( 42 ) includes a directory structure ( 44 ) that includes a plurality of product classes organized in a hierarchy. Each product class categorizes a plurality of products...
7590563 Method and apparatus for subscription-based shipping user interface  
Computer-accessible medium and apparatus for providing subscription-based shipping of items. Embodiments may provide mechanisms that allow customers of an e-commerce Web site to pay a fee to obtain...
7590562 Product recommendations based on collaborative filtering of user data  
A system gathers user behavior data from a group of web retailers and/or non-web retailers, analyzes the user behavior data to identify product recommendations for products offered by the web...
7590557 Healthcare card incentive program for multiple users  
A computer-implemented arrangement facilitates purchases by multiple cardmembers using respective transaction instruments, each transaction instrument being associated with a single tax-advantaged...
7590570 Method, apparatus and system for providing product advisory information for a web-based sales application  
An apparatus, system, and method are provided for receiving requirements information from a user via a web browser. The request and the requirements information are received by a web server and...
7590569 Method and medium of billing viewers who dynamically reorder a list of advertisements  
A computer implemented method for dynamic reordering an online list is disclosed. An embodiment of the invention provides the user with the ability to change the position of an item displayed on...
7590565 Method and apparatus for subscription-based shipping  
Computer-accessible medium and apparatus for providing subscription-based shipping of items. Embodiments may provide mechanisms that allow customers of an e-commerce Web site to pay a fee to obtain...
7590688 Method and system for conducting a plurality of cyber-based conventions  
A method and system for conducting multiple Internet-based conventions, events, conferences, trade shows and meetings (“conventions”) includes a plurality of meeting planner clients,...
7590567 Online shopping system  
An online shopping system that permits a customer to submit online orders for items and/or services from a store that serves both walk-in customers and online customers. The online shopping system...
7590564 Method and apparatus for shared subscription-based shipping  
Computer-accessible medium and apparatus for providing subscription-based shipping of items. Embodiments may provide mechanisms that allow customers of an e-commerce Web site to pay a fee to obtain...
7590560 Information providing apparatus which performs data processing in accordance with order from user  
To accomplish speedy handling of user's requests, when a user gives a print order to a photo-site, an original image, thumbnail image, and display image are copied in step S 4805 , and a URL to...
7590586 Method of and system for auctioning off commercial frames for on-air content and method of and system for automatically sending on-air content  
A method of and system for auctioning off commercial (CM) frame for on-air content and a method of and system for automatically sending on-air content. A broadcast station presents as an auctioneer...
7590232 System and method for tracking individuals  
A client identity verification system and method which includes receiving a spoken voice sample from a client. Identifying the match of the client, verifying client information, changing parameters...
7590561 Method and system for online purchasing using processing sensor  
Methods and systems are disclosed which relate to online purchasing via interface surfaces printed with information and coded data. The coded data, encoded visibly or invisibly, may be queried by...
7590568 Content display monitor  
The invention can enable monitoring of the display of content by a computer system. Moreover, the invention can enable monitoring of the displayed content to produce monitoring information from...
7590566 Method and system for manufacturing and retailing products provided by remote vendors to remote customers  
Embodiments of the present invention include flexible and dynamic manufacturing and retailing systems that employ instantiated quoter objects for communicating with remote vendor interfaces to...
7590559 Information providing system for processing data in accordance with order  
This invention provides an information processing system which executes settlement processing for a plurality of orders all at once. To implement this system, an estimated amount is calculated by...
7587341 Method and system for directing the sourcing of a part or component from a secondary supplier  
A purchasing entity directs the sourcing of one or more components of a part in a microprocessor-based method. The microprocessor-based method comprises generating a listing for a part that...
7587324 Methods and systems for detecting user satisfaction  
Methods and systems are provided to detect user satisfaction based on user interaction patterns and properties. Methods and systems may monitor an interaction between a user and a computer and may...
7587338 Community service offering apparatus, community service offering method, program storage medium, and community system  
A community system is disclosed which allows community service offering apparatus to exchange information with a plurality of user terminals connected by a network. The community service offering...
7587344 System and method for processing a product price or quotation request and placing a product order via a communications network  
A system and method for a manufacturer to attract a customer for a distributor, via a public access network, and perform product information and ordering transactions with the customer, where the...
7587337 Leasing configured camera system  
A method for a customer leasing a configured camera system including a camera and services for using such configured camera system and paying for the lease of such configured camera system,...
7587343 Methods for selecting, ordering and purchasing glass products  
A system, apparatus and method for facilitating the selection, purchasing and ordering glass products, which is informative to guide a novice user in selecting a glass product, even where the glass...
7587342 Method for requesting and receiving an online payment through a payment enabler system  
A method for processing person-to-person payments and money requests using a computer network. A payment enabler linked to the Internet enables an individual to register for an account through...
7587339 Systems, methods, and computer readable medium for providing a site for selling a product in response to a request from a terminal  
A user ID and a corporation ID for identifying an organization to which the user belongs are pre-registered in association, and the corporation ID of the organization to which the user belongs is...
7587372 Dynamic pricing of items based on category with which the item is associated  
A method of dynamically adjusting prices of items using a processor based upon the category to which the item is assigned, wherein the items are of the type that are deliverable over a network. A...
7587502 Enabling rent/buy redirection in invitation to an online service  
A system and method are directed towards enabling a user to access a client service such as a client game program that interacts with an online service such as a multiplayer game. A client probe...
7587340 Method and apparatus for selling with short-bidding on goods  
A method and software apparatus for a short-bidding auction manager is disclosed. One embodiment allows potential buyers to submit short-bids, so named because they fall short of an auction...
7587706 Method to provide secure multi-vendor system sizings  
A method for sizing a computer system. Toolsets defining required performance of a subsystem, as well as hardware and software resources available to the subsystem, are transmitted to a subsystem...
7587336 Iterative constraint collection scheme for preparation of custom manufacturing contracts  
A series of iterative customer submissions and vendor responses are used to collect sufficient information concerning a custom manufacturing project so as to produce a sufficiently constrained job...
7587345 Residential delivery system and method  
A method and system for delivery establishes a delivery subsector for a distribution facility, adjusts at delivery area within the delivery subsector, plans a flexible delivery route in the...
7584136 Systems and methods for interactive beef cattle marketplace  
A system and method for dynamically marketing cattle is provided comprising a buyer interface, a producer interface, a network, and an cattle information server. The cattle information server...
7584155 Method and apparatus for efficient delta pricing  
A method includes generating a delta price and generating a final price using the delta price. A process and system provide an ability to determine a product's final price with a selected set of...
7584149 System and method for securing data through a PDA portal  
Consumers may utilize computing devices to assist in the purchase and/or loyalty process, and in particular, the consumer may utilize a PDA to facilitate the purchase and/or loyalty process. During...
7584210 Method and apparatus for creation and maintenance of database structure  
The invention provides a method for configuring a database system to store information regarding a plurality of items, the method comprising: establishing a database on a computer system;...
7584124 Method, system and business model for a buyer's auction with near perfect information using the internet  
A methodology, system and business model are disclosed for facilitating a fully automated buyer's auction in which the major types of transaction costs are significantly reduced by providing the...
7583793 Message notification instant messaging  
Methods, apparatus and systems for message notification in instant messaging are provided in which a message in an instant messaging session is received at a client application. The content of the...
7584120 Method and apparatus for defining data of interest  
Some embodiments of the invention include tools for extracting data of interest from the World Wide Web (WWW) using descriptions of data of interest. The descriptions of data of interest can...
7584122 System and method for fitting clothing  
A method for fitting clothing based on the body dimensions of an individual is disclosed. The method comprising the steps of (a) Establishing standard body dimensions and ratios for a given...
7584123 Systems for dynamically allocating finite or unique resources  
The present invention is related to electronically allocating finite or limited resources. In an embodiment, a computer system is configured to receive bids over a network from a first plurality of...
7584121 Object subject to processing, which judges need for predetermined processing thereof based on usage and specification thereof  
An object of the present invention is to enable simplifying the information management with respect to the product including the production, distribution, operation and recycle to allow effective...
7578435 Couponing system  
A method and apparatus are provided for a method of offering coupons to a consumer at a point of sale. The method includes the steps of detecting entry of an identifier of an item to be purchased...
7580844 Image data storing service system  
In the present invention, a customer operates a customer-use terminal device 1 so that image information stored in a data career brought by the customer is read out by a media drive 2 or a...
7580888 Facilitating simulated purchases of items by virtual representations of participants in computer-based simulations  
A method for facilitating simulated purchases by virtual representations of participants in computer-based simulations of items outside of the context of computer-based simulations, the method...