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8160934 |
Notification of resources of interest to members of a consumer group
An announcement distributor distributes, or auctions an opportunity to distribute, an announcement to an announcement recipient such as a consumer, issuer, merchant, or acquirer within a payment...
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8145538 |
Quote-to-order validation system for housing components
A quote-to-order system builds an order for cabinets for a house directly from the quote provided to the builder. This reduces data entry time and errors. The system also validates the final order...
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8145540 |
Management platform and associated method for managing smart meters
The present invention relates to a management platform for monitoring and managing one or more smart meters. The management platform comprises means for communicating with smart meters and a...
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8140406 |
Personal data submission with options to purchase or hold item at user selected price
At least one embodiment of a method includes receiving data related to an item, the item being associated with a listed price and receiving data related to a user requested price for the item. Some...
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8140367 |
Open marketplace for distributed service arbitrage with integrated risk management
A method, system, and computer-readable medium that support an open marketplace for distributed service arbitrage with an integrated risk management is presented. Orders for work packets, which are...
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8135626 |
Bid gateway architecture for an online advertisement bidding system
An online advertising system integrates third party agents to permit the third party agents to participate in auctions to bid on a per opportunity basis. An advertising exchange module receives...
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8126799 |
Method of bidding to drive competition in an auction
A method of bidding to drive competition in an auction, including receiving a plurality of bids from a plurality of bidders, distinguishing the bidders according to a subset of a parameter,...
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8090623 |
Method and system for conducting an auction over a network
A method and system for enabling a user or bidder to purchase an option on auction merchandise or services in an online auction are provided, thus allowing the option winner to purchase the...
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8086500 |
Interactive assistance on purchase decision-making
Systems and methods for providing interactive assistance on purchase decision-making are provided. These systems and methods are preferably adapted to enable a purchase decision to be made by...
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8086501 |
Method and system for creative collaborative marketplaces
In an embodiment, a method of conducting a multi-level transaction includes receiving a primary call for proposals, receiving one or more primary bids by a computing system with respect to the...
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8082185 |
Quotation system and method
A quotation system and method are provided (see FIG. 1). A relational database (10) allows various departments (14, 16, 18, 20) to prepare a quotation. The relational database centralizes data to...
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8082184 |
Consumer driven price marketplace
An online marketplace is established where sellers compete by offering to sell a mass quantity of a specific product, referenced by a unique product ID. A successful sale is determined at a time...
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8041616 |
Outsourced service level agreement provisioning management system and method
An outsourced service level agreement (SLA) deliverable management method includes configuring SLA client and secondary SLA provider master data, procuring a secondary SLA provider provision...
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8036950 |
Auction management with business-volume discount
A computer-implemented method for satisfying a purchase requisition includes receiving, from each of a plurality of candidate suppliers, a corresponding plurality of bids. At least one candidate...
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8015074 |
Commodity order issuing and accepting method, system thereof, and commodity order accepting apparatus
A commodity order issuing and accepting method is disclosed in which an order issuer requests a first electronic document having first input fields for order issuer information and for commodity...
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8010417 |
System and process for local acquisition of products priced online
A system and process for establishing prices for products on line and for allowing acquisition of those products from retailers that honor such prices. The system and process involve a customer...
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8001013 |
System and method for electronic commerce and other uses
A computer implemented method including steps of: storing, at a central server, an initialize business rule associated with a vendor and a DNS associated with the vendor, receiving, from a user a...
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7996273 |
Method and print merchant computer for matching print orders to print service providers
A method is provided for operating an on-line retailing operation for retailing of at least one print product to a customer. The print product is supplied by a print merchant operation that...
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7979313 |
Parts usage comparison system and methods
A parts usage comparison system and methods to directly network buyers and sellers in the mining, construction and agriculture industries in order for buyers to easily and efficiently procure parts...
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7970662 |
Method for providing online submission of requests for proposals for forwarding to identified vendors
An online system and method for allowing a prospective buyer to complete an electronic RFP document and to have the RFP document transmitted to one or more appropriate prospective sellers of goods...
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7966210 |
Data distribution method and system
A method for distributing data among automotive dealers, including selecting the data from the dealers, processing the data, and providing the processed data to the dealers while maintaining...
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7966237 |
Central pricing system and method
A system and method for providing responses to pricing inquiries that bypasses the trading desk is disclosed that includes a CPS database configured to receive and store pricing data from at least...
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7962379 |
Business process for increasing win probability in large complex contract competitions
The present invention is directed to a method of increasing win probability of a vendor competing in a complex contract competition. A request is received from a buying organization. The subject...
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7962402 |
On-line system for buyer seller matching and negotiation
An on-line system for creating an open market for matching buyers and sellers of brand name products. The system enables buyers to achieve the maximum value in the purchased product by engaging in...
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7958018 |
Method and apparatus for procuring goods in an automated manner
An automatic system and method optimizes the purchasing of goods and services by a buyer. A request for a quote for goods or services required is received from a buyer. This request is processed...
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7945484 |
Local product information
The present invention is directed to a method and system for providing information obtained from both online stores and offline stores and for offering more purchasing options to customers. A...
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7933806 |
Online product exchange system with price-sorted matching products
An exchange system for facilitating the purchase of new cars is described. The system is coupled, in one embodiment, to a communications link. Potential car purchasers and sellers may access the...
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7925541 |
Method, system, and medium for conducting barter transactions
Method and system for bartering between trade parties each having one or more items available for barter, via a communications network. Items available for trade are listed and the parties can...
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7925545 |
Automated trading system for conversion of unmatched amounts into new quotes
Quotes entered into an automated trading system may comprise a visible, or primary, amount, and a linked or hidden amount. The visible amount only is shown to other traders on the system but part...
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7921041 |
System and method for allowing a vehicle owner to obtain a vehicle repair estimate
An Internet-based (web-based) system and method for allowing a vehicle owner to obtain a fair repair estimate for a vehicle. The system and method allows information relating to the vehicle to be...
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7895087 |
Method and system for providing an on-line auction
Methods and systems for providing an on-line auction are disclosed. Online auctions are popular methods of buying and selling items. Some of these auctions relate to “Dutch Auctions,” where the sub...
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7877280 |
Goal oriented travel planning system
A travel system for processing travel requests based on a user's travel destination goal such as a meeting place and time. The travel system selects a destination terminal, if one is not provided,...
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7840443 |
Automated quoting of CNC machined custom molds and/or custom parts
A customer sends a CAD file for the part to be manufactured to the system. The system assesses the CAD file to determine various pieces of manufacturing information. One or more acceptability...
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7813968 |
Method and apparatus for bidding on broadcast service requests and offers from nearby devices
An improved method, apparatus, and computer instructions in a portable device for obtaining bids for a task. Access to a task in a set of tasks for bidding is provided through a wireless network....
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7809607 |
Method and system for providing reverse online auction and mobile commerce
A system for providing product pricing information is disclosed. The system includes a mobile client configured to allow a user to issue a request for pricing information on a specified product, a...
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7792699 |
System and method for pooled electronic purchasing
A retailing method executable by a computer system, includes sending a page to a prospective purchaser in response to a request, the page being associated with a specific product; receiving a...
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7761337 |
Data structure for a complex order processing system
A complex order processing system is implemented in an architecture that allows customer service representatives and customers to access the customer's accounts, service profiles, quotes, and...
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7742951 |
Method of demonstrating a household appliance
A method of enabling adaptable demonstrations of a household appliance comprising providing consumer-specific updates to a demonstration software at a location remote from an appliance and...
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7729954 |
Providing paid access to remote web service in an electronic marketplace
A method, system, and computer-readable medium is described for facilitating interactions between computing systems, such as by providing an electronic Web service (“WS”) marketplace via which thi...
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7729949 |
Systems and methods for improving the liquidity and distribution network for luxury and other illiquid items
Systems and methods for improving the liquidity and distribution network for luxury and other illiquid items are provided. These systems and methods preferably include the trading of futures and...
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7725358 |
System and method for providing multiple real-time pricing quotes based on optional consumer variables
A method and system for providing multiple real-time pricing quotes based on optional consumer variables is disclosed. A user accesses a web site and is provided with a web page enabling the user...
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7720716 |
System and method for use by various departments to prepare a quotation
A quotation system and method are provided (see FIG. 1). A relational database (10) allows various departments (14, 16, 18, 20) to prepare a quotation. The relational database centralizes data to...
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7716084 |
Information translation communication protocol
An inventive procurement system includes a requisition system for special item purchases that are not found when searching a catalog database. Using the requisition system the buyer is provided...
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7702543 |
Methods and systems for providing a consumer shopping experience whereby the availability of services is indicated
Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a consumer shopping experience. The disclosed systems and methods include receiving a user input and providing, in response to the user input, one of...
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7698168 |
Product sales system
Regardless of whether specific products are individual products or element products, the specific products are managed by the same product code while element products are associated and handled as...
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7693754 |
Quoting system for housing components
A quoting system for housing components, especially cabinets, includes a product database storing a plurality of product identifiers for different cabinet components, each having an associated...
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7689468 |
Purchasing, redemption and settlement systems and methods wherein a buyer takes possession at a retailer of a product purchased using a communication network
Purchasing, redemption and settlement systems and methods are provided wherein a buyer takes possession of a product at a retailer. A purchasing system may communicate with a buyer through a...
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7680696 |
Computer processing system for facilitating the order, purchase, and delivery of products
A method for facilitating the ordering of two or more products, wherein a data repository receives from each respective buyer of two or more buyers at least two respective orders for purchase...
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7672883 |
System and method for matching an offer with a quote
Described is a system and method that satisfies offers from customers with quotes from suppliers in a way that increases the likelihood of achieving an acceptable match. The system of the present...
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7660741 |
Sourcing under quantity pricing rules
A method for sourcing an item requirement includes receiving an item requirement that identifies an item and a quantity of the item that needs to be sourced from one or more suppliers. The method...
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