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6085247 Server operating system for supporting multiple client-server sessions and dynamic reconnection of users to previous sessions using different computers  
A server operating system supports multiple client-server sessions and enables a user to begin a session and later dynamically reconnect to that session even if the user uses two different client...
6085171 Order entry system for changing communication service  
A system for processing an order to change communication service includes a client that receives order data and an authorization image associated with a customer that desires to change...
6081790 System and method for secure presentment and payment over open networks  
A system for secure presentment and payment having a first electronic processing device and a second electronic processing device. The first processing device creates a presentment ticket from...
6070798 Purchaser generated transaction recording and negotiable instrument payment system  
A seller's computer system, accessible by a customer's computer over the internet for ordering products, includes a product information unit, a purchase transaction information entry and...
6073105 Interactive personals online network method and apparatus  
A system for providing personal advertisements over a public network and for matching personal advertisements of different users includes means for integrating data from a plurality of different...
6061657 Techniques for estimating charges of delivering healthcare services that take complicating factors into account  
The expected charges for treating a patient are estimated by the use of linear regression techniques wherein variables and coefficients of estimate models are built from historic patient data of...
6052674 Electronic invoicing and collection system and method with charity donations  
An electronic commerce invoicing and collection system (EICS) which provides the services of invoicing, automatic "past due" reminders in a real time recorded/registered format is described....
6052671 Computerized bill consolidation, billing and payment authorization with remote access to the billing information  
Computerized billing and payment authorization methods and systems are described. In one aspect, a host system includes a database in which information associated with a billable entity from which...
6049786 Electronic bill presentment and payment system which deters cheating by employing hashes and digital signatures  
An electronic bill presentment and payment system includes multiple biller computers, a bill presentment computer, and multiple customer computers. Each biller computer stores complete bills for...
6047272 Sender-paid electronic messaging  
The present invention is a messaging system, and method of operation thereof, which provides message recipients with control over the delivery of message and charges the cost of a message to the...
6047267 Method and apparatus for tracking multiple payment resources and charging transactions to payment resources in on line transaction processing system  
Disclosed is a container object that allows a user to define new payment resources without requiring the user to redesign a relational database system used for persistent storage of transaction...
6044362 Electronic invoicing and payment system  
A system for automated electronic invoicing and payment system for providing remote customer review of automated billing from an invoicer. The system includes invoice presentment electronics having...
6035285 Electronic bill presenting methods and bill consolidating methods  
Electronic bill-presenting methods and bill consolidation methods are described. In one embodiment billing information pertaining to a labor-dependent service which has been rendered to a consumer...
6032132 Telecommunications access cost management system  
A Telecom Access Cost Management System provides the capability for a communication carrier service provider to substantially automate the payment to other communication carrier service providers...
6029145 Software license verification process and apparatus  
A method and apparatus for collating, correlating and redistributing information about the use of proprietary products including copyrighted works and licensed software products, at various...
6026380 System and methods for tracking copy count information from a plurality of photocopy machines  
A photocopy count system and method which records usage information for accounting and billing purposes. The photocopy tracking system comprises a plurality of remote mini-terminals, a multiport...
6026368 On-line interactive system and method for providing content and advertising information to a targeted set of viewers  
Prioritized queues of advertising and content data are generated by a queue builder and sent to an on-line queue manager. A computer mediated communications network provides content and subscriber...
6016509 General purpose metering mechanism for distribution of electronic information  
A computer network system that contains a metering mechanism which can meter the flow of electronic information to a client computer within a network. The information can be generated by a...
6014651 Commercial online software distribution systems and methods using encryption for security  
A customer computer connects to an online service provider by phone, Internet, or other telecommunications link. The link gives the customer access to additional processing and storage resources...
H001830 System for use-tax determination  
This invention relates to computer-implemented tax preparation and tax submission accounting, and the invention is directed to providing a system which enables use-tax accrual and determination....
6003765 Electronic cash implementing method with a surveillance institution, and user apparatus and surveillance institution apparatus for implementing the same  
A method for implementing an electronic cash system with a surveillance institution, in which a user sends a request for the issuance of electronic cash of a face value X to a bank together with...
5995946 System and method for establishing and managing links among customer accounts maintained within a telecommunications system  
A system and method for managing and providing customer account information within a telecommunications system include and involve a data storage system for storing a link record corresponding to a...
5987434 Apparatus and method for transacting marketing and sales of financial products  
An apparatus and method which use client information to automatically select and present financial products appropriate for the client. The apparatus according to one aspect includes an input...
5974395 System and method for extended enterprise planning across a supply chain  
A system for extended enterprise planning across a supply chain is provided. The system includes transactional execution system layers (14, 18) for a demand enterprise (10) and a supply enterprise...
5963925 Electronic statement presentment system  
An electronic statement presentment (ESP) system replaces the preparation and mailing of paper statements and invoices from a biller with electronic delivery. Electronic statements have the same...
5960416 Real time subscriber billing at a subscriber location in an unstructured communication network  
A system and method are provided for real time subscriber billing at a subscriber location in an unstructured communication network. Account information is stored for at least one subscriber at the...
5956698 Information broker for printing system  
There is disclosed a method for use in a printing system for producing copies or prints in which billing is developed for a customer of the printing system for the produced copies or prints on a...
5950174 Affiliation-based arrangement for billing  
An improved system is realized with an arrangement which takes advantage of affiliations that allow concentration of billing. In situations where a party is willing to serve as a financial...
5943656 Methods and systems for computerized bill consolidating, billing and payment authorization, computerized utility bill consolidating, utility billing access and payment and utility provider consolidated billing systems  
Computerized billing and payment authorization methods and systems are described. In one aspect, a host system includes a database in which information associated with a billable entity from which...
5943320 Method of charging for the use of a telecommunications service, as well as a switching system, a service control point, and a network management facility  
The invention relates to a method for charging for the use of a telecommunication service, as well as to a switching system, a service control point and a network management facility. A service...
5901228 Commercial online backup service that provides transparent extended storage to remote customers over telecommunications links  
A user can use his personal computer to call up an on-line service system over a telecommunications link such as a telephone line. The On-line system provides all sorts of useful services to the...
5893077 Method and apparatus for generating and collecting a billing event object within an on-line network  
An event generation and collection system for a distributed network includes an event source which generates event objects and an event collector for gathering objects. Conversion routines are run...
5884288 Method and system for electronic bill payment  
A method and system for providing a fully automated electronic bill processing capability that is integrated with banking institutions and their customers is herein disclosed. The electronic bill...
5884284 Telecommunication user account management system and method  
The present invention is an integrated computerized system and method of telecommunication user account management. The invention creates, maintains, processes and analyzes data regarding...
5875436 Virtual transcription system  
A computerized transcription system is based on a transcribe server that receives voice messages over long distance links, assigns jobs to technicians at remote locations, sends voice files to and...
5867820 Feedlot computer network installation for managing feedlot operations  
A computer network and method for feeding animals in a feedlot, in which discretion and direct control over the various suboperations of the feed ration assignment and delivery process are...
5852812 Billing system for a network  
A billing system for on-line computer networks is disclosed. Customers of the on-line system are billed in their own currency for billable events which are generated. Billable events can include...
5842187 Electricity monitoring system  
An apparatus associated with a public electricity distribution network to determine charges for the supplied electricity where the period during which consumption is measured (the metered period)...
5842183 Dynamically updated payment due date system  
For use with the production of a billing document, a system and method for printing billing information on the billing document comprises a computer controlled system, suitable programming, that...
5835899 System and method for deriving financial responsibility identification  
A system and method (10) for deriving access codes for billing customers includes a load process (12) receiving a set of system attributes (20) and using at least one of the system attributes (20)...
5819228 Health care payment system utilizing an intensity adjustment factor applied to provider episodes of care  
A method for providing a payment mechanism for out-patient diagnostic imaging services based upon an episode of care payment methodology. An episode of care is selected as a given time period...
5802502 System for selective communication connection based on transaction pricing signals  
A communications network in which user equipment is provided with a selecting device which communicates with a pricing device in service provider equipment. When communications or other services...
5802498 Computer-aided prepaid transmittal charge billing system  
A computer-aided billing system which directs the printing of customer invoices to include current billing information and transmittal charges for a pre-paid return envelope which the debtor will...
5745884 System and method for billing data grade network use on a per connection basis  
A system and method in which remote users may be billed, on a per connection basis, for universal data grade access to their home office servers. Portable device 101 is carried by a transient...
5745883 Billing system for use with document processing system  
A billing system for use in a printing system which processes a job with one or more events occurring, relative to the job, as a result of processing the job, is provided. The billing system...
5696906 Telecommunicaion user account management system and method  
The present is an integrated computerized system and method of telecommunication user account management. The invention creates, maintains, processes and analyzes data regarding individual users...
5694551 Computer integration network for channeling customer orders through a centralized computer to various suppliers  
An electronic requisitioning system for channeling customer requisition orders to internal suppliers and outside vendors, and processing invoices using a centralized computer system. A customer...
5684965 Automated billing consolidation system and method  
An automated method and system for consolidating a plurality of individual company charges for a customer with different periodic company billing and payment due dates is provided. Under the...
5655089 Method for the consolidation summarization and transmission of a plurality of mailable materials  
Analysis has revealed that there is an undue proliferation of first-class mail being sent each month in the nature of bills, statements and similar such documents. Analysis has also revealed that...
5613110 Indexing method and apparatus facilitating a binary search of digital data  
An ordered index file is created for archived report data wherein each index file contains a series of 4-byte offsets into the report data. Each offset points to a field within a row of the report...
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