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7496544 |
Method and apparatus for assessing products
An improved method, apparatus, and computer instructions for evaluating acquisition costs for a software product. A set of questions regarding the software product is presented. The set of...
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7493401 |
Billing adjustment for power on demand
An apparatus, program product and method for determining a cost for using a standby resource that accounts for the cause for the resource's usage. A standby resource, such as a processor, is...
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7487112 |
System, method, and computer program product for providing location based services and mobile e-commerce
A system, method, apparatus and computer program product for providing location based functions and mobile e-commerce comprising a central processing unit including a processor, a storage device,...
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7483861 |
System, method and computer program product for a network analyzer business model
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for charging for network analysis. Initially, network traffic information is collected utilizing a plurality of agents. Next, the network...
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7480077 |
Billing process for printing systems
The present invention provides a paperless billing process for enabling expedited and simplified payments of print volume bills by customers of printing systems. A method of performing a billing...
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7480627 |
System and method for extension of group buying throughout the internet
A method and system are provided that enable partner sites to join in the sale of products/services via an on-line group-buying sale business method. A seller registers a list of products/services...
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7480625 |
Sales data processing device and program
A sales data processing device comprises electromagnetic wave clock means for receiving a time signal containing date and time information transmitted from a transmission station, and clocking a...
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7478061 |
Automated audit process
A process for increasing profits of a business engaged in the purchase of large numbers of products and/or products of volatile pricing from numerous vendors that operates to identify pricing...
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7477790 |
Decoding of a digital image encoded at a plurality of resolution levels
A method of decoding an encoded digital image, the encoded data of the image comprising a plurality of predefined resolutions, comprises the steps of:
selecting a resolution lower than the...
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7467073 |
Method and system for assessing remanufacturability of an apparatus
A system and method for assessing remanufacturability of one or more items in an apparatus includes assessing a plurality of remanufacturing options for an item based on a determination of the...
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7467114 |
System for collecting commodity specifications and related customer information
A commodity idea of a proposal type is presented to users via a network, and wishes of the users concerning commodity specifications are collected as information. Then, the final product...
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7467348 |
Method and apparatus for providing a sponsoree-sponsor relationship in a directory, including eminent domain rights for the sponsoree
A method for providing sponsorship for a directory comprises permitting a search of the directory. The method further comprising displaying a search result on a page and incorporating a designated...
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7464038 |
Method and system for changing an order in a flexible order transaction system
A method and system for changing an order for a product where production of the order is currently in progress in a flexible order transaction system and where yield, scrap, and work-in-process...
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7464039 |
Method and system for merging orders in a flexible order transaction system
A method and system for merging an order with a surviving order where production of the order is currently in progress in a flexible order transaction system where yield, scrap, and work-in-process...
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7461031 |
System and method for meter enabled payment functionality
A method of collecting a payment from a postage meter customer having a past due account including receiving a service request from the postage meter, requesting that the customer provide credit...
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7461019 |
System and method for integration of material costs of a product
A system for integration of material costs of a product ( 1 ) can calculate material costs of a product according to purchase data, inventory data and material consumption data. The system for...
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7461021 |
Method of ascertaining an efficient frontier for tax-sensitive investors
There are computerized processes for financial planning for individuals and groups whose financial portfolio would be subject to tax on certain events. But these processes do not take into account...
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7457783 |
Import and export expense calculation apparatus
An import/export expense calculation apparatus assisting optimal-location purchasing of materials in a global production framework, and a method thereof. The import/export expense calculation...
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7458055 |
Apparatus, system, method, and program for facilitating the design of electronic assemblies
An apparatus, system, method, and program for facilitating the design of electronic assemblies include transmitting a user interface application to a user over a publicly-accessible global network....
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7454364 |
Method for transacting an advertisement transfer
A method for transacting an advertisement transfer is disclosed which facilitates expressing the rate structure for the individual advertisement as a function of a profile of the individual...
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7444307 |
Process for calculating the economic value created by a business activity
A business process that collects data for multiple business activities from diverse sources, and facilitates the calculation of economic value added for these specific business activities. The...
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7438227 |
System and method to determine the prices and order quantities that maximize a retailer's total profit
The present invention provides a system and method for determining the prices and order quantities that maximize a retailer's expected profit by using a multi-dimensional distribution of the...
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7430544 |
Output image generating operation service using network
A paid operation queue Q 1 and a trial operation queue Q 2 are provided within an output operation execution system. Each request for execution of an operation job from a client device is entered...
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7428513 |
Information-processing apparatus, information-processing method, accounting-processing apparatus, accounting-processing method and recording medium
A system that judges which of a number of parties initiates an action to transfer digital data of a content through a network. If the action has been initiated by the party on the reception side, a...
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7428411 |
Location-based security rules
Location based security rules are provided for preventing unauthorized access to a device, application, system, content, and/or network, etc. The location-based security rules enable a user,...
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7424435 |
Managing shipment charges for international transportation of items
A method and system for tracking and making use of variances between amounts billed to a supplier for shipping items from one country to customers in another and amounts billed to the customers in...
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7421397 |
System and method for providing a price quotation for a transportation service providing route selection capability
A method and system for computing the price of a railway transportation service for the shipping goods is provided. A computer delivers first information to a user prompting the user to enter...
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7406448 |
Dynamic location based cost minimization
A computer is programmed to receive data concerning a current location of a vehicle, a plurality of gas prices at a plurality of gas stations, and a plurality of locations, one location for each of...
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7401055 |
System and method for setting special wholesale pricing for resellers
A system and method for calculating a special wholesale pricing between a wholesaler and a reseller for a transaction between the reseller and an end-user. A wholesale discount pricing system is...
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7398254 |
Component cost estimation system, component cost estimation method, cost standard data providing system, cost standard data providing method, recording medium, and computer data signal
An external storage device of a component cost estimation system stores various cost information representing a component material and its cost in association with each other, and a component...
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7395193 |
Manufacture for a market management framework
The present disclosure provides for affording a market management framework. Category analysis is provided for a user specified project. Then, supplier analysis is performed for the user specified...
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7395247 |
Method and device for promoting book recycling and their program and recording medium
A book recycling promotion device registers in advance a book purchased information of a customer and an electronic mail address of the customer, calculates a current buying price of the book based...
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7392227 |
Prepaid available number-of-times-of-unitary-use storage medium for making use of pay services, initial value-setting system and device, and operating system
An initial value-setting system ( 10 ) for setting the initial available numbers of times of unitary use (P) of prepaid available number-of-times-of-unitary-use storage media ( 8 ) for making use...
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7392228 |
Revenue management system
A method and system for optimizing dynamic prices of reserved date-constrained services such as airline flight reservations or hotel stay reservations. Comparative trials of complex pricing...
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7389214 |
Category analysis in a market management
The present disclosure provides for analyzing expenditures by category. A file including expenditure data relating to spent monies is identified. The expenditure data from the file is extracted. An...
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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...
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7386477 |
Location-based filtering for a shopping agent in the physical world
An agent based system utilizes a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)-based, Global Positioning System (GPS)-enabled information gathering agent that relies on knowledge of a shopper's physical...
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7386520 |
Cost-based method for dynamically pricing and prioritizing an e-mail
Method for dynamically allocating a cost to an e-mail that a first user of a transmission network such as the Internet network or an Intranet network who is a member of a group, wants to forward to...
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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...
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7383526 |
Cost-optimization method
A method of controlling an optimal cost is proposed, which can be applied to a circuitry designing process for making electronic products, allowing a user in drawing a circuitry to choose elements...
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7383209 |
System and method for automatic access of a remote computer over a network
A system and method for using identification codes found on ordinary articles of commerce to access remote computers on a network. In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a computer is...
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7379922 |
Pricing model system and method
A pricing model may be used by a decision maker in the evaluation of prices of numerous items to multiple customers. The present system and method facilitates targeted and strategic pricing...
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7379923 |
Benchmarking of computer and network support services
A process and computer program product for adjusting a price derived from a benchmark computer service model to a price of a computer service contract, or vice versa. Differences in service between...
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7373305 |
Accounting apparatus, accounting method, and computer-readable program storage medium for storing program having accounting function
A printer performs a printing operation by driving a cartridge to discharge ink. The ink in the printer is billed according to the amount of actual use of ink. In a service center, the head ID is...
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7370090 |
Print portal system on network
The technique of the present invention intermediates between an arbitrary client and an arbitrary printer connecting with a network to actualize practical printing works. A print portal system...
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7369970 |
Method and apparatus for estimating product cost
A development department stores physical characteristic data concerning a product to be manufactured, such as shape and CAD data, in a database. Cost factor data are provided from a plurality of...
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7363238 |
Method and system for cost integration in a flexible order transaction system
A method and system for integrating cost when an order is changed and the order is currently in production using a flexible order transaction system involving the detailed mapping of the costs to...
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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...
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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...
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7358977 |
Methods for gutter component displays
The present invention is in the field of gutters and methods of displaying gutter information, and, specifically, the present invention is in the field of methods of displaying gutter...
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