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7212994 System and methods for disseminating real time information  
A system and method for real time dissemination of information is provided. One server receives and data bases the information while another server disseminates the information; instead of one...
7209859 Method and apparatus for sequentially collecting and analyzing real time data with interactive monitoring  
A system, comprising a plurality of slave devices collecting real time data from process stations, a master device receiving the collected data from the plurality of slave devices, wherein the...
7209904 Method for simulating an optimized supplier in a market  
A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product are provided for simulating two or more suppliers in a market and forecasting their financial performance, with one supplier using...
7207043 Programmatic response-time based workload distribution techniques  
Workload is programmatically distributed across a set of execution resources. In a multithreaded server environment, response time to end users is improved while increasing the efficiency of...
7206753 Methods for facilitating a retail environment  
The methods of the invention provide a variety of processes that may be performed by a mobile retail system or a mobile robot system. In accordance with one process, the invention provides a method...
7203478 Network support for mobile service plan minute exchange by category  
One embodiment of the present method is for allowing a mobile subscriber to negotiate via a mobile terminal a trade of minutes by category according to a predetermined exchange rate as set forth by...
7200579 Method and apparatus for determining prices that maximize revenue  
A method and apparatus for determining one or more prices that maximizes revenue for a given demand curve. For determining a single price that maximizes revenue, a geometric analysis of the demand...
7191145 Method and system automatically to price a promotional product  
A computer-implemented method to price a promotional product includes the generation of a user interface that facilitates input of specification information concerning the promotional product, the...
7190468 Background document rendering system and method  
A processor executes a document rendering application for an open document. When the open document is unedited and a predetermined portion of the processor is available, the document is rendered to...
7184990 Method and apparatus for selling an aging food product  
An automated kitchen apparatus determines a time until expiration of a food product. In one embodiment, the kitchen apparatus determines the time until expiration by receiving a start signal...
7177768 System and method for providing environmental management information, recording medium recording the information, and computer data signal  
An environmental management information collection system modifies and analyzes environmental impact information, which is collected and stored in advance, and calculates a reduction amount of...
7177850 Method and apparatus for determining a portion of total costs of an entity  
In a method of and an apparatus for determining a portion of total costs of each entity of a plurality of entities, a maximum value related to a maximum number of accesses of each entity in a time...
7171391 Custom pricing system and method  
The invention provides a computerized system and method for calculating a custom die price. Specifically, the invention provides an interface for designating base parameters and custom parameters....
7162459 Method and system for estimating weights of mailpieces  
A weight estimating system for estimating the weight of a mailpiece and a postage metering system including such a weight estimating system. The weight estimating system includes a measuring...
7138919 Identification marking and method for applying the identification marking to an item  
A method for processing a surface of an item and providing an association using a surface processing system includes receiving an item having a first identification marking on a surface of the item...
7133848 Dynamic pricing system  
The present invention provides a dynamic pricing system that generates pricing recommendations for each product in each market. In particular, the system normalizes historic pricing and sales data,...
7130811 Apparatus for merchandise promotion optimization  
Apparatus and method for determining an optimum promotion plan for merchandising of products for sale. A scenario/results processor enables a user to prescribe an optimization scenario, and...
7130804 Method of supporting sales and maintenance of steam traps and aggregating system for use in the method  
Disclosed is a system for supporting sales and maintenance activities of steam traps by a seller of the traps to a customer. The system utilizes an aggregating system which effects a step of...
7127433 Method for generating pay-per-page pricing data for managed printer services  
A method is disclosed for generating pricing data for managed computer printer services for a user of a fleet of computer printer devices over a contract time period including first selecting...
7124116 Method for performing market-adapted price planning  
A method for performing market-adapted price planning for a plurality of target products including determining a current price for each target product of the target products, obtaining market...
7120611 Integrated electronic scale, and a system and method which uses the scale automatically to compute postal/carrier rates  
An electronic scale integrally formed within the housing of a piece of office equipment increases a user's work space in a home or business environment. The piece of equipment may be a personal...
7117060 Method of improving production through cost of yield measurement  
The present invention provides a method for controlling production or manufacturing costs by obtaining yield measurements of unit manufacturing for a multiplicity of products or production lines...
7110960 Event revenue management system  
The present invention provides an event revenue management system that calculates event pricing to manage revenue and to maximize profit from the event. In particular, the system uses event...
7103583 Method for data input into a service device and arrangement for the implementation of the method  
A method and apparatus for data input into a service device allow a loading and updating of service data, particularly postage fee schedule tables, separated from one another in time. The method...
7103580 Negotiation using intelligent agents  
A system and method for negotiating using intelligent agents is described. Using a scalable platform, a user can configure an agent to act on the user's behalf in bi-lateral or multilateral...
7103581 System and method for pricing print jobs  
A system and method are disclosed for estimating the amount of ink required for a specific print job. For example, the amount of ink for a particular color for a specific print job may be...
7099936 Multi-tier service level agreement method and system  
A method for managing multi-tier SLA relationships. The method can include first computing costs of utilizing edge server resources in a CDN, costs of dedicating content host resources in a content...
7092896 Interface for merchandise promotion optimization  
A method for providing interface to an apparatus for optimizing a promotion plan for merchandising products, including utilizing a computer-based scenario/results processor within an optimization...
7092919 Method and a system related to determining the price of a combination contract  
In a combination contract, up to two different prices can be selected for each leg or sub-contract. The number of products for each leg or sub-contract are allocated between the two prices....
7092918 Apparatus for merchandise price optimization  
A technique for determining optimum prices of products. The apparatus includes a scenario/results processor, a demand engine, an activity based cost engine, and a price optimization engine. The...
7085613 System for monitoring audio content in a video broadcast  
A method is provided for monitoring audio content in a video broadcast. According to the method, an audio datastream from the video broadcast is received, and audio identifying information is...
7082417 Method of calculating mailroom chargeback cost for incoming mails  
This invention overcomes the disadvantages of the prior art by providing a method of calculating sorting costs for incoming mail. The foregoing is accomplished by providing a method that can...
7082408 System and method for ordering items using a electronic catalog via the internet  
A system and method for procuring non-production commodities for use by employees of a commercial enterprise includes associating the employee with a user profile comprising information relating a...
7079913 Package and mail delivery system  
At the shipping department of a company, contracted outlets or outlets of delivery companies, information concerning the shipper and receiver are written into a label having a memory, but no...
7080030 Digital online exchange  
A system for dynamically pricing media content is operatively coupled to one or more clients over a network. The system dynamically adjusts pricing of the media content and delivers the media...
7079649 Copy protection of data  
A copyright protection scheme downloads data from a server, typically over the World Wide Web to a client for presentation to a user. The downloaded data is cryptographically protected, by...
7080051 Internet download systems and methods providing software to internet computer users for local execution  
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...
7072853 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...
7068382 Interactive printer provider  
An on-demand computer based system is provided for allowing a user to obtain interactive printed information from a remote source. The system includes a printer module that is provided by a first...
7062460 On-line auction method and system facilitating the sale of multiple product units at prices varying with volume  
An online auction system for auctioning off products includes a server system, plural buyer systems, and plural seller systems. The server system comprises a seller interface, a buyer interface, a...
7058924 Facilitating hosting of applications  
A service element is defined and represented by a data structure. It includes one or more components and/or one or more other service elements. A service element providing a complete function is a...
7058465 Method of preparing estimate for sheet metal working  
A method is provided for preparing an estimate for sheet metal working. Data of bending lines and data of an associated processing time for the bending lines is stored. Data of holes and data of an...
7058554 Method of controlling the costs arising during operations of an installation  
A method of keeping a check on the costs arising during the operation of an installation involves recording the operating state of least one component of the installation by use of a status...
7054348 Using real random number generator as proof of time  
A truly random sequence of bits is transmitted from a transmitter, such that a receiver can receive and store a portion of the transmission for the duration of time that the receiver is within...
7047216 Customer interface unit  
The invention relates to a system which allows information to be transmitted from one or a number of utility providers to one of a number of customers, and vice versa. The information is received...
7043458 Charging process management system  
A charging process management system includes image input/output devices which are connected to a network, each image input/output device having software components that are charged for service...
7035816 System and method for reduced cost purchasing  
A system and method which enables a customer, for example a business or individual, to purchase one or more goods/services from one of a plurality of suppliers offering the one or more...
7028052 Systems and methods for notifying a consumer of changes made to a credit report  
A system and method for monitoring unauthorized changes to a database and providing a notification to a user according to preferences set by the user. The user can select one or more data entries...
7028085 Storage-related accounting system and method of the same  
An accounting system includes a plurality of host computers, an accounting server connected to the plurality of host computers, a storage control device connected to the plurality of host computers...
7020616 Evaluation system for equipment vendors  
The evaluation system ( 1 ) registers equipment and service vendors, such as design offices, etc. as members ( 7,8,9 ), and registers design requests and construction requests for elevators...