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7010494 |
Performing predictive pricing based on historical data
Techniques are described for using predictive pricing information for items to assist in evaluating buying and/or selling decisions in various ways, such as on behalf of end-user item acquirers...
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7004398 |
Stored-value card with edible product
A stored-value card assembly including a stored-value card, an edible product, and a wrapper. The stored-value card defines a first generally planar surface and a second generally planar surface...
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7003501 |
Method for preventing fraudulent use of credit cards and credit card information, and for preventing unauthorized access to restricted physical and virtual sites
A method and a system for enabling secure authentication of a user in a computerized card access transaction. A card, identified by an identification number is issued to the user, containing...
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7003487 |
Automated management system
A bid estimating system and method is provided according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention includes a processor that accesses a database of existing customer information specific to that...
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6996546 |
System and methods for digital receipts
A secure system for creating digital receipts, while minimizing the amount of data that is encoded in the digital receipt. The digital receipt provides authentication for a transaction. A digital...
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6993494 |
Resource price management incorporating indirect value
A method and system of managing value from a resource such as hotel rooms by taking into account indirect value, such as gaming value, in determining recommended bid prices. Observed and/or...
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6990473 |
Information management system
One or a plurality of commodities are placed in a commodity exhibition shelf ( 8 ). Information peculiar to any commodity is read using an input device ( 2 ) under the control of a control device (...
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6983253 |
Process for providing a printed automobile adjustment estimate
A process for providing a printed insurance adjustment estimate includes a wireless LAN. Each portable computer is connected by a wireless system, including radio transceivers, to a file server and...
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6980964 |
Virtual print market place
A method to create a virtual print market place using one or more interconnected computers comprising collecting market information comprising an identity of service providers and the print...
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6980098 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method and program executed in information processing apparatus
An information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program executed in the information processing apparatus. The invention is applied to the calculation of a premium and...
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6978257 |
System and method for measuring and pricing midrange computer server outsourcing services
A server support matrix system and method for measuring and pricing information technology services provided by small, midrange and large servers. The inventive system and method assigns capacity...
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6978253 |
Systems and methods for transacting business over a global communications network such as the internet
A business model/process is described for conducting business transactions over the Internet, allowing buyers to reduce the price of the selected product/service based on the buyer's performance...
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6973514 |
Printing system adapted to change a printing operation to be performed based on a result of an accounting operation
There is disclosed a printer or copying machine which operates according to several different functional and operational modes, a host computer which sends a print or copy order to the printer or...
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6971026 |
Method and apparatus for evaluating security and method and apparatus for supporting the making of security countermeasure
A security support and evaluation system in accordance with the present invention accepts from an operator via an input unit 16 , a first specification of a system to be evaluated and a second...
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6968324 |
Method, system and program product for evaluating a computational processing capacity migration between computer platforms
A method, system and program product for determining a cost differential resulting from a migration of computational workloads between computer platforms is disclosed herein. Information regarding...
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6968323 |
Dynamic allocation and pricing of resources of web server farm
The present invention relates to a computer implementable system and method for allocation and pricing of classified resources of a web server farm to customers by a resource center comprising...
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6968325 |
System and method for automatically adjusting merchandise pricing at a service-oriented interface terminal based upon the quantity of users present at the terminal
A business method prompts users of electronic payment cards and automatically adjusts automobile fuel pricing based upon the number of passengers in a vehicle at a refueling station. When the...
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6965867 |
Methods and apparatus for allocating, costing, and pricing organizational resources
This invention is a means both to allocate all types of resources for commercial, governmental, or non-profit organizations and to price such resources. A linear programming process makes...
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6965882 |
Method and system for seeking bids
Methods and systems are disclosed which relate to seeking auction bids via interface surfaces printed with information and coded data. The coded data, encoded visibly or invisibly, may be queried...
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6965883 |
Charging mechanism for multicasting
An apparatus for calculating a cost of receiving multicast data from a multicast session. A multicast network includes at least one multicast service, each multicast service including at least one...
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6963854 |
Target pricing system
A business process and computer system known as the “Target Pricing System” (TPS) that generates an optimum bid or value for a competitively bid good or service. The system is resident on one...
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6963861 |
Method and system for resolution of carrier specific data utilizing a generic data model
A system and method of retrieving shipment data uses destination information, as well as the carrier and level of service data models to retrieve the appropriate shipment data which complies with...
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6928422 |
System for accepting non life harming mail from people who are authorized to deposit mail in a receptacle
A system that determines if mail contains life-harming materials before the mail enters the interior of a receptacle, i.e., mail box. This invention accomplishes the foregoing by issuing...
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6920438 |
System and method for employing digital postage marks as part of value-added services in a mailing system
System and method for providing confirmation relating to the distribution of a mailpiece within a mailing system includes a determination of postal data required for postage evidencing of a...
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6915280 |
Method and apparatus for printing postage
The present invention is a postage meter apparatus and method for printing in which print software is decoupled from print data such that print image data can change without impacting software. The...
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6910182 |
Method and apparatus for generating structured documents for various presentations and the uses thereof
The use of a method/apparatus for generating structured documents is disclosed. A counter is coupled for a product implementing the method/apparatus. When the counter is permitted to increment, the...
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6910024 |
System for pricing-based quality of service (PQoS) control in networks
A data flow system, where a source 100 transmits a reservation packet to an ingress element 102 . The ingress element 102 polices incoming message traffic and collects data flow information....
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6898580 |
Single board computer quotation and design system and method
The present invention is a virtual product designer that allows a user to provide specifications for a custom board level product and receive an instantaneous cost quotation and feasibility...
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6882985 |
Marketplace system fees enhancing market share and participation
A method for use by buyers and sellers in the execution of trades. The price of each executed trade within the system is logged. Next, a trend line is derived from the logged trades. The trading...
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6868395 |
Business transactions using the internet
In a campaign, a customer's file is reviewed to determine the offer or solicitation to send to the customer and the time such will remain open, and an e-mail message is sent to the customer that...
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6868386 |
Monitoring system for determining and communicating a cost of insurance
A method and system for communicating insurance related services between an insured and an insurer through an Internet communication scheme includes a processing system for processing acquired...
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6865561 |
Closed system meter having address correction capabilities
System and method are provided for generating a Postnet bar code with a closed system metering device. Before an indicium is printed on a mailpiece, a scanner is used to scan recipient address...
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6862110 |
Method and apparatus for controlling page cost in an image-rendering device
This invention relates to a method and apparatus for controlling page cost in an image rendering device. More particularly, the invention relates to a system and technique that facilitates the...
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6853989 |
System and method for selecting and accounting for value-added services with a closed system meter
System and method are provided for selecting and accounting for value-added services with a closed system metering device. A scanning device coupled to the closed system postage meter scans...
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6851604 |
Method and apparatus for providing price updates
A computer implemented method and system for providing price updates is provided. Data is received by a system. The received data is filtered by the system to identify triggers in the received...
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6842738 |
System and method for providing property value estimates
A system preprocesses property value estimates based on stored property data. It stores the computed property value estimates in a forecast data repository. The system obtains updates or new...
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6839696 |
Guarantee charge processing method and apparatus
The operation-state data of the uninterruptible power supply unit for the operation time of the uninterruptible power supply unit (UPS) deployed between the load facility and the commercial power...
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6826538 |
Method for planning key component purchases to optimize revenue
A method of calculating supplies of key components based on enhancing revenues in a made to order scheme. Products are designed by identifying product components, and combining the components in...
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6823320 |
Automated valuation system and method
An automated valuation system and method for: storing, in a database, a first feature element and an offered price for each of a plurality of specimens; generating, through the use of the first...
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6816838 |
Production mail system having subsidies for printing of third party messages on mailpieces
A production mail system for producing a mailpiece including an inserter system for feeding a document in a path of travel and into an envelope. The document includes a control code printed...
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6812890 |
Voice recognition landing fee billing system
An apparatus and method are described for generating landing fee and other airport service bills automatically. The system automatically detects aircraft N-number from air traffic control voice...
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6813614 |
Method for re-keying postage metering devices
A method for communicating a re-keying message from a postage meter to a registration authority includes the steps of determining at the postage meter that a current key needs to be replaced with a...
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6795205 |
Third-party authorization for home-based printing
Authorized transmission of print data from an internet application to a home access device having a printer connected thereto, the printer being serviced by a remote print server which controls...
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6778870 |
Design evaluation system
A design evaluation system 10 which evaluates a design 44 of a component or assembly, such as component or assembly 12 . Particularly, system 10 includes a database 30 having several...
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6762851 |
Method and system for print stream job determination and analysis
The invention is a method and system for print stream determination. The system's method begins with the initiation of a print stream processing application to which a print stream is directed. A...
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6751514 |
Service method, service system and manufacturing/inspection apparatus
There is provided a service method, a service system, and a manufacturing/inspection apparatus that can reduce the initial cost of use of the apparatus at the time of introducing a...
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6738752 |
Information distributing apparatus and information distributing method, information receiving apparatus and information receiving met
An information distributing apparatus and method wherein value standards of content information to be distributed to a user exhibit different usage values distinguished by a trait of the content...
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6725206 |
Cashierless shopping store and components for use therein
A cashierless shopping store includes a plurality of shopping carts into which selected items to be purchased are placed by shoppers. Each of the shopping carts includes a weight detector to...
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6686964 |
Electronic camera with print specifying information
A digital camera capable of readily recognizing the printing-specifying information that has been set. Printing-specifying information is set for digital image data acquired by photographing. When...
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6687652 |
Diagnostic clearing house
A diagnostic clearing house comprises a tool repository to store a plurality of diagnostic tools. A communication vehicle allows a plurality of diagnostic tool users to exchange diagnostic...
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