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6141652 Operating apparatus  
A method of operating apparatus for value, the apparatus being connected to a telecommunications channel, includes the steps of transmitting a forward message from the apparatus to a remote...
6119109 Information distribution system and billing system used for the information distribution system  
An information distribution system provides information requested from a user for the user through an information communication medium. The information distribution system comprises a billing...
6108647 Method, apparatus and programmed medium for approximating the data cube and obtaining approximate answers to queries in relational databases  
A novel and unique method of approximating the data cube and summarizing database data in order to provide quick and approximate answers to aggregate queries by precomputing a summary of the data...
6105000 Financial rebate program for utilities based on degree days  
A financial rebate program provides a rebate to purchasers or sellers of energy such as electrical power and natural gas for a deviation from expected weather conditions. In one example, the buyer...
6101504 Method for reducing semaphore contention during a wait to transfer log buffers to persistent storage when performing asynchronous writes to database logs using multiple insertion points  
A method in a symmetric multi-processor computer system for increasing database transaction log performance by reducing semaphore contention while waiting to transfer the contents of log buffers...
6088688 Computerized resource accounting methods and systems, computerized utility management methods and systems, multi-user utility management methods and systems, and energy-consumption-based tracking methods and systems  
Computerized resource accounting methods and systems, and in particular computerized utility resource management methods and systems, multi-user utility resource management methods and systems, and...
6088687 Billing procedure and system for data transmission networks  
The invention concerns a device or machine used for payment and electronic currency systems and systems for billing or payment for data transmission in the network. The device or machine can...
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...
6085179 Method of charging for a communications service, as well as a charge computer, exchange, and communications network  
A method of determining fees for chargeable telecommunications (TK) services, whereby a counting device is used to calculate the amount of charges accumulated by an individual customer during a...
6078850 Method and apparatus for fuel management and for preventing fuel spillage  
A management system for a vehicle having a commodity storage region and traveling along a path having a plurality of geographically-distributed commodity replenishing stations, includes a sensor...
6076080 Forms order entry system  
An order entry system is provided comprising a first computer system, a printing station computer system, a form design repository, a second computer system, a validation engine, and a pricing...
6076079 Electronic tip calculator  
An electronic calculating device for conveniently calculating a percentage of a value, as is often performed in a restaurant or bar when calculating a gratuity based on the amount of a bill is...
6073125 Token key distribution system controlled acceptance mail payment and evidencing system  
A method for controlled acceptance mail accounting and evidencing, includes creating a mail batch including at least one mail piece having an encrypted indicia printed thereon. The encrypted...
6073107 Parametric software forecasting system and method  
A parametric software estimating system provides a class of user selectable size metrics. At least one of the metrics is adapted specifically for use with proposed object oriented software systems....
6070156 Providing transaction estimates in a fueling and retail system  
The present invention provides pre-transaction estimates of the amount of fuel required to fill a vehicle's tank along with the estimated total cost of filling the vehicle's tank. The invention...
6070155 Integrated automated analysis and repair  
An integrated highly automated analysis system employs a technician terminal for displaying a plurality of inspection screens, and for entering inspection results. The technician terminal generates...
6064992 Postage meter using two ascending registers in an accounting function  
A postage meter includes a memory including an ascending credit register to store an accumulated value of credit and an ascending tote register to store an accumulated tote value of postage charge...
6064970 Motor vehicle monitoring system for determining a cost of insurance  
A method and system of determining a cost of automobile insurance based upon monitoring, recording and communicating data representative of operator and vehicle driving characteristics. The cost is...
6061668 Control system for pay-per-use applications  
An integrated electronic system consisting of a network of appliances and machines, such as clothes washers and dryers, vending machines, or other equipment, controlled from a central management...
6061669 Notification system for access to and printing of proprietary network services  
A method and system to have network web servers that provide services to pass on the unit costs for each of the services and to have the web client computer track the usage of each service,...
6061667 Modular rating engine, rating system and method for processing rating requests in a computerized rating system  
The invention comprises a rating engine, system, and method for processing rating requests in a computerized rating system. One aspect of the invention is an object-oriented rating engine operable...
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...
6047271 Qualification engine, rating system, and method for qualifying rating requests in a computerized rating system  
The invention comprises a method, engine, and system for qualifying a rating request in a computerized rating system. The qualification engine is operable to receive a qualification request...
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...
6047263 Method of displaying information by an electronic price label  
A method of displaying information associated with a special promotion by an electronic price label (EPL) which saves bandwidth at a start time of the special promotion. The method includes the...
6047274 Bidding for energy supply  
An auction service is provided that stimulates competition between energy suppliers (i.e., electric power or natural gas). A bidding moderator (Moderator) receives bids from the competing suppliers...
6043751 Method for detecting and reporting failures in EPL systems  
A method for handling failures in an electronic price label (EPL) system which automatically diagnoses failures, and which may additionally automatically contact a support organization. The method...
6044359 Method of minimizing power consumption within an electronic price label  
A method of minimizing power consumption within an electronic price label (EPL) which conserves battery life. A time period for removing power from a transceiver within the EPL is determined by a...
6041318 Object oriented rating system and method  
The invention comprises an object oriented rating system and method for processing rating requests in a computerized rating system. One aspect of the invention is an object oriented rating system...
6038554 Non-Subjective Valuing.COPYRGT. the computer aided calculation, appraisal and valuation of anything and anybody  
Non-Subjective Valuing.COPYRGT. is a computer-assisted valuing system for discovering both an entity's actual current societal monetary value and its contemporary monetary worth specifically to the...
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...
6032123 Method 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...
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...
6026364 System and method for replacing a liability with insurance and for analyzing data and generating documents pertaining to a premium financing mechanism paying for such insurance  
A system and method for replacing a self insurance with insurance, employing a premium financing mechanism with a payout pattern determined in consideration of an estimated payout of the self...
6026384 Cost zones  
A cost zone about an origin on an digital map includes the area on the map that can be traveled to, from the origin, which has a cost of travel less than a predetermined cost. The cost can be...
6021395 System and method of managing displayed message priorities in an EPL system  
A system and method of managing displayed message priorities in an electronic price label (EPL) system through a data file containing message records including message priorities for each EPL. The...
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...
6016485 System for pathfinding  
A system is disclosed for determining a path in a network that decreases the number of disk accesses needed during the pathfinding computation. The network is divided in to a set of tiles. Certain...
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...
6009402 System and method for predicting, comparing and presenting the cost of self insurance versus insurance and for creating bond financing when advantageous  
A system and method for predicting, comparing, and presenting the cost of self insurance versus insurance for property, casualty, or employee benefit liabilities, and for creating bond financing...
6009404 Method and device for cost-orientated operation of a conditioning device particularly a filter  
The invention pertains to a process and a device for cost-oriented monitoring and/or display of the operating state of a replaceable or regenerable, fluid (7) traversed conditioning device (1),...
6006211 Metering incoming deliverable mail to identify delivery delays  
A system that allows a third party, such as a postage meter manufacturer or PSD manufacturer, to collate data, process the data and report localized delivery delays on a nationalized basis. The...
5996890 Postage metering apparatus  
A postage meter provided with a credit register is also provided with a debit register. When credit value in the credit register is insufficient for a postage charge to be applied to a mail item in...
5999920 System for assisting in management of packaging plant  
A system for assisting in management of a packaging plant, according to which such information as on packaging cost, machine characteristics and surface packaging method is transformed into...
5987429 Computer-based fee processing for electronic commerce  
Fees due from transactions in electronic commerce are processed by building a transaction information database with transaction event objects based on events in each transaction. After retrieving...
5970150 System for producing verifiable kiosk receipts and records  
A postage meter that is contained in a kiosk may be used to produce verifiable receipts for commercial transactions. The imbedded digital metering cryptographic technology that is contained in a...
5966468 Image processing apparatus and method therefor  
In an image processing system, a color or monochrome image region in an image is discriminated, and communication charges are displayed, as required when regions of the image are encoded by...
5960407 Automated market price analysis system  
A system for estimating price characteristics of a product from classified advertisements comprising a plurality of textual characters, comprises a relevant classified advertisement database, an...
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...
5960417 IC manufacturing costing control system and process  
A computer system for determining the costing of the manufacturing process for a product. The computer system includes the combination of a data base computer and a manufacturing cost computer, the...
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