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8442917 |
Energy distribution and marketing backoffice system and method
A retail energy provider system comprising a market transaction manager, business rules and requirements processor, usage rater, customer analysis and quality control auditor, customer billing...
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8380635 |
User feedback method and system for business suite customization
A computer-implemented user feedback method, system and program product for customizing business suite software that is executable on a computer system. The method includes: acquiring a business...
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8365306 |
Platform and service for management and multi-channel delivery of multi-types of contents
A platform for managing delivery of content originating from one or more content providers to users is provided. The platform includes a portal that is configured to support access through a...
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8346852 |
Apparatus and method for updating displayed web page
An information processing apparatus includes a Web-page display unit configured to receive a Web page from a Web page server unit to display the received Web page on a display device, an update...
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8255090 |
System and method for home energy monitor and control
The invention generally concerns systems and methods for monitoring and controlling the power consumption of a power-consuming device. The system and method may connect to a power source and a...
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8250657 |
Web site hygiene-based computer security
A reputation server is coupled to multiple clients via a network. Each client has a security module that detects malware at the client. The security module computes a hygiene score based on...
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8244642 |
System and method for storing metering data while increasing memory endurance
Methodology and corresponding apparatus ensure the integrity of utility metering data during power outages while providing improved memory integrity. An initial step includes determining and...
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8172147 |
Method and system for the estimating the energy consumption of commercially available electrical devices
Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system for estimating electrical power usage of commercially available devices utilizing a portable computing device equipped with a digital...
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8170886 |
Systems, methods, and apparatus to generate an energy consumption index
Systems, methods, and apparatus to generate an energy consumption index are disclosed. In one described example, a method to generate an energy consumption index is disclosed, the method including...
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8150725 |
Method and system of multidimensional attribution analysis of telecommunication services distribution
Embodiments are directed to a method, medium, and system for generating a distribution attribution value to analyze distribution of telecommunications services. The method including compiling...
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8086538 |
Meeting usage of services in a environment
A solution for metering usage of services—for example, in a SOA Framework—is proposed. For this purpose, the submission of any invocation of a provider service by a consumer service is int...
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8073782 |
Advanced crypto round dater
There is provided a cryptographic round dater and its method of use. By capturing customer profile information and encoding the information on a label affixed to the customer's submitted mailpiece,...
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8064579 |
Prepaid services accounts with multi-user customers and individualized quotas
Prepaid services include a multi-user prepaid services account as well as a prepaid balance associated with the account. A plurality of user records associated with the account each includes a...
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7996323 |
Method and system for a service provider to control exposure to non-payment by a service consumer
A dispute resolution system for requesting a service provider to provide services so that the service provider can demonstrate to a service intermediary that a service consumer requested services....
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7996820 |
Determining proportionate use of system resources by applications executing in a shared hosting environment
Determining proportionate use of system resources by applications executing in a shared hosting environment, including executing monitor agents, one monitor agent for one or more instances of the...
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7983991 |
Method for a unique certification process for the delivery of goods
A method for a secure delivery of physical goods, involving associating a good unique identifier (GUID) to a package comprising the physical goods requested by a client, obtaining proof of identity...
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7979356 |
Method for paying invoices
For an organization having a central station and a plurality of distributed outlets, each of the outlets having a cashier's terminal, each of the cashier's terminals coupled to a respective...
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7908606 |
Usage metering system
A usage metering system for determining computer resource utilization is described herein. Computer resource utilization is determined by accumulating instances of computer resource utilization...
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7904181 |
Model for communication between manufacturing and enterprise levels
A device for communicating with low level controllers and sensors located on the production floor of an enterprise directly from the top level of the enterprise. The device comprises a controller...
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7840493 |
Prepayment system for electric power meters using a contactless smart card with an automatic supply cut-off device
The present invention refers to the use of a meter completely integrated on a single piece, totally covered and without contact with the exterior that incorporates a prepayment system and a more...
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7809649 |
Security and authentication of postage indicia
Methods and apparatus for authentication of postage indicia are disclosed. A secret key is read from store and modified in dependence upon postage data to be printed in a postage indicium. The...
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7774282 |
Methods, apparatus, and media for controlling supply of a utility service to a load
Methods, apparatus, and media for controlling supply of a utility service to a load are disclosed. Generally, the embodiments may involve receiving representation of utility service supply to a...
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7752145 |
Consumer-sited power management system and method
A system and method provide emergency back-up power for communications, security and other systems of an electric power consumer, and for peak-shifting of the electrical load so that electricity is...
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7747534 |
Utility power meter, metering system and method
An electrical utility meter system measures residential energy consumption and automatically communicates this information to a host computer via the Internet. The host computer can then be...
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7729993 |
Methods, apparatus, media, and signals for billing utility usage
Methods, apparatus, computer readable media, and signals for managing utility usage are disclosed. Generally, each involves receiving a representation of a utility service usage at a load,...
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7711651 |
Media and apparatus for controlling usage of utilities
Media and apparatus for managing usage of utilities are disclosed. Generally, each involves receiving representation of utility service usage at a load, receiving and storing in a storage device a...
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7703113 |
Copy protection arrangement
In certain embodiments, a method for generating fees using a receiving device, involves distributing censored video from a distributor video to a receiving device; and uncensoring the censored...
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7644290 |
System and method for seal tamper detection for intelligent electronic devices
A system and method for detecting and responding to device tampering in an Energy Management (“EM”) device is disclosed. The EM device is provided with mechanisms to detect and indicate una...
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7610247 |
Method and arrangement for variably generating cryptographic securities in a host device
In a method and arrangement for variable generation of cryptographic securities of communications in a host device, for cryptographic security of a communication for a first purpose a first...
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7418428 |
System and method for controlling delivering of a commodity
A system and method manage delivery of energy from a distribution network to one or more sites. Each site has at least one device couple to the distribution network. The at least one device...
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7412304 |
Power system for area containing a set of power consumers
There is provided a power system for an area containing a set of power consumers which can be applied to a collective housing consisting of a single or more buildings and can prevent power supply...
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7313381 |
Sim based authentication as payment method in public ISP access networks
The invention is a method and system for obtaining connection to a packet data network (14). The invention includes inputting a user request to a first network (10) which requests that the user...
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7280971 |
Method and system for server-based error processing in support of legacy-based usage and billing systems
An error processing system comprising a client/server based PC application supported by SQL Server databases for use with legacy usage metering and billing services. The error processing system...
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7236956 |
Role assignments in a cryptographic module for secure processing of value-bearing items
An on-line value bearing item (VBI) printing system that includes one or more cryptographic modules and a central database is disclosed. The cryptographic modules are capable of implementing the...
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7216108 |
Transferable meter licenses using smartcard technology
A metering system is provided including a smartcard reader and peripheral computer in communication with a metering apparatus. A smartcard with memory, microprocessor, and license counter may then...
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7212977 |
Managing apparatus and managing method of a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus
Power consumption of electric equipment used in a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus (100) is obtained and the total amount is displayed as calories by a display means. The semiconductor...
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7197377 |
Method of limiting brewer operation to authorized substances
A method, apparatus and system for preventing unauthorized equipment usage that involves providing equipment, such as beverage making equipment, to a customer. Authorized product is provided to the...
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7167842 |
Architecture and method for operational privacy in business services
Consent-based application programming interfaces (APIs) are used to provide privacy access controls to operational systems for business services accomplished particularly in an electronic and/or...
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7098783 |
System and method for real time generating, presenting, displaying and paying utility bills online
A system for continuously providing information on the internet of the usage of a utility commodity at a meter includes an internet site at which the usage of the utility commodity at the meter can...
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7089190 |
System and method for managing utility power use
A system for managing utility power use by ascertaining the amount of resources to be purchased from a power supplier, identifying transactions that balance energy needs with various users, and...
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7082533 |
Gauging risk in electronic communications regarding accounts in ABDS system
A system for communicating electronically over a communications medium regarding an account includes (a) maintaining information pertaining to the account in a database such that the information is...
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6999567 |
Method and system for communicating from an automatic meter reader
In a system where an automatic meter reader device communicates with a host at a remote location using a communication line that is shared with at least one other user, conflicts between the use of...
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6959292 |
Method and system for providing value-added services
A system and method is disclosed for providing confirmation relating to the distribution of a mailpiece within an international mailing system. The invention includes a determination of postal data...
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6954739 |
Measurement-based management method for packet communication networks
Disclosed are network management procedures that apply measurements of traffic load to achieve greater efficiency in the operation of the network. In a method for deciding whether to route an...
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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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6738693 |
Multiple virtual meters in one physical meter
A utility meter which provides multiple concurrent registering of commodity consumption data includes a source of commodity consumption signals, a measurement circuit, and a registering circuit....
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6694433 |
XML encryption scheme
A secure accounting and operational method, whereby process elements are provided to a process, selected process elements are manipulated, a scheduled condition of the process is sampled at a...
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6529883 |
Prepayment energy metering system with two-way smart card communications
A pre-payment energy metering system uses two-way smart card communications. Secure power line carrier communications are provided at the consumer locations communication between a customer...
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6457038 |
Wide area network operation's center that sends and receives data from vending machines
A remote data acquisition and transmission system and method are disclosed. A plurality of application controllers are interfaced with remote equipment from which operation data is acquired by the...
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6401081 |
Modular object-based architecture for extensible master station software
Conventional AMR and DA/DSM systems typically suffer from a lack of extensibility due to the monolithic nature of the master station software. In contrast, this patent describes a system that is...
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