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6574617 System and method for selective replication of databases within a workflow, enterprise, and mail-enabled web application server and platform  
A workflow, enterprise, and mail-enabled application server and platform supports distributed computing and remote execution of web applications. Lotus Domino online services (DOLS) is used by a...
6574614 Consumer feedback apparatus  
A consumer feedback apparatus for collecting, analyzing, and reporting information on goods and services offered for sale to consumers by providers, comprising a recording station selectively...
6574605 Method and system for strategic services enterprise workload management  
The invention provides a system and method for strategic services enterprise workload management and more particularly to an automated method and system for enterprise workload management that...
6571158 Maintenance tracking system  
A maintenance tracking system for tracking maintenance required on a member of a fleet includes means for tracking accumulated usage data, means for receiving a list of routine tasks required to be...
6567807 Investor relations event scheduling system and method  
The disclosed invention uses an event manager, an events database, and a personal computing device to provide investor relations event scheduling. The event manager includes a web server, a...
6567784 Method and apparatus for matching projects and workers  
A method of matching projects and workers using both both mandatory, or binary, characteristics and quantitative characteristics is described. The projects and workers have a number of...
6564226 Supplier management process with dynamically updated mapping  
The supply chain management system employs at least one database having supplier question records that include question data entities for storing questions, answer data entities for storing answers...
6560569 Method and apparatus for designing and analyzing information systems using multi-layer mathematical models  
An information design system uses an input module, a construction module, a performance metrics module, and an output module to create and output several models of a proposed information design...
6560501 System and method for collaborative batch aggregation and scheduling  
A computer-based system ( 10 ) for aggregating and scheduling product batches ( 50 ) includes a batch aggregation engine ( 20 ) that allocates one or more product demands ( 40 ) to one or more...
6556962 Method for reducing network costs and its application to domino circuits  
A system and method which reduce a network cost of a domino circuit. The network costs of domino circuits can be reduced by utilizing the methods and systems disclosed. The domino circuit is...
6556950 Diagnostic method and apparatus for use with enterprise control  
A data construct set and method for use with an industrial process which is controlled according to execution code wherein a processor running the code generates requests to mechanical resources to...
6553369 Approach for performing administrative functions in information systems  
An intelligent approach for performing administrative functions generally involves performing a set of administrative function steps within a “maintenance window” that is defined by one or more...
6549939 Proactive calendar notification agent  
In a data processing system, a method for fetching information through a data network includes the following steps: (1) receiving a user profile comprising user preferences; (2) using an agent for...
6546364 Method and apparatus for creating adaptive workflows  
A scheduling engine and an associated workflow engine may be configured to build workflows that describe sequences of tasks to be performed in a dynamically changing environment. The workflow...
6546303 Computation of supply chain planning process efficiency  
A method and system for computing a supply chain planning process efficiency E in relation to manufacturing activities of an organization. Input data, including supply and demand input data, is...
6546300 Production/manufacturing planning system  
A production/manufacturing planning system is provided with a production planning planner 10 and a manufacturing planning scheduler 12 . The production planning planner 10 makes the production...
6546302 Method for scheduling and sequencing vehicles for manufacture  
A method for sequencing and scheduling vehicles for manufacture. The method considers the characteristics, options, and/or accessories of the vehicles to be manufactured and determines the most...
6546371 Train corridor scheduling process including various cost functions associated with railway operations  
A process for scheduling the travel of trains on a rail corridor. The rail corridor includes a plurality of siding tracks onto which trains can be sided when a meet or pass occurs with another...
6526388 Interoperable workflow management system  
An interoperable workflow management system controls an information disclosing range of a workflow case to prevent transmission delay even when the communication path has a small transmission...
6519570 System and method for conducting a time auction  
A system and a method of conducting a time-auction among queuing customers is described. A bid is received from one of the queuing customers and compared with the prices being offered by the other...
6516301 Order-based material management system  
An Order Based Materials Management (OBMM) method using forecasts of actual customer orders to determine component stocking levels. There may be several types of orders and several types of...
6507821 System and method for providing information technology IT expert referral over a network  
A system and method for assigning an IT expert to a request for assistance. The invention allows users to request assistance over the Internet to an IT expert server having a file of qualified IT...
6502121 System and method for processing a recurrent operation  
The processing system includes a storage device for maintaining entity information including period information indicative of information processing periods for the entity. A scheduling application...
6499892 Processing of photographs in a photographic laboratory by operators  
Method of processing photographs in a photographic laboratory by means of a photographic processing system, comprising the steps of: receiving customer orders and processing information,...
6499017 Method for provisioning communications devices and system for provisioning same  
A method of provisioning communication devices is provided which preferably includes transferring a customer order to an order database. The transferred customer order preferably includes an order...
6490565 Environmental certification system and method  
A data processing method for an environmental certification program is provided which defines a plurality of predefined criteria which must be met by a participant in the program in order to be...
6490566 Graph-based schedule builder for tightly constrained scheduling problems  
A computer-implemented system ( 10 ) for task scheduling. The system ( 10 ) models an enterprise in terms of products, tasks and resources used to make them, and constraints imposed in scheduling...
6487471 Method and equipment allocating industrial or technical resources within technical systems  
A method for allocating industrial or technical resources within technical systems, in particular to avert malfunctions, the system's operational state being represented by at least two parameter...
6484145 Priority access channel reservation  
A method and system for priority access channel allocation within a telecommunication subsystem in which channel access requests are categorized within a prioritization system that includes a first...
6477436 System and method for creation of a network computing environment  
A system and method for organizing the computer network components, including hardware, software, peripherals and services (i.e. internet and online backup). This, in order to make the creation of...
6477660 Data model for supply chain planning  
A data model for a supply chain is provided whereby individual working steps in a production process are defined as activities, and organized groups of such activities are defined as orders....
6470346 Remote computation framework  
A computer system includes a computation process. The computation process includes a client process to produce a computation request with the computation request being invoked by a command line...
6470324 Dealer inventory management system  
A dealer inventory management system is provided for recommending which types of vehicles a dealer should order from the automotive manufacturer. The computer-implemented system includes a vehicle...
6466242 Information processing apparatus  
An information processing apparatus having a schedule management function includes a display section for displaying temporal axes of at least two different cities on a schedule display screen in...
6463346 Workflow-scheduling optimization driven by target completion time  
The flow of work items ( 40 ) through a workflow process ( 50 ) is optimized by repeatedly reordering (FIG. 3 ) work items enqueued in inbox queues ( 21 ) of workflow process tasks ( 500 ) to...
6460018 Program production and transmission apparatus  
Program production supporting component, transmission equipment controlling component, material creation managing component, and storing component are interconnected through a network, and managing...
6453298 Method of operating a vehicle redistribution system based upon predicted ride demands  
A vehicle allocation system oversees the operation of a plurality of auto-piloted vehicles, used to transport passengers between major ports such as airports, train stations, shopping malls, etc....
6446043 Communication parameter search apparatus and communication support apparatus using the same  
A communication parameter search apparatus includes a location managing part for receiving a signal indicating a location of each user, and for managing the location of each user, an input...
6442567 Method and apparatus for improved contact and activity management and planning  
Methods and apparatus for improved contact and activity management and planning where subject data, activity data and topic data are created and functionally linked through interfaces and...
6442527 System and method for personalized and customized time management  
A method and system for organizing and planning various categories of events, tasks and long-term goals. The method and system generally include of providing at least one data module for generating...
6424909 Method and system for retrieving information for a navigation system  
A destination information retrieval method is provided. When “airports” is selected as a desired destination from a category list, a list of airports is provided. When a desired airport is...
6424948 Declarative workflow system supporting side-effects  
An object-focused workflow system for processing a received object in accordance with a declarative workflow specification. The specification includes modules and attributes, where module execution...
6421651 Method and apparatus for priority-based jukebox queuing  
A method and apparatus are described for managing a request queue for a jukebox system. According to one aspect of the present invention, a method is disclosed for managing a queue of a jukebox....
6415316 Method and apparatus for implementing a web page diary  
A method and apparatus to create a “diary” containing multimedia references to contents of Websites. These references (also called addresses) can be to, for example, text, bookmarks, images,...
6415260 Dynamic capacity demand forecast system  
A dynamic-capacity-demand-forecast system in the manufacture of semiconductor integrated circuits includes several steps. N types of products and m types of processing steps are in a processing...
6415259 Automatic work progress tracking and optimizing engine for a telecommunications customer care and billing system  
A system of work progress tracking and management in which customer orders may be received and entered into the system. Upon the entry of customer orders the system automatically schedules the...
6408276 Crew optimization engine for repair of pairings during irregular airline operations  
An automated real time crew optimization engine for repairing crew problems including open flights, open pairings, and broken crews in airline operations, which generates multiple solutions in...
6405204 Alerts by sector/news alerts  
The invention provides index performance alerts by sector. The index alerts are based on price performance measures of each industry, sector, sub-sector, or group (referred to collectively as...
6401073 Method and system for managing workflow  
A workflow managing system includes a workflow server for automatically extracting a next workflow entrance location from an electronic document for management of the next workflow entrance...
6389400 System and methods for intelligent routing of customer requests using customer and agent models  
System and methods for intelligent routing of requests from customers to agents where a request is received at a service center from a customer. Identification information related to the customer...