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6381579 System and method to provide secure navigation to resources on the internet  
Provide an electronic-business-to-electronic-business portal that organizes the access to extended business applications. A method allows end users to access a server using standard Web browsers,...
6374227 System and method for optimizing the allocation of a resource  
A system ( 8 ) for optimizing the allocation of a resource includes an optimizer file ( 14 ) containing resource allocation data including a demand for allocation of the resource, a plurality of...
6370231 Method and system for calculating the estimated time of arrival of a service technician  
A system and method are disclosed for reporting an estimated time at which a task will be processed. A user interface receives a status query and transfers this information to a controller. The...
6363352 Automatic scheduling and formation of a virtual meeting over a computer network  
A method and system for scheduling a virtual meeting and automatically making the required connections near the time the virtual meeting is scheduled to take place between a meeting host's computer...
6351734 System and method for resource allocation and planning  
A system and method for management of resources estimated to be required to develop a product and distribution of resources allocated for the development of the product. A hierarchy of projects...
6349287 Work-flow support system  
A work-flow support having: a processing wait task storage unit that temporarily stores a task execution request and a rule interpretation execution unit executes a task corresponding to the...
6345260 Scheduling interface system and method for medical professionals  
The present invention provides a system and method for scheduling appointments at any time with a professional, such as a doctor, dentist, veterinarian, or the like, or a professional service, such...
6345281 Recovery method and system for a resource management system  
A recovery method for a resource management system having a message handler for communicating orders from a plurality of disparate hosts to an order processing system for assignment to remote...
6343275 Integrated business-to-business web commerce and business automation system  
A software system business-to-business Web commerce (Web business, or e-business) and automates to the greatest degree possible, in a unified and synergistic fashion and using best proven business...
6341240 Method of allocating work in capacity planning  
A computer implemented method provides accurate capacity planning for manufacturing environments comprising parallel, unrelated tools that can process the same operations at different rates and...
6341266 Method and system for the maximization of the range of coverage profiles in inventory management  
A method and system for managing inventory in a multiple level distribution chain by applying optimization algorithms to a range profile constructed from a formulation of the distribution network...
6341287 Integrated change management unit  
An integrated system for managing changes in regulatory and non-regulatory requirements for business activities at an industrial or commercial facility. Application of this system to environmental,...
6341269 System, method and article of manufacture to optimize inventory and merchandising shelf space utilization  
The present invention relates to inventory management systems and processes at the retail, wholesale and/or distributor level. The present invention particularly involves a system, method and...
6337905 System for controlling automatic call distribution service  
A system for controlling automatic call distribution service in a network in which call processing systems are connected via a control channel and a communication channel includes a...
6338097 Cross application time sheet for communicating with one or more enterprise management applications during time data entry  
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....
6336050 Method and apparatus for iteratively optimizing functional outputs with respect to inputs  
An optimization process for optimizing inputs data relating to a function of a plurality of input-signals for which it is desired to find output values which give an optimum value of the function....
6336101 Tracking of computer components allocated during configuration of computer systems and networks by a simplified user friendly configuration process  
A user interactive display computer process and program, provided by a distributer of computer components to a seller of computer systems, for configuring computer systems and networks including...
6332130 System and process for inter-domain planning analysis and optimization using model agents as partial replicas of remote domains  
A computer implemented system for inter-domain analysis is disclosed. The system includes a domain engine (234), associated with a first supply chain entity, having a local model representing a...
6330542 Automated internet quoting and procurement system and process for commercial printing  
Automated internet or other networked data processing system commercial printing software consists primarily of two components: A Print Buyer Component (22) and A Print Provider Component...
6327568 Distributed hardware sharing for speech processing  
In a multistation intercommunication system human speech is processed on at least two respective levels of generic complexity. The speech is received in one or more origin stations in parallel and...
6324517 Meeting site selection based on all-inclusive meeting cost  
Meeting or conference facilities are evaluated based on an all-inclusive meeting cost. The all-inclusive meeting cost is used to rank the facilities based on the lowest all-inclusive meeting cost...
6321133 Method and apparatus for order promising  
An order promising scheme includes the ability to query a hierarchical scheduling module configured to generate workflows for a series of jobs to be processed in a manufacturing environment to...
6321225 Abstracting cooked variables from raw variables  
A method and a system for abstracting cooked variables from raw variables. In one embodiment, a data set that has a plurality of records is input into a system, where each record has a value for...
6321202 System and method for managing transactions relating to real estate  
A system and method for managing real estate transactions is provided. The method includes the steps of receiving and storing data relating to a plurality of contacts including buyers and sellers...
6317732 Planning system and planning method  
A planning system includes an input device which accepts at least a given planning problem and values of variables required to solve the given planning problem; a display device which provides a...
6317685 Method and system for providing alternate routes with a navigation system  
A feature for a navigation system that provides an evaluation of alternate routes. According to this feature, the navigation system compares the actual time of travel along a route to the estimated...
6314425 Apparatus and methods for use of access tokens in an internet document management system  
An Internet-based document management system and methods are provided wherein access to the system and its services may be controlled through use of access tokens. The Internet-based document...
6311192 Method for initiating workflows in an automated organization management system  
A computer program (38) for organization management can interact with a database (36) containing organization information, and includes a personnel administration module (41), a personnel...
6308161 System and method for business process space definition  
A method and system for representing business processes such as in a workflow model. Each of a plurality of processes is defined as a 3-tuple including a noun, a verb and an attribute, and a...
6308162 Method for controlled optimization of enterprise planning models  
A computer-implemented method and system for controlled optimization of enterprise planning models is provided. This is accomplished by first defining an auxiliary objective function, which depends...
6308163 System and method for enterprise workflow resource management  
A method and a system for providing resource management in workflow processing of an enterprise include a multi-level resource manager hierarchy. An upper level includes at least one resource...
6289340 Consultant matching system and method for selecting candidates from a candidate pool by adjusting skill values  
An apparatus, system and method selects a candidate from a pool of candidates to fill a position based on the skills held by the candidate, the skills desired for the position and the priority of...
6289348 Method and system of electronically receiving and processing membership information of an organization  
A group organizational system operational as a computer program on a computer network. The computer network provides communication between a host server and a plurality of remote individual users....
6289317 Task-based classification and analysis system  
A task-based classification and analysis system includes an analysis software module and a user interface. The analysis software module establishes and maintains relationships between a plurality...
6275810 Method for scheduling holidays in distributed computer enterprise locales  
A scheduling method operative in association with a display device of a data processing system connected in a distributed computing environment having nodes located across geographically-dispersed...
6275812 Intelligent system for dynamic resource management  
A system or method for human resource skill management, training, career development, and deployment, linking specialties, job functions, skill sets, and experience/training profiles. The method...
6272074 Method and apparatus for generating recurring events in a calendar/schedule system  
An electronic calendaring and scheduling capability that minimizes storage requirements. Repetitive calendar events are stored as single entries using an expression language. The expression...
6269341 Method and system for printing individualized calendars  
A method and system for making an individualized calendar which includes personalized information. The personalized information includes a special event date with its description for an individual...
6266659 Skills database management system and method  
A computer-based on-line skills/resume management system, the system has: (a) a relational database having a plurality of fields wherein a portion of the fields are arranged in a hierarchical...
6266655 Computer-implemented value management tool for an asset intensive manufacturer  
A method of valuing resources of an asset intensive manufacturer. Calculations provide a MAV for each resource (machine) for each time horizon. The inputs for the calculations include the prices of...
6263315 Revenue management system and method  
A revenue management software system supports decisions to accept or deny requests for resource capacity (seats, rooms, volume/weight, air time, etc.) using control logic that accesses...
6260047 Inventory management system  
A method for selecting an optimum time period from an inventory of available time periods, where each time period has a predetermined duration including selected and unselected time portions and an...
6256651 Time management workflow software  
A workflow system and program for organizing the time and priorities of a user, wherein the information input by a user into a spreadsheet is generated by the program into a bar graph. It is...
6249774 Method for owning, managing, automatically replenishing, and invoicing inventory items  
A method by which a distributor owns, manages, and automatically replenishes the inventory of a business that is a customer of the distributor. The distributor collects information over a start-up...
6246993 Reorder system for use with an electronic printing press  
A method of, and system for, selectively reordering the reprinting of books on one or more electronic presses are disclosed. In one embodiment, sensors and a processor are utilized to reorder books...
6243615 System for analyzing and improving pharmaceutical and other capital-intensive manufacturing processes  
A method for displaying a visual process signature for ready visual recognition and communication of otherwise complex manufacturing process information. Process data may be stored in a plurality...
6240398 Product classification process for optical subassemblies  
A method and system for assigning a classification to a device having a set of qualifying classifications. The method includes the steps of obtaining an inventory count for each classification of...
6236976 System and process for job scheduling using limited discrepancy search  
Assignment of attributes to elements subject to constraints is achieved using a system that has a systematic engine and a nonsystematic engine. The systematic engine includes a schedule developer...
6237051 Asset tracking within and across enterprise boundaries  
A unique data label is affixed to each tracked asset and a unique data label for each location in the enterprise, both real and virtual locations. Location history data of the asset is related to...
6236987 Dynamic content organization in information retrieval systems  
An information system and method provide organizational and navigational aids to a user to facilitate exploration and analysis of a document collection. The system includes a document collection...