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7212986 Method and apparatus for planning and monitoring multiple tasks based on user defined criteria and predictive ability  
Individual employees are permitted to be individuals and plan their work as individuals. Individuals are only asked to plan their work within a limited tasking horizon. Employees track their...
7212985 Automated system and method for managing a process for the shopping and selection of human entities  
This invention is a system and method for automatically managing a multi-step process in which human providers are selected for some purpose. Typical applications include the selection process...
7209888 System and method for appointment reconciliation  
A system for processing multiple schedules, constructed in accordance with the principle of the present invention, includes an information processing system having a memory and a processor; an...
7209894 Process delay monitoring system  
This invention makes it possible to reduce excess inventory, reduce costs due to unnecessary shipping costs, and to improve reliability. The invention comprises: a server 10 and brand...
7210119 Handling unscheduled tasks in a scheduling process  
Tasks (T) such as repair jobs on a telecommunications system, that are to be performed by a plurality of resources such as field engineers (E), at different locations in a geographical area ( 2 ),...
7206752 Method and apparatus for aiding product life cycle planning and computer program product therefor  
A method for aiding product life cycle planning, including setting a threshold value concerning reuse of parts with respect to cost and environment; reading cost of parts and environment load...
7206753 Methods for facilitating a retail environment  
The methods of the invention provide a variety of processes that may be performed by a mobile retail system or a mobile robot system. In accordance with one process, the invention provides a method...
7200413 Methods and system for enhanced directory assistance using wireless messaging protocols  
Directory assistance provides telephone number look up services to callers based on the business or caller name as listed in a telephone directory. In the prior art, directory assistance provides a...
7200564 Systems and methods for dynamic pricing events in collaborative design, construction, and maintenance of fluid processing plants  
Systems and methods for the collaborative design, construction, and maintenance of fluid processing plants are provided. A collaborative commerce application may provide project management...
7195489 Education set and work model, training method, work efficiency improving method, and tool employing the same  
An education set used for education of a work including a series of work steps. The education set includes segment diagrams ( 105 a , 105 b , 105 c ) where work directions for executing the series...
7197469 Method for allocating limited component supply and capacity to optimize production scheduling  
A method and system for resource rationing which employs decision rules for the optimal allocation of supply and capacity over time that satisfy two key requirements (a) being consistent with...
7194419 Network-based personal contact manager and associated methods  
A network-based contact management system provides various features for assisting users in locating, and sharing information with, other users. The system provides a web-based user interface...
7188153 System and method for managing connections in an online social network  
An online social network collects descriptive data about various individuals and allows those individuals to indicate other individuals with whom they have a personal relationship. The descriptive...
7188073 On-line appointment system with electronic notifications  
Improved approaches to providing on-line appointments over a network are disclosed. The network is, for example, a global computer network such as the Internet. One of the improved approaches...
7184964 Application of supply chain unit cell or cell group or boundary conservation of value and quantity to computer management system  
Computer software for execution by a computer management system to supervise and detect a Boundary Conservation of Value and Quantity in at least one Supply Chain Unit Cell or Cell Group. A warning...
7184966 Systems and methods for remote role-based collaborative work environment  
A network between customers generating service requests and vendors capable of electronically fulfilling the service requests includes a system for monitoring, controlling, and administering work...
7184850 System and method for allocating multi-function resources for a wetdeck process in semiconductor wafer fabrication  
A system and method is disclosed for allocating multi-function resources among a plurality of tasks within a wetdeck process in semiconductor wafer fabrication. A resource allocator allocates...
7184962 System and method for managing employee absences  
A method for managing the absence of an employee is disclosed. The method includes generating an incident case related to the absence, defining portions of the incident case, and integrating the...
7184967 System and method utilizing a graphical user interface of a business process workflow scheduling program  
A graphical user interface (GUI) scheduler program is provided for modeling business workflow processes. The GUI scheduler program includes tools to allow a user to create a schedule for business...
7177825 Integrated system for ordering, fulfillment, and delivery of consumer products using a data network  
A technique for effecting electronic commerce using a data network is described. The data network includes a plurality of subsystems which, together, form an integrated system for receiving...
7177823 In-queue jobs information monitoring and filtering  
A remote monitor technique based on a client/server model is provided for a distributed computing system having a plurality of computing nodes. The remote monitor includes a server application for...
7177713 Method and system for optimizing manufacture of parts  
The present invention discloses a method and system comprised of a combination of submethods and subsystems relating to the manufacture of parts. By these submethods and subsystems, the present...
7171375 Method and system for enterprise wide production scheduling  
A computer implemented method and system for enterprise wide planning is disclosed. In an embodiment, one or more work card templates are initially defined. Then a plurality of work cards...
7171374 Utility resource aggregation and allocation  
A method and system for utility resource aggregation and allocation is disclosed. User data on utility resource use for a plurality of utility users is collected. Utility resource demand is modeled...
7171373 Database driven workflow management system for generating output material based on customer input  
Disclosed is a workflow management system for creating and delivering output material. A customer record is generated to include fields specifying at least one product, customer preferences, and a...
7171664 Content management system and method of employing extensible workflow entities with user-defined attributes in an object-oriented framework  
An object-oriented framework is provided for managing the definition of user-defined attributes for workflow entities and storing and retrieving the values of those attributes. A set of APIs are...
7171647 Method for constructing a process-driven system  
A method for creating a process-driven information system. The method comprises the steps of creating a process model or models comprising one or more elements which are available in a...
7168077 System and method of executing and controlling workflow processes  
A method of executing and controlling a workflow process includes a request-response control process for coordinating activities between a plurality of entities, whereby an entity creates and sends...
7167833 Conference management assistance apparatus and conference management assistance program  
The present invention relates to a conference management assistance apparatus for assisting a presiding person of a conference and has an object to provide information which assists smooth progress...
7165036 System and method for managing a procurement process  
A method of managing contracts is provided. The method includes storing a storing a plurality of electronic contracts including unstructured text. The method further includes determining one or...
7162318 Resource management and planning using a memory resident data module  
A method for resource management and planning includes loading into memory near real-time information associated with multiple enterprise and affiliated production facilities, the near real-time...
7158941 Residential and business logistics system and method  
A method for delivering and shipping parcels using a secure receptacle. The secure receptacle has an access device that controls a lock which is used to secure the contents of the receptacle from...
7158940 Method and apparatus for facilitating management of information technology investment  
A method and apparatus to facilitate management of IT investment includes storing data associated with performance metrics of a number of information technology (IT) projects, and generating a...
7155400 Universal task management system, method and product for automatically managing remote workers, including automatically recruiting workers  
A computer implemented method, a system, and a software product to automatically manage one or more human workers carrying out a process of manipulating source data provided to produce result data....
7155435 Method for resolving issues within a team environment  
A system and method is adapted to utilize the Internet as a medium for providing information and data management and sharing between diverse project team members. The project team members may be...
7155510 System and method for forecasting information using collective intelligence from diverse sources  
System, method, computer program product, and business operating model. Information processing system comprising: server computer having processor for executing computer instructions and memory...
7151973 Methods and systems for scheduling and buffer balancing  
A method of scheduling and making material time balancing decisions for a set of balanced tasks. The method includes steps of scheduling a first task from among the set of tasks, maintaining a...
7149700 Method of determining task costs for activity based costing models  
A method of carrying out activity based costing in a professional practice, such as a healthcare practice or hospital is provided. The costs of activities involving an operator are calculated based...
7149702 System and method for document delays associated with a project  
A system and method for documenting delays associated with a project. The present invention includes provisions that enables a field personnel working on a project on the field to document...
7150000 Component development with autonomous and compiled components to implement and consume services with components operate in edit and run mode  
An architecture for developing a distributed information system comprises a service definition tool for generating service protocols as a service definition. Each service protocol includes a...
7149703 Method and system for generating referrals for job positions based upon virtual communities comprised of members relevant to the job positions  
The invention includes three primary methodical tools. The first tool implements a job recruiting toolkit. The second tool implements a method of generating referrals based upon a virtual community...
7149701 Regulatory compliance system and method  
The present invention provides an electronic regulatory compliance system and method that permits a regulatory agency to efficiently and accurately monitor thousands of environmental equipment...
7146326 System and method for outside plant construction pit scheduling tool and log  
A method for managing three groups, the method comprising the steps of: providing a first group with access to a web application, to place a first command into the web application; providing a...
7142937 Capacity management in a wafer fabrication plant  
In a wafer fabrication plant, the capacity management process 10 begins with identifying an initial capacity plan based on a demand plan (step 12 ). For each Product Group in the initial...
7139719 System for scheduling product planning  
A product development scheduler uses a distributed, constraint based system for modeling allocation of resources. All resources for all active development projects are provided at a central...
7139726 Method and system for supplying automatic status updates using electronic mail  
A system is disclosed for automatically updating the status of customers' orders and shipments via electronic mail without using a human attendant to create and send the electronic mail messages....
7139720 Project planning system and method for accommodating AD HOC requests within a fixed core development cycle  
A planning system for the planning and management of multiple projects includes an input ( 122 ) for entering project information and task information associated with each project. The project...
7139721 Scheduling delivery of products via the internet  
Methods and apparatus for scheduling delivery of an order via a wide area network. A computer system associates a customer point value with each customer according to a customer point system. The...
7139694 Method and system for tranferring an electronic sum of money from a credit memory  
Method for transferring an electronic sum of money from a credit memory associated with a money sender to an account or to a credit memory associated with a money receiver via a telecommunications...
7139718 Notification apparatus and method therefor  
When a schedule is updated, a check is performed to determine whether matters concerning the updated schedule are included in a To Do List, in which all processes to be performed are registered,...