| 6236972 |
Method and apparatus for facilitating transactions on a commercial network system |
| May-22-2001 |
A method and device for using a computer to facilitate a transaction of secondary market shares of an investment company such as a mutual fund between a buyer and a seller, having the steps of: a customer... |
| 6236330 |
Mobile display system |
| May-22-2001 |
A mobile display system comprises one or more movable billboard displays, equipped with externally viewable display panels and a controller. The display is moved from location zone to location zone by... |
| 6230156 |
Electronic mail interface for a network server |
| May-8-2001 |
A networked system for processing queries for a server in a distributed processing environment is provided. The system includes a plurality of clients disposed for communication with a database server... |
| 6230150 |
Vending machine evaluation network |
| May-8-2001 |
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for automatically testing, monitoring and managing the pricing and other sales information associated with products sold by vending machines. A price or other sales... |
| 6230146 |
Method and system for controlling closing times of electronic auctions involving multiple lots |
| May-8-2001 |
A method and system for conducting electronic auctions is described. A dynamic lot closing extension feature avoids collisions in closing times of multiple lots by dynamically extending the closing time... |
| 6226618 |
Electronic content delivery system |
| May-1-2001 |
Disclosed is a method and apparatus of securely providing data to a user's system. The data is encrypted so as to only be decryptable by a data decrypting key, the data decrypting key being encrypted using... |
| 6226620 |
Iterative problem solving technique |
| May-1-2001 |
A method of implementing non-numerical spread sheets for the medical and legal domains using a computer-assisted iterative problem solving technique which starts from initial non-numerical data and develops... |
| 6226619 |
Method and system for preventing counterfeiting of high price wholesale and retail items |
| May-1-2001 |
A method and system for preventing counterfeiting of an item, include an interrogatable tag attached to the item. The item includes visible indicia for comparison with secret, non-duplicable information... |
| 6226617 |
Product disposal system |
| May-1-2001 |
A treatment processing system for determining proper and appropriate treatment methods and procedures in accordance with states of discarded articles and outputting the determined procedures. Treatment... |
| 6223165 |
Method and apparatus to connect consumer to expert |
| Apr-24-2001 |
This invention provides for a method of (or apparatus for) facilitating the delivery of advice to consumers using a server unit which can store and display the names and characteristics of experts and... |
| 6223163 |
Method and apparatus for controlling offers that are provided at a point-of-sale terminal |
| Apr-24-2001 |
A POS terminal or other computing device provides a plurality of offers to customers, and then measures a performance rate of each offer. For example, the acceptance rate or the profit rate of the offers... |
| 6223094 |
Multi-tiered structure for storing and displaying product and process variants |
| Apr-24-2001 |
A computer based system is provided that is capable of displaying component and process structures for configurable product classes stored in a data structure. Product classes in the data structure are... |
| 6220509 |
Parcel trace system |
| Apr-24-2001 |
A parcel trace system for tracing parcels handled by a service provider for a plurality of clients. The system includes relay (30) adapted to communicate with the clients across the Internet and with a... |
| 6219651 |
Protection of transaction data |
| Apr-17-2001 |
The invention presented describes the protection of transaction data in cash-free payment traffic from its creation to its processing by means of stock-exchange chip cards (4). In each payment transfer,... |
| 6219648 |
Apparatus and method for monitoring progress of customer generated trouble tickets |
| Apr-17-2001 |
An alerting system is provided for proactively ensuring awareness of pending customer generated trouble tickets which have not been resolved for at least a predetermined time duration corresponding to... |
| 6219647 |
Method and an apparatus for preprocessing logging of received postal items |
| Apr-17-2001 |
From received postal items patterns are recorded and recorded information representing the recorded patterns is generated. Each received postal item is processed directly after the information is recorded... |
| 6216114 |
Method and system for controlling the initiation and duration of overtime intervals in electronic auctions |
| Apr-10-2001 |
A method and system for conducting electronic auctions is described. A mic lot closing extension feature avoids collisions in closing times of multiple lots by dynamically extending the closing time of... |
| 6212503 |
Apparatus for automatically applying and preparing software, and recording medium for preparing software |
| Apr-3-2001 |
When data is simply input without being aware of describing a program language (e.g., COBOL or FORTRAN), the data input meaning is detected, and software for this data processing is automatically applied... |
| 6208979 |
Computer-driven information management system for selectively matching credit applicants with money lenders through a global communications network |
| Mar-27-2001 |
A computer-driven information management system selectively matches credit applicants with money lenders through a global communications network. The system includes an applicant data entry device for... |
| 6205432 |
Background advertising system |
| Mar-20-2001 |
An advertisement system and method are provided for inserting into an end user communication message a background reference to an advertisement. In some embodiments, the background reference causes an... |
| 6199046 |
Method system and article of manufacture for performing real time currency conversion |
| Mar-6-2001 |
A currency converter consisting of a source of exchange rate information with either an object performing the role of currency selection, exchange rate information retrieval, and price display, or objects... |
| 6199050 |
Method and system for bidding in electronic auctions using flexible bidder-determined line-item guidelines |
| Mar-6-2001 |
A method and system for conducting electronic auctions is described. A dynamic lot closing extension feature avoids collisions in closing times of multiple lots by dynamically extending the closing time... |
| 6199045 |
Method and apparatus for providing position-related information to mobile recipients |
| Mar-6-2001 |
A system for providing position-related information to a mobile user includes a mobile unit and a central site server. The mobile unit includes circuitry for determining present position information from... |
| 6195642 |
Digital broadcasting receiving apparatus |
| Feb-27-2001 |
A digital broadcasting receiving apparatus that can be installed without regard to the location of the telephone outlet where a signal is received by a front-end, reception data is decoded by an A/V decoder,... |
| 6192348 |
Method for compiling accounting data for the utilization of programmed services or services available via a program |
| Feb-20-2001 |
The method interactively enables a switching over of the acquisition of charges during the utilization of programmed services or services available via a program. The charge acquisition can be switched... |
| 6185573 |
Method and system for the integrated storage and dynamic selective retrieval of text, audio and video data |
| Feb-6-2001 |
The present invention is an automated system to input text, audio and video data, to integrate the storage of the data at a central location, to initiate queries of search criteria to the central location... |
| 6185555 |
Method and apparatus for data management using an event transition network |
| Feb-6-2001 |
The present invention provides a method and computer program for managing data by storing one or more data records in a database, creating a management plan having one or more states, selecting one or... |
| 6182060 |
Method and apparatus for storing, retrieving, and processing multi-dimensional customer-oriented data sets |
| Jan-30-2001 |
Method and apparatus for storing, retrieving, and processing customer-oriented data sets in which relatively large sets of customers and their transactions or the like may be quickly and efficiently analyzed.... |
| 6178407 |
Computer apparatus and methods supporting different categories of users |
| Jan-23-2001 |
The computer apparatus and methods of the preferred embodiment uses computer technology in a unique way to motivate children to devote more time to educational and cultural enrichment. In the preferred... |
| 6177932 |
Method and apparatus for network based customer service |
| Jan-23-2001 |
A method and apparatus for a network based customer service is provided. In response to a client requesting help, a menu including three levels of interaction is displayed. One level of interaction is... |
| 6169995 |
Link information maintenance management method |
| Jan-2-2001 |
A link information management method is capable of reducing the number of steps of a link maintenance processing of link information indicating a correspondence relationship between geographical information... |
| 6169989 |
Method and apparatus for parallel profile matching in a large scale webcasting system |
| Jan-2-2001 |
A method and apparatus for efficiently matching a large collection of user profiles against a large volume of data in a webcasting system. The invention generally includes in one embodiment four steps... |
| 6169542 |
Method of delivering advertising through an interactive video distribution system |
| Jan-2-2001 |
An interactive video distribution system includes a plurality of interactive video subscriber units (22), a head end facility (54), and a video distribution medium (56). The head end facility (54) is configured... |
| 6169534 |
Graphical user interface for customer information management |
| Jan-2-2001 |
A method and apparatus for displaying information regarding an event are provided. The method and apparatus meets objectives of increasing sales and marketing efficiency and efficiency of technical and... |
| 6167406 |
System, method and article of manufacture for building an enterprise-wide data model |
| Dec-26-2000 |
A system software solution for controlling an enterprise having one or more components for controlling one or more aspects of an industrial environment. The software includes one or more components for... |
| 6167384 |
Augmented system and methods for computing to support fractional contingent interests in property |
| Dec-26-2000 |
A computer system, and methods for making and using it, for changing digital electrical signals to generate a valuation of a fractional interest in a contingent interest in property, the computer apparatus... |
| 6167383 |
Method and apparatus for providing customer configured machines at an internet site |
| Dec-26-2000 |
A web-based online store includes a configurator, a cart, a checkout, and a database, further in which a user interface of the online store enables a custom configuration of a computer system according... |
| 6161096 |
Method and apparatus for modeling and executing deferred award instrument plan |
| Dec-12-2000 |
A method and apparatus for deferred award instrument plan by identifying at least one participant in the deferred award plan, retrieving financial data related to stock options corresponding to the identified... |
| 6157916 |
Method and apparatus to control the operating speed of a papermaking facility |
| Dec-5-2000 |
A method and apparatus for controlling the operating speed of a papermaking facility is disclosed. It includes determining a desired operating speed that is dependent on at least one economic variable.... |
| 6157915 |
Method and apparatus for collaboratively managing supply chains |
| Dec-5-2000 |
An active collaboration technology in an open architectural framework that delivers information and decision support tools in a timely, contextual and role sensitive manner to present a collaborative dynamic... |
| 6154729 |
Method of reporting merchant information to banks |
| Nov-28-2000 |
A method of reporting merchant information to banks via the World Wide Web includes compiling merchant information periodically into reports. The reports correspond to categories. The reports are then... |
| 6154725 |
Intellectual property (IP) computer-implemented audit system optionally over network architecture, and computer program product for same |
| Nov-28-2000 |
An intellectual property (IP) computer-implemented audit system estimates a value of an intellectual property portfolio. The IP computer-implemented audit system includes a computer program product storing... |
| 6151589 |
Methods for performing large scale auctions and online negotiations |
| Nov-21-2000 |
A method for performing continuous auctions over a computer network system consisting of a server/seller and multiple clients/buyers. The seller makes information about the type of sale items, the number... |
| 6151586 |
Computerized reward system for encouraging participation in a health management program |
| Nov-21-2000 |
A computerized reward system which encourages an individual's participation in a health management system includes a script generating means for generating a health management script, a script assignment... |
| 6151585 |
Methods and apparatus for determining or inferring influential rumormongers from resource usage data |
| Nov-21-2000 |
Resource usage data is used to infer degrees of influence between users. Once such inferences are made, a directed graph representation of the users and the inferred "influence" between the users can be... |
| 6148290 |
Service contract for managing service systems |
| Nov-14-2000 |
A service contract system for providing a service includes a communication network, a plurality of parties coupled to the communication network and a service contract specifying unambiguous rules of interaction... |
| 6148289 |
System and method for geographically organizing and classifying businesses on the world-wide web |
| Nov-14-2000 |
A method and search engine for classifying a source publishing a document on a portion of a network, includes steps of electronically receiving a document, based on the document, determining a source which... |
| 6144949 |
Radio frequency communication system with subscribers arranged to authenticate a received message |
| Nov-7-2000 |
A radio frequency communication system subscriber (110) has a unique identification code, public key and private key, and stores the identification code and public key for other system subscribers in its... |
| 6144944 |
Computer system for efficiently selecting and providing information |
| Nov-7-2000 |
A system for selecting and providing information. The system can include an advertisement server that provides selected advertisements in response to a request from a web page server. The request includes... |
| 6144942 |
Method for notifying an individual of a previously scheduled event |
| Nov-7-2000 |
A method for notifying an individual of a previously scheduled event. The individual's scheduling information is accessed, and analyzed. When a scheduled event arrives, the user is notified in the manner... |
