| 7043441 |
Method and apparatus using digital credentials and other electronic certificates for electronic transactions |
| May-9-2006 |
A method for performing electronic transactions, comprising receiving a long-term certificate, authenticating a user associated with the long-term certificate, and then sending a short-term certificate... |
| 7035872 |
Recurrent billing maintenance system |
| Apr-25-2006 |
A system for updating a merchant customer account database is provided, wherein the system may be used to update a merchant's customer database in response to changes made to a customer transaction account.... |
| 7034952 |
Print service system and method for printing designated electronic document in response to print request |
| Apr-25-2006 |
A print service system capable of improving user settlement convenience by setting a charging system depending upon each service type and dynamically determining a fee depending upon the past use records... |
| 7031940 |
Charge collecting system and program for controlling the same |
| Apr-18-2006 |
A system which improves convenience on the user side and contributes to a cost reduction on the sales shop side is provided. A sales shop 2 manages requested contents to the users by a notice information... |
| 7020628 |
Method and system for tracking computer system usage through a remote access security device |
| Mar-28-2006 |
A system and method for monitoring remote computer access and associated costs is provided. The system includes a remotely located communication server in communication with multiple host computer networks... |
| 7010493 |
Method and system for time-based storage access services |
| Mar-7-2006 |
The present invention provides techniques for managing access to storage resources according to an access time. Specific embodiments provide a variety of different kinds of time based access billing. For... |
| 7003494 |
Preprocessor system and method for rejection of duplicate invoices |
| Feb-21-2006 |
An accounts payable system in which invoices submitted by electronic data interchange (EDI) are audited for duplicate invoices prior to them being entered into the production database, or environment.... |
| 6996619 |
Network service |
| Feb-7-2006 |
So as to provide a network service that allows a specific service to be provided and received safely for both the user and service provider, a service provider providing a user identification file that... |
| 6996542 |
System and method for paying bills and other obligations including selective payor and payee controls |
| Feb-7-2006 |
A system and method for paying bills without requiring interaction with the payors disclosed. The system includes a payor control interface, a communications interfacee, a bill generator, and a TCF message... |
| 6993511 |
Electronic bartering system |
| Jan-31-2006 |
A bartering system implements barters between a plurality of parties each having one or more classes of items available for barter. Preferably, barter orders are created by designating a selected quantity... |
| 6993507 |
Bar coded bill payment system and method |
| Jan-31-2006 |
A bill payment system consistent with the invention comprises a biller generating at least one invoice for at least one customer, the invoice comprising a unique bar code comprising data identifying at... |
| 6978257 |
System and method for measuring and pricing midrange computer server outsourcing services |
| Dec-20-2005 |
A server support matrix system and method for measuring and pricing information technology services provided by small, midrange and large servers. The inventive system and method assigns capacity units... |
| 6973456 |
Database system and method for organizing and sharing information |
| Dec-6-2005 |
A database stores records of resources that include web pages and web-accessed files, electronic files, and hardcopy documents. The URL of a web page or web-accessed file, the file access path of an electronic... |
| 6968319 |
Electronic bill presentment and payment system with bill dispute capabilities |
| Nov-22-2005 |
A bill presentment and payment remittance system is configured for use over an electronic network, such as the Internet. The bill presentment and payment remittance system allows the biller to create a... |
| 6965914 |
Negotiated wireless peripheral systems |
| Nov-15-2005 |
Methods, apparatus, and business techniques are disclosed for use in mobile network communication systems. A mobile unit such as a smart phone is preferably equipped with a wireless local area network... |
| 6938007 |
Method of pricing application software |
| Aug-30-2005 |
In one aspect, an automated method is provided for updating cost data for a software application in a maintenance environment. The method includes collecting functional metrics data and determining a composite... |
| 6934691 |
System and method for managing mail/bills through a central location |
| Aug-23-2005 |
The present invention is a system and method for managing mail/bills from a central online location. Mail/bills are sent/forwarded to the central online location via electronically or traditional mailing... |
| 6931444 |
System, method and computer program product for reading, correlating, processing, categorizing and aggregating events of any type |
| Aug-16-2005 |
A system, method and computer program product are provided for handling network accounting information. Initially, records indicative of network events are received from an input source. Next, action events... |
| 6925160 |
System and method for managing cellular telephone accounts |
| Aug-2-2005 |
A computer implemented system and method of allocating costs of wireless telephone usage. Billing and usage information is received from at least one wireless telephone service provider related to calls... |
| 6886741 |
Electronic transaction system |
| May-3-2005 |
An all-purpose transaction system using a universal card is disclosed herein. The universal card is issued by a transaction card processing center (TCPC) and can be used for various purposes and to conduct... |
| 6882986 |
Method for automatic processing of invoices |
| Apr-19-2005 |
A computerized method of automatically generating payment for electronic billing data including automatically obtaining billing data in an electronic format from a billing party for a billable party, and... |
| 6882983 |
Method and system for processing transactions |
| Apr-19-2005 |
The present invention discloses a system and method for processing business transactions between trading partners using a central interactive platform. The processing may include comparing purchase order... |
| 6868399 |
Systems and methods for integrating a network gateway device with management systems |
| Mar-15-2005 |
Systems and methods enabling a management system to communicate with a network gateway device to automatically manage a user accessing a computer network, such as a local network. The system includes a... |
| 6847969 |
Method and system for providing personalized online services and advertisements in public spaces |
| Jan-25-2005 |
A method and system for providing, personalized and integrated online services for communications and commercial transactions both in private and public venues. The invention provides personalized information... |
| 6847942 |
Method and apparatus for managing credit inquiries within account receivables |
| Jan-25-2005 |
The Accounts Receivable System's Credit Inquiry Module reviews payment history and performs credit inquiries by analyzing data from internal and external sources. The Credit Inquiry Module uses this analysis... |
| 6839684 |
Host-sponsored data transmission billing system and method |
| Jan-4-2005 |
A host-sponsored data transmission billing system and method is provided to permit reduced costs to a mobile user for internet access through an internet gateway. An operator billing system is provided... |
| 6836763 |
Billing system and method |
| Dec-28-2004 |
A bill editor, generator, messaging and insert system and method comprises a portion of a bill production processor designed to create monthly billing statements which are sent to customers and which detail... |
| 6832351 |
Method and system for previewing and printing customized business forms |
| Dec-14-2004 |
A method and system for previewing and printing customized pages, such as business forms including invoices and billing statements. An author-created template has HTML and OLE components (controls) placed... |
| 6826542 |
System and method for collecting, enhancing and distributing invoices electronically via the internet |
| Nov-30-2004 |
The present invention is a central invoicing system. Payors and invoicers can use the central invoicing system by connecting to it by a network, such as the Internet, and using an interaction device, such... |
| 6757737 |
Apparatus and method for providing measured rate system in IP network |
| Jun-29-2004 |
An apparatus and method for providing a measured rate system in an IP network is disclosed, in which a charging system is provided by a measured rate system in accordance with various quality of services... |
| 6738752 |
Information distributing apparatus and information distributing method, information receiving apparatus and information receiving met |
| May-18-2004 |
An information distributing apparatus and method wherein value standards of content information to be distributed to a user exhibit different usage values distinguished by a trait of the content information... |
| 6725429 |
System and method for presenting and processing documents on the internet |
| Apr-20-2004 |
A digital document delivery system and method for providing to a user an electronic primary document with associated secondary documents. The secondary documents can have relative priorities and are based... |
| 6721716 |
Payment certification string and related electronic payment system and method |
| Apr-13-2004 |
An electronic statement, bill presentment and payment system and method includes a customer client software program and client database, and a biller server software program and server database connected... |
| 6708226 |
Multithreaded batch processing system |
| Mar-16-2004 |
A system for processing a batch which is distributed into a plurality of independent segments. A preferred embodiment of this invention calls for implementation on a symmetrical multiprocessing platform,... |
| 6687708 |
Object-oriented framework for tracking collection documents |
| Feb-3-2004 |
An extensible Object-Oriented (OO) framework in an object-oriented programming system defines objects and classes used to correspond to and track a collection document. The collection document can be an... |
| 6662340 |
Client-side form filler that populates form fields based on analyzing visible field labels and visible display format hints without previous examination or mapping of the form |
| Dec-9-2003 |
Client side program code examines electronic documents such as web pages and automatically fills out fields of forms contained in the document with the appropriate data from a user profile, without requiring... |
| 6658390 |
System and method for reselling a previously sold product |
| Dec-2-2003 |
A seller, having previously sold a product to an original purchaser subject to a buyout-provision condition, determines if the buyout-provision condition is satisfied. If the buy-out provision condition... |
| 6578015 |
Methods, devices and systems for electronic bill presentment and payment |
| Jun-10-2003 |
A computer-implemented method of presenting an electronic bill from a biller to a customer over a computer network includes steps of receiving biller-originated bill data and bill format data over the... |
| 6574608 |
Web-based system for connecting buyers and sellers |
| Jun-3-2003 |
A Web-based buyer-driven system of commerce efficiently and inexpensively connects buyers and sellers. In general, the system includes a Web site globally accessible by potential buyers and sellers. Potential... |
| 6574605 |
Method and system for strategic services enterprise workload management |
| Jun-3-2003 |
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 enables... |
| 6571149 |
Shipment transaction system and method |
| May-27-2003 |
A computer processing system for a shipment transaction involving a shipper and a carrier. The system is particularly suited to efficiently automate the payment of a shipment transaction and to efficiently... |
| 6567850 |
System and method for determining revenue from an intermediary derived from servicing data requests |
| May-20-2003 |
This invention is a system and method for determining revenue from an intermediary derived from end user interactions involving personal information via the intermediary. A host computer monitors interactions... |
| 6516996 |
Electronic payment system |
| Feb-11-2003 |
Equipment and method for acknowledging a transaction in an electronic payment system, comprising first processing means for providing electronic receipts corresponding to payments, second processing means... |
| 6507826 |
Remote electronic invoice entry and validation system and method therefor |
| Jan-14-2003 |
An invoice processing system (200) includes a web browser equipped computer system (210) operated by a vendor that is Internet networkly coupled to an invoice processing server (202) providing a web page... |
| 6507279 |
Complete integrated self-checkout system and method |
| Jan-14-2003 |
An integrated self-checkout system and method incorporates access control, electronic article surveillance (EAS), and radio frequency identification (RFID) subsystems, and allows marketing advertisements... |
| 6505173 |
Method for electronically merging digitized data system of generating billing statements for published advertising |
| Jan-7-2003 |
A method of constructing a billing statement for publishing advertising or the like starts with digitizing the advertisement and the publication page the advertisement is on and assigning a unique identifier... |
| 6493685 |
Electronic account presentation and response system and method |
| Dec-10-2002 |
An Information Interface Provider (IIP) acting as the interface between a biller and its customers for both the presentment of electronic bills to the customers and for the processing of payments from... |
| 6493680 |
Method and apparatus for processing billing transactions |
| Dec-10-2002 |
A computer system and method for processing bills for a plurality of customers of a plurality of node systems within a larger system, each customer bill having a particular billing cycle, comprises a memory... |
| 6456986 |
Decision network based event pricing system in a component based, object oriented convergent customer care and billing system |
| Sep-24-2002 |
A ratings engine system that uses decision networks to select and execute Price Plans to rate an Event. A plan selection rule set is used to select a Price Plan for the Event and an Algorithm rule set... |
| 6434534 |
Method and system for processing customized reward offers |
| Aug-13-2002 |
The present invention is a method is for providing and managing a customized reward offer to a holder of a financial account. The method includes the step of accessing historical account data associated... |
