| 6839696 |
Guarantee charge processing method and apparatus |
| Jan-4-2005 |
The operation-state data of the uninterruptible power supply unit for the operation time of the uninterruptible power supply unit (UPS) deployed between the load facility and the commercial power source... |
| 6826538 |
Method for planning key component purchases to optimize revenue |
| Nov-30-2004 |
A method of calculating supplies of key components based on enhancing revenues in a made to order scheme. Products are designed by identifying product components, and combining the components in various... |
| 6823320 |
Automated valuation system and method |
| Nov-23-2004 |
An automated valuation system and method for: storing, in a database, a first feature element and an offered price for each of a plurality of specimens; generating, through the use of the first feature... |
| 6816838 |
Production mail system having subsidies for printing of third party messages on mailpieces |
| Nov-9-2004 |
A production mail system for producing a mailpiece including an inserter system for feeding a document in a path of travel and into an envelope. The document includes a control code printed thereon. The... |
| 6813614 |
Method for re-keying postage metering devices |
| Nov-2-2004 |
A method for communicating a re-keying message from a postage meter to a registration authority includes the steps of determining at the postage meter that a current key needs to be replaced with a new... |
| 6812890 |
Voice recognition landing fee billing system |
| Nov-2-2004 |
An apparatus and method are described for generating landing fee and other airport service bills automatically. The system automatically detects aircraft N-number from air traffic control voice data using... |
| 6799911 |
System for printing information on a mailing medium |
| Oct-5-2004 |
A method and apparatus for printing information, such as postal indicia and other information, on a medium. The system is implemented by detecting a type of medium and entering a printing mode as a function... |
| 6795813 |
System and method for linking an indicium with address information of a mailpiece in a closed system postage meter |
| Sep-21-2004 |
System and method is provided for adding addressing information to an indicium printed by a closed system metering device. A scanning device is coupled to a closed system postage meter for scanning addressing... |
| 6795205 |
Third-party authorization for home-based printing |
| Sep-21-2004 |
Authorized transmission of print data from an internet application to a home access device having a printer connected thereto, the printer being serviced by a remote print server which controls data transmission... |
| 6778870 |
Design evaluation system |
| Aug-17-2004 |
A design evaluation system 10 which evaluates a design 44 of a component or assembly, such as component or assembly 12. Particularly, system 10 includes a database 30 having several equality and inequality... |
| 6762851 |
Method and system for print stream job determination and analysis |
| Jul-13-2004 |
The invention is a method and system for print stream determination. The system's method begins with the initiation of a print stream processing application to which a print stream is directed. A print... |
| 6751514 |
Service method, service system and manufacturing/inspection apparatus |
| Jun-15-2004 |
There is provided a service method, a service system, and a manufacturing/inspection apparatus that can reduce the initial cost of use of the apparatus at the time of introducing a manufacturing/inspection... |
| 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... |
| 6725206 |
Cashierless shopping store and components for use therein |
| Apr-20-2004 |
A cashierless shopping store includes a plurality of shopping carts into which selected items to be purchased are placed by shoppers. Each of the shopping carts includes a weight detector to measure the... |
| 6708072 |
Remote maintenance method, industrial device, and semiconductor device |
| Mar-16-2004 |
The present invention provides a remote maintenance method, a remote maintenance system, and an industrial device for enabling control and thorough services and billing according to the contents of the... |
| 6687652 |
Diagnostic clearing house |
| Feb-3-2004 |
A diagnostic clearing house comprises a tool repository to store a plurality of diagnostic tools. A communication vehicle allows a plurality of diagnostic tool users to exchange diagnostic information.... |
| 6686964 |
Electronic camera with print specifying information |
| Feb-3-2004 |
A digital camera capable of readily recognizing the printing-specifying information that has been set. Printing-specifying information is set for digital image data acquired by photographing. When an image... |
| 6671726 |
Apparatus and method for the convenient transfer of data between a computer network and a non-connected computer |
| Dec-30-2003 |
A system for conveniently allowing a portable computer user to send and receive e-mail and other data across a computer network, like the Internet, without the need for the portable or laptop computer... |
| 6662353 |
System and program for estimating person-hours required to prepare a pattern film of a circuit to be printed on a board |
| Dec-9-2003 |
The present invention relates to an estimation system that can provide a highly reliable estimation result when the estimation system estimates person-hours required to prepare a film pattern for a circuit... |
| 6647374 |
System and method of assessing and rating vendor risk and pricing of technology delivery insurance |
| Nov-11-2003 |
A method and system for providing a standardization and commoditizing the process of technology contracts and creating method for assessing, scoring, ranking and rating technology vendors for the purpose... |
| 6631359 |
Writeable medium access control using a medium writeable area |
| Oct-7-2003 |
An optical medium uses a single structure or format (such as identical materials, layers and the like) for both a region for holding information content-mastered data and a writeable area. In one aspect,... |
| 6625584 |
Maritime freight option |
| Sep-23-2003 |
A maritime container booking process delivered via the Internet for pricing, routing and confirming freight bookings and associated options on ocean going container ships loading and discharging in the... |
| 6618742 |
Method for job impact learning |
| Sep-9-2003 |
A method for processing requests to service computational tasks. An application server system receives requests to run various jobs. A job indicates that a certain application program is to be executed... |
| 6618709 |
Computer assisted and/or implemented process and architecture for web-based monitoring of energy related usage, and client accessibility therefor |
| Sep-9-2003 |
A method and computer architecture monitoring resource usage via a global computer network. The computer architecture may include a resource-metering data recorder/translator unit having a global computer... |
| 6618046 |
System and method for estimating the rendering cost for images |
| Sep-9-2003 |
A rendering cost estimation method is provided for generating a rendering cost estimate that that is sufficiently close to an actual rendering cost that would be incurred if computer-generated images were... |
| 6615195 |
Method and system for evaluating technology transfer value |
| Sep-2-2003 |
A Method and computer implemented system may be used to value knowledge-based property such as documents, databases, spreadsheets or research and development related information or studies. Intangible... |
| 6611821 |
Method of charging for the use of an internet service plus a service control unit and a service provider unit |
| Aug-26-2003 |
The invention concerns a method of charging for the use of an internet service (SERV) by a subscriber of a communications network (KN), plus a service unit (SERV_IN) of this communications network and... |
| 6611808 |
Method and apparatus for determining additional benefits and costs for an annuity contract |
| Aug-26-2003 |
A method for determining additional death benefits with respect to an annuity contract, the annuity contract being stored in a computer system. The method comprises generating data corresponding to an... |
| 6609118 |
Methods and systems for automated property valuation |
| Aug-19-2003 |
The present invention is a method and system for automating the process for valuing a property that produces an estimated value of a subject property, and a quality assessment of the estimated value, that... |
| 6609098 |
Pricing graph representation for sets of pricing solutions for travel planning system |
| Aug-19-2003 |
An airline travel planning system is described. The system includes a server computer executing a server process including a search process to search for set of pricing solutions in accordance with at... |
| 6604081 |
Method for analyzing profitability of freight load hauling operations |
| Aug-5-2003 |
The method allows for analyzing the profitability of each of two or more freight loads hauled by a freight-hauling vehicle while the vehicle travels through a round trip from a home location to a terminating... |
| 6598029 |
Bidding for energy supply with request for service |
| Jul-22-2003 |
An auction service is provided that stimulates competition between energy suppliers (i.e., electric power or natural gas). A bidding moderator (Moderator) receives bids from the competing suppliers of... |
| 6581045 |
Asset management system for analyzing the condition of assets and evaluating repair/replacement options |
| Jun-17-2003 |
An asset management system (100) is disclosed, and is adapted for use to rate the condition of a physical asset component, such as a roof (102), estimate the service life of the asset, and provide a basis... |
| 6574604 |
Internet message system |
| Jun-3-2003 |
An internet message system is provided that enables a user to compose an electronic greeting message and transmit the greeting message to any e-mail address over the Internet from a remote location. The... |
| 6574443 |
Value based image quality |
| Jun-3-2003 |
Methods and apparatus to facilitate allowing a user to vary the quality of an output image in exchange for a variable cost. Each quality has an associated cost. By allowing the user to select a value relationship... |
| 6564193 |
System for, and method of, using the internet system to provide for the transmission of a facsimile message |
| May-13-2003 |
A document is processed by a web server at a web site to determine from a customer whether the customer wishes to facsimile the document to a recipient for free or for a fee. If the customer indicates... |
| 6556883 |
Performance value determination system and method |
| Apr-29-2003 |
A performance value determination system with respect to goods having an index for objectively evaluating performance thereof includes: a performance value determination condition input and storing part... |
| 6553353 |
Advanced metering system enabling regulation and billing of utilities by third party interagent |
| Apr-22-2003 |
A power metering apparatus provides utility services to a customer's facility when the customer prepays or makes other sufficient advance payment assurances. This apparatus is inserted between the utility... |
| 6553352 |
Interface for merchandise price optimization |
| Apr-22-2003 |
An apparatus and method are provided for an interface enabling a user to determine optimum prices of products for sale. The interface includes a scenario/results processor that enables the user to prescribe... |
| 6535788 |
Machining apparatus |
| Mar-18-2003 |
A control device of a machine tool (100) has an input unit (1) for inputting the processing profile data (1a) and the workpiece data (1b) of the material and a profile of the workpiece to be processed.... |
| 6532452 |
System and method for employing digital postage marks as part of value-added services in a mailing system |
| Mar-11-2003 |
System and method for providing confirmation relating to the distribution of a mailpiece within a mailing system includes a determination of postal data required for postage evidencing of a mailpiece originated... |
| 6529883 |
Prepayment energy metering system with two-way smart card communications |
| Mar-4-2003 |
A pre-payment energy metering system uses two-way smart card communications. Secure power line carrier communications are provided at the consumer locations communication between a customer terminal and... |
| 6526392 |
Method and system for yield managed service contract pricing |
| Feb-25-2003 |
A computer implemented method pertinent to yield managed service contract pricing. The method comprises the steps of inputting first information comprising a baseline profiling services contracted to zero... |
| 6513042 |
Internet test-making method |
| Jan-28-2003 |
A method of making a tests, assessments, surveys and lesson plans with images and sound files and posting them on-line for potential users. Questions are input by a test-maker and then the questions are... |
| 6505172 |
Electronic sourcing system |
| Jan-7-2003 |
An electronic sourcing system includes a computer that maintains a catalog database of data including product information (such as product identification and descriptive information) relating to catalog... |
| 6502080 |
Automatic lease residual management system |
| Dec-31-2002 |
A method of predicting a net reserve for a vehicle leased by a lessee from a lessor in accordance with a lease, the method comprising the acts of: predicting a market value loss of the vehicle at a scheduled... |
| 6502079 |
Method and system for enforcing floating licenses |
| Dec-31-2002 |
A floating license enforcement method and system which enables an authorized user to accumulate time-based usage credit while a software application is in use under a valid license. In the event of a license... |
| 6490569 |
System for combining life cycle assessment with activity based costing using a relational database software application |
| Dec-3-2002 |
A method for analysis of environmental load burdens and associated costs for products, processes and services, which takes into account both life cycle assessment and activity based costing. The steps... |
| 6480861 |
Distributed adaptive computing |
| Nov-12-2002 |
A system and a method for managing, organizing, and allocating service providers in the operational environment of a distributed computer network by applying trade and price mechanisms to a plurality of... |
| 6477514 |
Automated self-service mail processing and storing systems |
| Nov-5-2002 |
An automated self-service mail processing and storing system is disclosed which is capable of receiving input from and providing instructions to a user via a touch-sensitive screen or a digitized voice... |
