| 6862573 |
Automated transaction management system and method |
| Mar-1-2005 |
An automated knowledge dependent transaction management system for processing both the front-end and back-end of a transaction is provided. The system contains hard-coded transaction management module... |
| 6859785 |
Diagnostic method and apparatus for business growth strategy |
| Feb-22-2005 |
A method and apparatus for quantitatively determining the optimal mix of strategies to drive growth (i.e., in company profits). The growth strategy mix includes a reenergize component, an adjacency component... |
| 6859784 |
Automated research tool |
| Feb-22-2005 |
A method and apparatus for automatically gathering research data for a website. The method includes forming questions in a question set that are a measure of a research metric to be gathered for the website,... |
| 6859783 |
Integrated interface for web based customer care and trouble management |
| Feb-22-2005 |
A system and method for opening and tracking trouble tickets over the public Internet. A customer service management system provides information included within a customer profile record to a Web enabled... |
| 6859782 |
Method for new product development and market introduction |
| Feb-22-2005 |
A method for developing new products for introduction into the marketplace comprises providing a plurality of pools with each pool serving as a repository for new product concepts, ideas, or partially... |
| 6859768 |
Computer-implemented automated building design and modeling and project cost estimation and scheduling system |
| Feb-22-2005 |
A computer-implemented automated building design and modeling and construction project cost estimating and scheduling system ("DMES system") is described. The DMES system provides a central source for... |
| 6856963 |
Facilitating electronic commerce through automated data-based reputation characterization |
| Feb-15-2005 |
The present invention addresses the problem of using reputation to establish trust between strangers in a person-to-person transaction in an electronic commerce system without the drawbacks of subjective... |
| 6850899 |
Business process and apparatus for online purchases using a rule-based transferable shopping basket |
| Feb-1-2005 |
A transferable online shopping basket is used in a business process and apparatus for online shopping at online stores. At least one online shopping basket is acquired by a buyer from an online store and... |
| 6850897 |
Method and system for analyzing the use of profitability of an organization |
| Feb-1-2005 |
The present invention is a method and system implementing a useful algorithm as a tool for analyzing the use of profitability of an organization. The system calculates a relationship between profitability... |
| 6850896 |
Method and system for managing and providing sales data using world wide web |
| Feb-1-2005 |
A method and system for managing sales data. One embodiment is a software application that assists in classification, review and approval of data to be stored in a database for the use of a product supplier... |
| 6850613 |
Customer service request allocations based upon real-time data and forecast data |
| Feb-1-2005 |
A method and apparatus for performing customer service request allocations based upon real-time data and forecast data, calculates estimated handling resources for each of the transaction processing systems... |
| 6847945 |
Method for conducting a financial analysis |
| Jan-25-2005 |
A method is disclosed for conducting a financial analysis. The method includes creating a financial analysis utility having a standardized format, and providing access through a communication network to... |
| 6847934 |
Marketing selection optimization process |
| Jan-25-2005 |
A market selection optimization method comprising the steps of assigning product offers to consumers in the presence of multiple constraints, such that each consumer is assigned at least one product offer;... |
| 6842738 |
System and method for providing property value estimates |
| Jan-11-2005 |
A system preprocesses property value estimates based on stored property data. It stores the computed property value estimates in a forecast data repository. The system obtains updates or new property data... |
| 6839682 |
Predictive modeling of consumer financial behavior using supervised segmentation and nearest-neighbor matching |
| Jan-4-2005 |
Predictive modeling of consumer financial behavior, including determination of likely responses to particular marketing efforts, is provided by application of consumer transaction data to predictive models... |
| 6839681 |
Performance measurement method for public relations, advertising and sales events |
| Jan-4-2005 |
The present invention is a system and method for the evaluation and measurement of the performance of public relations, advertising and sales events to a particular user in order to provide value added... |
| 6839680 |
Internet profiling |
| Jan-4-2005 |
A system, method, and various software products provide for consistent identification of web users across multiple web sites, servers and domains, monitoring and capture of data describing the users' web... |
| 6836773 |
Enterprise web mining system and method |
| Dec-28-2004 |
An enterprise-wide web data mining system, computer program product, and method of operation thereof, that uses Internet based data sources, and which operates in an automated and cost effective manner.... |
| 6834266 |
Methods for estimating the seasonality of groups of similar items of commerce data sets based on historical sales data values and associated error information |
| Dec-21-2004 |
A set of data is received containing values associated with respective data points, the values associated with each of the data points being characterized by a distribution. The values for each of the... |
| 6834266 |
Methods for estimating the seasonality of groups of similar items of commerce data sets based on historical sales data values and associated error information |
| Dec-21-2004 |
A set of data is received containing values associated with respective data points, the values associated with each of the data points being characterized by a distribution. The values for each of the... |
| 6832211 |
System and method for producing technology-based price targets for a company stock |
| Dec-14-2004 |
Target valuations for company stocks are produced based on the strength and quality of their technology. The valuations are derived from a combination of indicators that measure the quality of companies'... |
| 6832205 |
System and method for automatically predicting the timing and costs of service events in a life cycle of a product |
| Dec-14-2004 |
A system and method for automatically predicting timing and costs of future service events in a life cycle of a product. A database contains a plurality of service information and performance information... |
| 6832204 |
Train building planning method |
| Dec-14-2004 |
A train building planning method is utilized to determine a state of a train yard and a status of resources within the yard. When a resource becomes available, a determination is made regarding possible... |
| 6831663 |
System and process for automatically explaining probabilistic predictions |
| Dec-14-2004 |
The system and method of the present invention automatically assigns "scores" to the predictor/variable value pairs of a conventional probabilistic model to measure the relative impact or influence of... |
| 6826596 |
System for categorizing and displaying reply messages in computer facilitated discussions |
| Nov-30-2004 |
A system for operating news groups or discussion groups requires a user who posts a message to specify two or more categories for reply messages. The system associates the categories with the message.... |
| 6826565 |
Method and apparatus for serving files to browsing clients |
| Nov-30-2004 |
Output signals are served from a serving device to a plurality of browsing devices connected to a network. The output signals represent commands executable by each browsable device so as to display viewable... |
| 6826547 |
Printer service denial |
| Nov-30-2004 |
In a system in which a user obtains documents, a method of controlling what is supplied to the user, the method including providing one or more user accounts for the user and providing the or each user... |
| 6826541 |
Methods, systems, and computer program products for facilitating user choices among complex alternatives using conjoint analysis |
| Nov-30-2004 |
Methods, systems, and computer program products for facilitating user choices among complex alternatives utilize conjoint analysis to simplify choices to be made by the user. A selector tool presents a... |
| 6826540 |
Virtual human interface for conducting surveys |
| Nov-30-2004 |
A virtual human interface application for conducting surveys comprises a system and method which include a script file which may include survey question data, response pattern data, advertising data, entertainment... |
| 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... |
| 6820060 |
Apparatus for generating sales probability |
| Nov-16-2004 |
A method and apparatus for predicting analytically the probability of closing a sale. The apparatus comprises a general purpose computer having a central processing unit (CPU) and a memory for generating... |
| 6816839 |
Demand planning for configure-to-order and building blocks-based market environment |
| Nov-9-2004 |
A method for demand planning of products. The method comprises the steps of constructing a configure-to-order operation/multiple building block environment; and, forecasting the demand of the building... |
| 6810384 |
Method and apparatus for sales volume and share decomposition |
| Oct-26-2004 |
Methods and systems for improved volume or share decomposition are described. A request for sales volume or share information for a particular product is sent to a database. The sales volume or share information... |
| 6807532 |
Method of soliciting a user to input survey data at an electronic commerce terminal |
| Oct-19-2004 |
The present invention relates to a processing method for conducting e-mail, e-commerce, and e-business by way of an electronic commerce terminal. An electronic commerce terminal can be referred to as a... |
| 6804658 |
Method and system for origin-destination passenger demand forecast inference |
| Oct-12-2004 |
An airline origin-destination revenue management software system supports decisions to accept or deny request for booking on airline seats by comparing the fare for the request with a minimum acceptable... |
| 6804657 |
Methods and systems for global sales forecasting |
| Oct-12-2004 |
A method of generating a real time global sales forecast for a company includes steps of defining an hierarchical structure for a sales force of the company and defining a place within the structure for... |
| 6801945 |
Systems and methods for predicting traffic on internet sites |
| Oct-5-2004 |
Systems and methods are provided for predicting visitor traffic to a network of web site pages. The systems and methods are used, as an example, to predict the inventory of total available online advertisements... |
| 6801900 |
System and method for online dispute resolution |
| Oct-5-2004 |
A system for performing dispute resolution comprising a computer, a communications link between the computer and the Internet and an active issue database, accessible by the computer, containing a plurality... |
| 6799326 |
Interactive television program guide system with local advertisements |
| Sep-28-2004 |
A program guide system is provided in which local advertisements may be distributed to interactive television program guides implemented on the user television equipment associated with a television distribution... |
| 6788202 |
Customer conversion system |
| Sep-7-2004 |
A customer conversion system connects existing, conventional sensors to a point of sale computer or other computer. Entries by people into a retail space so equipped are counted and recorded on a continuous... |
| 6782409 |
Experience/sympathy information providing system |
| Aug-24-2004 |
Upon receiving a request for preparing a recommended CD list in Step S71, the experience/sympathy information providing server stores the member ID of the user requested a recommended CD list as remarkable... |
| 6782371 |
System and method for monitoring irregular sales activity |
| Aug-24-2004 |
A system and method for identifying irregular sales activity. The method includes the steps of extracting data related to a first predetermined criteria from at least one of a predetermined set of files... |
| 6782370 |
System and method for providing recommendation of goods or services based on recorded purchasing history |
| Aug-24-2004 |
A computer-implemented method and system utilizing a distributed network for the recommendation of goods and/or services to potential costumers based on a potential customer's selection of goods and/or... |
| 6778643 |
Interface and method of designing an interface |
| Aug-17-2004 |
A method of designing an interface system that allows users to map the representation of their task directly to the interface. There are three major phases to the Customer-Centric Approach to Interface... |
| 6772132 |
Click based trading with intuitive grid display of market depth |
| Aug-3-2004 |
A method and system for reducing the time it takes for a trader to place a trade when electronically trading on an exchange, thus increasing the likelihood that the trader will have orders filled at desirable... |
| 6772104 |
Method for determining transportation vehicle customer satisfaction |
| Aug-3-2004 |
Within a method for predicting customer satisfaction for a transportation vehicle there is measured for the transportation vehicle a Noise, Vibration and Harshness (NVH) level within the transportation... |
| 6772095 |
Method and system for servicing and maintaining thermal equipment, water treatment equipment and the like |
| Aug-3-2004 |
A method and a system for servicing and maintaining thermal equipment, or water treatment equipment fulfills a prompt countermeasure against an abnormality. The servicing and maintenance system is provided... |
| 6768995 |
Real-time aggregation of data within an enterprise planning environment |
| Jul-27-2004 |
An enterprise business planning system includes a database having a relational data area and a transactional data area, and a server to store within the transactional data area contribution data received... |
| 6760916 |
Method, system and computer program product for producing and distributing enhanced media downstreams |
| Jul-6-2004 |
A multimedia production and distribution system collects or assembles a media production (such as, a news program, television programming, or radio broadcast) from a variety of sources, including television... |
| 6760632 |
Computer method for providing optimization for business processes |
| Jul-6-2004 |
A computer method for providing optimization for business processes for situations wherein there is defined a functional form y=f(x,b), where x comprises a set of independent controllable variables x={x1,... |
