| 7043445 |
Market determination system |
| May-9-2006 |
A market analysis system uses travel time to define a relevant market area. A map is generated using stored geographical map information around a selected geographical point or area, and a travel time... |
| 7043393 |
System and method for online specification of measurement hardware |
| May-9-2006 |
A system and method for online configuration of a measurement device for a measurement system. The user accesses a server with a client computer over a network and specifies a desired measurement task.... |
| 7039953 |
Hierarchical correlation of intrusion detection events |
| May-2-2006 |
A method, computer program product, and apparatus for presenting data about security-related events that puts the data into a concise form is disclosed. Events are abstracted into a set data-type. Sets... |
| 7039607 |
System for evaluating a company's customer equity |
| May-2-2006 |
The object of the present invention is to provide a system for evaluating the customer equity of products and services provided by a company, with consideration of customer-purchase trends, and to provide... |
| 7039594 |
Method and system for content management assessment, planning and delivery |
| May-2-2006 |
A method is disclosed for designing a coordinated content management and delivery system, using key considerations related to the client environment, and using key processes, and applying these to the... |
| 7039592 |
Agricultural business system and methods |
| May-2-2006 |
A new system for providing agricultural financial services is provided. The system includes crop insurance services, where a proper level of crop insurance is determined necessary to assure income approximately... |
| 7035810 |
Feature centric release manager method and system |
| Apr-25-2006 |
A feature centric method of and system for monitoring the development and release process of a product, monitoring the development and release of a product, where the product is characterized by having... |
| 7035808 |
Arrangement for resource and work-item selection |
| Apr-25-2006 |
A workflow system (FIG. 1) employs a selection engine (114) that attempts to match work items (100) with resources (104) in such a way that it brings the most value to all of the... |
| 7031928 |
Method and system for throttling I/O request servicing on behalf of an I/O request generator to prevent monopolization of a storage device by the I/O request generator |
| Apr-18-2006 |
A method and system for fairly distributing servicing of I/O requests by a storage device among remote computers that contract for a specified maximum rate of I/O request servicing by the storage device.... |
| 7031927 |
System, method, and computer program product for weather and terrestrial vegetation-based water renovation and management forecasting |
| Apr-18-2006 |
A system, method, and computer program product for weather and/or terrestrial vegetation-based water renovation and management forecasting are described herein. The system includes a water renovation and... |
| 7028301 |
System and method for automatic workload characterization |
| Apr-11-2006 |
A system and method for automatic workload characterization are provided. Transactions performed in a computer system may be logged. The log of transactions comprises a timestamp for each transaction.... |
| 7024378 |
Retail system with drive-through check-out arrangement |
| Apr-4-2006 |
A novel retail system is provided with an advance ordering system that enables a customer to order a purchase in advance. At least one storage facility is arranged for storing goods available for ordering.... |
| 7020621 |
Method for determining total cost of ownership |
| Mar-28-2006 |
A method for determining the total cost incurred per user of information technology (IT) in a distributed computing environment includes obtaining base costs and ongoing costs of an IT system and applying... |
| 7020618 |
Method and system for customer service process management |
| Mar-28-2006 |
A method and system for managing customer service processes for individual customers and populations of customers. In a specific embodiment within the health care field, a clinician creates or updates... |
| 7020617 |
Strategic planning and optimization system |
| Mar-28-2006 |
A computer-based method for characterizing relationships between a primary goal and an auxiliary goal in an enterprise planning model includes representing the primary goal by a primary objective function,... |
| 7020616 |
Evaluation system for equipment vendors |
| Mar-28-2006 |
The evaluation system (1) registers equipment and service vendors, such as design offices, etc. as members (7,8,9), and registers design requests and construction requests for elevators according... |
| 7017109 |
E-service to manage contact information and signature ECards |
| Mar-21-2006 |
A method of providing an electronic business card (EBC) access and organization service on the Web. The cardholder database is accessible and searchable from any browser connected to the Internet or the... |
| 7016955 |
Network management apparatus and method for processing events associated with device reboot |
| Mar-21-2006 |
A network management apparatus and method reduces the number of events presented in an event list to a user. In particular, the apparatus and method reduces the number of events, which are generated during... |
| 7016871 |
System for and method of variable annuity contract administration |
| Mar-21-2006 |
A system for and method of variable annuity contract administration is provided. Each variable annuity contract includes a bonus investment credit percentage, withdrawal charge percentages less than or... |
| 7016859 |
System and method for managing purchasing contracts |
| Mar-21-2006 |
A method of managing purchasing contracts between a supplier entity and a customer entity for the purchase of ticket products includes the step of generating a purchasing contract between the two entities.... |
| 7016858 |
Integrated supplier secondary characteristic reporting method |
| Mar-21-2006 |
Within a method for monitoring for a business a secondary characteristic of a supplier which supplies the business, there is first provided a reporting database resident within a computer. The reporting... |
| 7013285 |
System and method for data collection, evaluation, information generation, and presentation |
| Mar-14-2006 |
The present invention relates to a system and method for data collection, evaluation, information generation and/or presentation. More particularly the present invention relates to a system for collecting,... |
| 7013284 |
Component based interface to handle tasks during claim processing |
| Mar-14-2006 |
A computer program is provided for developing component based software capable of handling insurance-related tasks. The program includes a data component that stores, retrieves and manipulates data utilizing... |
| 7010510 |
Variance reduction technique for large scale risk management |
| Mar-7-2006 |
A control variate Monte Carlo simulation for estimating the value of a portfolio of financial instruments is provided. The control variate uses a function dependent upon two state variables, the aggregate... |
| 7010496 |
Supplier performance reporting |
| Mar-7-2006 |
A system and method is provided for improved reporting of supplier performance. A system receives and processes data to enable reporting of on-time performance relative to a plurality of order start points... |
| 7010495 |
Methods and systems for analyzing historical trends in marketing campaigns |
| Mar-7-2006 |
Method and systems using models for evaluating marketing campaign data in the form of database scores, stored procedures, and OLAP multidimensional structures. Models are used to target segments for marketing.... |
| 7007020 |
Distributed OLAP-based association rule generation method and system |
| Feb-28-2006 |
A distributed OLAP-based method and system for generating association rules. An architecture is provided for processing transaction data to generate summary information, customer profiles, and association... |
| 7006979 |
Methods and systems for creating models for marketing campaigns |
| Feb-28-2006 |
Methods and systems for increasing efficiency of a marketing campaign are disclosed. The method uses a system including a database containing customer demographic data and includes the steps of building... |
| 7006883 |
Production system for composite product and production method for manufacturing of same |
| Feb-28-2006 |
To provide a product development and manufacturing system to be used in the increasingly competitive electronic equipment market, which enables the process from product planning to design, manufacturing,... |
| 7003487 |
Automated management system |
| Feb-21-2006 |
A bid estimating system and method is provided according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention includes a processor that accesses a database of existing customer information specific to that customer.... |
| 7003474 |
Supply chain architecture |
| Feb-21-2006 |
A supply chain network where customers, suppliers, logistics providers, carriers, and financial institutions are all connected to a centralized supply chain server. The server receives forecasts from the... |
| 7003473 |
Fully integrated service manager with automatic flow-through interconnection |
| Feb-21-2006 |
A system for management of an integrated communications provider comprising a means of automatically retrieving customer service records and preparing sales proposals therefrom. The invention further comprises... |
| 6999987 |
Screening and survey selection system and method of operating the same |
| Feb-14-2006 |
A screening and survey selection system, method of screening and selecting for a survey and a computer system employing the system and method. In one embodiment, the screening and survey selection system... |
| 6999558 |
Mobile radiographic apparatus, radiographic system, radiographic method, program, computer-readable storage medium, and information system |
| Feb-14-2006 |
In a radiographic method using a mobile radiographic apparatus including an image generating unit which includes photoelectric conversion elements and generates radiographic image data of an object, key... |
| 6996393 |
Mobile content delivery system |
| Feb-7-2006 |
A mobile content delivery system that optimizes the delivery of especially bandwidth-consuming content (or the flow of any peak-hour data traffic) in a way that best utilizes the free capacity in the radio... |
| 6990459 |
System and method for developing a farm management plan for production agriculture |
| Jan-24-2006 |
A system comprised of hardware, software and business processes for developing an optimal custom farm management plan, and in particular, a single year or multi-year crop selection, acreage allocation,... |
| 6988111 |
Mapping between part numbers that are based on different part numbering schemes |
| Jan-17-2006 |
A computer-implemented method for mapping between part numbers that are based on different part numbering schemes includes receiving a first part number associated with an item, the first part number associated... |
| 6988076 |
Strategic planning and optimization system |
| Jan-17-2006 |
A software method for strategic planning and optimization allows a user to model an enterprise to visualize an effect of an auxiliary goal, such as price image, on a primary goal of the enterprise. A primary... |
| 6986145 |
In-context access to relevant services from multiple applications and information systems by object schema traversal |
| Jan-10-2006 |
Composite applications combine services from plurality of existing applications and information sources. Via user interface of such a composite application, an end-user wants to access different combinations... |
| 6986138 |
Virtual work flow management method |
| Jan-10-2006 |
A processing node is selected from an actual workflow definition composed of the corresponding processing nodes to an actual service flow according to the purpose of use of a client. A virtual workflow... |
| 6983321 |
System and method of enterprise systems and business impact management |
| Jan-3-2006 |
A system architecture and a method for management using a cellular architecture to allow multi-tier management of events such as the managing of the actual impact or the potential impact of IT infrastructure... |
| 6983263 |
Electronic boardroom |
| Jan-3-2006 |
Methods and systems for organization management using an electronic boardroom to facilitate review of business specific information in a uniform format are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises... |
| 6983258 |
Trading information managing system and software including a community management function |
| Jan-3-2006 |
A trading information exchange system includes a gateway allowing access of suppliers and retailer workstations and retailer systems to a backbone sub-system. An application layer interacts with a work... |
| 6980959 |
Configuring mechanical equipment |
| Dec-27-2005 |
A method and system of managing a configuration of mechanical equipment provides a structured procedure for managing information on parameters of the mechanical equipment to facilitate the maintenance... |
| 6980929 |
Well data collection system and method |
| Dec-27-2005 |
Disclosed is a system and method for directing data representing well operations (drilling and producing) through the Internet or similar wide area network. The instant invention comprises a system and... |
| 6978249 |
Profile-based product demand forecasting |
| Dec-20-2005 |
A product demand forecasting system includes a profile extractor that generates a demand profile of a new product yet to be introduced based on demand profiles of similar products already introduced. The... |
| 6978248 |
System and method for mailing list testing service |
| Dec-20-2005 |
A mailing list test service is disclosed that involves a plurality of mailing lists, each mailing list including information about a plurality of list members. The service includes sending an e-mail message... |
| 6978247 |
Multimedia customer care center having a layered control architecture |
| Dec-20-2005 |
The architecture of a multimedia customer care center (100) is divided into three separate application layers: a contact layer (104), a communications layer (106) and a business layer... |
| 6976001 |
Method and apparatus suitable for demand forecasting |
| Dec-13-2005 |
Method and apparatus suitable for demand forecasting. The invention can enable sales forecasting "by item, by size, by location". The invention features combining a demand profile and a demand model into... |
| 6975998 |
Package delivery notification system and method |
| Dec-13-2005 |
A package delivery notification system reports impending package deliveries and precisely notifies recipients of when to expect the deliveries. The package delivery notification system utilizes memory,... |
