| 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... |
| 7004398 |
Stored-value card with edible product |
| Feb-28-2006 |
A stored-value card assembly including a stored-value card, an edible product, and a wrapper. The stored-value card defines a first generally planar surface and a second generally planar surface opposite... |
| 7003789 |
Television commerce payments |
| Feb-21-2006 |
A method, system, and computer readable code for extending payment protocols to include information related to the television context of commercial activity between a consumer using a television (or a... |
| 7003734 |
Method and system for creating and displaying images including pop-up images on a visual display |
| Feb-21-2006 |
A system and method for delivering advertising messages to a person accessing a banner web site from a terminal having a display upon which the content of the web site is visually perceived. Initial signals... |
| 7003495 |
Portable electronic authorization system and method |
| Feb-21-2006 |
In one embodiment an apparatus includes a housing; a user authenticator, supported by the housing, that authenticates an identity of a user; at least one memory, supported by the housing, that stores transaction... |
| 7003479 |
Systems and methods for ordering and distributing incentive messages |
| Feb-21-2006 |
Systems and methods associated with ordering, producing and/or distributing incentive messages. Systems can include means for receiving requests for incentive messages, for receiving payment for the incentive... |
| 7003478 |
Advertising method using software products |
| Feb-21-2006 |
An advertising method using software products in which at least one advertisement is inserted so that the software products can be distributed for free or at a low cost. The advertising method comprises... |
| 6999938 |
Automated reply generation direct marketing system |
| Feb-14-2006 |
A system for automatically preparing customized replies in response to communications from a plurality of clients. To facilitate automation and tracking, each original communication to the client (or each... |
| 6999949 |
Method, system and program product for providing an electronic order confirmation in an electronic transaction |
| Feb-14-2006 |
An electronic order confirmation for a made-to-order or out-of-stock item in an electronic transaction is provided to a public electronic environment (e.g., a browser on a global computer network) from... |
| 6999190 |
Printing cost charging system |
| Feb-14-2006 |
A printing system for performing printing of printing information corresponding to provided information provided by the Internet, includes: an information sending apparatus operable to provide the provided... |
| 6996560 |
Method, system, and device for typing customers/prospects |
| Feb-7-2006 |
Exemplary embodiments provide a computer-assisted method for typing customers/prospects, including the activities of: refining a survey via bestfit clustering; refining survey results via composition analysis;... |
| 6996534 |
Member registration system |
| Feb-7-2006 |
A customer computer receives, through radio communication, from a computer of a product or service provider (a provider), items of personal information necessary for member registration. Then, the customer... |
| 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... |
| 6993553 |
Data providing system, data providing apparatus and method, data acquisition system and method, and program storage medium |
| Jan-31-2006 |
A data providing system including a data providing apparatus having a provision image data generating device for generating data of a provision image that is reusable by inlaying an advertisement image... |
| 6993498 |
Point-of-sale server and method |
| Jan-31-2006 |
A method for use in marketing includes detecting, at the point-of-sale, a plurality of Uniform Product Codes associated with respective items purchased by a customer. The method also includes transmitting,... |
| 6993497 |
Integrated, interactive telephone and computer network communications system |
| Jan-31-2006 |
A method comprising the steps of: receiving via internet a time, a date and a telephone number for a reminder telephone call (such as a wakeup call); storing in a database the time, date and telephone... |
| 6993497 |
Integrated, interactive telephone and computer network communications system |
| Jan-31-2006 |
A method comprising the steps of: receiving via internet a time, a date and a telephone number for a reminder telephone call (such as a wakeup call); storing in a database the time, date and telephone... |
| 6993494 |
Resource price management incorporating indirect value |
| Jan-31-2006 |
A method and system of managing value from a resource such as hotel rooms by taking into account indirect value, such as gaming value, in determining recommended bid prices. Observed and/or estimated indirect... |
| 6993496 |
Method and system for determining market demand based on consumer contributions |
| Jan-31-2006 |
The present invention provides a method and a system to determine a market need before any monies are spent to produce and commercialize an artist. A method and system for determining the market demand... |
| 6990473 |
Information management system |
| Jan-24-2006 |
One or a plurality of commodities are placed in a commodity exhibition shelf (8). Information peculiar to any commodity is read using an input device (2) under the control of a control device... |
| 6990462 |
Inventory management |
| Jan-24-2006 |
The inventory management of items, such as banner ads to be displayed on web sites, is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method constructs a number of item slot groups and a number of meta item slot groups.... |
| 6990460 |
Dynamic demand management |
| Jan-24-2006 |
A system, method, and apparatus for allocating demand for a number of time periods is presented herein. The business volume is monitored during each time period, and wherein the business volume is found... |
| 6988085 |
System and method for real-time electronic inquiry, delivery, and reporting of credit information |
| Jan-17-2006 |
A system and method for providing electronic inquiry, delivery, and reporting of personal credit information to and from credit bureaus, preferably via the Internet. In the preferred embodiment, the system... |
| 6988077 |
System and method for offering multiple products |
| Jan-17-2006 |
A system and method for a supplier to offer multiple new products to a first person and multiple pre-owned products to a second person are disclosed. The invention includes a method wherein the supplier... |
| 6986100 |
Normalized rotation on a web site of display items from multiple sources |
| Jan-10-2006 |
A method for balancing the allocation of available display slots on a Web page among a plurality of different sources of display items comprises (a) defining for each source a set of candidate items to... |
| 6985873 |
System and method for administering a brokerage rebate card program |
| Jan-10-2006 |
A technique for administering a rebate program includes logic for generating rebate information based the purchase of goods and/or services using a card instrument. The technique further includes logic... |
| 6985879 |
Systems and methods for facilitating group rewards |
| Jan-10-2006 |
In accordance with at least one embodiment of the present invention a retailer may receive a request from a group of customers for a reward the group desires to earn by making purchases at the retailer.... |
| 6985452 |
Wireless system for broadcasting, receiving, storing and selectively printing coupons and the like in a retail environment |
| Jan-10-2006 |
A system is provided for distributing in a retail environment one or more packets of information selected from the group consisting of redeemable coupons, forms, messages, tickets, warnings and written... |
| 6983311 |
Access to internet search capabilities |
| Jan-3-2006 |
In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a client application for enabling access to an online service and displaying advertisements while the user is accessing the online service. The... |
| 6983261 |
System and method for causing multiple parties to be paid from a single credit card transaction |
| Jan-3-2006 |
A point of sale credit card payment system allowing multiple payments to be made to various payees from a single credit card transaction or any other form of electronic payment. Software, firmware, or... |
| 6982802 |
Systems and methods for collecting printing device usage data |
| Jan-3-2006 |
Systems and methods are described for collecting printing device data from a printing system. The printing device data is collected from a host computer connected to the printing device, printing device... |
| 6981214 |
Virtual editor and related methods for dynamically generating personalized publications |
| Dec-27-2005 |
A document delivery system comprising a data store to receive a plurality of content objects and a virtual editor to dynamically generate a personalized publication for a requesting user. The virtual editor... |
| 6980962 |
Electronic commerce transactions within a marketing system that may contain a membership buying opportunity |
| Dec-27-2005 |
The present invention is directed to a system and method for providing complete electronic commerce ("E-Commerce") transactions and solutions for a marketing company's products via the World Wide Web,... |
| 6980964 |
Virtual print market place |
| Dec-27-2005 |
A method to create a virtual print market place using one or more interconnected computers comprising collecting market information comprising an identity of service providers and the print services and... |
| 6980960 |
System and method for providing a fuel purchase incentive |
| Dec-27-2005 |
A fuel purchase incentive is provided incident to the sale of a vehicle. With respect to the sale of an automobile, the incentive consists of a program price, for example a discount price or a capped maximum... |
| 6980670 |
Biometric tokenless electronic rewards system and method |
| Dec-27-2005 |
Disclosed is a system and method for processing tokenless electronic consumer rewards between a reward provider and a recipient using an electronic identicator comparator and at least one recipient biometric... |
| 6978253 |
Systems and methods for transacting business over a global communications network such as the internet |
| Dec-20-2005 |
A business model/process is described for conducting business transactions over the Internet, allowing buyers to reduce the price of the selected product/service based on the buyer's performance during... |
| 6978250 |
System and method for automated electronic scrip transactions |
| Dec-20-2005 |
A system and method for performing and settling an electronic scrip transaction between a merchant and a member includes a database storing accounts for one or more participating merchants, scrip distributors,... |
| 6976003 |
Advertising, compensation and service host apparatus, method and system |
| Dec-13-2005 |
A system and method for providing advertising sponsorship for content providers is described. The sponsorship derives revenue from a pool of revenue that is collected from participating sponsors. A functional... |
| 6975205 |
Cart return credit system |
| Dec-13-2005 |
A system and method for providing an incentive to a customer of a store to return a shopping cart to a cart return location. The system generates a cart return signal. The system determines whether a cart... |
| 6973493 |
Mechanism and apparatus for security of newly spawned repository spaces in a distributed computing environment |
| Dec-6-2005 |
A system and method for providing security for newly spawned spaces in a distributed computing environment. A client may access a first space service. The creation of a second space may be requested, such... |
| 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... |
| 6973438 |
Method and apparatus for delivering information from a remote site on a network based on statistical information |
| Dec-6-2005 |
A method and apparatus are disclosed for delivering information, from a content location on a global communication network (GCN) dynamically selected according to statistical information, to a user location... |
| 6973436 |
Method for transacting an advertisement transfer |
| Dec-6-2005 |
A method for transacting an advertisement transfer from an advertisement distributor to a visitor, when a visitor visits a communication node, includes the steps of constructing a visitor profile and broadcasting... |
| 6970837 |
Methods and apparatus wherein a buyer arranges to purchase a first product using a communication network and subsequently takes possession of a substitute product at a retailer |
| Nov-29-2005 |
Purchasing system methods and apparatus are provided wherein a buyer purchases a first product through a purchasing system, such as by submitting a buyer offer. A retailer receives product redemption information... |
| 6970834 |
Advertisement downloading computer jukebox |
| Nov-29-2005 |
A computer jukebox capable of receiving and storing advertisement data representing a plurality of advertisement from a remote central management system by way of a transmission link between the computer... |
| 6970835 |
System and method for directing and instructing customers to deal with specific merchants using incentives |
| Nov-29-2005 |
A buyer-seller matching system that uses incentives to verify commissions from matching the buyer with a seller. An item locator system that comprises a repository of information about items for purchase... |
| 6970833 |
Internet lottery method and system |
| Nov-29-2005 |
The present invention provides a game system which utilizes Web sites and thus is solely an Internet based patent. The system provides an individual with the ability to win prizes, view companies Web sites,... |
| 6970829 |
Method and system for skills-based planning and scheduling in a workforce contact center environment |
| Nov-29-2005 |
A method of forecasting, allocating and scheduling in a single or multi-site skills-based contact or call center environment organized into a hierarchy of zero or more business units at a first, upper... |
| 6970131 |
Satellite positioning system enabled media measurement system and method |
| Nov-29-2005 |
The present invention is directed to utilizing monitoring devices (200) for determining the effectiveness of various locations, such as media display locations (150) for an intended purpose... |
