| 6604087 |
Vending access to the internet, business application software, e-commerce, and e-business in a hotel room |
| Aug-5-2003 |
The present invention relates to a universal advertising and payment system and method for networking, monitoring and effectuating electronic commerce and controlling vending equipment. The system can... |
| 6601092 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and transmitting medium |
| Jul-29-2003 |
Personal information of a user is provided to an information provider from any location, through a simple apparatus, and with reliability. Personal information is pre-stored in a user profile database... |
| 6601037 |
System and method of processing credit card, e-commerce, and e-business transactions without the merchant incurring transaction processing fees or charges worldwide |
| Jul-29-2003 |
The present invention relates to a processing method for nullifying transaction processing fees incurred by a merchant, for processing a wide variety of credit card, e-commerce, and e-business type transactions.... |
| 6601039 |
Gas pump control system having access to the internet for the purposes of transacting e-mail, e-commerce, and e-business, and for conducting vending transactions |
| Jul-29-2003 |
The present invention relates to a universal advertising and payment system and method for networking, monitoring, collecting data, selling goods and services, controlling interactive advertising, controlling... |
| 6601041 |
Method of providing targeted advertisements to a computer mediated communications network |
| Jul-29-2003 |
Prioritized queues of advertising and content data are generated by a queue builder and sent to an on-line queue manager. A computer mediated communications network provides content and subscriber data... |
| 6601040 |
Electronic commerce terminal for wirelessly communicating to a plurality of communication devices |
| Jul-29-2003 |
The present invention relates to a wireless network system and method for allowing digital devices to connect to a wireless network for the purpose of data communicating, e-mail, e-commerce, and e-business... |
| 6601038 |
Delivery of goods and services resultant from an electronic commerce transaction by way of a pack and ship type company |
| Jul-29-2003 |
The present invention relates to a universal advertising and payment system and method for networking, monitoring and effectuating electronic commerce and controlling vending equipment. The system can... |
| 6601036 |
System and method for dynamic assembly of packages in retail environments |
| Jul-29-2003 |
A system and method for managing the sale of a group of products at a single price based on sales performance data of the products is presented. The method and apparatus include offering a plurality of... |
| 6598024 |
Method and system for processing supplementary product sales at a point-of-sale terminal |
| Jul-22-2003 |
A POS terminal determines an upsell to offer in exchange for the change due to a customer in connection with a purchase. The point-of-sale terminal preferably maintains a database of at least one upsell... |
| 6595859 |
Internet marketing method and game |
| Jul-22-2003 |
An Internet marketing method and game is designed for promoting access to the web site which hosts the game, and to keep potential consumers occupied on the web site for exposure to several different advertisements,... |
| 6594766 |
Method and apparatus for providing and maintaining a user-interactive portal system accessible via internet or other switched-packet-network |
| Jul-15-2003 |
An Internet Portal is enabled by software executing on an Internet-connected server. The Portal, in response to a log-on by a user, presents a secure and personalized page for and to the user, the personalized... |
| 6594664 |
System and method for online/offline uninterrupted updating of rooms in collaboration space |
| Jul-15-2003 |
Collaboration space object model provides for a Place consisting of rooms. A room is made up of pages. Folders are used to organize pages. Members belong to rooms, and are those users authorized to access... |
| 6594644 |
Electronic gift certificate system |
| Jul-15-2003 |
An electronic gift certificate system is disclosed which distributes electronic gift certificates in the form of e-mail documents that include hyperlinks for automating the redemption process. When a gift... |
| 6594640 |
System for electronic barter, trading and redeeming points accumulated in frequent use reward programs |
| Jul-15-2003 |
A system and method for operating a reward points accumulation and redemption program wherein a user earns reward points from a plurality of independent reward points issuing entities, with each tracking... |
| 6594638 |
On-line method and apparatus for collecting demographic information about a user of a world-wide-web site and dynamically selecting questions to present to the user |
| Jul-15-2003 |
An on-line method and apparatus for collecting demographic information from a user of a home WWW site and for dynamically selecting questions to present to the user. A plurality of sponsor symbols are... |
| 6594639 |
Rewarding telephone callers based on call information |
| Jul-15-2003 |
A prize awarding device and method that awards a prize over a communications network. The prize award device generates a prize code for a contest prize winning call which is based on the call information... |
| 6591247 |
Method and apparatus for distributing audiovisual content |
| Jul-8-2003 |
An advertising method and system to disseminate information concerning multiple products includes a database containing the information and provides a perceivable stimulus to a consumer positioned proximate... |
| 6591248 |
Banner advertisement selecting method |
| Jul-8-2003 |
A banner advertisement selecting method is disclosed comprising the steps of (a) estimating the input probability of each attribute and the click rate of each advertisement for each attribute corresponding... |
| 6587835 |
Shopping assistance with handheld computing device |
| Jul-1-2003 |
A system is provided in which a handheld computing device may be used to provide a user with shopping assistance services. A shopping assistance service may allow a user to obtain directory information... |
| 6587834 |
Method for promoting interest in a website |
| Jul-1-2003 |
A method, system and article of manufacture for promoting interest in a specific website on the Internet are disclosed wherein the article of manufacture, such as a book, is distributed in incomplete form... |
| 6584448 |
Method of and system for distributing and redeeming electronic coupons |
| Jun-24-2003 |
An electronic coupon having an associated redemption function for use over a communications channel includes a computer-readable medium associated with a computer processor, the computer-readable medium... |
| 6581099 |
Accessing sources of resources within standard request-response protocols |
| Jun-17-2003 |
Access of sources of resources within standard request-response protocols such as HTTP is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method specifies a request for application against a resource, where the resource... |
| 6578012 |
Fully integrated, on-line interactive frequency and award redemption program |
| Jun-10-2003 |
An fully integrated on-line frequency award program is disclosed. A user may access the program on-line and may browse a product catalog for shopping. The user may electronically place an order, upon which... |
| 6578011 |
System and method for directing and instructing customers to deal with specific merchants using incentives |
| Jun-10-2003 |
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... |
| 6578010 |
Multi-node network marketing computer system |
| Jun-10-2003 |
Method, process and means for accomplishing multiple, independent funds raising by multiple, independent entities, each of the entities under their own names, all under one "umbrella" system, having a... |
| 6574606 |
Method and system for cross-marketing products and services over a distributed communication network |
| Jun-3-2003 |
A method and system for cross-marketing products and services to customers of specific merchant web sites on the Internet by a merchant loyalty service provider web site on the Internet, provides a hyperlink... |
| 6572013 |
Bill deposit/withdrawal machine for depositing/withdrawing bills |
| Jun-3-2003 |
A bill deposit/withdrawal machine for performing deposit or withdrawal of bills according to a transaction, having a deposit/withdrawal port disposed in an upper part of the bill deposit/withdrawal machine,... |
| 6571216 |
Differential rewards with dynamic user profiling |
| May-27-2003 |
A methodology and system allows a plurality of reward scheme owners to give differential rewards, through a plurality of reward distribution agents, to various users based on the user profile. The reward... |
| 6571217 |
System and method for opportunistic upgrading of an image |
| May-27-2003 |
A system and method are provided for updating a banner in a graphical display. In embodiment, the system comprises a processor circuit in a client device that includes a processor and a memory, both of... |
| 6568599 |
Disposable coupon card providing a plurality of coupon discount offers |
| May-27-2003 |
A method is described for providing a plurality of coupon discount offers from one or more manufacturers to a consumer consisting of a disposable coupon card and a two-dimensional bar code printed on the... |
| 6567854 |
Internet service delivery via server pushed personalized advertising dashboard |
| May-20-2003 |
A communication service with a computer application is presented. The application provides an advertising dashboard to a subscriber engaged in a session of a service. The advertising dashboard includes... |
| 6567842 |
ATM video advertising |
| May-20-2003 |
Message files preferably comprising MPEG video messages are provided to transaction terminals for display of non-transaction messages to users during a terminal transaction. The messages are selected and... |
| 6567786 |
System and method for increasing the effectiveness of customer contact strategies |
| May-20-2003 |
A method, and system for increasing the efficiency of customer contact strategies is disclosed. Customers are analyzed based upon historical criteria; a promotional plan (a group of promotion events implemented... |
| 6564189 |
Universal methods and apparatus for determining prices and rewards within retail transactions |
| May-13-2003 |
A universal price/reward system for determining product prices or reward values. The system disclosed is implemented by utilizing a table of prices, reward information, or the like distinct from a POS... |
| 6560578 |
Advertisement selection system supporting discretionary target market characteristics |
| May-6-2003 |
An advertisement selection system is presented in which vectors describing an actual or hypothetical market for a product or desired viewing audience can be determined. An ad characterization vector is... |
| 6559862 |
Information processing terminal and advertising system using the information processing unit |
| May-6-2003 |
A information processing terminal includes a memory unit which stores at least one set of icon data and contents for off-line communication, an information processing unit which determines whether the... |
| 6558255 |
Method and apparatus for expiration of prepaid slot machine plays |
| May-6-2003 |
An expiring prepaid casino card is disclosed which may be utilized to provide payment for slot machine play or other gambling activities. The disclosed expiring prepaid casino card is preferably a pointer... |
| 6557006 |
System and method for displaying an interactive electronic representation of a corresponding static media object |
| Apr-29-2003 |
A system and method for displaying an interactive electronic representation ("IER") of a corresponding static media object is provided by associating a unique identification tag with a static media object.... |
| 6556975 |
Computer system and method for providing an on-line mall |
| Apr-29-2003 |
A computer system and method for providing an on-line mall. An on-line mall environment is provided. The on-line mall environment is partitioned into at least one community and having at least one store... |
| 6554710 |
Lotto gaming apparatus and method |
| Apr-29-2003 |
An individual electronic game for playing lotto wherein acknowledgment as to the player's win or loss status is rapidly displayed. The player plays his/her selected numbers against the electronic lotto... |
| 6554705 |
Passive biometric customer identification and tracking system |
| Apr-29-2003 |
A computer-based customer tracking system uses a passive biometric identification for identifying customers. Neither the customer, nor any establishment personnel, are required to enter any informational... |
| 6553347 |
Automatic virtual negotiations |
| Apr-22-2003 |
A method for conducting "one to one" commercial negotiations through an electronic medium such as the Internet. The negotiation process consists of sending persuasive texts to the user by the system, including... |
| 6539385 |
Dual-use email system |
| Mar-25-2003 |
A method and system are provided for use by an enterprise in which personal messages are processed differently than messages that are intended to constitute official enterprise correspondence ("enterprise... |
| 6535889 |
System and method for obtaining and displaying an interactive electronic representation of a conventional static media object |
| Mar-18-2003 |
A system and method for displaying an interactive electronic representation ("IER") of a conventional static media object, such as an electronic publication containing a digital image, is provided by associating... |
| 6535859 |
System and method for monitoring lighting systems |
| Mar-18-2003 |
A method and system for charging a fee to an end user where a service company services a lighting system of the end user's facility. To determine the fee, an original power consumption of the facility... |
| 6535857 |
Method for distributing a periodical |
| Mar-18-2003 |
The present invention is directed to a method for distributing early issues of a periodical subscription to a consumer. Broadly, the method involves a redirection of periodicals from a retail point of... |
| 6535119 |
System and method of managing failure of an electronic shelf label to respond to a message |
| Mar-18-2003 |
A system and method of managing failure of an electronic shelf label to respond to a message which conserves system bandwidth. The system includes an electronic shelf label which fails to respond to a... |
| 6532448 |
Contest server |
| Mar-11-2003 |
An automated system and method for providing a contest to multiple, geographically dispersed contest participants is disclosed, in which the participants are interconnected by a computer network such as... |
| 6529878 |
System for rewarding viewers of interactive commercial advertisements |
| Mar-4-2003 |
A system and method for compensating users for responding to advertisements in an interactive manner poses questions for users and dynamically generates further questions in response to users' answers... |
| 6523743 |
Self-service system |
| Feb-25-2003 |
An automated teller machine (10) or a home banking system (32) is operated to provide, during the delays associated with authorizing and acting upon a user instruction, a sales presentation related to... |
