| 7043457 |
System and method for managing and evaluating network commodities purchasing |
| May-9-2006 |
A method and system for managing and evaluating commodities purchasing over a network of distributed computing devices. In one embodiment, the method allows a plurality of buyers to generate one request... |
| 7043454 |
Method and apparatus for a cryptographically assisted commercial network system designed to facilitate idea submission, purchase and licensing and innovation transfer |
| May-9-2006 |
The present invention is a method and apparatus for effectuating bilateral commerce in ideas. The present invention is both an originator-(400) and user-driven (300) online commercial network system designed... |
| 7043450 |
Paid search engine bid management |
| May-9-2006 |
A method and apparatus (information processing system) for overcoming deficiencies and inefficiencies in the current paid search engine keyword bidding market, by providing keyword bidders with information... |
| 7043446 |
Method for determining the set of winning bids in a combinatorial auction |
| May-9-2006 |
A method for determining the set of winning bids in a combinatorial auction. Two variants of the method are disclosed. The first method is appropriate when the number of players and the number of combinations... |
| 7039616 |
Method for proof of transaction |
| May-2-2006 |
A method for proof of the time and content of transactions in a digital network is described. A digital form is requested by a customer's computer (1) and is transmitted from a bid server (3)... |
| 7039610 |
Implied market trading system |
| May-2-2006 |
A computer based trading system implies spread markets from multiple real or implied spread markets. In particular, one aspect of the invention permits implication of a spread market from a combination... |
| 7039609 |
Auction system, auction server, user terminal, auction method, bidding method, storage media and program transmission apparatus |
| May-2-2006 |
An auction system for providing an auction service via a communication network comprises an auction server machine and buying user terminals which are connected to the communication network; wherein the... |
| 7039608 |
Rapid valuation of portfolios of assets such as financial instruments |
| May-2-2006 |
A method of valuation of large groups of assets by partial full underwriting, partial sample underwriting and inferred values of the remainder using an iterative and adaptive supervised and unsupervised... |
| 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... |
| 7039387 |
Systems, methods and computer program products for responding to AMBER alerts |
| May-2-2006 |
An AMBER alert gateway includes a central telephone number that is configured to receive telephone calls from individuals in response to potential sightings related to AMBER alerts. An interactive voice... |
| 7035820 |
Systems and methods for trading and originating financial products using a computer network |
| Apr-25-2006 |
The invention relates to systems and methods for trading financial products over a computer network, such as the Internet. In one embodiment, the invention provides a method for trading financial products... |
| 7035819 |
Method and system for facilitating automated interaction of marketable retail orders and professional trading interest at passively determined prices |
| Apr-25-2006 |
A method and system for an automated trading network that continuously collects invisible, anonymous, binding orders and indications of interest to buy and sell specific equity securities at variable,... |
| 7035812 |
System and method for enabling multi-element bidding for influencing a position on a search result list generated by a computer network search engine |
| Apr-25-2006 |
In a system and method for enabling information providers to influence a position for a search listing within a search result list, a database stores accounts for the network information providers. Each... |
| 7031945 |
System and method for reallocating and/or upgrading and/or rewarding tickets, other event admittance means, goods and/or services |
| Apr-18-2006 |
A method, system, server architecture and/or tangible medium upgrade and award admittance of events to an event customer, preferably via a data communication network. The method includes, for example,... |
| 7031938 |
Funds having investment results related to occurrence of external events to investor-selected investment options |
| Apr-18-2006 |
A system for causing investment returns for individual investors in a fund to correspond to occurrence of selected events with respect to investment options selected by said individual investors, the system... |
| 7031937 |
Method and apparatus for tax efficient investment management |
| Apr-18-2006 |
A method and apparatus for automatically managing investment portfolios is disclosed which substantially tracks a selected index and automatically harvests tax losses. The system includes an accounting... |
| 7031936 |
Methods and systems for automated inferred valuation of credit scoring |
| Apr-18-2006 |
A method of inferring valuation of large groups of assets by credit scores includes the steps of organizing valuation scores, adjusting valuation scores based on special factors and business decisions,... |
| 7031935 |
Method and system for computing path dependent probabilities of attaining financial goals |
| Apr-18-2006 |
A method and system for computing the probability of attaining one or multiple financial goals is disclosed. Each goal is analyzed and reduced to a series of cash flows. A threshold criterion of success... |
| 7024632 |
Trading platform user interface in a many-to-many hub |
| Apr-4-2006 |
The invention provides a user interface, such as used by an electronic trading hub. The interface includes a representation that describes instances in which a participant has won some units, but less... |
| 7024397 |
Method and apparatus for negotiating a real estate lease using a computer network |
| Apr-4-2006 |
The invention provides a system and method that facilitates a structured lease negotiation between two parties to a real estate transaction, and subsequent steps to occupy the leased premises and evaluate... |
| 7024387 |
Automated system for conditional order transactions in securities or other items in commerce |
| Apr-4-2006 |
An apparatus and method of automatically and anonymously buying and selling positions in fungible properties between subscribers. The specific embodiment described in the disclosure relates to the buying... |
| 7024386 |
Credit handling in an anonymous trading system |
| Apr-4-2006 |
In an anonymous trading system, credit between counterparties is effectively increased by netting buy and sell trades to reflect the true risk to which each party is exposed. Credit limits are adjusted... |
| 7024385 |
Automatic electronic funds transfer system and method |
| Apr-4-2006 |
A method and system for automatically conducting a business transaction between a user and a trader, including the functions of ordering, financial transaction, delivery initiation and data management.... |
| 7024384 |
Apparatus and process for calculating an option |
| Apr-4-2006 |
The present invention introduces an apparatus and process which may be implemented on a vast variety of computer systems. The apparatus and process of the present invention use a computer system to receive... |
| 7024383 |
Online sales risk management system |
| Apr-4-2006 |
A computer-implemented method for providing risk management for online transactions. An exchange price for a foreign currency relative to a base currency is entered into a host computer. The host computer... |
| 7020633 |
Method and system for merchant processing of purchase card transactions with expanded card type acceptance |
| Mar-28-2006 |
Systems and methods for merchant processing of purchase card transactions with expanded card type acceptance are provided. For each merchant, a record is maintained of each card type that the merchant... |
| 7020632 |
Trading system for fixed-value contracts |
| Mar-28-2006 |
A trading system for the trading of fixed-value contracts employs a novel form of contract that has a fixed face value and two sides that respectively represent mutually exclusive outcomes. Traders submit... |
| 7020629 |
Momentum investment system, process and product |
| Mar-28-2006 |
The disclosed mutual fund systems, processes and products involve: selecting, from the universe of asset classes, a restricted number of asset classes that have demonstrated superior returns by maintaining... |
| 7020624 |
Network server for servicing articles of wear |
| Mar-28-2006 |
A network server provides continuous laundry services for articles of wear. Each article has a unique article identifier. The server has a customer database for associating each customer with a unique... |
| 7016874 |
System and method for handling securities trading plans |
| Mar-21-2006 |
A system for handling securities trading plans includes a securities trading plan template, a storage mechanism, and a plan verifier. The securities trading plan template is to be accessed by a person... |
| 7016873 |
System and method for tax sensitive portfolio optimization |
| Mar-21-2006 |
A method and apparatus are provided which account for tax impact in predicting investment return. Data for taxable investments, data for non-taxable investments and investor data are received and an optimization... |
| 7016863 |
Marketing system and method processing market information of consumers and dealers via a network |
| Mar-21-2006 |
A marketing system is provided wherein consumers disclose their purchase demands so that dealers can purchase the disclosed information. A market information registering unit registers market information... |
| 7013292 |
Method and system for universal gift registry |
| Mar-14-2006 |
A gift system and method enable gift givers to, among other things, each make a respective commitment for a monetary contribution of any giver-desired amount toward a gift for a gift recipient. This system... |
| 7010511 |
Method and system for conducting electronic auctions with net present value bidding |
| Mar-7-2006 |
A method and system for an electronic auction is described. Bids by participating bidders are specified over multiple contract term segments (e.g., years), and define a pattern of cash payments over time.... |
| 7010506 |
Centralized process for addressing request for resource in a large organization |
| Mar-7-2006 |
A centralized agent of an organization receives a request for the resource from at least one of the entities thereof, and reviews each request for the resource. A vendor capable of supplying the resource... |
| 7010504 |
Competitive buying and selling system and its control method |
| Mar-7-2006 |
There is proposed a competitive buying and selling system that avoids unnatural bidding prices and exclusive possession of resources, stabilizes bidding prices, and provides such an environment that participants... |
| 7007076 |
Information presentation and management in an online trading environment |
| Feb-28-2006 |
A method and apparatus for information presentation and management in an online trading environment are provided. According to one aspect of the present invention, person-to-person commerce over the Internet... |
| 7006991 |
Computer-implemented securities trading system with a virtual specialist function |
| Feb-28-2006 |
The present invention discloses method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for a computer-implemented financial management system that permits the trading of securities via a network. A server computer... |
| 7006980 |
Method and system for selecting optimal commodities based upon business profile and preferences |
| Feb-28-2006 |
A system and method for assisting a customer in choosing among commodities based on a business profile of the customer that includes asking the customer for a definition of its business; searching a decision... |
| 7003494 |
Preprocessor system and method for rejection of duplicate invoices |
| Feb-21-2006 |
An accounts payable system in which invoices submitted by electronic data interchange (EDI) are audited for duplicate invoices prior to them being entered into the production database, or environment.... |
| 7003490 |
Multivariate responses using classification and regression trees systems and methods |
| Feb-21-2006 |
The present invention is a method of allowing inclusion of more than one variable in a Classification and Regression Tree (CART) analysis. The method includes predicting y using p exploratory variables,... |
| 7003488 |
Credit management for electronic brokerage system |
| Feb-21-2006 |
An anonymous trading system identifies the best bids and offers from those counterparties with which each party is currently eligible to deal, while maintaining the anonymity of the potential counterparty... |
| 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.... |
| 7003486 |
Net-value creation and allocation in an electronic trading system |
| Feb-21-2006 |
An electronic exchange creates and distributes value among trading partners in a trade. Trading agents for the trading partners use a value manager to store true values for a trading element in the trade.... |
| 7003485 |
Ticket auction |
| Feb-21-2006 |
This computer-based Internet ticket auctioning method preregisters potential bidders and advises them that all bids are conditional offers to purchase tickets, and therefore cannot be lowered or canceled... |
| 7003484 |
Methods and systems for efficiently sampling portfolios for optimal underwriting |
| Feb-21-2006 |
A method of valuation of large groups of assets by partial full underwriting, partial sample underwriting and inferred values of the remainder using an iterative and adaptive supervised and unsupervised... |
| 7003483 |
System and method for optimizing the number of units of a security purchased or sold on a periodic basis |
| Feb-21-2006 |
A system and method for calculating a number of units of a security or other investment instrument to be traded periodically in a fluctuating market in a manner that optimizes the per-unit dollar value... |
| 7000019 |
Establishment of a deferred network communication session |
| Feb-14-2006 |
A method is provided of establishing network communication later in time between a first endpoint entity accessing an information resource over a network and a second endpoint entity, such as a customer... |
| 6999943 |
Routing methods and systems for increasing payment transaction volume and profitability |
| Feb-14-2006 |
Customers often have access to multiple payment methods for any given transaction. In one embodiment of the invention, a merchant obtains information regarding multiple payment methods from a customer,... |
| 6996541 |
Credit management for electronic brokerage system |
| Feb-7-2006 |
An anonymous trading system identifies the best bids and offers from those counterparties with which each party is currently eligible to deal, while maintaining the anonymity of the potential counterparty... |
