| 6327577 |
Electronic bill payment system with account-number scheming |
| Dec-4-2001 |
A remittance payment method and system which receives a payor's account number with a payee, transforming it into an altered account number according to alteration rules previously stored in a merchant's... |
| 6327569 |
System and methods for real time linkage between harvest environment and marketplace |
| Dec-4-2001 |
Systems and methods are provided for directly linking a harvest environment using precision farming techniques to the marketplace. It is a feature of this invention that properties of crops are evaluated... |
| 6324523 |
Integrated client relationship management processor |
| Nov-27-2001 |
A data processing system initiates, implements, confirms and updates a novel financial transaction support service, which provides an allotment of brokerage transactions, related financial services, and... |
| 6324519 |
Advertisement auction system |
| Nov-27-2001 |
An advertisement auction system is presented in which content/opportunity providers announce to advertisers that they have an opportunity to present an advertisement to a consumer. The advertiser transmits... |
| 6321212 |
Financial products having a demand-based, adjustable return, and trading exchange therefor |
| Nov-20-2001 |
This invention provides methods and systems for trading and investing in groups of demand-based adjustable-return contingent claims, and for establishing markets and exchanges for such claims. The advantages... |
| 6317728 |
Securities and commodities trading system |
| Nov-13-2001 |
In accordance with the invention there is provided a securities trading system based on the principles of artificial intelligence. It includes a data acquisition system having an input communicating with... |
| 6317727 |
Systems, methods and computer program products for monitoring credit risks in electronic trading systems |
| Nov-13-2001 |
A credit monitoring system in an electronic trading system forms a complex check to determine if two particular counterparties will except each other for a particular trade based upon their respective... |
| 6317726 |
Automated strategies for investment management |
| Nov-13-2001 |
The invention is in the field of using a computer to select corporate stocks for investment. Fifty stocks are selected from a database on the basis of certain criteria. The stocks are acquired in equal... |
| 6313833 |
Graphical data collection and retrieval interface |
| Nov-6-2001 |
A graphical user interface is provided for capturing application data in picture form. A set of data capture tools, including a subjective data parameter pallette and accompanying data canvas, are presented... |
| 6311178 |
Multi-element confidence matching system and the method therefor |
| Oct-30-2001 |
The present invention relates to a computer matching system used by a plurality of users and the method therefor, said system comprising a database; an offer creation program means for creating an entity... |
| 6304858 |
Method, system, and computer program product for trading interest rate swaps |
| Oct-16-2001 |
A method, system, computer program product, and data structure for trading in which a standardized contract is traded. The contract obligates a buyer and a seller to settle the contract based on a price... |
| 6301574 |
System for providing business information |
| Oct-9-2001 |
An apparatus, method and data structure for communicating business information, including outsourcing information. Contractor provide information regarding their products and services into the system.... |
| 6298334 |
Object-based numeric-analysis engine |
| Oct-2-2001 |
A method implemented in a computer system for dynamically analyzing the status of a numeric system wherein the numeric system which includes one or more numeric objects such as inflow objects, outflow... |
| 6292788 |
Methods and investment instruments for performing tax-deferred real estate exchanges |
| Sep-18-2001 |
Methods and investment instruments for investing in real estate are described wherein a portfolio of investment real estate is divided into a plurality of tenant-in-common deeds of predetermined denominations,... |
| 6289351 |
Method and device for detecting presence or absence of validity in data needed to be updated |
| Sep-11-2001 |
In a data providing method and device thereof for providing data in a simple manner at a highly efficient transmission rate, first data of a configuration where information relating to a valid period of... |
| 6289325 |
Computer system, message monitoring method and associated message transmission method |
| Sep-11-2001 |
The customer agent 9 transmits a search request 15a to a manager 4, which in turn transmits a search request 15b to a shop agent 5. The shop agent 5 transmits a product information service message 16a... |
| 6289321 |
Device to detect stock names having the highest current value and its methods for use |
| Sep-11-2001 |
There is disclosed a method for selecting a stock name having the highest current value or lowest current value from all the stock names in stock/exchange/merchandise trading and distributing the stock... |
| 6285989 |
Universal on-line trading market design and deployment system |
| Sep-4-2001 |
A method and an apparatus for a universal auction specification system is disclosed. The universal auction specification system comprises a network accessible set of trading primitives. A script generator... |
| 6285987 |
Internet advertising system |
| Sep-4-2001 |
A system for providing advertisements from a central server to viewers who access web sites. The central server stores both advertisements which are to be displayed and an information data base. The data... |
| 6285984 |
Internet-audiotext electronic advertising system with anonymous bi-directional messaging |
| Sep-4-2001 |
The present invention relates to an electronic advertising system. More specifically, the present invention allows telephone users to create a "mailbox" at the point of responding to an ad, regardless... |
| 6282521 |
Anonymous trading system with improved quote input capabilities |
| Aug-28-2001 |
For each quote entered into a computerized anonymous trading system, the system determines if it is waiting to be "hit" (would be matched with the first hit of a predetermined size) at a substantial number... |
| 6278982 |
Securities trading system for consolidation of trading on multiple ECNS and electronic exchanges |
| Aug-21-2001 |
A securities trading consolidation system where each customer uses a single trader terminal to view, and analyze security market information from and to conduct security transactions with two or more ECNs,... |
| 6272528 |
Computer method for delivery of financial services |
| Aug-7-2001 |
A computer system is provided for delivery of financial services, such as banking, general insurance, life assurance, pensions and investments, loans and mortgages, and financial planning and advisory... |
| 6272474 |
Method for monitoring and trading stocks via the internet displaying bid/ask trade bars |
| Aug-7-2001 |
A method for providing stock information to traders. Stock information is received that includes bid offers, ask offers, the size of the bid offers and the size of the ask offers and the identity of the... |
| 6272473 |
Method, apparatus, and embodied data structures for optimal anytime winner determination in combinatorial auction-type problems |
| Aug-7-2001 |
Disclosed is a method and data structures for solution of problems of the class equivalent to optimal allocation determination in a combinatorial auction. The method stores bids in a binary tree which... |
| 6269346 |
Stock option control and exercise system |
| Jul-31-2001 |
A system and method for managing a plurality of stock option accounts each for a plurality of participants. The system invokes a particular option plan defined in the system that governs the transaction... |
| 6269345 |
Transfer system and method for transferring amounts in different local currencies between a plurality of local banking organization |
| Jul-31-2001 |
To transfer a quantity measured in a first unit used by a first entity to a second entity using a second unit, these units being associated with a respective parameter varying as a function of time, the... |
| 6269343 |
On-line marketing system and method |
| Jul-31-2001 |
The present invention provides a method and system that allows sellers to communicate conditional offers to potential buyers. The conditions include prices that depend on the aggregate amount of goods... |
| 6266652 |
Computer auction system |
| Jul-24-2001 |
An auction system is disclosed which allows users to participate using their own computers suitably connected to the auction system. Preferably, this connection uses INTERNET. The invention involves a... |
| 6263321 |
Apparatus and process for calculating an option |
| Jul-17-2001 |
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... |
| 6263000 |
Remote trading call terminals in a trading call system |
| Jul-17-2001 |
A trading communication system. A line control unit includes a channel switch circuit, a number of line trunks connected to the channel switch circuit and adapted to be connected to a line network, and... |
| 6260025 |
Distributed matching system for displaying a book of credit filtered bids and offers |
| Jul-10-2001 |
A distributed electronic trading system for displaying a real-time credit filtered view of at least one market in which financial instruments are traded in which the market view includes a predetermined... |
| 6260024 |
Method and apparatus for facilitating buyer-driven purchase orders on a commercial network system |
| Jul-10-2001 |
Systems and methods are described for providing a global bilateral buyer-driven system for creating binding contracts by incorporating various methods of communication, commerce and security for the buyers... |
| 6253202 |
Method, system and apparatus for authorizing access by a first user to a knowledge profile of a second user responsive to an access request from the first user |
| Jun-26-2001 |
A method of authorizing a user profile access request includes the step of detecting the access request from an inquiring user to access a user profile of a target user. Responsive to the detected access... |
| 6253188 |
Automated interactive classified ad system for the internet |
| Jun-26-2001 |
A system and method for providing classified ads over the Internet. The system includes a plurality of regional newspaper World Wide Web servers, and associated newspaper classified ad generators; a central... |
| 6247000 |
Method and system for confirmation and settlement for financial transactions matching |
| Jun-12-2001 |
The present invention, an embodiment of which is known as Crossmar Matching Service (CMS) provides a method and system for matching order routing of securities and other instrument types, and for matching... |
| 6243691 |
Method and system for processing and transmitting electronic auction information |
| Jun-5-2001 |
A system and method for conducting a multi-person, interactive auction, in a variety of formats, without using a human auctioneer to conduct the auction. The system is preferably implemented in software.... |
| 6243688 |
Internet-based credit interchange system of converting purchase credit awards through credit exchange system for purchase of investment vehicle |
| Jun-5-2001 |
An Internet-based purchase credit award interchange center is described which interfaces with a credit award exchange center for conversion of any form of merchant or purchase credit award resulting from... |
| 6240400 |
Method and system for accommodating electronic commerce in the semiconductor manufacturing industry |
| May-29-2001 |
A method for accommodating electronic commerce in a semiconductor manufacturing capacity market. The method comprises the steps of identifying a plurality of players in the semiconductor manufacturing... |
| 6240396 |
Conditional purchase offer management system for event tickets |
| May-29-2001 |
A system for managing conditional purchase offers is disclosed where an individual searching for a ticket to a particular event may provide a guaranteed purchase offer to a plurality of potential sellers.... |
| 6236985 |
System and method for searching databases with applications such as peer groups, collaborative filtering, and e-commerce |
| May-22-2001 |
A method of analyzing information in the form of a plurality of data records. Each data record includes one or more data values. The data values are partitioned into a plurality of data signatures. Data... |
| 6236977 |
Computer implemented marketing system |
| May-22-2001 |
A state-event engine manages behavior over time in response to events in deterministic fashion from user-supplied rules and policies for a set of dynamic objects. The campaign engine selectively generates... |
| 6236973 |
Apparatus and method for providing collateral construction loan insurance coverage |
| May-22-2001 |
A centralized automated apparatus for lending institutions to initiate, report and confirm insurance coverage on buildings used as collateral for construction loans under a single builder's risk policy... |
| 6236972 |
Method and apparatus for facilitating transactions on a commercial network system |
| May-22-2001 |
A method and device for using a computer to facilitate a transaction of secondary market shares of an investment company such as a mutual fund between a buyer and a seller, having the steps of: a customer... |
| 6233566 |
System, method and computer program product for online financial products trading |
| May-15-2001 |
An online centralized financial products exchange system. The invention is a system, method and computer program product that creates a "marketplace" for end-to-end financial products life cycle transactions.... |
| 6230201 |
Configurable transaction routing system and method |
| May-8-2001 |
A system and method for managing electronic transactions between a host system and a plurality of trading partners. A transaction gateway is employed to manage electronic transactions between the host... |
| 6230147 |
Method and system for controlling an electronic auction during the transition to a closed state |
| May-8-2001 |
A method and system for conducting electronic auctions is described. A dynamic lot closing extension feature avoids collisions in closing times of multiple lots by dynamically extending the closing time... |
| 6230146 |
Method and system for controlling closing times of electronic auctions involving multiple lots |
| May-8-2001 |
A method and system for conducting electronic auctions is described. A dynamic lot closing extension feature avoids collisions in closing times of multiple lots by dynamically extending the closing time... |
| 6223167 |
Method and system for handling disruptions in the management of electronic auctions |
| Apr-24-2001 |
A method and system for conducting electronic auctions is described. A dynamic lot closing extension feature avoids collisions in closing times of multiple lots by dynamically extending the closing time... |
| 6219423 |
System and method for digitally signing a digital agreement between remotely located nodes |
| Apr-17-2001 |
A digital arbitration system comprising a server node and at least one signatory node coupled together through a communication link. Each of the signatory node(s) may be configured with a unique private... |
