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| Patent # | Description |
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| US-7,117,184 |
System and method for maintaining target response times in business
methods An embodiment of the present invention provides a method to establish and maintain response time goals for selected business logic contained in components, which... |
| US-7,117,161 |
Decision dynamics The invention is a method and a system for analyzing a process in terms of the elements that are the drivers of the process. The invention evaluates a process in... |
| US-7,116,775 |
Apparatus and method for managing BLF information in an inter-networking
system An apparatus and corresponding method for managing busy lamp field (hereinafter, referred to as BLF) information in an inter-networking system are provided which... |
| US-7,116,771 |
Method for generalization of telephone signaling requirements to support
multiple international marketplaces in... A method for operating a telephony device accounts for variations in international standards for certain telephony operations, including hook flash... |
| US-7,114,146 |
System and method of dynamic service composition for business process
outsourcing A system and method for capturing a plurality of business requirements using a Business Process Outsourcing Language (BPOL), an XML representation for expressing... |
| US-7,113,959 |
System and method of using human resources data to generate printed
products Information stored in a corporate database is monitored and used to determine when certain business-related events have occurred. Event information is... |
| US-7,113,797 |
System, method and program product for scheduling meetings System, method and program product for scheduling meetings. Two or more invitees for a meeting are identified. Each of the invitees has a wireless device with a... |
| US-7,111,938 |
Automatic lens design and manufacturing system The present invention provides a method for designing and making a customized ophthalmic lens, such as a contact lens or an intraocular lens, capable of... |
| US-7,111,293 |
Method for increased concurrency in a computer system A method for enhancing concurrency in a multiprocessor computer system is described. Various tasks in a computer system communicate using commonly accessible... |
| US-7,111,235 |
Business description vocabulary for standardized, extensible
interoperation A method of organizing information related to content. A plurality of categories related to the content is identified along with a plurality of elements... |
| US-7,111,010 |
Method and system for managing event attributes The present invention provides techniques for managing and analyzing business information. Specific embodiments provide persons with business or other... |
| US-7,110,520 |
Method and system for directory assistance services A mobile telephone, or personal communication services subscriber who wishes directory assistance services is connected in the conventional manner to an operator... |
| US-7,107,596 |
Statistically-triggered heuristics Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing a heuristics service using a generically-consumable, reusable heuristics manager object. This... |
| US-7,107,522 |
System and method for creating extensible content A system and method for generating validated extensible content using (i) a ubiquitous portable application as a lightweight data form entry tool, (ii) a... |
| US-7,107,415 |
Posted write buffers and methods of posting write requests in memory
modules A memory module includes a memory hub coupled to several memory devices. The memory hub includes a posted write buffer that stores write requests so that... |
| US-7,107,235 |
Method of conducting business including making and selling a custom
article of footwear The present invention teaches a method of conducting retail and Internet business including making and delivering a custom article of footwear. The article of... |
| US-7,107,225 |
Business system A method for guaranteeing a consumer a best price on an item purchased from a vendor in a first transaction at a first price, the method including recording the... |
| US-7,107,224 |
Value driven integrated build-to-buy decision analysis system and method A value-driven build-to-buy decision analysis system and method is provided that addresses and integrates the system analysis for multiple parts of the... |
| US-7,106,838 |
Method for serving character message transmission during telephone call
over PSTN The present invention discloses a method for serving character message transmission during a telephone call over PSTN connected to the central office to which... |
| US-7,106,789 |
Method and apparatus for provisioning TDM and packet based communications
on a VDSL communication medium An method and apparatus for provisioning multiple Next and fractional T1 along with packet based communications over a shared X-DSL communication link is... |
| US-7,103,772 |
Pervasive, user-centric network security enabled by dynamic datagram
switch and an on-demand authentication and... Methods and systems are provided for improving security, efficiency, access control, administrative monitoring, reliability as well as integrity of data... |
| US-7,103,691 |
Method, system and device for a processor to access devices of different
speeds using a standard memory bus A method for accessing a device, such as a memory device and an interface device, by a processor is disclosed. The method involves the processor requesting... |
| US-7,103,597 |
Adaptive transaction manager for complex transactions and business process This is a method for managing and optimizing transaction processing that: (1) significantly expands the robustness of systems with respect to consistency,... |
| US-7,103,591 |
Method of describing business and technology information for utilization A method for data processing can include associating at least one descriptor dimension with a data item. The descriptor dimension can represent a scale between a... |
| US-7,103,564 |
Method and apparatus for performing personalization based on
classification A method and apparatus for personalizing information content for delivery to a requesting user is provided. With the method and apparatus, a set of actions... |
| US-7,103,560 |
System and method for weather adapted, business performance forecasting A system and method for forecasting future retail performance are described herein. The system includes a storage device that stores a sales history database, a... |
| US-7,103,198 |
Method for determining an adjacency relation A method for determining an adjacency relation for analyzing a business card containing data blocks. A target data block and a comparison data block is selected... |
| US-7,102,796 |
Network printing system using a process power broker for directing print
job from busy machines to idle... A compute cycle brokering apparatus and method includes a network and a plurality of machines connected to the network wherein some machines are idle and some... |
| US-7,100,162 |
System and method for process management A process task management system is provided to be used within an operating system environment. The system comprises an executing processes module containing a... |
| US-7,099,968 |
System and method for generating bus requests in advance based on
speculation states A system and method predict when to generate a bus request ahead-of-time based on bus-activity, bus-usage efficiency and bus-bandwidth usage. A bus-usage... |
| US-7,099,859 |
System and method for integrating off-line ratings of businesses with
search engines A computer program product is provided as a business rating system to rank business that are relevant to a given Internet search topic. Business ratings are... |
| US-7,099,835 |
Methods and systems for providing life management and enhancement
applications and services for telematics and... The invention presented herein relates to methods and systems for providing life management and enhancement applications and services to customers via an... |
| US-7,099,797 |
System and method of testing software and hardware in a reconfigurable
instrumented network A method of testing a computer system in a testing environment formed of a network of routers, servers, and firewalls. Performance of the computer system is... |
| US-7,099,740 |
Nail polish color selection system A user interactive custom nail polish color and effects dispensing system and method of doing business, including for both point of sale and remote (e.g., via... |
| US-7,099,446 |
Method for providing telephone services for commercial classes of service A method, such as a method for doing business, is provided. The method includes providing telecommunications dialing features such as, for example, call return,... |
| US-7,099,312 |
System and method for delivering personalized messages to selected calling
parties A forwarding telephone number in a programmable telephone number list associated with a called number is dialed in response to a busy or no answer signal at the... |
| US-7,098,869 |
Business method for billboard advertising A business method for billboard advertising is disclosed. An advertising billboard device for use with the present invention comprises a server and a display... |
| US-7,096,687 |
Non-constrictive ice bag device Ice bag covers, articles and methods useful in the creation of a non-constrictive ice bag device that is compact and can be attached to a garment, said ice bag... |
| US-7,096,262 |
Apparatus and method for asymmetric electronic commerce transactions A networked computing apparatus having a business message sender component coupled to a network interface, the network interface not being coupled to an... |
| US-7,096,209 |
Generalized segmentation method for estimation/optimization problem A method for action selection based upon an objective of an outcome relative to a subject. In one embodiment, a training set is obtained that contains attributes... |
| US-7,096,195 |
Method for enhancing the equity of a business entity A method of enhancing the equity of a business entity by issuing a debt instrument to the equity share of the business entity. The debt instrument is secured by... |
| US-7,096,193 |
Facilitating commerce among consumers and service providers by matching
ready-to-act consumers and... A method and apparatus are provided for matching ready-to-act consumers and pre-qualified service providers. According to one aspect of the present invention,... |
| US-7,096,188 |
Method and apparatus for problem solving, decision making and storing,
analyzing, and retrieving enterprisewide... A computer software application, graphical user interface, and method for entering information concerning a complex business situation, refining such information... |
| US-7,096,022 |
System and method for supporting quality of service in vertical handovers
between heterogeneous networks A method, system, and business model are disclosed for supporting handover between a mobile host and a corresponding node located in a heterogeneous network.... |
| US-7,095,840 |
Method and system for establishing voice communications using a computer
network A method and system (100) establishes voice communications between a computer operator (102) and an agent (104) of a business over a computer network, such as... |
| US-7,095,826 |
Method and system for providing enhanced call waiting A method and system are disclosed for providing an enhanced call waiting announcement to a called party that is busy on a first call and receives a second call.... |
| US-7,095,725 |
Method and apparatus for data transmission on a reverse link in a
communication system Systems and methods for decreasing delays and thereby improving the performance of data transmissions in wireless communication systems by enabling increased... |
| US-7,094,991 |
Electric food warming system and method A device is disclosed for warming tortillas and other foods. The device operates with a standard electric alternating current ranging from 110 to 120 volts in... |
| US-7,093,281 |
Casual access application with context sensitive pin authentication A method and system for allowing access to an exchange by a casual user without compromising exchange security. The present invention allows a casual user to... |
| US-7,092,960 |
Chemical material integrated management system and method thereof A chemical substance total management system and a chemical substance total management method which can easily manage amounts and release destination of managing... |
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