Easy To Use Patents Search & Patent Lawyer Directory
At Patents you can conduct a Patent Search, File a Patent Application, find a Patent Attorney, or search available technology through our Patent Exchange. Patents are available using simple keyword or date criteria. If you are looking to hire a patent attorney, you've come to the right place. Protect your idea and hire a patent lawyer.
Searching: business methods
Search by keyword, patent number, inventor, assignee, city or state:
| Patent # | Description |
|---|---|
| US-6,298,406 |
Method of and apparatus for detecting direction of reception of bus packets
and controlling direction of... A node on a bus structure includes a physical interface to the bus structure. The physical interface determines the port on which an inbound bus packet is... |
| US-6,298,352 |
Apparatus and method for managing number sources A number resource management system for automatically managing number resources implements a Web-based client-server application for accessing and updating... |
| US-6,295,279 |
System and method for measuring reverse-link carrier-to-interference ratio
for a time division multiple access... A telecommunications system and method is disclosed for obtaining an accurate reverse-link Carrier-to-Interference (C/I) measurement for a Time Division Multiple... |
| US-6,292,785 |
Business system and method of compiling mailing list of interested
customers A system and method for using a mailing label to be applied to magazines, newspapers, circulars or other mass mailing items, which has a subscriber's name and... |
| US-6,292,494 |
Channel hopping protocol A method and means for information transmission over a medium for a wireless communication system comprising a network of stations capable of sending and... |
| US-6,286,046 |
Method of recording and measuring e-business sessions on the world wide web A monitor located between a Web browser and a server upon which a server application is running. The monitor is useful for recording a set of URLs (sometimes... |
| US-6,286,028 |
Method and apparatus for conducting electronic commerce A generic interface between an electronic commerce frontend and a business management backend is provided via an object oriented computer program product. In... |
| US-6,286,005 |
Method and apparatus for analyzing data and advertising optimization The most preferred embodiment of the present invention is a computer-based decision support system that includes three main components: a database mining engine... |
| US-6,282,284 |
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-6,282,232 |
Methods and apparatus for burst-mode CDMA DSSS communications receiving
systems A method and apparatus for receiving and processing burst-mode code-division multiple access (CDMA) direct-sequence spread-spectrum (DSSS) signals is provided.... |
| US-6,278,940 |
Input method for selecting destination, navigation system using the same,
and information storage medium for... A destination input method and apparatus in which points of interest in an input category are listed and displayed, and a destination is input by selecting a... |
| US-6,275,977 |
Application cooperation method and apparatus In an application cooperation apparatus for supporting configuration/reconfiguration of a business process support system, node class object information defining... |
| US-6,275,873 |
System for data communication between disk adapter and disk cartridge drive
where adapter controller sending... A method of communication between an adapter and a drive improves the data processing efficiency of the adapter and data transfer efficiency between the adapter... |
| US-6,275,809 |
Business processing system employing a notice board business system
database and method of processing the same A notice board business system database stores therein collectively the contents of all the data heads relating to a series of business processes, and is held in... |
| US-6,275,572 |
Congestion control method and system in an exchange The present invention is provided to improve congestion control without changing a quality of a connection service of communications even if congestion occurs... |
| US-6,275,200 |
Method and apparatus for a transparent network guest controller A method and apparatus for controlling an electronic display comprises a guest controller transparently linked to an existing host computer system or network.... |
| US-6,272,482 |
Managing business rules using jurisdictions A method of managing a set of rules used by a computer program, by defining jurisdictions adapted to exert authority over a decision to be made by the program,... |
| US-6,272,211 |
On-hold messaging system and method An on-hold messaging system is provided for use with a business telephone system having an on-hold audio input. The system includes an optical disc having one or... |
| US-6,269,457 |
Technology regression and verification acceptance method A method for regression and verification of hardware, network, and/or software technology platforms to deliver acceptance status details. This method variously... |
| US-6,265,842 |
Cross-connect method and apparatus A remotely controlled cross-connection switching matrix, particularly suited for telephone systems, has a jumper pin picker and placement mechanism selectively... |
| US-6,263,498 |
Method and apparatus for enabling server side distributed object
modification A method and apparatus in a distributed data processing system for managing application modification in a distributed data processing system. The first portion... |
| US-6,263,023 |
High definition television decoder A video decoder for decoding data at a high rate uses a plurality of slower slice decoders. A common memory is shared by all slice decoders drastically reducing... |
| US-6,262,918 |
Space management for managing high capacity nonvolatile memory In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a method and apparatus is disclosed for use in a digital system having a host coupled to at least two... |
| US-6,259,672 |
Method and apparatus for providing delayed communications within a
communication system A method of providing delayed communications within a communication system begins with the steps of detecting (201) selection of simultaneous transmission of a... |
| US-6,258,746 |
Thermally imagable business record and method of desensitizing a thermally
imagable surface A thermally imagable business record, such as a form, label, tag, or the like is provided which may be activated to form human and/or machine readable images as... |
| US-6,257,693 |
Automatic optimization of hardcopy output A method of automatically optimizing the controllable parameters related to producing printed material on a hardcopy output device is provided, along with a... |
| US-6,254,527 |
Apparatus for biophilically promoting personal relaxation, for reducing
physical and/or psychological personal... A method and apparatus for relaxing a person in a stressful environment, such as a health care, business, hospitality or educational setting, provides a person... |
| US-6,254,001 |
Electronic business card device A method of transferring business card information from a first user to a second user includes the steps of providing said first and second users with an... |
| US-6,253,251 |
Information handling system, method, and article of manufacture including
integration of object security... A system, method and article of manufacture for integrating object security service authorization in a distributed computing environment, includes one or more... |
| US-6,253,244 |
System and computer-implemented method for providing access to host-based
screen applications using... A method in a computer system, having a client, a server and a host, is disclosed which provides access to host-based legacy screen applications. The method... |
| US-6,253,206 |
Method and apparatus for a commercial network system designed to
facilitate, manage and support the... A system in which the implementation and integration of technology systems is facilitated, managed and supported regardless of the type of technology system... |
| US-6,253,190 |
Programmable shelf tag and method for changing and updating shelf tag
information A shelf tag comprising a liquid crystal display having optical states which are stable without power and an interface that allows for each character element to... |
| US-6,253,071 |
Method and apparatus for a cross-connect system with automatic facility
information transference to a remote... Automatic facility information transfer to remote locations in cross-connect systems is accomplished by providing limited telephone services to wired premises... |
| US-6,252,954 |
System and method for delaying the ringing of a line With respect to processing a communication, a method and system for delaying the ringing of a line until the status of the communication is determined when... |
| US-6,249,800 |
Apparatus and accompanying method for assigning session requests in a
multi-server sysplex environment Apparatus and accompanying methods for use preferably in a multi-system shared data (sysplex) environment (100), wherein each system (110) provides one or more... |
| US-6,249,778 |
Integrated electronic scale, and a system and method which uses the scale
automatically to compute... An electronic scale integrally formed within the housing of a piece of office equipment increases a user's work space in a home or business environment. The... |
| US-6,249,774 |
Method for owning, managing, automatically replenishing, and invoicing
inventory items A method by which a distributor owns, manages, and automatically replenishes the inventory of a business that is a customer of the distributor. The distributor... |
| US-6,249,769 |
Method, system and program product for evaluating the business requirements
of an enterprise for generating... The information technology environment and requirements of a business entity are evaluated via an interactive engagement process, system and program product to... |
| US-6,246,880 |
Determining subscriber demands on a communications system A method and system in a wireless communications system enables a network operator to accommodate subscriber demands by matching resources to current, congested... |
| US-6,246,485 |
Printer communication system and method A printer communication system includes a printer (20) having a printer controller (34) with memory (38) and a processor (36). The printer (20) receives and... |
| US-6,243,842 |
Method and apparatus for operating on a memory unit via a JTAG port A method of controlling the operations of an on-chip memory unit includes the steps of receiving an indication of at least the ready or busy state of the memory... |
| US-6,243,378 |
Method and apparatus for minimizing contention losses in networks Contention losses are minimized in path searching, circuit-switched networks by adding intelligence to the last stage of the network. A count of number of bytes... |
| US-6,241,641 |
Method for establishing exercise activities using recyclable materials and
related structures An exercise device and business method for employing an existing plastic container as the exercise device. The exercise device is an existing plastic container... |
| US-6,240,486 |
System and method for on-line, real time, data migration A system and method for providing on-line, real-time, transparent data migration from an existing storage device to a replacement storage device. The existing... |
| US-6,240,470 |
Magnetic disk control unit, and firmware active-interchange method therefor The present invention relates to a magnetic disk control unit which can accomplish active interchange of firmwares. Thus, in this invention, a firmware... |
| US-6,240,415 |
Corporate and entertainment management interactive system using a computer
network A system, method, and apparatus is provided for computerized management of a method of corporate, business or sports management by a remote party comprising... |
| US-6,233,653 |
Hierarchical data storage system and data caching method In a hierarchical data storage system that supplies data, on request, from a library apparatus in which the data are stored on removable media and from a... |
| US-6,233,572 |
Computer implemented system and method for high level controlled searching
through a problem space A system and method for searching a problem space. In an exemplary application, the search constructs a plan associated with a business enterprise and the... |
| US-6,233,493 |
Computer-implemented product development planning method A computer-implemented system (10) for product development planning. The system (10) models a business enterprise in terms of its proposed products and the tasks... |
| US-6,230,229 |
Method and system for arbitrating path contention in a crossbar
interconnect network A method and system for transmitting data among a plurality of cards in a crossbar interconnect network having a plurality of cards each having source paths and... |
Previous Patent US -1 | Next Patent US 1
File A Patent Application
- Protect your idea -- Don't let someone else file first. Learn more.
- 3 Easy Steps -- Complete Form, application Review, and File. See our process.
- Attorney Review -- Have your application reviewed by a Patent Attorney. See what's included.