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| Patent # | Description |
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| US-7,668,745 |
Human resource assessment Methods, devices, and systems are provided for human resource assessment. A resource planning device includes a processor, a memory, and a user interface coupled... |
| US-7,668,614 |
Optimization-based process scheduling method and system Embodiments of a method of optimally scheduling, in near real-time, workunits for processing on processing stations in a processing system, while accounting for... |
| US-7,668,352 |
Communicating computer-aided detection results in a standards-based
medical imaging environment A method, system, and method of doing business in a standards-based medical imaging environment is described in relation to the communication of computer-aided... |
| US-7,667,604 |
Context-aware and real-time item tracking system architecture and
scenarios Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for real-time and context-aware tracking of items. Tags bound to items are read and information read... |
| US-7,665,014 |
Method and apparatus for generating forms using form types A method, computer readable medium and system are provided which generate model driven forms that represent data models. Using the method, to generate a form... |
| US-7,664,767 |
System and method for geographically organizing and classifying businesses
on the world-wide web A method and search engine for classifying a source publishing a document on a portion of a network, includes steps of electronically receiving a document, based... |
| US-7,664,704 |
Clearing receivables with improved search A system and method match payments with invoices. A payment is received from a business partner. Multiple fields of an invoice database are concatenated to form... |
| US-7,664,701 |
Masking private billing data by assigning other billing data to use in
commerce with businesses A method and apparatus for shielding a user's private billing data, such as credit card information, or other billing arrangements, but distributing different... |
| US-7,664,670 |
Product development and assessment system The present invention discloses a method, program product and system for conducting product assessment and development. One preferred embodiment relates to a... |
| US-7,661,446 |
Method for operating and managing a re-fueling business Disclosed is a method for operating and managing a re-fueling business. The method includes contracting with a customer to fuel a fuel consuming vehicle for the... |
| US-7,661,013 |
System and method for error recovery An automated laboratory device that comprises a mechanism that performs operations on laboratory samples, a scheduler that causes the mechanism to process... |
| US-7,660,820 |
Context-based heterogeneous information integration system A system and method are provided that overcome the previously described limitations of prior art systems. The computer system, in fact, uses a set of information... |
| US-7,660,735 |
Method and system for creation of consumer segmentations using maturation
and exogenous curves A system and method for segmenting and clustering consumer segments is disclosed. The system and method disclosed decompose micro-segments into maturation... |
| US-7,660,666 |
Geographic database with detailed local data A method is disclosed for representing locations in a geographic database in a manner that facilitates navigation and routing. A core map database includes data... |
| US-7,660,576 |
Portable information terminal and information transmitting method The disclosed invention provides a portable information terminal making it possible to easily transmit a plurality of kinds of information. The portable... |
| US-7,658,789 |
Off gas extraction and chemical recovery system and related methods An off gas extraction system provides superior results to other systems for cleaning polluted soil. Off gas is extracted, followed by compression and... |
| US-7,657,942 |
Method of assuring enterprise security standards compliance A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for providing a current and complete security compliance view of an enterprise system. The present invention... |
| US-7,657,868 |
System and method for applying development patterns for component based
applications A computing device and method for coordinating the development of a client application including application components comprising one or more of at least one of... |
| US-7,657,777 |
Common semantic model of management of a supply chain A method and apparatus of a supply module having a business object module to least one schema to describe the supply chain data, a XML-based language module to... |
| US-7,657,585 |
Automated process for identifying and delivering domain specific
unstructured content for advanced business... A cost efficient solution for supporting and deploying custom text analytics applications suited is to provide third party application developers a sand-boxed... |
| US-7,657,575 |
Sequencing updates to business objects A system and method for compensating for disruptions to update transmissions is disclosed. A first application component stores an instance of a business object.... |
| US-7,657,557 |
Generating code on a network Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for generating code on a network. Input files including information... |
| US-7,657,545 |
Automated application discovery and analysis system and method An object oriented design for an automated modeling system for mapping and monitoring the business roles and impact of elements within an IT Infrastructure that... |
| US-7,657,541 |
Displaying and analyzing document flows A system and a method for displaying and analyzing a business process based on the document flow of that business process. The graphical user interface may... |
| US-7,657,512 |
Source-context aware object-based navigation The present invention provides methods and systems for allowing object-based navigation between business objects and applications where the target application is... |
| US-7,657,498 |
Business-aligned organizational knowledge management system, framework,
and tools for capture and dissemination... A business-aligned knowledge management system and method for creating the same are disclosed. In accordance with a first aspect of the invention, a knowledge... |
| US-7,657,493 |
Recommendation system that identifies a valuable user action by mining
data supplied by a plurality of users to... Personal data mining mechanisms and methods are employed to identify relevant information that otherwise would likely remain undiscovered. Users supply personal... |
| US-7,657,480 |
Decision support system and method A decision support system and method is provided for responding to a deregulated electrical energy environment for use in making decisions related to supplying... |
| US-7,657,469 |
Agricultural business methods A new system for providing agricultural financial services is provided. The system includes crop insurance services, where a proper level of crop insurance is... |
| US-7,657,464 |
System and methods of conducting business-to-business operations by
registered sellers and buyers using an... An internet accessible computer system to conduct business to business operations among a plurality of buyer companies and a plurality of seller companies. In... |
| US-7,657,453 |
System, computer-readable medium and method for filtering exceptions
generated by forecasting and replenishment... A system, computer-readable storage medium and method for storing, filtering, selecting and manipulating business exceptions generated by forecasting and... |
| US-7,657,451 |
Six sigma enabled web-based business intelligence system A method of presenting an analysis of enterprise wide business data. In response to a user request to a web site operable to access enterprise wide business data... |
| US-7,657,436 |
System and method for establishing electronic business systems for
supporting communications services commerce A comprehensive electronic business support system comprises three layers: (1) the business layer, including various smart components which unify data and... |
| US-7,657,411 |
Method for transformation of enterprise models to business process models A transformation method is described having three phases. The first phase provides a tool and language independent annotation framework to capture semantics of... |
| US-7,657,120 |
Method and apparatus for determination of text orientation The present invention relates to a method for determining the orientation of text, so that the text can be correctly read. In one embodiment, the method analyzes... |
| US-7,656,235 |
Communication system and oscillation signal provision method A communication system and an oscillation signal provision method based thereon are provided. In the communication system, a high frequency oscillator generates... |
| US-7,655,221 |
Methods of treating disease with random copolymers The invention relates to novel methods and kits for treating or preventing disease through the administration of random copolymers comprising amino acids... |
| US-7,653,690 |
Method and apparatus for electronic postcard communication A method and an apparatus for communicating with electronic postcards include a server for processing electronic postcards. Input sites remote from the server... |
| US-7,653,651 |
System and method for transparent persistence management One embodiment of the invention employs "transparent object persistence" techniques in which persistent data objects (i.e., the objects that represent persistent... |
| US-7,653,607 |
Remote execution of materials library designs Methods, apparatus, and business processes enabling individual chemists to design, order, and obtain data for multiple experiments or measurements in a timely... |
| US-7,653,566 |
Systems and methods for automating a process of business decision making
and workflow A system and method for automating a business procedure is disclosed. The workflow management system includes an administrator, a process designer, a workflow... |
| US-7,653,564 |
Methods and systems for providing a measure of supervision over the
activities of representatives of a business Systems and methods are provided for helping businesses provide a measure of supervision over the activities of their representatives without requiring a... |
| US-7,653,561 |
Stochastic multiple choice knapsack assortment optimizer A method of determining allocations in a business operation to maximize profit includes: collecting profit data for a plurality of classes in the business... |
| US-7,653,484 |
Method for determining deviation of a mobile object in a navigation system
from a travel route A travel route stray discriminating method of a mobile object in navigation system is disclosed in which discrimination of travel route deviation is temporarily... |
| US-7,650,294 |
Knowledge base system for an equipment market A system and method for managing and processing supply and demand information in an equipment market comprises a business logic engine, a database and interface... |
| US-7,649,987 |
System and method for forwarding selective calls 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-7,648,367 |
Anatomical models and methods for training and demonstration of medical
procedures Anatomical models representing one or more anatomical structures of a human or non-human animal and related methods for demonstrating, training, promotion and... |
| US-7,648,323 |
System and method for automated processing of bulk containers A system and method is used to automatically process the contents of a containers. The contents may be bulk materials used by a business or organization. The... |
| US-7,647,504 |
Method and system for efficiently retrieving secured data by securely
pre-processing provided access information A method and system for efficiently retrieving secured data by securely pre-processing provided access information, provides data store security based on a... |
| US-7,647,344 |
System, method and software for providing persistent entity identification
and linking entity information in an... The present invention provides a system, method and software for linking persistent and unique business identifiers, associated with business entities, for... |
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