System and method for promoting commerce, including sales agent assisted commerce, in a networked economy
The present invention relates to systems and methods for promoting commerce in a networked economy, including, for example, conducting sales agent assisted commerce involving one or more distributed ... Read More
Inventors: Bednarek, Michael David;, Assignee: |
Determination of fit basis functions
(DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION) The present invention is of an apparatus, software, and method for segregating out background signals from a signal of interest, comprising: sampling a signal that includ... Read More
Inventors: Kane, Daniel J.; Hovde, David Christian;, Assignee: Southwest Sciences Incorporated (Santa Fe, NM) |
Service desk data transfer interface
What is claimed is: 1. A method for importing data from an origin to a destination, the method comprising: identifying data to be imported, over a network, from the origin to the destination, the dest... Read More
Inventors: George, Mark A.; Sturgeon, Cynthia L.;, Assignee: BMC Software, Inc. (Houston, TX) |
Computer-implemented method and system to support in developing a process specification for a collaborative process
According to one aspect, the present invention provides a computer-implemented method to support in developing a process specification for a collaborative process involving distributed computer-based ... Read More
Inventors: Kraft, Frank Michael;, Assignee: SAP Aktiengesellschaft (DE) |
Left-corner chart parsing
Different embodiments of the present invention provide improvements to left-corner chart parsing. The improvements include a specific order of filtering checks, transforming the grammar using bottom-u... Read More
Inventors: Moore, Robert C.;, Assignee: Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA) |
Parsing of nested internet electronic mail documents
One aspect of the present invention is to provide a web-based reporting/ticketing application for Tier 1 ISP customer email complaints. Another aspect of the present invention is to provide an applica... Read More
Inventors: Buford, John F.; Huang, Xiaolan;, Assignee: Verizon Laboratories Inc. (Waltham, MA) |
Method for selecting a preferable wireless communication service provider in a multi-service provider environment
An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for locating a particular or desirable communications service provider in an environment having a plurality of service providers. After power-u... Read More
Inventors: Bamburak, Michael D.; Daly, John J.; Lawrence, Christopher Gregory; Prise, Michael Edward; Raffel, Michael Allen;, Assignee: AT&T Wireless Services, Inc. (Redmond, WA) |
Data analyzing method and system
It is an object of the present invention to solve the above-mentioned problems in a method and system for analyzing data stored in a data base or the like, converting them into an expression useful to... Read More
Inventors: Maeda, Akira; Ashida, Hitoshi; Taniguchi, Yoji; Ito, Yukiyasu; Takahashi, Yori;, Assignee: |
System and method for automated anti-viral file update
The present invention in particular relates to a system and method for updating virus signature files of a computer and/or computer system so that an anti-virus program stored thereon will be able to ... Read More
Inventors: Gluck, Allen; Lando, Judah L.;, Assignee: Neuromedical Systems, Inc. (Suffern, NY) |
Computer security using virus probing
The present invention provides a technique for determining whether particular clients within a computer network are universally configured in accordance with the desired security features of the compu... Read More
Inventors: Grosse, Eric;, Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc. (Murray Hill, NJ) |
Fast virus scanning using session stamping
The above-mentioned shortcomings, disadvantages and problems are addressed by the present invention, which will be understood by reading and studying the following specification. Anti-virus software c... Read More
Inventors: Flint, Barney; Hughes, Michael;, Assignee: Network Associates Technology, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) |
Method and apparatus for increasing virus detection speed using a database
The foregoing and other problems are overcome and the objects of the invention are realized by methods and apparatus in accordance with embodiments of this invention. This invention provides a method ... Read More
Inventors: Chess, David M.;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Displaying multiple document abstracts in a single hyperlinked abstract, and their modified source documents
OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be explained below with reference to the drawings. At first, terms used in the following description of the invention will... Read More
Inventors: Ono, Kenji; Hirakawa, Hideki; Sumita, Kazuo;, Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Kawasaki, JP) |
Optimization of simulation run-times based on fuzzy-controlled input values
The present inventions provides a method and apparatus for optimally adjusting simulation run-times based on the effects of outside forces that are impossible to integrate into a simulation model such... Read More
Inventors: Gardner, Chris D.;, Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID) |
Forecasting contest
The present invention addresses the foregoing problems by providing a number of different inventive features which can be implemented individually or in any of a wide variety of combinations. These in... Read More
Inventors: Jennings, William P.; Findlay, III, M. Chapman; Phillips, G. Michael; Klein, Stephen A.; Rice, Mark E.;, Assignee: C4Cast.com, Inc. (Pasadena, CA) |
Opening price process for trading system
What is claimed is: 1. A method of determining an opening price for a product traded in a trading system, the method executed over a distributed network computer system, said method composing: receivi... Read More
Inventors: Madoff, Peter B.; Shipway, Glen R.; Margolin, Andrew S.;, Assignee: Primex Holdings, LLC (New York, NY) |
Method and apparatus for computer program usage monitoring
It is an object of the present invention to provide a software product to detect, monitor, report on, and control the software products installed on a computer system and their actual usage. The prese... Read More
Inventors: Barritz, Robert;, Assignee: Isogon Corporation (New York, NY) |
Method and system for distributing software in a telecommunications network
The deficiencies of the prior art are overcome by the method and system of the present invention. For example, as heretofore unrecognized, it would be beneficial if software loading continues after a ... Read More
Inventors: Hubinette, Ulf;, Assignee: Telephonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Stockholm, SE) |
Method and system for downloading updates for software installation
In view of the foregoing, the present invention provides a method and system of downloading update data for installing a software product on a client computer that minimizes the amount of data to be d... Read More
Inventors: McGuire, Thomas D.; Sliger, Michael V.; Welch, Daniel C.; Vishnumurty, Rajendra H.; Aul, Gabriel J.; Wallace, Oliver I.; Nichols, Gregory W.; Auerbach, Alan B.;, Assignee: Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA) |
Information retrieval apparatus and a method
It is an object of the present invention to provide an information retrieval apparatus and a method to present at least one retrieval result of high quality to the user quickly. According to the prese... Read More
Inventors: Suzuoka, Takashi; Sawashima, Nobuyuki;, Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Kawasaki, JP) |
Dynamic caches with miss tables
The following Detailed Description will begin with a conceptual overview of the invention and will then describe a presently-preferred embodiment of the invention. Overview of the Invention: FIG. 2 F... Read More
Inventors: Cusson, Michael J.; Almeida, Marcos G.; Sunkara, Ramu V.; D'Silva, Anil J.;, Assignee: Oracle Corporation (Parkwood Shores, CA) |
Type-based selection of rules for semantically disambiguating words
The invention addresses problems that arise with the previous techniques of Segond et al. and Dini et al., described above. The SDL technique of Segond et al. uses information from a dictionary to dis... Read More
Inventors: Segond, Frederique; Brun, Caroline;, Assignee: Xerox Corporation (Stamford, CT) |
Supplemental diagnostic and services resource planning for mobile systems
OF THE INVENTION The system and method integrate several well-known technologies via an application server and one or more computer networks, as shown in FIG. 1. The following technologies and termin... Read More
Inventors: Bodin, William Kress; Thorson, Derral C.;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
System for generating prescribed duration audio and/or video sequences
The present invention is directed toward a system for compiling a sequence of data blocks for producing an audio and/or video output sequence having a duration corresponding to user-prescribed criteri... Read More
Inventors: Hufford, Geoffrey Calvin; Hufford, Christopher P.; Klingler, Kevin C.;, Assignee: Sonic Desktop Software (Chatsworth, CA) |
System, method and article of manufacture for creating hierarchical folder components for use in a java application or applet
The present invention provides a programming environment and appropriate tools and components therefor that promote greater ease of use than is presently available in typical programming environments.... Read More
Inventors: Faustini, Antony Azio;, Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA) |
Object-oriented data processing system with transactional adapter
Thus, the prior art has not, on the one hand, provided general concurrency control of operations in object-oriented systems nor, or on the other hand, provided a simple object framework for commercial... Read More
Inventors: Houston, Iain Stuart Caldwell; Josephs, Mark Brian;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Mechanism and process to transform a grammar-derived intermediate form to an object-oriented configuration database
The problems outlined above are in large part solved by various embodiments of a method and system for transforming an intermediate form of an object-oriented database into an active object-oriented d... Read More
Inventors: Saulpaugh, Thomas E.; Slaughter, Gregory L.; Traversat, Bernard A.;, Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA) |
Control of commercial processes
The discussion below presents an arrangement that integrates a number of business process tools to effectively control an EP process. This control is driven by data created with a modeling tool, and ... Read More
Inventors: Weinman, Jr., Joseph Bernard;, Assignee: AT&T Corp. (New York, NY) |
Method and apparatus for implementing a web page diary
The present invention allows a user to create a "diary" containing multimedia references to Websites. These references (also called "content objects" or "objects") can be addresses or URLs of, for exa... Read More
Inventors: Van Der Meer, Joannes Jozef Everardus;, Assignee: AIdministrator Nederland B.V. (Amersfoort, NL) |
On-line educational system for display of educational materials
A first apparatus for providing a course-level message center for use with an on-line educational system permits the posting of on-line messages to users for particular courses. The educational system... Read More
Inventors: Helmick, Robert N.; Dobrin, Jon M.;, Assignee: eCollege.com (Denver, CO) |
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