The present invention relates to an automatic community generation system and method with hierarchical data structure. The automatic community generation system receives user's information through the network. At least one community is generated automatically according to the user's information. A major or area community can be located at top level of a hierarchical data structure referring to com...

A document indexing system, comprising: a plurality of storage locations (A, B, C) each comprising means for storing, in an electronic form, a plurality of documents; means (D) for storing document summaries each containing information and/or data derived from a respective one of said documents and link information identifying the document and the storage location from which the summary is derived...

The invention describes a universal virtual marketplace (1) which maximises use in the national economy, reduces the detrimental aspects of e-commerce and, both for sellers (4) and purchasers (5), secures all necessary safeguards and rights in business transactions, wherein all active parties are connected to each other via a network (3). The business competence of sellers (4) to operate in the vi...

Die Erfindung betrifft ein verbessertes Verfahren zur Konzeption und Erfassung gewerblicher Schutzrechtsanmeldungen, mit den Schritten Sammeln und Speichern von Gebühren und Honoraren, Sammeln der Anmeldungserfordernisse und Sammeln von Informationen über Schutzmöglichkeiten in einem Bestimmungsstaat. Dieses bisher weitgehend manuell durchgeführte Verfahren hat den Nachteil, dass es für den Laien ...

The method involves determining the circle of interest by using the international classification by first determining the appropriate international class, then using a database contg. existing rights announcements by third parties in the relevant countries and associated bibliographical data. Independent claims are also included for a computer program and for a data processing network.

A system and method for obtaining an electronic receipt for a transaction between a mobile terminal and a merchant is disclosed. Upon performance of a transaction between the mobile terminal and the merchant, the merchant transmits an electronic receipt to a remotely located computer which is associated with the mobile terminal. When the remote computer receives the electronic receipt, it stores t...

A method for use with electronic commerce objects is disclosed. Upon the sale of an electronic commerce object at least one interactive object is associated with the sold electronic commerce object. The interactive object provides information or services relating to the electronic commerce object.; L'invention concerne un procédé destiné à être utilisé avec des objets de commerce électronique. Lor...

A method of processing an online transaction over a communication network, comprises the steps of: storing a plurality of objects comprising object data and object attributes containing further information about the object in a catalog server accessible by a plurality of clients, displaying, upon request from a client, an object including object attributes on a client display, and executing, on a ...

Sale offer acceptance data can be transmitted by an acceptance terminal (32) to a server (20) through at least a communication network including at least a public telephone network and an Internet network. The method includes a stage (10) which converts the acceptance data into another format designed for transport through another communication network and to record the converted acceptance data i...

A system in the form of a database allowing operators of aircraft or any other equipment where components are subject to wear to manage all the maintenance, analysis and provisioning aspects of such components e.g. brake and wheel components. The system is able to predict component, e.g. tyre life to a high degree of accuracy based on the measured wear rate of the component or a related component ...

A digital rights management (DRM) system distributes the storage of rights and/or the rights management decision making process between a DRM client and DRM server, in order to overcome the shortcomings inherent in exclusively client-side or exclusively server-side DRM systems.

Method of interactive user controlled processing of graphical images for financial data analysis, by means of a data processing system and software including the steps of: acquiring financial parameter data on a financial parameter to be analysed in digital or electronic format; calculating and depicting on a screen one or a plurality of broken lines, representative of the evolution of the financi...

A method, system database and web site for providing maintenance and service supervision to an electrical power generation, transmission and distribution network. A first company provides maintenance and service for a power network including a Physical Grid (1), owned by a Utility, by means of a contractual agreement with at least one second company. The contract is a franchise type agreement that...

The present invention relates to an integrated system and a method for designing, developing and guiding an enterprise and its products through various phases from inception to discontinuation of use. The system includes various components, namely an implementation procedure reference framework for structuring a product development during its design phase, its maturity phase and its disposal phase...

An information processing system for providing a service to a user by utilizing a wide-area network, while preventing the information on the user from leaking reliably. An electronic settling system comprises an authentication server (4) and a dedicated WWW server (6) connected with the Internet (2) and a customer information conversion server (30) in a closed network (20) constructed in a financi...

An information providing system comprises a portfolio presenting section (2d) for readably and editably presenting a portfolio (5) in which an investor (3) registers, over the Internet (1) a stock name which the investor (3) possesses or for which the investor (3) has concern and which presents the list of the stock names, an analyzing section (2a) for analyzing a stock registered in the portfolio...

A system for ordering a business machine easily and efficiently comprising an orderer terminal (11) connected with the Internet (4) and adapted to transmit information on the order of a machine, an order receiver terminal (21) for transmitting machine order receiving information, and a machine order server (3) connected with the Internet and adapted to receive and manage the order information tran...

There is provided a system for communicating digital board advertisement messages using radio communication, including: a conversion storage for converting information input by apersonal user through wired network to store it; a web server for storing information input by the personal user through wireless network, information on subscribers of existing wired and wireless service networks, informa...

Disclosed is a lottery type selling method and apparatus using a computer communications network. In the above method, a seller registers selling goods in a computer. The computer announces to sell the registered selling goods through a lottery sale and sells plural lottery tickets. The computer draws lots the sold lottery tickets and decides a winner. The decided winner information is provided to...