In a data processing system such as a personal communicator, a method for operating a messaging device includes defining a plurality of content types and receiving an information entity. The method further includes associating the information entity with any combination of the plurality of content types. The method further includes displaying identifying information and content type information fo...

Methods for providing a customized product to a consumer including the steps of collecting consumer profiling data, determining a consumer profile category corresponding to the consumer profiling data, providing the consumer a list of products corresponding to the profile category, receiving from the consumer a product choice, identifying additional consumer profiling data corresponding to the sel...

Methods and systems for facilitating the purchase of goods and services using a computer and/or communications network are disclosed. A central storage site is provided having a first, dedicated information database containing a plurality of files representing architectural information representative of an environment used by one or more potential buyers, and a second database of items available f...

The present invention includes a system and method of authenticating goods for sale over a network. The method includes associating a product identification indicia with a product to be sold over the network. The product is then purchased over the network and the product has the product identification indicia associated therewith. Upon receipt of the purchased product, the indicia associated with ...

A system for determining the sources of delay of a transportation mean includes a wayside sub-system, a locomotive sub-system, a railcar sub-system, a yard sub-system, a schedule sub-system, a monitoring and diagnostic sub-system and a management sub-system. Real-time collected data from the sub-systems are compared to a standard data set to identify problem areas without human intervention. Utili...

A system, method and article of manufacture are provided for organizing resources for effective utilization in task completion. First, a list of tasks requiring completion is generated after which a list of employees is correlated to the list of tasks requiring completion. Next, a list of resources are associated with the list of tasks requiring completion. Resource information is specified includ...

A system and method for performing profiling of a site are disclosed. Users view pages from merchant Web sites over the Internet to make a purchase. As the user views the Web pages, information is sent to a profile server which creates a site profile or a site map. The site profile includes information about the layout of the various Web pages, as well as information about how to navigate among th...

Die Erfindung beinhaltet ein Verfahren und eine Anordnung zur Erfassung und Analyse des Rezeptionsverhaltens von Personen in mindestens einem Rezeptionsraum in Abhängigkeit von visuellen, audiovisuellen und/oder auditiven Botschaften, Aktionen und/oder Kundenstromlenkungen. Das Verfahren soll gegenüber dem Stand der Technik genauer und mit geringerem Aufwand realisierbar sein. Es zeichnet sich dad...

Thus provided according to a broad aspect of the present invention is a method of promoting the sales of goods and/or services, comprising the issuing by a managing organization credit notes bearing a nominal value, vending the notes by the organization to interested goods/services providers at a price less than or equal to the nominal value, vending the notes by said providers to their customers ...

An intellectual property utilizing system capable of ensuring return-on-investment even if failing to contribute to a black business performance, and being operated efficiently. An application information database (4) for recording application information including an intellectual property owned by a fund-raising applicant and fund-raising conditions, and a response recording means (6) for recordi...

Systems and methods are provided which afford a technical application for insuring, bonding, and underwriting a transmission of a data set, streaming data, and/or document over the Internet through TCP/IP and all other electronic media such as WAP (wireless application protocol), VOIP (voice-over IP), fiber optic channels, microwave channels, and through standard electrical switches, electrical ou...

A method and system which uses a communication network to facilitate financing-related activities is provided. A list of financing functions is provided to a user terminal across the communication network. The list of financing functions corresponds to those functions available to a user of the user terminal. The financing functions include at least one of a status function, a report generation fu...

An e-commerce system for electronic transactions using external transaction units for transactions, networks for interconnecting the transaction units with a market engine. The market engine supervises transactions based on information gathered from over the entire e-commerce system. The market engine operates using internal components. That include functional components and instrument components....

A Web-based purchasing method using a networked computer system (100) to facilitate the purchase of merchandise by a purchaser (130) from a seller (140). The system receives a purchase offer from the purchaser to purchase a merchandise at an established purchase price. The system (100) then transmits a request to a shipper to pick the merchandise from the seller (140) and an amount at least equal ...

An electronic commodity exchange system provides a neutral marketplace where buyers (11) and sellers (13) of a particular commodity, such as steel, can transact business in a real-time, secure manner. The system includes a full-featured trading exchange that gives buyers and sellers of the products the ability to: create inquiries; search inquiries; create offers; search for available products; an...

A system and method for warranting the identity of a party over an electronic network is disclosed. The System is based on an operating model with five primary parties: a root entity (102), an issuing participant (10), a subscribing customer (20), a relying participant (30) and a relying customer (40). Communication between parties is secured through the use of digital certificates.; La présente ...

A system and method for warranting the identity of a party over an electronic network is disclosed. The system is based on an operating model with five primary parties: a root entity (102), an issuing participant (10), a subscribing customer (20), a relying participant (30) and a relying customer (40). Communication between parties is secured through the use of digital certificates.; L'invention c...

This invention provides systems and methods that facilitate bill-me transactions between customers (401) and electronic commerce merchants (403), register bill-me customers (407), and enable electronic commerce merchants (403) to reduce risks related to bill-me transactions (404). A preferred embodiments of the method of the invention includes the steps of receiving into a computer system a reques...

A system and method for facilitating electronic commerce by securely providing certificate-related and other services including certificate validation and warranty is disclosed. Services are provided in a four-corner trust model. The four-corner model comprises a buyer (106) or subscribing customer, and a seller (108) or relying customer, who engage in an on-line transaction. The buyer is a custom...

A travel coupon server system (20) and method that generates travel coupons, and includes a plurality of members (10), (12), (24) and (28) and a travel coupon server (20) which is interconnected (16) to the plurality of members (10), (12), (24) and (28). The travel coupon server (20) generates limited duration coupons for a particular traveler (10) and which identifies the traveler by name, and wh...