A transportation logistics system (250) provides to vendors or shoppers, at the time of purchase, a total global delivered cost quote for shipping a product between locations. The system is accessible over packet switched networks (205), such as the Internet, or over a circuit switched network, such as traditional telephone networks, and includes a web server (260) and a proprietary database (280)...

Methods and apparatus (20) for selling products and services over the Internet. A home page which cannot be circumvented by a user of the apparatus (20) is connected to the Internet. This home page may be linked to other web pages of controlled content. A formula for calculating equipment cost and Internet access fees to meet objectives of suppliers and vendors is also disclosed.; L'invention conc...

A system and method (Fig. 1) is provided to engage in capital market transactions via the Internet (10). Through a system of servers (20, 90), application (3280), and interfaces (3275), financial instrument trading (160), portfolio management (170), and financial analyses (190) are seamlessly performed. Automated communications (1070) enabling connectivity with user systems (1150) are facilitated ...

The invention relates to a method for granulation of a molten material consisting of liquid slag, liquid metal or a mixture thereof. The characteristic features are that there is established a stream of molten material in the form of a curtain (13), which is caused to fall downwards by the gravitation, said curtain being at least five times as wide as it is thick, that said stream of molten materi...

A rubber composition comprising a rubber, a crosslinking agent, and a specific organonickel salt; a composite material obtained by directly bonding the rubber composition to a metallic material comprising either a metal having higher ionization tendency than nickel or an alloy of the metal while crosslinking the composition; and a process for producing a composite material which comprises heating ...

In general, the present invention provides a contactless apparatus for power and data transfer over a gap between rotating and non-rotating members of downhole oilfield tools. The gap usually contains a fluid, such as drilling fluid, or oil for operating hydraulic devices in the downhole tool. The downhole tool in one embodiment is a drilling assembly wherein a drive shaft (112) is rotated by a do...

Ein Ring (3) wird ohne mechanischen oder elektrischen Kontakt durch elektrostatische Kräfte zwischen Elektroden (4) in der Schwebe gehalten. Durch die Strukturierung des Ringes in Segmente mit unerschiedlichen radialen Abmessungen und eine mehrphasige Ansteuerung mittels segmentierter Elektroden wird ein Drehmoment auf den schwebenden Ring ausgeübt, das den Ring in Rotation versetzt. Die Regelung ...

The present invention provides electronic commercials (ecommercials) and related methods in which an electronic commercial is transmitted over a public access electronic network to a potential customer, and the commercial includes multiple navigable pages that provide different video clips. Each commercial is preferably downloaded as an executable file, which removes the dependency on particular b...

A system comprising a client having electronic access to an electronic document and an electronic report of reference biometric data, the client having apparatus for collecting biometric data and for generating an electronic report of collected biometric data, and a search architecture responsive to inputs at the client for accessing the reference biometric data, comparing the collected biometric ...

An e-mail system determines whether a file is already attached to a message (104). If it is not, the system scans the message for the word "attach" (or some variant thereon) (202). If the word is present, the system opens a conventional "Attach File<" dialog box (108). If not, it proceeds directly to further processing (106).; Un système de courrier électronique détermine si un fichier est déjà an...

A universal internet product code system and method of classifying a plurality of items is provided so that the items can be remotely searched on a network. The system and method includes, for each item of the plurality of items, receiving a request for registering an item, receiving data describing the item and determining if at least one of a plurality of previously created categories already pr...

Methods and systems of marketing electronic commercials are provided in which a distributor (10) acts as a custodian for a prospect database (50), and multiple advertisers can access the database to provide distribution lists for distributing electronic commercials. Responses of the recipients (41) to the commercials are tracked by the utilization of a tracking system (60), and the information gle...

Methods and devices for transferring large e-mail messages are described herein. More specifically, one such method comprises providing a mail network comprising an initiator (30) and at least two gateways (10 and 20), the initiator identifying a mail message recipient and identifying advertising material to be mailed to the recipient (40), selecting a gateway from the at least two gateways, and r...

A method and system for a virtually unlimited multimedia forum on a single site on a network (21), such as the Internet or an intranet, for storing and accessing received user multimedia presentations. The invention thus allows users to provide a wide range of personal and other information for access and retrieval by others at this single location (23). The invention includes a networked site (21...

A customer call system accessible for on-line communication with a customer's computer (2) is described. The system comprises a network servlet program for electronically providing an information form (7) comprising information fields for completion by the user in response to an enquiry. The form (7) includes a program embedded within it for capturing information, such as customer identification i...

Methods and systems of on-line relationship marketing are provided in which a synchronous content provider (SCP) (10) utilizes an asynchronous on-line medium to obtain feedback for improving its synchronous content. In a preferred embodiment the SCP (10) delivers a value content (12) to an audience (20) via a synchronous medium, and also uses the synchronous medium to solicit the audience (20) to ...

A new product transition planning system and method provides modeling and planning support to enable managers to determine the impact of introducing new products. Both planning schedules and supply chain parts and component availability are considered by a transition planning tool. Impact on existing products is calculated, so that the impact of introducing a new product can be timed to produce op...

Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for the display of material over a network such as the Internet. The method allows for multiple displays to be placed on a physical display device such as a computer monitor in such a manner as to positionally reference the later displays to the earlier displays allowing multiple displays to be presented in a manner pleasing to the user. A method is also discl...

A system and method that provide an easy-to-understand presentation of information about customer movements, moods, and demographics for a website. Such a presentation makes it easier for the owner or designer of a website to understand how customers are interacting with his site. In the described embodiments, a high level view of the website is preferably represented as a "campus" having building...

Embodiments of the instant invention are directed to a method and apparatus for presenting unsolicited data to users without interrupting the user's activities, wherein the presentation of the unsolicited data is monitored and is available for review by the user at the user's convenience. Embodiments of the invention comprise a content and display manager, wherein the content and display manager i...