The present invention provides a method using a computer to estimate staffing required for a present patient population. The computer operates upon data related to various characteristics regarding the present patient population, such as age, sex, and physical ailment, along with data related to a representative past patient population having similar characteristics and resources allocated to that...

A system for committing to purchaser customized orders provides that only allowable configuration selections are presented to the user. A configuration engine is tightly coupled with an available to promise engine, which is accessed for component availability each time a set of selections is presented to the user. Only those components which will actually be available are presented for user select...

A computer assisted integrated family information management system and method of managing information within members of a family, where the system allows family members to maintain contact, while also receiving helpful, and often necessary, information regarding a family's daily activities. The family information management system includes a central control module containing at least one family d...

The present invention provides an automated electronic proof of publication system and method. An electronic proof of publication is an electronic notification to a recipient that serves as verification that particular content was published in a particular print media. In one embodiment, the electronic proof of publication includes notification data and an electronic address. The notification data...

Systems and methods are provided for engineering, manufacturing, procuring and managing a financial product which combines a finance agreement, a life insurance policy, and a securitization mechanism used to create fixed income securities. The present invention includes a computer readable medium having computer executable instructions for performing a method for engineering and managing a financi...

A system for correlating crime incidents with the location of a subject, comprising in combination crime incident data (7) containing information about the location and time of at least one crime, subject location data containing information about the location at various times of a plurality of subjects, correlation computer including a correlation database (1), means for supplying the crime incid...

In one aspect, the invention is understood as methods for administrating a search request distributed to a large arena of participants. The method can include the steps of providing a server for generating a page signal having information that is representative of a characteristic of an item to be identified by a participant in the search request (94). In another step, the method will allow each p...

A method of modelling a logistics process (30), which comprises sub-processes (31), at least one cost factor (34) and at least one environmental factor (35), such as energy consumption, being associated with at least one said sub-process. A computer model is created from the logistics process, and at least one sub-model (40) of the computer model models a corresponding sub-process (31) so that the...

An RFID reader (2) sends an interrogation signal (5) to a series of RFID tags (6, 6', 6''), which respond (7) with their ID. The RFID reader checks a database (11) for the scanned ID, and adds the ID if it is not found. The RFID reader also performs an error detection routine to determine whether the ID is valid, and provides feedback using an indicator (12, 14) to the user when valid tags are rea...

A method and apparatus (10) for providing anonymous and secure transactions over the Internet is provided herein. More specifically, the present invention includes a privacy system (12) that facilitates anonymous transactions globally between a customer (20) and a merchant (22). The privacy system (12) allows the customer (20) to purchase one or more items (60) from the merchant (22) over the Inte...

A method for handling a message includes receiving a data set including data for respective plural recipients, the data to be combined with a file, obtaining a preference of a particular recipient of the message, and combining the file and data from the data set for the particular recipient in accordance with the obtained preference to prepare a message. The message can be provided to the particul...

The present invention provides a financial consultant (28) to manage a plurality of customer accounts, which includes a server element (22) that can access and store data within the database (20A through 20C). A server (12) can be a conventional server system that can comprise a computer work station such as a PC compatible computer system. A server (22) can execute an application program that pro...

A method for managing distributed trading is described that comprises the steps of establishing a cumulative trade limit (301), defining a cumulative trade value accuracy (302, 303, 304, 305), processing a proposed trade request to establish a projected cumulative trade value, and adjusting the cumulative trade value accuracy (302, 303, 304, 305) with a predetermined accuracy function based on the...

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 ...

A method (FIG. 1) of examining utility patent applications including those authorized by national, regional, or international authorities, as well as quasi-governmental, private, or any other systems. The examination procedure (FIG. 1) is initiated at the discretion of the patent applicant at any time during the fixed term of the potential patent deriving from the application. In addition, the inv...

A selective optical actuation system for a plurality of electrical devices (20) comprises a variable pulse frequency pulsed light source (10) and an optical fibre network (12, 13, 14) distributing the light pulses to an actuation gateway for each device, comprising a photovoltaic converter (16) whose correspondingly pulsed electrical output is applied to a ferroelectric transformer (18). Only if t...

A server system (16) that provides a user (12) with a business valuation over the internet (14).; A system for selling and producing comprehensive business valuations on-line comprises a transaction engine that sells a business valuation and an interface engine that collects quantitative and qualitative data for use in valuing the business. The data collected, along with information from various d...

An advertiser can provision advertisements for receipt on subscribers' mobile wireless display devices. In accordance with the invention, the advertiser may identify desired recipients for its advertisements based upon demographic and geographic characterization of the subscribers. Furthermore, the advertisers can select the days and times for delivery of their content, and the number of times tha...

In accordance with the present invention, a subscriber can control advertisements received on the subscriber's mobile wireless display device. In accordance with the invention, the subscriber may select categories of content they wish to receive, advertisers from whom they wish to receive ads, the days and times for delivery of content, and the number of ads they want to receive in a unit time per...

A method for resolving electronic addresses in data-communications wherein users register their address-related details with a virtual centralized location in a topology of servers (10), such as a centralized server (13) or any communication topology equivalent server architecture. These users also acquire (for example, by an Internet download) special software (e.g. an "agent") (12) that is insta...