528 results about "Electronic network" patented technology

Methods and apparatus are described which enable transactions in electronic networks relating to digital assets, e.g., digital goods or services, through the use of title objects. A title object may have a number of elements and attributes which identify one or more digital assets and define access rights to the corresponding digital asset(s).

Methods and apparatus are described which enable transactions in electronic networks relating to digital assets, e.g., digital goods or services, through the use of title objects. A title object may have a number of elements and attributes which identify one or more digital assets and define access rights to the corresponding digital asset(s).

A pharmaceutical system and method of operation in which a single remote professional provides pharmaceutical care and oversight of multiple local pharmacies. A control location is connected through an electronic network to one or more individual pharmacies, each of which may be located at a different physical site. Each individual pharmacy includes one or more drug preparation areas, and one or more self-service or staffed customer terminals. A drug preparation area includes a robot, which is adapted to prepare prescriptions or other items, and which is connected by a pneumatic delivery system to one or more customer terminals within the pharmacy.

Methods and apparatus are described which enable transactions in electronic networks relating to digital assets, e.g., digital goods or services, through the use of title objects. A title object may have a number of elements and attributes which identify one or more digital assets and define access rights to the corresponding digital asset(s).

A multimedia system over an electronic network, and the corresponding method of use for combining targeted advertising and on-demand rendering with a data swarming, multicasting, or time-shifted delivery. In a system that has business or technological constraints which prevent the encoding and / or the transmission of individually customized media content objects, in combination with an ad-hoc system, a delivery of one or more media content objects and a script list is performed in order to enable the rendering of one or more media content objects in accordance with information from the script list. Additionally, according to an embodiment, the system enables the insertion of watermarking information. In another embodiment, log file information are recorded and analyzed for decision making purposes. In another embodiment, lookup redirection techniques are disclosed when strict uniqueness of a transferred object is required.

The present invention provides a method of completing a purchase transaction which comprises a purchaser ordering over an electronic network goods or services that the purchaser desires to purchase from a merchant vendor with the use of a money transaction card device; supplying identifying information to the merchant vendor pertaining to the purchaser and authorization of the purchaser for use of the money transaction card device; supplying information from the merchant vendor to a transaction processor pertaining to the purchaser and authorization of the purchaser for use of the money transaction card device; establishing a telephone connection from the transaction processor via registered authorized cardholder telephone number to the purchaser, and in which the purchaser is voice enabled to express intent to complete the purchase transaction and to debit the purchaser's account, and optionally to voice identify the purchaser to the transaction processor.

The present system relates to systems and methods for providing delivery of goods purchased through electronic commerce. An embodiment of the present invention allows a user to purchase an item from a vendor or merchant in an e-commerce environment and have the item shipped to a selected Will-Call Center for pick up by a recipient. The recipient can be the user or some other designated party. The Will-Call Center further automatically notifies the recipient of the availability of the item to be picked up.

A system transmits new workspace elements or new workspace element changes at a first memory store via an electronic network to a second memory store. The system includes a first memory store for storing workspace elements, a second memory store coupled via an electronic network to the first memory store for storing workspace element copies, an interface for receiving new workspace elements at the first memory store, and a general synchronization module for electronically transmitting copies of the new workspace elements via the electronic network to the second memory store.

A verification system which can be used over electronic networks, such as the Internet, to help prevent phishing, electronic identity theft, and similar illicit activities, by verifying the authenticity of electronic entities (for example, websites). Users and electronic entities register with an authenticating entity. The authenticating entity shares an encryption method with registered electronic entities and establishes a secret code for each registered electronic entity. The secret code is combined with other information and encrypted before being transmitted over the network to ensure that the secret code cannot be compromised. Also disclosed are systems for virtual token devices, which provided object-based authentication without a physical device. Also disclosed are dynamic media credentials, which display nearly-unique behavior, previously specified and known to a user, to assist in verifying the authenticity of the presenter.

A method for controlling an electronic network of a plurality of users includes the steps of creating a group of users from the plurality of users, determining a policy for the group of users, the policy including decision criteria and directive actions, receiving input from at least one user within the group of users, determining whether a decision criterion is satisfied in response to the input, and performing a directive action when the decision criterion is satisfied.

The present inventions provide an integrated, modular array of administrative and support services for electronic commerce and electronic rights and transaction management. These administrative and support services supply a secure foundation for conducting financial management, rights management, certificate authority, rules clearing, usage clearing, secure directory services, and other transaction related capabilities functioning over a vast electronic network such as the Internet and / or over organization internal Intranets.These administrative and support services can be adapted to the specific needs of electronic commerce value chains. Electronic commerce participants can use these administrative and support services to support their interests, and can shape and reuse these services in response to competitive business realities.A Distributed Commerce Utility having a secure, programmable, distributed architecture provides administrative and support services. The Distributed Commerce Utility makes optimally efficient use of commerce administration resources, and can scale in a practical fashion to accommodate the demands of electronic commerce growth.The Distributed Commerce Utility may comprise a number of Commerce Utility Systems. These Commerce Utility Systems provide a web of infrastructure support available to, and reusable by, the entire electronic community and / or many or all of its participants.Different support functions can be collected together in hierarchical and / or in networked relationships to suit various business models and / or other objectives. Modular support functions can combined in different arrays to form different Commerce Utility Systems for different design implementations and purposes. These Commerce Utility Systems can be distributed across a large number of electronic appliances with varying degrees of distribution.

A system and method for creation, distribution and tracking of advertising via electronic networks, enabling creation of advertisements using licensed third party content and placement of said ads at desired network locations, utilizing an auction of ad spaces based on bids placed by advertisers to have their ads displayed at such locations. When a network user / ad viewer requests an ad by clicking or other action, an auction algorithm executes to select the ad to be displayed from those that bid for display at such ad space location and then the ad is composed and delivered to the ad space location by accessing a relational database storing commands that retrieve, assemble and dispatch the licensed ad content. Usage and display of licensed content on designated ad space is tracked to enable cost-per-use charging for both use of licensed content and ad display at the designated ad space.

A system and method to support electronic gaming in an electronic network includes an event server that provides restricted access to various types of game services. One or more system users may utilize corresponding wireless portable user devices for connecting to the event server to thereby gain access to the foregoing game services as game participants. The system users may thereby utilize the user devices to access the event server for accessing appropriate gaming services and related information. In addition, a source system user may utilize a source user device to perform a transfer procedure for transferring ownership rights of an electronic certificate related to the electronic gaming to a target system user through a target user device. The foregoing transfer procedure may be conducted through the event server, or may occur directly from the source user device to the target user device.

A system and method for utilizing account tiers in an electronic network includes a peer-to-peer network of client devices. The client devices are configured to perform content transfers for obtaining desired content items directly over the peer-to-peer network, or from a CDN server device. The client devices generate account-tier selections to choose from among the supported account tiers. A tier manager monitors, updates, and stores the tier selections from the client devices. The tier manager also calculates content prices that vary depending upon the particular selected account tier. The client devices then pay the appropriate designated content prices for accessing and utilizing desired content items.

A method and system for modifying the look and feel of a user interface of a broadcast application program without altering the broadcast application program. In one embodiment, user interfaces are represented as a hierarchical scene including a background and several components. Within an electronic network, broadcast applications can become resident, e.g., land, on a vendor's device within the network where the device has the ability to display a user interface. The present invention provides a set of mattes that can be used to modify the visual presentation of the user interface of a broadcast application without altering the broadcast application. In this way, the vendor of the device can have some level of control regarding the way in which user interfaces are displayed on the device. Each matte controls the way in which an associated component of the user interface is displayed and how the component is combined with other components. In one embodiment, mattes can force components to become semi-transparent thereby creating certain fading effects, special effects with respect to windows in focus, special effects on windows becoming iconified, wiping effects, etc., with respect to the components of the user interface. The present invention can be implemented as a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) which can be used by an application manager of the vendor's device, e.g., a digital television receiver. The APIs would be available to broadcast applications and could be used for visual effects involving elements of an application's user interface.

In an example, a network device is configured to generate a first public-private key pair. The network device is configured to receive, over an electronic network, public keys of two or more second public-private key pairs. The network device is configured to generate a digital currency address using the public keys of the two or more second public-private key pairs and a public key of the first public-private key pair.

A computerized method for detecting premium attacks by an attack classification system is described. Based on received analytic information, the attack classification system generates logical representations for different portions of the analytic information represented as a nodal graph. The logical representations include objects, properties, and relationships between the objects and the properties. The attack classification system filters at least one relationship from the relationships and forms a first cluster further filtering the relationships. Being a logical representation of objects, properties and the remaining relationships, the first cluster is analyzed to determine features and introduce the features into the nodal graph. An analysis of the features determines whether the objects, properties and relationships forming the first cluster are associated with a premium attack by at least applying rule-based constraints to the features of the first cluster to determine whether they correspond to cluster features commonly present in premium attacks.

A system and method for effectively implementing a dynamic user interface in an electronic network may include a user interface application that is configured to generate a user interface upon a display of a user device in the electronic network. The user interface application may generate a main widget for controlling and utilizing various types of system functionality through the user interface. The user interface application may further dynamically generate a connect widget for performing network communications procedures between the user device and one or more buddy devices in the electronic network. The user interface application may also dynamically generate an alert widget for providing various types of system alert messages to a device user.

The present invention provides a method of managing group finances via an electronic network. Transaction details are received from a member of group via an electronic network. The transaction details preferably include a shared expense containing an expense amount and at least one group member responsible for the expense. The transaction details are then assigned to the group and a payment specified by the transaction details is allocated among group members of the group. The method is repeated for a plurality of transactions. The finances of the group may also be balanced using accounting mathematics. Furthermore, an original expense value may be rounded up to a new expense value having a predefined number of decimal places, and a difference distributed between the new expense value and the original expense value to a third party.

A financial portfolio management system operable in a network environment can be configured to gather financial information from a plurality of sources over an electronic network and intelligently aggregate the information into a financial portfolio viewable by a client. The client can determine which accounts should be included in the portfolio. The system uses web crawling, parsing, or spidering technology to update the portfolio information. The system provides one platform that conveys financial information from a variety of accounts held at several different financial institutions.

A data processing system, program product, and method is provided for managing at least one credit-granting account of a participant. The system comprises in one embodiment an electronic database including information describing collateral assets of the participant used for securing the credit-granting account, and a computer system comprising one or more processors coupled to the electronic database and programmed among them to establish through an API a credit-granting account with a facility to maintain a plurality of collateral assets as collateral for the credit-granting account; receive new information regarding a collateral asset that is real estate for securing the credit-granting account; determine perfection status of a security interest in the collateral asset; store, in the electronic database, the new information and at least any change in the perfection status; and determine an interest rate to be charged on outstanding credit balances based on the new information regarding the collateral asset available for securing the credit-granting account containing the perfection status. The system further comprises an electronic network access device for sending a signal identifying the new interest rate to an access-vehicle issuing system so that the issuing system can charge the interest rate on outstanding credit balances. In one of the alternative embodiments, the system sends a signal identifying the interest rate to an interest rate program that controls the interest rate for the credit-granting account.

A media content distribution and display system and method that includes a central server, a plurality of remote display devices, and an electronic network for communicating therebetween. The plurality of remote display devices receive via the electronic network or local peripheral device the media content. Each of the remote display devices includes at least one electronic display, presence sensors, a local storage device for storing the content media, security sensors, and a processor that causes the electronic device to display the media content in response to detected presence of people in various proximity distances from the electronic display. The processor also sends messages to the central server when the security sensors detect someone tampering with the remote display device.

An electronic network is disclosed for effectively providing a technique to administer medical treatment. The technique pertains to at least one patient and at least one unit for medical treatment. The technique involves receiving patient data and unit data and evaluating at least the patient data and / or unit data to determine whether a match with preexisting data exists, which thereby generates an indication to the user to not proceed with the medical treatment in the absence of such a match.

Customer-service tasks are performed in a noninvasive manner by relying on automatic methods for (a) capturing the state of the operating domain and (b) automatically communicating this state as well as a description of the circumstances that lead to activation of the process to a remote service machine via an electronic network. Network-based customer-service for software support includes an automatic mechanism which initiates the product support process. This automatic mechanism may optionally be augmented by a manual mechanism for initiating the support process. The process captures the operating environment in sufficient detail so as to enable its re-creation in part or in whole on a separate machine. Archived data is transmitted to an off-site storage device, and when this data is received, notification is transmitted to customer-support personnel. The operating environment is re-created, and the customer-support person investigates the problem by executing the software product in the re-created environment.

A system transmits new workspace elements or new workspace element changes at a first memory store via an electronic network to a second memory store. The system includes a first memory store for storing workspace elements; a second memory store coupled via an electronic network to the first memory store for storing workspace element copies; an interface for receiving new workspace elements at the first memory store; and a general synchronization module for electronically transmitting copies of the new workspace elements via the electronic network to the second memory store.

A computer-implemented process allows emergency plans to be easily and rapidly created for a plurality of different facilities. An emergency plan is provided in electronic form for each facility. Each emergency plan has a standardized format with a plurality of component parts. Each emergency plan has at least some component parts that are accessible by other facilities. An electronic network is provided which allows at least some of the facilities to electronically obtain the accessible component parts of the emergency plans of at least some of the other facilities. A user interface allows the emergency plan of a facility to electronically import into its emergency plan selected content of one or more component parts of the emergency plan of another facility using the electronic network. The electronic importing is facilitated via the use of the standardized format for the emergency plans.

The present inventions provide an integrated, modular array of administrative and support services for electronic commerce and electronic rights and transaction management. These administrative and support services supply a secure foundation for conducting financial management, rights management, certificate authority, rules clearing, usage clearing, secure directory services, and other transaction related capabilities functioning over a vast electronic network such as the Internet and / or over organization internal Intranets. These administrative and support services can be adapted to the specific needs of electronic commerce value chains. Electronic commerce participants can use these administrative and support services to support their interests, and can shape and reuse these services in response to competitive business realities. A Distributed Commerce Utility having a secure, programmable, distributed architecture provides administrative and support services. The Distributed Commerce Utility makes optimally efficient use of commerce administration resources, and can scale in a practical fashion to accommodate the demands of electronic commerce growth. The Distributed Commerce Utility may comprise a number of Commerce Utility Systems. These Commerce Utility Systems provide a web of infrastructure support available to, and reusable by, the entire electronic community and / or many or all of its participants. Different support functions can be collected together in hierarchical and / or in networked relationships to suit various business models and / or other objectives. Modular support functions can combined in different arrays to form different Commerce Utility Systems for different design implementations and purposes. These Commerce Utility Systems can be distributed across a large number of electronic appliances with varying degrees of distribution.

A system and method for generating a health profile by processing and mapping health care data for an individual or a group of individuals, to identify categorical associations of health care data and predict occurrences of associated categories of such data. The system comprises a plurality of central networks that communicate with a remote device through a global electronic network. Data is retrieved through the global electronic network and processed by a remote device to create a map of the health status of an individual or a group of individuals. The health profile can be used to manage the treatment and health of an individual or a group of individuals. The health profile may be encoded on an integrated circuit chip or a card having a magnetic strip.