77 results about "Management contract" patented technology

A system and method for computable contracts that includes a contract management system accessible by involved parties, managing a formation stage of a contract document by obtaining object components, assembling a contract object graph from the object components, and committing the contract object graph to post formation execution; and in an execution environment during a post-formation stage, executing the contract object graph where instances of execution include receiving a contract state update, and appending at least one update object component to the contract object graph in accordance with the contract state update. Variations of the system and method may apply peer-to-peer negotiation and execution, use a cryptographic directed acyclic contract object graph, and / or interface with distributed ledgers.

A system to facilitate contract procurement and contract management through an online contract procurement and management website over a computer network, program product, and associated methods are provided. The system includes an electronic contracting network server accessible to a computer network, a database accessible to the electronic contracting network server through the computer network, a plurality of plurality of electronic contracting entity member user computers in communication with the electronic contracting network server through the computer network, and a plurality of potential contractor member user computers also in communication with the electronic contracting network server through the computer network. The system also includes an electronic contracting program product stored in the memory of the electronic contracting network server and positioned to perform various contract procurement and contract management functions.

A system to facilitate contract procurement and contract management through an online contract procurement and management website over a computer network, program product, and associated methods are provided. The system includes an electronic contracting network server accessible to a computer network, a database accessible to the electronic contracting network server through the computer network, a plurality of plurality of electronic contracting entity member user computers in communication with the electronic contracting network server through the computer network, and a plurality of potential contractor member user computers also in communication with the electronic contracting network server through the computer network. The system also includes an electronic contracting program product stored in the memory of the electronic contracting network server and positioned to perform various contract procurement and contract management functions.

Key features of these methods, apparatus, and designs include (but are not limited to) innovations and implementations of futures securities custom tailored to specific clienteles; the notion of using one or more variable pay-out futures contracts as devices for hedging; the notion of hedging contracts having variable pay-outs; the notion of variable payout hedging contracts having limited exposure; the notion of freezing assets of an originator of an order to buy or sell a variable pay-out contract sufficient to cover a maximum exposure of the contract; the notion of determining whether an originator of an order to buy or sell a variable pay-out contract has assets sufficient to cover the contract at the time of placing the order; the notion of determining whether an originator of an order to buy or sell a variable pay-out contract has assets sufficient to cover the contract immediately before fulfilling the order and charging a penalty to an originator of an order to buy or sell a variable pay-out contract who does not have assets sufficient to cover the contract.

A computer-based method for administering performance of a contract uses a server accessible by multiple performing parties through a data network, such as the Internet. The method includes receiving performance data at the server from at least one of the performing parties through the data network. The performance data indicates an amount of work performed under the contract by the performing party, and may further include an amount of materials stored. A payment amount is determined based on the performance data. A schedule of values associated with performance of the contract may be initially stored, so that determining the payment amount is further based on comparing the performance data with the schedule of values. The payment amount is sent from the server to other performing parties through the data network. The other performing parties may be notified by an email indicating, for example, that the payment amount has been approved.

A process of management of printing devices at distributed sites, comprising providing a database portal accessible continuously, the portal giving a visual display of performance of the printing devices compared with predetermined targets for key performance indicators. A process of preparing for and implementing management of printing devices located at distributed sites carried out by a contractor for a client, comprising: the step of the contractor negotiating with the client key performance indicators applicable for the duration of a management service contract and including targets for the key performance indicators, and rewards and penalties for performance of the printing devices against those targets, and the step of the contractor periodically monitoring the key performance indicators to provide the client with an indication of performance against the targets. A process of management of printing devices at geographically distributed sites within a client organisation, carried out exclusively by a contractor under a management contract, comprising allocating a contract manager in the contractor organisation and dedicating that contract manager to the task of managing all the client's printing devices over a plurality of the distributed sites, whereby the contract manager regularly monitors the status and usage of the printing devices and associated software and services and consumables supplies, regularly seeks to optimise their overall performance against predetermined key performance indicators including cost, implements changes over the period of the management contract to optimise performance, and regularly provides reports to the client organisation.

The present invention provides an integrated time reporting and billing solution that facilitates billing and payment for time-related activities and manages contract workflow from end to end. The present invention can be employed in any industry for any employment relationship where in-house or supplemental contract labor is tracked by time. In one embodiment, the invention includes a contractor submission and tracking system (CSTS) and back office workflow management system (BOSS) to track and report vendor activity and contractor spend. The present invention can be used by employer-clients, contractors and contractor suppliers to facilitate contractor requisition, contract creation and modification, document tracking, business rule implementation, reporting, communications, timesheet entry, timesheet approval, and billing presentment, payment and other aspects of contract workflow management

Provided herein are various exemplary methods and apparatus for implementation of futures securities custom tailored to specific clienteles; one or more variable pay-out futures contracts as devices for hedging; hedging contracts having variable pay-outs; variable payout hedging contracts having limited exposure; freezing assets of an originator of an order to buy or sell a variable pay-out contract sufficient to cover a maximum exposure of the contract; determining whether an originator of an order to buy or sell a variable pay-out contract has assets sufficient to cover the contract at the time of placing the order; determining whether an originator of an order to buy or sell a variable pay-out contract has assets sufficient to cover the contract immediately before fulfilling the order and charging a penalty to an originator of an order to buy or sell a variable pay-out contract who does not have assets sufficient to cover the contract.

The invention relates to a system and method for creating and managing smart contracts on a blockchain. More specifically, the invention relates to a method and system that provides a set of tools for users to create, monitor, manage, modify, terminate, trigger disputes, communicate with contracting parties, and if necessary resolve a dispute over a smart contract. Additionally, the system also records and manages contract history documents and records them with the smart contract such that if there are disputes that need to be handled, the system can provide the parties and third parties with an complete set of contract documents including historical contract documents to aid in the resolution of the dispute.

The invention relates to a system and method for creating and managing smart contracts on a blockchain. More specifically, the invention relates to a method and system that provides a set of tools for users to create, monitor, manage, modify, terminate, trigger disputes, communicate with contracting parties, and if necessary resolve a dispute over a smart contract. Additionally, the system also records and manages contract history documents and records them with the smart contract such that if there are disputes that need to be handled, the system can provide the parties and third parties with an complete set of contract documents including historical contract documents to aid in the resolution of the dispute.

Implementing an investment strategy to be executed for an individual investor in a single financial contract, covering a plurality of assets. The assets underlying the financial contract are managed using at least a tactical and a strategic asset allocation model. Information regarding risk tolerance, investing time horizon and investment needs of the investor is used to determine (i) a combination of tactical and strategic asset allocation models to manage the assets in the contract; and (ii) a relative percentage of allocation of the assets between the tactical and strategic asset allocation models.

A method for administering performance of a contract over a data network includes storing a lien waiver and receiving an application for payment over the data network from a contract participant based on performance under the contract. The stored lien waiver is retrieved and sent to the participant via the data network upon approval of the application for payment. The at least one data tag may be included in the lien waiver prior to storing the lien waiver.

The embodiment of the invention discloses an authority management method and device and a storage medium. According to the embodiment of the invention, the method comprises the steps of receiving theauthority operation request, and forwarding the authority operation request to the second node device in the block chain, wherein the second node device is a node device except the first node device in the block chain; determining an authority operation type needing to be operated according to the authority operation request; executing the check logic corresponding to the authority operation typebased on the authority management contract; when the verification passes, executing an authority operation corresponding to the authority operation type to obtain a first contract execution result; receiving a second contract execution result broadcasted by the second node device based on the authority operation request; and when the first contract execution result is consistent with the second contract execution result, triggering the first contract execution result to take effect. According to the scheme, the data security can be improved.

Methods and apparatus which deal with the management of risk relating to specified, yet unknown, future events are disclosed. ‘Sponsor’ stakeholders specify a particular product relating to an event or phenomenon for which there is a range of possible future outcomes. ‘Ordering’ stakeholders then offer contracts relating to the predetermined phenomenon and corresponding range of outcomes. The offered contracts specify an entitlement or (pay-off) at the future time of maturity for each outcome, and a consideration (or premium) payable, in exchange, to a ‘counter-party’ stakeholder. Independently of the offered contracts, the ‘counter-party’ stakeholders input data as to their view of the likelihood of occurrence of each outcome in the predetermined range into the future, or specifically at the predetermined date of maturity. Each offered contract is priced by the processing units by calculating counter-party premiums from the registered data, and a match attempted by a comparison of the offered premium with the calculated premiums. Matched contracts can be further traded until maturity, and at-maturity processing handles the exchange of entitlement as between the matched parties to the contract.

A system, method and program product for commerce management, especially for managing contingency agreements or contracts. An agreement is entered into the system, logging conditions for the agreement and identifying potential responses to satisfy each condition. A location may also be identified for each identified potential response, e.g. a HTML link to an internet web site. Milestones are set to determine when to check whether conditions have been satisfied. As each milestone is encountered information is retrieved from the locations or provided manually. The retrieved information is checked to determine whether the agreement is determinate, i.e., all of the conditions have been satisfied or, the agreement has failed because one condition will not be satisfied. If more conditions remain unsatisfied and are identified with subsequent milestones, the most recent milestone is recorded. The contracting parties are notified regarding status of the agreement and of passing any milestone. Notification and reminders may be by electronic mail (e-mail) or by more traditional mail.

Key features of these methods, apparatus, and designs include (but are not limited to) innovations and implementations of futures securities; the notion of Type I, Type II, and Type III futures contracts custom tailored to specific clienteles; the notion of tickets and coupons as tradable futures contracts; the notion of bifurcation; the notion of redeemable bundles; and notion of realization of the futures market on the Internet; the apparatus of an Internet-based trading interface and engine; the notion of cookie-cutter futures electronic Internet-based futures markets for each security; the feature of maximal reliance on the Internet; and the business concept of “profitability without the need for high trading volume.”

The invention relates to an engineering management information processing system. The system comprises a server and a mobile terminal being in access connection with the server based on a B / S formwork. The server comprises a budget database, a marketing management module, an anticipated cost management module, an engineering cost management module, a project cost management module, an accounting processing module, a purchase system module, a supplier management module, a construction management module, a cost alternation module, a certification sheet management module, an engineering final account module and an aftersale module. Data of the anticipated cost management module are compared with data of the project cost management module in engineering practical application to check the matching, no processing is performed if the data of the anticipated cost management module are matched with the data of the project cost management module; data of an engineering budget management module are altered if the data of the anticipated cost management module are not matched with the data of the project cost management module, and data of the certification sheet management module are updated after the alternation; and the accounting processing module is established based on various cost management contracts.

The invention relates to a secondhand house transaction information system. With a Browser / Server structure adopted as the overall architecture of the system, an administrator module and a system user module are set, and foreground functions and background functions are converted to each other. The administrator module includes an administrator management module, a user question reply unit, a user application audit unit and a contract management unit; the system user module includes a house source information check unit, a house source information publishing unit, a house source information check application unit, a contract law and regulation check unit, a personal house source information maintenance unit, a personal information maintenance unit and a login and register function unit; the data streams, data elements, data storage, processing and external items of the above modules are described through data dictionaries. With the secondhand house transaction information system of the invention adopted, manpower and material resource expenditures can be decreased, and the operating cost of the second-hand house intermediary companies can be decreased, and the task of workers can be reduced, and more house source information can be obtained, and an information dissemination area is wider.

Systems and methods for managing contracts and contract bids is provided. Systems may include a memory for storing executable instructions for managing contract bids; and a processing system configured to execute the instructions stored in the memory. Executing the instructions causes the processing system to receive project parameters from at least one builder; receive bids from a plurality of contractors, each bid including a quote corresponding to a project parameter; map each quote in the received bids to the corresponding project parameter; identify discrepancies between the mapped quotes, and adjust at least one quote based on the discrepancies. The project parameters may include a building plan, a scope of work, and a materials specification. The processing system may display an advertisement to the builder when the builder is entering or reviewing the project parameters, the advertisement may include content that substantially relates to the project parameters.

A method for administering performance of a contract over a data network includes storing a lien waiver and receiving an application for payment over the data network from a contract participant based on performance under the contract. The stored lien waiver is retrieved and sent to the participant via the data network upon approval of the application for payment. The at least one data tag may be included in the lien waiver prior to storing the lien waiver.

A system for creating and managing contracts flexibly is provided. The system includes a server, a plurality of client computers connected to the server via a network and a database. The server is configured for receiving information of desired contracts from users on the client computers, obtaining contract templates in the database or creating contract templates based on information of the desired contract and for receiving feedback information from the users when the users apply the contract templates to complete the desired contracts. Furthermore, the server is configured for monitoring status of the completed desired contracts. A related method is also provided.

A system and method for managing contract data. A contract dataset is received by a decentralized execution system (DES) from a procurement contract management system (PCMS). The contract dataset is passed through a software filter that determines whether to store the contract dataset or a portion thereof in a relational database that includes contract datasets, vendor datasets, and purchase item datasets. If the software filter determines not to so store the contract dataset or the portion thereof, then the software filter determines whether to store the contract dataset or a portion thereof in a special database of the DES. An execution document at the DES is updated by replacing an existing attribute value of the execution document by a new attribute value communicated to the DES by the PCMS. Additionally, a contract is archived if each such DES sends permission to the PCMS to archive the contract.

The invention provides an electric power system material contract management system based on a block chain, and the system comprises: a block chain bottom platform, wherein the block chain bottom platform is used for database maintenance, account book maintenance and intelligent contract management, guarantees that data is not tampered, and provides a registration function and a logout function through CA; an intelligent contract, wherein the intelligent contract comprises seal management, user information management, signature management and contract management, and is used for calling a transaction interface; a service layer, wherein the service layer is used for providing a RESTful interface for Web service, processing a service request, converting service interfaces of seal management,signature management and contract management into the RESTful interface, and then accessing an SDK sub-packaging RESTful interface; and an application layer, wherein the application layer has the functions of user login, user logout, seal adding, signature adding, contract initiating, contract signing, contract refusing and contract downloading. Contract signing efficiency is improved, and progress and quality of power grid construction engineering are guaranteed.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a log query method and device, node equipment and a storage medium, and the method comprises the following steps: receiving a log query request which comprises a first address of a log management contract in a blockchain and the identification of target log data requested to be called; obtaining a log management contract according to the first address, thelog management contract comprising a second address of a pre-compiled contract, the pre-compiled contract being used for transmitting log data generated by a business transaction in a blockchain fromthe log management contract to a preset storage location for storage; and calling the pre-compiled contract according to the second address by running the log management contract to obtain target logdata corresponding to the identifier of the target log data from a preset storage position. By adopting the embodiment of the invention, the log can be inquired more conveniently.

The invention provides an Ethereum-based intelligent contract updating method and system, a storage medium and a terminal, and the method comprises the following steps: managing latest addresses of all contracts based on a management contract, and feeding back the latest addresses of the called contracts when the contracts are called; and setting contract calling authority of the user in one or more contracts based on the management contract. According to the Ethereum-based intelligent contract updating method and system, the storage medium and the terminal, the addresses of all contracts andthe authority level of the user are managed in a unified manner, and the requirements of service updating and upgrading are met.

A method implements change orders over a data communications network for a construction contract. The method includes entering a new change order request at a user interface connected to the data communications network, the new change order request includes a description of at least one of additional work or additional materials and a corresponding scheduled value. The method further includes determining whether the at least one of addition work or additional materials is associated with an existing line item of a schedule of values previously stored in a database accessible over the communications network via a web server. The existing line item is included in the change order request when the work to be performed is determined to be associated with the existing line item. The new change order request is sent to the web server over the communications network for approval.

A contract management system includes a contract management server and a contract management device. A contract management server includes a terms and conditions appendix section store, an archive manager, and a contract manager. A contract manager can incorporate a terms and conditions appendix section into a subscriber form contract, thereby creating a modified subscriber contract. A contract partner can accept a modified subscriber contract, thereby creating a completed contract. A contract management device can prompt a contract partner to accept an amendment to the completed contract when an updated version of the terms and conditions appendix section is released. Further disclosed is a computer-implemented method for managing contracts, including a method for updating and archiving terms and conditions appendix sections.

The invention discloses a secure multi-party computing method, an electronic device and a storage medium. The method comprises: selecting a plurality of secure multi-party computing nodes from a secure multi-party computing node set to serve as participation nodes on the basis of the security fund number and / or credit value through a management contract, and the security fund number and / or creditvalue of the secure multi-party computing nodes being in positive correlation with the probability of being selected as the participation nodes; wherein the participation nodes form a participation node set, and the management contract is deployed on the blockchain; sending the first number of pieces of sub-data to different participation nodes in a participation node set by utilizing a calculation contract, and deploying the calculation contract on a block chain; receiving the transaction information of the participation node by using the calculation contract, and obtaining the transaction information by calculating the sub-data by the participation node under the condition that the sub-data is real; and obtaining a final calculation result based on the transaction information by utilizing the calculation contract. In this way, the data security can be improved.