| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20080281724 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REFERENCING TRADING AGREEMENTS - An electronic commerce system supports on-line stores that are accessible by a set of buyers. Each buyer is associated with one of a set of one or more organizations. The electronic commerce system includes the ability to define a base trading agreement with terms and conditions for associated buyers and on-line stores, store settings with terms and conditions associated with one of the on-line stores, and customer preferences trading agreements, associated with organizations. The system includes an application interface for returning a set of governing terms and conditions for a buyer-store electronic commerce session, based on the associated base, store settings and customer preferences trading agreements. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20090070189 | BUSINESS DOMAIN LEVEL SPECIFICATION OF A MARKETING CAMPAIGN - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to the customer experience marketing component of an e-commerce system and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for specifying marketing campaigns in an e-commerce system at a business domain level. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for specifying marketing campaigns in an e-commerce system at a business domain level can include specifying criteria for triggering a marketing campaign for a specific customer through a form based user interface, generating monitoring criteria for monitoring customer behavior for the specific customer from the specified criteria, monitoring customer behavior according to the monitoring criteria, and triggering a marketing campaign for the specific customer only when observing customer behavior consistent with the monitoring criteria when monitoring the customer behavior. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090106091 | REFERENTIAL INTERFACE TO ENABLE COMMERCIAL INTERACTION BETWEEN ENTITIES - A system, method and program product is provided for establishment of a referential interface between business entities such as manufacturers and distributors in a computerized marketplace. The interface allows commercial interaction between two potentially geographically and technologically disparate systems. The interface is established through definition and then deployment of a distributor profile document, interrelated with a set of referential interface terms and conditions and a referential interface business policy. The profile document has associated terms and conditions representing business rules and processes referring to the business policies which then have business logic implementations. The contract prescribes the business rules that will be followed between a manufacturer and a distributor with the business policies providing mapping to units of business logic in the implementation of the distributor. Additionally the interface allows and may require setup and customization of business policy command implementation logic specific to the desired distributor. The established interface is further customizable and extensible allowing a variety of distributors to be connected to a marketplace as required with relative ease. | 04-23-2009 |
| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20080318189 | Solid Free-Form Fabrication Methods For The Production of Dental Restorations - Solid free form fabrication techniques can be utilized indirectly to manufacture substrates, dies, models, near-net shapes, shells, and wax-ups that are then used in the manufacture of dental articles. Digital light processing is the most preferred indirect method for the production of substrates. After the substrates are produced, various coating or deposition techniques such as gel casting, slip casting, slurry casting, pressure infiltration, dipping, colloidal spray deposition or electrophoretic deposition are used to manufacture the dental article. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20100038807 | Solid Free-Form Fabrication Methods For The Production Of Dental Restorations - Solid free form fabrication techniques can be utilized indirectly to manufacture substrates, dies, models, near-net shapes, shells, and wax-ups that are then used in the manufacture of dental articles. Digital light processing is the most preferred indirect method for the production of substrates. After the substrates are produced, various coating or deposition techniques such as gel casting, slip casting, slurry casting, pressure infiltration, dipping, colloidal spray deposition or electrophoretic deposition are used to manufacture the dental article. | 02-18-2010 |