Abstract: The present invention provides a system that allows users to directly participate in advertising resource allocation decisions for advertisers and to actively cause navigation swarms to specific websites. Swarms of users can be enabled by playing a form of hide and seek, where users (hiders) actively hide at a specific network location (the place where a swarm is desired) and other users (seekers) then actively search for the hiding users, thereby creating a swarm effect toward a particular site or set of sites.

Abstract: The present invention provides a system that allows users to directly participate in advertising resource allocation decisions for advertisers and to actively cause navigation swarms to specific websites. Swarms of users can be enabled by playing a form of hide and seek, where users (hiders) actively hide at a specific network location (the place where a swarm is desired) and other users (seekers) then actively search for the hiding users, thereby creating a swarm effect toward a particular site or set of sites.

Abstract: The systems and methods of the present invention enable users to identify whether a composition of matter, technical design, product, service, component, technology, feature, business model or any other item may have intellectual property issues associated therewith. The present invention includes a set of screens, filters, comparison sheets, and/or questionnaires (referred to generically as screens) which are derived from patent claims and used to evaluate whether a composition of matter, technical design, product, service, component, technology, feature, business model or any other item may have intellectual property issues associated therewith. The present invention further comprises systems and methods designed to help groups of people, in a collaborative environment, manage the use of screens.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a method and system for automatically enabling a computer to preserve data in response to an environmental change, respond to motion or sound, or be responsive to the arrival or actions of a person. In one embodiment, the computer monitoring system comprises at least one sensor for determining the existence of motion external to a computer where, upon detecting motion, the sensor communicates a signal to a receiver, which is in data communication with the computing device, and a program coupled to the receiver where the program comprises routines for receiving user input defining what programs or files to close, open, play, minimize, or maximize upon receiving a signal from the receiver.

Abstract: The systems and methods of the present invention enable users to identify whether a composition of matter, technical design, product, service, component, technology, feature, business model or any other item may have intellectual property issues associated therewith. The present invention includes a set of screens, filters, comparison sheets, and/or questionnaires (referred to generically as screens) which are derived from patent claims and used to evaluate whether a composition of matter, technical design, product, service, component, technology, feature, business model or any other item may have intellectual property issues associated therewith. The present invention further comprises systems and methods designed to help groups of people, in a collaborative environment, manage the use of screens.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a method and system for automatically enabling a computer to preserve data in response to an environmental change, respond to motion or sound, or be responsive to the arrival or actions of a person. In one embodiment, the computer monitoring system comprises at least one sensor for determining the existence of motion external to a computer where, upon detecting motion, the sensor communicates a signal to a receiver, which is in data communication with the computing device, and a program coupled to the receiver where the program comprises routines for receiving user input defining what programs or files to close, open, play, minimize, or maximize upon receiving a signal from the receiver.

Abstract: The systems and methods of the present invention enable users to identify whether a composition of matter, technical design, product, service, component, technology, feature, business model or any other item may have intellectual property issues associated therewith. The present invention includes a set of screens, filters, comparison sheets, and/or questionnaires (referred to generically as screens) which are derived from patent claims and used to evaluate whether a composition of matter, technical design, product, service, component, technology, feature, business model or any other item may have intellectual property issues associated therewith. The present invention further comprises systems and methods designed to help groups of people, in a collaborative environment, manage the use of screens.