Abstract: An insulated beverage container holder can hold a beverage container, such as a can or a bottle. The insulated beverage container holder includes a base portion that can accept the can or bottle and a top portion adapted to butt against the base portion, where the combination of the base portion and the top portion fully encloses the beverage container.

Abstract: A method for minimizing the number of overdials attributable to a party comprising the steps of: (1) placing a telephone call using a predictive dialer and a call list; (2) monitoring call center agents to determine call center agent availability, the call center agents conducting a telemarketing campaign for at least a first calling party; (3) monitoring the telephone call to determine when the telephone call is answered thereby resulting in an answered call; (4) assigning the answered call to a calling party, and (5) transferring the answered call for processing, wherein processing is performed by a call center agent if available and wherein processing is performed by a message player if no call center agent is available to process the answered call.

Abstract: An improved system and method for name searching. The system and method comprise software routines and a database of names with special indexes to support name-based searches. The special indexes are created using phonetic, nicknames and misspelling algorithms. A software search routine applies progressively fuzzier searches, and ranks the intermediate results according to popularity of names and closeness of names in the query to name records in the database, eliminating unsuitable names, until a predetermined number of candidate names have been found. Highly relevant results are returned even when the user provides incomplete, errant, or exactly matching search queries for the name as indexed. The system and method may be used in any information retrieval system or service that indexes and presents names in search results.

Abstract: A method for minimizing the number of overdials attributable to a party comprising the steps of: (1) placing a telephone call using a predictive dialer and a call list; (2) monitoring call center agents to determine call center agent availability, the call center agents conducting a telemarketing campaign for at least a first calling party; (3) monitoring the telephone call to determine when the telephone call is answered thereby resulting in an answered call; (4) assigning the answered call to a calling party, and (5) transferring the answered call for processing, wherein processing is performed by a call center agent if available and wherein processing is performed by a message player if no call center agent is available to process the answered call.