Approval Patents (Class 705/26.82)
  • Publication number: 20110153459
    Abstract: Systems, methods and computer program products are provided for managing a plurality of tires from their procurement through their disposal. An embodiment may include a method for determining all the costs of a tire over its total service life including procurement costs, repair costs, retread costs and disposal costs. An embodiment may include managing an inventory by automatically replenishing the inventory by following a set of stored inventory management rules. An embodiment may include helping to ensure that an impermissible tire is not mounted on a vehicle. A stored set of tire mounting rules automatically check the tire being mounted against requirements for the tire set by the rules, the requirements set as to by vehicle type and wheel position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2010
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Inventors: Nathan J. Kirian, Christopher Michael Stokes
  • Publication number: 20110153458
    Abstract: This disclosure describes, generally, methods and systems for implementing a purchase order approval workflow engine and approval framework. The method includes receiving, at an approval engine of an application server from a purchaser, a purchase order, wherein the purchase order includes a plurality of line items, applying, by the approval engine, one or more rules associated with the purchase order, and transmitting the purchase order to one or more approvers. The method further includes receiving, from the one or more approvers, approval for each of the plurality of line items. The approval of each line item is completed independent from any other line item. Further, the method includes receiving, at the approval engine, an indication that each of the plurality of line items are approved, and transmitting, to a supplier, the purchase order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2009
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Elaine Wong, Earnest Ivie, Julie LeBlanc, Shawn Abernathy, Saritha Surapaneni
  • Publication number: 20110153461
    Abstract: This disclosure describes, generally, methods and systems for implementing enrollment authentication. The method includes receiving from a customer a partial PAN and an issuing financial institution. Further, based on transaction history related to the partial PAN, the method presents challenge questions to the customer, receive answers to the challenge questions. Then, based on the partial PAN, the issuing financial institution, and the answers to the challenge questions, a complete PAN may be resolved. The method includes prompting the customer to select a mutual trust phrase, receiving the selected mutual trust phrase, and placing a call from an interactive voice response (IVR) system to the customer. Further, the method includes playing back to the customer the selected mutual challenge phrase, receiving, from a telephone (e.g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2009
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: First Data Corporation
    Inventor: Vijay Royyuru
  • Patent number: 7958019
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system is disclosed in which a network-based interaction environment includes a plurality of peer-to-peer nodes being able to communicate directly with each other using a peer-to-peer protocol and a peer-to-peer client application, and a first peer-to-peer client application running on a first peer-to-peer client of the plurality of peer-to-peer nodes, the first peer-to-peer client application to maintain persistent user account information on the first peer-to-peer client, the persistent information being related to a plurality of user accounts for conducting e-commerce interactions on the network-based interaction environment, the plurality of user accounts including at least one user account based on a plurality of roles of a corresponding user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Zahid N. Ahmed, Adrian Nicholas Cockcroft, Josep M. Ferrandiz, Neelakantan Sundaresan
  • Publication number: 20110087559
    Abstract: A system including an image system located at a client facility for observing a facility. A surveillance system is in network communication with the image system and located at the facility to be observed. A compliance assurance system has a server independent of, but in network communication with the client facility and facility to be observed, wherein shared rights for scheduling observation times between the client facility and the facility to be observed are coordinated through the compliance assurance system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2010
    Publication date: April 14, 2011
    Inventors: Gil Paul, Stewart Paul
  • Patent number: 7877280
    Abstract: A travel system for processing travel requests based on a user's travel destination goal such as a meeting place and time. The travel system selects a destination terminal, if one is not provided, and estimates a travel time between the destination terminal and the destination goal. An itinerary is then built interactively with the user selecting air, bus or train transportation, ground transportation, and, optionally, hotels, restaurants, and activities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Travelocity.com LP
    Inventors: Terrell B. Jones, Joseph R. Offutt, Jr.