An interactive computer assisted method reviews, and analyzes, a patient one or more medications using a computer and a user associated therewith. The method includes the steps of pre-selecting patients to obtain a preliminary set of patients eligible for the interactive computer assisted method responsive to first predetermined criteria, and filtering the preliminary set of patients to identify and form a secondary set of patients from the preliminary set of patients having a greater likelihood...

An electronic price label (EPL) price synchronization system and method which increase price reliability while conserving system bandwidth. A storage medium contains an audit file containing scheduled price change messages. The storage medium may additionally contain an EPL data file containing correct price information or a price file containing correct price information. A computer terminal reads the audit file to obtain an item identification number for an item associated with the EPL from a ...

A financial transaction processing system is disclosed, wherein substantial processing efficiencies are provided with, additionally, a substantial decrease in the size of the executable code. Each transaction processed by the transaction processing system is described by a transaction data descriptor that includes a series of subtransaction data descriptions of actions that can be performed independently of one another. Thus, complex transaction processing logic is substantially removed from the...

A system for combined mailing of a plurality of diverse publications to a plurality of recipients at an optimized mail rate. The system includes a bindery for binding a plurality of the signatures where the bindery binding the plurality of signatures creates a plurality of first publications and a plurality of second publications. Each of the plurality of first and second publications are in a unique order, where the unique order identifies each of the plurality of first publications and each of...

An improved transportation scheduling method for scheduling a plurality of trips T.sub.1 T.sub.n using a plurality of vehicles V1 V.sub.n, each of said plurality of vehicles having a trip manifest. The method comprises the steps of: (a) generating a useability matrix that determines which of said plurality of vehicles V.sub.1 V.sub.n is useable with each of said plurality of trips T.sub.1 T.sub.n; (b) determining a best trip of said plurality of trips T.sub.1 T.sub.n to be scheduled next; (c) de...

The present invention discloses method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for a computer-implemented financial management system that permits the trading of securities via a network. A server computer receives buy and sell orders for derivative financial instruments from a plurality of client computers. The server computer matches the buy orders to the sell orders and then generates a market price through the use of a virtual specialist program executed by the server computer. The virtual sp...

In accordance with the present invention, a controller such as a cable television company receives a survey including survey questions from a client desiring to have a survey conducted. The controller creates respondent questions based on the survey questions. The controller also selects one or more respondents from a group of respondents requesting to participate in a survey. The respondent questions are transmitted to the selected respondents via a television transmission network, e.g., a cabl...

An apparatus is disclosed herein comprising: a) a storage and distribution means; b) an inventory upload means; c) a product information download means; d) an order upload means; and e) a delivery download means. A method is disclosed herein comprising the steps of: (a) digitally transferring the goods and product information pertaining thereto from a provider of the goods to a storage and distribution means; (b) storing the goods, product information pertaining thereto, order information, and p...

A centralized full-service research bureau and test center method and apparatus is provided, which assists a customer, typically a Web product manager, in designing a usability test for typical tasks faced by a visitor to the customer's site. The centralized full-service research bureau and test center method and apparatus provides proprietary software to administer the usability test to a pre-qualified pool of testers meeting desired demographic constraints. The usability test measures not only...

An improved transportation scheduling method for scheduling trips using multiple vehicles, with each of the vehicles having a trip manifest. The method comprises the steps of first generating a usability matrix that determines which of the vehicles is usable with each of the trips. Next, a determination is made as to a best trip of the trips to be scheduled next. A determination is next made as to the best vehicle from the set of vehicles for accommodating the best trip. Then, a determination is...