Account holders may specify vendor-specific charge restrictions for charging transactions against their accounts, where each vendor-specific charge restriction includes a unique identifier for the corresponding vendor to which the charge restriction is applicable. When a charge authorization request is received for a charge against an account having vendor-specific charge restrictions set by the account holder, the vendor identifier is extracted from the charge authorization request and employed...

Bulk mail subscriptions by including a bulk mail class indicator and a sender identifier key value in the header portion of an electronic message. Messages which are properly identified as bulk class and include an approved sender identifier value are passed directly to the intended recipient. Messages which are properly identified as bulk class but which do not contain an approved sender identifier value are rejected or intercepted. Messages which do no indicate themselves to be bulk class, but...

At the time transactions are entered into accounting software data records, a user is given the option of creating a transaction group for transactions expected to appear in an external statement as a single entry. A persistent record of the association of selected transactions is maintained in the data records, and a total for transaction groups is displayed to the user during the reconciliation of the data records with the external statement. The user may then easily reconcile multiple entries...

The present invention is apparatus and method for encoding, decoding, and encoding and decoding security information in a Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI). In order to perform encoding, musical information and security information are received. The musical information is encoded to generate a plurality of MIDI events. The security information is encoded to generate a plurality of MIDI events of a selected standard type of MIDI event, the generated MIDI events being overrun events that...

Test pages for an object oriented program on a web server are generated. A data structure is analyzed for a set of data fields. Rule data is retrieved from a rule database for property naming rules. Using this information, a test page, e.g., in HTML, is generated for each object associated with the data structure, the test page including an instance of the respective object and a set of property names and associated data names for the respective object. When a change is detected in the data stru...

A method and computer program product that allow a firewall program to control whether an application program is granted access to a wide area network (WAN), such as the Internet. The method allows the firewall to receive an access request definition from the application program through a well-known port. A preferred request definition comprises the application unique identifier, a destination address, the port, and a corresponding justification statement. The firewall intercepts access requests...

A financial institution customer is permitted to create an uncleared transaction record within the financial institution's account ledger for the customer in anticipation of actually making the transaction. Although maintained within the financial institutions electronic records for the account and appearing on monthly statements or printed transaction histories, uncleared transaction records are treated as account comments but the financial institution and are not employed in any manner to modi...

A system, method, and program product enables saving a submitted form of a web page. A browser application receives from a user data for a form in a web page. Upon the submission of the form with the data to a server system hosting the web page, an address of the web page, the data provided from the user for the form, and at least one field identifier for associating the data to at least one respective field of the form, are saved into a volatile memory of the client. The address, the data, and ...

An apparatus for producing object code from source code including input means for receiving the source code, the source code including executable source code and source code documentation, and compilation means, coupled to the input means, including first means for providing object code from the source code, and second means for providing documentation including selected portions of the executable source code and the source code documentation, and for organizing the provided documentation into a...

Creating hyperlinks in a document is performed according to structural indicators within a set of documents. The documents are parsed for at least one structural indicator, preferably of a type of structural indicator which is likely to be present in the type of documents being parsed. Each time a structural indicator is found in a document, text proximate to, and possibly including, the structural indicator is converted to a hyperlink. In one preferred embodiment, each structural indicator is a...