William C Coleman

6735571, May 11, 2004

Jun 17, 2002

10/172924

William H. Coleman - Boston MA
Andrew L. Linn - Waltham MA
Gregory K. Plunkett - Boston MA
Keith E. Fortier - Walpole MA
Yong Zhang - Needham MA

Salary.Com - Wellesley MA

G06F15700

705 7, 705 1, 705 2, 705 3, 705 4, 705 8

A method of predicting compensation data includes obtaining compensation data, associated with a job category, with at least one datum being associated with each of a plurality of characteristics associated with the job category, determining values of factors, associated with respective ones of the characteristics, and a base value that when used as operands of a function yield estimates of the obtained data such that relationships between the estimates and corresponding obtained compensation data satisfy at least one criterion, and using a portion of the values of factors and the base value by a computer to automatically obtain estimates of compensation data.

7376569, May 20, 2008

Mar 30, 2001

09/823524

Gregory Kent Plunkett - Boston MA, US
Andrew Linn - Waltham MA, US
Carolyn Kirsch Rumpel - Boston MA, US
William H. Coleman - Boston MA, US

Salary.com - Waltham MA

G06Q 10/00

705 1

An apparatus and method pertains to calculating and presenting compensating values for one or more professions. An apparatus generates a user interface that prompts a user for a job description entry and a geographic location entry. The apparatus has a database to store salaries, each salary associated with a job description and a geographic location. The apparatus retrieves from the database salaries whose job description and geographic location matches the job description entry and the geographic location entry. The apparatus compiles retrieved salaries to generate a median salary, which is transmitted to a user device.

7403915, Jul 22, 2008

Apr 10, 2001

09/832513

Reza S. Bundy - Cambridge MA, US
Jeffrey Barca-Hall - Santa Cruz CA, US
William Coleman - San Jose CA, US
Dylan Ragozin - Portola Valley CA, US
Ping Li - San Francisco CA, US
Madhu Vudali - Santa Clara CA, US

Iron Planet - Palo Alto CA

G06Q 40/00

705 27

An auction system in a networked environment. The system includes a preregistration module for identifying and verifying a user of the auction system. The preregistration module checks the credit history of the user and generates a registration record of the user. The system includes an assurance module for conducting a presale inspection of the merchandise item and to generate a merchandise inspection report. The system also includes a description module for displaying the merchandise inspection report and a description report of the merchandise item. The system includes a bidding module for processing a plurality of bids from a plurality of users. The bidding module analyzes each of the plurality of bids from each of the plurality of users to determine whether an incoming bid is higher or lower than a current high bid and to determine a current high bid. The system further includes a notification module coupled to a system database for assigning each of the plurality of bids with each of the plurality of users and that notifies each of the plurality of users whether their bid is successful.

7805354, Sep 28, 2010

Jun 17, 2002

10/502837

William H. Coleman - Boston MA, US
Gregory K. Plunkett - Boston MA, US
Andrew L. Linn - Waltham MA, US
Keith E. Fortier - Walpole MA, US
Yong Zhang - Needham MA, US

Salary.com - Needham MA

G06F 17/50

705 37

A method of predicting compensation data includes obtaining compensation data, associated with a job category, with at least one datum being associated with each of a plurality of characteristics associated with the job category, determining values of factors, associated with respective ones of the characteristics, and a base value that when used as operands of a function yield estimates of the obtained data such that relationships between the estimates and corresponding obtained compensation data satisfy at least one criterion, and using a portion of the values of factors and the base value by a computer to automatically obtain estimates of compensation data.

8478618, Jul 2, 2013

Jun 28, 2010

12/825209

William H. Coleman - Boston MA, US
Gregory K. Plunkett - Boston MA, US
Andrew L. Linn - Waltham MA, US
Keith E. Fortier - Walpole MA, US
Yong Zhang - Needham MA, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 17/30

705 711

A method of predicting compensation data includes obtaining compensation data, associated with a job category, with at least one datum being associated with each of a plurality of characteristics associated with the job category, determining values of factors, associated with respective ones of the characteristics, and a base value that when used as operands of a function yield estimates of the obtained data such that relationships between the estimates and corresponding obtained compensation data satisfy at least one criterion, and using a portion of the values of factors and the base value by a computer to automatically obtain estimates of compensation data.

20020188542, Dec 12, 2002

Apr 11, 2002

10/121147

Yong Zhang - Needham MA, US
William Coleman - Boston MA, US
Gregory Plunkett - Boston MA, US
Andrew Linn - Waltham MA, US

G06F017/60

705/036000

A computer program product resides on a computer-readable medium and includes computer-readable and computer-executable instructions for causing a computer to access a compensation-data storage device, retrieve compensation data from the compensation-data storage device, the compensation data including information regarding job title and pay of individuals of a first business entity associated with the compensation-data storage device, and transmit the retrieved compensation data toward a processing system via a wide-area communications network, the processing system being associated with a second business entity that is different from the first business entity, where the computer-executable instructions are configured to cause the computer to at least one of access, retrieve, and attempt to transmit the compensation data automatically.