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Technology Stocks : CheckFree Holdings Corp. (CKFR), the next Dell, Intel? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TLindt who wrote (9023)	8/11/1999 11:19:00 AM
From: noiserider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20297

From the IBM Patent Server: patents.ibm.com Query: (checkfree) Patent Issued Title Score US05383113 01/17/1995 System and method for electronically providing customer services including payment of bills, financial analysis and loans 83% US05889863 03/30/1999 System, method and article of manufacture for remote virtual point of sale processing utilizing a multichannel, extensible, flexible architecture 82% US05850446 12/15/1998 System, method and article of manufacture for virtual point of sale processing utilizing an extensible, flexible architecture 82% US05828840 10/27/1998 Server for starting client application on client if client is network terminal and initiating client application on server if client is non network terminal 82% US05812668 09/22/1998 System, method and article of manufacture for verifying the operation of a remote transaction clearance system utilizing a multichannel, extensible, flexible architecture 82% US05873072 02/16/1999 System and method for electronically providing customer services including payment of bills, financial analysis and loans 80% US05822737 10/13/1998 Financial transaction system 80% US05815657 09/29/1998 System, method and article of manufacture for network electronic authorization utilizing an authorization instrument 80% US05920847 07/06/1999 Electronic bill pay system 77% US05826243 10/20/1998 Integrated system for controlling master account and nested subaccount(s) 77% US05684965 11/04/1997 Automated billing consolidation system and method 77% US05483445 01/09/1996 Automated billing consolidation system and method 77% Patents that have been applied for, but not issued are proprietary (you have to ask CKFR for the details). The full text of each issued patent is available at the IBM site. The value of each patent is tough to determine if you are not "skilled in the art" which I am not. Best regards, Keith