SOFTWARE RELATED DATABASES

Brand	Owner (click to sort)	Address	Description
COMPMASTER	William M. Mercer, Incorporated	1166 Avenue of the Americas New York NY 100362774	software and related databases for the analysis of employee compensation costs, the creation of budgets for employee compensation, the creation and revision of a pay grade system for various types of employee jobs including compensation levels that correspond to pay grades, the creation and revision of a merit compensation system and of models that allow merit budget analysis, the comparison of compensation data to industry compensation survey data, the generation of reports, and the analysis of payment capability based on cash flow;COMPUTER MASTER;
JOBMASTER	William M. Mercer Incorporated	1221 Avenue of the Americas New York NY 10020	software and related databases for the creation and revision of employee job descriptions in customer specified formats, and of open-job posting announcements;JOB MASTER;
LOANKEY	ADP, INC.	One ADP Boulevard Roseland NJ 07068	software and related databases for the administration of loans made by an employer-sponsored defined-contribution-retirement plan to employees who participate in that plan including functions that allow the evaluation of an employee's eligibility for such a loan, the processing of new loans against employee retirement-plan account balances that are used as security for the loans, the processing of inquiries about existing loans, the computation and monitoring of the outstanding balance and the principal and interest payments due and made, the tracking of any penalties or tax consequences related ot the loans or payments, and the generation of amortization schedules, truth-in-lending documents, promissory notes, and reports;LOAN KEY;
	Where the owner name is not linked, that owner no longer owns the brand

Technical Examples

In recent years, computers have become everyday communication tools, fast approaching the commonness of telephones and televisions. Driving this approach is the ever-expanding Internet, which enables users not only to communicate with each other, but also to search for information of particular interest. Two problems for Internet users are the time and effort necessary to find information they want and to connect with other users who share interest in similar information. Accordingly, the present inventor devised systems, methods, and related software that spurs growth of databases and/or fosters connections between users of those databases. One exemplary method entails receiving user contributions to a theme-oriented database, such as a health-information website and granting users access rights to the database based on quantity, quality, and/or relevance of their contributions. The exemplary method also shares contact information with users making similar queries of the database, ultimately promoting development of intelligent on-line communities.