COOPERATIVE BUYING SERVICES

Brand	Owner (click to sort)	Address	Description
DEALER MARKET PLACE	Dealer Market Place	108 Emerald Drive Mooresville NC 28117	Cooperative buying services in the nature of a buying club, Promoting the sale of services and products supplied by participating companies through the administration of incentive, loyalty, reward and award programs for customers of such participating companies, Promoting the sale goods and services of others through the distribution of catalogs and by preparing and placing advertisements in an electronic catalog accessed through a global computer network and via computer software;DEALER;
GRO GROUP	Gro Group, Inc.	119B Great Road Bedford MA 01730	cooperative buying services, advertising and promotional services for others in the field of lawn and garden tools and supplies;
RED CROWN	Amoco Oil Company	Chicago IL	Cooperative buying services, namely, administration of alliance of franchisees and preferred vendors wherein the combined purchasing power of the group generates or enables discounts;
RED CROWN MARKETING	Amoco Oil Company	Chicago IL	cooperative buying services, namely, administration of alliance of franchisees and preferred vendors wherein the combined purchasing power of the group generates or enables discounts;MARKETING;
UNITED STATES BUSINESS GROUPS INC.	New York State Business Group, Inc.	180 EAST MAIN STREET PATCHOGUE NY 11772	cooperative buying services; namely, securing a variety of goods and/or services at a discount for others;UNITED STATES BUSINESS GROUPS INC.;
UNITED STATES BUSINESS GROUPS, INC.	New York State Business Group, Inc.	180 EAST MAIN STREET PATCHOGUE NY 11772	cooperative buying services; namely, securing a variety of goods and/or services at a discount for others;
	Where the owner name is not linked, that owner no longer owns the brand

Technical Examples

The present invention is directed to a system, method and software product for balancing resource services are always available to match the desired work to be done through the use of "sticky services.". Sticky services are defined as services that you know you want to have available as resources and as such they need to be present in the environment of cooperative applications; it may be that you want these always present or it may be that you want them present whenever certain conditions occur (see NewWave policy service). The general assumption of distributed systems is to not count on the environment you want being present, or put another way assume failure will occur. Therefore distributed environments like Jini assume all services are transient and will be garbage collected when not in active use. For the inside out approach to work, a mechanism should exist that, when desired, counters the transit design assumptions. This implies that two things are needed: (1) a mechanism for providing services as needed; (2) a mechanism for insuring the correct balance of resource services are always available to match the desired work to be done.