| 02nd week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 55 |
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| 20130013335 | PHARMACY BENEFITS MANAGEMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS - A pharmacy benefits management system and method. A processor server has claim information relating to pharmacy benefits claims, and information relating to a claims processing formularly stored therein. A provider server has pharmacy benefits plan structure information stored therein. A management server has price information relating drugs in various classes and a processing module for correlating the claim information with the benefits plan structure information and the formularly information to identify drugs dispensed to patients, expenses associated with the drugs in accordance with the pharmacy benefits plan structure information, alternative drugs in the same class as the drugs and expenses associated with the alternative drugs. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013336 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING HEALTHCARE RISK RELATED EVENTS - A system for predicting healthcare financial risk including the process of accessing patient data associated with one or more patents, accessing geographic and healthcare system data, filtering the patient data, geographic data, and healthcare system data into clean data, and applying a predictive risk model to the clean data to generate patient profile data and to identify a portion of the patients associated with a level of predicted financial risk. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013337 | Health Monitoring System with Biometric Identification - A health monitoring method and system is disclosed. A sensor for use in a health monitoring system includes a first transducer for collecting biometric data for biometrically identifying an individual, a second transducer for measuring at least one physiological parameter and outputting data indicative thereof, and an output for outputting the data. In addition, a health monitoring system includes a server comprising a data processor and a memory, and one or more of the sensors, wherein the server is arranged to receive the data from the one or more sensors, to process the data associated with the respective individual from which the data was collected, and to output at least one result of the processing of the data. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013338 | SOFTWARE FEATURES FOR MEDICAL INFUSION PUMP - Various software features useable in a medical infusion pump are disclosed. In certain aspects, localized alarm and message handling systems are disclosed. In other aspects, variable intensity alarms are disclosed. In further aspects, cost tracking systems and methods for medical infusion pumps are disclosed. In still further aspects, methods and systems implementing a variable delay of pressure decay in a medical infusion pump are disclosed. In other aspects, methods and systems implementing a timed intermittent bolus by pressure are disclosed. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013339 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEDICAL DATA STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL - In accordance with one embodiment, a system for encoding medical data is provided. The system includes a data processing module to process medical data from any given format to a Continuity of Care Record (CCR) standard. The system for encoding medical data further includes a data export module. The data export module exports the medical data after processing into a CCR format. Additionally, the system also includes a control module for providing operational instruction to the data processing module. The control module may also provide operational instruction for data export module. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013340 | Wellness Decision Support Services - Techniques for providing one or more user-centric wellness decision support services are provided. The techniques include providing an interface that facilitates selection of a risk assessment model of interest for a user and an action plan to trigger one or more follow-up action items, applying the selected model to assess the user's wellness risk level based on one or more user wellness records, and applying the selected action plan to trigger one or more relevant disease management and lifestyle interventions. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013341 | Medical Information Handling System - A system and method used to create a longitudinal medical record for an injured person that in at least one embodiment begins a location remote from a medical facility. The system includes in at least one embodiment a plurality of mobile computing devices. In at least one embodiment, the mobile computing devices provide an interface for receiving information from a first responder or a medic. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013342 | Medical Information Handling Method - A system and method used to create a longitudinal medical record for an injured person that in at least one embodiment begins a location remote from a medical facility. The system includes in at least one embodiment a plurality of mobile computing devices. In at least one embodiment, the mobile computing devices provide an interface for receiving information from a first responder or a medic. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013343 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RISK VALIDATION - Systems and methods for validating the level of risk associated with an insurance policy are based on information intrinsic to one or more of the activities covered by the policy, such as a vehicle identification number of a vehicle operated in association with one or more of the activities. From the vehicle identification number, a vehicle type for a vehicle may be determined, and the vehicle type may be used to validate whether the level of risk associated with the policy is appropriate. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013344 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING OPTIONAL INSURANCE COVERAGES - Exemplary embodiments automatically determine and present optional insurance coverages that may be added to a base insurance coverage based on relevant characteristics of the customer. Relevant characteristics may include the characteristics of the customer's business operations. In various embodiments, optional coverages may be chosen to be similar to the optional coverages historically purchased by insured customers that have similar characteristics to the current customer, (e.g., similar business operations and risk profiles). In some embodiments, the automatic determination of optional coverages may also, or alternatively, be conditioned on the business objectives and policies of the company offering the insurance and/or on customer or user feedback regarding previously offered optional coverages. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013345 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BUSINESS CLASSIFICATION - Systems, apparatus, interfaces, methods, and articles of manufacture that provide for business classification, such as, for example, determining the nature of a business's operations to allow an accurate assessment of the corresponding risks and potential liabilities. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013346 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCT CONFIGURATION - Systems, apparatus, interfaces, methods, and articles of manufacture that provide for product configuration. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013347 | Vehicle Monitoring System - A data logging device tracks the operation of a vehicle or driver actions. The device includes a storage device, which may be removable or portable, having a first memory portion that may be read from and may be written to in a vehicle and a second memory portion that may be read from and may be written to in the vehicle. The second memory portion may retain data attributes associated with the data stored in the first removable storage device. A processor reads data from an automotive bus that transfers data from vehicle sensors to other automotive components. The processor writes data to the first memory portion and the second memory portion that reflect a level of risk or safety. A communication device links the storage device to a network of computers. The communication device may be accessible through software that allows a user to access files. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013348 | Vehicle Monitoring System - A data logging device tracks the operation of a vehicle or driver actions. The device includes a storage device, which may be removable or portable, having a first memory portion that may be read from and may be written to in a vehicle and a second memory portion that may be read from and may be written to in the vehicle. The second memory portion may retain data attributes associated with the data stored in the first removable storage device. A processor reads data from an automotive bus that transfers data from vehicle sensors to other automotive components. The processor writes data to to the first memory portion and the second memory portion that reflect a level of risk or safety. A communication device links the storage device to a network of computers. The communication device may be accessible through software that allows a user to access files. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013349 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTING TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES - A method and apparatus for selecting travel related services. The method includes the step of determining a plurality of travel related services that a consumer of such services can select for their own use. Each service has a start and end date. The services are stored in a database from which they are published to consumers. Consumers may then select the services of interest to them. Should a consumer not be able to use the selected service within its start and end date, the consumer may make the service available to other consumers for selection. An associated apparatus is provided to implement the process. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013350 | OFFER BASED RESTAURANT RESERVATIONS - A system for offer based restaurant reservations comprises a processor and a memory. The processor is configured to: receive a request for a reservation including a set of attributes such as a date or date range, a time range, a location, a cuisine, and a party size; determine a set of available reservations based on an actual table availability for the date, time, and the party size; determine one or more offers based on the date, time, and the party size; determine an overlapping subset between the set of available reservations and the one or more offers; and provide an indication of the overlapping subset. The memory is coupled to the processor and is configured to provide the processor with instructions. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013351 | INVENTORY SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREFOR - An inventory control system is disclosed. The system comprises: an inventory server for storing inventory parameters defining one or more products; an availability server arranged to receive an availability request for a product; broadcasting means for broadcasting updated inventory parameters from the inventory server to the availability server; wherein the availability server determines the availability of the requested product by comparing one or more product parameters to one or more inventory parameters in response to the availability server receiving an availability request. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013352 | CONDUCTING AN NFC TRANSACTION WITH A MOBILE DEVICE - A method for configuring a mobile communication device to perform transactions using a second communication channel that is different from a first communication channel through which the mobile communication device sends voice data. The method includes attaching a secure element to the mobile communication device. The secure element includes a memory storing an application, a processor configured to execute the application stored in the memory; and a wireless transceiver configured to send transaction data associated with the executed application through the second communication channel to a terminal that is remote from the mobile communication device. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013353 | PEER TO PEER TRANSFER BETWEEN TWO MOBILE DEVICES WITH EMBEDDED NFC - A method for configuring a mobile communication device to perform transactions using a second communication channel that is different from a first communication channel through which the mobile communication device sends voice data. The method includes attaching a secure element to the mobile communication device. The secure element includes a memory storing an application, a processor configured to execute the application stored in the memory; and a wireless transceiver configured to send transaction data associated with the executed application through the second communication channel to a terminal that is remote from the mobile communication device. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013354 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING SEAT RESERVATIONS - This invention relates to an electronic means by which people can select the exact seat or seats they want for any type of event or reserve an appointment for any activity. More specifically, a customer or a ticket re-seller or a venue operator can go, for example, to the internet and select the event or activity for which he wants a ticket or tickets or reserve a time and reserve and order the exact seat or seats or the time of his choosing directly online. The seat or seats or reserved time he selects is then removed from the inventory for that activity or event and made not available for any other buyer and such is so indicated by a graphical representation or other such indicator on the online map or picture representing availability of seating or time for that event. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013355 | SECURE NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION (NFC) TRANSACTIONS WITH AUTHENTICATION - A method for transmitting data between a mobile communication device and a server. The method includes running a mobile application on the mobile communication device. The mobile application is hosted on the mobile communication device through the server as a Software as a Service (SaaS). The method further includes transmitting data associated with the mobile application between the mobile communication device and the server, in which transmission of the data between the mobile communication device and the server is monitored through the server. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013356 | PERSONAL SUSTAINABILITY FOR AN ORGANIZATION - A system and method for developing trust in an organization supported tracking system by ensuring that resources in a resource library are collected from trusted sources, and encouraging and tracking participation in organization supported activities designed to achieve a long term goal of the organization. Resources may be submitted by organization members and ranked according to multiple factors including the trustworthiness of the source, the relevance of the resource to the long term goal, or the response of the organization members to the resource. Participation may be encouraged through friendly competition, awards granted for participation, and publication of member accomplishments. Tracking may be facilitated by allowing members to create initiatives and actions related to the long term goal which members may follow and join and then tracking and verifying member participation in those initiatives and actions. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013357 | Uniformly Managing Resources and Business Operations - A system for managing resources and business processes includes a plurality of resource objects stored in a resource object database. Each resource object represents a corresponding resource for use by a business process. Each of the plurality of resource objects includes data pertaining to a state of availability of the corresponding resource. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013358 | E-COMMERCE CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR DEALER SELF-ROUTING - An e-commerce content management system generates at least one Website that permits configuration of the Website for dealer self-routing, user directed vendor substitution, destination routing and dynamic vendor substitution routing. The e-commerce content management system allows a user to configure the system, including a Website, such as configuring a dealer Website as part of an ecosystem that includes an alliance of dealers, manufacturers, shippers and other participants that fill orders. The ecosystem integrates orders processed through a business process management kernel operating on one or more computers. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013359 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SCHEDULING BASED ON SERVICE COMPLETION OBJECTIVES - Provided herein is a system and method for determining a service agent start time objective for a customer contact and matching agents and customers based on meeting that objective. The method may include: receiving a customer contact to request service; determining a service completion objective for the customer contact based upon a service-level agreement; determining a handling time limit based on a historical elapsed handling time; and subtracting the handling time limit from the service completion objective, to produce the service agent start time. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013360 | DYNAMIC INTERFACE BETWEEN BPSS CONVERSATION MANAGEMENT AND LOCAL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT - The present invention relates to devices and methods that coordinate an external conversation process between entities with an internal workflow of one of the entities. More particularly, it relates to devices and methods that are compliant with an inter-enterprise conversation process standard for routing electronic commerce documents between enterprises. Particular aspects of the present invention are described in the claims, specification and drawings. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013361 | SOFTWARE THAT MATCHES PEOPLE AND COMPANIES BASED ON THE STATED CORE VALUES OF BOTH PARTIES - A method of matching employers to candidates receives core values from both employers and prospective candidates and then uses these core values to match the employers and candidates. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013362 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A CRYPTOGRAPHICALLY-ASSISTED COMMERICAL NETWORK SYSTEM DESIGNED TO FACILITATE AND SUPPORT EXPERT-BASED COMMERCE - The present invention is an expert matching method and apparatus for managing communications between an expert having particular qualifications and an end user seeking a solution to an expert request. In a preferred embodiment, the apparatus of the present invention includes a controller having a database for storing expert qualifications. In one embodiment, the controller receives an expert request. A search program identifies experts qualified to respond to the expert request. The expert request is then transmitted to the expert, which results in an expert answer transmitted to and received by the central controller. After authentication of the expert answer, using a wide range of security levels from passwords to cryptography, the answer is forwarded to the end user. The method and apparatus of the present invention have applications on the Internet as well as conventional voice telephony systems. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013363 | Management of Project Development - According to some embodiments, a project management system for managing projects in a plurality of stages comprising at least a first stage and a second stage includes a development module, a support module, and a management module. Each stage represents a stage required for completion before the project enters production. The development module is operable to receive a first stage status update. The first stage status update indicates that a development team has completed the first stage for a project. The support module is operable to receive an approval from a support team approving the development team's completion of the first stage. The management module is communicatively coupled to the development module and the support module and is operable to determine whether the development team is authorized to perform actions towards completion of the second stage based on whether the approval is received for the first stage. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013364 | MANAGING ESTABLISHMENT OF A SCHEDULED EVENT - For a scheduled event, it is determined, based on at least one policy, whether the scheduled event is to be established according to a current time and a participation status of attendees. The at least one policy specifies a time criterion and an attendee participation criterion. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013365 | Time Request Queue - A group scheduling solution offers an organized and formalized solution to the time management problem in which the desired meeting includes a person who is difficult to schedule. A scheduling system is provided in which a hard-to-schedule attendee takes over responsibility for setting the start time of an event. A workflow is provided, in which the organizer sends a request to the hard-to-schedule person. The request contains the desired duration of the meeting, and possibly a list of attendees, location, and other details. These requests are maintained in a queue for the hard-to-schedule person. The hard-to-schedule person, or their proxy, reviews these requests and selects a suitable time for the meeting, thereby causing an update to be sent back to the organizer and the other attendees, thus indicating the appointed time for the meeting. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013366 | SCHEDULING SESSIONS OF MULTI-SPEAKER EVENTS - A method of scheduling events includes receiving event data specifying sessions for an event, an event duration that encompasses a plurality of time slots, a respective duration for each session, a respective start time for the event and the sessions, and information describing a plurality of attendees; generating a first list of each possible set of time slots within which each session can be scheduled based upon the respective start times; generating a second list by removing each possible set of time slots for each session that is less than the duration specified for the session; performing a scheduling process for each session; and sending a respective electronic message presenting the schedule to each attendee. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013367 | CARBON MANAGEMENT FOR SOURCING AND LOGISTICS - Embodiments of the invention provide a method, system and computer program product for carbon management for sourcing and logistics. In one embodiment, the method comprises using a computer for quantifying both a cost and a carbon impact of one or more logistics policies relating to a manufacturing process; and minimizing the cost and carbon impact using a defined equation including a first component representing a transportation cost, and a second component representing a carbon cost. In an embodiment of the invention, the quantifying includes using an analytics engine to quantify the cost and carbon impact. The analytics engine may include a shipment analysis module to calculate an optimal transportation policy, a sourcing analysis module for testing alternate sourcing options, a scenario analysis module to find an optimal order frequency, and a sensitivity analysis module to test the impact of various changes. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013368 | Processor Implemented Systems and Methods for Winter Tire Pre-Ordering and Tire Storage - Systems and methods for preordering winter tires through a preordering system are described. Information related to winter tires available for preordering is received at the preordering system from a tire provider and is provided to a dealer. Information of preorders of winter tires is received from a dealer and provided to the tire provider. Updates on the status of the preorders of winter tires are received from the tire provider and transmitted to the dealer. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013369 | LABOR RESOURCE DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM - A labor resource decision support system, in which labor resource data is maintained across multiple units within an organization using a standardized data record format. A demand measurement for a first type of labor resource having a unique combination of values for fields of the standardized data record format is determined based on input describing forecasted demand for the first type of labor resource within the organization and a supply measurement for the first type of labor resource is determined based on input describing forecasted supply for the first type of labor resource within the organization and the labor resource data. A gap measurement is calculated based on the determined demand measurement and the determined supply measurement and an output is provided based on the calculated gap measurement. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013370 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING AN OPTIMIZED BUSINESS PROCESS DESIGN - A design module for automatically optimizing business processes in an organization. Each business process to be optimized is characterized by one or more performance indicators. One or more process characteristics are identified corresponding to each of the performance indicators. For each of the process characteristics, at least one transformation pattern is identified. Thereafter, one or more transformation patterns are selected from the identified transformation patterns, for optimizing the process characteristics, and thereby optimizing the business processes. The design module generates workflow patterns based on the identified transformation patterns and converts them into BPEL constructs for visually displaying the workflow patterns on a user interface. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013371 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRACKING RETAIL SALES PERFORMANCE - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for tracking retail performance. A system configured to practice the method monitors transactions at a merchant point of sale and determines, from the transactions, a sales rate for a product. If the sales rate for the product goes below a target sales rate associated with the product, the system identifies a responsibility hierarchy associated with the product, wherein the responsibility hierarchy indicates a chain of responsible parties for the product, and sends an alert for the product to at least one of the responsible parties. The alert can be an audible alert, a visual alert, a vibration, a printed alert, a list entry, and/or a database entry. The system can send the alert to a responsible party and/or a supervisor of the responsible party. The alert can be associated with a period of time to resolve the alert. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013372 | Identifying Similar Items Based on Interaction History - One embodiment of the invention sets forth a mechanism for identifying similar items within a plurality of items available to a group of users. The mechanism includes identifying a first count that indicates a number of times any user has interacted with a first item included in the plurality of items and subsequently with any other item, identifying a second count that indicates a number of times any user within the has interacted with a second item included in the plurality of items after interacting with the first item, computing a probability that indicates the likelihood of a particular user interacting with the second item after interacting with the first item based on the first count and the second count, and computing a similarity score that indicates the similarity between the first item and the second item based on the probability and a popularity score associated with the second item. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013373 | PRESENTING ITEMS BASED ON ACTIVITY RATES - Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to monitor an activity level with respect to queries submitted to an online marketplace over a certain time period to calculate an activity rate, to determine that a predicted change in the activity rate has crossed a specified threshold rate, and to display a landing page identifying at least one of items or item groups associated with the queries on a display based on the determining. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013374 | RELATIONSHIP PRICING MEASUREMENT FRAMEWORK - Apparatus for providing hypotheses prioritization and analysis are provided. The apparatus may include an electronic processor module. The electronic processor module may be configured to calculate enterprise-wide exposure to a plurality of entities. The plurality of entities may include countries, other enterprises, interest rates and/or other financial statistics. The electronic processor modulo may be further configured to determine, with respect to a single one or more of the plurality of entities, at least one of a market risk metric, a value at risk metric, an issuer risk metric, a counterparty risk metric and a financial risk metric. The apparatus may further include an output device configured to output a risk value reflective of the at least one of a market risk metric, a value at risk metric, an issuer risk metric, a counterparty risk metric and a financial risk metric. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013375 | MARKET SEGMENTATION ANALYSES IN VIRTUAL UNIVERSES - A computer system for market segmentation analysis includes program instructions to be executed. The program instructions are configured to collect virtual universe data about avatars, entities, and objects in a virtual universe. The program instructions are configured to perform a market segmentation analysis on the virtual universe data, wherein the market segmentation analysis comprises a first segmentation across multiple segments of the avatars that is based on an amount of time and an amount of money spent in the virtual universe. The market segmentation analysis further comprises a second segmentation across multiple segments of the avatars that is based on whether activity of the avatars includes social activity and business activity in the virtual universe relative to a time of day. The program instructions are configured to receive, from users, consent allowing collection of the virtual universe data and to present a reward to the users for giving the consent. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013376 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTERMEDIATE TO LONG-TERM FORECASTING OF ELECTRIC PRICES AND ENERGY DEMAND FOR INTEGRATED SUPPLY-SIDE ENERGY PLANNING - A method of price forecasting in an electrical energy supply network and/or load (energy demand) forecasting of a given consumer of electrical energy, in the context of an electrical energy supply network that is adapted to supply electrical energy to a number consumers connected to the network. The method includes developing a multi-regime, regime switching stochastic model for determining day ahead/spot market energy prices using at least one historical profile and subjective opinion from at least one expert; and the multiple regimes correspond to a number of combinations of physical factors. A regime is identifiable by at least three factors. The method thus facilitates identifying the optimal mix of energy hedge and exposure to day ahead/spot market prices for deriving economic benefits in overall energy expenditure. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013377 | VENDOR OPTIMIZATION IN AGGREGATED ENVIRONMENTS - Technologies are generally described for systems and methods effective to optimize vendors in a cloud computing environment. In an example, bundled services can be de-aggregated and a hierarchical tree can be generated showing the relationships between the service providers and infrastructure providers. When itemized bills are received from the service providers, the hierarchical tree can be used to match items from the itemized bills to specific infrastructure providers. A transaction report showing all the services rendered by the infrastructure providers can then be sent to the respective infrastructure providers to take advantage of discounts and bulk rates. In another example, a set of infrastructure providers that provide the services at the lowest cost can be determined, and the service providers can be configured or requested to switch to that set of infrastructure providers. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013378 | METHOD OF EVALUATING LOST REVENUE BASED ON WEB PAGE RESPONSE TIME - A method of determining a relationship between page response time and lost revenue. The method includes identifying a performance metric and determining a first relationship that indicates by how much changes in the value of the performance metric are attributable to changes in the value of the page response time. The method also includes determining a second relationship that indicates losses in revenue attributable to changes in the value of the performance metric. A third relationship is then determined which indicates losses in revenue attributable to changes in the value of the page response time. Optionally, a threshold lost revenue value may be used to determine a threshold page response time, which may be used to determine when corrective action should be taken to reduce page response time. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013379 | ENGINE, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING CLOUD-BASED BUSINESS VALUATION AND ASSOCIATED SERVICES - A computer-implemented engine, system and method for generating business valuations, scoring, and/or flagging over a network, responsively to information input by a user remote from the engine, system and method. The invention may include a graphical user interface capable of locally querying a user to input the company information, at least one network port capable of remotely receiving the company information from the graphical user interface, and at least one engine communicatively connected to the at least one network port, which engine preferably includes a plurality of rules to generate, responsively to the input company information, at least one of a business valuation, a business score, and/or one or more business flags to be used as indicators in a network marketplace, for the company associated with the inputted company information. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013380 | Online Application Combining Election Service with Social Media for Voter-Candidate Matching - An online application which combines election service with social media for voter-candidate matching includes a plurality of user accounts. The plurality of user accounts includes a plurality of voter accounts and a plurality of candidate accounts. Each of the user accounts includes a profile where the profile can be a voter profile or a candidate profile. The plurality of voter accounts is able to select a specific candidate profile from the candidate profiles, where the specific candidate profile includes a plurality of information. The plurality of user accounts also gets to compare different candidate profiles in order to gain a better understanding about the candidate profiles. The plurality of voter accounts and the plurality of candidate accounts are also able to gain a particular political view through a list of political questions, participate in daily political polls, participate in straw polls, and interact with other campaign related activities. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013381 | DISPATCH SYSTEM FOR ALLOWING A USER TO CALL A HIRE VEHICLE - A dispatch system includes a plurality of vehicle-end devices, a client-end device, and a dispatch server. The vehicle-end devices are disposed at respective hire vehicles. The client-end device is operable to send out passenger information. The dispatch server receives the passenger information, and stores a map database. The dispatch server is operable to find a matching one of the hire vehicles, to transmit to the client-end device information of the matching one of the hire vehicles so as to allow the client-end device to display with an indicator that indicates the current position of the matching one of the hire vehicles, and to dispatch the matching one of the hire vehicles to the user. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013382 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USE IN DELIVERING ENERGY TO AN ELECTRICALLY POWERED VEHICLE WITHIN A PARKING AREA - A method of delivering energy to an electric vehicle with a charging device positioned within a parking area having a plurality of parking spaces is provided. The method includes calculating, by a parking validation device, a parking cost associated with a parking space used by the electric vehicle. An energy cost associated with an amount of energy delivered by the charging device to the electric vehicle is calculated. A retail transaction cost associated with an amount of retail purchases made at one or more commercial retail stores is calculated. The parking validation device determines whether to waive at least one of the calculated parking cost and the calculated energy cost based at least in part on the calculated retail transaction cost. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013383 | MOBILE VOUCHER SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method for providing mobile vouchers are provided. The mobile voucher system facilitates merchant auto-scaling in which the system is able to scale and acquire merchants. The mobile voucher system also facilitates consumers who can create their own deals/vouchers using the mobile voucher system. The mobile voucher system also facilitates consumer referral rewards where consumers can earn reward points for the purchasing activity of friends in their online social networks. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013384 | Method and System For Reserving Future Purchases of Goods and Services - A method and system for reserving future purchases of goods or services or events including plural electronic options with associated option fees for the goods or services or events. The plural electronic options include electronic option terms established by one or more suppliers who can supply the goods or services or events. The purchase of the electronic option is accepted according to electronic option terms established by the desired supplier. The option terms may vary greatly among the individual suppliers and no two suppliers may use the same option terms. The electronic option includes a personalized electronic coupon dynamically created by a server network device. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013385 | LOCATION BASED DISCOUNTS - The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture for interacting with a multiple criteria buying and/or selling system to conduct business electronically. In particular, the architecture can include a dynamic discount card that includes an information access component for receiving information. In addition, the dynamic discount card can include a presentation component for displaying information to a user via the dynamic discount card. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013386 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ALLOCATING VALUE TO A CUSTOMER ACCOUNT - A method and system and for allocating value such as prepaid airtime to a customer account with a service provider is provided. The method includes receiving from a point of sale a request to allocate a specific amount of airtime to the customer account, receiving a retailer identifier which identifies a retailer to which the point of sale belongs, requesting the service provider to allocate the airtime to the customer account, sending the retailer identifier to the service provider so that the service provider can bill the retailer for the allocation of airtime, obtaining a confirmation from the service provider as to whether the allocation of airtime to the customer account was successful or not and, in response to a positive confirmation that the allocation of airtime was successful, communicating the positive confirmation to the point of sale so that the allocation of airtime is charged to a customer at the point of sale and, in response to a negative confirmation that the allocation of value was not successful, communicating the negative confirmation to the point of sale so the allocation of airtime is not charged to the customer at the point of sale. The point of sale can be configured to offer the customer a choice as to whether the customer would like change for a purchase in cash or in the form of airtime, and if the customer elects to receive change in the form of airtime, the airtime to be allocated to the customer account is selected to be greater than the value of the change in cash, thereby providing the customer with a monetary incentive to choose to receive the change in the form of airtime. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013387 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AWARDING AND ACCOUNTING FOR POINTS TO A USER TO INCENTIVIZE ACTIVITY - Computer implemented methods and systems are disclosed for awarding, and accounting for, points to a user, including receiving notification of completion of a pre-defined task by a user, awarding first points to the user, wherein the first points only accumulate in a user account, and awarding second points to the user, wherein the second points can be exchanged for rewards. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013388 | LOCATION BASED DISCOUNTS - The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture for interacting with a multiple criteria buying and/or selling system to conduct business electronically. In particular, the architecture can include a dynamic discount card that includes an information access component for receiving information. In addition, the dynamic discount card can include a presentation component for displaying information to a user via the dynamic discount card. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013389 | MOBILE VOUCHER SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method for providing mobile vouchers are provided. The mobile voucher system provides provable in-store redemption, city wide vouchers, cross selling of deals at time of redemption and partial redemption of vouchers and proximity based pricing. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013390 | Point of Sale System - There is disclosed a system has a POS terminal comprising a display output interface and an identification input interface, the POS terminal being programmed: to receive identification data via the identification input interface, the identification data identifying a selected product for processing by the POS terminal, to process the identification data to generate alphanumeric text data encoding a description of the selected product, and to output the alphanumeric text data via the display output interface; a display unit; and a controller, programmed: to receive the alphanumeric text data from the POS terminal display output interface, to process the alphanumeric text data to generate further identification data identifying the selected product, to process the further identification data to select graphical data appropriate for the selected product, and to output the graphical data to the display unit. A controller, method, computer readable medium and computer are also disclosed. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013391 | Dynamic Frequency Capping with Escalating Offers - There is disclosed a system and method for dynamic frequency capping with escalating offers. The method includes accessing a user identification system to uniquely identify a user and an offer database to identify an offer campaign to be presented to the user. The method then includes determining that the number of times that a first offer has been presented to the user has exceeded a threshold associated with the first offer or that the user has declined a first offer, accessing the offer database to identify an alternative offer to be presented to the user and presenting the alternative offer to the user. The alternative offer may represent enhanced value over the first offer. A counter is incremented in the offer database associated with a number of views of the alternative offer by the user. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013392 | HIGH PERFORMANCE PERSONALIZED ADVERTISEMENT SERVING BY EXPLOITING THREAD ASSIGNMENTS IN A MULTIPLE CORE COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - A method, apparatus and computer program product for high performance advertisement serving by exploiting processor thread assignments in a processor having multiple threads. The method commences by receiving digital advertisements, an instance of the digital advertisement being associated with a plurality of decision trees (to relate a user to an advertisement), where the evaluation of a decision tree results in a tree score. After determining a number of cores within the processor, the decisions trees are assigned to processor cores or processor threads by iteratively assigning to a next one of the number of cores, a next decision tree, and iteratively accumulating a plurality of the tree scores to form a tree score subtotal. The tree score subtotals can be compared quantitatively to rank a first digital advertisement against a second digital advertisement, and a ranked advertisement displayed to a user. Some decision trees comprise demographic, behavioral and context quantifiers. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013393 | SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING OFFERED INCENTIVES THAT WILL ACHIEVE AN OBJECTIVE - A computer implemented method of improving the performance of a viral marketing program comprises exposing, via a computer network, a first offered incentive to a first plurality of users. A first consumer viral marketing action is to be completed to receive the first incentive. First data indicative of the first plurality of users' progress toward achieving the first action is collected thereby providing a likelihood of the first incentive obtaining an objective. A second incentive is exposed to a second plurality of users. A second consumer viral marketing action is to be completed to receive the second incentive. Second data indicative of the second plurality of users' progress toward achieving the second marketing action is collected thereby providing a likelihood of the second incentive obtaining the objective. The first and second data is compared using a metric to identify which incentive is more likely to obtain the objective. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013394 | COMBINING SEGMENTS OF USERS INTO VERTICALLY INDEXED SUPER-SEGMENTS - Techniques are described herein for combining segments of users into super-segments. The interests of the segments in online ad campaigns in which they participate are compared to determine subsets of the segments whose interests are correlated to an extent that exceeds a designated threshold. The segments in each subset are combined to provide a respective super-segment. Each online ad campaign corresponds to a specified category, such as telecommunications, auto, finance, retail, entertainment, travel, etc. For each super-segment, the cumulative interest of the segments therein for each category are determined The cumulative interests for each super-segment are used to determine which super-segment(s) are to be targeted for receiving a specified online advertisement. For instance, the cumulative interests of the respective super-segments in the category most closely related to a subject matter with which the specified online advertisement is associated may be compared to determine which super-segment(s) are to be targeted. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013395 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADVERTISING BIDDING - Methods, articles, and systems for determining a bidding strategy for on-line query answer set or contextual advertisement positions for marketing options is described herein. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013396 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO PERFORM EXPOSURE AND CONVERSION ANALYSIS - A system and method to measure the effectiveness of advertisements. The effectiveness of a particular target portion of an advertising campaign (e.g., related to an advertisement or advertisements appearing on a specific network, time of the day, program, etc.) is determined relative to exposures to other portions of the advertising campaign. To facilitate the measurement, the system constructs an exposure interaction matrix, which allows isolation of the effectiveness of one group of advertisement exposures while controlling for exposures across other groups. For each cell of the matrix, the system computes an index. The index indicates how much the target advertisements influenced the conversion decision, relative to the entire campaign. A plurality of exposure interaction matrices may be determined for a plurality of target portions and compared to one another in order to determine a desired advertising schedule. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013397 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BID-SENSITIVE, ZONE-BASED, MOBILE ADVERTISING - A system comprising a first location within a bounding area, a second location within the bounding area, a first bid associated with the first location, and a second bid associated with the first location is disclosed. A method comprising receiving a first proximity ad zone associated with a first bid amount, receiving a second proximity ad zone associated with a second bid amount, intersecting the first proximity ad zone and the second proximity ad zone is also disclosed. Further, a method comprises assigning an accuracy assignment to a participant client device, assigning a first proximity ad zone around a first advertisement, associating a first bid amount with the first advertisement, assigning a second proximity ad zone around a second advertisement, associating a second bid amount with the second advertisement, and intersecting the first proximity ad zone with the second proximity ad zone. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013398 | MARKETING AND SHOPPING METHOD VIA INTERNET - This invention provides a as a marketing and shopping method via Internet, including providing a web server, providing a correlating database, providing an event code database, providing a consumer viewing page, providing a marketing page and providing a shopping page. By the above method, the users can acknowledge whether what they would like to buy or attend has be bought or is about to be bought by friends, and accordingly consider if they are going to make a buying decision. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013399 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ADVERTISEMENT SELECTION DETECTION AND DELAYED PRESENTATION - The invention provides in some aspects a system including a server digital data processor that executes on an ad server which is in communications coupling with a client digital data processor. An app executing on the client responds to display of an advertisement, effected by the ad server, by determining whether a user of the app has touched the screen (or otherwise responded to) a “get more information,” or other control displayed with the ad. If so, the app delays display of a web site or other collateral until the app reaches a suitable stopping point. At that point, the app queries the user to determine when and/or how he/she wishes to visit the web site and/or to have the collateral delivered. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013400 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LINKING WEB DOCUMENTS - Provided is a cloud-based document linking system and a method that uses a processor to provide a method for aligning a document stored on a cloud-based cross-clipboard and providing the document along with a linkable service. The cloud-based document link system includes a storage unit configured to store, on a cross-clipboard, at least one first document associated with a first service provided through a first device if the at least one first document is requested to be copied onto the cross-clipboard. If the at least one first document is stored on the cloud-based cross-clipboard, the providing unit is configured to align each first document according to an order based on a reference standard, and provide at least one advertisement corresponding to each first document. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013401 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING DOCUMENT LINK SERVICE AND LINKABLE ADVERTISEMENT - Provided is a cloud-based document linking system and a method that uses a processor to provide a method for providing an advertisement and a service linkable with a document stored on a cloud-based cross-clipboard. The cloud-based document link system includes a storage unit to store, on a cross-clipboard, at least one first document associated with a first service provided through a first device if the at least one first document is requested to be copied onto the cross-clipboard, an identification unit to identify at least one second service linkable with the at least one first document stored on the cross-clipboard, a selector to select at least one advertisement associated with each first document stored on the cross-clipboard, and a providing unit to provide a list of the first document and a list of the corresponding at least one second service with the at least one selected advertisement. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013402 | ADVERTISEMENT DISPLAY SYSTEM - An advertisement display system includes a photograph unit for taking a photograph of a signal light of a signal such as a traffic signal or an alarm for a railway crossing, a computer for analyzing the signal condition such as lighting or blinking of the signal light from image data thus photographed by the photograph unit, and a display unit for displaying advertisement display information which is stored in advance in the computer or the display unit in conjunction with the lighting or blinking condition of the signal light analyzed by the computer and displays a display body having a content correlated with the signal condition of the signal on the display unit. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013403 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, TERMINAL DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The present invention includes: acquiring inventory information related to the number of stock of a product, from a product storage means which stores the inventory information and acquiring a product image showing an image related to the product, from a product image storage means which stores the product image (S | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013404 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTION OF DIGITAL OFFERS - Described herein are systems and methods for distributing digital offers to a consumer. The consumer may receive and select offers from brands and retailers, share these offers, and redeem these offers through the use of their connected consumer device. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013405 | METHOD OF REACTIVE TARGETED ADVERTISING - In one inventive aspect, a method of reactive targeted advertising provides for display of advertising, via the internet, to computers of users. In a particular example, a plurality of keywords are stored in a memory. The method comprises determining whether one or more of those keywords are used in a web page, and for any keywords determined to be used, an advertisement is selected using those keywords. The advertisement is for display on the computer of the user who is accessing the web page. A request is received for the selected advertisement, and the advertisement is provided, from an advertising server and over the internet, for display on the computer of the user. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013406 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING RECOMMENDATIONS - A method of providing recommendations is disclosed and includes receiving a selection of an offering via an online site. The method also includes outputting a detail page related to the offering via the online site. The detail page includes a first selectable indicator corresponding to a social network of a visitor and a second selectable indicator corresponding to unfiltered content. The method also includes outputting at least one recommendation via the detail page. Each recommendation is associated with a member of the social network when input received via the online site indicates a selection of the first selectable indicator. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013407 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING INFORMATION THROUGH COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION NETWORK SITES - Information pertaining to products made by manufacturers and sold to consumers through retailers, is distributed to consumers through a communication network that connects consumer communication nodes to a cooperative network site having an accumulation of information about manufacturer product offers and retailer special deals. A consumer can obtain selected items of this information without knowledge of how to reach the cooperative network site, by simply logging in to a manufacturer network site or to a retailer network site. At a manufacturer site, the consumer can obtain a list of local retailers carrying the manufacturer offers and can then select from among the offers and receive complete details of the selected offers. At a retailer site, the consumer can obtain a list of manufacturer offers available at the retailer stores in the consumer's area, and can then select from among the available offers and receive their complete details. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013408 | Method and Arrangement for Network Searching - A method and arrangement for supporting network searches for information or content using one or more web-based search engines. When a search query is received ( | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013409 | Storage of Advertisements in a Personal Account at an Online Service - A system for use in storage of advertisements in a personal account at an online service is provided. The online service may be configured to serve data to a client device to cause the client device to display a graphical user interface. The system may include a search interface to receive a search query input by a user and to display search results and one or more advertisements generated from a search engine of the online service in response to the search query, a selector configured to receive a user command to save a selected advertisement in the personal account for later viewing and/or traversal of a hyperlink embedded in the advertisement, and a personal account interface to display a saved advertisement in the personal account. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013410 | METHOD OF REACTIVE TARGETED ADVERTISING - In one inventive aspect, a method of reactive targeted advertising provides for display of advertising, via the internet, to computers of users. In a particular example, a plurality of keywords are stored in a memory. The method comprises determining whether one or more of those keywords are used in a web page, and for any keywords determined to be used, an advertisement is selected using those keywords. The advertisement is for display on the computer of the user who is accessing the web page. A request is received for the selected advertisement, and the advertisement is provided, from an advertising server and over the internet, for display on the computer of the user. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013411 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ACCESSING AND RECORDING MESSAGES AT COORDINATE WAY POINTS - A method and system for leaving and retrieving messages at specific coordinate way points within a commercial mobile radio service (CMRS) provider network are disclosed. Users carry or transport interface devices for communicating over the network and are able to record and view messages at specific coordinate locations while traveling in the network. The location of the device is calculated by the device or by the network while the device is powered on and within the physical boundaries of the network, or through a combination of both. Messages can be made available to network subscribers when their interface devices come within an area centered about a physical coordinate location. Personalized messages can also be left by subscribers at any coordinate point within the boundaries of the network. Access of information about an asset is facilitated when a technician comes within a physical proximity threshold relative to the asset. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013412 | Methods and Systems for Displaying GEO-Based Offers on a Mobile Advertising Display Device - Various aspects include methods and devices for displaying advertisements on a mobile advertising display device (MADD). Advertisements may be selected for display by a device, such as the MADD or an advertising server, based on one or more of the MADD's geographic location, the time of day, or various types of user data from nearby mobile devices. Further aspects include systems and methods of responding to requests from mobile device users and assigning expenses based on user activities. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013413 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADVERTISING TO DRIVERS - The present invention relates to an advertising method for reaching drivers who utilize the Toll Road System. By utilizing toll info on a driver as the toll is paid, advertisers can target the driver based on their location and can offer toll reimbursement in return for visiting or utilizing an advertiser's product or service. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013414 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DIRECT DISCOVERY OF DIGITAL CONTENT FROM OBSERVED PHYSICAL MEDIA - The invention provides apparatus and associated method(s) for interrelating digital content stored on Internet websites to physical form media such as that used in out-of-home (e.g., outdoor) advertising. The invention provides apparatus for use in a communications network adapted to provide registered images of physical form media to a plurality of mobile devices connectable to the communication network, comprising: an interface for registering on a registrar device digital images of physical form media, a receiver for receiving at the registrar device geospatial coordinates of a mobile device, a transmitter for transmitting to the mobile device from the registrar device registered digital images of physical form media observable at the received geospatial coordinates, an input for including hyperlinks in registered digital images enabling access to digital content related to physical form media, the digital content being accessible to the mobile device on storage servers connected to the communications network. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013415 | Media Play Optimization - Systems, methods, and a user interface for automatically scheduling a media play is disclosed. The user can specify criteria for play of the media play, including times, stations, and/or external criteria such as a weather condition or the occurrence of an event. Information relevant to the entered criteria is received and assessed against the criteria to determine if the criteria are met. Responsive to the received information meeting the criteria for play of the media play, an accessor accesses the media play inventory and inserts the media play into a media feed. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013416 | DISPLAYING ADVERTISEMENTS RELATED TO BRANDS INFERRED FROM USER GENERATED CONTENT - A method, system, and computer program product for displaying a digital advertisement within a digital context using brand name recognition from user generated content. The method commences by receiving an ad call, the ad call having at least a portion of a publisher digital context and the ad call having at least a portion of user generated content. Then, having the ad call, the method commences by parsing the user generated content, the user generated content being at least partially included in an ad call. Once parsed, then identifying at least one brand association using the portion of the user generated content, and scoring a match between the brand association and at least one candidate digital advertisement, the match determined using at least one matching algorithm. A matched candidate digital advertisement is displayed on a display device. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013417 | OPTIMIZING THE ACQUISITION OF GOODS - A facility is provided for adding, identifying, comparing, organizing, annotating, sharing and discovering goods to acquire. This facility provides users with the information and the ability to make informed goods acquisition decisions at the point of sale where they could not have done so previously. Through the system of goods organization, the user will be able to benefit from the identifiable information about the goods that they currently own when presented with new acquirable goods. Knowing the relations between the existing goods owned allows users to benefit from objective measurements of the likelihood of success or satisfaction when presented with a new acquisition target. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013418 | Selection And Presentation Of Related Social Networking System Content And Advertisements - A social networking system uses information that it obtains from and about its users to select social networking content and advertising for presentation to users in a way that optimizes for one or more optimization goals. Example optimization goals include monetization, user sharing, user engagement, system growth, and user communication. The social networking system may select social networking content and advertising based on their relevance to a particular user. The selected social networking content and advertising may be related to each other to provide a more interesting display to the user. The selected social networking content and advertising may be presented in a supplemental portion of a display, and be selected based on their relatedness to content in the main portion of the display. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013419 | APPLICATION EXECUTION APPARATUS, APPLICATION PROVIDING APPARATUS, AND APPLICATION DISTRIBUTION METHOD USING CHAINING OF APPLICATIONS - An application execution terminal, an application providing apparatus, and an application distributing method using linkage between applications are provided. The method for distributing the applications enables to establish a mutual consignment sales model for all applications by receiving recommendations for applications related to an application being currently executed in the application execution terminal, executing the recommended application in the application execution terminal, and sharing revenues generated from the related applications. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013420 | ELECTRONIC COMMERCE TRANSACTIONS WITHIN A MARKETING SYSTEM THAT MAY CONTAIN A MEMBERSHIP BUYING OPPORTUNITY - The present invention is directed to a system and method for providing complete electronic commerce (“E-Commerce”) transactions and solutions for a marketing company's products via the World Wide Web, including facilities for signing up new customers and recruiting, training and supporting new Independent Business Owners through an interactive online process. In another aspect, the present invention relates to the combination of a marketing business with a membership buying opportunity using both electronic commerce and face-to-face transactions. The present invention is also directed to a system and method for combining a marketing business with a membership buying opportunity, so that Independent Business Owners participating in the marketing plan can introduce customers to a membership buying opportunity and earn bonuses or commissions based on the purchases by those members, while Members in the buying opportunity can consume products or, at their option, qualify to become Independent Business Owners. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013421 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR COLLABORATIVE ADVERTISING - Methods and systems are disclosed in which a guaranteed delivery advertisement may be appended with a non-guaranteed delivery advertisement. The guaranteed delivery advertisement may be, for example, a manufacturer or brand advertisement, and the non-guaranteed delivery advertisement may be, for example, a retailer advertisement. The guaranteed delivery advertisement may relate to a particular brand and/or product and the non-guaranteed delivery advertisement may relate to a purchasing opportunity for that particular brand and/or product. The guaranteed delivery advertisement may be selected based on targeting information and the non-guaranteed delivery advertisement may be selected based on factors such as, for example, the manufacturer name, the product name, the product type, a related product, price, availability of the product, discount, location of the retailer, etc. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013422 | SYSTEM AND METHODS TO CONNECT PEOPLE IN A MARKETPLACE ENVIRONMENT - Systems and methods to provide telephonic connections. In one embodiment, a method includes: providing a listing on a marketplace, the listing including an assigned reference to be used to initiate a real time communication connection; and billing for a real time communication lead generated from presenting the listing in response to a real time communication initiated via the reference. In one embodiment, a method includes: conducting online auction of telephonic leads; determining a way to present listings based at least partially on received price bids on the telephonic leads (e.g., the order of placement, the selection for placement, etc); and providing the listings with information to initiate a telephonic connection in a way trackable to measure a number of telephonic calls generated from presenting the listings. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013423 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UTILIZING A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE - A system and method for determining the identity of a product and then calculating an offer price for the product are disclosed. The identity of the product may be determined using near-field communication in one aspect. The system and method are operable to enable retailers to provide a lowest price for the product and conduct a series of offer calculations to determine an offer for a consumer. The offer is based, in part, on costs to the consumer in executing the transaction (e.g., travel time, fuel, etc.). The offer may be higher than the lowest price as determined by each retailer, respectively, while still providing a discount to the consumer to entice a purchase of the product. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013424 | CONSOLIDATED CONTENT ITEM REQUEST FOR MULTIPLE ENVIRONMENTS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for consolidating content item request for multiple content item environments. In one aspect, a method includes consolidating content item requests for two or more content item environments in a webpage. A first content item environment is a primary content item environment and the remaining content item environments are secondary content item environments. The primary content item environments issues a content item request for itself and the secondary content item environments, and owns a process that distributes the received content items for the secondary content item environments to the secondary content item environments. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013425 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING ADVERTISING CREATIVES - A system and method to automatically generate display text for advertisements. The generated creatives may be distributed in text, banner, email, or other advertising formats through online advertising distribution networks. To generate creatives, the system utilizes a record of the grammatical structure (or “grammar”) of creatives and combinations of two or more words (“N-grams”) to populate each grammar. To generate grammars of creatives, the system analyzes a large set of creatives that have previously been used in advertisements to populate grammar and N-gram datasets. Once the grammar and N-gram datasets are populated with a sufficient number of grammars and N-grams, the system is able to generate new creatives for advertisements. The system populates the selected grammars using N-grams that are obtained from the N-gram dataset in order to form new creatives. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013426 | Timeshare Availability Broadcast System and Method - A computer-based method and system for managing the placement of ads about timeshare properties in worldwide publications, including the ability to post suitable property information as well as the automatic or semi-automatic ranking of preferred rental locations based on the owners and renters information and other related intrinsic information, as well as the provisioning of ancillary services based on this information. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013427 | SEARCH PAGE TOPOLOGY - In one embodiment, a search page portal can include two search controls capable of controlling content within a set of customizable merchandizing tiles and product tiles. The merchandizing tiles and product tiles may be interspersed throughout a central region. The merchandizing tiles and product tiles can be populated with webpage content based on user-entered data. In this example, populated webpage content can be selected from multiple databases based on user-entered data. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013428 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRESENTING OFFERS - At a computing device, an offer for an inventory item directing a user to at least one advertiser site is received. At least one attribute associated with the offer is determined. At least one tag is assigned to the offer based on the determined at least one attribute. At least one matching publisher site is selected based on at least one factor, wherein the at least one factor includes the at least one tag. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013429 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND MEDIA FOR PROVIDING ADVERTISEMENTS BASED UPON RELATIONAL DATA - Systems, method, and media for providing advertisements based upon relational data are provided herein. According to some embodiments, method for processing queries may include the steps of receiving query via a web server, from a client device, generating, via the web server, a response for the query by determining a header object in the query, determining connected entities in a database for the header object, and assembling the connected entities together into the response according to a long-tail response format. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013430 | System and Method for Targeted Marketing and Consumer Resource Management - Systems and methods are provided for providing targeted marketing to goods and services provides and consumer resource management services to consumers. An example system and method for targeted marketing comprises collecting transaction data from point-of-sale (POS) terminals and using a consumer identifier in the transaction data to access stored information about the consumer. This information may be used to target offers and advertisement to the consumer. In an example system for consumer resource management, a consumer may configure a consumer account on the enterprise infrastructure via a web-site. The consumer may use the consumer account to purchase and configure gift cards that may be used for purchasing goods and services. A universal transaction identifier may be associated with the consumer account and used to purchase goods and services from more than one selected goods and services providers. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013431 | Transaction-Based Fuel Purchase Authorization - Techniques for authorizing fuel purchases based on vehicle available fuel tank capacity. The authorization may be performed on a transaction basis, such that each fueling event may be independently authorized. A current fuel tank capacity for the vehicle is obtained, and transmitted to an authorization entity. An authorization is obtained for dispensing a quantity of fuel that does not exceed the current fuel tank capacity. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013432 | NFC TRANSACTIONS USING A SECURE ELEMENT REMOVABLY EMBEDDED INTO A SLOT OF A MOBILE DEVICE - A method for configuring a mobile communication device to perform transactions using a second communication channel that is different from a first communication channel through which the mobile communication device sends voice data. The method includes attaching a secure element to the mobile communication device. The secure element includes a memory storing an application, a processor configured to execute the application stored in the memory; and a wireless transceiver configured to send transaction data associated with the executed application through the second communication channel to a terminal that is remote from the mobile communication device. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013433 | MOBILE COMMERCE AUTHENTICATION AND AUTHORIZATION SYSTEM - The mobile commerce authentication and authorization system allows a user of a currently existing mobile wireless communications instrument to conduct financial transactions, including purchases, across a wireless communications system using location data to authorize and authenticate the user and the transaction. The location of the mobile wireless communications instrument and the location of a vendor point-of-sale device are matched with a payment sum. Authentication of the mobile wireless communications instrument user is achieved at least by application of the position and/or location determinable features of the mobile wireless communications instrument, the position and/or location of a point-of-sale device of a vendor or merchant where the instrument user seeks to purchase goods or services, and the payment sum entered on the point-of-sale device. A transaction matching subsystem located in a wireless customer server hub may assist in processing the location data and the payment sum across the wireless communications network. | 2013-01-10 |
| 20130013434 | FINANCIAL TRANSACTION PROCESSING USING A MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE - A method for transmitting data between a mobile communication device and a server. The method includes running a mobile application on the mobile communication device. The mobile application is hosted on the mobile communication device through the server as a Software as a Service (SaaS). The method further includes transmitting data associated with the mobile application between the mobile communication device and the server, in which transmission of the data between the mobile communication device and the server is monitored through the server. | 2013-01-10 |
