07th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 57 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140046704 | METHOD FOR LIMITING EXPOSURE TO LIABILITY IN MEDICAL BENEFIT PLANS - Systems and methods are provided to limit exposure of medical Plans to high liabilities for renal dialysis without exposing the insured patient to out-of-pocket liability while still allowing the patient to receive dialysis as they need it. In one embodiment, this goal is achieved by providing an ERISA medical insurance Plan structure that limits Plan responsibility to 125% of the Medicare approved amount for the services provided, and simultaneously supplements coverage of the patient under Medicare Part B. Because Medicare regulations prohibit providers from balance-billing patients subsequent to billing Medicare, the patient cannot be billed for amounts in excess of the Plan limits. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046705 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING DATA RELATING TO INSURANCE CLAIM VOLATILITY - The invention relates generally to data analysis, and to systems and methods for the computation of the volatility of a loss. The system comprises a module for receiving a data parameter, a database for storing the parameter, a computerized predictive model, and a business logic processor for executing the predictive model. The volatility is used to, among other things, determine an appropriate work flow for handling the loss. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046706 | CALENDAR-BASED SUGGESTION OF A TRAVEL OPTION - Calendar-based suggestion of travel options involves suggesting a travel option based on events stored in a calendar of a user. For example, a user in San Francisco may be scheduled for a business trip to New York, and the user's calendar may show a dinner reservation in San Francisco on Saturday, September 3 and business meeting in New York on Monday, September 5. A suggestion machine accesses calendar data of the user and travel data for several available travel options (e.g., flights from San Francisco to New York). Based on the accessed calendar data and travel data, the suggestion machine determines that one or more travel options (e.g., a flight on Sunday, September 4) are compatible with the dinner reservation and the business meeting on the user's calendar. The suggestion machine presents these compatible travel options to the user. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046707 | CHARGE RESERVATION SUPPORT SYSTEM, MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE, CHARGE RESERVATION SUPPORT METHOD AND PROGRAM - An object of the present invention is to provide a management server device constituting a charge reservation support system equipped with a charge reservation database for managing charge reservation statuses that includes an installation location and a reservation time for each mobile phone. When an inquiry for a charge reservation status is received from a mobile phone, the charge reservation database is searched based on the current position of the mobile phone, reservation support information is generated related to a charge reservation from the charge reservation statuses of a plurality of charging stands which are present at locations near the current position and transmitted to the mobile phone of the inquiry source. Accordingly, when making a charge reservation for a mobile terminal device, information can be supplied to reduce a user's burden and enable the user to achieve a suitable charging reservation. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046708 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING A CLOUD-BASED CUSTOMER LIFETIME VALUE - Various arrangements for determining a customer lifetime value metric are presented. A first customer record stored by the cloud host computer system on behalf of a first client may be accessed. The first customer record may include information about a first financial relationship between a customer and the first client. A second customer record stored by the cloud host computer system on behalf of a second client may be accessed. The second customer record may include information about a second financial relationship between the customer and the second client. The clients may not have access to each other's customer records. The customer indicated in the first customer record and the customer indicated in the second customer record may be determined to be the same. The customer lifetime value metric may be determined using information from the first financial relationship and the second financial relationship. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046709 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR EVALUATING TECHNOLOGY ASSETS - A technology maturity evaluation (TME) computer device is provided for evaluating a technology asset of an entity is provided. The TME computer device includes a memory device for storing data including a plurality of business value questions and a plurality of technical maturity questions, and a processor in communication with the memory device. The TME computer device is programmed to receive an asset identifier identifying an asset selected for evaluation and to electronically display business value questions and technical maturity questions for the selected asset, wherein each question is designated for a response by a subject matter expert. The TME computer device is further programmed to receive response data from each of the subject matter experts and calculate a business value score and a technical maturity score for the selected asset based on the response data. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046710 | REMOTE TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT - A network device includes a memory, a display, a processor, and a network communication module configured to receive vehicle data, driver information, and driver communications from a plurality of portable wireless data transfer and display device via a long-range wireless network, each portable wireless data transfer and display device being associated with a corresponding one of a plurality of vehicles. The memory configured to store the vehicle data, the driver information, and the driver communications. The processor is configured to process at least one of: the vehicle data, the driver information, and the driver communication into summary electronic reports and present the summary electronic report of the plurality of vehicles in real-time by location via the display. The network device is configured to allow for selection of the drivers presented and is configured to send work requests to wireless devices in use by the selection of the drivers presented. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046711 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS INVOLVING FEATURES OF SALES FORCE PROCESSING AND/OR PRODUCTIVITY - Systems and methods are disclosed associated with classifying, processing and interpreting information based on the aggregation and/or analysis of fact-based data events. Some implementations include associated notifications, reports and/or dispute resolution mechanisms. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046712 | Multi-User Virtual Product Development Environment - A method and apparatus for developing a product. A product development environment comprises a system. The system further comprises a virtual product online world manager and a transformer. The virtual product online world manager is configured to manage elements for a product under development in a virtual product online world. The transformer is configured to exchange the elements with a number of product development systems developing the elements over a network. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046713 | INFORMATION CAPTURE, PROCESSING AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME - An information capture, processing and retrieval (“ICPR”) system shared by multiple buyers, suppliers and workers concurrently and a method of operating the same. In one embodiment, the ICPR system includes an order documentation subsystem configured to document orders for the suppliers and the buyers with respect to the workers. Each of the orders specifies a different method of time capture for the workers assigned thereto. The ICPR system also includes a time capture subsystem configured to receive the different methods of time capture from the workers positioned in one of anchored and untethered locations assigned to the orders. In a related embodiment, the ICPR system further includes a time approval and buyer tagging subsystem configured to allow the buyers to label time worked by the workers corresponding to the buyers with one or more tags, thereby translating approved time of the workers into custom, internal terminology of the buyers. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046714 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING SCHEDULE MANAGEMENT FUNCTION AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREOF - An apparatus and a method for managing a schedule in an electronic device are provided. In the method, a user's input is detected from a current output screen including a schedule and schedule registration information is extracted from the schedule according to the user's input. A schedule management function is executed and the extracted schedule register information is registered in the schedule management function. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046715 | SYSTEMS ANDS METHODS FOR AUTOMATED SCHEDULING - Systems and methods are disclosed for providing multi-vendor scheduling of appointments by storing calendars for a plurality of vendors in an online data storage device; for each vendor, displaying a dashboard tab to show a summary, a calendar tab to access appointments, a customer tab to access customer details, and a settings tab to access vendor details; allowing a user to search for a specific vendor or vendor(s) that meet predetermined criteria; determining if a selected vendor has an open time slot for the user; and scheduling the appointment. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046716 | AUTOMATED MANAGEMENT OF PHYSICAL RESOURCE SCHEDULING - Managing a physical resource is disclosed. Layout information that can be used to identify a location of a physical resource within an environment is received. Calendaring information associated with a reservation of the physical resource is received. Sensor information associated with one or more sensors monitoring the physical resource is received. The layout information, the calendar information, and the sensor information are used to manage scheduling of the physical resource. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046717 | ORGANIZATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CALENDAR APPLICATIONS - A system for parsing data from a document and populating an electronic calendar, the system including a converting tool adapted to convert a document into a plain text format having plain text data. A parser is provided that is operable to process the plain text data, identify at least a target date and task, and convert the target date and task into an electronic calendar format file adapted to cooperate with an electronic calendar and place the target date and the task into the calendar. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046718 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR QUEUE CONTROL - System comprising a queue control unit ( | 2014-02-13 |
20140046719 | METHODS, SYSTEMS AND APPARATUS FOR FINANCING PROJECTS - A method of raising funds for a project, the method comprising the steps of providing a webpage for the project and determining a target fund amount for the project, the project being selected from a group comprising a non-profit related project, a business related project, a cause-related project, a real-estate related project and an art related project, providing a plurality of advertising buy options having respective media outlets available for purchase by an advertiser accessing said project webpage, upon an advertiser purchasing a selected one or more media buy, causing the advertisers advertising material to be placed on the media properties associated with the purchased media buys, and collecting the revenue from the completed advertising buy and applying the selected revenue produced by the completed advertising buy to the target fund. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046720 | AUTOMATED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER, AGENT SUPPORT AND PERFORMANCE TRACKING DURING A LIFE CYCLE OF BUSINESS PROCESSES IN AN OUTSOURCING ENVIRONMENT - An automated system and method for knowledge transfer, agent support and performance tracking during life cycle of a business process in an outsourcing environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, knowledge information associated with the business process is captured. Further, standard operating procedures (SOPs) are created based on the captured knowledge information. Furthermore, a simulated business process is created based on the captured knowledge information upon reviewing the SOPs. In addition, agents are allowed to use the simulated business process and actual performance of the simulated business process is tracked. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046721 | ANALYSIS OF DISSIMILARITY AMONG BUSINESS COMPONENTS - A method and system for analyzing dissimilarity among business components. Business processes are identified. Each business process includes a sequence of activities to be executed in a specified sequential order. Each activity in the sequence is assigned a sequence number and is associated with a single business component. For a first and second activity in each pair of different activities of the sequence of activities of each business process, a determination is made of a pair of a first and second business component to which the first and second business activity is respectively associated, a determination is made of a dissimilarity measure equal to a magnitude of a difference of the respective sequence numbers of the first and second business activities, and the dissimilarity measure is assigned to the pair of the first and second business component. A dissimilarity matrix including the dissimilarity measures is generated and stored. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046722 | SYSTEM FOR ON-SITE ENVIRONMENT MONITORING - Methods and systems are provided herein for monitoring pathogens in various environments and on various items, wherein data from monitoring is trackable, analyzable and comparable versus various standards or thresholds. The methods and systems disclosed herein also include a platform for managing the detection and reporting of pathogens across a number of locations within a number of environments, and using such detection for a wide variety of purposes. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046723 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF PROVIDING A MARKETPLACE FOR DISTRIBUTING LEADS - Systems and method of providing a web-based marketplace for distributing leads to a network of agents are provided. A method includes receiving data indicative of user identification and user insurance coverage from a plurality of website users, identifying a subset of the plurality of website users that fail to purchase insurance, generating a database that stores the data received from the subset of website users, and generating a price for purchasing the data received from each of the subset of website users. The price is added to the respective website user's data in the database. The method includes transmitting a portion of the database including the price to a third party, and receiving a request to purchase a first website user's data. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046724 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOYALTY BASED ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS - A customer feedback acquisition and processing system includes a data acquisition processor for receiving a portion of a customer feedback response to a portion of a loyalty survey, the portion being received after a notice of an insurance claim associated with a customer is received. The data acquisition processor may then automatically classify the portion in one of two categories, the two categories being a potential-promoter category and a non-potential-promoter category. When the portion is classified as being in the potential-promoter category, it may be automatically arranged for the customer to respond to a supplemental portion of the loyalty survey before the survey is concluded. When the portion is classified as being in the non-potential-promoter category, it may be automatically arranged for the loyalty survey to be concluded without having the customer respond to the supplemental portion of the loyalty survey. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046725 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOYALTY RELATED ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION EXCHANGE - According to some embodiments, a data acquisition processor may receive a customer feedback response to a loyalty survey, the customer feedback being received after a notice of an interaction associated with an insurance entity and a customer is received. A loyalty rating may be determined for the customer based on the received customer feedback response. Based on the loyalty rating, information associated with the customer may be automatically transmitted to a party other than the insurance entity. The party other than the insurance entity might be associated with, by way of examples only, a third party administrator, an insurance sales agent, or a sales partner of the insurance entity. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046726 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOYALTY RELATED ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION EXCHANGE - According to some embodiments, a data acquisition processor may receive a customer feedback response to a loyalty survey, the customer feedback being received after a notice of an interaction associated with an insurance entity and a customer is received. A loyalty rating may be determined for the customer based on the received customer feedback response. Based on the loyalty rating, information associated with the customer may be automatically transmitted to a partner platform. The partner platform might be associated with, by way of examples only, a sales partner platform, a distribution partner platform, or an end customer platform. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046727 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING ONLINE SOCIAL COMMUNITY PROFILES - A device, method, and system for generating online social community profiles includes collecting behavioral characteristics of community members of an online social community and aggregating the behavioral characteristics to generate a social community profile for the online social community. The social community profile may be used to elicit proposals from vendors, which may be voted on or responded to by the community members of the online social community. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046728 | CLOSED-LOOP DISTRIBUTED MESSAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD - Systems and methods for processing alert communications are provided herein. Some exemplary methods may include processing alert communications on a mobile client computing device, where the mobile client computing device having a mobile survey management application. The method may also include executing instructions stored in memory to: capture at least a portion of an electronic mail alert communication provided to the mobile client computing device, the electronic mail alert communication being provided to the mobile client computing device by a survey management application of an application server, to establish an active issue within the mobile survey management application, and provide notification to the survey management application that the active issue has been resolved. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046729 | TRIGGERING, CONDUCTING, AND ANALYZING AN AUTOMATED SURVEY - Systems and methods for analyzing results of an automated survey are provided. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method comprises conducting, by a processing device, an automated survey on a survey recipient associated with a customer location. The automated survey is configured to prompt the survey recipient regarding the quality of a service performed for a customer associated with the customer location. The method also includes receiving survey result information from the survey recipient in response to conducting the automated survey. The method further includes analyzing the survey result information and determining if one or more subsequent follow-up actions are warranted based in part on analyzing the survey result information. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046730 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING COMPETITORS OF A RESTAURANT - A utility for determining the competitors of a subject restaurant accesses a database that contains information about other, nearby restaurants. The utility assigns a competitor score to each restaurant within the maximum radius based on the distance from the subject restaurant, as well as the cuisine types, menus, and order histories of the subject and competitor restaurants. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046731 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AN OUTCOME BASED PRICING - Systems and methods for outcome based pricing may be useful in conjunction with an enterprise resource planning system in order to generate desired outcomes for a customer and provide optimized profitability for the vendor. Outcome based pricing is achieved by first generating a bundle of line items. The line items are selected from a listing of known goods and services, and each line item includes an output. The summation of the outputs for the bundle of line items achieves a desired outcome. The desired outcome includes a quantity value and a quality value, and is received from a customer. Next, the bundle of line items is priced to determine invoice price, pocket price and margin. More than one such bundle is generated for the desired outcome, each bundle containing different combinations of line items. The pricing for each of these bundles is compared to identify a preferred bundle. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046732 | TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A intellectual property evaluation method includes the steps of receiving a plurality of input scores for each of a plurality of patents by a intellectual property management software program. The plurality of input scores are combined to form a scale value for each of the plurality of patents. The scale values are compared to determine a select group of patents. A plurality of additional information is received by the intellectual property management software program for each of the select group of patents. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046733 | Facility Design and Management Systems For Achieving Business Goals - A computer-implemented method for simulating a facility to achieve one or more business goals is disclosed. The method includes receiving, by a processor, one or more input parameters for a discrete event simulator (DES) module for a facility, a plurality of business goals for the facility, and a selection of a goal optimization technique. The method also includes generating, by the processor, a DES output that simulates processes occurring within the facility based on the one or more input parameters and simultaneously achieves the business goals in accordance with the selected goal optimization technique. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046734 | PROACTIVE SERVICE PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT - A method and system for performance management is provided. The method includes receiving a list comprising performance and compliance metrics and associated importance ratings for a service. Optimally balanced states and worst states for each metric are determined and related Service Delivery Quotient (SDQ) values are calculated. Normalized SDQ values are generated and data indicating a circle comprising a radius R is received. A virtual circle comprising the radius R is generated from the data. The virtual circle is divided into sectors such that each metric comprises a sector angle value that is proportional to an associated importance rating. Bisectors and a star plot graph comprising the bisectors are generated. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046735 | EVALUATION VALUE CALCULATION DEVICE, EVALUATION VALUE CALCULATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, an evaluation value calculation device includes a receiving unit, a first calculator, and a second calculator. The receiving unit is configured to receive, with respect to a task of a worker to input information, a task result indicating the information input by the worker. The first calculator is configured to calculate, in response to receiving the task result, first information including any of an average evaluation value indicating an average value per unit time of an evaluation value given to the worker as compensation for the task, average work time indicating an average value of time necessary to perform one task, and probability information indicating a probability of the task being performed correctly. The second calculator is configured to calculate, using the first information, the evaluation value for the task that is to be performed next by the worker. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046736 | Systems and Methods for Staggered Funding Based on Milestones - A method of staggering fund disbursement to a company based on the company's achievement of a milestone sends information about a company to a plurality of potential investors. The information including information about a milestone associated with a round of funding. The method also receives payment for the round of funding from at least one investor. The method further disburses a portion of the payment to the company and retains a remaining portion of the payment. Additionally, the method sends a progress report relating to the company to the at least one investor. The method then determines whether the company achieved the milestone based on votes from the at least one investor. Each of the votes corresponds to the investor's assessment of the company's progress against the milestone based on the progress report. The method disburses at least a portion of the remaining portion of the payment to the company if the company has been determined to have achieved the milestone. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046737 | S/M for Providing, Reloading, and Redeeming Stored Value Cards used in Transit Applications - The invention is directed to systems and methods of conducting transactions associated with a transit card. A method of conducting transactions may be conducted between a processor and a transit processor. Steps may include receiving a redemption request and determining if it is a pre-authorization request or a redemption; if the redemption request is a pre-authorization request, determining if the account is authorized for a particular transit type. If the account is authorized, communicating approval to the transit processor. If the account is not authorized communicating denial. If the redemption request is a redemption: determining if account value is sufficient to pay the redemption amount; if not, denying and if so approving the transaction and deducting the amount, and determining if the account value is below a pre-determined threshold for a particular transit types, and if so, updating the status of the account at a data store. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046738 | PORTABLE HAND-HELD MULTIFUNCTION DEVICE WITH MULTIPLE TRANSACTION AND REWARD ACCOUNTS - A system and method for operating a reward points accumulation and redemption program wherein a user earns reward points from a plurality of independent reward points issuing entities, with each tracking the user's earned reward points in a user reward point account stored on a multi-function card (such as a frequent flyer account or a credit card loyalty account). The multi-function card is adapted to aggregate some or all of the user's earned reward points from the reward accounts and credit the aggregated points into a single reward exchange account on the multi-function card. The user may then select an item for purchase with the accumulated reward points from the multi-function card. The item is provided to the user in exchange for a subset or all of the reward points from the multi-function card. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046739 | ADVERTISING PLUG-INS VIA IN-PRODUCT MESSAGING - An advertisement is detected and obtained. A plug-in associated with the advertisement is determined and the determined plug-in is obtained. The advertisement is displayed in an application user interface; in response to receiving user approval via the displayed advertisement, the plug-in is installed and an application user interface is updated to display a user interface control associated with the plug-in. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046740 | Dynamic Player Cards - A system and method for dynamic presentation of a plurality of planar objects includes: generating an interface on a user device, the interface including a display of user-selected interactive features manipulating the planar objects; receiving a selection of a user-selectable interactive feature; and enabling the selected user-selectable interactive feature on the user device. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046741 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING CREATION AND PROMOTION OF CREATIVE WORKS - A method and system for facilitating the creation and promotion of creative works involves displaying or providing information about one or more undeveloped creative works, and receiving and processing requests for purchases of benefits relating to selected ones of the undeveloped creative works. Patron information is stored in a manner associated it with work under development selected by the user. Monetary amounts received from patrons relating to the undeveloped works are aggregated and, at a certain point, made available to the producer of the work to be developed. Patrons may be notified concerning availability of the selected and previously purchased benefits relating to the patron's sponsorship of the particular work. The benefit may be redeemed or obtained in a variety of different manners, depending upon the nature of the benefit. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046742 | Systems, Methods and Apparatuses for Rewarding and Ranking Customers, Tracking Customers, Customer Behavior and Customer Activity, and Advance Determination of Customer Demand - An article of manufacture includes a non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processors to rank a customer in one of multiple tiers of customers based on an amount of rewards assigned to the customer. The one or more processors are further caused to present a first offer during a first time period exclusively to customers ranked in the first tier. The one or more processors are further caused to restrict acceptance of the first offer during the first time period to (a) customers ranked in the first tier and (b) referees referred by any customer ranked in the first tier. Methods and systems for rewarding and ranking customers are also provided. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046743 | TECHNIQUES FOR MONETIZING ANONYMIZED CONTEXT - An embodiment of the present invention provides a method of offering anonymous incentive based context to service providers, comprising delivering context information of a user to the service provider, wherein prior to delivery of the context information to the service provider, the context is anonymized by removing identifying information and aggregating it with context from additional users. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046744 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO APPLY VALUES FROM STORED VALUE ACCOUNTS TO PAYMENT TRANSACTIONS - A system includes a transaction handler configured to communicate with a first issuer processor to maintain a balance of a stored value account, store an offer in association with the stored value account and a consumer account that is under control of a second issuer processor, detect in the consumer account a transaction satisfying requirements of the offer, apply at least a portion of the balance of the stored value account to the transaction, determine a reduced transaction amount for the transaction after applying at least the portion of the balance of the stored value account to the transaction, and communicate with the second issuer processor for an authorization response for the transaction of the reduced transaction amount in the consumer account. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046745 | CONTINGENT PAYMENT SYSTEM - A method for providing contingent payments includes receiving, from a first user through a user device over a network, a contingent payment request. The contingent payment request is stored in a database. A contingent payment intent is provided on a user profile that is associated with the first user. The user profile is monitored. When it is determined that at least one contingent payment factor in the contingent payment request has been satisfied by a second user, funds are transferred from a user account associated with the first user to a merchant account in order to purchase a first product that is associated with the contingent payment request. In an embodiment, the second user may provide a coupon on the user profile that satisfies the at least one contingent payment factor and results in the purchase of the first product using the user account. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046746 | INTERNET PAYMENT, AUTHENTICATION AND LOADING SYSTEM USING VIRTUAL SMART CARD - A system loads, authenticates and uses a virtual smart card for payment of goods and/or services purchased on-line over the Internet. An online purchase and load (OPAL) server includes a virtual smart card data base that has a record of information for each smart card that it represents for a user at the behest of an issuer. The server includes a smart card emulator that emulates a smart card by using the card data base and a hardware security module. The emulator interacts with a pseudo card reader module in the server that imitates a physical card reader. The server also includes a client code module that interacts with the pseudo card reader and a remote payment or load server. A pass-through client terminal presents a user interface and passes information between the OPAL server and a merchant server, and between the OPAL server and a bank server. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046747 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REBATE CALCULATION - The present invention provides a method and apparatus for rebate calculation relating to a partner incentive program. The method and system includes electronically defining the incentive program within a computer processing system and defining one or more tracks within the program. The method and system further includes electronically selecting one or more incentives within the one or more tracks and generating a plurality of incentive data defining a plurality of incentive scenarios based on the one or more incentives. The method and system includes loading the incentive data to a spreadsheet application, wherein the spreadsheet application includes a computational algorithm and performing at least one scenario calculation on the incentive data using the computational algorithm, including generating incentive rebate data. Whereby, the method and system is operative to generate a visual output display quantifying the incentive rebate data. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046748 | OFFERS BASED ON PRE-PURCHASE INTENT - Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods and computer program products for transmitting offers based on pre-purchase intent. An exemplary apparatus is configured to: receive a declaration of intent from a user, the declaration of intent being associated with an intended purchase; transmit the declaration of intent to at least one merchant; receive an offer from the at least one merchant, the offer being based on the declaration of intent, and the offer enabling the user to receive a discount or rebate on the intended purchase; and transmit the offer to the user. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046749 | TECHNIQUES FOR MONETIZING ANONYMIZED CONTEXT - An embodiment of the present invention provides a method of offering anonymous incentive based context to service providers, comprising delivering context information of a user to the service provider, wherein prior to delivery of the context information to the service provider, the context is anonymized by removing identifying information and aggregating it with context from additional users. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046750 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DATA COLLECTION AND PROVIDING COUPONS AT A POINT OF RETURN - Systems and methods are described for collecting data at a merchant's point of return for use in processing a merchandise return transaction that is being requested by a customer. In various embodiments, the data may be collected using a wide variety of data collection technologies and may be used in conjunction with stored data, including data collected from other merchants, by a return authorization system to make a determination whether to accept or deny the requested merchandise return and whether to provide a coupon to the customer. The data may additionally or alternatively be used to determine whether to issue a warning to the customer about limitations on future return transactions presented by the customer. Examples of data categories that may be collected include, but are not limited to, information about: the merchant, the customer, the requested transaction, the merchandise being returned, one or more receipts, a clerk processing the transaction, and other general applicable information. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046751 | Method and System for Displaying Content on a Display of a Client - Methods, systems, and techniques for providing a benefit in response to being allowed to display content include, for example, displaying, on a portion of the display, a desktop; displaying the content on another portion of the display unoccupied by the desktop; and providing a benefit in exchange for displaying the content. In one example, the content may be advertisements and the benefit may be access to a network such as the Internet. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046752 | ASSESSING ADVERTISEMENT IMPACT USING ADVERTISEMENT READABLE INDICIA - Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods and computer program products for processing a readable indicia associated with an advertisement associated with a product. The invention presents a readable indicia in association with an advertisement, where the readable indicia includes instructions for triggering a data collection tool. The invention collects data from the data collection tool and analyzes characteristics of the readable indicia and the advertisement in order to determine a customer advertisement impact. The readable indicia may include information indicating at least one of a current date, a time of inception of the advertisement, a placement location of the readable indicia within the advertisement, or a visual characteristic of the readable indicia. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046753 | AFFECTING DISPLAY OF CONTENT BASED ON NEGATIVE REACTIONS - Techniques for affecting display of content may include receiving a request for content to supplement a response to an input initiated by a first user; outputting first content in response to the request, where the first content includes a control feature that is displayable along with the first content, and where the control feature enables the first user to register a negative reaction to the first content; obtaining information relating to the first content based on the negative reaction; identifying second content having one or more characteristics in common with the first content; identifying one or more second users having one or more characteristics in common with the first user; and using the information relating to the first content in determining whether to provide the second content to the one or more second users. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046754 | ESTIMATING CONVERSION RATE IN DISPLAY ADVERTISING FROM PAST PERFORMANCE DATA - Embodiments of the invention present an approach to conversion rate estimation which relies on using past performance observations along user, publisher, and advertiser data hierarchies. More specifically, embodiments of the invention model the conversion event at different select hierarchical levels with separate binomial distributions and estimate the distribution parameters individually. It is shown how to combine these individual estimators using logistic regression to identify conversion events accurately. Embodiments of the invention can also handle many practical issues, such as data imbalance, missing data, and output probability calibration, which render this estimation problem more difficult for a real-world implementation of the approach. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046755 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COLLECTING DATA FROM ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS INCLUDING PHONE NUMBER PLACEMENT TECHNIQUES - A system for tracking telephone calls made in response to advertising campaigns in electronic or other media is provided. The system permits an advertiser to associate specific and distinct telephone numbers with associated advertising campaigns. The system further modifies advertiser-provided information in response to the advertising campaign to which a potential customer responds, and includes the associated telephone number in the modified advertiser information. The system processes telephone calls made to the selected telephone numbers, and provides reports to advertisers of call data associated with the respective advertising campaigns. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046756 | GENERATIVE MODEL FOR RELATED SEARCHES AND ADVERTISING KEYWORDS - Methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for extracting n-grams from a plurality of offers. Each offer includes a title and price. The n-grams are filtered by bid data and phrase. For each of the remaining n-gram, the plurality of offers are searched to provide offer search results. The n-grams are filtered by offers based upon the offer search results, and the filtered n-grams are provided. The filtered n-grams can be used as search hints, related searches, or advertising keywords. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046757 | UNIFIED PAYMENT AND RETURN ON INVESTMENT SYSTEM - The unified payment system, product and method provide an effective and efficient way to better communicate to a merchant the value of running a promotion and determine a deal structure that works for the merchant, the customer, the promotion system, or any combination thereof. The unified payment system, product and method provide real-time ROI calculations that a merchant and sales representative can collaboratively simultaneously work on to identify a deal structure for the merchant to select. In this way, the merchant and sales representative may arrive at a mutually acceptable payment plan. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046758 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING BIDS FOR PLACING ADVERTISEMENTS - Systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided for determining a bid value for placing an advertisement onto advertising space available through an electronic marketplace. A method is used for calculating the option value of maintaining the advertisement in the advertising space during one or more periods of time. The option value may be based on expected profits and the estimated future value of maintaining the advertisement. The option value may then be used to calculate the bid price for placing the advertisement. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046759 | CAMPAIGN REWARD SYSTEM WITH SORTING OF OFFERS TO USERS - A campaign offer system provides an offer using a mobile device. A service provider includes one or more servers with engines and attached storage. The service provider is configured to be in communication with a mobile application running on a user mobile device of a user. The service provider is in communication with an advertiser and a retailer. A retailer gateway communicates with a retailer checkout system via existing retailer checkout system peripheral device communication protocols without a need to modify the communications protocols or modify a retailer checkout system software code. The system in operation sorts offers for different users. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046760 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR IDENTIFYING QUALIFYING CONSUMER OFFERS - This disclosure concerns the identification of qualifying consumer offers. In one example, the identification is performed by a server. The server first receives an electronic graphical representation of purchase information and extracts from the graphical representation text data elements relating to the purchase. The server then matches the text data elements to criteria of one or more consumer offers to identify qualifying offers, such that predetermined criteria of the qualifying offer is successfully matched to the data elements. Finally, the server sends or displays to the consumer information relating to the qualifying consumer offers. Identifying offers that a purchase qualifies for is automatic, and more efficient and less costly to deliver. Commonly used receipts can be used as purchase information and there is no requirement for the receipt to contain any particular notation. This makes the method agnostic to the retailer. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046761 | Mobile Advertisement Syndication - Improved mobile advertisement syndication capabilities are disclosed for mobile communications facilities, such as cell phones. These and other capabilities are employed to improve delivery of mobile advertisements and their syndication, such as associating advertising content with websites or applications, to appropriate or desirable mobile communication facilities. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046762 | Marketing Method and Communication System for Implementing the Marketing Method - In one aspect, a database in which target subscribers of different subscriber classes that can be reached via a communications system are allocated, and one respective marketer is assigned to each of the subscriber classes. When the communications system establishes a first communications relation between a first subscriber and a target subscriber while using a destination address given by the first subscriber, the subscriber class of the target subscriber is determined based on the destination address. The determination of the subscriber class results in the establishment of a second communications relation between the first subscriber and a marketer assigned to the determined subscriber class. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046763 | USING SEARCH QUERY INFORMATION TO DETERMINE RELEVANT ADS FOR A LANDING PAGE OF AN AD - Advertisers can generate revenue (or credits) from an advertising network by allowing relevant ads to be shown with their properties (e.g., a document such as a Web page), and allow an ad delivery system to serve relevant ads. For example, the advertiser document may include at least one supplemental advertisement determined using search query information entered earlier by a user device. As another example, the advertiser document may include at least one supplemental advertisement determined using a correlation or association of the advertiser's advertisement and the supplemental advertisement. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046764 | COUPON SEARCH ENGINE - A mobile coupon application including a coupon search engine in electronic communication with a shopping list function and a scanning function, the mobile coupon application stored on a computer-readable medium on a mobile device. A method of generating coupons by entering search parameters on a coupon search engine, searching for coupons for an item with the coupon search engine, and presenting resulting coupons for the item on a screen of a mobile device. A method of generating coupons by scanning barcodes of items, creating a shopping list of items from the scanned barcodes, searching for coupons for the items based on the scanned barcodes with the coupon search engine, and presenting resulting coupons for the items on a screen of a mobile device. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046765 | RICH MEDIA MOBILE ADVERTISING DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM - Some embodiments of the invention provide a mobile advertisement content development and management platform which may enable users without programming expertise to create mobile advertisement content suitable for display by, and distribution to, a wide variety of mobile devices and platforms. The platform may, for example, assist users with various aspects of creating rich media mobile advertisement content, associating a set of advertisements with one or more campaigns, managing ongoing campaigns, and/or measuring the effectiveness of campaigns and individual mobile advertisements. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046766 | RICH MEDIA MOBILE ADVERTISING DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM - Some embodiments of the invention provide a mobile advertisement content development and management platform which may enable users without programming expertise to create mobile advertisement content suitable for display by, and distribution to, a wide variety of mobile devices and platforms. The platform may, for example, assist users with various aspects of creating rich media mobile advertisement content, associating a set of advertisements with one or more campaigns, managing ongoing campaigns, and/or measuring the effectiveness of campaigns and individual mobile advertisements. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046767 | RICH MEDIA MOBILE ADVERTISING DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM - Some embodiments of the invention provide a mobile advertisement content development and management platform which may enable users without programming expertise to create mobile advertisement content suitable for display by, and distribution to, a wide variety of mobile devices and platforms. The platform may, for example, assist users with various aspects of creating rich media mobile advertisement content, associating a set of advertisements with one or more campaigns, managing ongoing campaigns, and/or measuring the effectiveness of campaigns and individual mobile advertisements. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046768 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INITIATING A TEXT MESSAGE COMMUNICATION SESSION BETWEEN A MERCHANT AND A CONSUMER - A system and method are provided for initiating a text message communication session between a merchant and a consumer. A two-way communication session may be facilitated between the consumer and the merchant, a mobile telephone number disclosed by the consumer during the two-way communication session may be detected, and a text message communication session between the consumer and the merchant may be initiated if a mobile telephone number was detected. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046769 | ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY APPARATUS, ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY METHOD, TERMINAL ESTIMATING APPARATUS, AND TERMINAL ESTIMATING METHOD - An advertisement delivery apparatus includes a related information acquiring unit, a similarity determining unit, terminal estimating unit, and an advertisement delivery unit. The related information acquiring unit receives a plurality of pieces of related information from each of communication terminals. The related information is information about each of the communication terminals and is unable to identify each of the communication terminals. The similarity determining unit determines similarity of the pieces of the related information received from the communication terminals. The terminal estimating unit estimates that the communication terminals are a same communication terminal based on the similarity. The advertisement delivery unit, when the communication terminals are determined as the same terminal, delivers an advertisement corresponding to a behavior of a same user to the communication terminals each serving as a transmission source of the related information. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046770 | PROVIDING CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION FOR SPOKEN INFORMATION - Techniques are described for providing relevant information to users (e.g., information that is at least potentially of interest to the users). Relevant information for a user may be automatically determined based on a determined context of the user and/or on a request for that information from the user. For example, voice-based information may be obtained from a user in one or more ways, and then analyzed to identify requests or other indications of information of interest and/or to otherwise determine a context of the user that corresponds to potential information of interest. Relevant information for a user may be provided to the user in various ways, such as via a voice-based response during a telephone call and/or via one or more electronic messages sent to the user (e.g., via emails, instant messages, paging messages, SMS or other text messages, etc.). | 2014-02-13 |
20140046771 | GENERATING AND USING NETWORK DATA TO PROVIDE A CONTENT CUSTOMIZATION SERVICE - A system is configured to receive a request for a customization packet associated with a user device; retrieve data associated with the device; encode portions of the network data using a group of keys, wherein each portion is encoded using a different one of the keys, and wherein each key corresponds to a different set of fields, of one or more sets of fields within the packet; store the encoded portions in the one or more sets of fields within the packet; and transmit, to a content provider, the packet, wherein the packet enables the content provider to decode all or a portion of the network data using one of the keys, and wherein all or the portion of the decoded network data enables the content provider to generate customized content for the device. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046772 | Cross-Browser, Cross-Machine Recoverable User Identifiers - Methods and systems to identify a user across multiple browsers and machines are described. In some embodiments, a web request is received at a retrieval service from a browser. The web request may include a request to access a retrieval service website of the retrieval service and may be initiated by a redirection of the browser from a requesting service to the retrieval service. A unique identifier associated with a user logged in to an account of the retrieval service may be determined. The user may be logged in to the account via the browser. A redirect request is sent from the retrieval service to the browser. The redirect may include the unique identifier and may redirect the browser from the retrieval service website to the requesting service. The unique identifier may be used by the requesting service to perform additional functionality specific to the user. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046773 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING RELEVANT ADVERTISEMENTS BASED ON CHARACTERISTIC TAGS - A method and system for displaying relevant advertisements based on characteristic tags. The method includes displaying an article on a webpage for a first user. The method also includes receiving, from the first user, a recommendation of the article for a second user. The method further includes enabling characteristic tagging of the second user to a category associated with the article. Further, the method includes creating a characteristic map for the second user based on one or more characteristic tags. Moreover, the method rendering a relevant advertisement to the second user along with the recommendation based on the characteristic map. The system includes a plurality of electronic devices, a communication interface, a memory, and a processor. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046774 | SERVER AND SYSTEM FOR STREETLIGHT ADVERTISING - A server includes a communicating unit, a storage unit, and a control unit. The communicating unit communicates with a plurality of clients and a plurality of streetlights, receives advertisements from the plurality of clients, and information of a user's personal consumption preference sent by and from each of the streetlights. The storage unit stores the advertisements provided by the plurality of clients. The control unit obtains the advertisements from the storage unit according to the information of the user's personal consumption preference transmitted by and from a streetlight, and controls the communicating unit to transmit the obtained advertisements to the streetlight. A related system is also provided. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046775 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR SYNCHRONIZING RADIO CONTENT AND EXTERNAL CONTENT - Method and device for: receiving station identified content data, receiving a request for synchronized content from a user device, identifying station identified content identifiers in the station identified content data, identifying and retrieving content associated with the identifiers from an external repository, synchronizing retrieved content with station identified content data, and sending synchronized content to the user device. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046776 | Recommendation Systems and Methods Using Interest Correlation - A search technology generates recommendations with minimal user data and participation, and provides better interpretation of user data, such as popularity, thus obtaining breadth and quality in recommendations. It is sensitive to the semantic content of natural language terms taken from user profiles at social networking and online dating applications and blogs. The profiles and blogs can include interests, eccentricities, age, gender, and location information associated with the user. The interest information can include music, movies, sports and personality traits. Based on the user's profile information, the system determines which ad from a stock of ads is best suited to a given profile and delivers that ad. The system can enable advertisers to create and manage online advertising campaigns using a campaign manager in which they attach descriptions to ads in their inventory, thereby generating a profile for each ad which is then compared to the profiles in the target online environment. A user interface can be provided to enable the user to fine-tune product and service recommendation results. The system can be used to match user profiles to provide mate-matching in an online dating environment. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046777 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR USING CONSUMER ALIASES AND IDENTIFIERS - Systems and methods are disclosed for creating a digital consumer profile that may be dynamically and transiently generated, drawing upon attribute data that is available at time of the digital consumer profile creation. The digital consumer profile may further provide for dynamic and transient generations of a plurality of user profiles to fit definitions and use cases not anticipated at the outset of targeting or attribution efforts and attribute data collection. Regulatory conditions, privacy policies, enterprise rules and the like may determine, at least in part, the collection, analysis, and auditing of attribute data, and the merging of such data to form aliases that may be associated with consumers. The digital consumer service may comprise binding expression syntax to dynamically, and transiently, identify profiles to give flexibility and extensibility beyond having a flat match table. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046778 | System for Digital Yearbook with Advertising - A system and method for providing advertisement in a digital yearbook includes a server and a user device for presenting media content on a display. Yearbook data is accessible by the user device and includes text and graphics pertaining to an organization and at least one advertisement. If/when the user device is connected to a network, the user device checks for a replacement advertisement and if there exists the replacement advertisement, the user device replaces one of the at least one advertisements with the replacement advertisement before the user device accesses the yearbook data. The user device presents the yearbook data and one or more of the group consisting of at least one advertisement and the replacement advertisement on the display. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046779 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING AND MARKETING AUTHENTIC VIRTUAL MEMORABILIA - An advertising engine, system and method of using is described. The engine includes at least one vault including a plurality of media assets, a recommendation engine that matches at least one media asset from the vault with at least one requested creative, a delivery engine that integrates the requested creative with the matched media assets from the vault, and a management engine that regulates and/or tracks ones of the at least one media asset. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046780 | Software System for Decentralizing eCommerce with Single Page Buy - A software system with a “single page buy” capability—both product information and purchase information on a single webpage. The software does the backend work needed to display both, in order to simplify the user experience. In one embodiment, commerce is “atomized” by pushing out the capability to purchase throughout the Internet—to ads on 3rd party sites, references in blogs, articles, etc. In one embodiment, a gliding product display is provided. The ad has a banner-type ad dimension, with product icons scrolling or gliding across it. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046781 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING AND PROCESSING INSTALLMENT PLANS AT A TERMINAL - According to some embodiments, a central controller receives a selection signal indicative of acceptance of an installment plan option for a transaction. The central controller determines an installment charge amount to include in at least two bills for a financial account. Thereafter, bills may be generated that reflect installment charges to be paid. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046782 | Conducting Various Actions Indicated by a Financial Card - An indicator associated with a financial card to tender payment for a transaction is received from a point of sale device. A storage device stores independent sets of information associated with the financial card. The sets of information indicate different actions to be performed and settings corresponding to the actions. The indicator received from the point of sale device is associated with one of the independent sets of information. The actions associated with the received indicator are performed in accordance with the corresponding settings in response to conducting a transaction with the financial card. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046783 | Conducting Various Actions Indicated by a Financial Card - An indicator associated with a financial card to tender payment for a transaction is received from a point of sale device. A storage device stores independent sets of information associated with the financial card. The sets of information indicate different actions to be performed and settings corresponding to the actions. The indicator received from the point of sale device is associated with one of the independent sets of information. The actions associated with the received indicator are performed in accordance with the corresponding settings in response to conducting a transaction with the financial card. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046784 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING MULTIPLE ELECTRONIC USER WALLET DATA CARDS - A method and device for managing and storing a plurality of electronic gift cards for use during a payment transaction includes receiving electronic information corresponding to a plurality of gift cards and securely storing the information in storage of a smartcard device as electronic gift cards. The smartcard device may monitor for a request to selectively activate an electronic gift card of the plurality of electronic gift cards for use during a payment transaction. The smartcard device may receive and transmit information corresponding to a selected electronic gift card using a near-field communication (NFC) data exchange. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046785 | Credit/Debit Card Secure Processing Method and System - Disclosed is a system for substantially enhancing the security and protection of a credit/debit card typically carried by consumers. The system includes administrative mainframe computers at a payment processing center capable of cooperating with a microprocessor embedded credit card, an associated cellular telephone number, a scanner with fingerprint reading means, and inputs by the cardholder. The credit/debit card used in the system comprises embedded electronic data and a means for retaining an electronic image of the thumbprint of the authorized cardholder. When presented for a purchase, and scanned at the point of sale, the scanning equipment will initiate a prompt to automatically dial the cell phone number previously registered by the card holder with the system administrator. Upon recognizing the incoming message, the cardholder enters a pre-arranged PIN into his/her cell phone, thereby uploading all security parameters for verification by the electronic equipment at the point of sale. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046786 | Mobile Merchant POS Processing System, Point-of-Sale App, Analytical Methods, and Systems and Methods for Implementing the Same - Disclosed herein are payment systems and methods for accepting and reconciling consumer credit or debit account transactions between merchants and consumers. The described systems and methods include merchant-employee POS application software that can be downloaded onto portable communication devices such that portable POS terminals can be easily deployed into a mobile sales network. Further disclosed are security techniques that can be employed within this system analytics systems and methods for gleaning useful data from the aggregation of multiple merchant employee POS terminal sales data. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046787 | Systems and Methods for Recording Transaction and Product Customization Information - Methods, devices, systems and computer readable media can be configured to facilitate receipt of a unique product identifier. The unique product identifier can correspond to a customized product. In one embodiment, an account identifier is received. The account identifier may correspond to an online account of a consumer purchasing the customized product. In an embodiment, an object associated with the online account is determined. The object may represent a portion of a building. In an embodiment, the object is associated with the customized product. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046788 | PAYMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM - A payment method and a system are provided. The payment method allows making a payment for a purchased product with an electronic wallet account linked with a telephone number. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046789 | Fast Transactions - Systems and methods according to one or more embodiments provide an option for conducting fast transactions in connection with one or more desired items. In one embodiment, a system comprises one or more processors; and one or more memories adapted to store a plurality of machine-readable instructions which when executed by the processor(s) cause the system to: receive information from a user about an intent to conduct a transaction; determine a current location of the user; determine one or more seller locations near the current location of the user; and provide time delay information to the user for the one or more seller locations. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046790 | INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, INFORMATION PROVIDING PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING INFORMATION PROVIDING PROGRAM RECORDED THEREIN - An object is to provide useful information for determining an auction end time to an exhibitor who wishes to determine the auction end time. Accordingly, a server | 2014-02-13 |
20140046791 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM IS RECORDED - There are provided an information processing device, an information processing method, an information processing program, and a recording medium having the information program recorded therein which can present, to a seller, information which enables a setting of, for example, adequate putting-up conditions according to a putting-up purpose of an item. The information processing device acquires transaction history information of an item related to item information of an item specified by a seller for putting-up, from a database which stores transaction history information of items put up in the past. Further, the information processing device extracts transaction history information of other items which suit to a putting-up purpose of the item by the seller, as suited transaction history information, from the extracted transaction history information. Furthermore, the information processing device generates presentation information which indicates a sample of input content of setting items set in an input form by the seller for putting-up, based on the extracted suited transaction history information, and transmits the presentation information to the terminal device. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046792 | Method for coordinating messaging between motivated buyers and listed sellers - An on-line venue in which buyers can anonymously communicate precisely what product or service they want to purchase by posting an interactive request that a number of sellers/service providers can then directly respond to according to one embodiment of the invention. Such embodiments may promote the buyers interests in directly matching their needs with qualified vendors. In contrast to what others provide, where the buyer has to search within each seller/service providers and then send their request. Embodiments of the present invention broadcast a buyer's needs to relevant/selected sellers/service providers. Such embodiments may take the burden from a buyer in finding the right products and services by self-qualifying the lead to proactive prospective sellers/service providers. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046793 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF DISTRIBUTION OF A CONTOURED EXTERIOR 3-D SCULPTURAL LIKENESS - The present invention discloses a method of producing and distributing a 3-D likeness of a member of a group, for example, a school situation where student's 3-D likenesses are taken and distributed to the students and is done in a way to provide both the school and the distributor of the likeness a benefit and distribute 3-D likenesses with a contoured exterior. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046794 | SHOPPING ASSISTANT - Systems and methods of assisting in an electronic shopping experience are disclosed. A request may be received to add a first item to a virtual shopping cart from a user. The first item in the virtual shopping cart may be caused to be displayed to the user. A request to remove the first item from the virtual shopping cart may be received from the user. The user may be prompted to indicate a reason for the request to remove the first item from the virtual shopping cart. An indication of the reason for the request to remove the first item from the virtual shopping cart may be received from the user. A replacement item for the first item may be determined based on the indication of the reason for the request to remove the first item. The replacement item may be caused to be displayed to the user. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046795 | UNIVERSAL USER INTERACTION MODULE FOR WEB TRANSACTIONS WITH USER CONTROLLED CONDITIONS - A universal user interaction module for web transactions with user controlled conditions. A request is received from a user to begin an order. User information is collected from one or more data repositories. The user information is consolidated and a determination is made as to what additional data is required to complete the order. The additional data is requested from the user and is received from the user. The additional data includes one or more user conditions for placing the order. The order is then stored. The order for the product includes the one or more user conditions, and the order is placed only after all of the one or more user conditions have been met. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046796 | Digital Commerce Systems and Methods Facilitating Charitable Giving - The invention provides, in some aspects, a digital commerce system that includes first and second digital data devices that are coupled with a server digital data processor via a network supporting at least intermittent communications therebetween. The server digital data processor is responsive to requests by owners/operators of those digital data devices for (i) selling or otherwise transferring ownership of or other rights in an object from an owner/operator of the first digital data device to an owner/operator of the second digital data device, and (ii) transferring any of credits and/or monetary funds (collectively, “funds”) from an owner/operator of the second digital data device to a charity designated by the owner/operator of the first digital data device. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046797 | COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND A RELATED METHOD FOR ENABLING A PROSPECTIVE BUYER TO BROWSE A VENDOR'S WEBSITE TO PURCHASE GOODS OR SERVICES - Buyer, vendor and third party computer systems are disclosed together with a related method for enabling a prospective Buyer to browse a Vendor's website purchase goods or services. The Buyer's computer system automatically extracts purchase information from which the Vendor can identify the Buyer's purchase. The Buyer's computer system may transmit, under control of the Buyer, confirmation to the Vendor that a third party has been instructed to pay the Vendor for the Buyer's purchase. A third party's computer system may transmit to the Vendor confirmation of receipt of an instruction from a Buyer to pay a Vendor for goods or services. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046798 | System and Method for Supporting Mobile Unit Connectivity for Computer Server to Process Specific Orders - The present invention is an applications gateway that offers multiple functions and features for specific geographic venue locations, while providing easy access to advertising, purchasing, and redemption opportunities for that specific geographic venue location. Venue locations can be stadiums, shopping malls, amusement parks, open air spaces where people can congregate, and/or buildings, which most often require the presence of a concentration of people. The venue location may correlate to the location of the hand-held mobile unit or it may be a remote geographic venue location not near the location of the hand-held mobile unit. Access to the gateway application is through a hand-held mobile unit, which can include a mobile phone, smartphone device, or portable computer having a wireless radio transmission connection. (e.g. iPhone, Droid, iPad, Slate, etc.) | 2014-02-13 |
20140046799 | System and Method for Supporting Mobile Unit Connectivity for Computer Server to Process Specific Orders - The present invention is an applications gateway that offers multiple functions and features for specific geographic venue locations, while providing easy access to advertising, purchasing, and redemption opportunities for that specific geographic venue location. Venue locations can be stadiums, shopping malls, amusement parks, open air spaces where people can congregate, and/or buildings, which most often require the presence of a concentration of people. The venue location may correlate to the location of the hand-held mobile unit or it may be a remote geographic venue location not near the location of the hand-held mobile unit. Access to the gateway application is through a hand-held mobile unit, which can include a mobile phone, smartphone device, or portable computer having a wireless radio transmission connection. (e.g. iPhone, Droid, iPad, Slate, etc.) | 2014-02-13 |
20140046800 | Smart Phone App-Based Method and System of Collecting Information for Purchasing Used Cars - Provided is a system for verifying a vehicle for sale on a smart phone. The system includes a VIN decoder capable of decoding a VIN to determine the vehicle year, make, and model of the vehicle for sale. The system further includes a defect predictor and defect database configured to identify defects in vehicles having similar characteristic data to the vehicle associated with the VIN. A computer readable medium is downloadable onto the smart phone to configure the phone to communicate information corresponding to a captured image of the VIN from the vehicle to the VIN decoder. The computer readable medium further configures the smart phone to receive a signal including the characteristic data of the vehicle associated with the VIN, and defects identified by the defect predictor. The computer readable medium further configures the phone to display the received characteristic data and defects. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046801 | CONTACTS AFFINITY USED TO PRIORITIZE DISPLAY OF CONTENT ITEM REVIEWS IN ONLINE STORE - A method is provided to display on an electronic device, prioritized reviews of content items offered in an online storefront; contact information associated the device includes social affinity information; contacts of the user of the device are matched to reviews of the content item within a content item database associated with the online storefront; social affinity between reviewers, who have a match user contacts, and the user of the device is used to prioritize the reviews; reviews are displayed on the electronic device UI with an indication of their priority based upon social affinity between the reviewer and the user of the device. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046802 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING AN ENHANCED USER EXPERIENCE AT A VENUE OR EVENT - Systems and methods for providing an enhanced user experience at an event or venue are provided. The systems and methods provided herein provide venue-specific location-based services to the user through the user's mobile device. Such services include allowing a user to order merchandise and concessions from their seat using their mobile device and delivering the ordered items to their seat. Such services also include determining a user's seat location from a scanned code on the user's ticket and providing a map to and from their seat. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046803 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO VISUALIZE LOCATIONS OF RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID) TAGGED ITEMS - Methods and apparatus to visualize locations of radio frequency identification (RFID) tagged items are described. One example method includes receiving a request from a portable electronic device to access product information associated with an individual radio frequency identification (RFID) tagged item, determining a location of the product information in a database, transmitting the located product information to the portable electronic device for display thereon, receiving modified product information associated with the individual RFID tagged item from the portable electronic device, and storing the modified product information to the location of the product information in the database. | 2014-02-13 |