13th week of 2009 patent applcation highlights part 55 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20090083112 | Automated Event Modification in Electronic Calendar Systems - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for modifying an event in an electronic calendar system. An event invitation is created in the electronic calendar system. A first timeout value is associated with the event invitation. The first timeout value specifies a time for replying to the event invitation. The event invitation is sent to one or more invitees and the first timeout value is applied to at least a subset of the one or more invitees. If a response to the event invitation is not received from an invitee with an applied timeout value within the time specified by the first timeout value, a first action relating to the event is performed. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083113 | ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY PURSUIT MANAGEMENT AND PRESENTATION GENERATION - A common manner for disclosing information is through a presentation. A presentation is generated automatically to pursue a financial opportunity, such as to disclose to a potential client rationale to purchase a product. In addition, auxiliary tasks that relate to the presentation can be handled automatically, such as sending notices and assigning individuals to disclose the presentation. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083114 | APPARATUS FOR DIARIZING JANITORIAL SERVICES DURING PATROL - The invention provides an apparatus for diarizing the performance of janitorial services during a patrol. The apparatus can be in a personal digital assistant format (“PDA”) that includes one or more built-in peripherals, such as a bar-code scanner. The bar-code scanner is used to scan bar codes that are applied at various locations throughout a facility. The bar codes identify individual locations in the facility that are to be cleaned as part of a janitorial patrol. The PDA is further operable to allow the janitor or cleaner to add enter electronic comments about one or more particular cleaning tasks that are performed at the location respective to each bar code. Other functions are also included in the PDA. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083115 | INTERACTIVE NETWORKING SYSTEMS - A networking system may comprise a web site serviced by a web server assembly. The web site may generally comprise a combination of the following components: a crediting system, a chat bidding system, a performance bidding system, a telephony switching system, a media interaction system, a display system, a photo management system, and a messaging system. An exemplary embodiment of the chat bidding system may comprise a plurality of common user accounts, a queue, and a featured user account. Common users of the common user accounts may pose tasks to the featured user, and may make a pledge for each task. The tasks may be stored in, and sorted by, the queue based on their pledges. A featured user of the featured user account may be presented with a highest ranked task in the queue, and may choose to respond to the task or to skip the task. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083116 | HEAVY INFLUENCER MEDIA RECOMMENDATIONS - A system and method for providing media recommendations, such as music recommendations, based on information identifying media recently played by a select group of heavy influencers for a subscription fee are provided. The group of heavy influencers may be a group of one or more celebrities or other persons whose media selections may heavily influence media selections of the users of the system. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083117 | MATCHING PARTICIPANTS IN A P2P RECOMMENDATION NETWORK LOOSELY COUPLED TO A SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE - A system and method are provided for matching participants in a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) recommendation network that is loosely coupled to a subscription music service. In general, the system includes a central server and a number of peer devices. For each of the peer devices, an associated user is either a subscriber to the subscription music service or a non-subscriber. When a user of a peer device desires to identify new friends with which to exchange recommendations in the P2P recommendation network, a friend recommendation function of the central server identifies new friends for the user of the peer device based on the user's status as either a subscriber or a non-subscriber to the subscription music service. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083118 | SEGMENTED MOTIVATION PROFILES - A method of developing a motivation to motivate participants associated with a program-owner. The reward types of a motivation profile are defined and the participants' preferences are collected through a survey. The collected participants' preferences are modeled to determine segments of participants with similar reward preferences. An optimal motivation profile consisting of the participants' preferred reward types is generated from the modeled data and presented to the program owner in a detailed report. Additionally, a motivation profile simulator for simulating the participants' preference to a proposed motivation profile and a segmentation tool for displaying the characteristics of each segment is generated. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083119 | METHOD FOR BUSINESS PLAN OPTIMIZATION BASED ON ATTRIBUTES - In a computer implemented system, business data composed of production and sales data is used to generate business plans optimized according to a plurality of attributes. The method is highly efficient in complex organizations having multiple interactive production flows, many products and/or many customers. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention a method allowing the comparison between multiple business plans optimized according to different attributes is provided. It allows managers to make better strategic and tactical decision regarding which products to offer and which customers and markets to serve, thereby maximizing the profit the organization. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083120 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR AN INTERACTIVE BUSINESS SERVICES PRICE DETERMINATION AND/OR COMPARISON MODEL - A system, method, and computer program product are disclosed for determining a standard market pricing index for pricing user-defined business services and for comparing unique configurations of business services to the determined market pricing index and/or to other unique configurations of business services. Portions of the disclosed system, method, and/or computer program product describe a model and user interface for performing standard, objective, repeatable, and directly comparable benchmarking of business services. In general, the computerized model compiles a set of market price data and interprets specific configurations and characteristics from the market data set. The model performs a periodic analysis to determine which configurations and/or characteristics are the most common within the data set, yielding a common market configuration. The model further performs an iterative process in which all the data within the data set is normalized and adjusted to the common market configuration of similar business services. A user enters a user-defined services data set into the model, in the form of answers to questions through a user-interface, and upon running the model, receives a report indicating a likely market price for such services. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083121 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING PROFITABILITY OF CUSTOMER GROUPS IDENTIFIED FROM A CONTINUOUS VIDEO STREAM - A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program product for determining profitability of customer groups. The process parses event data to identify dynamic customer data, wherein the event data is derived from a continuous video stream captured at a retail facility. The process then combines the dynamic customer data with customer profile data to form dynamic customer profiles and analyzes the dynamic customer profiles to identify the customer groups. Thereafter, the process ranks the customer groups according to profitability of the customer groups. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083122 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING CUSTOMER BEHAVIORAL TYPES FROM A CONTINUOUS VIDEO STREAM FOR USE IN OPTIMIZING LOSS LEADER MERCHANDIZING - A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program product for optimizing loss leader merchandizing. The process parses event data to identify physical patterns of customer behavior, wherein the event data is derived from a continuous video stream captured at a retail facility, and associates the physical patterns of customer behavior with customer profile data to form dynamic customer profiles. The process then analyzes the dynamic customer profiles to identify types of customers and presents marketing incentives for a set of loss leader items to customers of a selected customer type, wherein the set of loss leader items are selected based on the dynamic profiles. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083123 | Systems and methods for inventory level improvement by data simulation - Methods and systems for inventory management are disclosed. In one embodiment, an inventory manager may use an inventory management system to perform an inventory management process. The inventory management process includes generating inventory data points simulating a demand and a supply chain response time and providing an inventory diagram based on the simulated demand and supply chain response time. The inventory management process further includes determining a variability inventory level corresponding to a service level based on the inventory diagram and providing a proper inventory level based on the variability inventory level. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083124 | Message transmission - A method is disclosed of permitting a supplier to transmit a message through an agent, to potential customers including the steps of creating a plurality of personal customer records which each includes customer identification information and customer preference information, storing the personal customer records in a database of personal customer records, and in response to an enquiry to the agent from a supplier relating to the customer preference information, the agent providing a message from the supplier to customers selected by the agent on the basis of the customer preference information. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083125 | Method and Apparatus for Rewarding Consumer Interaction with Electronic Information - These teachings provide for automatically tracking ( | 2009-03-26 |
20090083126 | Methods and Apparatus for Modeling Relationships at Multiple Scales in Ratings Estimation - Systems and techniques for generating item ratings for a user in order to allow for recommendations of selected items for that user. A set of known ratings of different items for a plurality of users is collected and maintained, and these known ratings are used to estimate rating factors influencing ratings, including user and item factors. Initial user and item factors are estimated and new user and item factors are successively added, with the original rating factors being progressively shrunk so as to reduce their magnitude and their contribution to the rating estimation as successive factors are added. When an appropriate number of user and item factors has been estimated, the rating factors are used to estimate ratings of items for a user, and the estimated ratings are employed to generate recommendations for that user. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083127 | ANALYSIS APPARATUS, PROGRAM AND ANALYSIS METHOD - An analysis apparatus includes a needs relation definition unit to receive input of relation among needs for a product, worth to satisfy the needs and values of selection items for selecting the worth through an input unit and a needs estimation unit to prepare a questionnaire which receives selection of selection order for combination of inputted needs and selection of values for judging to be satisfactory and dissatisfactory for inputted worth and calculate strength of the needs from totalized result of the questionnaire. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083128 | PREDICTED VARIABLE ANALYSIS BASED ON EVALUATION VARIABLES RELATING TO SITE SELECTION - Systems, methods and computer readable media that assist in evaluating the likelihood of success of a new business location. Information about existing business locations may be provided, which includes information about a predicted variable. Data may be collected from either third-party providers, publically available information, or the user that will represent the evaluation variables. A formula is generated that comprises evaluation variables and associated coefficients. The coefficients are determined based on a correlation between the evaluation variables and the predicted variable. Data is collected for a new business location or region in order to determine the value of the evaluation variables for the new business location or region. By applying the coefficients to the evaluation variable values for the new business location or region, an output value of the predicted variable is provided. The output value of the predicted variable may be used to evaluate the likelihood of success of the new business location or region. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083129 | PERSONALIZED CONTENT DELIVERY USING NEURO-RESPONSE PRIMING DATA - A system evaluates source materials such as videos, imagery, web pages, text, etc., in order to determine priming characteristics associated with the source materials. The system also obtains user preferences such as user interests, purchase history, location information, etc. The priming characteristics and user characteristics are blended to obtain blended attributes. The blended attributes are correlated with stimulus material attributes to intelligently and dynamically select stimulus material such as marketing, entertainment, informational materials, etc., for introduction into the source material. The stimulus material may be inserted in real-time or near real-time into the source material for delivery to a user. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083130 | Data Distribution Method and System - A method for distributing data among automotive dealers, including selecting the data from the dealers, processing the data, and providing the processed data to the dealers while maintaining confidentiality of individual data of each dealer. The selecting of the data further includes collecting data indicating which vehicles are in demand. The data includes at least one of a number of a vehicle's make a dealer has in stock, a vehicle identification number, a vehicle's year, a vehicle's make, a vehicle's model, a vehicle's body style, a vehicle's exterior color, a vehicle's interior color, a vehicle's mileage, a vehicle's retail asking price, a vehicle's transactions cost, a vehicle's reconditioning cost, a vehicle's age, a vehicle's selling price, a vehicle's gross profit, an acquisition need of a vehicle, a selling need of a vehicle, a vehicle's image, a vehicle's turnover rate, or an aggregate of any of the above-listed data. The distributed data may provide optimization on return on investments to the dealers. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083131 | Unified Access of Key Figure Values - In a computing system, key figures are made available for selection in an electronic data repository. The key figures are selectable by any of a plurality of distributed systems. A request for a key figure value calculation is received from one of the distributed systems, and request is made for an identifier of one of the key figures. Data is accessed for the key figure from at least one electronic data source, and the data is used to compute a value for the key figure. The value for the key figure is stored in an electronic storage location. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083132 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR STATISTICAL TRACKING OF DIGITAL ASSET INFRINGEMENTS AND INFRINGERS ON PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKS - Tracking digital asset infringement activities and infringers on peer-to-peer networks. One method for assessing notice effectiveness of unauthorized distributors of content on a peer-to-peer network comprises processing peer data from a plurality of peers on the network, wherein the peer data aids in identification of individual unauthorized distributors. The embodiment includes creating a trial with a trial base population of the unauthorized distributors and a trial capture window, determining metrics for measuring the notice effectiveness, selecting a randomization methodology for the trial, performing the trial with the trial base population over the trial capture window according to the randomization methodology and issuing notices to some of the unauthorized distributors. The method also includes characterizing the unauthorized distributors into characterized data of at least one of characterization of unauthorized distribution activity and characterization of notice actions, and segmenting the characterized data into groupings according to one or more variables. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083133 | Method and system for electronic payment of missed tolls - A method and system for the electronic payment of unpaid or missed tolls utilizing a web-based system that records information relating to the unpaid or missed tolls and provides access to drivers or customers to a website whereby drivers/customers can electronically arrange for non-cash payment of unpaid or missed tolls. The method and system also allows for the ability to audit various types of information relating to such payments, to remove or delete information relating to violations when payment has been made and to generate various reports for accounting, financial, enforcement and other operational purposes. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083134 | Adaptive Advertising Based On Social Networking Preferences - A method of providing targeted advertising includes an electronic commerce site that receives a request from a user for a webpage. The electronic commerce site determines an identifier, such as email address, for the user. The electronic commerce site encodes the identifier in a request, such as a universal resource locater (URL), associated with an advertisement. The electronic commerce site embeds the advertisement in the requested webpage and sends the webpage to the user. When an advertising service receives the URL from the user, the advertising service sends a query to a social networking site. The query includes the identifier. Upon receiving preference information for the user from the social networking site in response to query, the advertising service uses the preference information to determine products of interest to the user. The advertising service sends a webpage to the user. The webpage from the advertising service includes information on the products of interest. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083135 | PRODUCTS AND PROCESSES FOR REVENUE SHARING - Various techniques of distributing revenue and/or other money, selecting/bonding delivery agents, and performing other tasks are providing herein. Methods include distributing portions of loan payments to one or more referrers associated with one or more loans, bonding of delivery agents, selecting delivery agents, allocating portions of credit card payments and/or sharing advertisement revenue. Other apparatus and methods are disclosed. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083136 | CONSOLIDATING ONLINE PURCHASE TRANSACTIONS - A system for providing an online marketplace for buyers and suppliers. A processor and memory are configured to establish a buying community as a portal on a network and associate the community with buyers and suppliers. The processor and memory provide for cooperation, by the buyers and/or suppliers, in buy and/or supply relationships with buyers and/or suppliers associated with another buying community established on the network. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083137 | EXCHANGE MARKET PLATFORM FOR TIMESHARE PROPERTIES - Techniques for providing exchange market platform for possessing timeshare properties are described herein. In one embodiment, a fair market price (FMP) is determined for possessing a timeshare property for a predetermined period of time in view of supply and demand of a plurality of timeshare properties having similar characteristics available for the predetermined period of time. The FMP is determined independent of buyers and sellers of the plurality of timeshare properties. In response to an offer from a buyer, a trade transaction is executed at FMP if the FMP is more than or equal to the minimum acceptance price (MAP) of a seller currently owning a right of possessing the timeshare property. Other methods and apparatuses are also described. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083138 | Method Of Advertising On Currency - A method of advertising including receiving compensation from a party and placing an advertisement of the party on currency in exchange for the compensation received to advertise for the party. Also, method of advertising including providing compensation to a currency maker and having an advertisement placed on the currency by the currency maker for the compensation provided to display the advertisement. In addition, method of advertising including correlating a party offering to a particular denomination of currency and placing an advertisement for the party offering on the particular denomination of currency to advertise the party offering. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083139 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SERVING GENERALIZED GIFT CERTIFICATES TO CONSUMERS ON A WEB SITE - A system and method for providing generalized gift certificates, the generalized gift certificates allowing a user to purchase goods and services from one or more merchants in a merchant network via a redemption center. The redemption center utilizes user information and user target parameters to recommend merchants to the user and to target advertisements to users who have received one or more generalized gift certificates. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083140 | NON-INTRUSIVE, CONTEXT-SENSITIVE INTEGRATION OF ADVERTISEMENTS WITHIN NETWORK-DELIVERED MEDIA CONTENT - A system, method and computer program product for integrating an advertisement within network-delivered media content is described. In accordance with one implementation, media content is retrieved for delivery to an end user, wherein the media content type is one of text, graphic, video or audio. The media content is analyzed to identify an advertisement insertion location within the media content. An advertisement is inserted within the media content at the advertisement insertion location, wherein the advertisement type is the same as the media content type. The media content is then delivered to the end user via a network. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083141 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR DETECTING AND PREDICTING USER CONTENT INTEREST - Methods, systems and computer program products detect and predict user content interest include receiving user consumption artifacts from one or more behavioral sources. The received user content consumption artifacts are analyzed by an interest engine and a user-specific content interest list and a potential content playlist are generated for a particular user. The user content interest list is a listing of the types of content the particular user is interested in. The potential content playlist identifies currently available content that is of interest to the user. The content interest list and potential content playlist are communicated to the user. Future content that matches a user-specific content interest list is identified and the user is alerted to the identified future content. Hypothetical content that a user might be interested and would most likely consume if available may also be identified. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083142 | MAIL MONETIZATION - REVENUE SHARING MODEL - This disclosure describes systems and methods for including advertisements in outgoing electronic messages and rewarding the sender for every recipient who clicks on an included advertisement. The disclosure further describes various methods for selecting keywords used to generate the advertisement as well as a method for allowing the sender to directly select the advertisement from an advertisement listing. Furthermore, the disclosure discusses various forms of rewarding the sender including a revenue sharing method. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083143 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR IMPLEMENTING PERSONALIZED DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION - Methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing personalized dissemination of information are provided. A method includes receiving personal information elements for a subject, and applying business rules to the personal information elements, data elements designated for publication by a source of the data elements, and a database of information strings. The information strings include words and phrases that are commonly recognized across a populace. In response to application of the business rules, the method also includes selecting one or more of the data elements from the source, one or more of the personal information elements, and an information string from the database of information strings. The method further includes constructing a contextually relevant output string that is relevant to the subject. The output string includes portions of the selected information string, data elements, and personal information elements. The method further includes conveying the output string to the subject. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083144 | CONTROLLING RECEIPT OF ELECTRONIC ADVERTISING - In one embodiment, a request for content is received. An electronic advertisement is associated with the content. A status of a device that transmitted the request for the content is determined. Data corresponding to the status is included in the request for the content. The electronic advertisement or receipt of the electronic advertisement is provided as a function of the included data. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083145 | DYNAMIC HOSTED ADVERTISING SUPPORTING MULTIPLE FORMATS - Defining an advertisement component to have a plurality of advertising systems each supporting a different advertising format. For example, the formats include rich media advertisements, still images, audio, and video. The defined advertisement component is sent to a computing device for execution. Data identifying a particular advertising system is also sent to the computing device. The computing device configures the advertisement component to select the advertising system identified by the data. The selected advertising system receives and display advertisements in the corresponding format. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083146 | Methods for protecting advertisers against cheats in an EV system for paying and qualifying audiences - An expected value system for paying and qualifying audiences (EVSPQ) is an online database system for paying users for their attention provided that they meet a specified condition or conditions. In this system, advertisers post EV payment offers. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083147 | Separation of advertising content and control - Customized advertising using independent ad content and ad rules involves acquiring particular advertising content to a particular user terminal. Terminal-resident advertising control rules that are associated with the particular user terminal are defined. The advertising control rules are independent of the particular advertising content. A triggering event associated with a runtime operation of the particular terminal is determined, and the advertising control rules are invoked in response to the triggering event. The particular advertising content is rendered to the user via a terminal user application in accordance with the advertising control rules. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083148 | System and method for facilitating content transfers between client devices in an electronic network - A system and method for facilitating content distribution in an electronic network includes a peer-to-peer network of client devices. The client devices are configured to perform content transfers for optimally exchanging desired content items over the peer-to-peer network. A tracking server gathers client statistics, such as content upload totals, by monitoring the various client devices. A rewards manager of the tracking server encourages content transfers between client devices by generating client rewards to the client devices based upon the pre-defined client statistics gathered from the client devices. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083149 | DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD - A data processing system includes a distributing device that distributes edited advertisement data, formed by an editing device, and display terminal devices that display the edited advertisement data distributed to a first place in a predetermined territory. The display terminal devices each include a first reader/writer configured to read out from and/or write in an IC card having stored memory identification data. A second reader/writer is installed in a second place of the predetermined territory and configured to read out from and/or write in the IC card. A hysteresis management device manages hysteresis data from the first reader/writer, correlated with the memory identification data, and hysteresis data from the second reader/writer, correlated with the memory identification data. A hysteresis analysis device correlates the hysteresis data for each of the memory identification data to generate analysis data. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083150 | Method, system and apparatus for dynamic advertisement delivery - A method, system and apparatus for the dynamic delivery of voice and video advertisements to stores, billboards O and movie screens is provided. The inventory of advertisements is managed from a centralized location and can be accessed directly or via a global network, such as, for example, the internet. Other items that may be incorporated into the inventory include bulletins, messages, and other entertainment media. Checkout information is gathered in stored and fed back into the system so that users can see the real-time effects of advertising campaigns. Users may also modify advertising campaigns in response to the real time checkout data in order to gain maximum benefit from the campaign. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083151 | Method Of Advertising On Postage - A method of advertising including receiving compensation from a party and placing an advertisement of the party on postage in exchange for the compensation received to advertise for the party. Also, method of advertising including providing compensation to a postage maker and having an advertisement placed on the postage by the postage maker for the compensation provided to display the advertisement. In addition, method of advertising including correlating a party offering to a particular denomination of postage and placing an advertisement for the party offering on the particular denomination of postage to advertise the party offering. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083152 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING PROMOTIONAL INFORMATION USING DISPENSED PAPER - Disclosed is a system and method for providing promotional information to potential customers. The system includes a dispensing terminal, which dispenses receipts that have game piece surfaces disposed on them. The customer may remove the game piece to reveal promotional information, including prizes or prize information may be revealed to the customer once he has viewed a website. The promotional information may include a website, through which the customer may log on or visit to see if he/she has won a prize. The website may provide additional promotional information to the customer, some of which may be provided by multiple promotion providers. In a variation of the system, the game piece surface conceals information encouraging the customer use his/her cell phone to send a text message to a specified number, along with a response to the promotional information. The system receives the text message and compares the entry code with codes that correspond to a winning entry. The prize is related to a sales promotion. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083153 | Pre-existing liability payment and reward system and method of use - A pre-existing liability payment and reward system including a user communication module in communication with a pre-existing liability holder; a merchant communication module that transacts with the user communication module and a processing communication module; a processing communication module that communicates with the merchant communication module and a provider communication module; a provider calculation module that determines a reward; a provider communication module in communication with the provider calculation module; a system calculation module that determines a reward and communicates with a system communication module; a system communication module in communication with a system calculation module; a holder calculation module managing a pre-existing liability holder user account; and a holder communication module in communication with a user communication module and the system communication module. A method of use is also provided. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083154 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING A MESSAGE FLOW DIAGRAM - A method and system automatically generate entries for a campaign message flow. The method comprises, responsive to a customer request, initiating a campaign, wherein the campaign includes interacting with subscribers via messages. The method comprises receiving customer-inputted parameters defining the campaign. The method comprises automatically generating campaign message flow entries, wherein each campaign message flow entry corresponds to an interaction between a server and a subscriber. The method comprises displaying the campaign message flow entries to the customer. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083155 | Systems and Methods for Usage Measurement of Content Resources - Systems and methods are provided for an effective usage measurement of content resources in a hyperlinked environment such as the World Wide Web. In one embodiment, a content publisher is to include the usage monitoring hyperlink (“UMH”) in its published content so that access to the content resource generates a network based UMH resource request. The network based request contains sufficient information to identify the accessed content resource as well as the provider and publisher. The system and method can be used to reliably measure the number of accesses to a particular content resource, since the embedded UMH triggers a measurement request when the content resource is accessed. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083156 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING THE STAFFING OF PROMOTIONAL EVENTS - This invention relates to the methods of coordinating product and service demonstrations. An event coordinator directs event operators to conduct a product or service demonstration event. The event coordinator provides event operators with cards, such as debit cards, credit cards, or smart cards, to purchase items needed for the demonstration. The event operator contacts a card administration system to activate the card. The card administration system verifies that the provided card ID and event ID are valid, and associates an authorized budget of the demonstration event with the card. The event operator then purchases items with the card, and conducts demonstrations. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083157 | System and method for communicating marketing information - A system and method for communicating marketing information includes a portal by which an individual small business may enter, filter, and limit the distribution of marketing information over the internet. The information from the portal is stored in a database. Information is selected from the database and transformed to be used in one or more information display options including:
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20090083158 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING, REVIEWING, EDITING, AND TRANSFERRING AN ADVERTISING UNIT IN A SINGLE ENVIRONMENT - This invention is directed to embodiments of systems and methods for generating, reviewing, editing, and transmitting an advertising unit in a single environment. In one embodiment, a method can include executing an ad unit component module program adapted to operate in a single environment. The method can further include simultaneously executing an authoring tool program to facilitate the single environment, wherein the authoring tool program is adapted by the ad unit component module program to provide functionality associated with authoring tool program. Furthermore, the method can include utilizing at least one tool associated with the ad unit component module program, wherein the at least one tool is adapted to generate an advertising unit in the single environment. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083159 | FORM FACTOR IDENTIFICATION - A payment device, method, and apparatus configured to determine the form factor of the payment device used in a financial transaction, without requiring a different primary account number for each payment device form factor. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083160 | SYSTEM FOR SECURING CARD PAYMENT TRANSACTIONS USING A MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - An authorization system and computer program for provision and process of a personal identification number (PIN) via a short-message-service (SMS) text message to a mobile communication device. The authorization system and computer program receive a communication from the user indicating a one-time-authorization mode. The authorization system and computer program retrieve information from a point-of-sales location and process a unique identifier for the mobile communication device. A text message is sent to the identified mobile device. The message communicates a one-time-use PIN with required PIN return via the point-of-sales system. The confirmation is processed, which authorization only occurring after confirmation. The PIN response period is voided after a short time, further improving security of the transaction. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083161 | PREFERRED ITEMS LIST MANAGEMENT - Systems and methods of generating a list of preferred items are disclosed herein. A uniform resource identifier that references a listing web service is provided. A call to the listing web service is received from a linking website. The call to the listing web service includes an item identifier corresponding to an item that the consumer is willing to purchase. The call can be executed as a result of the consumer selecting a listing icon that references the uniform resource identifier. The listing icon is displayed on the linking website hosted at a linking domain. The listing web service can be executed to add the item to the list of preferred items associated with the consumer. The list of preferred items is displayed on a listing website. The listing website can be hosted at a listing domain which is different from the linking domain. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083162 | System and method for providing delivery of goods - In connection with the delivery of goods ordered by a customer, a system and method functions to use information associated with the customer and/or goods ordered by the customer to determine additional goods that are likely to be of interest to the customer. The additional goods may then be included on a delivery vehicle whereupon the additional goods may be offered for sale to the customer. The offer for sale may be made directly from the delivery vehicle or by stocking and offering the additional goods at a wholesaler location, such as a vending machine, wholesaler branch location, etc. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083163 | FOR FEE DISTRIBUTION OF CONSUMER SELECTED CONTENT ITEMS BETWEEN DIFFERENT SATELLITE RADIO SERVICE PROVIDERS - According to the invention, a subscriber to a first satellite radio service can be provided with an option to receive, over their current receiver unit, supplemental content, such as a particular show or channel, which is otherwise only available within a relevant jurisdiction as part of a subscription package to subscribers of one or more other satellite radio services. Thus, without purchasing a full subscription to another service, the subscriber of the first satellite radio service may arrange to receive supplemental content that is otherwise only available as part of a subscription package, such as a basic or general subscription package, to subscription holders of one or more other services. The invention also provides methods of broadcasting and methods of configuring dedicated and interoperable satellite radio receiver units so that the supplemental content can be received by a subscriber. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083164 | LIGHTWEIGHT SEARCHABLE POINT-OF-SALE MECHANISM FOR LEVERAGING INTERACTIVE COMMUNITIES - A software component comprises a plurality of modules each executing in a browser environment to make use of “friends” data in a networking site for data gathering and filtering in support of e-commerce through the networking site. A user-interface module operates to output catalog information to the logged-in user and to capture any input. Meanwhile, a data cache or memory is accessible to the modules and is configured to store the catalog information. A control module responds to any input captured at the user-interface so as to provide the catalog information to the user-interface, wherein the catalog data is typically provided from the data cache. A discovery module operates to identify any friends associated with the logged-in user. A communications module operates to populate the data cache with any catalog information retrieved from the server that is associated with the logged-in user and/or any discovered friends. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083165 | Computer method and apparatus for engineered product management including simultaneous indication of working copy status and repository status - A computer method and apparatus for managing revisions to engineered products includes a repository, a local data store (working copy) and a revision manager. Each engineered product is formed of one or more assets. The repository holds the plurality of assets and tracks changes of the assets. For a given asset, the revision manager provides, together in a certain screen view, display of (a) indications of changes made to a working copy of the given asset relative to the given asset as held in the repository, and (b) indications of changes made to the given asset in the repository relative to the working copy of the given asset. The certain screen view in one embodiment employs a tabular format with sortable columns, color coded symbols, textual summaries of changes made to assets and textual description of changes made to assets in the repository. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083166 | Supporting Chargeable Subcontracting When Outsourcing Manufacturing Of An Assembled Unit While Supplying Components - A digital processing system supporting management of purchase orders according to chargeable subcontracting model in an outsourcing organization. In one embodiment, when a user provides an order for a desired quantity of an assembly type from an external organization, the digital processing system automatically raises a sales order, as originating from the external organization, corresponding to each of a set of components required for manufacturing the assembly type. On receiving a receipt indication indicating the successful delivery of the order, the digital processing system calculates a net payable amount to be paid to the external organization. Additional aspects of the invention facilitate setting up of chargeable contracting model with simulated (within the digital processing system) external organizations, planning of purchase orders, etc. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083167 | COMPUTER BASED ENERGY MANAGEMENT - Computer based energy management including an adaptor having a server network interface and a control device interface. The server network interface receives commands from the energy management host software, the commands specify a control device and include control instructions and requests for energy usage data. The control device interface transmits the commands to the control device and receives energy usage data from the control device. The server network interface transmits the energy usage data to the energy management software in response to receiving the energy usage data from the control device. In this manner, the adaptor provides a bridge between the server network and the copper wire network to provide control and measurement of energy usage at a control device level in response to commands from a remote computer system. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083168 | PRODUCTS AND PROCESSES FOR MANAGING REVENUE SHARING - Various techniques of distributing revenue and/or other money, selecting/bonding delivery agents, and performing other tasks are providing herein. Methods include distributing portions of loan payments to one or more referrers associated with one or more loans, bonding of delivery agents, selecting delivery agents, allocating portions of credit card payments and/or sharing advertisement revenue. Other apparatus and methods are disclosed. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083169 | FINANCIAL OPPORTUNITY INFORMATION OBTAINMENT AND EVALUATION - Often times, smaller financial opportunities are not pursued due to their size. Information concerning financial opportunities is collected automatically and analyzed to determine opportunities that should be pursued. In addition, entities that relate to financial opportunities can make requests to be pursued by a particular body. A decision is made if an analyzing body should pursue the financial opportunity or if it should be referred to another body. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083170 | PRODUCT AND SERVICE MANIPULATION FOR OPPORTUNITY PURSUIT - When pursing a financial opportunity, certain products and/or services can be used in helping different parties to achieve a related benefit. Since a number of different products and/or services can be available, selection is made to improve a likelihood of success with the financial opportunity. Once there has been an appropriate selection, the products and/or services can be configured to increate a likelihood of success. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083171 | FIXED PICK-A-PAYMENT - A multiple option loan presentation apparatus and method allows a loan agent to communicate a non-traditional loan product to a customer. Non-traditional mortgage products such as pick-a-payment loans allow a borrower to exchange lower payments during an initial period for higher payments layer in an amortization period. Some borrowers do not want to accepting the risk associated with adjustable rate mortgages (ARMs) for increases in interest rates, but are still desirous of options for reduced monthly payments. Combining fixed rate loans with an option for interest-only or minimum payments allows this flexibility, but places a premium on being able to graphically depict the implications of these choices. Thereby, the borrower can make an informed decision and the loan agent is able to more quickly conclude the transaction. In particular, the minimum payments constraints and changes in amounts can be made more intuitive. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083172 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONDUCTING REPO AND REVERSE-REPO SECURITIES TRANSACTIONS AT MARKET AVERAGE RATE - A system and method for conducting repo market transactions, wherein the repo market transactions are made at a broker average market (“BAM”) rate based on an average transaction rate. The BAM rate can be based on a broker, or multiple brokers' average rate, either overnight or averaged over a term, and can be flat or at a plus or minus spread to the broker average. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083173 | LOAN ORIGINATION SYSTEM INTERFACE FOR ONLINE LOAN APPLICATION PROCESSING - A loan origination system interface module, methods and computer program products. One computer program product for processing loan application data including instructions to extract loan application data including retrieving identification information for a loan application associated the loan application data from a broker device and displaying on the broker device a list of loan applications available to process in an interface that is consistent with a loan origination computer program associated with the broker device. In response to command input from the broker device selecting a loan application from the list of loan applications, the computer program product includes instructions to reformat loan application data for the selected loan application to a format compatible with that required by a lender device and transmit reformatted loan application data to a lender device. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083174 | System and method for dynamic order management - Disclosed herein are systems and methods for dynamic order management. A user can specify at an order originator system an underlyer price, a pricing model, and, in accordance with the pricing model, a desired derivative price and/or desired implied volatility in the form of one or more threshold conditions at which the user desires a trade to be executed. An order executor system receives the dynamic order and a data feed having a data feed underlyer price, and, if in accordance with the pricing model, the threshold condition(s) are satisfied at the data feed underlyer price, the dynamic order is identified as being executable. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083175 | AUTOMATED BATCH AUCTIONS IN CONJUNCTION WITH CONTINUOUS FINANCIAL MARKETS - A method and system for performing a batch auction whereby a series of orders, according to a variety of predetermined order types, are generated by qualified market participants and communicated to an auction system. The auction system takes into account each order and its impact upon relative supply and demand to determine by a preset algorithm a price and share transaction quantity. Trades are executed at the price, and a portion of the transaction quantity is allocated to each investor on a fair basis dependent upon their initial orders. In embodiments of the present invention, the auction system uses a computer system or network designed to automatically perform one or more steps of the above method. Such a system is preferably connected to one or more ECNs such that non-executed shares can be automatically sent to outside sources for execution. In alternative embodiments, the invention includes the use of a one or more intermediaries or market makers to cover certain unexecuted trades at the determined price. The present invention is preferably used to conduct batch auctions at the opening and closing of securities trading markets. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083176 | METHODS FOR ALLOCATING RISKS OF FUTURE MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS - Computer-implemented methods for allocating risks from major developments are described. The methods include identifying one or more future major developments with economic impact; identifying a parameter to indicate that each of the developments has or has not occurred; creating a contractual instrument that is based on the occurrence or non-occurrence of the one or more major developments; and trading the instrument. A contractual instrument based upon on an occurrence or non-occurrence of one or more major developments in electronic form and tradable in the methods is also described. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083177 | PRODUCTS AND PROCESSES FOR REVENUE SHARING AND DELIVERY - Various techniques of distributing revenue and/or other money, selecting/bonding delivery agents, and performing other tasks are providing herein. Methods include distributing portions of loan payments to one or more referrers associated with one or more loans, bonding of delivery agents, selecting delivery agents, allocating portions of credit card payments and/or sharing advertisement revenue. Other apparatus and methods are disclosed. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083178 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING MORTGAGE - A method is provided including collecting a first upfront enhancement fee from a first party to a sale involving a first real property, placing the first upfront enhancement fee into a pool account having a plurality of upfront enhancement fees, and lending a first amount of money to a borrower who is purchasing the first real property as part of a first loan, wherein the terms of the first loan are more favorable because of the first upfront enhancement fee. The method may further include retaining and servicing the first loan, and retaining the first upfront enhancement fee in the pool account as a loss reserve. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083179 | Web-accessible payment processing system - A streamlined automated system for processing payments which is web-accessible by clients through an interactive website. The interactive website allows for clients to directly access a database containing payment information and thereby resolve any exception that may have occurred in the course of processing a payment. The system is additionally configured to adaptively learn and apply information. The system furthermore integrated to allow the input of data at various remote locations and features a novel method of allocating data fields for efficient data entry. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083180 | System, method, and apparatus for managing wastewater treatment installation - Apparatus for managing a residential wastewater treatment system includes an in situ control unit that monitors an individual system. The control unit provides local control and alarms, and also sends status reports and/or alarms to a remote monitoring center via a telemetry device. The remote monitoring center makes information concerning the individual system available through a website. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083181 | Systems and Methods for Allocating an Amount Between Sub-Accounts - A financial account issuer facilitating transactions between accounts is disclosed. The invention provides sellers with an irrevocable method of receiving funds from a purchaser and for improving purchaser willingness to transact with an unknown party. The invention also enables the allocation of a portion or all of a charge or loyalty points to different transaction accounts issued by different issuers, or to sub-accounts. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083182 | Self-service terminal - A method of operating a self-service terminal and a network of self-service terminals. The method comprises: receiving notification that a maintenance operation has been performed on the terminal; performing a compliance check on the terminal; and issuing a code in the event that the compliance check is successful. The code can be used to audit and/or validate that the maintenance operation was performed successfully and that the terminal was left in working order. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083183 | DISTRIBUTED SECURE ANONYMOUS CONFERENCING - A communications manager of an enterprise receives an add-conference request to host a conference by the enterprise from an organizer client, wherein the conference to enable an anonymous user that does not have enterprise credentials to join the conference. The communications manager sends an add-conference response to the organizer client indicating that the conference is organized. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083184 | Methods and Apparatus for Detecting Fraud with Time Based Computer Tags - Systems and methods for creating and analyzing computer tag information for the prevention or detection of potential fraud. Computers and other devices accessing the Web carry device tags with date and time information describing when they were issued by a security tag server. A server time stamp may be inserted into time based computer tags such as a cookies indicating when they were created. Such time stamp information can be encrypted and analyzed during future attempts to access a secure network such as a customer attempting to log into an online banking account. When the time stamp information from the tag is compared to other selected information about the user, device and/or account, including but not limited to last account log-in date/time or account creation date, the invention may be used to detect suspicious activity. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083185 | Reassigning toll violation information - A method, system, and computer readable medium for reassigning toll violation information comprises receiving, by a toll rental entity, toll usage information from a toll authority, wherein the toll usage information includes toll violation information, receiving, by the third party entity, the toll usage information from the toll rental entity, matching, by the third party entity, transport user information to the toll usage information, receiving, by the toll rental entity, the matched information, from the third party entity, receiving, by a toll authority, the matched information, from the toll rental entity, and reassigning, by the toll authority, a responsibility for the toll violation from the third party entity to a transport user. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083186 | Apparatus and Methods for Enabling Targeted Insertion of Advertisements Using Metadata as In-Content Descriptors - A mechanism for transmitting metadata that contain identifying characteristics of advertisements to be inserted, details of an advertisement-spot, and targeted viewing group details as in-content descriptors to a mobile handset is disclosed. Tight synchronization and control of the display of advertisements within an advertisement-spot during wireless content transmission is thus provided. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083187 | MAIL STERILIZATION INDICATOR - A mail piece having a sterilization indicator includes an irradiation status area applied to a part of said mail piece. The irradiation status area is adapted to be activated by radiation. The irradiation status area has a first color prior to activation by radiation. The irradiation status area has a second color subsequent to activation by radiation. A method for the processing a mail piece having a sterilization indicator embodying the present invention includes the steps of introducing the mail piece into a postal processing system. The mail piece has an irradiation status area which is adapted to be activated by radiation. The mail piece is radiated and processed to determine whether the radiation has activated the irradiation status area. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083188 | Secure Data Systems and Methods - Various embodiments of secure data systems and methods are disclosed. One method embodiment, among others, comprises associating information corresponding to a first negotiable instrument with a data structure, and providing a checksum to the data structure to prevent unauthorized modification of the information. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083189 | SECURING PAYMENT DATA - The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture or arrangement that can limit access to sensitive information by means of encryption. In particular, data obtained from a payment instrument at, e.g., a Point-Of-Sale (POS) location can be encrypted at an early stage such that a POS (or another) application does not have access to the data in an unencrypted form and/or does not have access to a means for decrypting the data. For example, a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) arrangement can be employed such that a back-end payment processor can define encryption algorithms, associate itself with a public key, and maintain a private key for decryption. The public key can be delivered to the POS location and employed for data encryption, and, moreover, the PKI can be regulated by the more trusted parties. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083190 | System and Method for Electronic Bidding - In an electronic bidding system and method, it is unnecessary to disclose to bidders a list of public keys matched to bid prices, and in which price secrecy may be proved. In a function of encryption of a bidding device | 2009-03-26 |
20090083191 | TRACK DATA ENCRYPTION - A method for conducting a secure transaction using a secondary PAN is disclosed. The method includes providing a secondary PAN associated with a primary PAN, where the secondary PAN has at least one end portion that is the same as the primary PAN, but has a middle portion that is different than the primary PAN. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083192 | CONTRACT FORMATION AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION IN A VIRTUAL WORLD - A method for contract formation and dispute resolution in a virtual world may include presenting a graphical user interface to permit formation of a contract. The method may also include permitting a set of contract terms to be defined. The method may further include providing a mechanism for review and acceptance of the set of contract terms and providing a mechanism to designate a contract as complete and to release a bond stored in a virtual contract object for virtual payment to a contractor in response an acceptance that the contract has been fulfilled. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083193 | GUARANTEED NEGOTIATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method for facilitating the negotiation of credits. The bank issuing the credit and a nominated bank agree to program conditions pursuant to which the nominated bank, based upon its own examination of documents presented under the credit and before said documents are forwarded to, received, and accepted by the issuing bank, will pay, accept, or negotiate the credit with no or limited recourse to the issuing bank for discrepancies in the documents. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083194 | Investment company that invests in fixed income securities and has conventional and ETF share classes with different dividend payment frequencies - Methods and apparatus are provided to administer an investment company. The investment company issues one or more classes of shares that are bought from and redeemed with the investment company at a net asset value. The investment company also issues one or more classes of shares that are listed for trading on a securities exchange and that are bought and sold in a secondary market at negotiated market prices. One or more computers maintain information regarding portfolio holdings of the investment company and outstanding shares in the investment company. Dividends are periodically declared at a first time interval for the outstanding shares that are bought from and redeemed with the investment company at a net asset value. The amount of dividends to declare is calculated from the information maintained in the one or more computers. Dividends are periodically declared at a second time interval that is different from the first time interval for the outstanding shares that are exchange-traded. Again, the amount of dividends to declare is calculated from the information maintained in the one or more computers. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083195 | FEATURE-BASED SIMILARITY MEASURE FOR MARKET INSTRUMENTS - In one embodiment, first, second, and third inputs are received. The first input specifies a first market instrument and the second input specifies start and end dates of a first time series for the first market instrument. The third input specifies a feature set computer and the values of zero or more parameters thereof. A first feature set of the first market instrument is determined by applying the feature set computer to the first time series. A second feature set of a second market instrument is determined by applying the feature set computer to a second time series for the second market instrument, where the second time series is bounded by the start and end dates. The second feature set is correlated to the first feature set to determine a similarity score for the second market instrument, where the similarity score is a measure of the relationship between the second market instrument and the first market instrument. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083196 | BASKET CREATION PROCESS FOR ACTIVELY MANAGED ETF THAT DOES NOT REVEAL ALL OF THE UNDERLYING FUND SECURITIES - Methods and apparatus are provided to administer an actively managed investment company that invests assets in fixed income securities. The investment company issues one or more classes of shares that are listed for trading on a securities exchange and that are bought and sold in a secondary market at negotiated market prices. The investment company selects and holds a portfolio of fixed income securities that relate to a benchmark index. The selection is made in an actively managed manner such that the duration range of the securities holdings is either longer than the duration of the benchmark index, close to the duration of the benchmark index, or shorter than the duration of the benchmark index. The investment company defines a creation unit basket that has a duration that is equal to a midpoint of the duration range of the securities holdings of the investment company. The investment company periodically publishes the creation unit basket to facilitate creation and redemption of the exchange-traded shares. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083197 | PROPERTY INVESTMENT INSTRUMENT, SYSTEM, METHOD, PRODUCT, AND APPARATUS - A property investment instrument for investing in a property includes at least one contractual agreement between a first entity and a second entity to share in the property, the property having a plurality of investment components including a credit investment component and at least one of a capital investment component, knowledge investment component, time investment component, and labor investment component where the second entity can provide only the credit investment component and the first entity can provide at least one of the remaining investment components. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083198 | Process for franking, printing, and/or producing images on flat mail items - Mail items ( | 2009-03-26 |
20090083199 | PROCESSING DEVICE HAVING SELECTIBLE LIST ITEMS WITH INTUITIVE LEARNING CAPABILITY - A processing device and a method of providing learning capability thereto are provided. A list containing a plurality of listed items with an associated item probability distribution is generated. The item probability distribution comprises a plurality of probability values corresponding to the plurality of listed items. One or more items are selected from the plurality of listed items based on the item probability distribution, a performance index indicative of a performance of the processing device relative to the objective is determined, and the item probability distribution is modified based on the performance index. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083200 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ACTIVE LEARNING SCREENING PROCESS WITH DYNAMIC INFORMATION MODELING - Systems and methods consistent with the present invention improve manual screening processes for a group of documents by implementing an active learning screening process with dynamic information modeling. A classification algorithm is trained to recognize the relationships between concept tags applied to a subset of the documents and true or correct utility or relevance ratings applied to the subset of documents. Once adequately trained using several subsets of documents, the classification algorithm may be applied to the entire group of documents, screening out documents that are not relevant or important. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083201 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING STABILITY OF A NEURAL SYSTEM - Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer-readable media for determining stability of a neural system. The method includes tracking a function world line of an N element neural system within at least one behavioral space, determining whether the tracking function world line is approaching a psychological stability surface, and implementing a quantitative solution that corrects instability if the tracked function world line is approaching the psychological stability surface. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083202 | SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE - A semiconductor storage device includes a storage part including a plurality of nonvolatile semiconductor memory cells each having a conductive path, a charge storage layer and a control gate electrode. The device further includes a plurality of first input terminals each connected to one end of the conductive path of each nonvolatile semiconductor memory cell, a plurality of second input terminals each connected to the control gate of each nonvolatile semiconductor memory cell, and an output end connected to the other ends of the conductive paths of the plurality of nonvolatile semiconductor memory cells, respectively. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083203 | METHOD FOR CONSTRUCTING DATABASE TO DEDUCE DISEASE AND PROVIDING U-HEALTH SERVICE - A method for constructing a database to deduce a disease and constructing a Bayesian network for U-Health application, the method including the steps of analyzing U-Health information, which includes a disease, a symptom, and a treatment, and constructing a plurality of U-Health ontologies required for service provision, setting a meta-model defining cause-and-effect relationships between the constructed U-Health ontologies and selecting at least two specific U-Health ontologies from among the plurality of U-Health ontologies, setting the selected U-Health ontologies as nodes, and generating a Bayesian network by applying the meta-model to the set nodes. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083204 | HISTORIANS EMBEDDED IN INDUSTRIAL UNITS - Systems and methods that provide a historian integrated as part of an industrial unit and/or product manufactured by the industrial process. A historian integrated as part of the industrial unit itself, can increase data resolution and supply immediate and real time data regarding the industrial unit's operation—while mitigating short comings of conventional PC historians. Moreover, a locator component can detect embedded historians that are distributed on the back plane of an industrial network, and integrated as part thereof. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083205 | ASSISTING A USER EXPERIENCING COGNITIVE DECLINE BY RETRACING FOOTSTEPS - Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a user experiencing cognitive decline or a similar affliction may be assisted with the performance of daily tasks or routines. An information handling system installed in a central room of the user's living quarters, such as a kitchen, to observe the user and determine if the user is having difficulty completing the task or routine. If it is determined that the user is experiencing difficulty, the information handling system may provide one or more cues to the user to assist the user in remembering what the user has just completed in order to indicate to the user what part of the task remains to be completed. For example, the steps recently taken by the user may be retraced by projecting an image of those footsteps onto the floor to show the user where she has recently been. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083206 | Apparatus and Method for Constructing Prediction Model - A prediction model constructing apparatus includes a operational result database, similarity calculating means, and prediction model constructing means. The operational result database relates manufacturing conditions of a product manufactured in the past to result information on the manufacturing, and stores a plurality pieces of information obtained by relating the manufacturing conditions to the result information. The similarity calculating means calculates a similarity composed of a plurality of comparison results by comparing the manufacturing conditions stored in the operational result database with a manufacturing condition of a prediction target. The prediction model constructing means determines a parameter of a prediction model corresponding to the manufacturing condition of the prediction target. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083207 | Event-Based Anticipation Systems, Methods and Computer Program Products for Associative Memories - A time of occurrence of an interest event of multiple events is anticipated based on time intervals between at least two previously occurring events and a previous occurrence of the interest event and based on a new occurrence of at least one of the events. For a respective event, multiple inter-event interval pairs based on occurrence times of pairs of respective remaining events relative to an occurrence time of the respective event are memorized. For a respective event, a time of future occurrence of the interest event from the respective event is predicted based on the inter-event interval pairs that have been memorized. The predicted time of future occurrence is also based on the new occurrence of the respective event and at least one of the events to obtain multiple interest event predictions of times of future occurrences of the interest event. The predictions are processed to generate an anticipated time when the interest event will occur in the future. A user is presented at least one of the interest event predictions and/or the anticipated time when the interest event will occur in the future. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083208 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DATA MINING AND AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING HYPOTHESES FROM DATA REPOSITORIES - Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer programs for generating a hypothesis. Specifically, some method embodiments include steps for accessing a system for extracting relationships and determining a relationship rule defining a relationship among a plurality of phrases and a plurality of concepts stored in the system for extracting relationships. Such embodiments further provide steps for parsing a plurality of documents in a data repository according to the relationship rule and generating a hypothesis comprising a previously unknown combination of phrases and concepts being at least partially determined from the parsed plurality of documents. Various embodiments also provide a step for presenting the hypothesis to a user so as to indicate the previously unknown combination. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083209 | MULTI-FIELD CLASSIFICATION DYNAMIC RULES UPDATES - The present invention relates to a method and computer system device for applying a plurality of rules to data packets within a network computer system. A filter rule decision tree is updated by adding or deleting a rule. If deleting a filter rule then the decision tree is provided to a network data plane processor with an incremental delete of the filter rule. If adding a filter rule then either providing an incremental insertion of the filter rule to the decision tree or rebuilding the first decision tree into a second decision tree responsive to comparing a parameter to a threshold. In one embodiment the parameter and thresholds relate to depth values of the tree filter rule chained branches. In another the parameter and thresholds relate to a total count of rule additions since a building of the relevant tree. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083210 | EXCHANGE OF SYNCRONIZATION DATA AND METADATA - Systems and methods that disclose alternative patterns for exchange of synchronization data and/or metadata, e.g., ‘knowledge’, to enhance performance of synchronization processes are disclosed. Accordingly, the innovation discloses synchronization mechanisms that employ exchange of data and metadata to alleviate a requirement of a complete ‘round-trip’ when synchronizing data. ‘Knowledge’ can be provided which informs a provider of data changes, modifications, additions or deletions. The ‘knowledge’ can lower expense and/or increase efficiencies of the synchronization exchanges by enabling informed decision-making related to enumerating changes within the synchronization processes. | 2009-03-26 |
20090083211 | INFERENCING USER INTEREST - Methods and systems for providing a virtual network of real-world entities are provided. In various embodiments, the methods and systems receive a database identifying real-world entities wherein the database can include relationships between entities and attributes. Some attributes can be associated with strengths. Upon receiving a search query from a user, the methods and systems can dynamically match entities based on the received query and the strengths to provide a response to the received search query. | 2009-03-26 |