13th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 50 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100082436 | SEARCH RESULTS FOR LOCAL VERSUS TRAVELER - A method is disclosed for serving user queries adaptively based on whether the query is submitted by a local user or a traveler, including receiving by a search engine a query from a communication device, the query including one or more search terms; detecting a type of keyword term by a context detector of the search engine that indicates a geographic context of the query; determining whether a user of the communication device is the local user or the traveler based on the geographic context; and delivering geographically-targeted search results by the search engine to the communication device based on determining that the user is either the traveler or the local user. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082437 | INFORMATION PROVIDING SERVER AND ITS MOBILE TERMINAL - An advertisement information providing server and its terminals are provided in which landmarks along a route and high advertisement effects are supplied to users. Map information is displayed on the display apparatus of a mobile terminal, a route to a destination and picture information existing along the route are displayed on the map, and advertisement information compatible with the picture information is displayed. Access information of the mobile terminal is displayed together with the advertisement information, and adjusted in accordance with running of the mobile terminal. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082438 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CUSTOMER PERFORMANCE SCORING - Methods and systems for customer performance scoring are provided. In one embodiment a method and system for customer performance scoring can include receiving user identification information. Based at least in part on the user identification information, a customer performance score can be determined. Based at least in part on the customer performance score, an offer to extend to an online user can be determined. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082439 | Online media exchange - A data processing system enables a network of interconnected public access computers ( | 2010-04-01 |
20100082440 | ADAPTIVE RUN-TIME ADVERTISEMENTS - Systems, computer-implemented methods and computer-storage media are provided for presenting customizable advertisements to a user. Advertising is customized through the use of user-specific or user-relevant data. Items such as keywords, profile data, and application data are received and are then used to retrieve customizations. These customizations are stored by a server or group of servers that the vendor makes available to the advertising provider. Items that could further identify adaptations desirable for advertising, such as a user profile, may be sent to the vendor's server as well. The adaptations take forms that include pictures, text, graphics, links, audio, and video files. Systems that comprise an advertising server, a vendor server, and a client application used for completing the above method, as well as computer-readable media necessary at each device to accomplish the customizations, are also described. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082441 | DECOMPILATION USED TO GENERATE DYNAMIC DATA DRIVEN ADVERTISEMENTS - A dynamic advertisement creative is generated from a static advertisement creative. An advertisement creative is received. The advertisement creative is decompiled into a plurality of static elements. A user is enabled to select a static element of the plurality of static elements to be converted into a dynamic element. A dynamic version of the received advertisement creative is generated that includes a placeholder corresponding to the selected static element. The placeholder is configured to be dynamically populated with data. The data populating the placeholder may be dynamically selected each time the dynamic advertisement creative is displayed. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082442 | DEMAND FORECASTING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ONLINE ADVERTISEMENTS - A computer implemented system includes a computer readable storage medium which includes historical demand data for a plurality of advertising inventories, and a processor connected to the computer readable storage medium. The processor is configured for generating a first demand forecast for a first predetermined period of time and a second demand forecast for a second predetermined period of time. The processor is configured for adjusting the first demand forecast by removing an existing demand for each of the plurality of advertising inventories, and for generating a net forecasting demand for each of the plurality of inventories for a third predetermined period of time by combining the second demand forecast and an adjusted first demand forecast. The third predetermined period of time is based on the first and second predetermined periods. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082443 | Automatic Generation of Change Orders - A method for automatically generating change orders may be performed at a point of sale system. The point of sale system may determine an amount of funds in the point of sale system and whether additional funds are necessary. If so, a change order may be automatically requested from a back office system (e.g., a cash recycler) or a financial institution. The back office system may determine whether it is able to fulfill the change order request and if not, forward the request to the financial institution. In one or more arrangements, a notification that a change order request has been received may be transmitted to a manager or other change order personnel. The change order request and funds delivered to the point of sale system in response thereto may be reconciled with the back office system. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082444 | Portable point of purchase user interfaces - Systems, methods, and devices for conducting sales transactions are provided. Embodiments include handheld, portable, electronic, point of purchase devices configured to acquire identification information from articles to be purchased, to determine a purchase price, and to acquire payment information for the purchase price. The point of purchase devices may include one or more input devices such as a near field communication device, a camera, a scanner, and a biometric sensor for acquiring the identification information and/or the payment information. In some embodiments, the near field communication device may be detachable from the point of purchase device. The point of purchase devices also may contain communication interfaces, such as a near field communication interface, a local area network interface, a short message service interface, and a personal area network interface, for transmitting the information to an external server. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082445 | Smart menu options - Systems and methods are provided that allow for a portable electronic device to provide smart menus to a user based on a context of a transaction. Specifically, the method of using a portable electronic device may include opening a near field communication (NFC) channel with a point-of-purchase device and providing a smart menu based on a determined context. The portable electronic device may be configured to determine the context based at least in part upon acquiring sales transaction information for the point-of-purchase device. Additionally, the portable electronic device may be configured to determine the context based at least in part upon acquiring vendor identification information. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082446 | TRUSTED AUCTIONS - Embodiments for method and a system for an on online auction system involving a computer server is closed. Values representing a relationship between a seller and a plurality of bidders are determined based on social connections of the seller and social connections of the bidders. An auction method is selected based on the values representing a relationship between the seller and the bidders. The selected auction method is performed for the purpose of selling an item of the seller at a winning bid quoted by any of the bidders. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082447 | On-the-go shopping list - Systems and methods for providing shopping-related information to a consumer are provided. Embodiments of the system allow a consumer to create an electronic shopping list by scanning products. In some embodiments, shopping-related information may be obtained for items in the shopping list, such as pricing information, product quality, consumer ratings, and other information that may help a consumer to make an informed purchasing decision. Other embodiments allow a consumer to obtain and compare retail prices offered by several retailers for products in the shopping list. Still other embodiments provide a store-wide network that allows a shopper to scan items in the store, add the scanned items to a shopping list, and then check-out electronically. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082448 | Media gifting devices and methods - Various techniques are provided for the gifting between multiple electronic devices of media content provided by an online digital media provider. An offer and acceptance of a selected gift file is accomplished between a gifter device and a receiving giftee device using a near-field communication (NFC) connection. If a connection to the online provider is available, the gifter device may transmit a gift request by which the gifter's account is charged for the gift file. Thereafter, a gift file created using DRM keys associated with the giftee's account may be downloaded to the giftee device. If a network connection is unavailable, the giftee device may transfer a locked gift file and a corresponding gift license to the giftee device using a peer-to-peer connection. The giftee device may authenticate the license and unlock the gift file once a connection to the online provider is available. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082449 | ELECTRONIC COMMERCE PRIVACY PROXY - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for exchanging gifts anonymously. Embodiments of the invention facilitate conducting electronic commerce transactions while maintaining anonymity of a gift recipient relative to a gift sender. For example, online friends can exchange gifts in the physical world while maintaining privacy. Embodiments of the invention can be integrated into existing social networking and dating Web sites to provide additional user benefits on behalf of the Web sites. Social networking and dating Web sites can partner with online stores that pay the social networking and dating Web sites a commission on generated sales. A gifting site can implement a privacy fee to maintain user privacy. The privacy fee can be assessed to each transaction to purchase a gift. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082450 | Method, system and computer program product for affiliating content - In a method of affiliating content, a selection of at least one vendor and a unique affiliate tracking number associated with the at least one vendor are received, and a search routine associated with the at least one vendor is automatically selected. A network connection is established to a web site associated with the at least one vendor. Content from the web site of the at least one vendor is automatically retrieved using at least one keyword, the retrieved content including at least one product information that includes a unique product code associated with each product information. The unique affiliate tracking number is automatically inserted into the unique product code associated with each retrieved product information. A unique affiliated product code is generated for each retrieved product information. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082451 | Computer and human interactive system and method for negotiating the purchase and sale of goods or services - A computer and human interactive system and method for negotiating the purchase and sale of goods or services is provided. The system includes a plurality of primary seller terminals and at least one virtual seller terminal which are connected over a network, preferably the Internet, by a host processor to buyer terminals. The host processor connects buyers to sellers of goods according to information provided by the buyer such as the buyer's location and/or goods or services to be purchased. Where a primary dealer is unavailable to complete purchasing transactions, such as where the seller has closed for the day, a virtual seller is connected to the buyer to complete the purchasing transaction. Once a primary seller or virtual seller has been selected to complete a purchasing transaction with a buyer, the buyer and seller are connected by a real time data communications connection and a real time speech communications connection so that the buyer and seller may negotiate and complete a purchasing transaction. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082452 | ASSOCIATING A PRODUCT WITH A STATIC CATEGORY USING TAGS - Methods of the present invention allow a static product category to be received from a user for a product on an ecommerce site. The user may then be enabled to dynamically associate the product with the static product category using a metadata tag. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082453 | ASSOCIATING A PRODUCT WITH A DYNAMIC CATEGORY USING TAGS - Methods of the present invention allow a user to be enabled to create a metadata tag associated with a product on an ecommerce site. Using the metadata tag, a product category associated with the product may be dynamically created. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082454 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A VIEW OF AND INTERACTING WITH A PURCHASE HISTORY - A system for generating a view of a purchase history, includes an electronic receipt generator for generating an electronic receipt including information regarding a purchase by a customer, a storage device for storing the electronic receipt, and a display screen generator which accesses the electronic receipt in the storage device to generate a display screen which displays a map corresponding to the information included in the electronic receipt. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082455 | Real-time bargain hunting - Systems and methods for providing shopping-related information to a consumer are provided. Embodiments of the system provide a consumer with shopping-related information, such as pricing information, product quality, consumer ratings, and other information that may help a consumer make an informed purchasing decision. Other embodiments allow a consumer to obtain and compare retail prices offered by several retailers for a specified product. Still other embodiments allow a seller to send targeted product information to a consumer who has indicated an interest in purchasing a specific product. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082456 | TOOLS IN SUPPORT OF E-COMMERCE INCLUDING INVENTORYLESS E-COMMERCE - Methods support e-commerce and advertising through storefronts having respective sets of items for purchase. Items are added to storefronts by owners via a control panel module. Store owners are presented with a selection of items that were previously defined by that particular owner through the control panel module, and are selectively presented with a public subset of further items of storefronts of other owners. The owner inputs commands through the control panel to add at least one of the presented items to the particular storefront, and a database is updated accordingly. If the item belongs to another owner, the added item is associated with the other owner in the database. A payment transaction is completed by a visitor at the particular store, wherein any proceeds from the payment transaction are received by the website and then shared between the particular owner and the respective other owner. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082457 | Method and System of Tracking Hotel Linen Products - A tracking system for tracking hotel linen includes a tracking control, a plurality of check points setting at different key locations in a hotel respectively to communicatively link with the tracking control, and a plurality of identification tags arranged for permanently affixing at a plurality of hotel linen products respectively. Each of the identification tags contains a unique code preset by the tracking control to wirelessly communicate with each of the check points. Therefore, when each of the hotel linen products is moved to one of the check points, the corresponding identification tag is registered thereat. A tracking record is generated in the tracking control for the hotel linen products in responsive to each of the check points to monitor and manage the hotel linen products so as to greatly improve linen utilization in the hotel. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082458 | ADAPTIVE CRITICAL LOW LEVEL MANAGEMENT - An adaptive critical low level management system is described. In some embodiments, the system includes a configuration module configured to receive a service level setting and a storage module configured to receive usage information for at least one inventory of at least one type of medical item. The system also includes a processor configured to adaptively determine a critical low level based on the usage information and the service level setting, and an analysis module configured to determine when the critical low level has been reached by the at least one inventory of the at least one type of medical item, and to produce an output indication that the critical low level has been reached. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082459 | MEDICAL WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAKING AND USING SAME - A comprehensive medical waste management system for establishing and maintaining medical waste preparedness and cradle to grave asset management in the event of non-emergency and emergency situations is disclosed, where the system includes at least: a central control subsystem, a warehousing subsystem, a distribution subsystem, a tracking subsystem, a retrieval subsystem, and a disposal subsystem, and methods for making and using same. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082460 | Binary Trees for Detecting Inventory Problems in an Enterprise Model - A binary tree structure for detecting inventory problems. A first embodiment detects on-hand inventory problems. A second embodiment detects inventory requirements problems. Both embodiments use a binary tree whose nodes store time values and delta values. The delta values represent inventory consumers or producers. The time values of trees used for inventory requirements problems are shifted in accordance with build-ahead times. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082461 | ASSOCIATING A FOREIGN CURRENCY WITH AN ACCOUNTING OBJECT - Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system that automatically associates a foreign currency with an accounting object. First, a name is received from a user. Next, an association between the name and the foreign currency is determined, wherein the foreign currency is different from a home currency. Then, the accounting object is automatically associated with the foreign currency associated with the name. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082462 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTHENTICATION VIA COMMUNICATION TERMINAL USING SHORT MESSAGE - The present invention discloses a method and a system for authentication via a communication terminal using short messages, in order to solve the problems that the content of a short message is easy to be leaked out by a proxy SP and that the loss and delay of a short message may lead to repeating user payments. The method includes: sending, by the communication terminal to a payment system via an SP1, a short message payment request including a payee's account identifier and a payment amount; creating, by the payment system, a payment record corresponding to the request and sending verification information to the communication terminal via an SP2, the verification information including the payee's account identifier and the payment amount; replying, by the communication terminal, confirmation information to the payment system via the SP2, upon confirming that the payee's account identifier and the payment amount in the verification information are correct; and performing, by the payment system, a payment operation. The present invention uses a dual channel (SP1 and SP2) asynchronous transmission mechanism. The situation where any one of the channel is illegally controlled and thus short message information is leaked out can be prevented and the user can cancel a repeated payment in confirmation of the payment. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082463 | Method for Tracing Non-Payers - The invention relates to a method for digital tracing of non-payers. The method comprises at least the steps, performed under the control of a platform server via a digital network, of a monitoring party scanning number plates of vehicles with a suitable input device; requesting information from a database of number plates and non-payers; sending the status data relating to the debt position of the vehicle owner to the input device, and immobilizing the vehicle as the case arises. The invention also relates to a computer program comprising program instructions for a computer to execute the method, and a computer adapted to execute such a computer program. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082464 | System and Method for Managing the Consumption and Discharging of Power of Electric Vehicles - A system and method for managing the stored power of a plurality of vehicles connected to the power grid is provided. In one embodiment the method includes determining location information of each of the plurality of vehicles connected to the power grid, determining that a demand for power in a portion of the power grid has reached a power threshold, determining that the location information associated with a set of the plurality of vehicles satisfies a similarity threshold with the portion of the power grid, determining that a subset of the set of vehicles has stored power that satisfies a power availability threshold, and transmitting a command to at least one vehicle of the subset of vehicles to discharge power onto the power grid. The portion of the power grid may comprise a medium voltage power line or a substation. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082465 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY CAPTURING BILLABLE TIME - A method and system helps users capture billable time spent in writing an email and related tasks. A software program is provided that is integrated with an existing email program. The program tracks user time spent on each email and associates billing information with the spent time for use in a billing program. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082466 | BENEFICIARY INITIATED P2P, P2B PAYMENT MODEL - A system and method that allows a Payee to request payment from a Payor is disclosed. The system allows the Payee to issue an invoice in electronic form detailing the payment request to the Payor. The system further allows the Payor to pay the invoice using a suitable payment means, such as a credit card, without requiring any infrastructure investment on the part of the Payee. Finally, the system does not require that the Payee receive funds from the Payor in a specific account that is associated with the system. The system allows the Payee to receive their funds in any account specified by the Payee. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082467 | PHONE AND METHOD OF USING THE PHONE FOR BENEFICIARY INITIATED PAYMENTS - A phone containing a data bearing medium and a method of using that phone to allow a Payee to request payment from a Payor is disclosed. The data bearing medium contains instructions to direct the phone to enable the Payee to issue an invoice in electronic form detailing the payment request to the Payor. The phone further allows the Payor to pay the invoice using a suitable payment means, such as a credit card, without requiring any infrastructure investment on the part of the Payee. Finally, the phone does not require that the Payee receive funds from the Payor in a specific account. The phone allows the Payee to receive their funds in any account specified by the Payee. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082468 | FUNDING ON-LINE ACCOUNTS - A system generates an identifier when a consumer deposits cash, where a new unique identifier is generated with each transaction. The consumer receives the identifier and the identifier (along with the amount of cash deposit) is communicated to a payment provider for storage. The consumer may then access and fund an on-line account with the financial services provider by first accessing the account and entering the unique character identifier, which the system processes. If the identifier is valid, e.g., an actual stored identifier within the system associated with a cash amount, then the system transfers that amount to the consumer's account. At this point, the consumer may use the account to make an on-line transaction or purchase with the newly funded amount. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082469 | Constrained Optimized Binning For Scorecards - Computer-implemented systems and methods are provided for generating bins for a scorecard. An approximate set of bins is generated by applying an optimization model to binning data. The optimization model includes an objective function, constraints, and surrogate weight of evidence metric(s). The approximated set of bins are then used in scorecard operations. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082470 | METHOD FOR REMOTE CHECK DEPOSIT - A method and system for depositing a negotiable instrument, such as a check, using a cellular phone camera. The customer images the check for deposit by taking a photograph of the check with his cellular phone camera and sends the photograph as a MMS to the customer's bank. The system enables validating image quality, automatically recognizing code line, confirming geographical location of the deposit and verifying a courtesy amount of the check so that the check is deposited into the customer's bank account remotely. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082471 | Constant leverage synthetic assets - A method of applying a substantially constant leverage to a value of a log-normal distributed asset includes providing an underlying log-normal distributed asset having an original volatility σ and an original yield q. The asset includes an associated value S denominated in a currency having an associated interest rate r. The method and system also include applying a leveraging factor L to produce a modified value, volatility and/or a modified yield. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082472 | INTEGRATION OF OPEN ADVERTISEMENTS WITH E-COMMERCE ACTIVITIES - A method is disclosed for integration of open advertisements with targeted websites, including enabling a seller to place a product on auction through an auction website, wherein an auction server creates an auction listing for the product together with a first software code affiliated with the auction listing; marking the first software code to function with a targeted website in response to the seller requesting an open advertisement of the auction listing; receiving a call of the software code from a targeted website server; generating a second software code with the first software code, wherein the second software code includes a product identification to provide access to the auction server; and sending the second software code to the targeted website server, the second software code configured to create the open advertisement that displays specific information related to the auction listing to be served to an advertisement position of the targeted website. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082473 | HYBRID TRADING SYSTEM FOR CONCURRENTLY TRADING SECURITIES OR DERIVATIVES THROUGH BOTH ELECTRONIC AND OPEN-OUTCRY TRADING MECHANISMS - A system and method of allocating orders in an exchange configured for trading by a combination of electronic and open-outcry trading mechanisms is provided. One method includes permitting multiple quotes to be disseminated to the market, but limiting market making to only those entities having a physical presence on the floor of the exchange. Methods of enhancing the hybrid electronic and open-outcry exchange also include automatically eliminating crossed quotes and locked quotes while permitting certain orders to trade against locked quotes. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082474 | Computer method and apparatus that facilitates the trading of complex financial instruments on the internet within the context of a portal as defined by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission - Computer method and apparatus that facilitates the trading of complex financial instruments on the internet within the context of a portal as defined by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082475 | Auction market with price improvement mechanism - A system for auctioning financial products over a distributed, networked computer system includes a plurality of workstations for entering orders for financial products into the distributed, networked computer system. The orders specify a price for the financial product, a quantity of the financial product and exposure time which the order can remain active. The system also includes a plurality of workstations for entering predefined relative indication and responses to orders for the product. The predefined relative indications specify a willingness to trade. The responses specify a price and quantity. The system includes a server computer coupled to the workstations for entering the orders, predefined relative indications, and the responses, with the server computer executing a server process that for a first one of said orders, determines a match to said first order with the predefined relative indications, responses and contra-side orders during an interval determined by the exposure time specified by said first order. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082476 | COMPREHENSIVE METHOD FOR INCREASING CREDIT SCORES - A comprehensive method for guaranteeing an increase in the credit score of a qualified consumer, which subsequently assists the consumer in securing all types of loan financing, including, but not limited to, mortgage financing, business financing, and general loan financing (e.g., automobile, motorcycle, boat, etc.), includes program components that are designed for a one year timeframe, although credit scores may be improved in less time, or the timeframe can be extended as needed. The components include an education component, a proactive component, a monitoring component, and a measuring/results component. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082477 | Method and system for loan and payment processing - A method and system for processing loan applications and collecting loan payments is provided. As part of a loan application process, information is obtained to verify a consumer's banking information and conduct a bank account balance inquiry. If the loan application is approved, the loan may be funded using a consumer's bank account information. In a collection process, at the time of a scheduled payment, a balance inquiry is run against the consumer's bank account to determine if sufficient funds exist for payment. If not, then the attempt at collection may be rescheduled at a later time. If sufficient funds do exist, then a collection of the payment is initiated against the consumer's bank account as bank card transaction, thus ensuring payment. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082478 | APPARATUS & METHODS FOR DIGITAL CONTENT DISTRIBUTION - The present invention relates to methods and apparatus for digital content distribution. A method of transferring digital content from a first entity ( | 2010-04-01 |
20100082479 | Proxy-based payment system for portable objects - A system is disclosed that features a transport vehicle that carries responsive objects, such as a truck hauling cargo units, in which the objects are equipped to provide payment information when queried. The transport vehicle is outfitted with a proxy that represents the responsive objects. The proxy is configured such that it is better able than the responsive objects to receive payment request signals from a querying device. The vehicle is also outfitted with i) sensors that detect the responsive objects and ii) sensors that detect state information of the vehicle, in which both sets of sensors provide information to the proxy. The object sensors are able to query each responsive object in the same way as the querying device would query those objects in the prior art. The proxy then responds to the query on behalf of the responsive objects. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082480 | PAYMENTS WITH VIRTUAL VALUE - Methods and systems for payments with virtual value are described. In one embodiment, a virtual value indication associated with a user from a virtual value provider may be received. Virtual value may be associated with a user account in response to receiving the virtual value indication. A payment request may be received. A portion of the virtual value associated with the account may be converted to a base value of a base value type at a conversion rate in response to the receiving of the payment request. The payment request may be processed for the account using the base value. Additional methods and systems are disclosed. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082481 | Peer-to-peer financial transaction devices and methods - Various techniques are provided for carrying out peer-to-peer financial transactions using one or more electronic devices. In one embodiment, a request for payment is transmitted from a first device to a second device using a near field communication (NFC) interface. In response to the request, the second device may transmit payment information to the first device. The first device may select a crediting account and, using a suitable communication protocol, may communicate the received payment information and selected crediting account to one or more external financial servers configured to process and determine whether the payment may be authorized. If the payment is authorized, a payment may be credited to the selected crediting account. In a further embodiment, a device may include a camera configured to obtain an image of a payment instrument. The device may further include an application to extract payment information from the acquired image. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082482 | Systems and Methods for Aggregating and Donating Dormant Prepaid Card Amounts - Embodiments of the invention relate to systems and methods for aggregating and donating dormant prepaid card amounts. In one embodiment, a method of donating a monetary amount associated with a dormant prepaid card can comprise determining an end of life associated with at least one of a plurality of prepaid cards. The method can also comprise receiving an indication to donate a portion of a respective monetary amount associated with the at least one of the plurality of prepaid cards. In addition, the method can comprise facilitating transfer of monetary funds corresponding to any donated monetary amount to at least one account associated with at least one donation recipient. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082483 | Automatic Generation of Change Orders - In operating a cash handling device at a client site, a method for automatically generating change orders may be performed. The cash handling device may determine an amount of currency available at the device. The device may then determine whether there is a shortage of currency of one or more denominations. If there is a shortage, the cash handling device may automatically generate a change order to request additional currency from a financial institution. The request may trigger debiting of one or more accounts of a user or entity associated the device and the financial institution. The cash handling device may subsequently receive the requested currency. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082484 | Proxy-Based, Transaction Authorization System - A system is disclosed that features a transport vehicle in which a responsive object is present, such as a truck in which a cellphone is present, in which the object is equipped to provide location or other state information when queried. The transport vehicle is outfitted with a proxy that represents the responsive object. The proxy is configured such that it is better able than the responsive object to estimate the responsive object's location or state. The vehicle is also outfitted with i) sensors that detect the responsive object and ii) sensors that detect state information of the vehicle. The object sensors are able to query the object in the same way as the querying device would query that object in the prior art. Using information from the sensors, the proxy then responds to the query on behalf of the responsive object, and an authentication device processes the query. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082485 | Portable point of purchase devices and methods - Systems, methods, and devices for conducting sales transactions are provided. Embodiments include handheld, portable, electronic, point of purchase devices configured to acquire identification information from articles to be purchased, to determine a purchase price, and to acquire payment information for the purchase price. The point of purchase devices may include one or more input devices such as a near field communication device, a camera, a scanner, and a biometric sensor for acquiring the identification information and/or the payment information. In some embodiments, the near field communication device may be detachable from the point of purchase device. The point of purchase devices also may contain communication interfaces, such as a near field communication interface, a local area network interface, a short message service interface, and a personal area network interface, for transmitting the information to an external server. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082486 | MOBILE PAYER AUTHENTICATION - An address of a computing device for conducting a transaction with a merchant on an account of an account holder is used to obtain display attributes of the computing device. An authentication request is formatted using the obtained display attributes of the computing device. The formatted authentication request is sent for delivery to the logical address of the computing device. In response to the formatted authentication request, authentication information for the account holder is received from the logical address of the computing device. A validation attempt is performed on the received authentication information for the account holder. If the received authentication information for the account holder was successfully validated by the performance of the validation attempt, the authentication response is transmitted for delivery to a logical address for the merchant. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082487 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING A VIRTUAL CARD BASED ON GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION - A method for using a virtual card is provided. In one example, the method includes identifying a geographic identifier for a mobile computing device and matching the geographic identifier with at least one virtual card associated with the mobile computing device. The method further includes triggering at least one virtual card feature based on a matched geographic identifier. In some examples, the at least one virtual card feature includes presenting the at least one virtual card with the matched geographic identifier. In other examples, the at least one virtual card feature includes a security feature including selectively enabling a virtual card transaction based on the at least one virtual card with the matched geographic identifier. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082488 | PROVIDING A RADIO STATION AT A USER DEVICE USING PREVIOUSLY OBTAINED DRM LOCKED CONTENT - A system and method are disclosed for providing a radio station for playback at a user device using previously obtained Digital Rights Management (DRM) locked content for the radio station. In one embodiment, a radio station application and DRM locked content to be used by the radio station application are downloaded to a user device, which is preferably a mobile user device. The DRM locked content includes a number of DRM locked songs that may be used for the radio station. Thereafter, the radio station application obtains a playlist for the radio station, where the playlist for the radio station includes at least a subset of the DRM locked content provided to the user device for the radio station. Playback of the playlist for the radio station is then provided at the user device, and playback is reported to a remote service for royalty tracking. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082489 | System and method for processing media gifts - Various techniques are provided for the gifting between multiple electronic devices of media content provided by an online digital media provider. An offer and acceptance of a selected gift file is accomplished between a gifter device and a receiving giftee device using a near-field communication (NFC) connection. If a connection to the online provider is available, the gifter device may transmit a gift request by which the gifter's account is charged for the gift file. Thereafter, a gift file created using DRM keys associated with the giftee's account may be downloaded to the giftee device. If a network connection is unavailable, the giftee device may transfer a locked gift file and a corresponding gift license to the giftee device using a peer-to-peer connection. The giftee device may authenticate the license and unlock the gift file once a connection to the online provider is available. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082490 | Systems and methods for secure wireless transactions - There is provided systems and methods for to conducting wireless transactions using portable electronic devices. Specifically, for example, a method of conducting a wireless transaction is provided that includes initiating a wireless transaction using a short range wireless communication system of a portable electronic device. The method also includes obtaining security information via at least one secondary system of the portable electronic device and utilizing the security information obtained via the at least one secondary system to authenticate the portable electronic device for the wireless transaction. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082491 | System and method for providing electronic event tickets - Systems, methods, and devices for providing and managing electronic event tickets are provided. For example, a device for managing an electronic event ticket may include a processor configured to run an electronic ticket management application, a memory device configured to store data associated with the electronic ticket management application, an electronic display configured to display at least a portion of the data associated with the electronic ticket management application, and an input/output interface configured to receive an electronic ticket and the data associated with the electronic ticket for management by the electronic ticket management application. The electronic ticket management application may be configured to enable the electronic device to gain entry to an event and to obtain at least one other event-related benefit after the electronic ticket is received by the input/output interface. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082492 | PAYMENT SYSTEM - An electronic transaction payment system is provided having a vendor terminal associated with a vendor who provides goods or services to a purchaser, a vendor smart-card and a vendor smart-card reader for transmitting data to and receiving data from the vendor smart-card. The system also includes a purchaser smart-card reader which is connected to the vendor terminal and which is operable for transmitting data to and receiving data from a purchaser smart-card. In operation, payment for goods purchased by the purchaser is made between the purchaser smart-card and the vendor smart-card. In a preferred embodiment, the payment data is encrypted using an encryption key specific to the transaction between the purchaser and the vendor. A third party registry terminal may also be provided for providing validation of the vendor and/or the purchaser. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082493 | System and Method for Utility Sampling for Trust Metrics in PKI - A method for measuring trust in a transaction over a public key certificate network includes associating each edge K | 2010-04-01 |
20100082494 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CASH TRANSFER - A method and system for transferring cash electronically from a sender to a receiver through cash machines and a mobile device is disclosed. On initiation of a transaction by a sender on a cash machine, a coupon containing details of the transaction is generated by the system. The coupon is sent to the mobile device of the receiver. The receiver uses the coupon for withdrawing cash from a designated cash machine. On withdrawal of the cash by the receiver, the sender receives a confirmation from a bank. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082495 | TRADING SYSTEM ACCESSIBILITY - A trading platform and trading method that allows access to additional pools of liquidity is described. Other embodiments are also described. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082496 | REAL ESTATE SITE SELECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A computerized site selection system and method. In one embodiment, the computerized site selection system includes a representation means for generating visual representations of data to at least one user, an interface means having interactive user controls for manipulating data in response to an action by the at least one user, an analysis means for analyzing data, a communication means for sending and receiving data to and from the at least one user, a storage means for storing data saved by the at least one user, and a network server in communication with and programmed for controlling the functions performed by each of the representation means, interface means, analysis means, communication means, and storage means, where the data contains real estate information, and where at least one of the representation means, interface means, analysis means, and communication means is operatively associated with the at least one user through a network connection. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082497 | Providing Foundation Application as Enterprise Services - Methods and apparatus, including systems and computer program products, for a services architecture design that provides enterprise services having foundation layer functionality at the level of an enterprise application. The design includes a set of service operations, process components, and optionally deployment units. Suitable business objects are also described. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082498 | COMPUTER SOFTWARE - A business process related computer software that displays a tabular view of a business process. Also, assigning types and/or attributes to worksteps of a business process and filtering the view of the business process based on the workstep types and/or workstep attributes. Also: (i) method for searching for worksteps based on a string pattern; (ii) a method for bulk update of worksteps satisfying search/filter criteria; (iii) a method for combining consecutive tasks into sub-tasks, or elevating sub-tasks to higher level tasks; (iv) a method for automatically setting the successor(s)/predecessor(s) workstep(s) as new worksteps are added or existing worksteps are removed; (v) a method for drilling down through a path in the process flow; (vi) a method for computing estimated duration for reaching a workstep along a path through the process flow; (vii) a method for identifying sequential and parallel worksteps and/or total duration through a timeline diagram; (viii) a method for printing process summary in tabular format; and/or (ix) methods of importing and exporting Microsoft projects. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082499 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS TO GENERATE AN ENERGY CONSUMPTION INDEX - Systems, methods, and apparatus to generate an energy consumption index are disclosed. In one described example, a method to generate an energy consumption index is disclosed, the method including measuring resources consumed at a home associated with a first person and calculating a home energy value indicative of the resources consumed at the home and measuring resources consumed by the person while located outside the home and calculating an out of home energy value indicative of the resources consumed by the person while located outside the home. The example method further includes identifying goods purchased by the person and calculating a purchase energy value indicative of the resources associated with the purchased goods, and generating an energy consumption index associated with the person based on the home energy value, the out of home energy value, and the purchase energy value. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082500 | INTERACTION WITH TRADING SYSTEMS - A trading platform and trading method that allows access to additional pools of liquidity is described. Other embodiments are also described | 2010-04-01 |
20100082501 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FINANCIAL ADVISING - A method of financial advising comprises performing, by a computer, a simulation of an investment allocation over a predetermined time period. The computer determines, using the simulation of the investment allocation, a plurality of upper and lower boundary portfolio values. Each upper boundary portfolio value comprises an amount of money calculated to provide a first predetermined likelihood of exceeding a value for a client goal from a present date until a corresponding date. Each lower boundary portfolio value comprise an amount of money calculated to provide a second predetermined likelihood of exceeding the value for the goal from a present date until the corresponding date. The computer determines a plurality of anticipated future portfolio values and an estimated chance that the anticipated future portfolio values will be greater than the upper boundary portfolio value or less than the lower boundary portfolio value on a corresponding date. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082502 | INVESTMENT ALLOCATION SYSTEM FOR MANAGING INVESTMENT RETURN AND RISK AND METHOD THEREOF - The present invention discloses an investment allocation system for managing investment return and risk and method thereof. The investment allocation system comprises a storage unit, a return rate computation unit, a standard deviation computation unit, an operation unit, and an allocation process unit. The storage unit stores a threshold, first data sets, and second data sets. The return rate computation unit transforms the data sets into return rate sequences. The standard deviation computation unit transforms the return rate sequences into standard deviation sequences. The threshold is assigned to the first standard deviation sequence in order to obtain a corresponding kth-quantile thereof. Further, an operation unit locates an object according in the kth-quantile into the second standard deviation sequence. The operation unit further processes the second standard deviation sequence to obtain a robustness index. Also, an allocation process unit allocates assets by processing the robustness indexes. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082503 | ESTIMATING ON-LINE ADVERTISING INVENTORY VALUE BASED ON CONTRACT ELIGIBILITY INFORMATION - Disclosed are apparatus and methods for apparatus and methods for pricing on-line advertisement inventory. In one embodiment, a method for pricing on-line advertisement inventory includes (i) receiving a request for a price of a new product, wherein the new product includes a plurality of specified characteristics of a type of on-line advertisement display, (ii) providing a sample of new impressions that are predicted to be delivered for such new product, (iii) for each new impression, determining which bookings could be served by such new impression so as to define a set of overlapping bookings, (iv) determining the price of each new impression based on a weighted average of a plurality of prices of such each new impression's corresponding overlapping bookings, (v) determining the price of the new product based on an average of the prices of the new impressions, and (vi) returning the price of the new product for use in a booking negotiation with a potential buyer of such new product. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082504 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SIMULATING AND OPTIMIZING REVENUE FROM SERVICE FEES IN OR RELATING TO ONLINE SERVICE PROCESSES - A method of managing a billing process is provided to optimize or simulate different models in order to reach a predetermined level of a metric associated with the service. The method includes determining an input model to optimize or simulate, determining existing associated models, comparing the existing model and the input model, iterating one or more parameters of the input model in order to achieve the predetermined level of the metric, and determining the iterated input model. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082505 | SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE RESOURCE CAPACITY MANAGEMENT - A system is disclosed that includes an interface to receive a resource governance rule applicable to one or more hardware resources supporting a monitored software application. The system includes utilization logic to measure usage of a particular hardware resource by the monitored software application. An available utilization of the particular hardware resource is determined based on the resource governance rule, and a total utilization of the particular hardware resource is also determined. One or more utilization metrics are determined based on historical usage of the particular hardware resource as compared to a governed capacity and a non-governed capacity available to the particular hardware resource. The system also includes recommendation logic to determine a recommended action to be taken with respect to the monitored software application. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082506 | Active Electronic Medical Record Based Support System Using Learning Machines - A data processing technique is provided. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes receiving image data from an imaging system and organizing the image data into multiple objects of interest. The method may also include identifying source-invariant features of the multiple objects of interest and classifying the multiple objects of interest via a learning algorithm into categories based, at least in part, on the identified source-invariant features. Further, the method may include outputting a report based at least in part on data derived from the classification of one or more of the multiple objects of interest. Additional methods, systems, and devices are also disclosed. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082507 | Predicting Performance Of Executing A Query In Isolation In A Database - One embodiment is a method that generates query vectors from query plans and performance vectors from data collected while executing queries in a database. The method then uses a machine learning technique (MLT) to compute distances between two query vectors and two performance vectors and to predict performance of executing a new single query in isolation in the database. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082508 | Method for tagging of a content and a corresponding system - A method generates tag proposals for tagging of a content, wherein the generating of said tag proposals is performed by combining at least two tag proposing procedures in dependence of a work context of a user. The method can be applied with regard to each area where tagging of contents is desired. By use of the method an effective, computing resource saving, and/or flexible tagging is enabled, by which a sufficient number of tags with high quality can be identified. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082509 | Self-Adapting Iterative Solver - A self-adapting iterative solver is provided that employs a self-adapting process for extracting singularities for solving linear systems of equations. The self-adapting iterative solver dynamically determines how to adapt its performance in the presence of one or more singularities encountered in a linear system of equations. In certain embodiments, the self-adapting iterative solver can identify possible singularities, and then analyzes its performance for adapting to a treatment of the possible singularities that provides a desired performance (i.e., for achieving convergence to a solution). Thus, rather than being pre-configured for providing a certain treatment of (e.g., eliminating) certain pre-identified singularities, in certain embodiments, the iterative solver adapts its treatment of singularities based on its computing performance. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082510 | TRAINING A SEARCH RESULT RANKER WITH AUTOMATICALLY-GENERATED SAMPLES - A search result ranker may be trained with automatically-generated samples. In an example embodiment, user interests are inferred from user interactions with search results for a particular query so as to determine respective relevance scores associated with respective query-identifier pairs of the search results. Query-identifier-relevance score triplets are formulated from the respective relevance scores associated with the respective query-identifier pairs. The query-identifier-relevance score triplets are submitted as training samples to a search result ranker. The search result ranker is trained as a learning machine with multiple training samples of the query-identifier-relevance score triplets. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082511 | JOINT RANKING MODEL FOR MULTILINGUAL WEB SEARCH - Described is a technology in which a classifier is built to rank documents of different languages found in a query based at least in part on similarity to other documents and the relevance of those other documents to the query. A joint ranking model, e.g., based upon a Boltzmann machine, is used to represent the content similarity among documents, and to help determine joint relevance probability for a set of documents. The relevant documents of one language are thus leveraged to improve the relevance estimation for documents of different languages. In one aspect, a hidden layer of units (neurons) represents clusters (corresponding to relevant topics) among the retrieved documents, with an output layer representing the relevant documents and their features, and edges representing a relationship between clusters and documents. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082512 | ANALYZING DATA AND PROVIDING RECOMMENDATIONS - Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to analyzing data and providing recommendations regarding computing assets. In aspects, data is collected from computing assets and aggregated in a data repository. A data analyzer analyzes the data to determine problems associated with the computing assets. Work done to identify a problem with one computing asset may be used to identify problems with or provide recommendations for other computing assets controlled by the same or different entities. When a problem is identified in a computing asset, a recommendation may be proactively provided to an entity associated with the computing asset. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082513 | System and Method for Distributed Denial of Service Identification and Prevention - Systems and methods for discovery and classification of denial of service attacks in a distributed computing system may employ local agents on nodes thereof to detect resource-related events. An information later agent may determine if events indicate attacks, perform clustering analysis to determine if they represent known or unknown attack patterns, classify the attacks, and initiate appropriate responses to prevent and/or mitigate the attack, including sending warnings and/or modifying resource pool(s). The information layer agent may consult a knowledge base comprising information associated with known attack patterns, including state-action mappings. An attack tree model and an overlay network (over which detection and/or response messages may be sent) may be constructed for the distributed system. They may be dynamically modified in response to changes in system configuration, state, and/or workload. Reinforcement learning may be applied to the tuning of attack detection and classification techniques and to the identification of appropriate responses. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082514 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - Necessary display count information about a count that predetermined content data should be displayed in a predetermined display device in a displayable period is acquired, display result count information about the display result count that the predetermined content data is displayed between a start of the displayable period and a present time is acquired, the display estimated count that the predetermined content data should be displayed in any period of the displayable period from the present time is decided based on the displayable period, the necessary display count information, and the display result count information, display time zone information about time zones in which the predetermined content data can be displayed in the predetermined display device is acquired, and a display start time at which the content data is displayed in the predetermined display device is decided based on the display estimated count and the display time zone information. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082515 | ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR BASED VIRTUAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - In an exemplary method, an agent facility associated with an access device and a user is maintained, data representative of one or more rules associated with the user is also maintained, at least one environmental factor of the user is detected, and a predefined action is performed with the agent facility in response to the detected environmental factor and in accordance with at least one of the rules. In another exemplary method, a virtual entity configured to electronically represent one or more traits is maintained, electronic interaction by the virtual entity with at least one user is facilitated, at least one environmental factor of the user is detected; and at least one parameter defining the virtual entity is adjusted in accordance with the at least one detected environmental factor. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082516 | Modifying a System in Response to Indications of User Frustration - An illustrative frustration processing system modifies the operation of a target system to improve its performance. In one case, the frustration processing system receives express indications that a user is frustrated in the course of interacting with the target system. The frustration processing system responds to these indications by modifying the operation of the target system to reduce the likelihood that the user will be frustrated in the future. The frustration processing system can modify the operation of the target system by applying a policy to the target system. The policy, in turn, is created using a prediction model. The prediction model predicts when a user is likely to be frustrated based on the user's prior indications of frustration. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082517 | MULTI-DATABASE, RUNTIME DATABASE QUERY PERFORMANCE MONITORING - A method to monitor database performance includes gathering information from a remote, monitored database related to the monitored database performance during a predetermined time, collecting statistics corresponding to any queries executed during the predetermined time, testing at least one rule against the statistics corresponding to each query, and if the testing results in a rule violation, identifying the query that caused the rule violation. A method to monitor database performance includes gathering statistics related to execution of a query statement, comparing at least one of the statistics against at least one rule to determine if the statistics violates a threshold established by the rule, if the statistic violates the threshold, identifying the query statement as a violating query statement, and repeating the comparing and identifying until all rules have been compared. A system has a local repository and a rules engine to gather information from at least one remote, monitored database, locate query statement executions in the information and to collect statistics with regard to the query execution, and test at least one rule against the statistics to determine if the query statement violates the rule. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082518 | SYSTEM CONFIGURATION COMPARISON TO IDENTIFY PROCESS VARIATION - The present subject mater relates computer system configuration and, more particularly, to system configuration comparison to identify process variation. Various embodiments described herein include one or more of systems, methods, software, and data structures to retrieve configuration information from a first system and a second system, apply a set of rules to the configuration information to identify process variants implemented in each of the first and second systems, and output a representation of process variant implementation differences between the first and second systems. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082519 | UNIQUE INTERFACE IN SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE - A service architected logistics solution generates a user interface to a computing system unique for a given user among a multiplicity of users. The interface includes a plurality of services and access to data sources automatically determined from the user's identity. In various aspects, the technique includes not only the interface, but also a computer-implemented method, a program storage medium encoded with instruction that perform such a method when executed, and a computing apparatus programmed to perform such a method. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082520 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BUILDING A LANGUAGE FOR A KNOWLEDGE BASE - A method for building a language for a knowledge base correspondingly to the observation of facts in the world includes describing by a user a world representation by building an ontology, translating the description into restrictions corresponding to the user's prescriptions, observing errors between objects and actions present in an environment and in the prescriptions, and adapting the ontology or the system behaviour in such a way that the errors are moved off. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082521 | Attribute-Based Hierarchy Management For Estimation And Forecasting - Computer-implemented systems and methods generate forecasts or estimates with respect to one or more attributes contained in an attribute-based hierarchy. Physical hierarchical data and attribute input data are received so that an attribute-based hierarchy can be created. A mapping table is created that indicates relationships between the attribute-based hierarchy and the physical hierarchy, wherein the attribute-based hierarchy is accessed during model forecasting analysis or model estimation analysis. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082522 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - States included in a deterministic finite automaton are classified into states having the same input symbols associated with outgoing transitions and the same finality, and a calculates an intersection set between each of the state sets and a set of transition destination states which is obtained by translating each of states included in the state sets, until the number of states included in the intersection set becomes equal to one, while regarding the set of the transition destination states for each of the input symbol included in the intersection set as new state sets, and plural indistinguishable states are merged into one state by tracing a route in a reverse direction to a transition direction, when the number of states has become equal to one. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082523 | CONFIGURATION RULE TRANSLATION MAPPER - A system for performing configuration rule translation mapping. One or more feature inputs are received by a configuration rule translation mapper according to requirements for a specific machine type. The one or more feature inputs are translation source data. A selection of one or more translation types is received by the configuration rule translation mapper. Configuration rule translation mapping is performed by the configuration rule translation mapper based on the one or more translation types selected to translate translation source data into a desired format. The translation source data, which is translated into the desired format, is transferred by the configuration rule translation mapper to a configurable transformation macro. Then, a final transformation output is output by the configurable transformation macro using a transformation macro script and one or more transformation templates. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082524 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING AND/OR ANALYZING OLAP BASED DATA ACCORDING TO ONE OR MORE PARAMETERS - A system and method for processing a base vector derived from data stored in an OLAP cube. The system comprises a component configured for defining a base vector and a comparison vector, wherein the comparison vector comprises one or more dimensions corresponding to dimensions of the base vector. The system includes a component configured for defining a time scope associated with the base vector. The system further comprises a component configured for performing one or more analysis operations on the comparison vector to generate comparison values and a component configured for rendering the base and comparison vectors. According to another aspect, the system includes a component for altering or modifying individual data cells in the base vector and/or parameters associated with the base vector and/or analysis operation. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082525 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING MDX POST-ORDER HIERARCHIZE EXPRESSIONS - Disclosed are an apparatus, system, and method for generating a post-order set of members referenced by an MDX query statement invoking a post-order function. The apparatus includes an input module that receives the MDX expression specifying the relevant data set. A pre-order module generates a set of the members in pre-order organization. An initialization module generates an empty post-order set and inserts the first member of the pre-order set into the post-order set. An ancestor module determines whether the next member in the pre-order set has an ancestor in the post-order set and the location of the closest ancestor of the member if it exists. An insertion module then inserts the member immediately before the closest ancestor if the ancestor exists, or puts it in the rightmost position of the post-order set if an ancestor does not exist. An iteration module invokes the ancestor and insertion modules for each member of the pre-order set until the post-order set is filled. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082526 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING WEBSITE POPULARITY BY LOCATION - Internet websites that are popular for users in a specific location are determined and displayed to a user of an electronic device. The popularity information may be of benefit to users in the location or to users of inherently portable devices, such as a mobile telephone or a laptop computer, that travel to the location. In one embodiment, position data relating to devices used to access websites is used to establish statistics regarding the most visited websites based on location. For instance, positioning data may be added to “webpage look-up/URL requests” that are made by the devices. This data may be transmitted to a server for deriving of the statistics. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082527 | DATED METADATA TO SUPPORT MULTIPLE VERSIONS OF USER PROFILES FOR TARGETING OF PERSONALIZED CONTENT - Profiles are maintained that are usable by a behavioral targeting service. A profile engine processes event indications that are both indicative of interaction by users generally with at least one online service and are specifically indicative of events usable for generating profile data for behavioral targeting to provide personalized content. It is determined which of a plurality of behavioral models to apply to an event indication based on a time associated with the event indication and time periods associated with the behavioral models. The determined behavioral model is applied to determine at least one updated profile. The behavioral targeting service determines which of the plurality of behavioral models to apply to the updated profile data based on a time associated with the updated profile, and processes the updated profile data provided by the profile engine according to the determined behavioral model and, based at least in part on the further processed updated profile data, causes personalized content to be provided in response to the request. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082528 | Method and Apparatus For Optimizing Lead Time For Service Provisioning - A method for optimizing lead time for service provisioning for a request from a customer includes storing a record of installation and configuration times for each hardware and software configuration in a database, and then calculating success rates and failure rates for each hardware and software configuration. A manual installation time for the request is set in the event of failure. The necessary time to prepare the system fulfilling the customer request is then determined and displayed in the data center. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082529 | Log Structured Content Addressable Deduplicating Storage - A log structured content addressable deduplicated data storage system may be used to store deduplicated data. Data to be stored is partitioned into data segments. Each unique data segment is associated with a label. The storage system maintains a transaction log. Mutating storage operations are initiated by storing transaction records in the transaction log. Additional transaction records are stored in the log when storage operations are completed. Upon restarting an embodiment of the data storage system, the transaction records from the transaction logs are replayed to recreate the state of the data storage system. The data storage system updates file system metadata with transaction information while a storage operation associated with the file is being processed. This transaction information serves as atomically updated transaction commit points, allowing fully internally consistent snapshots of deduplicated volumes to be taken at any time. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082530 | LOG MANAGEMENT SERVER - A log management server enables an administrator to manage a log with a lighter load without compelling a client to bear any load in a log management processing. The log management server receives a log from a client | 2010-04-01 |
20100082531 | LOG MANAGING APPARATUS, LOG MANAGING SYSTEM, LOG MANAGING METHOD AND LOG MANAGING PROGRAM - A log managing apparatus includes a collecting unit that receives a log from at least one collecting object that acquires the log including time information, a management unit that manages log format information set for each the collecting object, and a conversion unit that converts the log with reference to the log format information and extracts time information from the log. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082532 | TECHNIQUES FOR PERFORMING ETL OVER A WAN - Techniques that enable data extraction, transfer, and load (ETL) operations to be performed asynchronously over communication networks including a Wide Area Network (WAN). | 2010-04-01 |
20100082533 | UPDATE METHOD FOR DATABASE - A user can register and update information in the database even through a terminal having no authority to access the database server. A method of updating a database for using an e-mail received by a mail server to update information stored in a storage means of a database server is prepared. A central processing unit of the database server verifies an account and a data ID shown in a subject space of an e-mail read from a receipt mail box of a mail server with a security master storing therein an IP address and a mail address associated with the account of the user. When the account and the data ID correspond are verified, it is determined that the information corresponding to the data ID stored in the storage means is to be updated. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082534 | Method and System of Managing Conflicts for a Set of Synchronized Folders - Generally, the described system and process enables resolution of conflicts in a synchronized folder. Within the described mesh operating environment, each of the devices may be configured to do the same processing so that the file system view of the synchronized folder looks the same on all devices (pending local capabilities). Updates that cannot be immediately realized to the local store due to conflicts may be deferred for later attempts when, for example, additional updates at the system level or local level are made to resolve or eliminate the conflict for the update item. Generally, further changes may be propagated by a user in addressing a particular conflict that the user is notified about (e.g., via a selected winner that the user disagrees with). Alternatively, the conflict may resolve itself when a further update occurs that overrides or renders moot the previous update (e.g., a deleted item having a modified enclosure, where the enclosure had a previous concurrency conflict). | 2010-04-01 |
20100082535 | Method and System for Uploading Advertisement Content - A method and system is disclosed for receiving advertisement content files within a digital advertisement platform operating on a server computing system. Data defining a compressed file is received at the server. The compressed file includes a hierarchical structure of folders and a number of advertisement content files disposed within the hierarchical structure of folders. The hierarchical structure of folders is automatically extracted from the compressed file. The extracted hierarchical structure of folders is automatically created within a content library maintained within the digital advertisement platform. The advertisement content files are automatically extracted from the compressed file. The extracted advertisement content files are stored within the hierarchical structure of folders created within the content library so as to mirror disposition of the advertisement content files in the hierarchical structure of folders within the compressed file. | 2010-04-01 |