20th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 57 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110119134 | System and Method for Providing a User Terminal with Supplemental Information to a Search Result - Illustrative embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method, a system, and a computer readable medium encoded with instructions for providing a user terminal with supplemental information to a search result. Illustrative embodiments of the present invention include receiving a search request from the user terminal. Once the search request is received, a set of search results is communicated to the user terminal. The set of search results includes search results that include information associated with at least a first business and a second business. These businesses are then notified of the search request using an electronic notification. Illustrative embodiments of the present invention also include receiving, from the first business, supplemental information associated with the first business that is responsive to the notification. The supplemental information is then communicated to the user terminal and at least the second business. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119135 | CONDITION-BASED WIRELESS POWER - Exemplary embodiments are directed to methods and devices for transferring or receiving wireless power. A method may include receiving acceptance of at least one wireless power access entity required condition. The method may further include transferring wireless power to at least one electronic device based on the acceptance of the at least one wireless power access entity required condition. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119136 | Advertising Forecast and Revenue Systems and Methods - A computer-implemented method is provided for forecasting a value of an available targeted inventory associated with an advertising space. The method includes obtaining historical data associated with the advertising space, and determining, for the advertising space, a total forecast value corresponding to a predetermined interval of future time. The method also includes determining a total booked value and a total availability value based on the total booked value and the total forecast value, corresponding to the predetermined interval of future time. The method also includes determining, for the advertising space, a population composition percentage value based on one or more population composition rules, and a population composition availability value based on the population composition percentage value. The method further includes determining the value of the available targeted inventory associated with the advertising space for the predetermined interval of future time based on the population composition availability. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119137 | Match engine marketing - Enabling advertisers using a computer network such as the Internet and a match engine to submit their offerings to product, service, benefit seeking entities. In some embodiments, a database having accounts for the providers is made available. Accounts contain contact and billing information for an advertiser; and at least one offering having at least a description, a criteria set comprising one or more criterion factors, and a bid amount. An advertiser influences a position of an offering in the advertiser's account by first selecting offering relevant criteria. The advertiser enters the criteria and the description into a listing; influencing at least in part the position for the listing within a results page through an online bidding process. This results page is generated in response to a seeking entity query of the match engine. Pay for performance demographic, geographic, psychographic criteria/characteristics targeted directly advertising (frictionless advertising) is enabled. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119138 | Service to Push Author-Spoken Audio Content with Targeted Audio Advertising to Users - A particular method includes receiving, via an interactive voice response (IVR) unit, an audio content item during a first call. An indication of an insertion point at which to insert audio advertising in the audio content item is also received during the first call. The method further includes receiving via the IVR unit an audio advertisement during a second call. The audio advertisement is automatically inserted into the audio content item at the insertion point to create a package. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119139 | Identifying related information given content and/or presenting related information in association with content-related advertisements - The usefulness of content (target content), such as advertisements, may be increased by determining additional content and providing such additional content in association with the content. The target content may be text, a Web page, a URL, a search query, etc. The additional content might be related suggested queries (e.g. “Try a search for ______”), news articles (or excerpts or summaries thereof), reviews (or excerpts or summaries thereof), advertisements, user group messages, etc. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119140 | System, Program Product, and Method for Debit Card and Checking Account Autodraw - A consumer is prequalified for a line of credit attached to a checking account by a lending institution computer responsive to consumer underwriting data. The lending institution computer makes available draws to the line of credit line in an authorization stream for a proposed payment from the checking account. When the line of credit is accessed, the checking account is credited with an additional value equal to one or more preselected loan increments so that the account then has a new amount totaling a previous amount plus the amount of value of the one or more preselected loan increments and so that the new amount exceeds or equals the value of a proposed payment. Next, a new value for the line of credit balance available is determined, accounting for value credited to the checking account and a preselected loan advance fee for each loan increment credited to the account. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119141 | Siccolla Identity Verification Architecture and Tool - Siccolla is an identity verification architecture utilizing wireless phones as an identity verification tool. The wireless phone has a specialized built-in fingerprint sensor, camera, and blood sensor to acquire high quality images of biometrics, including but not limited to the iris, face and fingerprints, as well as DNA sampling, to perform identity verification via biometric recognition to secure credit card/debit card/financial instruments and general multi-purpose local and/or remote identity verification transactions at the Point-of-Sale terminals (POS), online for E-Commerce, and at any general purpose point of transaction at which a positive identity verification in real time must occur to prevent identity theft and financial fraud and enable commerce, E-Commerce, or general access or business to proceed and prosper. In doing so the system also feeds the biometrics obtained of all those individuals fraudulently attempting to utilize someone else's identity into a database, creating a watch list of fraudsters against which institutions can verify any and all of the identity of any and all individuals that they come across in the line of their business, to protect themselves from financial losses, fraud, and/or physical events or actions which may cause harm to themselves, their physical and logical facilities, as well as all their customers, employees, and/or innocent bystanders. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119142 | SYSTEM AND/OR METHOD FOR HANDLING RECALLED PRODUCT PURCHASES AND/OR RETURN/WARRANTY REQUESTS - Certain exemplary embodiments described herein relate to the field of electronic registration (ER) of purchased products and, more particularly, to improved electronic registration techniques purchase-side and/or return-side handling of recalled items. Certain exemplary embodiments on the purchase-side may help to filter-out products that have recalled been before they are purchased. Certain exemplary embodiments on the return-side may help enable recall return overrides, thus facilitating the acceptance of recalled products even though they might not qualify under an original return/warranty policy. Advantageously, more and more recalled products may be filtered out of circulation through the use of purchase-side and/or return-side recall watch list checking techniques of certain exemplary embodiments. Such purchase-side and/or return-side recall watch list checking may be performed together with or separate from electronic registration techniques in different exemplary embodiments. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119143 | Pricing Remote Information Technology Infrastructure Monitoring Services - A provider of remote information technology infrastructure monitoring services obtains, from a customer, via a remote managed infrastructure services web site, a choice of at least one remote managed information technology infrastructure monitoring service for an information technology infrastructure of the customer, and corresponding data necessary to provide the at least one service. Based on the choice and the necessary data, the provider determines at least two different options for providing the at least one monitoring service, including at least price and service coverage. The provider obtains from the customer, via the remote managed infrastructure services web site, a selection of one of the at least two options. While providing the at least one monitoring service for the information technology infrastructure of the customer in accordance with the selection and the necessary data, during a predetermined period of time, monitoring data is collected and analyzed to develop a revised price for future provision of the at least one monitoring service by the provider to the customer. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119144 | AUTHORIZED BASED RECEIPT OF WIRELESS POWER - Exemplary embodiments are directed to methods and devices for fee-based wireless power. A method may include subscribing to a wireless power plan and receiving wireless power at one or more electronic devices according to a wireless power subscription. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119145 | GROUP CONTENT ON DEMAND ACCESS CONTROL - Digital content on demand (CoD) is provided under a group purchase option that permits separately located users to receive access on demand to a desired content with group-related benefits including discounted price discount or synchronized viewing. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119146 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING A BID TRACKING DATABASE - According to embodiments described in the specification, a method, system and apparatus for managing a bid tracking database are provided. The method comprises receiving at least one bid record at an interface, the at least one bid record comprising a bid price, a bid timestamp and a bid item identifier; receiving at least one auction record at the interface, the at least one auction record comprising a winning price, an end timestamp and an auction item identifier corresponding to the bid item identifier; maintaining the at least one bid record and the at least one auction record in a memory; determining whether the bid price matches or exceeds the winning price and whether the bid timestamp matches the end timestamp; and, when the determination is affirmative, writing the bid record to the bid tracking database maintained in the memory. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119147 | CONTENT SUPPLY SYSTEM AND CONTENT SUPPLY METHOD THEREOF AND DISPLAY DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A content supply system and a content supply method thereof, and a display device and a control method thereof which supplies content to the display apparatus, are disclosed. A content supply system, including a user terminal which is used to purchase content; a content supply server which stores therein purchase description information of the first content purchased through the user terminal, and supplies second content based on the purchase description information of the purchased first content; and a display device which transmits usage authorization information to the content supply server corresponding to the purchase description information of the purchased first content, and receives the second content from the content supply server. The present invention supplies content which is purchased by a user through a user terminal and enables a user to use the content without double payment for the content. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119148 | Server apparatus, information processing apparatus, and information processing method - A server apparatus includes: a trend leader detecting portion that acquires purchaser identifying information for identifying a purchaser who purchased the product at an early stage satisfying a predetermined time condition, from at least two pieces of purchase history information; a recommended product acquiring portion that acquires at least one piece of product identifying information for identifying a product purchased by at least one purchaser identified with at least one piece of purchaser identifying information that has been acquired by the trend leader detecting portion; and a recommended product transmitting portion that transmits the at least one piece of product identifying information that has been acquired by the recommended product acquiring portion, to an information output apparatus. With this server apparatus, recommendation of a product can be provided based on the behavior in which a trend leader purchases a product. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119149 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING MEDIA CONTENT PRESENTED ON A MEDIA PLAYING DEVICE - A media device generates a digital fingerprint of perceptual features of a segment of a work. The segment is less than an entirety of the work and includes at least one of audio or video media content. The media device sends a query to a lookup server for data associated with the work, the query including said digital fingerprint. The media device receives the data associated with said work from said lookup server in response to said query, wherein the data was identified based on a comparison of the digital fingerprint to a collection of digital fingerprints of known works. The media device then processes the received data. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119150 | OUTSOURCED GENERATION OF BEHAVIOR-BASED CONTENT - A service is disclosed for enabling web sites and other entities to provide item recommendations and other behavior-based content to end users. The service can be implemented as a web service that is remotely accessible over the Internet. Web sites use the web service's interface to report events descriptive of item-related actions performed by end users (e.g., item views, item purchases, searches for items, etc.). The web service analyzes the reported event data on an aggregated basis to detect various types of associations between particular items, and stores resulting datasets that map items to associated items. The web service's interface also provides various API calls for enabling the web sites to request item recommendations and other behavior-based content, including but not limited to personalized recommendations that are based on the event history of the target user. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119151 | Mediation of Online Trading Services - Systems and methods for mediation of online trading services are provided. Supplemental content related to a content title may be listed in a market or store for content. A client device sends a mediated communication to a trading server; the mediated communication may include mediation data and a request concerning the transfer of supplemental content. A user account associated with the client device is identified and the supplemental content may then be assigned to the user account. A report regarding activity associated with the assignment of the supplemental content may be generated in accordance with mediation data. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119152 | System, Method And Process For Producing, Mixing, Purchasing And Licensing Music And Layers Thereof Online - A method, system and process of purchasing and licensing musical work online by: providing a host website, allowing a member of the site to post music in the most convenient member, allowing a prospective artist to significantly alter the music under a tiered, layered system, and offering up a desired piece of work for either purchasing or licensing. The host website functions as a facilitating record label/mixer/production facility that provided every interested party with necessary information, agreements and the management of said licensing fees. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119153 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AND SUPPORTING FAIR TRADE RECEIPTS - In one embodiment, a novel “fair trade receipt” may be generated or otherwise supported for products and services found in commerce, such as in e-commerce or conventional in-person commerce. The fair trade receipt may be generated based upon supply-chain disclosures by sellers of the products/services related to fair trade principles. For instance, these disclosures may concern, among other things, the explicit or general nature of the material used, origin of the material, methods of collection, manufacturing methods and techniques, assembly of product parts, method and materials for packaging, shipping and transportation, consequences to the environment, etc. An algorithm used to compile the supply-chain disclosures may then result in a visual indication (e.g., a seal) and/or printed report (e.g., receipt) on the respective product or service criteria produced in advance of sale. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119154 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CERTIFYING INFORMATION RELATING TO TRANSACTIONS BETWEEN A SELLER AND A PURCHASER - A method for providing certified feedback information on a transaction entity (e.g., seller, purchaser, and/or object (e.g., good, service)) involved in a transaction between a seller and a purchaser. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119155 | VERIFICATION OF PORTABLE CONSUMER DEVICES FOR 3-D SECURE SERVICES - Apparatuses, methods, and systems pertaining to the verification of portable consumer devices for 3-D Secure Systems are disclosed. In one implementation, a verification token is coupled to a computer by a USB connection so as to use the computer's networking facilities. The verification token reads identification information from a user's portable consumer device (e.g., credit card) and sends the information to a validation entry over a communications network using the computer's networking facilities. The validation entity applies one or more validation tests to the information that it receives from the verification token. If a selected number of tests are passed, the validation entity sends a 3-D Secure datum to the verification token. The verification token may enter the 3-D Secure datum into a hidden field of a Purchase Authentication Page appearing on the computer's display. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119156 | SETTLEMENT RELAY METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD - A settlement relay system, which is connected to an affiliated shop terminal, a mobile communication terminal of a customer and a credit card company system, includes a communication part and a system control part. The communication part is connected to the affiliated shop terminal and the mobile communication terminal through a communication network. The system control part receives a settlement serial number data corresponding to a settlement from the mobile communication terminal via a communication network, receives a receipt serial number data from the affiliated shop terminal via a communication network, and performs a procedure corresponding to a transaction approval, when it is checked that the settlement serial number data and the receipt serial number data are matched with each other. Thus, a customer self settles through his/her own mobile communication terminal so that risk of duplication of the credit card may be prevented. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119157 | Accepting Payment Information on the Web Using Interactive Voice response (IVR) System - Checkout with PaybyPhone - Alternative method of paying through a credit card using an Interactive voice response (IVR) system redirected from the web page (Checkout with PaybyPhone) from payment portion of the checkout page, rather than the conventional way of entering through the web page. A system and method for paying by a credit card, preferably at a point of sale, is disclosed. The system employs an automated interactive voice response system preferably sponsored by client (Website owner). The user calls into the system using a standard telephone, and enters credit payment information about the customer using the key pad of the telephone in response to verbal questions posed by the system. In one embodiment, only numeric information concerning the customer is entered, such as the customer's credit card number, expiry date . . . etc. This credit card payment information is used to approve/decline via credit bureau database or a third party vendor who specializes in credit card payment processing, which is used by the system to electronically decide whether to proceed with the order or not. The system verbally provides information to the user regarding the results of credit card validation, so that the customer's credit purchase can be quickly completed. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119158 | SYSTEM FOR INCREASING EFFICIENCIES IN DISTRIBUTION OF PRE-OWNED VEHICLES - A system and method for increasing efficiencies in the distribution and sales of pre-owned vehicles utilizing a communications network such as the internet. A purchase order agreement is made between a consumer and a dealer for purchase of one or more vehicles available for sale to dealers, viewed over the communications network. The sale is conditioned upon a selected vehicle first being acquired by the dealer subsequent to entry of the consumer and dealer into the purchase order agreement. The dealer acquires the selected vehicle through an auction limited to dealers. The system may be administered by an organization which is not itself a dealer or auction. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119159 | REAL-TIME, LOCALIZED AND MOBILE MATCHING METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROXY PURCHASE - A real-time, localized and mobile matching method for proxy purchase includes the following steps: position information of several default purchasing agents is received. At least one purchase request is received from at least one client. The purchase request includes information of at least one product to be purchased and location of at least one vendor of the product to be purchased. Candidate purchasing agents, position information of which corresponds to the location of the vendor of the product to be purchased, are filtered from the default purchasing agents. The information of the candidate purchasing agents is transmitted to the client, such that a selection signal, which includes information of a selected purchasing agent selected from the candidate purchasing agents, is received from the client. The purchase request is transmitted to the selected purchasing agent through a wireless communication network. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119160 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING CREATIVE CONTENT DISCOVERY, SALE AND INVESTMENT - In one aspect, the present invention relates to a web site which addresses the above difficulties and others by providing site where an author may upload creative works for sale at a price set by the author. The website allows users to purchase and rate the works, creating an environment where high-quality works may be identified by users. The website further systematizes the process by which works are acquired by an investment pool, which may be an investment pool run by the website operator. The investment pool will offer to buy the rights of any work achieving a given amount of sales or positive feedback on the site. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119161 | AUTOMATED RATINGS OF NEW PRODUCTS AND SERVICES - A system for automating comparisons and ratings of new product models and services that is timely, efficient, objective and consistent where an expert system extracts model information from a plurality of web page and compares and rates each model against comparable competing models gathered from one or more web sites and stored in a database to be displayed when requested by a user. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119162 | System and Method for Tracking Inventory - A computer-based system for tracking inventory based on sales. The system can include a processor configured to process, manage, and analyze data. Additionally, the system can include a computing device operably coupled to the processor, wherein the computing device is associated with an entity. Notably, the processor can be configured to request information associated with a product from the computing device, wherein the information comprises an on-hand inventory quantity of the product and a total sales quantity of the product for a designated period of time for the entity and receive the requested information associated with the product from the computing device. The processor can also be configured to determine whether the on-hand inventory quantity is at least one and the total sales quantity of the product for the designated period of time is zero. Furthermore, the processor can be configured to select the entity when it is determined that the on-hand inventory quantity is at least one and the total sales quantity of the product for the designated period of time is zero. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119163 | Method and system using search terms to accumulate, aggregate and price data from a plurality of data originators - A business method that enables a user or owner of one or a plurality of data sources to set fees or other consideration(s) for exchanges and links to a second or a plurality of data sources discovered through Internet searches or other data source discovery methods and integrating the data or the data sources into a data supply chain or federated data source. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119164 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING SHIPPING VIA A THIRD PARTY PAYMENT SERVICE - A system and method for a web server hosted by a third-party payment service is disclosed. Shipping information for a package is received from a client computer operated by a sender party. A shipping label associated with the package is generated in response to the receipt of the shipping information. The shipping label is sent to the client computer such that the shipping label can be printed out at the client computer. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119165 | ACCESS FILES AND TRANSFERABLE ACCESS RIGHT SYSTEM FOR DIGITAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY - A system and method of use for Access Files and Transferrable Access Right System for digital intellectual properties (IP). An IP-User gain paid, sponsored or free access of specific level of Access Right to remotely archived digital IP. Using the system's custodial software installed in the IP-User's access device, the IP-User downloads a copy of potentially large digital IP for local access and creates Overlays of value-added information for the digital IP. The Access Right and the Overlay information are stored in a small protected Access File. The large digital IP is deleted after each use, if desired, for security purposes or to save local memory space. The Access Files are stored in local protected folders and optionally stored securely in the remote IP archive system and they are indexed, searchable and retrievable by keywords and partial information. The IP-User opening the Access File will cause the applicable archived digital IP to be Access-Right-verified, accessed and downloaded again, the annotation overlay will be applied and then the composite IP is presented to the IP-User. The IP-User's Access Right is registered and can be securely transferred to another IP-User using the Transferable Access Right System. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119166 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY GENERATION - A system to offset the costs of a renewable energy generation facility may include a renewable energy generation facility to generate renewable electrical energy. The renewable energy generation facility may be deployed by at least one independent power producer that at least in pail arranges for the installation and deployment of the renewable energy generation facility. The system may also include a power system of transmission and distribution lines to transmit electrical energy from the renewable energy generation facility to one or more electrical access points of respective power users. The power transmission system may be operated by a power utility independent of the independent power producer. Further there may be one or more computer systems to prepare electronic billing data to be used to bid the at least one power user a minimum amount based on estimated power usage of the power user. The computer systems may also schedule a financial support payment to be made by the power user to the independent power producer. The payment made to the independent power producer may be made in exchange for a financial interest or benefit provided by the independent power producer to the power user. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119167 | PROVIDING REMOVABLE STORAGE MANAGEMENT SERVICES USING REMOVABLE STORAGE ERROR INFORMATION - Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for providing removable storage management services using removable storage error information. Read/write error information is obtained for at least one removable storage by interfacing with the removable storage manager. The obtained read/write error information for the at least one removable storage is processed to determine read/write error rates for the at least one removable storage. A determination is made as to whether the determined read/write error rates for the at least one removable storage exceed at least one read/write error threshold. At least one message is sent to the removable storage manager to replace the at least one removable storage having read/write error rates that exceed the at least one read/write error threshold. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119168 | Construction of Currency Strength Indices - Systems, methods, and computer program products for constructing and weighting a currency index for a currency basket. The weights of the components of the currency basket can be determined using only past statistical time series behaviors of the currency pairs. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119169 | Computer-Based System and Method for Automating the Settlement of Debts - The present invention is a method and system for facilitating a settlement negotiation of a debt between a debtor and a creditor whereby settlement proposals are automatically and intelligently generated, based upon the financial circumstances of the debtor and a pattern of decision-making behavior of the creditor, and are sent throughout the duration of the negotiation process until an acceptable proposal is secured. Furthermore, the present invention also provides an automatic, streamlined framework for the user or client to budget for and carry through with payment of the debt in accordance with the agreed upon settlement. This negotiation and settlement process occurs without any direct contact between the debtor and the creditor, or an outside intermediary, by automating a significant part of the negotiation and repayment process whereby the process is transparent and visible to the debtor and creditor. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119170 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING AN OPENING AUCTION OF A DERIVATIVE - A computer system performs an opening auction of a derivative such as a financial futures. The computer system comprises an order maintenance module and an optimizing module. The order maintenance module maintains a plurality of order books for said derivative. The plurality of order books comprises a first set of order books and a second set of order books. Each order book of the first set of order books comprises bid and ask orders for a specific tradable series of the derivative. Each order book of the second set of order books comprises bid and ask orders for a specific combination of two tradable series of the derivative. Each bid and ask order is associated with an integer volume of tradable contracts of the derivative. The optimizing module maximizes a total volume of executed contracts using integer optimization to determine opening prices for the tradable series of the derivative. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119171 | IMPLIED VOLATILITY BASED PRICING AND RISK TOOL AND CONDITIONAL SUB-ORDER BOOKS - The Book Order Management (BOM) system provides a fully automated and efficient electronic trading environment for derivatives trading. The BOM system allows traders to electronically, in real time, both make two sided markets in any option or combination of options, and issue quotations for immediate use, so that the trader providing the quotation has the opportunity to re-evaluate and change markets if conditions change. The BOM system provides a way to efficiently determine whether the conditions placed on a contingent order are met and guaranteed, using a lock (freeze) and reserve procedure. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119172 | Methods and Systems for Market Clearance - In a marketplace, offers are processed that are intended to be associated with other offers in a pool. The offers specify conditions for acceptance. Improvable offers are received that are capable of being associated with offers having more favorable specifications than initial offers associated with the improvable offers. Nonimprovable offers that have more favorable specifications than initial offers associated with improvable offers are identified. The identified nonimprovable offers are associated with corresponding improvable offers. Straddles, which comprise a set of offers and a limit on the associations, may span multiple pools. Information about the marketplace may be obtained from data generated by the operation of the marketplace. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119173 | System and Method for Providing Intelligent Market Data Snapshots - Systems and methods are provided for processing and distributing market data. Critical data, such as data showing that a market price has changed is distributed without further delay. When the market data does not result in a change in a market price or does not meet another critical criteria, the market data is aggregated with market data for similar events and distributed when the aggregated market data passes a quantity threshold. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119174 | ORDER ENTRY IN AUTOMATED TRADING SYSTEMS - Quotes entered into an automated trading system may comprise a visible, or primary, amount, and a linked or hidden amount. The visible amount only is shown to other traders on the system but part or all of the linked amount may be dealt if the order with the quote is match is for an amount greater than the visible amount. If, after matching and deal confirmation, all the visible amount has been dealt, but some or all of the linked amount remains, a fresh order for the remaining linked amount is generated and submitted to the trading system for matching. The new quoted may be visible only or may have a visible component up to a limit specified by the maker on submission of the original quote, with the remainder being linked. Maker quotes converted to taker quotes by an auto-match routine may be resubmitted for undealt linked amounts in the same way. In one aspect of the invention, linked amounts are matched and dealt before visible amounts. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119175 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY REGULATING ORDER ENTRY IN AN ELECTRONIC TRADING ENVIRONMENT - A system and method are provided for trading a trading strategy defined for at least one tradeable object in an electronic trading environment. More specifically, one example method includes using a first pay-up tick value to determine a first acceptable price level for an order associated with the trading strategy, automatically modifying the first pay-up tick to a second pay-up tick value in response to detecting a predefined condition, and using the second pay-up tick value to determine a second acceptable price level for the order associated with the trading strategy. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119176 | Electronic Block Trading System and Method of Operation - A system and method are described and disclosed that are used for effecting large block trades of securities in an automated and anonymous matter in which fair pricing is carried out using features of the NBBO. The automated trading the system and method also will carry out negotiations to effect a trade in certain circumstances, though the preferred method of effecting trades is by automated trading. However, regardless of the trading method, anonymity of the trading counterparties is preserved. The system and method also tests the NBBO for each of the traded securities to ensure it is valid before an automated trade may take place. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119177 | METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING FINANCIAL RISK ASSOCIATED WITH A CONSTRUCTION PROJECT - A system and method for evaluating risks associated with a project based on project data from several projects. A project management server manages multiple, unrelated projects for a plurality of participants. The system manages each project by receiving and processing data associated with each project. Risks for a project are evaluated by aggregating project data from multiple projects. Risk assessment data for a particular project, based on the aggregated project data, is displayed to a participant of the project while access to the project data is limited to only projects with which the participant is associated. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119178 | METADATA DRIVEN PROCESSING - The system enables a data processing framework that polls for files using a listener, controls the workflow using event driven logic, processes financial transactions, and creates a business to business trading partner network. The listener ensures the reliability and data integrity of input files and performs archiving functions. The payment management functions automatically processes transactions, including payor (e.g., the buyer) initiated payments to a payee (e.g., a supplier) by utilizing a flexible, decoupled processing architecture. A payment management computer identifies a universal identifier for each entity and forms relationships and hierarchies in order to increase efficiency of the trading partner network. Metadata describes the format, validation and relationships for a wide variety of financial account data. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119179 | Processing Payment Transactions Between Enterprise Resource Planning Systems - In some embodiments, a method for processing a payment transaction comprises receiving, by a payor an invoice generated from a first enterprise resource planning (ERP) system operated by a payee. The first ERP system formatted the invoice in a first format. The invoice is stored in a second format compatible with a second ERP system. The invoice has been converted from the first format to the second format, which is different from the first format. Approval of the invoice is received through the second ERP system. Authorization instructing a financial institution to transmit a payment to the payee is generated and transmitted to the financial institution. Confirmation of the payment to the payee is generated and transmitted to the payee. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119180 | ELECTRONIC SETTLEMENT METHOD - The present invention relates to an electronic payment method, wherein when an account-receivable issuer issues an account receivable to a receiving party, the financial institution of the receiving party notifies a third-party payment system of the issue of the account receivable, all companies subscribed to the third-party payment system become issuers using the received account receivable or electronic certificate as securities and can issue electronic certificates, all the receiving parties which have received the electronic certificates can request the encashment of the corresponding electronic certificates from the third-party payment system by using the electronic certificates as securities in case where new electronic certificates are not issued, when the encashment is requested, the third-party payment system tracks the path of all the electronic certificates and the account receivable related to the electronic certificates for which the encashment has been requested, and the encashment is performed on the financial accounts of all the companies on the path. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119181 | Secure limit card - A method and system for issuing a limit card to a card requestor for a self imposed cash amount to make a product or service purchase with the transaction being conducted solely the vendor and the financial card sponsor. The method includes a financial card sponsor or authorized dealer issuing a card to a card requestor who immediately or subsequently activates the card by depositing funds to the card at a card activating entity. The cardholder gives a monetary amount to a clerk or cash accepting device at any participating entity which then credits the card with the monetary amount less any service charge. The activating entity gives the cardholder a receipt bearing the date and amount when the card is purchase. The remainder of the deposit is electronically forwarded to the sponsor who deducts the commission and activates the cardholder's account. The cardholder submits the card to a vendor to purchase a product or service, and the vendor accesses the account and carries out the transaction solely with the sponsor. The sponsor transfers to the vendor to close the transaction, and the vendor delivers the product or service to the cardholder. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119182 | Value Transfer System for Online Commerce Using Smart Card and Biometric Reader - A closed value transfer system for online commerce using a Smart Card and a USB Biometric Smart Card and Fingerprint Reader, for making quick, private and secure online purchases. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119183 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING CURRENCY AT AN AIRLINE CHECK-IN MACHINE - The present disclosure provides methods and apparatus for providing currency at an airline check-in machine. In general, the improved airline check-in machine dispenses one or more currencies for the user. Preferably, the currency(s) are selected from a database of currency based on the geographic location of the airline check-in machine and/or the user's flight destination. For example, the airline check-in machine may offer Euros based on a determination the user is traveling to Italy. In addition, the user may choose to pay for the currency using the same debit or credit card the user inserted into the airline check-in machine for identification or in any other suitable manner. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119184 | System and method for a private and secure financial transaction system using a central system - A financial transaction system between a customer and a financial institution has a central system that facilitates private and secure payment transactions from a customer of the financial institution to a payee and that stores personal and private data of a customer that is referenced to an identification of a wireless mobile device of the customer. The central system receives financial transaction requests from the mobile device for transaction from a one or bank accounts of the customer. The central system identifies and verifies the customer and assembles payment authorization transaction requests and submits the payment transaction record to the customer's financial institution, thereby reducing the number of people and systems who would have access to the private data of the customer, and thus reducing the number of fraudulent financial transactions. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119185 | Card activated cash dispensing automated banking machine system and method - An automated banking machine system operates to cause financial transfers responsive to data read from data bearing records. The system is operative to read a financial card bearing account indicia with a card reader. A user is enabled to perform at least one banking operation responsive to account indicia read from the card. Such banking operations may include dispensing cash and accessing financial accounts. While a user operates the system to dispense cash or perform other banking operations, the system may further permit at least one portable wireless device to wirelessly access the system to conduct transactions. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119186 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING A VIRTUAL AUTOMATED TELLER MACHINE - Method and system for implementing a virtual automated teller machine (“VATM”) system are described. In one embodiment, the system includes a VATM host connectable to each of a plurality of disbursement entities (“DEs”) via a secure connection. The system further includes an accessing computer connectable to the VATM host via a secure connection, the accessing computer comprising a device for acquiring user account information and having installed thereon VATM client software executable by the accessing computer to interact with the VATM host to validate the acquired user account information and an associated PIN provided by the user. Responsive to the validation, the user is presented with a list of DEs and prompted to select one DE from the list of DEs from which funds are to be disbursed to the user and specify an amount of funds to be disbursed. The VATM host sends a disbursement order to the selected DE indicating the specified amount of funds to be disbursed. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119187 | Electronic sales method - A method is presented for facilitating sales transactions by electronic media. A temporary barcode or other design is tattooed onto a tattoo sheet, previously organized by verifiable chronological date. The tattoo sheet is made with an adhesive sufficient to allow the tattoo, once printed, to be transferred onto the skin of a person or to a personal object and remain affixed to said person or personal object during the period of time for which a financial transaction might occur. The transferable temporary tattoo is then removed from the sheet and applied to the skin of the individual or to a personal object in their possession. Before the sales transaction can be consummated, the tattoo information along with the corresponding valid date information is scanned with a scanner. Characteristics about the scanned tattoo are compared to characteristics about other tattoos stored on a computer database for the specific time period in question in order to verify the identity of the buyer for a given time period. Additionally, the chronological information is verified to ensure that the transaction is occurring only during a previously prescribed valid time period for which a given tattoo is valid. Once both pieces of information are verified, the seller may be authorized to debit the buyer's bank electronic bank account in order to consummate the transaction or transactions during the given period of time. The seller's electronic bank account may be similarly updated. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119188 | BUSINESS TO BUSINESS TRADING NETWORK SYSTEM AND METHOD - The system enables a data processing framework that polls for files using a listener, controls the workflow using event driven logic, processes financial transactions, and creates a business to business trading partner network. The listener ensures the reliability and data integrity of input files and performs archiving functions. The payment management functions automatically processes transactions, including payor (e.g., the buyer) initiated payments to a payee (e.g., a supplier) by utilizing a flexible, decoupled processing architecture. A payment management computer identifies a universal identifier for each entity and forms relationships and hierarchies in order to increase efficiency of the trading partner network. Metadata describes the format, validation and relationships for a wide variety of financial account data. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119189 | DATA PROCESSING FRAMEWORK - The system enables a data processing framework that polls for files using a listener, controls the workflow using event driven logic, processes financial transactions, and creates a business to business trading partner network. The listener ensures the reliability and data integrity of input files and performs archiving functions. The payment management functions automatically processes transactions, including payor (e.g., the buyer) initiated payments to a payee (e.g., a supplier) by utilizing a flexible, decoupled processing architecture. A payment management computer identifies a universal identifier for each entity and forms relationships and hierarchies in order to increase efficiency of the trading partner network. Metadata describes the format, validation and relationships for a wide variety of financial account data. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119190 | ANONYMOUS TRANSACTION PAYMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and non-transitory, tangible computer-readable media associated with use of transaction authorization codes to each of the parties involved in a buying and selling transaction. In various embodiments, the transaction authorization code(s) may be exchanged between parties, and once confirmed or validated, the transaction may be consummated. In one embodiment, the transaction authorization code may conceal personal and/or financial information about a party with whom the code is associated. In various embodiments, transaction authorization codes may be used on shared or separate devices. In various embodiments transaction authorization codes may be entered through web-based interfaces or using mobile devices. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119191 | LICENSE OPTIMIZATION IN A VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENT - License optimization using a virtualized environment that includes receiving, by a processing device, a system requirement, analyzing, by the processing device, a use of a software component installed in a system in view of a license associated with the software component, and generating, by the processing device, an indication for placement of a virtualization of the software component to satisfy the system requirement responsive to the analysis. The optimization optimizing cost comprising at least a charge for the license. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119192 | MESSAGING SYSTEM - A message status bartering system is established in a peer-to-peer messaging environment. A message status is made available to a user of the peer-to-peer messaging environment. A bartering engine is used to determine whether an attempted communication with the user is to be allowed based on the message status in use. If the communication is disallowed, the bartering engine can be used to establish a bartering agreement between the parties. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119193 | TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Systems, methods, and computer program products are defined that provide for managing a technical project. In particular, embodiments provide for an end-to-end project delivery tool that includes planning, defining the requirements, designing, building, approving and providing communication/reporting of the technical project. The technical project management delivery tool herein described automates the capture of data and other functionality, such as identification of technical requirements, design infrastructure, build workflows and the like, to add increased efficiency as it relates to the design and build phases of a technical project. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119194 | DEFINING TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS IN A TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Systems, methods, and computer program products are defined that provide for managing a technical project. In particular, embodiments provide for an end-to-end project delivery tool that includes planning, defining the requirements, designing, building, approving and providing communication/reporting of the technical project. The technical project management delivery tool herein described automates the capture of data and other functionality, such as identification of technical requirements, design infrastructure, build workflows and the like, to add increased efficiency as it relates to the design and build phases of a technical project. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119195 | DEFINING INFRASTRUCTURE DESIGN IN A TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Systems, methods, and computer program products are defined that provide for managing a technical project and in particular the infrastructure design phase of the technical project. Specifically, embodiments provide for an end-to-end project delivery tool that includes defining the infrastructure design requirements of the technical project. The technical project management delivery tool herein described automates the capture of data and other functionality, such as identification of design infrastructure and the like, to add increased efficiency as it relates to the design and build phases of a technical project. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119196 | CONFEDERATED KNOWLEDGE FOR TWO OR MORE INTERNET-ACCESSIBLE KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS - In an automated method system for coordinating navigations within two or more knowledge bases that would otherwise be functionally independent, context-continuity is maintained when an automated transfer is executed from a first knowledge base to a second knowledge base. The transfer is triggered by detection that the second knowledge base has a greater relevance to the user. As a result of the context-continuity, information acquired prior to the transfer is used to achieve a partial navigation within the second knowledge base. For embodiments involving Virtual Agents, the content-continuity includes simulating a continuation of dialog despite the transfer. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119197 | LEGAL COMMUNICATIONS MANAGEMENT MOBILE APPLICATION - An automated system for providing legal matter updates can include a legal matter management application and a legal matter update service application. The legal matter management application can run on a mobile device and can be configured to organize legal matter data pertaining to legal proceedings. The legal matter update service application can be configured to identify and convey legal matter update messages about the legal proceedings from a legal business computing system to the legal matter management application. The legal matter update message can include one or more elements of legal matter data. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119198 | METHOD OF EARLY CASE ASSESSMENT IN LAW SUITS - A tool which provides counsel with a data collection mechanism to guide them through various steps in the litigation process and directs counsel and/or legal assistants to determine what information is required. The tool provides a “Discovery Generator” that is available to capture counsel's potential discovery requests, which are linked to existing document and form production tools for facilitated production of discovery. The tool informs the user of the percentage of progress of the required information that has been entered. The tool provides an analytical framework that captures the judgment of seasoned practitioners to provide a comprehensive analysis of the legal, factual, and business aspects of the lawsuit. The tool provides methodologies that quantify subjective analyses through the use of weighted measuring schemes. The tool provides a decision tree structure underlying the various steps of the methodology activated by user's answers to queries to aid in the capture and analysis of information. To do this the tool directs counsel to assign values to reflect the importance of various aspects of the litigation. Based on the values that are assigned, counsel's assessment of the particular aspect of the litigation which is captured through the queries mentioned above, and statistical assessments of likely outcomes based on historical records of previously captured information and analogous assessments, the tool provides counsel with suggested paths forward. This process occurs on both a step by step basis as well as with an overall assessment of the case. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119199 | Facility Resource Consumption Estimator - A centralized emission management system is implemented via a server that is accessible to a large number of entities. An entity uploads information about demographic data and resource consumption data of its organizational units, such as facilities, to determine measures of environmental impact, such as CO2e emissions. When resource consumption of a target organizational unit is not available, the entity can request the server to estimate the resource consumption based on private information about comparable organizational units within the entity or public information about comparable organizational units outside of the entity. The server determines the comparable organizational units based on the demographic data. The entity can select a resource consumption item of a comparable organizational unit from which the server determines an estimated resource consumption of the target organizational unit, generates an audit trail of the estimate, and determines a measure of environmental impact from the estimate. Any report listing the estimated resource consumption or the measure of environmental impact clearly designates the value as an estimate. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119200 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING FREIGHT RATE AND FEES - A method for determining a freight rate and fees and a system therefor that can determine additional fees for additional distances, detention times, and distances of overtime transportation, other than the time and distance for a single service of consignment transportation. According to the method, upon receiving any of waiting, loading, completion, rest, unloading, addition, and additional loading instructions, a vehicle-mounted apparatus receives positional information of a transportation vehicle from a GPS satellite, and associates information corresponding to the received instructions with the positional information and a time at which the instructions have been received, for storage as service data; the server determines a reference freight rate based on designated loading and unloading points; when information associated with the additional and additional unloading instructions have been found from the service data, the server determines an additional travel distance, to determine an additional distance fee therefor; the server determines an amount of time that the time required at each of the loading and unloading points exceeds a prescribed reference time to be a detention time, to determine a detention fee therefor; and the server determines a distance traveled during late night and early morning hours and a distance traveled on regular and public holidays, to determine an overtime transportation fee therefor. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119201 | Virtual test market system and method - Systems and methods for conducting a virtual test market are disclosed. A system may include a virtual launch component, a transaction component, and a marketing simulation component. The components of the system may be used in combination to obtain, and analyze marketing data relating to a new product offering at a substantially reduced cost and resource level as compared to conventional techniques. The systems and methods disclosed may also be used to perform scenario analyses. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119202 | AUTOMATED, SELF-LEARNING TOOL FOR IDENTIFYING IMPACTED BUSINESS PARAMETERS FOR A BUSINESS CHANGE-EVENT - Embodiments of the invention relate to systems, methods, and computer program products for identifying probable impacted business parameters, such as business applications, business teams/organizations at the onset of a business change-event, such as a business project, initiation of product/service offering or the like. Embodiments rely on analysis of historical data and architecture blueprints, driven by a predefined statistical model to determine probable impacted business parameters. Additionally, embodiments provide for determining the level of impact, in terms of hours and financials and/or the priority of the probable impacted business parameters. In addition, embodiments provide for automated notification of individuals and/or entities associated with the probable impacted business parameters. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119203 | Private entity profile network - In private equity and debt funding operations, resource providers define electronic data collection templates to be filled in by prospective resource consumers to form semi-homogeneous profiles. Providers and/or consumers can assign themselves and/or third parties various individualized levels of permissions to access and to perform activities on the profiles. Providers can organize profiles into portfolios to further manage the data. All accesses and activities, such as changes to the data, are tracked and recorded in logs useful for audit purposes. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119204 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMPOUND RISK FACTOR SAMPLING WITH INTEGRATED MARKET AND CREDIT RISK - Systems and methods for generating an integrated market and credit loss distribution for the purpose of calculating one or more risk measures associated with a portfolio of instruments are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, compound risk factor sampling is performed that comprises conditionally generating multiple systemic credit driver samples for each market risk factor sample generated per time step of a simulation. There are also disclosed systems and methods for determining an optimal number of sample values for each of the market risk factors, systemic credit drivers, and optionally, idiosyncratic risk factors that would be required in order to obtain an acceptable amount of variability in the calculated risk estimates and/or to satisfy an available computational budget. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119205 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING AN EARNINGS PORTION OF A DISTRIBUTION FROM A 529 PLAN - A method for determining an earnings portion of a distribution from a 529 plan. The method includes receiving information associated with a plurality of 529 plan accounts, identifying related 529 plan accounts, aggregating the information for related 529 plan accounts, and determining an earnings portion of a distribution from at least one of the 529 plan accounts. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119206 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING DATA FOR A DEFERRED VARIABLE ANNUITY WITH BENEFIT PAYMENTS AS A FUNCTION OF A PREDETERMINED TIME-BASED WITHDRAWAL PERCENT - A computer system for processing data relating to a deferred variable annuity contract during the accumulation phase has a storage device having data including a contract value, a payment base value, and a formula for determining amounts of available benefit payments during a time period, without reduction of the payment base value, using a withdrawal percent based on a time elapsed from a purchase date of the contract. A processor is configured to access an applicable withdrawal percent and determine an available benefit amount during a time period based on the applicable withdrawal percent and a withdrawal base value. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119207 | Healthcare Index - System and methods for processing price data for health services are provided. In one embodiment, the system includes a data storage device configured to store a database comprising one or more records. The system may also include a server in data communication with the data storage device. The server may be suitably programmed to search the database to obtain a group of records of prices for a health service received by a group of subjects, wherein the health service is comprised in a service category; extract a representative price for the health service; determine a weight for the health service relative to the service category; and generate, using a processor, a weighted price for the health service based on the weight and the representative price. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119208 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DEVELOPING A CLASSIFICATION TOOL - An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a computer implemented method of developing a classifier. The method includes receiving input for a case, the case comprising a plurality of instances and an example, the example comprising a plurality of data fields each corresponding to one of the plurality of instances, wherein the input indicates which, if any, of the instances includes a data field belonging to a target class. The method also includes training the classifier based, at least in part, on the input from the trainer. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119209 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DEVELOPING A CLASSIFICATION TOOL - An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a computer implemented method of developing a classifier. The method includes obtaining a set of training data comprising labeled cases. The method also includes training a classifier based, at least in part, on the training data. The method also includes applying the classifier to a plurality of unlabeled cases to generate classification scores for each of the unlabeled cases, wherein each classification score corresponds with an instance of a corresponding case. Furthermore, the classification score corresponding to a first instance in a case is computed based, at least in part, on a value of a case-centric feature corresponding to the first instance, wherein the value of the case-centric feature is based, at least in part, on characteristics of the first instance and a second instance in the case. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119210 | Multiple Category Learning for Training Classifiers - Described is multiple category learning to jointly train a plurality of classifiers in an iterative manner. Each training iteration associates an adaptive label with each training example, in which during the iterations, the adaptive label of any example is able to be changed by the subsequent reclassification. In this manner, any mislabeled training example is corrected by the classifiers during training. The training may use a probabilistic multiple category boosting algorithm that maintains probability data provided by the classifiers, or a winner-take-all multiple category boosting algorithm selects the adaptive label based upon the highest probability classification. The multiple category boosting training system may be coupled to a multiple instance learning mechanism to obtain the training examples. The trained classifiers may be used as weak classifiers that provide a label used to select a deep classifier for further classification, e.g., to provide a multi-view object detector. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119211 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSESSING RISK - The invention describes systems and methods of assessing risk using a computer. A computer-based system including an enrollment module, a data aggregation module, a risk assessment module, and a memory is provided for assessing risks. The enrollment receives, at a computer, personal information regarding at least one entity. The data aggregation module receives, at the computer, risk information regarding the entity according to the personal information from at least one data source. The risk assessment module converts the risk information to assessment information. The memory stores the personal information, the risk information, and/or the assessment information on the computer. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119212 | EXPERT SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING PATIENT TREATMENT RESPONSE - A medical digital expert system to predict a patient's response to a variety of treatments (using pre-treatment information) is described. The system utilizes data fusion, advanced signal/information processing and machine learning/inference methodologies and technologies to integrate and explore diverse sets of attributes, parameters and information that are available to select the optimal treatment choice for an individual or for a subset of individuals suffering from any illness or disease including psychiatric, mental or neurological disorders and illnesses. The methodology and system can also be used to determine or confirm medical diagnosis, estimate the level, index, severity or critical medical parameters of the illness or condition, or provide a list of likely diagnoses for an individual suffering/experiencing any illness, disorder or condition. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119213 | SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE - RECURSIVE FEATURE ELIMINATION (SVM-RFE) - Identification of a determinative subset of features from within a group of features is performed by training a support vector machine using training samples with class labels to determine a value of each feature, where features are removed based on their the value. One or more features having the smallest values are removed and an updated kernel matrix is generated using the remaining features. The process is repeated until a predetermined number of features remain which are capable of accurately separating the data into different classes. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119214 | AREA EFFICIENT NEUROMORPHIC CIRCUITS - A neuromorphic circuit includes a first field effect transistor in a first diode configuration establishing an electrical connection between a first gate and a first drain of the first field effect transistor. The neuromorphic circuit also includes a second field effect transistor in a second diode configuration establishing an electrical connection between a second gate and a second drain of the second field effect transistor. The neuromorphic circuit further includes variable resistance material electrically connected to both the first drain and the second drain, where the variable resistance material provides a programmable resistance value. The neuromorphic circuit additionally includes a first junction electrically connected to the variable resistance material and providing a first connection point to an output of a neuron circuit, and a second junction electrically connected to the variable resistance material and providing a second connection point to the output of the neuron circuit. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119215 | HARDWARE ANALOG-DIGITAL NEURAL NETWORKS - An analog-digital crosspoint-network includes a plurality of rows and columns, a plurality of synaptic nodes, each synaptic node of the plurality of synaptic nodes disposed at an intersection of a row and column of the plurality of rows and columns, wherein each synaptic node of the plurality of synaptic nodes includes a weight associated therewith, a column controller associated with each column of the plurality of columns, wherein each column controller is disposed to enable a weight change at a synaptic node in communication with said column controller, and a row controller associated with each row of the plurality of rows, wherein each row controller is disposed to control a weight change at a synaptic node in communication with said row controller. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119216 | NATURAL INPUT TRAINER FOR GESTURAL INSTRUCTION - A computing device that detects precursory user-input preactions executed in an instructive region and user-input action gestures executed in a functionally-active region is provided. The computing device includes a natural input trainer to present a predictive input cue on a display in response to detecting a precursory user-input preaction performed in the instructive region. The computing device also includes an interface engine to execute a computing function in response to detecting a successive user-input action gesture performed in the functionally-active region subsequent to detection of the precursory user-input preaction. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119217 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING SERVICE - Provided are a service recommending apparatus and method. The service recommending method uses situation information, such as location information of a terminal possessed by a user and a user profile, to deduce the user's activity, predicts a service that is expected to be preferred by the user according to the user's situation, and provides the result of the prediction to the user. The location information of the terminal is acquired from a network server such as a location information server through an open API gateway. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119218 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING AN ENTITY'S IDENTITY AND ASSESSING RISKS RELATED THERETO - The invention describes systems and methods of determining an entity's identity and assessing risk related to the entity's identity using a computer. A computer-based system including a tracking module, an information module, a risk assessment module, and a memory is provided. The tracking module records encounters of the entity with the computer-based system. The information module gathers and detects changes in biographic information and biometric information relating to the entity's identity. The risk assessment module evaluates risks associated with the entity. The memory stores the information. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119219 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYZING SYSTEM EVENTS - An apparatus and an associated method facilitate analysis of events associated with a network system. Event occurrence items are compared with event rules of an event rule set to determine whether the items are potentially significant. If considered to be potentially significant, a scorer assigns a score to the event occurrence item to provide a relative indication of the potential significance of the event occurrence item. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119220 | RULE-BASED VALIDATION OF WEBSITES - An automated website analysis system includes mechanisms for automatically auditing a website to validate that the scanned web page information conforms to validation rules. In one implementation, an auditing system requests web pages of an identified website pursuant to validating at least a portion of each requested web page. Embodiments include scanning page code of at least one of the web pages to identify scanned web page information, including a page tag. The scanned web page information is validated to determine whether is conforms to at least one validation rule by validating variables of the page tag against validation rules, including a vendor validation rule. Results of the validation are reported. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119221 | Method, system and software arrangement for reconstructing formal descriptive models of processes from functional/modal data using suitable ontology - A method, system and software arrangement in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present invention are provided to extract descriptive narrative from numerical experimental data augmented with ontological controlled vocabulary. One exemplary application of such system, method and software arrangement is in organizing gene-expression time course data in terms of biological processes that may be activated and deactivated as the biological system responds to its normal or perturbed environment. The present invention may also have biological applications to drug-or-vaccine discovery, understanding behavior of a cell in an altered diseased state (e.g., cancer, neuro-degeneration or auto-immune disease, etc.), genetically modifying a natural wild-type organism, genetic-engineering, etc. Other exemplary applications may include understanding neural behavior, market behavior of a population of users interacting on the Internet, etc. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119222 | METHOD OF BUILDING A DATABASE OF MOBILE DEVICE BEACON LOCATIONS - A method of building a database of beacon locations is disclosed. Mobile devices submit beacon sighting data to a server; the server using the beacon sighting data to build the database of beacon locations using force directed graph calculations. An iterative process calculates the optimal placement of beacons in a 2D or 3D topology of nodes and edges using force directed graph calculations. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119223 | ASSET ADVISORY INTELLIGENCE ENGINE FOR MANAGING REUSABLE SOFTWARE ASSETS - Providing intelligent recommendations of reusable software assets can begin with obtaining semantic topic maps that define semantic relationships between topics. A topic can represent a requirement or a reusable software asset. A semantic topic map can be written in accordance with a semantic framework using a Web ontology language and stored in a semantic Web repository. User-entered search criteria, representing a requirement, a user-selected search results filter, or a reusable software asset, can be received. A set of semantic topic maps can be identified for the user-entered search criteria. A set of inferred data items can be inferred from the set of identified semantic topic maps. The contents of both sets can be aggregated into a results table. A semantic results graph, a pictorial representation of topics and relationships, can be synthesized from the results table. The semantic results graph can be rendered within an associated user interface. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119224 | FEEDBACK DURING SURGICAL EVENTS - Technology is disclosed for communicating surgical information. The technology can receive a first data from a first sensor coupled to a first tool; receive a second data from a second sensor coupled to a second tool; generate a virtual model of a virtual real-time space, wherein the first tool is mapped in the virtual real-time space in relation to a first vital entity and a second vital entity via the first sensor and based on the first data; apply the virtual real-time space against at least a first probabilistic model and a second probabilistic model to obtain a third data about movement of the first tool in relation to the first vital entity and the second vital entity; and output the third data to an output device to convey information about the first tool. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119225 | INTELLIGENT REPUTATION ATTRIBUTION PLATFORM - Systems and methods allowing for the attribution of reputation to data sources (e.g., for the creation of referrals) are provided. In an illustrative implementation scores (e.g., reputation scores) are determined for a target entity connected a source entity on a network on a given dimension. In the illustrative implementation, an entity may be directly linked to any number of other entities on any number of dimensions, with each link having an associated score. Illustratively, each dimension has an associated transitive dimension. A directed path on a given dimension between two entities, a source and a target, consists of a directed link from the source entity to an intermediate entity, prefixed to a directed path from the intermediate entity to the target entity. In the illustrative implementation, links on the path can travel on the transitive dimension associated with the given dimension. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119226 | Method and System for Detecting Anomalies in Web Analytics Data - A server system stores web analytics data for a web page in a device. The web analytics data comprises a plurality of prior time-value pairs, each pair including a value of an attribute associated with the web page and a time associated with the value. For a particular attribute, the server system collects a new time-value pair including a new value associated with the web page and a new time indicating when the value was determined. The server system estimates a predicted value for the attribute and an associated error-variance at the new time by applying a forecasting model to the prior time-value pairs in respective subsets of the web analytics data. The collected new time-value pair is tagged if its value is outside the error variance of the predicted value for the particular attribute. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119227 | System And Method For Graphically Distinguishing Levels Of A Multidimensional Database - In accordance with the teachings described herein, systems and methods are provided for graphically distinguishing levels from a multidimensional database. Levels from a multidimensional database are distinguished, such as by associating two or more of database's levels with a plurality of different visual indicators. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119228 | SELECTIVE FILE SYSTEM CACHING BASED UPON A CONFIGURABLE CACHE MAP - A method for implementing selective file system caching. The method includes receiving I/O requests from an application and comparing each of the I/O requests with a configurable cache map, wherein the configurable cache map controls a selective caching based on an I/O type and a file type. Each of the I/O requests are processed to render caching decisions based on the configurable cache map. Selective caching is then implemented on each of the I/O requests in accordance with the caching decisions. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119229 | APPARATUS FOR CREATING WORKFLOW OF COMPOSITION WEB SERVICE AND FUNCTIONALITY INFORMATION CONSTRUCTION METHOD FOR CREATING WORKFLOW OF COMPOSITION WEB SERVICE - Provided are an apparatus for creating a workflow of a composition web service and a functionality information construction method for creating a workflow of a composition web service. The apparatus and method analyze procedural knowledge described in web documents to normalize and continuously accumulate functionality information required for performing a task, and automatically configure a workflow of a composition web service by combining pieces of the accumulated functionality information, thereby solving the problem of a discordance occurring when one composition web service is configured by dynamically combining multiple different web services. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119230 | Method for automatically associating contacts in an online social network - A method for creating and managing contact information in the context of an online social networking community. Each member of the social networking community creates a member profile containing contact information such as email address, telephone numbers, and street addresses. When a member joins a subgroup or secure network within the social networking community, the member's profile is shared with all other members of that secure network. The member's own contacts are also shared with all other members of the network such that one member of the network has access to all contacts of every other member of the network. Contact profiles are automatically updated as the owner of the profile provides new information to his or her profile. Duplicate entries are minimized by a matching feature that alerts members to the creation of possible duplicates and allows the members to merge, delete, or or ignore potential duplicate profiles. Members of a secure network who have shared contact profiles in this manner are able to collaborate on documents and projects within the context of the online social networking community. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119231 | Adaptive Information Processing Systems, Methods, and Media for Updating Product Documentation and Knowledge Base - An adaptive information processing system for updating product documentation and associated knowledge base is disclosed, the system including at least one subsystem for receiving original data from a data source, and a central dynamic data system to integrate the original data from the at least one subsystem. The central dynamic data system is configured to integrate system knowledge with the original data to form integrated data, wherein the central dynamic data system is configured to dynamically update the product documentation and the knowledge base based on the integrated data. A computer implemented method for dynamically updating product documentation and knowledge base is further disclosed, the method includes receiving original data from a data source, and integrating the knowledge base with the original data from the data source to form integrated data. The method further includes mapping the integrated data with at least one application and dynamically updating product documentation and the knowledge base based on the integrated data. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119232 | SYNCHRONIZING DATA BETWEEN A CLIENT AND A SERVER - In one aspect, a method to synchronize data between a client and a server, includes determining filters to limit data sent during synchronization, determining unique identifiers of data stored at a client, sending a request for synchronization including the filters and the unique identifiers to the server, retrieving data based on the filters and the unique identifiers and sending the retrieved data to the client. | 2011-05-19 |
20110119233 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR SYNCHRONIZING DATA BETWEEN DATA MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS - A system, method, and computer program for synchronizing of the state of a data management application and data items within or accessible by the data management applications is provided. The data items are managed on a plurality of devices using a plurality of data management applications. Additions, modifications, or deletions made using any of the data management applications can be synchronized in any direction to the other data management applications. A synchronization utility defines common schemas to manage synchronization between the data management applications, which may each store similar or dissimilar information relating to the data items. | 2011-05-19 |