23rd week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 63 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120143611 | Trajectory Tiling Approach for Text-to-Speech - Hidden Markov Models HMM trajectory tiling (HTT)-based approaches may be used to synthesize speech from text. In operation, a set of Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) and a set of waveform units may be obtained from a speech corpus. The set of HMMs are further refined via minimum generation error (MGE) training to generate a refined set of HMMs. Subsequently, a speech parameter trajectory may be generated by applying the refined set of HMMs to an input text. A unit lattice of candidate waveform units may be selected from the set of waveform units based at least on the speech parameter trajectory. A normalized cross-correlation (NCC)-based search on the unit lattice may be performed to obtain a minimal concatenation cost sequence of candidate waveform units, which are concatenated into a concatenated waveform sequence that is synthesized into speech. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143612 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUDIO COMMUNICATION OF INFORMATION - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a controller configured to obtain information associated with media content, to generate a first group of tones representative of the information associated with the media content, and to generate a media stream comprising the media content and the first group of tones; and a communication interface configured to transmit the media stream to a media device whereby the media device presents the media content and a sequence of tones, where the sequence of tones is generated based at least in part on the first group of tones, where the first group of tones comprises high frequency tones and low frequency tones, and where one of the high and low frequency tones represents a binary one and the other of the high and low frequency tones represents a binary zero. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143613 | APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING ONE OR MORE ADJUSTED PARAMETERS FOR A PROVISION OF AN UPMIX SIGNAL REPRESENTATION ON THE BASIS OF A DOWNMIX SIGNAL REPRESENTATION, AUDIO SIGNAL DECODER, AUDIO SIGNAL TRANSCODER, AUDIO SIGNAL ENCODER, AUDIO BITSTREAM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM USING AN OBJECT-RELATED PARAMETRIC INFORMATION - An apparatus for providing one or more adjusted parameters for a provision of an upmix signal representation on the basis of a downmix signal representation and an object-related parametric information includes a parameter adjuster. The parameter adjuster is configured to receive one or more input parameters and to provide, on the basis thereof, one or more adjusted parameters. The parameter adjuster is configured to provide the one or more adjusted parameters in dependence on the one or more input parameters and the object-related parametric information, such that a distortion of the upmix signal representation caused by the use of non-optimal parameters is reduced at least for input parameters deviating from optimal parameters by more than a predetermined deviation. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143614 | ENCODING APPARATUS, ENCODING METHOD, DECODING APPARATUS, DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An encoding apparatus includes a time-frequency transform unit that performs a time-frequency transform on an audio signal, a normalization unit that normalizes a frequency spectral coefficient obtained by the time-frequency transform in order to generate encoded data of the audio signal, a level calculation unit that calculates a level of the audio signal, a scale factor changing unit that changes a concealment scale factor included in encoded concealment data obtained by performing, on the basis of the level of the audio signal, a time-frequency transform and normalization on a minute noise signal, the concealment scale factor being a scale factor relating to a coefficient used for the normalization, and an output unit that outputs the encoded data of the audio signal generated by the normalization unit or outputs, as encoded data of the audio signal, the encoded concealment data whose concealment scale factor has been changed. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143615 | System and Method for Auctioning Geoboxed Flexible, Semi-Locked or Locked Radio Presets - The described system and method provides for the auctioning of radio presets in a vehicle and loading radio preset information into radio preset slots of the vehicle including different types of presets and different sets of preset information corresponding to different preset zones. Multiple auctions may be conducted for each vehicle or group of vehicles, and the auctions may be based on a variety of factors such as different types of presets, different preset zones, number of vehicles, type of vehicles, etc. Once the auction or auctions are won, radio preset slots corresponding to the results of the auctions may be loaded into vehicles at the manufacturer, dealership, or upon the occurrence of a geobox trigger when a vehicle is determined to be inside a particular preset zone. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143616 | SYSTEM FOR AND METHOD OF TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT - A system for and method of transaction management may include receiving, via a network, an indication of a transaction error and determining, using electronically stored transaction rules and data, a classification of the transaction error based at least in part on the received indication of the transaction error. The method may comprise presenting a transaction associated with the error to a user for correction in the event the error is classified as a human error. The method may also comprise presenting the transaction associated with the error to a user, in the event an error is classified as an external system error, to perform at least one of: retracting an offer associated with the transaction, and changing an offer associated with the transaction. The method may include providing a notification to an external system in the event the error is classified as an external system error. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143617 | Systems and Methods for Clinical Trial Documenting Using a Mobile Communications Device - Systems and methods presented herein may involve documenting clinical trials through use of a mobile communications device, such as a camera phone. Using the mobile communications device, the participant may record video of themselves administering a health intervention that is the subject of the clinical trial and/or report serious adverse events that occur. The video clips may be sent to a documentation server for documentation. The documentation server may also route serious adverse event notifications to a plurality of locations, such as the doctor's office, the study center, and/or the pharmaceutical company that developed the health intervention being tested. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143618 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF SERVICE AND CARE IN A HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATION - A method for improving the quality of healthcare, efficiency, and patient satisfaction procedures is provided. The method includes conducting at least a first survey of patients regarding care provided before, during, and after a procedure, wherein the survey focuses on benchmarks identified as being relevant to quality of care. The method further includes entering the results of the first survey into a database configured to store the results, reviewing the results of the first survey to determine the quality of care provided during the procedure, identifying incidences of poor quality of care, and comparing the results of the first survey with results of surveys taken from other patients to recognize patterns of poor quality of care. The method further includes addressing the incidences of poor quality of care by developing methods to address the recognized incidences of poor quality of care. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143619 | Telecommunications System for Monitoring and for Enabling a Communication Chain Between Care Givers and Benefactors and for Providing Alert Notification to Designated Recipients - A service for facilitating monitoring of individuals on behalf of one or more caregivers has an Internet-connected server, software executing from a digital storage medium associated with the server, an interactive interface provided by the software for enabling individuals to input information and to access the service, and information stored in a data repository associated with the server regarding at least contact data for the individuals, media files representing recorded voice messages, and schedule parameters for initiating and processing call requests directed from the one or more caregivers. The one or more caregivers may subscribe to the service and may provide specific contact data and configuration data for system use and wherein the system may according to schedule initiate proxy contact attempts on behalf of the one or more caregivers based on the contact and configuration data, including reporting contact attempt results and recording and forwarding any contact replies. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143620 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A PATIENT'S RESPONSIBILITY TO A PROVIDER - A method and system for determining a patient's responsibility to a provider includes a point of service device and a patient responsibility calculator. The point of service device receives information from the patient upon the patient checking in at the provider's location. Upon check in, the patient responsibility calculator determines substantially in real-time the amount owed by the patient for a service to be rendered prior to the patient receiving the service. The patient responsibility calculator utilizes information regarding the patient's insurance plan from the patient's insurance provider to determine the amount owed by the patient for the services. Once the amount owed by the patient is calculated, the point of service device prompts the patient for payment and processes payment. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143621 | HEALTH CARE DEVICE, METHOD AND GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR HEALTH CARE - A health care management method and device which display information to identify a first patient, display information on a health state of the first patient based on a bio-information measurement value of the first patient, display a user interface to display information on a health state of a second patient, and display information on a health state of the second patient based on a bio-information measurement value of the second patient. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143622 | Genetic Data Analysis and Database Tools - A computerized tool and method for delivery of pharmacogenetic and pharmacological information, comprising a core system having algorithms and databases for storing, collating, accessing, cross-referencing, and interpreting genetic and pharmacologic data, with a graphical user interface for a client network of providers of laboratory genetic testing services to access the core services under contract. The system includes “paypoints” in support of improved business models. Included are mechanisms for ‘pass through’ third party and insurance reimbursement for interpretive reports, insurance reimbursement for on-line access to pharmacogenetic information at the point of care, tools for market segmentation, and a conversion tool for capturing new subscribers. Also disclosed are tools and predictive algorithms for preventing drug-drug and drug-gene adverse drug reactions. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143623 | RULE BASED DECISION SUPPORT AND PATIENT-SPECIFIC VISUALIZATION SYSTEM FOR OPTIMAL CANCER STAGING - A system including a display and a processor and a corresponding method for identifying a tumor in a patient image, classifying the tumor based on a predetermined classification system and determining a recommendation regarding a lymph node biopsy based on the tumor identified in the patient image, the classification of the tumor and a predetermined rule. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143624 | m-ERP system - This system involves two levels of integration of information. At one level it integrates the enterprise business transactions with the electronic medical records of patients—for each medical service provider like a doctor, a lab or even a hospital. So a medical service provider like a doctor can conduct all his business form one system. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143625 | DIAGNOSTIC MEDICAL INFORMATION BROKER SYSTEM AND METHOD - A medical information broker system and method is disclosed, that advantageously allows for brokering medical information directly between a diagnostic imaging modality and a EMR system. The system can include, for example, a communications module configured to receive at least one file containing patient data from a diagnostic imaging modality in a first format, and send the at least one file to a destination modality in a second format; a diagnostic information converter module in electronic communication with the communications module and configured to convert the at least one file from the first format to the second format; and a work list engine in electronic communication with the communications module and configured to create a task list accessible via a user. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143626 | METHOD FOR CONSOLIDATING MEDICAL RECORDS THROUGH THE WORLD WIDE WEB - Medical records, clinical observations, and medical imagery are organized and aggregated into a common database, enabling the data to be viewed and/or updated by medical practitioners world-wide. The information may also be viewed and monitored by patients or their relatives for accuracy, also regardless of their location. The invention further allows the records to be updated by manually controlled or automated instrumentation which measures medical parameters whether located in a doctors office, in a hospital setting, in the patient's home, or worn by the patient. Common access and point-to-point data transmission is via the global grid, or over public access common data networks supporting TCP/IP, most often referred to as the Internet. The same approach can be using insider an organization over an internal network or Intranet. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143627 | Pharmacy Episodes of Care - Grouping, categorizing, and profiling pharmaceutical claims data to assist health care managers is described. In aspects, a method is described including receiving pharmacy claims data records, validating each of the claims data records for a valid drug code, establishing a number of validated pharmacy claims data records received for each drug identified, grouping the validated pharmacy claims data records to one or more pharmacy episodes, categorizing each pharmacy episode, and storing the validated pharmacy claims data records and associated pharmacy episodes for monitoring usage of prescription drugs. In various embodiments, a pharmacy episode group is a pharmacologically homogenous grouping of drugs with the same therapeutic ingredients used by a patient once or over an extended period of time, and pharmacy episodes are categorized based on algorithms linking the pattern of a physician's recommended use and the patient's pattern of compliance. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143628 | Integrated Point of Care Medication Administration Information System - An integrated point of care medication administration system comprises a point of care medication administration system including an interface for communicating with the at least one repository and information sources and including a processor. The processor uses the information and the interface in automatically acquiring for a particular patient, data representing particular patient parameters and laboratory test results associated with a particular individual medication in response to user initiation of an order for the particular individual medication to be administered to the particular patient. A display device presents at least one display image indicating acquired particular patient parameters and laboratory test results of the particular patient and identifying a particular patient parameter or laboratory test result needing to be acquired prior to administration of the particular individual medication to the particular patient. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143629 | OUTCOMES BASED SERVICE PROVIDER NETWORKS - Disclosed herein are technologies that may be used to determine the composition of service provider networks. Service providers may be compared based on a number of metrics related to the services they provide. As an example, medical service providers may be compared based on factors such as how quickly patients in their care recover from injuries, and how satisfied patients are with the care they receive. A service provider network may be defined as including only service providers with metrics that meet a given threshold. In the context of workers' compensation insurance, the disclosed technologies may be used to direct injured workers to medical service providers that provide superior care, thereby achieving better outcomes for injured workers. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143630 | THIRD PARTY VERIFICATION OF INSURABLE INCIDENT CLAIM SUBMISSION - Incident data for an insurance claim associated with an incident can be received by an incident application executing within a computing device. The incident can be an insurable event associated with an insurance policy of an insurance carrier. The incident data can be simultaneously conveyed to an independent third party entity as a serialized data format and as an insurance claim to the insurance carrier. The third party entity can automatically verify the incident data and generate a verification report. The verification report can be associated with the incident claim. The verification report can be communicated to the insurance carrier which can be utilized to determine the validity of the insurance claim. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143631 | APPARATUSES, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS FOR BUILDING A RISK EVALUATION PRODUCT - The present disclosure describes an approach to constructing and implementing risk rating products that provides a number of advantages. Instead of hard-coding attributes of a risk rating scheme, which requires the assistance of a trained programming specialist for any modifications, adjustments, or new products, the present invention provides a set of modular tools that assist non-specialists in on-the-fly generation and implementation of risk rating products. The modularity of this approach facilitates the modification and/or updating of a system component without affecting the operation of other components. Described herein are embodiments of a risk rater data-structure, which comprises an abstracted representation of a risk rating scheme that may be loaded into and/or interpreted by other system components to generate a user interface for processing risk information and generating insurance quotes. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143632 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CALCULATING OPTIMAL SOCIAL SECURITY ELECTION DECISIONS - In some embodiments, a non-transitory processor-readable medium stores code representing instructions to cause a processor to receive, from a user, an input of at least one value associated with financial information of a married couple, and calculate, using the at least one value, an average indexed monthly earnings (AIME) value and a primary insurance amount (PIA) value for each individual from the married couple. The code represents instructions to cause the processor to calculate, using the AIME value or the PIA value for each individual from the married couple, a set of Social Security election outcomes using each election strategy from a set of election strategies for each age combination from a set of age combinations for the married couple. The code further represents instructions to cause the processor to present the set of Social Security election outcomes to the user. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143633 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FORECASTING FREQUENCIES ASSOCIATED TO FUTURE LOSS AND FOR RELATED AUTOMATED OPERATION OF LOSS RESOLVING UNITS - Proposed is a system and method for forecasting frequencies associated to future loss and loss distributions for individual risks of a plurality of operating units ( | 2012-06-07 |
20120143634 | Systems, Methods, and Computer Program Products for Processing Insurance Claims - Systems, methods, and computer program products for processing a claimant's insurance claim provide the architectural components to facilitate a common philosophy and infrastructure for processing claims in a consistent manner. A highly cohesive infrastructure can be provided that allows for legacy systems to participate in a service-oriented manner. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143635 | COMMISSION AND MARKETING SYSTEM AND METHOD - Embodiments of the invention relate generally to systems and methods for using historical purchase records to predict future purchases, and, more particularly, to systems, and methods for using such records to determine items that are likely to be purchased as replacements for items claimed as lost on an insurance claim. Purchase likelihood data based on insurance claims and purchases made by claimants is generated based on received loss claims and purchase records. The purchase likelihood data relates a type of loss to certain replacement items. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143636 | FINAL SALE MERCHANDISE CARD - A system and method that involves a merchant, a merchandise cardholder, and a beneficiary that allows a customer to select one or more beneficiaries that are to own any unused proxy sale merchandise, associating the one or more default beneficiaries with the customer merchandise account, wherein the one or more default beneficiaries differs from the customer, the customer merchandise account having a remaining balance of merchandise owned by the customer and automatically converting an amount of the customer owned proxy sold merchandise based on a conversion date, to ownership by the beneficiary; and transferring ownership of the proxy sold merchandise to the selected one or more beneficiaries. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143637 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRACKING HEALTH-RELATED SPENDING FOR VALIDATION OF DISABILITY BENEFITS CLAIMS - A method for tracking health-related spending for validation of disability benefits claims includes receiving, by a Medicare Secondary Payer statute-compliance company, from an authorization server, an identification of an approved transaction initiated by a recipient of insurance settlement funds to acquire at least one of a healthcare-related service and a healthcare-related good by a provider, the recipient authorized to receive the at least one of the healthcare-related service and the healthcare-related good from the provider. The method includes tracking, by the Medicare Secondary Payer statute-compliance company, healthcare-related expenditures by the recipient. The method includes generating, by the Medicare Secondary Payer statute-compliance company, a statement of approved transactions. The method includes transmitting, by the Medicare Secondary Payer statute-compliance company, to a disability benefit provider, the statement of approved transactions. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143638 | Making a Recurring Reservation for a Resource - A method for making a recurring reservation for a resource, performed by a resource reservation processing system, the method includes, receiving a request for a recurring reservation of a type of resource, receiving a preference associated with the request, determining an availability of specific resources of the type of resource, displaying a proposed reservation of the specific resources based in part on the preference and the availability. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143639 | System and Method for Optimizing the Utilization of Space - A system and method for providing a service allowing a user looking for an available space to access a secure network and specify parameters defining the user's requirements for the available space, while allowing other users to broadcast space information regarding spaces they are about to depart from, where space is a three-dimensional volume or position that can be occupied or vacated. Users communicate with the secure network which is comprised of dedicated and/or external data sources and servers, using electronic devices to retrieve and broadcast real-time and future space information so that users may conduct space exchanges either by paying and receiving set amounts for an available parking space or by bidding on an available parking space. Users can also rate the space exchange according to whether or not they were satisfied or dissatisfied with the transaction. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143640 | TRACEABILITY SYSTEM APPLIED TO FARM PRODUCTION ACTIVITIES, INDUSTRIALIZATION AND COMMERCIALIZATION OF BEE PRODUCTS - is a technological solution that mixes administrative, computational and electronic engineering knowledge, and aims to modernize the whole apicultural production chain. The administrative part of the ensemble proposes the use of small electronic equipment for all the activities of the field and industrial jobs. The equipment is carried attached to the user's body, in such a manner that its presence influences the minimum possible in the user's quotidian activities, maximizing its ergonomics quality. The equipment can be activated without using hands. Still from an administrative point of view, logistic processes for transferring and storing items, coupled with a complex but intuitive system of classes and subclasses of codes, assessed and monitored by the electronic equipment, register everything, in an automatic and inductive manner, leading the user to an inevitable recording of all the details in its daily activities. The computational and electronics knowledge used make possible that all the details idealized to register activities, the transfers and assets used, can be executed in practice. The result of the use of this solution is a conscious consumer, aware of the quality of the products consumed, a producer who is able to highlight the quality of his products produced with care, and a sector that learns how to know its potentials and can have modern and efficient tools to augment its productivity. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143641 | Systems and Methods for Computing Business Value - The present invention relates to systems and methods for computing business value, thereby enable interested parties to accurately and efficiently determine the value of a given solution to a stakeholder. The system collates solution attributes. The solution may include any goods or services that a vendor, or other supplier, is offering to a purchaser. The solution attributes include the cost of the solution, the areas of a business that the solution impacts and degree of improvement that the solution provides to key performance indicators that are relevant to the areas impacted. The system also provides community aggregated values for the key performance indicators and other metrics for the impacted areas. The system collates stakeholder specific information, including revenue for the stakeholder and key objectives. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143642 | Fleet Management Revenue Assurance - Methods and systems for automatic inventorying and reporting of field operations are presented. The invention provides a method for automatically reporting the completion of a field harvest or product application. An apparatus data unit can transmit apparatus location and state data to a central inventory system (CIS), preferably embodied as a central server. The CIS can convert the apparatus data to agricultural elements that can be mapped to a business state for a particular field. The CIS can provide a report of the field business state to an administrative service for scheduling or billing purposes. The invention provides a layer of abstraction so that a report recipient need not have familiarity with agricultural terms in order to perform administrative tasks related to field and fleet management. The invention enables resource management and billing services to be performed in a timely, efficient and accurate manner. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143643 | Policy Based Automation for a Supply Chain - A method for managing a supply chain includes: identifying a business context for the supply chain; identifying a set of business policy rules for the business context governing the relationship between entities involved in the supply chain; creating use-case description from the set of business policy rules; creating a plurality of executable code modules corresponding to the use-case description; specifying a plurality of name/value pair for modeling the set of business policy rules; provisioning the plurality of application server computers of the computer network system with the executable code modules; and provisioning a central directory database with the plurality of name/value pairs; whereby the computer network system, in response to events in business transactions between at least two entities involved in the supply chain, is operable to dynamically deliver at least one name/value pair from the central directory database and to execute at least one code module. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143644 | MINE SCHEDULING SYSTEM - A system for scheduling mine activities is disclosed. The system comprises a plurality of sources of operational data indicative of scheduling relevant information associated with a plurality of mine operations, the mine operations being interdependent, a scheduling facility remotely disposed relative to the mine operations, the scheduling facility comprising at least one display, and a communications network arranged to facilitate transfer of the operational data from the mine operations to the scheduling facility. The scheduling facility is arranged to use the operational data to display scheduling relevant information indicative of the status of a production workflow such that a scheduling operator at the scheduling facility is provided with an overview of production workflow across at least the interdependent mine operations. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143645 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING AGENT OWNED RECALL AVAILABILITY - Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to a system and method for managing agent owned recall availability in a contact center. In one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method for managing agent owned recall availability in a contact center, comprising providing a work force management engine; providing an agent availability database accessible by the work force management engine; receiving a parameter-specified request from a contact for agent owned recall availability; querying the work force management engine to determine agent owned recall availability data for the parameter-specified request; reserving the agent owned recall availability slot for the parameter-specified request; updating the work force management engine with the reserved parameter-specified agent owned recall availability slot data; and confirming the agent owned recall availability slot with the contact of the parameter-specified request. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143646 | Method and system for management of mobilization data - Disclosed is a system to provide for the accessing, organizing, and management of various sources of data pertinent to the mobilization of military forces. The system accesses data available from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Joint Forces Command, Special Operations Command, Transportation Command, and Strategic Command and enters all current collected data into a common data management system entitled “COLOSSUS. The collected data is re-formatted and stored on commercially-available software, whereby it is made accessible to an end User, who must possess authorized security clearance. The information stored in the COLOSSUS system is used in conjunction with the mobilization, training, validation, deployment, and demobilization of military reserve component units of any numbered U.S. field army. COLOSSUS is also applicable to mobilization and/or deployment of forces of all other branches of the U.S. Military. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143647 | AIR CARGO YIELD MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR UTILIZING BOOKING PROFILES AND UNCONSTRAINED DEMAND - A yield management method and system are provided for enhancing revenue obtained from a given cargo flight capacity; the capacity being defined by the weight and volume of freights that may be transported. A set of historical profiles of capacity reserved by each category is stored for previous instances of the flight. Corresponding potential profiles are estimated independently for the weight and volume. The estimation is carried out taking into consideration the corresponding capacity currently reserved by the category for a future instance of the flight; and this result is emphasised according to a corresponding unconstrained demand for the category. A series of historical scenarios of the demand at the departure of previous instances of the flight are obtained from the potential profiles, and a stochastic model is applied to the historical scenarios according to the corresponding probabilities for calculating the optimised weight and volume authorisations for each category. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143648 | MECHANISM FOR FACILITATING DYNAMIC VISUAL WORKFLOW AND TASK GENERATION IN AN ON-DEMAND SERVICES ENVIRONMENT - In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for facilitating dynamic generating of visual workflow and corresponding tasks in an on-demand services environment. In one embodiment and by way of example, a method includes receiving a request to perform a business process at a computing system. The performing of the business process may include creating a new business process relating to workings of an organization. The method may further include interpreting content of the request, and dynamically generating a visual workflow in response to the interpretation of the content of the request. The visual workflow may be used to perform the business process. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143649 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMICALLY DETECTING ILLEGAL ACTIVITY - The present relates to a method and system for dynamically detecting illegal activity. The method and system collect new information, where the new information comprises at least an identity of an entity and a type of information. For each new information, the method and system determine whether there is at least one relation between the new information and at least one previous information stored in a storage module, and if there is at least one relation, a logical link is added between the new information and the at least one of the previous information with which there is the at least one relation. The method and system further verify whether the new information with the at least one previous information sharing the logical link correspond to at least one of a plurality of stored surveillance patterns, and if the new information with the at least one previous information sharing the logical link correspond to at least one of the plurality of stored surveillance patterns, a first type of alert is generated for the new information. The method and system further assign a risk factor to the new information, and verify whether the assigned risk factor is above a predetermined threshold, and if the assigned risk factor is above the predetermined threshold, generate a second type of alert. The method and system further integrate the new information in the storage module, and storing with the new information the logical link and the assigned risk factor. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143650 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF ASSESSING AND MANAGING RISK ASSOCIATED WITH COMPROMISED NETWORK ASSETS - A method of managing risk associated with at least one compromised network asset, comprising: performing processing associated with receiving evidence regarding the at least one compromised network asset; performing processing associated with assessing at least one risk associated with the at least one compromised network asset; and/or performing processing associated with prioritizing at least two compromised network assets in order to determine how to respond to the at least one risk. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143651 | DATA MINING OF USER ACTIVITY DATA TO IDENTIFY SEQUENTIAL ITEM ACQUISITION PATTERNS - A data mining component collectively analyzes item acquisition histories of users of an electronic catalog of items and identifies pairs of catalog items that tend to be acquired sequentially. The data mining component may also generate data regarding such sequential item acquisition patterns. For example, the data mining component may determine whether user acquisitions of the two items tend to be spaced apart in time by a characterizing time interval, and/or may determine percentages of users who have followed particular sequential acquisition patterns. Information regarding the detected sequential item acquisition patterns may be exposed to users on electronic catalog pages, and/or may be used to select the timing with which particular items are recommended to users. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143652 | SALES VOLUME MONITORING - Various embodiments of systems and methods for sales volume monitoring are described herein. Booked sales volume for a future time period and forecasted sales volume for the future time period are received. A first value is determined for a future time period as a ratio of the booked sales volume for the future time period and the forecasted sales volume for the future time period. Booked sales volume and past sales volume for one or more past time periods that are analogous to the future time period are also received. A second value is determined from a ratio of the booked sales volume and the past sales volume for the one or more past time periods. A responsible party is notified if a ratio of the second value and the first value is out of a prescribed range. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143653 | RETAIL PLANNING APPLICATION AND METHOD FOR CONSUMER PRODUCTS - An improved forecasting and modeling tool for planning and estimating sales of consumer products, including social expression products in a retail operation. The tool enables retailers to create a plan based on information shared between the retailer and vendor of social expression products. The methodology employed begins with actual sales totals for the prior term and the plan goal for the current term and provides financial calculations based on a variety of factors to determine the sales bridge needed to meet the current term goal. Information relating to actual sales, significant events, door activity, current forecast, trending data, and vendor initiatives are input into the application and are used in financial calculations to determine a current term sales plan. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143654 | DYNAMIC ETHICAL COMPLIANCE MONITORING OF VENDORS, SUPPLIERS AND AGENTS - Systems and methods for compliance monitoring are described. An example system includes a sourcing organization, a VSA entity having policies governing conduct, and a compliance entity in communication with the sourcing organization and the VSA entity. The compliance entity has the policies of the VSA and further has self-disclosure information from the VSA entity regarding compliance with its policies. The compliance entity provides access to the policies and the self-disclosure information to the sourcing organization over an electronic communication medium. The compliance entity may further provide the VSA entity with a demarcation of compliance based at least in part on the VSAs compliance with its policies. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143655 | CHECKOUT APPARATUS AND WORKING STATE MEASUREMENT APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a checkout apparatus includes a counter, a scanner, a register terminal, and a recognition unit. The counter is embedded at least one weight meter and to be put at least one of target objects. The scanner reads codes attached to the target objects. The register terminal settles payment for the target objects. The recognition unit identifies the target objects by referring to working property category information pieces indicating a category in scan work for the target objects, based on the codes read by the scanner, and obtains signals that represent states each including one of steady work and unsteady work for an operator, based on a time history of a weight of the target objects. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143656 | GROUP AGGREGATION LEVERAGING SYSTEM - Embodiments of the invention are directed to group aggregation leveraging methods and systems for consumers to buy products from a broker. The broker offers a product to consumers for a first fixed price for a predetermined time period. Once a predetermined number of consumers commit to purchasing the product (i.e., reach a threshold), the consumers receive the same product at a second fixed price wherein the second fixed price is less than the first fixed price. Once the threshold is met, each committed consumer receives an alert from the broker that the consumer will receive the same product at the new reduced price (second fixed price). This process is repeated until the predetermined time period expires or inventory of the product is depleted. Consumers may leverage their collective group buying power by communicating to others that the product is available for the predetermined time period through social media or any other suitable means. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143657 | PARKING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A parking system comprising a plurality of parking apparatuses associated with respective ones of a plurality of parking bays, each parking apparatus comprising an electronic display, and a sensor having a sensor output indicative of whether a vehicle is parked in the parking bay, and a parking controller in data communication with each sensor and each display, the parking controller arranged to receive a parking request that enables the parking controller to identify a parking bay, process the parking request to determine whether to initiate a parking session in respect of the parking bay, and control the display associated with the parking bay to indicate that a parking session has been initiated upon initiation of a parking session. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143658 | ON NET FAXING - Distribution of electronic documents is described, including receiving an electronic document to be distributed, identifying whether a destination identifier is associated with a destination account among a known group of customer accounts, routing the electronic document, and calculating a fee associated with delivery of the electronic document based on whether the destination account is among the known group of customers and a set of billing rules. The set of billing rules may specify a discounted fee for routing an electronic document to each of a known group of customer accounts. In other aspects, the set of billing rules may specify a discounted fee for routing an electronic document to a first group of the known group of customer accounts and specify a standard fee for a second group of the known group of customer accounts. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143659 | COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY DEVICE AND METHOD AND DATA STORAGE MEDIUM FOR OPERATION THEREOF - In a method for operating a computed tomography device for reducing the load on at least one technical component of the computed tomography device during operation of the at least one technical component, as well as a computed tomography device and a data storage medium that implement such a method, for at least one scan parameter of the computed tomography device affecting the at least one technical component an extreme value is defined, the method being an operating mode for the computed tomography device is selected in which the settable value for the at least one scan parameter affecting the at least one technical component is limited to a certain percentage below or above the extreme value for the operation of the at least one technical component. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143660 | INTERVAL BASED AD INSERTION USED FOR THE DELIVERY OF VIDEO STREAMS - The present principles provide a method and apparatus for performing time window based adaptive advertisement insertion into video on demand (VOD) programs. The method inserts advertisements dynamically according to the actual content viewing time, as opposed to the fixed advertisement insertion points in traditional ad insertion. The method minimizes the negative impact caused by inserted ads to viewers in interactive session, in which trick modes, such as fast forward and rewind are frequently used. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143661 | Interactive E-Poster Methods and Systems - An exemplary method includes an enhanced content access system identifying a media content instance as being of interest to a user, including, in response to the identifying of the media content instance as being of interest to the user, an interactive e-poster corresponding to the media content instance within a library of e-posters associated with the user, and providing enhanced content associated with the media content instance for experiencing by the user by way of the interactive e-poster. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143662 | Advertising Based On Environmental Conditions - Information about an environmental condition of a remote device is received, the environmental condition being determined based on a signal output from a sensor of the remote device or a sensor coupled to the remote device. An advertisement is identified based on the environmental condition, and the advertisement is provided to the remote device. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143663 | Tying Sweepstakes Incentive Rewards to Completion of Desired Fitness or Wellness Activity - An indication is received with a computing device of a completion of a desired fitness or wellness event by a plurality of users of a multiplicity of users. In response to each completion of the desired fitness or wellness event by each of the plurality of users of the multiplicity of users, the user is entered into a sweepstakes. One of the entries in the sweepstakes is selected at random for a prize. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143664 | REWARD METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USERS OF ELECTRONIC COMMERCE - The present invention relates to methods and systems of providing rewards for users of electronic commerce making donations to non profit using such rewards. The methods include creating a unique user identification and tracking the Users spending at various affiliates. The User rewards is based on the amount of spending at the affiliate. Rewards may also be given to the Referrer based on the spending of the referred User. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143665 | INFLUENCE ON AND PREDICTION ABOUT CONSUMPTION OF PRODUCTS AND SERVICES, INCLUDING MUSIC - An influence tracking system may track influence on multimedia content selections. A popularity prediction identification system may identify sources that accurately predict the popularity of a product or service. A recommendation system may recommend products or services of a particular type. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143666 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING COUPONS - Systems and methods for tracking and managing the distribution, activation, and redemption of online coupons are provided. In one aspect, the online coupon may be transmitted to one or more users as an electronic mail (“email”) coupon. A user may then act upon the online coupon to view, activate and redeem the incentive offered by the coupon. A user's actions in response to the online coupon, such as the viewing actions, activation actions, and redemption actions, may be tracked and managed to reduce the possibility of fraud or misuse, and to identify the efficacy of the incentives offered by the coupon. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143667 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DESIGNATING ACCOUNTS FROM WHICH TO TRADE REWARDS - A system and method for operating a reward points accumulation and redemption program wherein a user earns reward points from a plurality of reward points issuing entities, each of the reward points issuing entities tracking the user's earned reward points in a user reward point account stored on a rewards server. A trading server accumulates the user's earned reward points from each of the reward servers interconnected over a network in association with consideration provided by the reward servers to the trading server and credits the accumulated points into a reward exchange account associated with the user. The user may then select an item for purchase from a merchant computer interconnected to the network. The merchant computer provides the item to the user in exchange for consideration received from said trading server, and the trading server reduces the number of points in the user's reward exchange account in accordance with the consideration provided to the merchant computer. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143668 | METHOD OF MANAGING FRANCHISES USING CREDIT-CARD PAYMENT SYSTEM - A franchises managing credit-card payment system method includes inputting franchise customer goods selection or service use statement to a franchise client to calculate estimated payment amount, inputting customer member information to franchise client, and transmitting member information to a head office customer information server to request member authentication; receiving a customer member authentication request signal, authentication processing the information, and transmitting the authentication result to the franchise client; inputting estimated payment amount credit-card payment information to the franchise client, requesting a card company for payment approval, and receiving approval information; outputting satisfaction survey selection items for franchise service provided through a sign pad connected to the franchise client; analyzing customer satisfaction evaluation information for the franchise according to the selection items, and storing the resultant satisfaction evaluation information in a customer information server database; and switching the sign pad to a digital signature screen. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143669 | LOYALTY OFFER MODELING - Loyalty offer modeling techniques are described. In one or more implementations, interaction with a loyalty service via a network is performed to model one or more loyalty offers for a use in conjunction with a merchant. Information is transmitted via the network for receipt by the loyalty service, at least a portion of the information describing consumer interaction with the merchant that pertains to the loyalty offer that is sufficient for use by the loyalty service to manage participation of the consumers with the one or more loyalty offers of the merchant. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143670 | MARKETING METHOD - A server implements a marketing method. The server may receive a wireless call or message originating at a given facility and return a menu of choices particular to that facility. On receiving a choice selected from said menu, the server may return one or more messages with information particular to a part of said given facility. The information may be a marketing incentive, marketing information, or a promotion. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143671 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DELIVERING A RESTRICTED USE IN-STORE PROMOTION TO A CONSUMER - A system and method for delivering a restricted use in-store promotion to a consumer includes storing in an offer database a plurality of offer data items for use in creating an in-store promotion. The method further includes storing in an authorization database an authorization parameter and generating at a server a hyperlink including the authorization parameter. In response to receiving a request from a consumer device to present the in-store promotion, the server verifies that the consumer browser invoked the hyperlink containing the authorization parameter. The server also verifies the status of the authorization parameter. If the consumer browser invoked the hyperlink containing the authorization parameter and the status is active, the server dynamically generates the in-store promotion using at least one of the plurality of data items stored in the offer database. Once generated, the server transmits the in-store promotion to the consumer device. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143672 | Systems and Methods for List Ranking and Ads Placement Using Interaction Freatures - Systems and methods for placing ads in a block on a webpage are disclosed. Generally, two ranking models are trained using a first and second ads data set. The first model predicts a first click probability for each ad in the first ads data and rank the ads based on the eCPM. The second model is trained using the second ads data set comprising a subset of the first ads data set and interaction features related to ad position in the block. The second model predicts a second click probability for each ad in the second ads data set. An overall expected revenue for each arrangement of ads in the second ads data set is then calculated. The computer system selects the arrangement with maximum computed overall expected revenue and places the ads in the block on the webpage according to the selected arrangement. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143673 | GENERATING KEYBOARD-BASED REQUESTS FOR CONTENT - Systems and methods are provided for dynamically ordering advertisements received from at least one advertisement supplier. In one embodiment, a method includes sending a request to at least a first advertisement supplier; receiving one or more advertisements from the at least first advertisement supplier; identifying a prioritizing parameter associated with each of the one or more advertisements; and dynamically ordering the one or more advertisements from the at least first advertisement supplier into two or more positions of a response based on the prioritizing parameter. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143674 | PERFORMANCE-BASED ADVERTISING PLATFORM THAT TRANSFORMS ADVERTISER SELF-INTEREST INTO A SOCIAL BENEFIT - Embodiments of the system as described herein provide advertisers the ability to participate in charitable giving/cause marketing campaigns while tying costs to measurable performance. Embodiments of the system are configured to match advertisers with Influencers and causes based upon the evaluation of multilateral campaign criteria, providing the ability for advertisers to link their goods and services to one or more Influencers and/or charitable causes. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143675 | Method And System For On-Line Survey Recruitment Ensuring Availability Of Control Group Participants - A system and method are described for presenting on-line survey invitations to users over a network. The system enables selectively presenting survey invitations to users in accordance with a survey recruitment definition associated with a tag embedded within an on-line advertisement downloaded and executed on a user computer. If a determination is made by a survey recruitment server that a requestor is to be a potential control (unexposed) survey participant, then instructions are issued to the requesting user computer to obstruct presentation of the on-line advertisement which caused the issuance of the request for a survey invitation from the user computer. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143676 | Systems, Methods and Apparatus for Valuation and Tailoring of Advertising - A system and method classifies advertising based on referenceable attributes. An individual advertisement is classified by predefined referenceable attributes. The advertisement and the predefined referenceable attributes are linked using alphanumeric or digital codes. The advertisement and the linked codes are stored such that the advertisement and linked codes are accessible by a user. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143677 | Discoverability Using Behavioral Data - The present disclosure describes a system and method of increasing discoverability of software applications in a marketplace catalog via behavioral data. Specifically, a client monitors behavioral usage of applications with a local usage tracking framework, optionally utilizing a data template. The data is aggregated either on the client or on a server or both, and synchronized with a server storage to be made available via application behavioral services. The client may also host an advertising placement framework to place selected advertising in the view of the client's user. Application behavioral services may apply one or more behavioral algorithms to the aggregated behavioral usage, to generate recommendations to maximize marketplace catalog ranking, visibility and projected revenue. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143678 | COLLABORATION RECOMMENDATION AND EMBEDDED TRIGGER SELECTION IN DISTRIBUTED HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUMS - A method of determining relevance values for triggers, in order to select relevant embedded triggers to be displayed with ads and/or content shown on billboards of various media types. The method includes determining a potential relevance of preselected ads and/or content that may provide a threshold relevance value for all triggers that are to be displayed with the preselected ad and/or content. Relevance values and potential relevance are determined by summing entity values. Entity values are determined by multiplying entity weights by a summation of keyword weights. Entity weights and keyword weights may be assigned based on industry experience or based on the ability of displayed entities and/or displayed keywords to generate revenue. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143679 | ASSOCIATING INFORMATION WITH A PORTION OF MEDIA CONTENT - A media fingerprint is derived from a portion of media content. Information is associated with the media content portion based on the derived media fingerprint. Upon linking to the associated information, the associated content is presented with the media content portion. The media fingerprint includes a unique representation of the media content portion that is derived from a characteristic component of the media content portion. The media content may comprise an original instance of content or a derivative instance of the original content. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143680 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DELIVERING AN AUTHORIZED IN-STORE PROMOTION TO A CONSUMER - A system and method for delivering an authorized in-store promotion to a consumer includes storing in an offer database a plurality of offer data items for use in creating an in-store promotion. The method further includes storing in an authorization database an authorization parameter. In response to receiving a request from a consumer device to present the in-store promotion, the server uses the authorization parameter to verify that the request is authorized without requesting additional information from a consumer operating the consumer device. When the request is authorized, the server dynamically generates the in-store promotion using at least one of the plurality of data items stored in the offer database. Once generated, the server transmits the in-store promotion to the consumer device without any system-specific client software to be stored by the consumer device. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143681 | ROOM-BASED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS - Concepts and technologies for creating and accessing room-based computing environments are disclosed. Resources are categorized and/or bundled into categories or bundles of resources. Resources are associated with the room-based computing environment and various data relating to the resources is stored, including data relating to permissions for accessing the resources. Upon detecting access of the room-based computing environment, a room engine can authenticate an entity associated with the access and determine what contents of the room-based computing environment are to be presented based upon the permissions information and/or other considerations. The environment is generated and presented to the entity via one or more user interfaces. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143682 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DELIVERING AN IN-STORE PROMOTION TO A CONSUMER - A system and method for delivering an in-store promotion to a consumer includes storing in a database a plurality of predetermined data fields for use in creating an in-store promotion. The method further includes a server receiving inputs for the plurality of predetermined data fields from a user advertiser creating the promotion. In response to receiving a request from a consumer device to present the in-store promotion, the server dynamically generates the in-store promotion using the inputs without requesting additional information from a consumer operating the consumer device. Once generated, the server transmits the in-store promotion to the consumer device without any system-specific client software to be stored by the consumer device. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143683 | Real-Time Sentiment Index - Embodiments of a method are disclosed that comprise receiving, over a communications network, user-initiated quantitative sentiment ratings regarding an entity and calculating a real-time sentiment index for the entity using the received sentiment ratings. Embodiments of apparatus are also disclosed that comprise a plurality of computing devices each including an interface configured for the input of user-initiated quantitative sentiment ratings and a server which is configured to (i) receive sentiment ratings from the plurality of computing devices, (ii) determine a first subset of the received sentiment ratings that relate to a first entity, and (iii) calculate a first real-time sentiment index for the first entity using sentiment ratings from the first subset. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143684 | DYNAMIC ADVERTISEMENT METHOD AND DEVICE - A dynamic advertisement method and device for exposing an advertisement adjacent to real time dynamic information in which a user may have an interest are provided. The dynamic advertisement device includes: an advertisement unit for storing an advertisement; a communication unit for receiving a plurality of interest information using real time communication; a dynamic advertisement unit including at least one of a plurality of interest information and for generating a dynamic advertisement based on the included interest information; and a screen display unit for coupling the dynamic advertisement and the advertisement and displaying the coupled dynamic advertisement and advertisement in a preset advertisement area on a screen. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143685 | COMMISSION AND MARKETING SYSTEM AND METHOD - Embodiments of the invention relate generally to systems and methods for using historical purchase records to predict future purchases, and, more particularly, to systems, and methods for using such records to determine items that are likely to be purchased as replacements for items claimed as lost on an insurance claim. Purchase likelihood data based on insurance claims and purchases made by claimants is generated based on received loss claims and purchase records. The purchase likelihood data relates a type of loss to certain replacement items. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143686 | Media Development Network - Methods and systems for encouraging and identifying new talent, as well as an incentive structure for financing creative/media projects, are described. A social network web site allows users to post their own content, and filters users to the top who have achieved a given level of popularity. Popular users can then post media proposals to a private section of the web site, through which established stars and talent review the proposals. Users, in exchange for access to the private section, grant to a proprietor of the web site an option to make one or more future productions with that user at a reduced rate should that user reach stardom. Established stars and talent, in exchange for participating in a media proposal at a reduced rate, receive an interest in one or more productions by the user if/when the proprietor of the web site exercises an option to make a future production with the user. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143687 | INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM - The information providing system accurately predicts a behavior pattern of a user, selects and provides the optimal information at individual points in time. Provision information files for a number of stores are stored. When a user from a cellular phone transmits a retrieval condition including the position information and a keyword, a file is retrieved whose degree of accordance to the retrieval condition is a certain reference level. Tables show statistical degrees of interest of users in association with respective geographical areas, respective time periods, and respective store genres. The degree of accordance of the retrieved file is corrected based on the corresponding degrees of interest in the tables, and a list is presented, in which stores are sorted in the large order of the corrected degree of accordance, to the phone. The store information selected by the user from the list is distributed to the phone. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143688 | MEDIA ADVERTISING OVER PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKS - Advertising on P2P networks can include a three-step system in one embodiment of the disclosure. The first step can include the review of search requests, followed by a response linking to a media file containing an advertisement. The second step can be a delivery process. The advertising cannot be considered spam as the user can be redirected towards information that can directly correlate to the users search. The advertising can be done with the full cooperation and volition of the media company or companies involved. The advertisers' contract with the media companies can allow for payment and the media companies can then expose their product to potential buyers. The third step can be contacting an advertising server any time that media file is played. In this third step it can be determined what the optimal advertisement for this media file is. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143689 | ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY SYSTEM WITH DESTINATION-CENTRIC ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY MECHANISM AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - A method of operation of an advertisement delivery system includes: receiving an entry for a destination; identifying a category of interest for the destination; recognizing a travel context for reaching the destination; and generating a notification based on matching a delivery profile to the category of interest within the travel context for displaying on a device. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143690 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DELIVERING A GEOGRAPHICALLY RESTRICTED IN-STORE PROMOTION TO A CONSUMER - A system and method for delivering a geographically restricted in-store promotion to a consumer includes storing in an offer database a plurality of offer data items for use in creating an in-store promotion and at least one participating store location. In response to receiving a request from a consumer device to present the in-store promotion, the server determines if the consumer device is within a predetermined geographic location of the participating store location without requesting additional information from a consumer operating the consumer device. If the consumer device is within the predetermined geographic location of the participating store location, the server dynamically generates the in-store promotion using at least one of the plurality of data items stored in the offer database. Once generated, the server transmits the in-store promotion to the consumer device. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143691 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING USER-SPECIFIC ADVERTISEMENT ON BASIS OF M2M COMMUNICATION, AND MOBILE TERMINAL - Provided are a system and method for providing a user-specific advertisement on the basis of machine-to-machine (M2M) communication, and a mobile terminal. The method includes: receiving an advertising message broadcasted from at least one mobile terminal; extracting an advertisement according to a user situation using profile information set by a user of the mobile terminal; and presenting and displaying the extracted advertisement. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143692 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DELIVERING ADVERTISING AND INCENTIVIZING CONSUMERS TO RECEIVE ADVERTISING - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for delivering advertising messages from advertisers while incentivizing consumers to receive the advertising messages. In some embodiments, a provider selects a consumer to receive advertising content from an advertiser, sends a message to a portable device for the consumer, and provides a financial incentive to the consumer for receiving the message. In other embodiments, a provider determines that a consumer qualifies to receive an advertisement based on target consumer criteria and sends the advertisement to the consumer. The provider also receives payment from the advertiser and shares the payment with the consumer by providing a reward to the consumer. In additional embodiments, a provider accesses aggregate consumer information relating to a plurality of consumers to select consumers to receive advertising content, sends an advertisement to the selected consumers, and provides an incentive to the selected consumers. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143693 | Targeting Advertisements Based on Emotion - A computer system, a computer-implemented method, and computer readable media configured to target advertisements based on emotional states are provided. Advertisers specify desired emotional states of users they intend to target with advertisements. Advertisers also provide emotional tags having the desired emotional state of users that should see the advertisements linked to the emotional tags. Online activities for users are obtained and processed to assign emotional states to the users. An advertisement engine selects advertisements that are emotionally compatible based on the assigned emotional states and the desired emotional states provided by the advertisers. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143694 | USING BEHAVIORAL DATA TO MANAGE COMPUTER SERVICES - Some implementations provide techniques for managing features provided by a computer service. A service side framework may receive usage data relating to an application executed on a client device. One or more behavioral algorithms may be implemented to perform behavioral analysis on the received usage data to identify at least one behavioral trend associated with the application. At least one feature of the computer service may be modified based on at least some of the behavioral analysis performed on the usage data. In some implementations, location data may also be taken into consideration. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143695 | CONTENT COLLABORATION AMONG HETEROGENEOUS DISTRIBUTED MEDIUMS - A system, an arrangement and a method for tracking viewership of regional billboards to collaborate billboard displays. Viewership is tracked using triggers that may be displayed with content and/or ads. Execution of the triggers may provide feedback to collaborate content/ads across billboards on a single medium or a number of heterogeneous media types to maximize cumulative viewership and advertising effectiveness. Triggers may be tailored to track the physical location of the billboard (in any display media), the time the billboard is displayed, and the identity of the content and/or ad. Data relating to the executed triggers includes identifying information of the viewer that executes the trigger to determine the success of the trigger. Following a determination of the success of the trigger, cumulative viewership of content, ads and triggers may be managed across billboards distributed across a region and across heterogeneous media. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143696 | USER BASED SELECTION OF ADVERTISEMENTS - Techniques are described which allow users to control the nature of ads that are presented during a viewing session in real-time, i.e., depending on their current viewing situation. For example, users may dynamically specify certain preferences depending on their current viewing situation, such as “watching alone” or “with a child,” etc. Doing so allows consumers to make real-time selections of the nature and category of advertisements presented when consuming advertising-supported media content, e.g., when viewing media from video-streaming service using a set-top cable box or home theater PC. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143697 | DIGITAL DEVICE ADVERTISING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method for allowing users to download modified software applications for digital devices, such as mobile phones, computers, electronic devices and mobile devices capable of wireless communication by the provision by the user of an authentication code that is validated to determine that the user is permitted to download and use a modified software application for the digital device. The system authorizes the user to download and use a modified software application and provides advertisements, directly associated with the campaign's authentication code(s), to the modified software application as it runs on the digital device, where the modified software application has been modified to accept and display advertisements on the digital device. The invention further includes allocating credits to authentication codes and deducting credits based on a credit value assigned to each modified software application and/or digital product, such as a digital song. The invention further includes the capability to track the usage of such modified software applications based on the authentication codes. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143698 | METHOD FOR PEOPLE TO GET ACQUAINTED WITH ONE ANOTHER - A method for people to get acquainted with one another comprises the following steps:
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20120143699 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRESENTING NON-LINEAR CONTENT BASED ON LINEAR CONTENT METADATA - A system and method may include receiving a non-linear content identifier request. The system and method may further include identifying linear content metadata associated with the non-linear content identifier request, the linear content metadata representing at least one metadata keyword. The system and method also may include identifying a relationship between the at least one metadata keyword and at least one non-linear content keyword. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143700 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DESIGNING SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN - In one embodiment, a method of designing a social media campaign is provided. The method comprises steps of sourcing data from one of multiple social media channels and at least one database, performing social media indexing and benchmarking on sourced data to determine a social media index and performing campaign analytics on the social media index for designing the social media campaign. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143701 | RE-PUBLISHING CONTENT IN AN ACTIVITY STREAM - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, for providing a method for re-publishing content that is provided by a content publisher to a user. A method includes providing an advertisement for display to a user in a slot, the advertisement including a first annotation providing information for or about re-publishing the advertisement; receiving a request to re-publish the advertisement to one or more individuals or groups associated with the user in a social context; and providing the advertisement as part of an activity stream for a social application, including presenting the advertisement in the activity stream for the user. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143702 | Transaction Information Keeping Methods and Mobile Devices Thereto - A mobile device for keeping transaction information at payer's side is provided with an information keeping module therein. The information keeping module is suitable for obtaining first transaction information from at least one of a payment device and a point of sale terminal. Particularly, the first transaction information corresponds to a transaction performed between the payment device and the point of sale terminal. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143703 | MULTIPLE CONTACTLESS DEVICE INTERACTIONS AND COMMUNICATION PROTOCOLS PER TAP - Enabling multiple contactless interactions and communication protocols with a single tap of a contactless device. A device reader generates a polling loop and detects a contactless device using an RF field. The device reader identifies the contactless device's communication protocols and initiates a first communication protocol via ISO/IEC 18092 protocol. The device reader initiates a stored value communication via MIFARE protocol. The device reader then initiates an EMV communication via ISO/EIC 14443 protocol. A contactless device can function for both an EMV compliant payment transaction and an alternative peer-to-peer type transaction. The EMV based payment application and transaction is retained as an independent payment application, thereby keeping the additional data exchange process of EMV technology from influencing the peer-to-peer technology and avoiding re-certification of EMV technology. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143704 | Standardizing Point of Sale Services and Leveraging Instances of the PLU Data - An adaptable and extensible interface is described for connecting one or more point of sale (POS) applications to one or more at a wide variety of retail application is described. The interface may be embodied as a programmable state machine employing XML tiles to customize its operation reusable retail applications may be utilized as part of the interface approach. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143705 | PROCESSING VALUE-ASCERTAINABLE ITEMS - Techniques are provided for allowing a merchant to process third party closed-loop instruments (such as gift cards) as if the closed-loop instruments were open-loop instruments. A customer provides card data of a third party gift card to a merchant, e.g., online or in a merchant store, for the purchase of one or more items provided by the merchant. The merchant sends the gift card data to an intermediary that deducts at least a portion of the balance of the gift card. The intermediary sends an offer for the gift card to the customer. If the customer accepts the offer, then the merchant applies the offer towards the total purchase price of the one or more items. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143706 | Method and System for Improved Electronic Wallet Access - A mobile payment method and system are described that facilitate efficient and secured payment transactions from an electronic wallet on a user mobile electronic device with a merchant point of sale terminal over a contactless communications link. In one aspect, the system provides for a plurality of passcode entry related states on the mobile electronic device. The mobile device transmits a transaction request message including a multi-faceted value identifying a passcode entry related state to a payment processing server. The payment processing server processes the transaction request and when the transaction request is declined for a passcode related reason, a transaction decline response is provided identifying the passcode related reason for decline. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143707 | Executing Reader Application - In some implementations, a cradle for a mobile device includes an electrical interface, an antenna, and a reader module. The electrical interface is configured to connect to a port of mobile devices. The mobile device is configured to wireless communicate with a cellular network. The antenna is configured to wirelessly communicate signals with customer devices. The reader module is connected to the antenna and configured to operate as a wireless reader, using the antenna, to the customer devices and authorize transactions using the mobile device to connect to the cellular network. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143708 | Method and System for Providing Laundry Services - A method and system for providing laundry services makes use of a laundry station having an interactive point-of-sale device operably connected to one or more laundry unit containers for housing items to be laundered. The laundry station is used: to receive and accept orders for laundry services from a customer, including the collection of payment from the customer; to provide information directing the customer to place their laundry in a designated laundry unit container in response to the order received from the customer; to generate and communicate an electronic message to instruct a laundry station operator or laundry services provider to fulfill the order. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143709 | Protection of Privacy in Connection with Shipment of Products - Disclosed are various embodiments for enhancing protection of privacy of purchaser contact details in connection with shipment of parcels. A shipping label can be generated that includes at least one contact detail that hides an actual contact detail associated with a purchaser. A carrier tasked to ship and/or deliver the product to an address designated by the purchaser can use the at least one contact detail to contact the purchaser. The attempts to contact the purchaser can be logged, and the contact details expired when no longer needed. | 2012-06-07 |
20120143710 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING EXPONENTIAL EXPANSION OF COMMERCE - A system and method for turning a buyer into a prospective seller in an electronic marketplace. After the buyer enters into a binding agreement to purchase an item, the buyer is provided with an option of re-listing the purchased item for resale. The purchased item is re-listed if the buyer opts to re-list it. An ecommerce listing to sell the purchased item is automatically generated based on the previous listing. The user only needs to provide the selling price to complete the listing. The purchased item can be re-listed in the same marketplace where the item was purchased or in a different marketplace. | 2012-06-07 |