27th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 48 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110166840 | Systems and Methods For Subsurface Electromagnetic Mapping - Systems and methods which provide electromagnetic subsurface mapping to derive information with respect to subsurface features whose sizes are near to or below the resolution of electromagnetic data characterizing the subsurface are shown. Embodiments operate to identify a region of interest ( | 2011-07-07 |
20110166841 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSLATION OF PROCESS MODELS TO FACILITATE USAGE BY PLURAL SIMULATION APPLICATIONS - A method and system for process model translation is disclosed herein. The method includes generating a common process model based upon a first process model capable of being utilized by a first simulation program. A second process model is then generated based upon the common process model, the second process model being capable of being utilized by a second simulation program. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166842 | LAYER STRIPPING METHOD - A layer stripping method that quickly and robustly determines values of undetermined parameters that model a formation (F). The layer stripping method includes applying inversion methods to subsets (d) of measured data (d) and corresponding modeled responses such that the value of a parameter determined during the application of an inversion method to one subset of the data (d) and the corresponding modeled response can be used to reduce the inversion space of a modeled response that corresponds to another subset of the data (d), to which an inversion method is subsequently applied. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166843 | Method For Modeling Deformation In Subsurface Strata - A method for modeling deformation in subsurface strata, including defining physical boundaries for a geomechanical system. The method also includes acquiring one or more mechanical properties of the subsurface strata within the physical boundaries, and acquiring one or more thermal properties of the subsurface strata within the physical boundaries. The method also includes creating a computer-implemented finite element analysis program representing the geomechanical system and defining a plurality of nodes representing points in space, with each node being populated with at least one of each of the mechanical properties and the thermal properties. The program solves for in situ stress at selected nodes within the mesh. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166844 | Systems and Methods for Antibody Engineering - Methods, computer systems, and computer program products for antibody engineering. A variant set for an antibody of interest is constructed by identifying, using a plurality of rules, a plurality of positions in the antibody of interest and, for each respective position in the plurality of positions, substitutions for the respective position. The plurality of positions and the substitutions for each respective position in the plurality of position collectively define an antibody sequence space. A variant set comprising a plurality of variants of the antibody is selected. A property of all or a portion of the variants in the variant set is measured. A sequence-activity relationship is modeled between (i) one or more substitutions at one or more positions of the antibody of interest represented by the variant set and (ii) the property measured for all or the portion of the variants in the variant set. The variant set is redefined to comprise variants that include substitutions in the plurality of positions that are selected based on a function of the sequence-activity relationship. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166845 | METHOD FOR THE QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION REACTIONS - The invention relates to a method for the quality assessment of nucleic acid amplification reactions which is based on a mathematical approach for the quality assessment of complete nucleic acid amplification reactions and comprises the following steps: a) Carrying out an amplification reaction for at least one nucleic acid target molecule, b)Collecting time-related data reflecting the course of the amplification reaction, c) Fitting these time-related data with a growth model equation comprising at least one parameter, d) Obtaining, from said fitting process, at least one value for the at least one parameter. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166846 | SIMULATION DEVICE AND SIMULATION METHOD - The present invention relates to a simulation device and simulation method for a cascade communication system. The cascade communication system comprises a plurality of nodes numbered as 1 to N successively from a transmitter to a receiver, the method comprises: acquiring simulation parameters required for simulating the cascade communication system; calculating reverse transfer functions of the respective nodes; determining a current node in a sequence from the Nth node to the first node; adding noise that should be added at the current node to a simulation signal of a previous node from the current node; simulating the current node to generate a simulation signal of the current node, by using the simulation signal of the previous node added with the noise that should be added at the current node, based on the reverse transfer function of the current node; judging whether simulations of all the nodes are completed; if the simulations of all the nodes are not completed, repeating the adding and the simulating for the simulation signal of the current node; if the simulations of all the nodes are completed, determining a cost of the cascade communication system based on the simulation signal of the current node. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166847 | SILICON CONTROLLED RECTIFIER MODELING - A model for a silicon controlled rectifier includes three diode models connected in series, with the middle diode model being reverse biased. Each diode model corresponds to and can be configured to simulate DC operation of a junction in the silicon controlled rectifier. The model can be used to evaluate behavior of a circuit that includes the silicon controlled rectifier. For example, the circuit can include an electrostatic discharge protection circuit that includes the silicon controlled rectifier. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166848 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MODELLING WATER TREATMENT AND HARVESTING - A method of modelling a water harvesting and treatment system, the method comprising: receiving modelling data, the modelling data comprising a plurality of parameters relating to intended application of the water harvesting and treatment system; accessing rainfall data for a geographic region for a predetermined historical period, the rainfall data comprising data for a plurality of predetermined time increments over the historical period; and generating a model of the water harvesting and treatment system based on the rainfall data and the modelling data. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166849 | PLANNING AND OPTIMIZING IT TRANSFORMATIONS - A computer-implemented method, system, and computer program product for planning and optimizing information technology (IT) infrastructure transformations is presented. A predictive effort estimation model for transforming an existing IT infrastructure into a transformed IT infrastructure is initially created. The introduction of a new application into the existing IT infrastructure through a use of a decision tree as a transformation path determination is emulated to create a transformation path emulation. The use of a software factory is emulated for introducing the new application into the existing IT infrastructure to create a software factory use emulation for creating the transformed IT infrastructure. The predictive effort estimation model is accurized using results from the transformation path emulation and the software factory use emulation to create an accurized transformed IT infrastructure model. A physical transformed IT infrastructure is then deployed using the accurized transformed IT infrastructure model. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166850 | CROSS-GUIDED DATA CLUSTERING BASED ON ALIGNMENT BETWEEN DATA DOMAINS - A system and associated method for cross-guided data clustering by aligning target clusters in a target domain to source clusters in a source domain. The cross-guided clustering process takes the target domain and the source domain as inputs. A common word attribute shared by both the target domain and the source domain is a pivot vocabulary, and all other words in both domains are a non-pivot vocabulary. The non-pivot vocabulary is projected onto the pivot vocabulary to improve measurement of similarity between data items. Source centroids representing clusters in the source domain are created and projected to the pivot vocabulary. Target centroids representing clusters in the target domain are initially created by conventional clustering method and then repetitively aligned to converge with the source centroids by use of a cross-domain similarity graph that measures a respective similarity of each target centroid to each source centroid. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166851 | Word-Level Correction of Speech Input - The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a computer-implemented method for correcting words in transcribed text including receiving speech audio data from a microphone. The method further includes sending the speech audio data to a transcription system. The method further includes receiving a word lattice transcribed from the speech audio data by the transcription system. The method further includes presenting one or more transcribed words from the word lattice. The method further includes receiving a user selection of at least one of the presented transcribed words. The method further includes presenting one or more alternate words from the word lattice for the selected transcribed word. The method further includes receiving a user selection of at least one of the alternate words. The method further includes replacing the selected transcribed word in the presented transcribed words with the selected alternate word. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166852 | DIALOGUE SYSTEM USING EXTENDED DOMAIN AND NATURAL LANGUAGE RECOGNITION METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM THEREOF - A dialogue system uses an extended domain in order to have a dialogue with a user using natural language. If a dialogue pattern actually input by the user is different from a dialogue pattern predicted by an expert, an extended domain generated in real time based on user input is used and an extended domain generated in advance is used to have a dialogue with the user. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166853 | Method and System for Text Retrieval for Computer-Assisted Item Creation - A tool, method, and system for use in the development of sentence-based test items are disclosed. The tool may include a user interface that may include a database selection field, a sentence pattern entry field, an option pane, and an output pane. The tool may search a database for one or more sentences and may generate one or more responses to the one or more sentences. The one or more sentences and one or more responses may be used to produce the sentence-based test items. The tool may allow test items to be developed more quickly and easily than manual test item authoring. Accordingly, test item development costs may be lowered and test security may be enhanced. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166854 | METHOD, APPARATUS, PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR LONG-TERM PREDICTION CODING AND LONG-TERM PREDICTION DECODING - A method and apparatus multiplies a past sample a time lag τ older than a current sample by a quantized multiplier ρ′ on a frame by frame basis, subtracts the multiplication result from the current sample, codes the subtraction result, and codes the time lag using a fixed-length coder if the multiplier ρ′ is smaller than 0.2 or if information about the previous frame is unavailable, or codes the time lag using a variable-length coder if ρ′ is not smaller than 0.2. A multiplier ρ is coded by a multiplier coder and the multiplier ρ′ obtained by decoding the multiplier ρ is outputted. The process is performed for each frame. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166855 | Systems and Methods for Hands-free Voice Control and Voice Search - In one embodiment the present invention includes a method comprising receiving an acoustic input signal and processing the acoustic input signal with a plurality of acoustic recognition processes configured to recognize the same target sound. Different acoustic recognition processes start processing different segments of the acoustic input signal at different time points in the acoustic input signal. In one embodiment, initial states in the recognition processes may be configured on each time step. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166856 | NOISE PROFILE DETERMINATION FOR VOICE-RELATED FEATURE - Systems, methods, and devices for noise profile determination for a voice-related feature of an electronic device are provided. In one example, an electronic device capable of such noise profile determination may include a microphone and data processing circuitry. When a voice-related feature of the electronic device is not in use, the microphone may obtain ambient sounds. The data processing circuitry may determine a noise profile based at least in part on the obtained ambient sounds. The noise profile may enable the data processing circuitry to at least partially filter other ambient sounds obtained when the voice-related feature of the electronic device is in use. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166857 | Human Voice Distinguishing Method and Device - A human voice distinguishing method and device are provided. The method involves: taking every n sampling points of the current frame of audio signals as one subsection, wherein n is a positive integer, judging whether two adjacent subsections have transition relative to a distinguishing threshold, wherein the sliding maximum absolute value of the two adjacent subsections is more and less than the distinguishing threshold respectively, if so, then determining the current frame to be human voice, where the sliding maximum absolute value of the subsection is obtained by the following method: taking the maximum value of absolute intensity of every sampling point in this subsection as the initial maximum absolute value of this subsection, and taking the maximum value of the initial maximum absolute value of this subsection and m subsections following this subsection as the sliding maximum absolute value of this subsection, wherein m is a positive integer. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166858 | METHOD OF RECOGNIZING SPEECH - A method for recognizing speech involves presenting an utterance to a speech recognition system and determining, via the speech recognition system, that the utterance contains a particular expression, where the particular expression is capable of being associated with at least two different meanings. The method further involves splitting the utterance into a plurality of speech frames, where each frame is assigned a predetermined time segment and a frame number, and indexing the utterance to i) a predetermined frame number, or ii) a predetermined time segment. The indexing of the utterance identifies that one of the frames includes the particular expression. Then the frame including the particular expression is re-presented to the speech recognition system to verify that the particular expression was actually recited in the utterance. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166859 | VOICE RECOGNITION DEVICE - A voice recognition unit is constructed in such a way as to create a voice label string for an inputted voice uttered by a user inputted for each language on the basis of a feature vector time series of the inputted voice uttered by the user and data about a sound standard model, and register the voice label string into a voice label memory | 2011-07-07 |
20110166860 | SPOKEN MOBILE ENGINE - Systems and methods are disclosed to operate a mobile device by capturing user input; transmitting the user input over a wireless channel to an engine, analyzing at the engine music clip or video in a multimedia data stream and sending an analysis wirelessly to the mobile device. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166861 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SYNTHESIZING A SPEECH WITH INFORMATION - According to one embodiment, an apparatus for synthesizing a speech, comprises an inputting unit configured to input a text sentence, a text analysis unit configured to analyze the text sentence so as to extract linguistic information, a parameter generation unit configured to generate a speech parameter by using the linguistic information and a pre-trained statistical parameter model, an embedding unit configured to embed information into the speech parameter, and a speech synthesis unit configured to synthesize the speech parameter with the information embedded by the embedding unit into a speech with the information. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166862 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VARIABLE AUTOMATED RESPONSE TO REMOTE VERBAL INPUT AT A MOBILE DEVICE - A method and system for altering an operational mode of evaluating and responding to verbal input from a user to a mobile device if conditions make such evaluation incompatible with a favorable user experience. Automated speech recognition (ASR) evaluation of verbal input may be performed on a mobile platform to continue a flow of the user experience. Evaluation of the verbal input may continue at a backend when conditions allow for transmission of recorded input to the backend. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166863 | RELEASE OF TRANSACTION DATA - For clearing transaction data selected for a processing, there is generated in a portable data carrier ( | 2011-07-07 |
20110166864 | QUANTIZATION MATRICES FOR DIGITAL AUDIO - Quantization matrices facilitate digital audio encoding and decoding. An audio encoder generates and compresses quantization matrices; an audio decoder decompresses and applies the quantization matrices. The invention includes several techniques and tools, which can be used in combination or separately. For example, the audio encoder can generate quantization matrices from critical band patterns for blocks of audio data. The encoder can compute the quantization matrices directly from the critical band patterns, which can be computed from the same audio data that is being compressed. The audio encoder/decoder can use different modes for generating/applying quantization matrices depending on the coding channel mode of multi-channel audio data. The audio encoder/decoder can use different compression/decompression modes for the quantization matrices, including a parametric compression/decompression mode. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166865 | COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT AUDIO CODER - The present invention provides a computationally efficient technique for compression encoding of an audio signal, and further provides a technique to enhance the sound quality of the encoded audio signal. This is accomplished by including more accurate attack detection and a computationally efficient quantization technique. The improved audio coder converts the input audio signal to a digital audio signal. The audio coder then divides the digital audio signal into larger frames having a long-block frame length and partitions each of the frames into multiple short-blocks. The audio coder then computes short-block audio signal characteristics for each of the partitioned short-blocks based on changes in the input audio signal. The audio coder further compares the computed short-block characteristics to a set of threshold values to detect presence of an attack in each of the short-blocks and changes the long-block frame length of one or more short-blocks upon detecting the attack in the respective one or more short-blocks. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166866 | SIGNAL SYNTHESIZING - A method of synthesizing a first (L) and a second (R) output signal from an input signal (x). The method comprises: filtering ( | 2011-07-07 |
20110166867 | MULTI-OBJECT AUDIO ENCODING AND DECODING APPARATUS SUPPORTING POST DOWN-MIX SIGNAL - A multi-object audio encoding and decoding apparatus supporting a post downmix signal may be provided. The multi-object audio encoding apparatus may include: an object information extraction and downmix generation unit to generate object information and a downmix signal from input object signals; a parameter determination unit to determine a downmix information parameter using the extracted downmix signal and the post downmix signal; and a bitstream generation unit to combine the object information and the downmix information parameter, and to generate an object bitstream. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166868 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING GENOMIC CLONES - Subscription-based systems and methods where a provider provides one or more customers, identified as subscribers or non-subscribers, with research products and services (e.g., for industries involved in genomic and proteomic research). Initially, the provider prepares collections of clones and provides customers with access to clone collections. Individual clones in a clone collection may comprise an ORF that may be flanked by recombination sites. Further, an ORF may contain a suppressible stop codon that may be suppressed to produce a fusion protein comprising the ORF and a tag sequence. Provider may provide additional related services and/or products. The products and services offered to the customers will vary depending on their designation as either subscribers or non-subscribers. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166869 | Providing an Indication of the Validity of the Identity of an Individual - Aspects of this disclosure relate to an identity level generating computer which may include a processor and memory storing computer executable instructions that, when executed, cause the computer to perform a method for generating identity levels for customers of a business. The method for generating identity levels for customers of a business may include electronically receiving customer data regarding at least one of: an identity of the customer, a behavior of the customer, a propensity of a customer and a risk associated with the customer's identity and determining one or more individual characteristic levels based on the electronically received information. According to aspects of this disclosure, determining the one or more individual characteristic levels may include comparing the customer data regarding the at least one of the identity of the customer, the behavior of the customer, the propensity of the customer and the risk associated with the customer's identity with a list predetermined criteria and calculating an identity level based on the comparison of the customer data with the list predetermined criteria. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166870 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELLING INTANGIBLE PROPERTY - A method comprises analyzing the psychology of a typical consumer and defining first key stages wherein customers drop out and second key stages wherein sales could be maximized. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166871 | INTEGRATED ASSESSMENTS, WORKFLOW, AND REPORTING - A risk assessment input terminal ( | 2011-07-07 |
20110166872 | AUTO-SUBSTANTIATION FOR HEALTHCARE UPON SPONSOR ACCOUNT THROUGH PAYMENT PROCESSING SYSTEM - An issuer receives an authorization request from healthcare provider that includes an account, an identifier for a healthcare service and its cost to a patient, and an identifier for a single purpose card for the redemption of the cost of the healthcare service. The issuer validates use of the account to pay the cost, sends an authorization approval to the healthcare provider, and deactivates the identifier for the single purpose card for future use. A request for insufficient funds, when the account is determined to be deficient, is sent to a sponsor to whom the issuer issued account. The cost in the authorization request can include a total purchase amount and a qualified amount of the total purchase amount, and the issuer can validate that the account can be used the for payment of the qualified amount of the total purchase amount for the healthcare service. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166873 | PATIENT-SPECIFIC RESEARCH CONSENT MANAGER - Methods, systems, and computer storage media are provided for managing patient-specific research consents. In embodiments, the present invention gives health care providers the ability to view a participant's up to date consent information and documentation within their clinical workflow. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166874 | SCREENING INTEREST MANAGER - Methods, systems, and computer storage media are provided for managing the availability of health record data of a pool of individuals by use of default rules and authorizations. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166875 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING MEDICAL DATA AND FACILITATING REIMBURSEMENT FOR HEALTH CARE - System and method receive medical data of a patient having a disease afflicted health condition for processing and analysis of that data. Software installed on a health care provider's computer for processing the medical data includes a GUI reimbursement window that informs the HCP of reimbursement possibilities for analysis of the data and counseling of the patient. The reimbursement window also includes hyperlinks and may also include codes for insurance claims. Lists of reimbursement entities, pre-authorization instructions, coding instructions, and contacts may all be included and may be personalized for a particular patient. In one case, a complete bill is created and submitted to an insurance entity. In another, a patient data base is created so that the reimbursement window can inform the HCP of patient analysis frequency, which may affect reimbursement. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166876 | METHODS FOR DELIVERING A DRUG TO A PATIENT WHILE RESTRICTING ACCESS TO THE DRUG BY PATIENTS FOR WHOM THE DRUG MAY BE CONTRAINDICATED - Methods for delivering a drug to a patient in need of the drug, while restricting access to the drug by patients for whom the drug may be contraindicated are disclosed. The methods are of the type in which prescriptions for the drug are filled by a pharmacy only after a computer readable storage medium has been consulted to retrieve a prescription approval code. Embodiments are provided wherein the patients are assigned to risk groups based upon the risk that taking the drug will lead to an adverse side effect, and certain additional information, such as periodic surveys and diagnostic tests probative of the ongoing risk of the side effect developing are obtained before prescriptions for the drug are approved. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166877 | Quality Assurance Methods for Medication Therapy Management - A method for improving quality assurance methods for medication therapy management using a computer particularly adapted for a health care management or delivery organization is provided, the method including at least the steps of: providing a set of internal controls, wherein the internal controls further include a set of national guidelines and standards, as well as a qualified staff; and development by the qualified staff of a clinical rule based upon the national guidelines and standards. In other embodiments, a clinical quality assurance team further reviews the clinical rule developed by the staff. In further embodiments, a set of external controls is provided, wherein the external controls include one or more of a plurality of approved pharmacists, an external clinical advisory council, and/or an independent review board. In still further embodiments, one or more members of the set of external controls either validates the clinical rule developed by the staff, or validates a staff-developed clinical rule that was subsequently reviewed by the quality assurance team. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166878 | SYSTEM FOR PHARMACY TRACKING AND CUSTOMER ID VERIFICATION - A method of distributing a filled prescription order from a worker of a pharmacy to a customer includes providing a computer-readable memory device having saved thereon a first identifier of the customer and a second identifier of the customer. The method also includes requesting the first identifier from the customer and requesting the second identifier from the customer. Also, the method includes inputting the first and second identifiers into an input device by at least one of the worker and the customer. Moreover, the method includes confirming an identity of the customer by confirming that the first and second identifiers input correspond satisfactorily with the first and second identifiers saved on the memory device. Still further, the method includes limiting transfer of the filled prescription order from the worker to the customer until confirming the identity of the customer. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166879 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FUSING CLINICAL AND IMAGE FEATURES FOR COMPUTER-AIDED DIAGNOSIS - A system and method of providing computer-aided analysis of medical images uses an image processor ( | 2011-07-07 |
20110166880 | Method and System for Analyzing Health Related Data of Patients - System and method for analyzing health related data associated with a patient, comprising: an expert's station; a health database comprising health related data of patients; a wizard application, enabling the expert to create a template of commands for analyzing the health related data of the patient according to the expert's school of method, using a generic model associated with the expert's field of expertise, where the analysis calculates health related profile of the patient; a templates database comprising templates of commands created by experts; a generic models database, enabling the wizard to retrieve and store a generic model associated with the expert's field of expertise; and a main server for using the template of commands to analyze the health data of a patient, according to the analysis method of the expert, by operating the commands in the template for calculating health related profile of the patient. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166881 | Method and system for generating food recommendations - In accordance with the principles of the present invention, a method and system of generating food recommendations is provided. A patient drug profile is provided listing currently prescribed medications for a patient. The patient drug profile is analyzed to establish an individual's medical condition(s), or disease state profile, from National Drug Code numbers, for example, in the patient drug profile. A nutritional database is provided. The nutritional database includes foods that are beneficial and/or harmful to various disease states. Food recommendations based on the individual's medical condition(s), or disease state profile, are provided from the nutritional database. The food recommendations can include both foods to avoid and foods to consume. Additional information, such as coupons, for example, based on the food recommendations, and a product location guide based on the food recommendations can be provided. In one implementation, the method and system of generating food recommendations can be provided in a pharmacy management system within a grocery store. In another implementation, the method and system of generating food recommendations can be provided using any computing device. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166882 | BUSINESS METHOD FOR HAIR REPLACEMENT AND MAINTENANCE - The quality of hair maintenance and replacement services in commercial personal grooming service companies provided by an organization to a customer is assured. Initial multiphasic assessment with progressive reviews and client input and acceptance of a mutually derived solution is performed, undertaken and measured. Episodic client assurance reviews, assessment of mutually designated outcome metrics and collective modifications are made to heighten client commitment, satisfaction and quality assurance. Process and final deliverable reviews are performed to assure customer need satisfaction. The invention is a method comprised of an array of multiple comprehensive steps individualized to the specific characteristics of the client with their completion measured, reported and agreed upon to assure consistent and acceptable quality levels. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166883 | Systems and Methods for Modeling Healthcare Costs, Predicting Same, and Targeting Improved Healthcare Quality and Profitability - A comprehensive healthcare analytic and predicative modeling system that tracks costs for patients on a long term basis (greater than 6 months, one-year, or more) to assess the long-term effectiveness of various treatment options. Based upon the evaluation of the long-term effectiveness of various treatment options, the system then delivers a predictive model, which is based on data extracted and aggregated from dissimilar databases, that analyzes up-to-date economic and clinical outcomes, and then, using this data, can estimate long-term future treatment results from an economic and clinical perspective. Also disclosed herein is a personal electronic medical record on a computer network created by a medical provider on the authorization of the patient and controlled by the patient. Lastly, disclosed herein is a computer system for the consolidation of medical and financial data from disparate databases into a unitary data format. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166884 | System and method for automated patient history intake - A system of automated patient history intake including a retrieval system for retrieving pharmaceutical information specific to a patient, a display system for displaying the pharmaceutical information, and a reconciliation system for reconciling the pharmaceutical information using visual data. A system for automated patient check-in including a retrieval system for retrieving pharmaceutical information specific to a patient, a display system for displaying the pharmaceutical information, and a reconciliation system for reconciling the pharmaceutical information using visual data. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166885 | System and method for creating and rendering DICOM structured clinical reporting via the internet - Methods for implementing a structured clinical reporting system employing a DICOM Structured Reporting (SR) software database engine that maps clinical report data into a clinical structured reporting data format are disclosed. A workstation is used to create, sign, render, or transmit a structured clinical report. A conversion engine performs image recognition on the structured clinical report, which includes identifying data therein, segmenting the report, using a library to perform value object extraction on the segments, and converting the value objects to a DICOM format. A PACS server is usable to communicate with the conversion engine, workstation, and database. Various software plug-ins are usable, such that different methods of acquiring user input may be implemented. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166886 | Bariatric Treatment Management System and Method - Disclosed is a computer-implemented method for managing a medical practice. The disclosed method includes establishing a practice profile having at least one of an administrative parameter, a patient requirement parameter, and a surgeon identifier. The method further includes establishing at least one patient profile corresponding to a patient, wherein the patient profile includes at least one of a patient identifier, a patient requirement parameter, a patient requirement parameter due date, and a surgery identifier. A patient requirement completion date is received and stores, and is compared to the patient requirement parameter due date. A pathway to surgery document that includes the patient requirement parameter due date and the patient requirement completion date is automatically generated and electronically delivered to the patient. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166887 | Medical Information Event Manager - An event management system and method detects the occurrence of events as a function, at least in part, of information and data gathered from monitoring one or more patients with a medical information system. Event detection processes can be defined and then triggered to cover any of a variety of circumstances. For instance, event detection processes can be defined that, when triggered, indicate that a certain patient (or patients) would make a suitable candidate for that clinical trial, a patient is a candidate for a certain type of treatment, or hospital resources are being utilized in a certain manner. That is, such events may relate to the efficiency or inefficiency in use of certain resources, or such events may concern usage under certain circumstances. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166888 | SIMPLIFIED LAUNCHING OF ELECTRONIC MESSAGES IN CENTER FOR TREATING PATIENT - Devices, systems, software and methods facilitate launching protocol in a treatment center for an incoming patient. When a patient characterization is input, one or more draft messages become prepared at least in part for different functions, departments and people of the treatment center. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166889 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADVERTISING REVENUE DISTRIBUTION - The system monitors user actions in a user payment system and provides targeted advertisements to a user where the user opts-in as a participant in an advertising program. The system is further configured to track and distribute revenue from the advertising program to various parties including the user, healthcare providers, and user payment systems providers. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166890 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING DISTRIBUTED DIGITAL MEDICAL DATA - A network for mediating the peer-to-peer transfer of digital patient medical data includes a plurality of distributed agents each associated with a health care provider and connected to a central system. Periodically the agents collect local information relating to patient medical files and/or data streams, for example diagnostic images and associated reports, and process that information into metadata files acting as pointers to the original files. The metadata files are transmitted to the central system where they are parsed and the attributes are stored on the central system in patient records with records from the same patient grouped together whenever possible. Registered users can search the central system, even in the absence of a unique identifier, to identify patient records pointing to the remote patient medical files. Upon finding a patient medical file, the invention provides a streamlined process for communicating access authorization from the patient to the hospital or facility storing the medical files. Once patient authorization is received, secure processes are provided for transferring the data in its entirety to or for viewing by the user in a peer-to-peer fashion. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166891 | HOSPITAL BED COMPUTER SYSTEM WITH PHARMACY INTERACTION - A point-of-care computer system is provided, including a display positioned in a point-of-care location. The point-of-care computer includes hardware coupled to a frame of a hospital bed. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166892 | Systems and Methods for Electronic Health Management - The present invention provides systems and methods for managing patient healthcare from a variety of goal-oriented perspectives. Patients are enabled not only to store and maintain their complete medical, dental or other health records, but also to utilize the data of other patients to maximize the benefit and efficiency of a patient's overall healthcare. The present invention comprises a set of software tools that can be used by a consumer (patient or individual) to take charge of his or her own medical or health care. Systems and methods of the present invention enable a patient(s) to store, research and track healthcare provider information maintained in a dynamic healthcare database. Software tools encompassed within the scope of the present invention allow patients to access, analyze, and utilize stored medical provider data to manage their medical or health care in an unique, personalized and efficient manner that affords the greatest possible benefit to an individual or a patient. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166893 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING INSURANCE POLICIES VIA A DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING NETWORK - A virtual insurance producer Web site is provided at which a prospective insurance customer may request a bindable premium quotation for an insurance policy. The prospective customer may be asked to provide information relating to the insurability of an individual to be insured by the insurance policy and information relating to the coverage to be provided by the insurance policy. The premium is displayed to the prospective customer as a bindable quotation that binds the insurance company providing the policy and that may be purchased on-line immediately. The prospective customer may purchase the insurance policy according to the provided bindable premium quotation through the virtual insurance producer Web site. If the prospective customer elects to purchase the policy, the virtual insurance producer Web site may re-intermediate an insurance agent into the sales process and transmit the insurance policy to the customer in electronic form. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166894 | INSURANCE INCENTIVE PROGRAM FOR PROMOTING THE PURCHASE OR RELEASE OF AN AUTOMOBILE AFTER AN EXPIRATION OF A LEASE - A lessee of an item, such as an automobile, is encouraged to either purchase the automobile at the expiration of the lease, or to initiate a new lease for the same item. If the lessee undertakes a purchase or a new lease, a manufacturer of the item, or another party, provides insurance covering the item. The methods disclosed herein may be performed over a computer network, such as the Internet. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166895 | Risk Assessment Company - A Risk Assessment Company (RAC) maintains an up to date Risk Profile Data Base (RPDB) on its members based on their normal periodic updates to the RPDB. The Risk Assessment Company, therefore, can provide risk assessment results which can be utilized by a plurality of insurance carriers to determine an appropriate underwriting class for individual user subscribers who apply for insurance. The Risk Assessment Company can also provide a member with a risk assessment result report containing suggestions on how said person can better manage his or her risk exposure. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166896 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING DATA RELATED TO A LIFE INSURANCE POLICY HAVING AN ACCELERATED DEATH BENEFIT - A method for processing data related to a life insurance product having a death benefit amount payable to a beneficiary upon death of an insured includes receiving data indicative of certification that the insured is chronically ill, and responsive to receipt of the data indicative of the certification, providing output signals having data indicative of instructions to pay an owner of the life insurance product periodic payments, during the lifetime of the insured, each of which periodic payments reduces the death benefit amount. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166897 | PARKING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF EMPLOYING SAME - The present invention is directed to a system and method for pairing lessors and lessees of parking spaces and generating a profit from each transaction. The system and method are employed over computing means and includes an option for charging a municipality an administrative fee for establishing the system within the municipality. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166898 | Method, System and Apparatus for Dual One-Leg Facilitation - The system is configured to aggregate charter travel availability information, as well as process travel search requests from system users. The system may be configured to actively obtain or passively receive charter data objects. The data objects may include information like available charter equipment (e g, aircraft), availability location and/or time information. The system may be configured to process a variety of object formats from a variety of data sources. The system extracts charter flight data indicators and corresponding flight characteristics to create and populate a charter flight data record, which serve as the foundation for charter data management system components. The system implements search functionality identifying charter flight data records with a best match or alternate suggested results. Charter flight records originate from multiple sources that are published/distributed in standardized or non-standardized ways. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166899 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BOARDING PASSENGERS BASED ON BIDS - Systems and methods for boarding passengers on flights or other transportation according to bids received from the passengers are provided. Passengers seeking to fly standby on an undersold flight can submit a bid representing the amount the passengers are willing to pay to board the flight. The airline can determine the number of seats available on the flight, and board the highest bidding passengers until the flight is full. Similarly, passengers willing to be bumped from an oversold flight can submit a bid representing the incentive the passengers are willing to accept to be bumped from the flight. The airline can determine the number of passengers that must be bumped from the flight, and bump the lowest bidding passengers (i.e., those willing to accept the least costly incentive) until a sufficient number of passengers have been bumped from the flight. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166900 | Testing and Evaluating the Recoverability of a Process - Aspects of this disclosure relate to a computer for determining the recoverability of a process which may include a processor and memory storing computer executable instructions that, when executed, cause the computer to determine the recoverability of a process, by receiving data relating to a contingency plan for recovering the process, receiving data relating to an organization's execution of the contingency plan during a test of the recoverability of the process, and determining the recoverability of the process based on the data by calculating a cumulative overall score for the recoverability of the process, comparing the cumulative overall score with a rating chart stored in the computer, which includes numerical ranges defining a level of assurance of the recoverability of the process, and determining the recoverability of a process based on the comparison of the cumulative overall score with the rating chart. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166901 | User-Activity Management System - A sales activity management device adapted to monitor, manage, and/or track a plurality of sales activities constituting a sales cycle. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166902 | NOTIFICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A dispatching system adjusts resources to meet real-time changes in demand. When a customer requests service, a work assignment is generated and sent to an employee. When a customer cancels the requested service, a cancelation code is sent to the employee. The cancelation code informs the employee that the work assignment has been canceled. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166903 | Web based Offshorability Probability Calculator - Job analysis Tool for Individuals made available on Internet - The “Web based Offshorability Probability Calculator” is a system and method that allows an individual to determine the Probability of their job (OR any other job), or role within an organization getting sourced from an inexpensive offshore location. An internet based and a Microsoft EXCEL based embodiments of the tool have been detailed in this Patent application. Users access the Tool via Internet using their web browser (Internet Explorer or equivalent) to go to www.OffshoreProof.com or another website providing access to the tool. The user answers a set of questions related to their job using a simple Drop down Menu. Based on User Inputs and the pre-programmed decision matrix and weight assignment system, the calculator gives an output on the “Offshorability Probability” of the job along with a score and an analysis whether any technical or regulatory barrier could prevent Offshoring. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166904 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TOTAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT - A method for total resource management of at least one project for at least one knowledge-based practice, comprising: receiving, in at least two practice management applications, employee data for at least one employee and/or client data for at least one client; integrating data from the at least two practice management applications utilizing at least one enterprise application; and creating, at least one project management model utilizing the integrated data, the at least one project management model enabling clients and employees to interact and/or manage metrics of the knowledge-based practice. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166905 | METHOD OF PROCUREMENT - A method of procurement in the program planning procurement stage of a project by a project partner for a procurement Client including the steps of: establishing a no scope, no value contract arrangement between the procurement Client and the project partner; provision of resources by the project partner for the planning procurement stage under the no value arrangement; engaging the project partner in the program planning stage, and upon the execution of a project order, conferring full responsibility for delivery of goods and services to the project partner. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166906 | Concentration Risk Modeling - A system and method of calculating a concentration risk score for a work process at an organization center are provided. The concentration risk score may be based on a redundancy score and a criticality score. In some examples, the redundancy score may be determined based on a percentage of total resources associated with the work process at a first center. The redundancy score and criticality score may then be combined to determine a concentration risk score for the work process at that center. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166907 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR RISK EVALUATION - Methods, systems and computer products are provided for risk evaluation. A computer may assign a risk to an object which has an object estimation-value. The computer may also receive a risk estimation-value for the risk. The computer may re-calculate the object estimation-value based on the risk estimation-value. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166908 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR RISK EVALUATION - Methods, systems and computer products are provided for risk evaluation. A computer may assign a risk to an object which has an object estimation-value. The computer may also receive a risk estimation-value for the risk. The computer may re-calculate the object estimation-value based on the risk estimation-value. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166909 | Systems, methods and computer program products for implementing processes relating to retail sales - The present invention provides a system that facilitates the selection of purchasable items for use in an environs defined by the customer. In one aspect, the system includes a processing element capable of proposing a plurality of purchasable items to the customer for selection by the customer. The processing element also is capable of receiving data representing the environs and data representing at least one purchasable item selected by the customer. The processing element is further capable of generating and displaying a three-dimensional graphical representation of the environs and each purchasable item or items selected by the customer so that the customer can visualize the items in the environs. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166910 | POST-MIX BEVERAGE SYSTEM - A beverage dispensing system comprises a container, an attachment mechanism, and a cartridge. The container may hold a mixing solution or liquid, such as water, to be mixed with the contents of the cartridge. The attachment mechanism is generally located within the container. The cartridge generally engages with the attachment mechanism to open the cartridge to be dispensed into the container, thereby combining the contents of the cartridge with the liquid within the container to create a drinkable beverage. The cartridge may include a unique identifier to track a set of beverage characteristics associated with the contents of the cartridge and the beverage. The container may capture the unique identifier of the cartridge associated with the set of beverage characteristics and transfer the set of beverage characteristics over a wireless network to a computing device or network. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166911 | Leveraging Customer Information to Create and Utilize Financial Networks - Aspects of this disclosure relate to a financial relationship and social relationship identifying computer which may include a processor and a memory storing computer executable instructions that, when executed, cause the computer to perform a method for identifying financial relationships and social relationships between customers of a business. The method for identifying financial relationship and social relationships between customers of a business may include determining one or more people with whom a first customer has conducted at least one financial transaction, electronically receiving customer data providing identities of customers of the business determining which of the one or more people are also customers of the business by comparing the one or more people with the customer data and compiling a subset of the one or more people including customers of the business with whom the first customer has conducted at least one financial transaction. The method may also include determining one or more people with whom a first customer has a social relationship. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166912 | PLANT ANALYSIS SYSTEM - There is provided a plant analysis system capable of enhancing efficiency of works by sharing information within a plant. A storing means stores a logic defined via a reception means. A monitoring data creation means creates KPI (key performance indicator) in real time as data for monitoring the plant based on data to be acquired from the plant by use of the logic stored in the storing means. An analysis data creation means creates the KPI as analyzing data for analyzing a plant state in the past based on historical data stored in a historical data storage means by use of the logic stored in the storing means. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166913 | ENERGY CONSUMPTION REPORTING AND MODIFICATION SYSTEM - Provided are methods and apparatus that determine a benchmark of energy consumption for an energy system and utilize the determined benchmark in a variety of ways. Once determined, the determined benchmark may be compared to current energy consumption and current outdoor temperature to verify proper operation of the system and identify deviations in system operation. The benchmark may be used to determine the impact of an implemented change in the operation of the system. The determined benchmark may also be used to contract for a term in an agreement and to verify the satisfaction of a term in an agreement. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166914 | RELOADABLE PREPAID CARD DISTRIBUTION, RELOAD, AND REGISTRATION IN TRANSIT - Embodiments of systems, methods, and machine-readable media are disclosed providing for the concurrent distribution of reloadable prepaid cards and enablement of the reloadable prepaid cards for use at access control points of a transit system. Embodiments enabling of the reloadable prepaid cards for use at access control points of the transit system can include obtaining user information, payment, and communicating card information to a card issuer for activation of the first reloadable prepaid card. A transit user account for managing transactional information of the user of the transit system is also created, reloadable prepaid card is enabled for use as fare media at access control points of the transit system. Thus, once distributed, the prepaid reloadable cards may be used as fare media in the transit system as payment for transit fare, as well as for purchases at locations outside the transit system. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166915 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A CUSTOMER CONTACT STRATEGY - A system and method determines a customer contact strategy that creates associations between customer characteristics and customer responsiveness to direct email campaigns. A plurality of variables relating to historical customer purchasing behavior, and customer responsiveness to direct mail campaigns, are evaluated. In addition, customer responsiveness to direct email campaigns are also evaluated, while also enabling the evaluation of a customer based on customer characteristics and responsiveness. Conventional direct mail campaigns utilize various models to identify customer propensity and prospective customer propensity. The present invention adds to these models a model to determine how well a customer responds to direct email campaigns, and then determines which form of direct contact is preferred at a customer level (i.e., on a customer by customer basis). | 2011-07-07 |
20110166916 | Time-Resolved & User-Spatially-Activated Feedback Entrance and Method Thereof - The present invention discloses a time-resolved & user-spatially-activated feedback entrance (TruSafe) graphical user interface (GUI), useful to distinguish between allowed human feedback (entrance-OPENED) and disallowed response generated by a computer (entrance-LOCKED). The TruSafe comprises (i) a cursor operable by a human and (ii) at least one cursor sensitive zone (CSZ). The cursor and the CSZ are adapted to interact according to human perceptive response over time and space, and thus transform said TruSafe from its initial entrance-LOCKED configuration to at least one different terminal entrance-OPENED configuration. The TruSafe is useful for advertisement of goods and services. The invention also presents methods for securing an entrance-OPENED configuration, and advertising an advertisement by means of a TruSafe. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166917 | VIEWER CREDIT ACCOUNT FOR A MULTIMEDIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM - An ad token apparatus for managing a user credit account in a multimedia broadcasting system. The ad token apparatus includes a token embedder, a token cache, and a token verifier. The token embedder embeds a token in a digital advertisement stream to generate a token-embedded ad. The token includes an identifiable sequence of data of a predetermined length. The token cache stores the token and receives a detected token from the user device in response to detection of the token in the token-embedded ad by the user device. The token verifier adds at least one credit to a user credit account in response to receipt of the detected token. The user credit account corresponds to the user device. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166918 | DISTRIBUTION OF CONTENT - Among other things, publishers of digital content are enabled each to define, for each of one or more digital content items, a style in which the digital content item is to be presented to a user and a condition under which the user may have the digital content item presented. The digital content items are stored in a content library, the styles and conditions associated with the digital content items are stored in a server. Each of the digital content items is enabled to be presented to users within presentation contexts that are accessible to the users and controlled by presentation context providers. The presentation of the digital content items includes obtaining the digital content items from the server and controlling the presentation to occur under the conditions and in the styles defined by the publishers. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166919 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS WHEREIN A SECURITY DEPOSIT FACILITATES A TRANSACTION IN WHICH A BENEFIT IS APPLIED IN EXCHANGE FOR PERFORMANCE OF A TASK - Methods, computer readable media and systems are described wherein a security deposit is used to facilitate a transaction with a customer. In an embodiment, a process includes receiving an indication that a customer is interested in making a purchase during a transaction from a merchant, and transmitting an offer for a benefit to be applied to the transaction in exchange for a future performance of a task by the customer and a security deposit. The task is associated with a subsidy provider other than the merchant. The method also includes providing the offer to the customer, receiving the security deposit, applying the benefit to the transaction before performance of the task, and returning at least a portion of the security deposit to the customer based on the performance of the task. For example, a subsidy provider may offer to apply a subsidy amount to a transaction involving the purchase of a lawn mower in exchange for a future performance of a task by the customer such as test driving a new car. It is also arranged for the customer to provide a security deposit. When the customer performs the task by test driving the car, arrangements are then made to return at least a portion of the security deposit to the customer. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166920 | FINANCIAL CHARGE REBATE - Aspects of the disclosure relate to assisting credit account holders during economic hardship. More specifically, aspects of the disclosure relate to systems and methods for providing a rebate of at least a portion of a finance charge applied to a credit account. Unlike certain prior art systems and methods, embodiments disclosed herein may benefit both the credit account holder as well as the financial institution that extends the credit account. In one embodiment, it may be determined that several credit accounts meet a threshold of probability of having a charge-off. In certain embodiments, the number of accounts that receive a rebate may be limited to a certain percentage of credit accounts with a non-zero balance. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166921 | METHOD FOR ENABLING THE USE OF A MOBILE LOYALTY CARD - The invention relates to a method for creating a Mobile Loyalty Card (MLC) on a mobile device comprising the steps of:—Subscribing to the MLC service via a mobile device, an internet terminal or any other communication means, the MSISDN number, at least, being provided to the MLC service provider—Downloading on the mobile device software means for enabling the use of MLC service on the mobile device—Creating on the mobile device a MLC by entering at least the Point of Sale (POS) identifier (ID) to the software means while running, the created MLC comprising information related to the type of technology used by the POS reader for transferring data related to the MLC user—Activating on the mobile device, by selecting a MLC, the different technologies used by the reader of the POS linked to the selected MLC. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166922 | PORTAL INCLUDING MERCHANT FUNDED AFFILIATE CASH BACK SERVICE - A system and method for managing a rewards program are provided. The method includes receiving information about a consumer, registering the consumer information and creating unique tracking information associated with the consumer. The method further includes receiving a listing of one or more merchants offering an incentive to the consumer, providing the listing to the consumer, receiving input indicative of selection of a merchant, and directing the consumer to a merchant website associated with the selected merchant. Thereafter, the method includes receiving details about an item purchased by the consumer, receiving a total value of an reward for the item purchased by the consumer, calculating a first share of the incentive to be offered to the consumer, and communicating the first share to an issuer of the payment device used by the consumer to be included in a statement provided to the consumer. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166923 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING PRE-EXISTING AND PROSPECTIVE CUSTOMERS WITH AN IMMEDIATELY ACCESSIBLE ACCOUNT - A system and method for providing in real-time an immediately accessible customized transaction account via the internet is disclosed. In particular, the system and method recognizes distinct access codes which are correlated to the credit profile of a person accessing an on-line application system via a computer network. During operation of the invention, a party may be driven to the on-line application system via the internet to conduct a transaction in response to an invitation to enroll in a special program. Upon entering the on-line application system, the accessing party may be unilaterally given the opportunity to apply for a special offer, which has been tailored to the accessing party's credit profile. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166924 | Advertising During a Transaction - Aspects of this disclosure relate to an advertising optimization computer which may include a processor and memory storing computer executable instructions that, when executed, cause the advertising optimization computer to perform a method for selecting an advertisement to be presented to a customer during a financial transaction by electronically receiving data relating to the identity of the customer conducting the financial transaction, electronically receiving data relating to one or more advertisements and determining the particular advertisement to present to the customer during the financial transaction based on the data by comparing the data relating to the identity of the customer conducting the financial transaction with the data relating to one or more advertisements and selecting an advertisement to be presented during the financial transaction based on the comparison. The data relating to one or more advertisements may include one or more characteristics of an intended audience to which the respective advertisements should be presented. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166925 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTENT SCHEDULING ON DISPLAY MEDIA - Methods and systems of selection of content based on demographics and/or psychographics of a group from a remote central location through local commands on an input device from content that is sourced from the internet and/or a central database are provided. The system comprises Internet ( | 2011-07-07 |
20110166926 | Evaluating Online Marketing Efficiency - A method and a system evaluate a company website's online marketing efficiency on various advertising websites by evaluating both access activities and business activities of users originating from the advertising websites. For each user visiting the company website, the method determines the originating website from which the user enters the company website, and obtains the access activities and the business activities of the user on the company website. The method quantifies the access activities and the business activities of the users who enter the present website from the same originating website to generate evaluation data corresponding to the originating website, and evaluates the company website's online marketing efficiency on the originating website based on the evaluation data of the originating website. Using the disclosed method and system, online marketing efficiency can be evaluated more comprehensively and accurately. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166927 | Dynamic Pricing Model For Online Advertising - The present invention provides methods and systems for use in association with an online advertising auction. Advertiser bid information may be obtained, including a maximum amount per impression and a target click through rate (“CTR”). Following serving, if a delivered CTR is equal to or greater than the target CTR, then pricing per impression is at the maximum amount. If, however, the delivered CTR is less than the target CTR, then pricing per impression is at an amount equal to the maximum amount per impression multiplied by the ratio of the delivered CTR to the target CTR. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166928 | Method of Sharing Possessions among Friends Connected through a Social Network - A method of sharing possessions among friends connected through a social network whereby friends post sharable items viewable and searchable by keywords, description, and data by their friends and provides means for notification of friends' desire to borrow said items. Upon item sharing, friends can acknowledge receipt and condition of items borrowed, notify borrower's failure to return borrowed items, purchase damage waiver insurance, and rate the quality of the borrower. A method to encourage friends to donate to charities by offering to gift distinct or sharable items, whereby donations must be received by borrower's or lender's selected charities before gifting, and donations can be coordinated by third parties. Users can post requests for items desired as gifts or monetary amounts they're willing to donate upon gift receipt. Items available for gift are searchable and advertisements are displayed to users based on user's searched keywords. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166929 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SEARCH RESULTS BASED ON SIMILARITY AMONG CONTENTS AND SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ADVERTISEMENTS - Provided are a system and method for providing a search result based on a similarity between contents and a system and method for providing an advertisement. The search result providing system may include: a content retrieval unit to retrieve a content corresponding to a user query; a similar content verification unit to verify a similar content based on at least one portion of the retrieved content; and a content provider to provide the retrieved content and the similar content in response to the user query. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166930 | Computer System, Methods, Computer Models, and Computer Software for Enhancing a Customer List for a Targeted Marketing Campaign - Various computer systems, methods, computer models, and computer software are provided for enhancing a customer list for a targeted marketing campaign. One embodiment is a computer system comprising: a data storage device comprising: a customer list comprising customer information for a plurality of customers; and a survey results database for storing the results of a survey of each of the plurality of customers; a predictive computer model which models a relationship between the customer information and the results of the survey; and a scoring algorithm configured to generate a score for each of the plurality of customers based on the predictive computer model. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166931 | Advertising During a Transaction - Aspects of this disclosure relate to a system for presenting an advertisement to a customer during a financial transaction which may include an advertisement optimization computer, an advertisement repository database which may store one or more advertisements and information regarding a particular audience to which the respective advertisements should be presented and a computer system configured to allow advertisements to be uploaded to the advertisement repository database. The advertisement may be presented at a point of transaction wherein the financial transaction is being conduced and the financial transaction data from the financial transaction being conducted at the point of transaction may be determined at the point of transaction and may be transmitted to the advertisement optimization computer. Further, the advertisement optimization computer may compare the financial transaction data with the information regarding a particular audience to which the respective advertisements should be presented and may select an advertisement to be presented during the financial transaction based on the comparison of the financial transaction data with the information regarding a particular audience to which the respective advertisements should be presented. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166932 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING CONTENT BASED ON USER INTERACTION - Methods and systems provide for displaying advertisement items on mobile devices in response to user selections. Advertisement items may be transmitted to mobile devices ahead of an insertion point and stored in memory. While displaying a content item, mobile devices may display a list of alternatives related advertisement content and prompt the user to select one. Mobile devices may determine an advertisement content item to display at the insertion point based on a received user input or lack of an input. In a further embodiment, mobile devices report displayed advertisement items to a service, such as the distributor, content provider, or a third party. In a further embodiment, the selection of alternative advertisement items to present to the user is made based upon weighting values associated with each advertisement item. Such weighting values may be adjusted when advertisement items are displayed or listed in a user interface display. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166933 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZATION OF DIRECT MAIL CAMPAIGN COSTS AND EFFECTIVENESS - A direct mail postal optimization system and method reduces postal expenses of direct mail campaigns relative to postal expenses of conventional direct mail campaigns, while increasing customer responses to the direct mail campaign. The system and method evaluates a plurality of direct mail audience scenarios taking into consideration a postal service carrier route to minimize cost and maximize revenue generated by purchases per household receiving a direct mailing via a direct mail campaign. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166934 | TARGETED ADVERTISING BASED ON REMOTE RECEIPT ANALYSIS - A computer implemented method performs targeted advertising based on remote receipt analysis. The method includes receiving an image of a receipt over a network and automatically performing optical character recognition on the image of the receipt to obtain a machine-encoded text. The method further includes automatically extracting transaction data from the machine-encoded text and automatically distributing commercial data to a user console based on the transaction data. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166935 | ANALYSIS AND MONETIZATION OF LOOKUP TERMS - The present invention provides systems for analyzing URL lookup requests that are malformed or otherwise fail to provide an adequate response, and providing content-relevant results for those requests. The systems and methods rely on analysis of URL requests and on logical assumptions based on common errors in submission of URL requests. A weighting system is applied to portions of failed lookup terms to provide improved relevancy for results based on those failed lookup terms. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166936 | PREDICTIVE TECHNIQUES IN TRANSIT ALERTING - Embodiments of systems and methods are disclosed for providing messages based on an identified ridership pattern of a user of a transit system. Embodiments can include receiving information associated with a plurality of transactions of the user of the transit system, and identifying a ridership pattern of the user of the transit system. A predicted time and duration that the user of the transit system will be at a predicted location can be determined based, at least in part, on the identified ridership pattern. A message can be formulated using this information, and the message can be sent to the user or other message subscriber. Messages can include a variety of information, including advertisements, transit status updates, and more. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166937 | Media output with micro-impulse radar feedback of physiological response - A system and method for providing media and/or advertising content determines content and/or parameters responsive to physical and/or physiological information about a viewer detected by a micro-impulse radar (MIR). | 2011-07-07 |
20110166938 | Methods For Advertising - A web conversion method based on phone calls is disclosed. Some embodiments comprise distributing a multiplicity of ads across a multiplicity of online media channels, displaying a unique advertiser phone number on each ad for a limited time every time a prospect visits a webpage hosting the ad, determining that the prospect called the advertiser phone number within the limited time, determining that the geographical zone of the prospect at the time of the call encompasses the geographical location of the IP address at where the unique phone number is displayed, and charging an advertiser for the ad that displayed the advertiser phone number. | 2011-07-07 |
20110166939 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATING DATA MINING AND OTHER MARKETING TECHNIQUES WITH FANTASY SPORTS CONTEST APPLICATIONS - Systems and methods are provided for integrating quantitative marketing techniques in fantasy sports contest applications and other contest applications to provide personalized advertisements and other marketing related communications and/or content. The fantasy sports contests application may create user profiles to store various information associated with users. Information associated with users may be provided by the users or automatically gathered by the application through various channels such as external consumer databases. The application may employ tests such as personality tests and other types of predictive games to collect additional user information. The application may also link user profiles to users clusters including other users having similar characteristics. | 2011-07-07 |