34th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 56 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110208531 | Medical Office, Particularly for Surgical Eye Treatments - A medical office, particularly for surgical eye treatments, includes at least one medical device which is controlled by a program-controlled computer, with a first plug-in interface for a data storage medium, and a data printing device, which is decoupled electrically and for signalling purposes from the medical device, with a second plug-in interface for the data storage medium. According to the invention, the computer of the medical device is set up to write data into the data storage medium via the first plug-in interface, whereas the data printing device is set up to read and print data stored on the data storage medium. The data storage medium can, for example, be a USB memory stick or another transportable medium, for which, in the data processing industry, standardised plug-in locations are provided. Because no additional galvanic decoupling of the data printing device is necessary, as it would be in the case of direct electrical connection to the medical device, both the device complexity and the cost can be reduced. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208532 | MANAGING HEALTH DATA FROM WITHIN AND OUTSIDE A UPnP NETWORK - Health data measurement devices may be used in a UPnP home network to obtain health data and have the data stored in personal health records in an application hosting device in the network. Various types of devices may be used to access the data and to render the data on displays in the home network, such as televisions, using UPnP protocols. A health sensor device has an IP-LAN UPnP health service module and a possible a control point. An application hosting device, which stores and manages the health data, has a host UPnP health service module and may also have a control point. A remote device, such as a cell phone, may be used to remotely access health data on the application hosting device. A remote device description is dynamically generated by the hosting device based on a configuration set in a remote access service on the hosting device. The remote device description is generated dynamically (“on the fly”) as the remote device attempts to access data in the UPnP network. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208533 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND MEDIUM FOR ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF VARIOUS AILMENTS ON HEALTH RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE - The present invention relates to a system and method for assessing the impact of an ailment on a health related quality of life domain of a patient using a standardized common metric. The standardized common metric of the present invention enables the impact of various ailments to be compared. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208534 | REAL-TIME DELIVERY OF MEDICAL TEST DATA TO PORTABLE COMMUNICATIONS DEVICES - The present invention relates to a system and method for real-time delivery of medical tests and related data from laboratories or similar sources to portable communication devices such as mobile phones, text-enabled pagers and web-enabled personal digital assistance (PDA's) and other WAP devices. The subject system enables physicians to access test results remotely as soon as they become available. Also, the system allows the physician to develop an electronic prescription and submit the electronic prescription to a pharmacy using the portable communications device. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208535 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING THE USE OF SENSITIVE PRODUCTS - Certain embodiments of the invention relate to a method for monitoring the use of sensitive products ( | 2011-08-25 |
20110208536 | CLINICAL TEST INFORMATION MANAGING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM - The present invention is a clinical test information managing apparatus including at least one display configured to display cascading tiers of clinical test information, the apparatus further including at least one processor of a computer system and at least one memory that stores programs executable by the at least one processor to: display a first tier of clinical test information including a listing of items which include process stages that show progresses of testing, associated with an indication of presence of samples which are situated at a respective stage; and when receiving a selection by a user among the items, display a second tier of clinical test information including a listing of identifications of samples which are identified by the indication of presence associated with a selected item. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208537 | INTERACTIVE UNIFIED WORKSTATION FOR BENCHMARKING AND CARE PLANNING - An interactive, unified workstation is described that unifies in a single system multitude of functions pertaining to a practitioners practice that would otherwise require disjointed, more expensive, and less efficient individual workstations dedicated to a specific, limited task or a sub-set of tasks. The invention is directed towards benchmarking for a practitioner's business practice, and for clinical aspects of treatment planning; and integrating overall patient care planning functions. The unified workstation further facilitates access to archived database resources and facilitates both knowledge base services to practitioners and also hybrid treatment planning, wherein different types of appliance systems (fixed, such as brackets and wires, or removable, such as aligning shells) may be used during the course of treatment. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208538 | ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT FOR AUTOMATICALLY DETERMINING A DOSAGE FOR A TREATMENT - An electronic document suitable for allowing the real-time diagnostics of various genotype-related treatments while allowing for the changing of demographic data such as a person's age, weight, etc. Various embodiments and methods of new processes include the assembly and association of genetic material samples, the preparation of microarrays with representative genetic material samples in a pattern best suited for analysis as well as manipulation, and delivery of assimilated and compiled data in the form of an electronic document for determining a dosage for a treatment. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208539 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF A PLURALITY OF SP02 TIME SERIES PATTERN TYPES - The disclosed embodiments relate to a patient monitor for evaluating a patient. The patient monitor may comprise a sensor that is adapted to detect a sound associated with breathing of the patient and to produce a first output indicative of the sound, an oximeter that is adapted to receive an input from the patient and to produce a second output indicative of oxygen saturation of blood of the patient, and a processor adapted to receive at least the first output and the second output and to correlate the first output with the second output. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208540 | EXECUTABLE CLINICAL GUIDELINE AND GUIDELINE TOOL - A system and method for receiving an input including a condition corresponding to a patient, retrieving a set of recommendations corresponding to the condition, displaying at least a portion of the set of recommendations to a user, receiving an input that one of the recommendations has been completed and modifying the display of the recommendations based on the input that the one of the recommendations has been completed. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208541 | PATIENT ROOM AND BED MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND SYSTEM - A patient room and bed management apparatus and system detects changes in a patient's status and updates the status of a room of a healthcare facility associated with the patient. The system may receive the patient status information from a remote system, such as a health information system used by a healthcare facility. The patient room and bed management system may determine one or more actions to be performed by a bed in the patient's room. The system may determine one or more actions to be performed by a caregiver or other staff person of the healthcare facility. The actions to be performed by the bed or staff person may be triggered by a change in status of the patient, the patient's bed, or the patient's room. The actions to be performed may be electronically communicated to the bed, to one or more remote displays, and/or to communication devices associated with staff persons of the healthcare facility. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208542 | VOICE OF THE PATIENT SYSTEM - A computer system adapted to store a record of a patient's data received from at least one of doctor, patient, hospital, therapist, wherein the data is in at least one format selected from audio, visual, text, and wherein a patient can access the patient's own record and optionally add comments in one of said formats is disclosed. Also disclosed is a method of storing patient's data, comprising inputting data from at least one of doctor, hospital, or therapist in at least one format selected from audio, visual, text and authorizing the patient to access that patient's record so that patient can review the accuracy of the data and to input additional data or corrected data in one of said formats if the patient wishes to add comments to the record. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208543 | ON-SITE HEALTHCARE DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE - An on-site healthcare diagnostic device containing a blood pressure monitor and one or more test strip readers, such as a blood sugar or cholesterol test strip reader. The on-site device may be deployed as a special purpose unit or through accessories used in connection with a general purpose computer. In the special purpose unit, the on-site device includes a pump and control electronics for the blood pressure monitor and at least one test strip reader carried by an integral housing that also carries a display device and user interface, such as a three-button keypad, for operating the device. The on-site device may be expanded to accommodate external test strip readers and other diagnostic devices connected through one or more universal data ports. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208544 | Method for linking insurance policies - An insurance program that provides improved health care and longevity by emphasizing health improvement and maintenance. After a predetermined waiting period from the time health insurance is purchased, during which the health status of the insured is maintained or improved, the insured may link the health insurance policy with one or more other types of insurance policies, such as; life, disability, nursing home, etc. Throughout the life of the policy, portions of the premiums may be deposited in an escrow account, provided that the health of the insured is maintained or improved, which may be utilized to pay or help pay for the linked insurance coverage and may also be utilized for retirement benefits. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208545 | Portable Device Distraction Reduction System - A portable device enters a safety mode of operation in response to velocity of the device exceeding a threshold. In some embodiments, a portable device determines its position at a plurality of times to determine the velocity of the portable device. The determined velocity is compared to a defined threshold velocity to trigger the safety mode of operation. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208546 | Method of Providing Catastrophic Loss Protection Through a Mortgage - A catastrophic hazard protection (CHP) mortgage may be provided on real property or structure(s) on the real property of an owner. The CHP mortgage may be structured to include financial protection in the event that one or more structures of the real property is damaged by a catastrophe such as a hurricane or earthquake. The owner may pay an increased interest rate on the CHP mortgage. If catastrophe damage occurs, the principal amount of the CHP mortgage may be reduced by the lesser of the value of the damage or the principal balance. Alternatively, the owner may receive a payment equivalent to the lesser of the value of the damage or the principal balance. A CHP mortgage may be implemented electronically. Additionally, an existing mortgage may be augmented to add catastrophic hazard protection. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208547 | METHOD OF PROVIDING CATASTROPHIC LOSS PROTECTION THROUGH A MORTGAGE - A catastrophic hazard protection (CHP) mortgage may be provided on real property or structure(s) on the real property of a owner. The CHP mortgage may be structured to include financial protection in the event that one or more structures of the real property is damaged by a catastrophe such as a hurricane or earthquake. The owner may pay an increased interest rate on the CHP mortgage. If catastrophe damage occurs, the principal amount of the CHP mortgage may be reduced by the lesser of the value of the damage or the principal balance. Alternatively, the owner may receive a payment equivalent to the lesser of the value of the damage or the principal balance. A CHP mortgage may be implemented electronically. Additionally, catastrophic hazard protection may be added onto an existing mortgage. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208548 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DATA INSURANCE - An agreement is created between a first entity and a second entity under which the second entity agrees to provide data protection services for use by a third entity. A backup copy of the third entity's data is created and maintained at a location controlled by the second entity. If the third entity suffers a data loss, a replacement copy of the data is generated from the backup copy. The first entity provides compensation for the second entity's efforts to restore the third entity's lost data. If the second entity is unable to restore the data, the third entity is compensated for its data loss. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208549 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING COST OF INSURANCE RATES - According to some embodiments, a current net amount at risk associated with a life insurance policy is determined. The life insurance policy may, for example, have been previously issued to a consumer for a given face death benefit amount. At least one applicable cost of insurance rate may then be automatically selected based at least in part on the determined net amount at risk. The applicable cost of insurance rate can then be applied to the current net amount at risk for the policy. For example, a first cost of insurance rate may be applied to a first portion of the current net amount at risk, and the applicable cost of insurance rate may be applied to a second portion of the current net amount at risk. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208550 | REVERSE PAYMENT TRANSACTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A reverse payment transaction system and method in which the consumer, rather than disclosing his financial details, acquires a unique reference code associated with a bill registered by the merchant in a payment processor database. The consumer then acquits the payment through a trusted channel of choice. The method comprising the steps of providing a payment identifier associated with the purchase to the consumer, receiving at a point-of-sale the payment identifier from the consumer, providing the payment identifier from the point-of-sale to a payment processor, receiving the invoice at the point-of-sale from the payment processor, receiving payment from the consumer at the point-of sale, indicating to the payment processor that payment of the invoice was made, generating on the payment processor a receipt and providing the receipt to the point-of-sale. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208551 | Method and System for Reducing Carbon Emissions Arising from Vehicle Travel - Methods and systems for facilitating efficient travel management in a manner such that the carbon emissions produced by vehicle travel are reduced are disclosed. Different vehicle travel modes under consideration for use to satisfy a travel plan are evaluated and selected based at least in part on their relative environmental impacts such that an aggregate reduction in carbon emissions can be achieved via a judicious selection of vehicle travel modes used to carry out a vehicle travel plan. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208552 | LEVERAGING BUSINESS SERVICES FOR SOA SOLUTION DEVELOPMENT - The present invention comprises a method for treating business services identified in CBM as service categories, a top-down concept prior to identification of actual services—of SOA. It provides new algorithms to group the services identified from process maps by business services and services categories. It reconciles a granularity gap between business capabilities that are offered as business services at business architecture level and SOA services at the IT level. The present invention provides a tooling enhancement to map business process elements (process, sub-process, task) and business activities to suitable business services, new algorithms to group services identified from process maps by business services, an efficient way of leveraging Business Services for SOA solution development and an elimination of manual effort, time, and inconsistent approaches to group the services identified from process maps. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208553 | INTEGRATED CHANGE MANAGEMENT UNIT - An integrated system for managing changes in regulatory and non-regulatory requirements for business activities at an industrial or commercial facility. Application of this system to environmental, health and safety activities, and to food, drug, cosmetic, and medical treatment and device activities, are discussed as examples. The system: provides one or more databases that contain information on operations and requirements concerning an activity or area of business; receives information on regulatory and non-regulatory changes that affect operations of the business; converts these changes into changes in data entry forms, data processing and analysis procedures, and presentation (by printing, electronic display and/or distribution) of data processing and analysis results to selected recipients, without requiring the services of one or more programmers to re-key and/or reformat the items affected by the change; and implements receipt of change information and dissemination of data processing and analysis results using the facilities of the Internet. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208554 | METHOD FOR QUANTIFYING AND COMPARING RECYCLING AND REUSE - Embodiments of the invention relate to an index for measurement and comparison of recycling, reuse, and disposal of waste within and among organizations. Some embodiments feature computer display of information regarding recycling, reuse, and disposal. Other embodiments include computer storage media including instructions that, when implemented, allow one to display information regarding recycling, reuse, and disposal. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208555 | PRODUCTION PLAN MAKING PROGRAM, DEVICE, AND METHOD - A production plan enabling suppression of occurrence of excess stock is made. A shipping request representing the requested amount of shipping for each shipping request week is received. Among the shipping weeks of the shipping requests, the furthest future shipping request week is handled as the furthest future shipping week, and the amounts of shipping of shipping weeks near the present time are determined sequentially from the amount of shipping of the furthest future shipping week. For the shipping requests after the shipping week n for which the amount of shipping is to be set, the order setting time which is the time of period till the products are delivered to the shipping destination is determined. The allocation order, 1, 2, . . . is determined for each of the shipping requests of the unset shipping so that the longer the order setting time is, the higher the order of allocating shipping request is. In the allocation order, the requested amounts of shipping for the shipping requests of the unset shipping are allocated sequentially to the shipping week n until the amounts of shipping reach the production capability ( | 2011-08-25 |
20110208556 | WORKER ASSIGNMENT DEVICE, WORKER ASSIGNMENT PROGRAM, AND WORKER ASSIGNMENT SYSTEM - The present invention provides product delivery deadline compliance and increased worker training efficiency. A worker assignment scheme creation section of a worker assignment device creates a worker assignment scheme and calculates a job completion time for each process step of each product in accordance with a worker assignment rule. An evaluation value calculation section calculates evaluation values concerning delivery deadline compliance and worker training in accordance with processing results produced by the worker assignment scheme creation section. A worker assignment priority change section changes the worker assignment rule in accordance with the evaluation values and target values therefor. The above process is repeated a number of times to produce plural worker assignment schemes, which are compared in accordance with the evaluation values concerning delivery deadline compliance and worker training. The result of comparison is eventually presented to a user. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208557 | Supply and Demand Consolidation in Employee Resource Planning - A method of employee resource planning includes consolidating and defining a demand for employee resources needed to accomplish a potential project in terms of a plurality of jobs and a supply of employee resources in terms of a plurality of employees, each job and each employee having a plurality of job attributes uniformly categorized into indices. Employees in the supply are mapped to corresponding jobs in the demand according to the job attributes. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208558 | METHOD FOR SMOOTHING WORKLOAD AND SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR SMOOTHING WORKLOAD - Creation of a bottle neck due to the presence of a worker under a particular heavy workload is fundamentally avoided, and the production efficiency of a work place where a plurality of workers jointly perform work is improved. The workload of each worker is numerically represented by using a worker load numerical processing unit ( | 2011-08-25 |
20110208559 | Automatic Management of Networked Publisher-Subscriber Relationships - Automatic management of networked publisher-subscriber relationships in an advertising server network. The method comprises steps for constructing a directed graph representation comprising at least one publisher node (e.g. an Internet property), at least one subscriber node (e.g. an Internet advertiser), at least one intermediary node (e.g. an Internet advertising agent), and at least one edge (e.g. an advertising target predicate) wherein any one of the edges is directly associated with at least one target predicate. The directed graph representation is used in conjunction with an inverted index for retrieving a valid node list comprising only nodes having at least one target predicate that matches at least one event predicate. The event predicate (as well as any target predicate) is any arbitrarily complex Boolean expression, and is used in producing a result node list comprising only nodes that concurrently match the event predicate with an advertising target predicate and are reachable. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208560 | Determining Order Lead Time for a Supply Chain Using a Probability Distribution of Order Lead Time - A system and method is disclosed for estimating demand of a supply chain including accessing a probability distribution of order lead time of the supply chain. The supply chain has nodes including a starting node and an ending node and a path from the starting node to the ending node. The probability distribution of order lead time describes ending node demand of the ending node versus order lead time. The path is divided into order lead time segments which are associated with the probability distribution of order lead time by associating each order lead time segment with an order lead time range of the probability distribution of order lead time. A demand percentage is estimated for each order lead time segment in accordance with the probability distribution of order lead time, such that each demand percentage describes a percentage of a total ending node demand of an order lead time segment. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208561 | GLOBAL RECEIPT CARD SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method for collecting global purchase details using a consumer identifier are provided. During a business transaction, the details of the transaction are associated with the consumer identifier. The consumer identifier, located on an affinity card or a mobile device, allows for the collection of information on an external storage device from business transactions from a plurality of different, related and/or unrelated merchants. The consumer can subsequently access and download the information from the transaction onto a personal computer. Through a merchant identifier, the data/information may also be accessed and re-read by the merchant for future related transactions. Consequently, the transaction process may provide the consumer an affinity relationship with multiple, related or unrelated merchants through a single unique consumer identifier that eliminates the necessity of paper receipts with those merchants. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208562 | BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE DASHBOARDS FOR PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS - Novel tools and techniques for providing decision support to enterprises. Certain of these tools analyze and/or display information, including, in a particular aspect, revenue and/or other financial information, in novel ways. These features can provide users with enhanced insight into the performance of various product lines and/or into opportunities to enhance such performance, including (but not limited to) insight into the performance of two or more product lines in conjunction with one another. In another aspect, certain tools provide heretofore unavailable facilities for evaluating the success of an acquisition, for example, by providing insight into the market compatibility of an acquired product line with an existing product line. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208563 | Pricing, Marketing and Inventory Control System Based on Demand - A pricing, marketing and inventory control system and method provide a unique scenario for selling consumer products. For an inventory of consumer goods, baseline prices are established. Additionally, price increase indicators are defined, and a price increment for each of the consumer goods is defined. Similarly, price decrease indicators are defined, and a price decrement for each of the consumer goods is defined. Current prices of the consumer goods are displayed, and the current prices are adjusted by the price increment upon occurrence of one of the price increase indicators and by the price decrement upon occurrence of one of the price decrease indicators. The process is repeated as sales are made. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208564 | TOTAL RETURN TO SHAREHOLDERS TARGET SETTING - The performance management system and method enable users to set performance targets and analyze performance measures for a company based on financial information. The system displays three template areas respectively containing historical financial data for a first time period, predicted financial data for a second time period, and financial performance measurement changes from the first time period to the second time period, where financial performance measures are displayed for each of the time periods. The second template area receives target input variables that include target NOPAT growth, target TRS, and target dividends per share. The system and method enable the recursive adjustment of at least one of the target input variables for a future time period until a percentage change in the target TRS displayed in the second template area is equal to a user selectable target TRS value. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208565 | COMPLEX PROCESS MANAGEMENT - The present invention relates to a computer implemented method and system for determining the source of a determined performance variance of a complex entity, and determining one or more different actions to be taken as a consequence of the determined source of performance variance. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208566 | Sales management system using a character recognition technique, and sales management method using same - The present invention relates to a sales management system using a text recognition technique, including a business card input device for inputting a business card of a customer; a text recognition server for recognizing and classifying information of the inputted business card; a customer database (DB) for storing the classified information; a sales process presentation server for fetching the information from the customer DB and presenting each step of a sales process corresponding to the retrieved information; a sales management server for, when the steps of the sales process presented by the sales process presentation server are selected, sequentially performing the steps and storing a result of the execution in a result DB; an obstacle factor DB for storing reasons for which the sales process is not sequentially performed in the sales management server; the result DB for storing a sales management result; a result report server for transmitting the sales management result, stored in the result DB, to a superior terminal; and a superior terminal for receiving a report on the sales management result and writing an opinion on the sales management result. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208567 | System and method for managing a fleet of remote assets - Computerized method and system for identification and evaluation of a repair likely to prevent a failure of a mobile asset is provided. The method allows collecting data indicative of an incipient malfunction in the mobile asset (e.g., | 2011-08-25 |
20110208568 | VEHICLE TRANSACTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A financial system and method for facilitating the payment of tolls, parking and related transactions. A customer registers a vehicle and registers one or more single financial accounts with the system. The financial system updates the list of active vehicles and submits a vehicle status list to participating toll systems. The customer uses a particular toll system and the toll system detects the license plate. The toll system submits request for payment from the financial network after the toll occurs. The financial network charges the customer financial account and settles payment of the toll with the toll system. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208569 | SYSTEM FOR INDIVIDUALIZED CUSTOMER INTERACTION - A method and system for using individualized customer models when operating a retail establishment is provided. The individualized customer models may be generated using statistical analysis of transaction data for the customer, thereby generating sub-models and attributes tailored to customer. The individualized customer models may be used in any aspect of a retail establishment's operations, ranging from supply chain management issues, inventory control, promotion planning (such as selecting parameters for a promotion or simulating results of a promotion), to customer interaction (such as providing a shopping list or providing individualized promotions). | 2011-08-25 |
20110208570 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR INDIVIDUALIZED AND DYNAMIC ADVERTISEMENT IN CLOUD COMPUTING AND WEB APPLICATION - An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for individualized and dynamic advertisements delivery and display in cloud computing and ordinary Internet systems. The client updates the advertisement server periodically the user web browsing history and local media, advertisements play back log. The client updates the advertisement server the user geographical location. The advertisement server analyzes the user interest and geographical information from client, combining with the server information of client neighborhood events, client neighboring friends, traffic, weather condition. The advertisement server selects the advertisements, tags the selected advertisements, then pushes to the client local storage. Client takes the retrieved web content and selects the best fit advertisements from local storage with according to the time, date, as well as the information of browsing history, geographical information, neighborhood events, client neighboring friends, traffic, weather. The client constructs new web pages with the individualized advertisements. The individualized advertisements can be added to the original web pages, or replace original advertisements. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208571 | Beverage Advertising Models - A method for implementing an advertising campaign to sell alcoholic beverages can include receiving, at a computing device, a request from a user for a tracking code associated with a purchase of an alcoholic beverage. The method an also include generating the tracking code, and sending, by the computing device, the tracking code to the user. The method can further include receiving confirmation of the purchase of the alcoholic beverage, and providing an incentive to the user for the purchase. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208572 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING A REFFERAL REWARD INCENTIVE FOR AN ITEM VIA A NETWORKING WEBSITE - A computer-implemented method for providing a referral reward incentive via a networking website is described. Registration information for an item that is associated with a reward may be received. Information relating to an item purchased by a first subscriber of the networking website may be displayed. A recommendation for the purchased item may be posted from the first subscriber to a second subscriber of the networking website. The reward may be distributed to the first subscriber if the second subscriber purchases the item based on the recommendation received from the first subscriber. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208573 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A DISCOUNT - In particular, systems and methods are provided for delivering a discount using a virtual currency. Inventive systems and methods offer a high perceived savings value to an end-user while maintaining the perception of product value. Further, systems and methods for providing a discount are described which impose little or no cost on the service or product provider. An embodiment of an inventive method includes presenting a display of a price paid by a consumer without access to the virtual currency along with a display of an amount payable by the end-user in actual currency in combination with an amount payable in virtual currency by an end-user of an inventive system. The end-user perceives a benefit to using the virtual currency since the price paid in actual currency is less than the displayed price to be paid by a consumer without access to the virtual currency. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208574 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DELIVERING AND TRANSMITTING MEDIA CONTENT TO AND FROM AN ELECTRONIC KIOSK - A method and system for delivering and transmitting media content with respect to an electronic kiosk. The electronic kiosk can be directly accessed via a portable handheld device in order to select and retrieve the digital media content that is stored electronically in a database associated with the electronic kiosk. The payment with respect to the downloaded media content can be made via a pre-existing online account and/or an electronically readable card associated with an RFID tag. Upon payment the media kiosk releases the media content to the portable handheld device. The media content that has not yet been released for sale can be pre-ordered so that the media content can be purchased and delivered to the customer once the media content becomes available. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208575 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING INTERACTIVE ADVERTISEMENTS - A system and method for generating a plurality of interactive advertisements are provided. The system includes an advertisement generator operable to generate online advertisements displaying coupon offers. An ad server is provided for rendering the advertisements to users. Each advertisement includes an interactive button operable to display a printable copy of the advertised coupon to the user. The coupon includes a unique identifier visibly embedded therein, wherein the unique identifier enables the user to redeem the coupon. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208576 | FUEL LOYALTY REWARDS AND INCENTIVE PROGRAM - A computer-implemented method of providing a discount for fuel to a customer is disclosed. The method includes identifying a customer to a retail store using a first reader device in operative communication with a host computer, which is communication with an identification module. The identification module creates and associates a customer with a customer identification record. A preliminary award record is created and maintained, which includes a discount-per-gallon award for fuel associated with the customer identification record in response to a purchase recognized by the host computer. The host computer adds subsequent preliminary award records to the preliminary award record associated with a customer identification to create an intermediate award record, which includes all the discount-per-gallon awards associated with the customer. A purchase of fuel is initiated by the purchaser at a fuel station with at least one fuel pump. The customer is identified by the fuel pump controller in operative communication with both a second reader device and a second identification module. The intermediate award record is retrieved by the host computer from a database and the host computer recognizes that the customer is eligible for a fuel station supplementary discount. A final discount record received by the customer and the customer is provided with the final discount associated with the final discount award record. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208577 | Online Offer Distribution System And Mehtod - An online offer distribution system may convey offer information relating to an offer selected from an offer supply database. The offer information may be conveyed in an electronic form, such as a web page, that may be accessed by a consumer on a client device. Upon receiving a request to print an offer document corresponding to the offer, the system may generate the offer document including at least a portion of the offer information and time indicating indicia associated with the request to print. The time indicating indicia may be a quasi-unique identifier corresponding to a time the request to print is received or the offer document is transmitted to the client device for printing. The time indicating indicia may be encrypted and incorporated into the offer document as an alphanumeric code, barcode, or both. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208578 | Offer Delivery System - An offer delivery system provides a mechanism for coordinating presentation of offers to customers that may originate from multiple different sources and that may be delivered to the customers over different channels. The systems makes use of rules to prioritize, select, and time the delivery of offers to any particular customer, allocate limited resources in the channels to deliver offers to a set of customers, and provide mechanisms for users or their agents to limit the delivery of offers, for example, by their frequency or type. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208579 | SYSTEM FOR GENERATING ADVERTISEMENTS - A system for generating advertisements includes a communication interface to obtain a user entry for creating an advertisement. A data memory is coupled with the communication interface. The data memory stores the user entry. A processor is coupled with the data memory. In accordance with the user entry, the processor generates an advertisement, where the advertisement is made available for immediate display to a public. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208580 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PLANNING MULTIPLE ADVERTISING WHEEL DIFFERENTIALS TO MAXIMIZE REVENUE ACROSS DISPARATE RETAIL ENVIRONMENTS - A system and method for managing avails on advertisement wheels in different retail chains may include establishing a first and second number of avails on first and second display networks in first and second retail chains. The first number of avails may be less than the second number of avails. Total audience delivery of the first and second display networks may be determined. In response to an avail being booked, avail count of at least a portion of the first and second number of avails may be reduced. A determination that the avail count of the at least a portion of the first number of avails (e.g., national avails) on the first display network has reached zero may be made. The total audience delivery may be reduced by the audience delivery available to the first display network, and displayed to a next advertiser seeking to book an avail on the first and second display networks. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208581 | ONLINE ADVERTISING - Systems and methods are used to deliver advertisements online to an Internet user. A database records advertiser specified criteria for the delivery of one or more advertisements to an Internet user. A server is operable to receive a collection of material for delivery to a user, where the collection of material resulting from the user having conducted activity on the Internet, and to analyse the collection of material according to the specified criteria. The server is further operable in the event the criteria are met, to deliver an advertisement specified by the advertiser together with at least a portion of the collection of material. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208582 | TARGETED ADVERTISING SERVICES METHOD - A method and apparatus for providing an automatically upgradeable software application includes targeted advertising based upon demographics and user interaction with the computer. The software application includes a display region used for banner advertising that is downloaded over a network such as the Internet. The software application is accessible from a server via the network and demographic information on the user is acquired by the server and used for determining what advertising will be sent to the user. The software application further targets the advertisements in response to normal user interaction with the computer. Data associated with each advertisement is used by the software application in determining when a particular advertisement is to be displayed. This includes the specification of certain programs that the user may have so that, when the user runs the program (e.g., a spreadsheet program), a relevant advertisement will be displayed (e.g., an advertisement for a stock brokerage). This provides two-tiered, real-time targeting of advertising—both demographically and reactively. The software application includes programming that accesses the server to determine if one or more components of the application need upgrading. If so, the components can be downloaded and installed without further action by the user. A distribution tool is provided for software distribution and upgrading over the network. Also provided is a user profile that is accessible to any computer on the network. Furthermore, multiple users of the same computer can possess Internet web resources and files that are personalized, maintained and organized. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208583 | ADVERTISING CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MOTION MEDIA CONTENT - Advertising control system and method for motion media content, wherein the advertising control system is connectable to a screen for displaying motion media content, including: at least one positioning database including frame identification data of a motion media content represented in a plurality of frames identified by the frame identification data, wherein at least one frame of the motion media content is connected with position information about product placement, a frame identifier unit configured to identify the at least one frame which is connected with position information about product placement in the positioning database, and a control element configured to link product placement identification data connected to the positioning information, associated with the identified frame, in the positioning database with at least one service action and to display the service action on a screen connectable to the control system. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208584 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING LOCAL RESOURCES OFFERINGS USING MOBILE DEVICES - Facilitating local resource offerings involves facilitating, via a mobile device, selection of a resource for local advertisement. The resource includes at least one of an offering and a request for an offering targeted to others in a local geographic area. A telephonic message is formed for presenting the local advertisement the telephonic message is communicated to the others in the local geographic area via a local telephonic architecture. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208585 | Systems and Methods for Measurement of Engagement - Exemplary systems and methods for measurement of engagement are provided. In various embodiments, a method coprises receiving business objectives of a web site or online publisher on a server, tracking user frequency and user activities for a predetermine time, computing and ranking engagement scores with the web site based on the tracked user frequency as a function of user action categories for the predetermined time and business objectives, the user action categories being associated with the user activities, segmenting users based the engagement scores, and directing an advertisement to a user of at least one user segment. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208586 | Leveraging Demographic Data for Advertising Purposes - A computer assisted method selecting a potential audience for an advertisement wherein the method may include electronically receiving data relating to at least one financial transaction between a customer of an organization and a third party, electronically receiving data relating to at least one demographic of the customer, and using a demographic evaluation computer to determine a potential audience for an advertisement based on the financial transaction data and the demographic data. The method for determining a potential audience for an advertisement may include searching the electronically received demographic data for data that matches a first criterion which is related to the demographic data, searching the electronically received financial transaction data for data that matches a second criterion which is related to the financial transaction data, comparing the data that matches a first criterion with the data that matches the second criterion to determine which of the data matching the first criterion and the data matching the second criterion matches both the first and the second criterion, and compiling the data which matches both the first and the second criterion. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208587 | Display of Video with Tagged Advertising - Tags associated with a video file cause informational images to be displayed at designated times which are correlated to the contents of the video images. The video may be displayed over the internet such that during the display of a video within a portion of the user's display screen, advertiser supplied text and/or images will appear on the display screen in a detail window which are coordinated to the content of the video at a particular time. The content provider's server provides advertising content within the detail window which allows the viewer to pursue multiple levels of content, even including placing an order from the advertiser, all while remaining on the original web page. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208588 | FINANCIAL TRANSACTION DATA PROFILE - Embodiments of the invention include a method of developing a financial transaction data profile. Financial instruments are received as images, where the financial instruments include transactional data. The transactional data is extracted from the financial instruments and uploaded to a computer. The transactional data is organized so that the transactional data is grouped into categories. The categories are stored for presentation to the user in a financial transaction profile. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208589 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING AN ADVERTISEMENT ON A MOBILE DEVICE - A system and method are provided to access advertisements on a mobile device. One or more merchants are provided as entries on a contact list. When one or more new advertisements are available from the merchants, a new occurrence indicator is displayed on the contact list icon on the home screen of the mobile device. Upon the mobile device receiving an input to open the contact list application that is associated with the contact list icon, the mobile device will display the contact list including the merchants listed therein. A new advertisement indicator associated with certain of the merchants notifies the user which merchants have new advertisements. Upon the mobile device receiving an input associated with one of merchants, an advertising display is presented showing the advertisement originating from the selected one of the merchants. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208590 | System and method for providing locally applicable internet content with secure action requests and item condition alerts - Optimized delivery of locally applicable Internet content to users. A cache of locally applicable Internet content is maintained in a local content server, based upon a monitoring of locations of users requesting Internet content. Requests for Internet content are received from user equipment through a wireless network base station, and served from the local content server, which is logically proximate to the wireless network base station. The caching of locally applicable Internet content may be maintained on a layered basis. Secure action request receipt and corresponding performance, and item condition alerts are also described. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208591 | Forecasting Online Advertising Inventory of Day Parting Queries - Disclosed is a system to forecast a supply of online advertising demand contracts having day parting targets. The system may receive an online advertising demand contract having a flight duration and a day parting target. The received online advertising demand contract may be processed by converting the day parting target into an hour-of-week day parting target vector. If a first day of the flight duration would generate a conflict in view of the hour-of-week day parting target vector, then the system may generate a new first day contract for the first day of the flight duration. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208592 | Apparatus and method for processing under data and electronic mail messaging - In an embodiment, a system server receives, from a plurality of advertiser devices, a plurality of advertisements, at least one corresponding personal information value, and a corresponding price. The system server calculates, for each of a plurality of personal information types, a corresponding price. The system server instructs the email device to display the plurality of personal information types and the corresponding prices. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208593 | ELECTRONIC ADVERTISEMENT APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC ADVERTISEMENT METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An electronic advertisement apparatus includes: a facial image extraction device ( | 2011-08-25 |
20110208594 | Universal financial transaction system - The Universal Financial Transaction System (UFTS) is an improved electronic payment system which uses encrypted software e to make financial transfers electronically. The UFTS operation is not limited to personal computers like the current online payment system. Moreover, it can be downloaded and operate on any electronic device such as mobile phones, PDA's, pocket computers, personal computer, electronic cash register or point of sale system. This improvement makes the UFTS as user friendly as any credit or debit card and as functional as any online banking system; thus it can be used to purchase items in any retail or online business and it can be used to transfer funds to any individual or entity among United States currency and any foreign currency. The UFTS does not charge the end-user for the financial transaction instead it generate its own revenue through transmittal of advertisement to the user's electronic device. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208595 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING AND TRACKING ELECTRONIC ADVERTISING - A method and system for managing electronic advertising, indexable link templates are provided that are purchased by advertisers. The indexable link templates allow electronic advertising information to be input along with description information used for indexing by electronic search engines. The indexable link templates are filled with information by the advertiser and sent to one or more publisher's web-sites for display as static mark-up language text-link advertisements. The information allows search engine indexing, search engine placement and a higher search engine ranking that can potentially bring tens of thousands of users to an advertiser's web-site without having to spend additional money on click or impression advertising. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208596 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ADVERTISING IN WHICH THE BID PRICE PER UNIT TIME IS ADJUSTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH ADVERTISING TRAFFIC - A method and system for offering an advertisement by adjusting a bid price per unit time according to advertising traffic are provided. The advertisement offering method includes determining a bid price per unit time based on an average bid price input by an advertiser and advertising traffic, and determining a charge regarding the advertisement of the advertiser based on the bid price per unit time. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208597 | NETWORKED BASED MODULARIZED ADVERTISEMENTS - A system for serving localized advertisements generates browser code operable by a browser to cause the browser to display a web page of information that includes an advertisement. The displayed advertisement includes a graphical indicator that indicates that the advertisement is associated with an interface for conveying additional information associated with the advertisement. The advertisement and the additional information are submitted during an advertisement submission time. The browser code is also operable by the browser to cause the browser to detect a selection of the graphical indicator and display the interface along with the information displayed on the web page in response to the selection of the graphical indicator. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208598 | ORDER INPUT APPARATUS AND ORDER INPUT METHOD - According to one embodiment, an order input apparatus includes: a first storing unit configured to store therein plural menu items and plural sub-menu items in association with one another, the sub-menu items accompanying the menu items; a first display control unit configured to display a list of the plural menu items in a first area in a display screen of a display unit; a first receiving unit configured to receive selection of any menu item out of the list of the menu items displayed in the first area; a second display control unit configured to display a list of the sub-menu items accompanying the menu item, the selection of which is received by the first receiving unit, in a second area in the display screen; a second receiving unit configured to receive selection of any sub-menu item out of the list of the sub-menu items displayed in the second area; and an order processing unit configured to manage, as order menu item information, the menu item and the sub-menu item, the selection of which is received by the first receiving unit and the second receiving unit. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208599 | MOBILE MARKETING AND TARGETED CONTENT DELIVERY TO MOBILE DEVICES - A mobile marketing system comprising a point of sale terminal configured to record data relating to purchasing activity, a mobile communication device in communication with the point of sale terminal, the mobile communication device containing a mobile device application configured to obtain data containing identifying information relating to a merchant, and a server providing the data containing identification information and storing the data relating to purchasing activity. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208600 | Point of Sale Payment System and Method - A point of sale (POS) payment system does not require the payor to disclose confidential and sensitive financial information to the payee in order to settle the transaction. The payee presents the payor with an invoice or bill. The payor requests from their bank (or proxy for the bank) a payment token for a predefined sum and receives the payment token electronically, such as via smart phone or other portable device. The payment token is transferred to the payee as payment for the invoice. The payee stores the electronic payment token or the data associated therewith and submits the token to the payor bank (or proxy for the bank) to settle the transaction or invoke the settlement process. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208601 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FINANCIAL TRANSACTION AUTHENTICATION USING TRAVEL INFORMATION - Systems and methods for verifying a distant-from-home financial transaction related to a customer account based on travel indicators in earlier purchase transactions made by that customer. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208602 | SALE DATA PROCESSING TERMINAL AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A sale data processing terminal includes: a receiver unit that receives an operation input by a user's operation; a registering unit that registers transaction details of a transaction received by the receiver unit in sale data; an account adjusting unit that performs an account adjusting process of summing up the transactions registered in the sale data, when a predetermined adjusting time at which the account adjusting process of summing up sales is performed arrives and the transaction details are not being received; and a non-adjustment alarming unit that gives an alarm indicating a non-adjusted state where the account adjusting process is not performed, when the predetermined adjusting time arrives but the transaction details are being received. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208603 | CUSTOMER ONBOARDING - Financial institutions are continuously seeking effective ways “to onboard” customers. As used herein, “to onboard” or “onboarding” refers to a financial institution building its relationship with a customer just after that customer signs up for, or otherwise consumes, a financial product or service offered by the financial institution. Embodiments of the present invention provide apparatuses, methods and computer program products for onboarding customers. For example, according to an embodiment, the present invention provides an onboarding hub that onboards customers by helping customers set up and use an online banking website to manage their account(s). | 2011-08-25 |
20110208604 | Media Delivery System for an Automobile by the Use of Voice Input Device and Head-Up Display - System and method for delivering media assets to a user of an automobile is disclosed. The system comprises a voice input device and a voice recognition device. The system further comprises a head-up display device for displaying metadata of the media assets on a windshield of the automobile. After a user's input for one or a group of media assets is received, a list of metadata of the media assets is displayed on the windshield. The system plays back the selected media asset through the use of a media delivery unit after the selection is received by the voice input device. A driving route may also be displayed on the windshield. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208605 | SYSTEM TO PROVIDE BUYER WANTED REQUEST LISTINGS - A system comprises a buyer request creation module to receive a buyer request listing, the buyer request creation module automatically to determine a listing category for the buyer request listing. A buyer request searching module locates a buyer request listing corresponding to a search criteria. A buyer request response module adds a response to the buyer request listing, the response comprising a reference to a listing for an item offered for sale on the system. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208606 | Information Technology Services E-Commerce Arena for Cloud Computing Environments - A system and method for IT services e-commerce arena for cloud computing environments is disclosed. The method includes receiving, from each of a plurality of service clients, a request for processing time on a processor. The method also includes receiving, from each of a plurality of service providers, an offer for processing time on a processor operated by each respective service provider. Additionally, the method includes generating a buyer group based on information included in each respective request, wherein the buyer group comprises a selected one or more of the plurality of service clients to receive processing time on a processing resource and selecting one of the plurality of service providers to provide processing time on the processor operated by the selected service provider to the service clients in the buyer group. Further, the method includes initiating a transaction between each of the service clients in the buyer group and the selected service provider. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208607 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCURING GOODS IN AN AUTOMATED MANNER - An automatic system and method optimizes the purchasing of goods and services by a buyer. A request for a quote for goods or services required is received from a buyer. This request is processed and dealers are selected based on the criteria of the buyer and other criteria. The selected dealers are then sent the request for goods and services and quotes are solicited. Quotes from the selected dealers, for the goods or services, are then receivable within a predetermined time period. Thereafter, the received quotes of the providers of the goods or services are ranked. The ranking and the report of the providers are then outputted. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208608 | Method and System for Bidding on Multiple Auctions - A method and system for bidding on multiple auctions. The multiple auction bidding system allows a user to define various models for bidding at multiple auctions. The bidding system then automatically places bids on behalf of the user. The bidding rules may specify to win at most one of multiple auctions at the lowest price or to bid at an auction only if successful at bidding at another auction. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208609 | PERSONALIZED REMEMBRANCE SCULPTURE SYSTEM - A method for creating a personalized sculpture comprising the using of at least one computer system, the computer system further comprising at least one template database and at least one server. The personalizing of at least one sculpture using at least one template database by allowing at least one customer to access the computer system from at least one computer terminal via the Internet. The method continues by receiving personalized sculpture orders using the computer system and sending personalized sculpture orders to a manufacturing facility using the computer system and storing information about the customers at least one database within the computer system. The system finally manufactures at least one personalized sculpture from the information stored in the at least one database. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208610 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXCHANGING BUSINESS DOCUMENTS - A method of exchanging a business document between a customer computer and a supplier computer connected to a network, is provided, in which a business document is printed for the supplier; order data from the purchase order is extracted through a printer driver; the order data is transmitted to the supplier computer; the business document is presented on the supplier computer in a form pre-selected by said supplier; the business document is amended by making a change; the amended business document is printed; the amended order data is extracted by the printer driver from said amended business document; the change is determined by comparing the order data from the business document to the amended order data from the amended business document; the amended business document is transmitted to the customer computer, and presented such that said data prior to the change appears as crossed out. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208611 | PARTICIPANT TRACKING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE - The participant tracking system of the present invention includes a plurality of participant information records stored in a database, a remote user interface connected to a centralized processor and digital data storage device through a network wherein the database is stored on the digital data storage device. The participant tracking system of the present invention may further include a security feature that prevents unauthorized access to the database and the participant information records. The participant information record includes the participant's personal information, a digitized sample of one of the participant's unique biometric characteristics, and an updatable participation history. The participant tracking system of the present invention uses a biometric characteristic to verify the identity of a participant and ensures that the participant is not exceeding the regulated quantity of goods or frequency or duration of services within a defined time period. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208612 | ELECTRONIC PAYMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - Provided in some embodiments is a method for conducting an honorary credit transaction. The method includes receiving a request to purchase an electronically transmittable item of a vendor via electronic communication network, wherein the electronically transmittable item is configured to be received via electronic transmission, providing honorary credit to a purchaser in exchange for an honorary commitment to provide payment for the electronically transmittable item to one or more agents, wherein the honorary commitment comprises a non-legally binding commitment to provide payment to the one or more agents for purchase of the electronically transmittable item, providing the electronically transmittable item to the purchaser via electronic transmission prior to receiving partial or complete payment for the electronically transmittable item, and receiving partial or complete payment for the electronically transmittable item via at least one of the one or more agents. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208613 | Personal shopping buddy shopping cart device - The Personal Shopping Buddy Shopping Cart Device provides a collapsible shopping cart equipped with state-of-the-art on-board electronics, configured to the needs of the individual user, and capable of digitally linking to the store's database to keep tabs on every item purchased as well as other information. Upon entering the store, the Personal Shopping Buddy automatically links to the store's database and proceeds to download the latest information. Every time the user takes an item from of the shelves, a built-in laser-scanner reads the product's UPC barcode as it is placed into the cart, allowing the system to keep a tab of precisely how much the user spends and exactly what items they are purchasing. The digital LED readout, located on the handle of the cart facing the user, clearly displays the current item count, total price, tax included, as well as other information. Upon exiting, the user is able to easily load the Personal Shopping Buddy into the vehicle merely triggering the pressure-sensitive bumper wheel causing the legs to retract, allowing the unit to slide neatly into the user's trunk, rear seat, or cargo compartment. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208614 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SYNCHRONIZED ELECTRONIC BOOK PAYMENT, STORAGE, DOWNLOAD, LISTENING, AND READING - A method and system for using a vehicle's electronic systems to provide all features and functions typically found on a handheld electronic book device. The vehicle's electronic systems can be used in an integrated fashion with a user's handheld electronic book device, such that the vehicle's systems can be used to recite electronic book materials, media files can be shared between the vehicle and the handheld device, bookmarks can be synchronized, and the user can seamlessly switch from one system to the other. The vehicle's electronic systems can also be used independent of any other electronic book device, such that the vehicle's systems provide all electronic book device functionality—including browsing for new reading materials, purchase, download, storage, reading, and listening. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208615 | System and Method For Creating and Marketing Authentic Virtual Memorabilia - A system and method for creating and marketing authentic virtual memorabilia is disclosed. The System and method include at least one computer server, at least one database connected to said at least one computer server, a communication connection for connecting said at least one computer server to a network, software hosted on said at least one computer server, said software configured to create a marketplace for limited edition authentic virtual memorabilia, said software further configured to provide an auction environment for said authentic virtual memorabilia, said software further configured to allow display of said limited edition authentic virtual memorabilia in a showcase. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208616 | CONTENT SYSTEM - Systems, methods, and an article of manufacture for managing media content are shown and described. A method can include storing a plurality of collection maps on a server in communication with a network, each collection map each indicating how music content items making up a music content item collection associated with a user account are held across a plurality of music devices associated with the user account. The method can also include controlling a transfer of music content items from the server to individual remote user music devices according to the collection map associated with the relevant user account. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208617 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOCALITY AND USER PREFERENCE BASED FOOD RECOMMENDATIONS - A system and methods for generating and presenting recommendations of places to eat based on a user's preferences and profile. A set of preferences and ratings are maintained by multiple users which are used to filter and generate rating estimations. Preferences and ratings of other user's with similar preference profiles are used to increase or decrease the recommendations. The location and preferences of multiple users can also be compared to provide eating recommendations for a group of users. The recommendations and ratings can be drilled down to specific menu item for determining recommendations on the full meal or a specific item. The system can also be used by the restaurant owner to identify potential customers, target marketing messages, identify problems with the menu or staff, and improve the impression and quality of the restaurant and food. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208618 | CATALOG MANAGEMENT MODULE IN A CUSTOM PRODUCT CONFIGURATION SYSTEM - A software system may be used to define configurable products for use in a selling application module by sellers of products to define custom configuration of products to satisfy customer needs. During periodic points in time, a subset of all configuration of these configurable products may be offered for sale by sellers user special price terms and conditions. Catalogs of sale products may provide a mechanism for configuring only products that are included within sale products. A catalog manager module may assist in preparing a catalog of product data and related configuration rules associated with only products included within a particular catalog. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208619 | Remote and/or virtual mall shopping experience - A computer-implemented method of enabling remote and/or a virtual shopping of an actual retail store is disclosed. Software provides a means of creating custom, electronic shopping mall configurations that may include a plurality of participating retail stores, each of which may be selected from a list of participating retailers. The mall's stores and walkways may be selectable to launch a remote/virtual shopping experience. Navigation is by moving a cursor to browse for desired merchandise. Remote shopping is achieved through the use of a plurality of cameras at participating stores to provide live streaming images of store merchandise for remote shopping, or a series of recorded images that permit virtual shopping. All images may be embedded with merchandise information. Holding the cursor over a merchandise image may reveal embedded information. Views obstructed by a live shopper in the live streaming image may be supplanted by the beginning-of-day stored images. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208620 | MANAGING STOCK INVENTORY LEVELS - The present invention provides a method of managing a stock replenishment system in a way that explicitly controls the in-stock rate. Also provided by the present invention is a method of managing a collection of stock replenishment systems in a way that the combined in-stock rate of the collection is controlled to a selected value. In addition, the present invention provides a method to set up a collection of stock replenishment systems in replenishment software systems in an identical fashion while controlling the combined in-stock rate. The methods of the present invention use point-of-sale data to determine packages-per-shopper rates, which are used as one of the inputs to statistical models of multiple-day retail sales. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208621 | Carbon Neutrality Management - A computer implemented method and system is provided for achieving carbon neutrality. A service provider creates an emission reduction project plan for generating carbon emission reduction credits. A verification entity verifies compliance of the emission reduction project and generates a verification report. A certification entity authenticates the verification report and generates a certification report. A custodial financial institution reviews documents and title to rights and deposits carbon emission reduction credits into the service provider's carbon credit trading account based on the certification report, the verification report, and title documentation. The service provider creates carbon neutral products with unique identifiers using the carbon emission reduction credits in the pre-created carbon credit trading account. An end user can retire the assigned carbon emission reduction credits by registering their details and the details of their purchase with the service provider using the unique identifier of a purchased carbon neutral product. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208622 | DATA CENTER POWER COST ACCOUNTING SYSTEM - A data center power cost accounting system uses server and storage and cooling power consumption models and device maps, together with runtime application maps, to estimate the equipment power consumption and cooling power consumption of individual applications. An approximation of the cooling cost over a period of time, for any given application, can be pieced together by adding up the equipment utilized by the application and applying the cooling estimates obtained from computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. The cooling estimates can further account for changes or variability in resource usage over time since the cooling estimates are based directly on utilization. The per application power consumption costs are obtained without having to install or depend on power measurement instruments or other hardware in the datacenters. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208623 | GLOBAL ACCOUNT RECONCILIATION TOOL - A global reconciliation software tool is provided to standardize reconciliation processes across various corporate lines of business. The reconciliation tool provides standard templates for entering transaction and account data. In this manner, open accounting items are more readily identified and reconciled. The software tool includes a plurality of components allowing for greater scalability and operability across various computer systems and accounting programs. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208624 | PARKING FEE MANAGEMENT SUPPORTING SYSTEM AND PARKING FEE MANAGEMENT SUPPORTING METHOD - According to one embodiment, a parking fee management supporting system supports parking fee management concerning a car park in which a free parking available period is granted according to a purchase amount in a predetermined store. The parking fee management supporting system calculates a free parking available remaining time in the car park in association with a user, who inquires about a remaining time of the free parking available period, on the basis of a parking start time and purchase information of the user. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208625 | ENHANCED BUSINESS REPORTING METHODOLOGY - The Enhanced Business Reporting Methodology provides a way to assess the performance of a company. The method includes receiving financial data about the company, calculating a Total Economic Profit (TEP) value based in part on the financial data, the TEP value including a current value component and a future value component, determining a business component of the company that drives the current value component and/or the future value component, and assessing the business component based in part on the TEP value, the current value component, and/or the future value component. A Total Return to Shareholders (TRS) value may be calculated from this data. The TRS may be decomposed into components and mapped onto a computer-generated display. The data may also be incorporated in corporate management systems and investment analysis systems, and used to generate a set of supplemental financial reports. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208626 | POSTAL SEAMLESS ACCEPTANCE SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING EXCEPTION HANDLING - A mail processing system and method. A method includes receiving a mailing manifest that includes mailpiece identifiers. Each mailpiece identifier corresponds to an individual mailpiece in a group of mailpieces, and the mailing manifest includes a mailer identification that identifies the mailer of the group of mailpieces. The method includes processing the group of mailpieces and tracking the status of each of the mailpieces. The method includes updating the status of the mailpiece identifiers on the mailing manifest according to the tracking, and producing mail processing data. The method includes analyzing and storing the mail processing data. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208627 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LEGAL BILLING IN A NETWORKED ENVIRONMENT - A computer-implemented method and system is disclosed in which a network-based e-commerce environment includes billing a client at a periodic flat rate for a pre-defined scope of legal advice in pre-defined areas of legal services and offering the client, as part of the periodic flat rate, an alternative billing option of participating in a litigation defense program having a graduated fee structure based on an outcome of a litigation. In other embodiments, a network-based e-commerce environment includes offering the client participation in an accrual of credits at a predetermined multiplier of the periodic flat rate paid whereby such credits are accrued over time and may be redeemed to offset legal fees otherwise payable. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208628 | System and Method for Providing Interoperability Between Diameter Policy Control and Charging in a 3GPP Network - A system and method are described whereby interoperability is facilitated in a 3GPP network environment in combination with DIAMETER policy controls. Such interoperability enables updated policy rules to be fully communicated in on-line charging situations where quota expirations occur. This invention maintains centralized policy control in a 3GPP network with on-line charging. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208629 | CUSTOMER ACCOUNT NOTIFICATION MESSAGES - Embodiments of the invention relate to apparatuses, methods, and computer program products for providing notification messages relating to observations made about a customer's use of an account that is held by a bank. For example, one embodiment of the invention provides a bank computer system having a memory communicably coupled to a communication device and a processor. In one embodiment, the memory stores information about the customer's use of account services and features, including online banking. The processor is configured to monitor the information and make observations about the customer's use of the account services and features, and use the communication device to communicate a notification message containing information relating to how the customer could better utilize the account services and features. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208630 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTION OF FINANCIAL CRIME - Systems and methods for evaluating financial transactions. Methods include receiving first indications of financial transactions related to a target user from a financial system, and receiving second indications of communication events, which are related to the target user but are not directly related to any financial transactions. Forensic criterion are evaluated defined over the first and second indications to issue and alert upon meeting the criterion. The forensic criterion may include detecting a money laundering event, a fraud event, or a financial transaction that is not related to the target user. | 2011-08-25 |