35th week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 52 |
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20150242896 | PRIVACY MANAGEMENT ACROSS MULTIPLE DEVICES - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, and including a method for managing privacy rights of a user related to the delivery of content. The method comprises providing a global privacy management interface that presents a selection tool for enabling a user to review privacy options and interests. The privacy options and interests include controls for presenting a list of identifiers that are associated with the user and interests associated with those identifiers. Each identifier is associated with a requesting source having been used by the user to access content. The interface enables de-selection of individual interests on a per-identifier or global basis. The method further comprises determining, in a server system, content to deliver to the user in view of the privacy selections. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242897 | SEND2MOBILE+ PREMIUM - The present invention relates to a short message service (SMS), multi-media message service (MMS), and enhanced messaging service (EMS) based platform creating interactive communication and a reverse marketing system, which provides merchants, retailers, and/or sellers the means to rapidly and effectively communicate with their respective customers or customer base. The system represented by this invention provides customers with the means to directly and rapidly communicate their comments, concerns, product specific inquiries, offers and counter-offers to merchants, retailers and sellers concerning specific products, appearing on specific product pages of the merchant, retailer and/or sellers' website or e-commerce site from the customer's mobile device. The present system further enables the merchant, retailer and/or seller to rapidly and directly respond to the customers' product specific inquiries, comments, concerns and offers by SMS, MMS or EMS text message containing the information requested and containing an embedded buy now link. The embedded buy now link enables the customer to purchase the chosen product and/or service directly from the SMS/MMS/EMS text message by connecting to any mobile wallet residing on the buyer's mobile device or by connecting directly to the merchant and/or retailer's mobile e-commerce checkout page. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242898 | LOCATION BASED CONTENT MATCHING IN A COMPUTER NETWORK - Systems and methods of providing information via a computer network responsive to a request are provided. Keyword terms including a content keyword and a geographic location operator can be received via a computer network. A geographically modified keyword can be determined from the keyword terms. The geographically modified keyword indicates a product or service, and indicates a geographic location associated with the geographic location operator. A search query can be received from a user interface of a computing device, and a geographic location term in the search query can be identified. A geographic location term in a search query can be matched with the geographically modified keyword, with the geographic location term being a variant of the geographic location operator. Content can be obtained and provided from a data processing system to the user interface via the computer network, for display at the user interface. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242899 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CUSTOMER MOVEMENT TRACKING ANALYTICS - A system or method is provided to monitor a consumer's locations and movements within a store. In particular, the locations and movements of the consumer in a merchant's store may be monitored using a network of Bluetooth beacons installed throughout the merchant's store. Based on the BLE signals detected at the consumer's mobile device, the location of the consumer in the store may be determined by triangulation by referencing the designated positions of the BLE beacons that emits the BLE signals. In an embodiment, the consumer's locations and movement in the store may be collected and analyzed to generate consumer traffic heat maps in the store. Based on the traffic heat maps, locations may be determined to better facilitate product placement. Further, the shopping routes of the consumer may be analyzed to generate in-store advertisements which are presented to the consumer along the consumer's shopping route. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242900 | LOCATION BASED ADVERTISING - Examples disclosed herein relate to generating advertisement based on a location of a client device. At least one advertisement is generated based on the location of the diem device. The at least one advertisement is selected from a plurality of advertisement bids that match a criteria related to the location of the client device. The at least one advertisement is provided to the client device while executing a printing transaction at the location. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242901 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING A DYNAMIC ADVERTISEMENT SCHEDULE FOR A PLAYLIST SESSION - Methods and systems are provided herein for determining a dynamic advertisement schedule. These methods and systems are provided by way of associating a first value with a selectable delay option on a playlist menu, and associating a second value with a selectable skip option on the playlist menu. Each time the selectable delay option is selected, the first value may be added to a composite value, and each time the selectable skip option is selected, the second value may be added to a composite value. The composite value may be compared to a threshold value, and when the composite value corresponds to the threshold value, an advertisement may be generated for display on a display screen and the composite value may be reset. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242902 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING CONSUMER INTERACTIONS WITH PROMOTIONS - Embodiments provide a computer-executed method, a computer system and non-transitory computer-readable media for facilitating consumer interaction with a promotion. The method includes transmitting computer-executable instructions to cause an impression of a promotion to be displayed on a consumer interface rendered on a visual display of a computing device. The method also includes receiving, from the computing device, an indication of a compound consumer input associated with a consumer and performed using the consumer interface. The method also includes determining that the compound consumer input corresponds to a command for performing an action associated with the promotion. The method further includes, based on a determination that the compound consumer input corresponds to the command, transmitting computer-executable instructions to initiate execution of the command associated with the promotion. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242903 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR ENABLING SPONSORED DATA ACCESS ACROSS MULTIPLE CARRIERS - A service and system for providing sponsored data, wherein the data usage is not charged to a mobile subscriber but, rather, paid for by a sponsor. The system and service is mobile-operator neutral and exists separate and apart from any given mobile network. The system provides, to mobile network operators and sponsoring entities, a single domain name (TLD). The TLD is white-listed, in wild-card form, by the mobile network operator so that the operator will know to zero rate any data traffic associated with the TLD. Sponsoring entities are also provided with a unique identifier. The unique identifier is concatenated, as a pre-pend, to the TLD, thereby generating a FQDN that (1) identifies associated data traffic as being “sponsored” and (2) identifies the entity sponsoring the data. The system monitors data usage associated with each FQDN and prepares a bill that charges each sponsoring entity for the data usage associated with the particular FQDN. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242904 | METHOD OF ENABLING A USER TO INTERACT WITH CONTENT RECEIVED FROM A REMOTE SERVER - A user interacts with content received from a remote server; content (e.g. feeds from social networking sites, advertisements) is received over a wireless network at a mobile telephone, which then automatically displays a specific item of the content on the mobile telephone, without the user explicitly requesting the display of that specific item of content. In response to the user selecting or highlighting the displayed specific item of content, the mobile telephone lists multiple options that, if individually selected, each initiate an associated action that corresponds to a particular way of responding to or interacting with the specific item of content. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242905 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVED PERSONALIZATION USING MOBILE TECHNOLOGY - Information is managed for a group of computing devices associated with a plurality of users and contextual messages are provided to at least one device in the group. The group is defined by code executing in at least one processor, and at least one criteria selection representing a respective type of activity associated with users of the group of computing devices is processed. Usage information associated with each respective user is processed by comparing the usage information with the at least one criteria selection. In accordance with the processed usage information, the at least one of the computing devices in the group is identified, and a contextual message is generated in accordance with at least one of the criteria selection. The contextual message is transmitted to each of the at least one computing device in the group. This can occur in one or more implementations of the present application. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242906 | GENERATING A SET OF RECOMMENDED NETWORK USER IDENTIFIERS FROM A FIRST SET OF NETWORK USER IDENTIFIERS AND ADVERTISER BID DATA - A computerized method, system for, and computer-readable medium operable to take a first set of network user identifiers and generate a set of recommended network user identifiers based on the first set and advertiser bid data. A processing circuit receives the first set and advertiser bid data for the first set and stores the first set and advertiser bid data for the first set in a memory. The advertiser bid data includes a price offered by the advertiser for the advertiser's content to be shown to a network user identifier in the first set. The processing circuit receives advertiser bid data for a second set. The processing circuit generates a user similarity parameter based on the advertiser bid data for the first set and the advertiser bid data for the second set. The processing circuit generates the set of recommended network user identifiers based on the user similarity parameter. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242907 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING IMPRESSION FREQUENCY - Systems and methods for optimizing impression frequency for content presented on a client device are provided. A content distribution system selects a subset of available impressions on which to place bids such that a predetermined content distribution budget is spent and the bids are placed on impressions associated with a minimum number of unique user identifiers. The content distribution system receives a notification of an available impression for presenting content on a client device and identifies a user identifier associated with the client device. The content distribution system calculates a hash value for the user identifier as a function of the user identifier and compares the hash value with an impression probability threshold. The content distribution system determines whether to bid on the available impression based on a result of the comparison. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242908 | DETERMINING A CONFIGURATION OF A CONTENT ITEM DISPLAY ENVIRONMENT - Methods, and systems, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable storage mediums, including a method for determining a configuration of a content item display environment. The method includes receiving a content item request for a content item to display in a content item display environment in a resource, the resource hosted on a first domain and the content item display environment hosted on a second domain, wherein the first domain includes a publisher side file; providing the content item along with measuring instructions operable to interact with the publisher side file to generate a child display environment, wherein the measuring instructions interact with the resource through the child display environment to cause measurement data to be generated, wherein the measuring instructions are prevented from interacting with the resource through the content item display environment; and receiving the measurement data specifying a configuration of the content item display environment and the resource. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242909 | SERVER APPARATUS, TERMINAL APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM STORED THEREIN, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND DATA STRUCTURE - In an example system, specific information indicating a specific display element (character string or the like) and link destination information about a page for advertisement or purchase/sale are stored so as to be associated with each other. Upon request for a webpage, a specific display element is detected among display elements to be displayed on the page, and if such a specific display element is detected, browse source data for displaying the webpage in which the detected display element is hyperlinked so as to allow jumping to an advertisement page is generated and transmitted. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242910 | METHODS FOR EVALUATING A NETWORK ASSOCIATED WITH AN ORGANIZATION AND DEVICES THEREOF - A method, non-transitory computer readable medium and network analyzer device that generates a relationship health score for a plurality of entities based on relationship utility scores and relationship strength scores generated for each pair of one of a plurality of connects and one of a plurality of connectors having a relationship. Next, connect dependence scores are generated for each of the connects. A total monetary value of the network is then generated based on a potential monetary value of the network and a realized monetary value of the network. The potential and realized monetary values are respectively generated based on potential and executed interactions between the connectors and the connects. A total value of the network is then generated based on the relationship health scores, the connect dependence scores, and the total monetary value of the network. The total value of the network is output to an information consumer device. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242911 | GROUP CHECK IN - Systems and methods are provided for facilitating group shopping using group check-in. A plurality of users may check in at a location such as a service provider location. The plurality of users may check in using beacons or social media. A system may determine a relationship between two or more of the plurality of users and identify a group that has checked in to the service location. Products, services, and/or targeted assistance guidelines may then be determined for each identified group. A group may be a family, a couple, a team, a club, or other group of people. The products and/or services may be targeted for each group based on market research and/or user information of members of the group. The system may facilitate group payment for items purchased by one or more members of the group. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242912 | ONLINE MARKETPLACE FOR PRE-INSTALLED SOFTWARE AND ONLINE SERVICES - The subject disclosure relates to pre-installed software and services, such as online services, and markets for pre-installed software and online services. In one aspect, the disclosed subject matter facilitates contracting between software vendors and device manufacturers or redistributors for placement and/or conversion of software applications or services in devices. As further advantages, embodiments of the disclosed subject matter can provide transparency into markets for device placement and can facilitate detailed contract performance tracking. Further non-limiting embodiments are provided that illustrate the advantages and flexibility of the disclosed subject matter. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242913 | ENTERPRISE PRICE QUOTE GENERATION - A method includes receiving, from a client enterprise, at a provider computing device, a request for price quote for products provided by a provider enterprise and determining a plurality of discrete processing units based on the request for price quote. The method includes assigning each of the plurality of discrete processing units to a single one of a plurality of parallel processing devices. The method includes accessing, by each of the plurality of parallel processing devices, price quote generation data stored in a hierarchical manner in a database associated with the provider, and processing the discrete processing units the plurality of discrete processing units based on the price quote generation data to generate a corresponding plurality of processed units. The method includes merging the processed units to form concatenated processed units and adding global components to the concatenated processed units to form the price quote. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242914 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING SOURCING PROGRAM REQUESTS - A method for managing sourcing requests. The method utilizes a computer interface to collect the sourcing request and present that sourcing request to a sourcing agent. The method also utilizes a computer interface to allow the sourcing agent to initiate and conduct a sourcing protocol that provides a list of results from which the sourcing agent can select the most appropriate sourcing solution for an organization. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer medium with instructions to collect sourcing request data, determine whether the sourcing program needs modification and modifying the sourcing program. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242915 | Used Car Exchange - Provided are, among other things, systems, methods and techniques for facilitating inventory exchanges among automobile dealerships. One representative embodiment involves a process of: (a) receiving postings regarding available used cars from automobile dealerships; (b) upon request, displaying the available used car postings to a first one of the automobile dealerships; (c) receiving, from the first one of the automobile dealerships, a purchase offer for an automobile corresponding to a selected one of the displayed used car postings that was posted by a second one of the automobile dealerships; and (d) based on that purchase offer, establishing a requirement that a purchase be made from the available used cars posted by the first one of the automobile dealerships. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242916 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EXCHANGING TICKETS - A system such as a ticket seller system may provide ticketholders with the ability to swap their tickets for other tickets and/or other goods or services. The system may identify a ticket of a user, identify one or more other tickets, goods or services that may be of interest to the user, and provide a swap offer to the user to exchange the purchased ticket for the other ticket, goods or services. A user may utilize the system to exchange a relatively high value ticket for a relatively lower value ticket and a profit, to exchange a relatively low value ticket for a relatively higher value ticket at an additional cost, or to exchange the ticket for a ticket to another event or a ticket closer to friends. The system may also facilitate the purchase or swapping of tickets in a time-share season ticket package. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242917 | MICROPAYMENT COMPENSATION FOR USER-GENERATED GAME CONTENT - Implementations disclosed herein related to apportioning revenue to a content-creating user if that user's content assisted in the fulfillment of a purchase opportunity. User-generated content may be selected based on criteria, for example, that will likely lead to consummation of a purchase opportunity. Some of the revenue generated from the sale may be sent to the user whose content was associated with the sale. In this way, the user may be encouraged to generate more such content and be rewarded for the advertising the content provided. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242918 | IN STORE VOICE PICKING SYSTEM - Systems, methods, devices, and non-transitory processor readable media of the various embodiments enable in store voice picking systems. In various embodiments, an end-to-end voice ordering and fulfillment system for a retail store may enable a customer to place an order over the phone, a personal shopper to be directed to fill the order via voice commands, and the order to be made available for pickup at the retail store by the customer or delivered to the customer from the retail store. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242919 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR REAL ESTATE SERVICE PROVIDER RECOMMENDATION - Systems and methods are provided real estate management. The systems and methods permit a real estate agent to provide personal service provider recommendations to their homeowners. The systems and methods also provide access to information relevant to the homeowners, which may include documents relating to the purchase and/or maintenance of the homeowners' homes. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242920 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING LIFECYCLE OF A TRANSACTION ITEM - A method of managing the lifecycle of a transaction item, the transaction item having a number of user-configurable options, the method comprising: accessing a configurable transaction item; configuring the transaction item; receiving an information element, the information element being linked to the configured transaction element; scanning the information element to retrieve the configured transaction item; making a transaction to acquire the configured transaction item; updating a database with data related to the transaction and the information element | 2015-08-27 |
20150242921 | Web Based Method for Procuring a Customized First Aid Kit - A method for procuring a customized first aid kit having a case and multiple first aid items comprises displaying numerous web pages and making interactive selections based on the information accessed and displayed by said web pages. A kit size and a compliance standard or no compliance standard may be selected. A multiplicity of available first aid items is displayed on a website content page and various items are interactively selected from the content page. The final first aid kit is compiled in accordance with the various selections. The case for the first aid kit may also be specified from various possible materials as well as logos and color schemes for the first aid kit. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242922 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC PRODUCT INFORMATION AT A MERCHANT LOCATION - There are provided systems and method for automatic product information at a merchant location. An image from a user at a merchant may be processed to recognize the product in the image. Inventory level information corresponding to a current inventory level of the product available at the merchant may be accessed and communicated to the user. The user may also be updated with distributor inventory information in the event that the merchant does not possess enough stock to fulfill purchase requirements of the user. Preferred distributors of a merchant may be determined so that a user may be updated with inventory levels of distributors the merchant is likely to interact with. As the user or the merchant completes purchase requests, the inventory level information of the merchant may be updated. Additionally, the inventory level information may be updated when the merchant receives deliveries from a distributor. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242923 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IDENTIFYING A REPLACEMENT MOTOR - A client computing device comprising an indicia sensor and a processor coupled to the indicia sensor is described. The processor is configured to receive identification data for an original motor through the indicia sensor, identify a replacement motor based at least in part on the identification data, and identify a local seller of the replacement motor based at least in part on a first location associated with the client computing device and a second location associated with the local seller. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242924 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING CUSTOMER INFORMATION TO ENABLE CUSTOMER INTERACTION - Techniques are described herein to connect customers of a company with one another. In one implementation, a method may include receiving a search query for businesses that are local to a user; determining, based on access of a data structure, a location of a residence of the user; and generating, based on the location of the residence of the user and the search query, search results that satisfy the search query. The search results may include information relating to at least one business that is a local businesses relative to the location of the residence of the user. For example, the information may include: identification of a name of the at least one business, identification of an address of the at least one business, and information relating to one or more telecommunication services that are offered by the at least one business. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242925 | INFORMATION ELEMENT - A method of using an information element to access functionality on a computing device, the method comprising: scanning the information element to retrieve data related to the information element; manipulating a scannable aspect of the information element; re-scanning the information element; wherein manipulation of the scannable aspect of the information element triggers different functionality in the computing device when the information element is re-scanned. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242926 | MOBILE PRICE CHECK SYSTEMS, METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS - A price check system may receive a vehicle identification number (VIN) or determine the VIN via an image from a mobile price check application. The price check system may determine if build data is available for a vehicle associated with the VIN and, if build data is available for the vehicle, determine one or more prices for the vehicle based on the build data and provide same to the mobile price check application. If build data is not available for the vehicle, the price check system may prepare and send a request to the mobile price check application to obtain configuration information on the vehicle from a user of the mobile price check application. The price check system may then determine one or more prices for the vehicle based on the configuration information and provide same to the mobile price check application in real time or substantially real time. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242927 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF AN ONLINE TRAVEL WEBSITE - In one exemplary aspect, a method of an online travel website includes obtaining a list of hierarchal user travel preferences from a first user. Each of the first user's travel preference is weighted based on an order of the first user's travel preference in the list. A first user's query for a list of travel results is received. The list of travel results related to the first user's query is obtained. The list of travel results to identify a travel result attribute related to each of the first user's travel preferences is parsed. Each travel result is scored based on the weight of each related first user's travel preference. The list of travel results is sorted based on a score of each travel result. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242928 | CROSS SELLING PLATFORM - In various example embodiments, a system and method for a cross selling platform are presented. A request for a product listing triggered by a user may be received. The request for the product listing may include product information corresponding to an in-store product located at a store of a merchant. A related product listing may be identified based on the product information. Each product listing of the plurality of product listings may correspond to a merchant product. The product listing may be recommended to the user for sale. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242929 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING SIZE-BASED PRODUCT RECOMMENDATIONS USING AGGREGATED REVIEW DATA - A recommendation system collects and aggregates customer feedback information to improve recommendations of wearable items to a consumer as well as provide manufacturers feedback related to their products. For example, the recommendation system may provide a user of a product selection system with an automated recommendation of a recommended size for a selected wearable item. After the user has purchased the selected wearable item, the system may present the user with a prompt to provide feedback relating to the item and/or a quality of the automated recommendation. When the system receives the feedback from the user and other consumers, the system may aggregate the user feedback to improve an aspect of the recommended size of the selected wearable item in the future. Additionally, the user's feedback, or a collection of aggregated user feedback, can be provided to the manufacturer of the purchased item. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242930 | Purchasing Feedback System - In some embodiments, systems and methods may include receiving feedback corresponding to one or more purchase options from a device. The feedback may include an indication of a purchase option or options perceived to be better by a particular consumer and an explanation of why the option or options is better. The systems and methods may include verifying the feedback, communicating the feedback to one or more suppliers or to the seller's yield management system to obtain competing offers, and communicating data to the device. In some embodiments, the data may include comments related to the “better” option, other information, competing offers, or any combination thereof. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242931 | INITIATION OF PURCHASE TRANSACTION IN RESPONSE TO A REPLY TO A RECOMMENDATION - In one embodiments, initiation of purchase transaction in response to a reply to a recommendation comprises a method. The method comprises, at a computer system having one or more processors and non-transitory memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors, detecting a recommendation associated with a first user, the recommendation associated with a product or service. The method further comprises detecting a response from a second user to the recommendation, determining whether the response from the second user comprises a purchase decision, and in accordance with a determination that the response from the second user comprises the purchase decision, initiating a transaction for the second user to purchase the product or service associated with the recommendation. Other embodiments are described herein. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242932 | Delivery service system - In some cases, a delivery service system may include a handheld electronic device for use with a delivery service (e.g., a grocery delivery service). When operating in a voice input mode, the handheld electronic device may record and store audio data in memory. The stored audio data may be communicated from the handheld electronic device (e.g., via a Wi-Fi connection) to the delivery service for speech processing. When operating in a scanner input mode, the handheld electronic device may record and store item identifier information (e.g., barcode data) in memory. The stored data may be communicated to the delivery service for item identification processing. In some cases, a user interface associated with the delivery service may allow the user to review and confirm an order prior to submission of the order for delivery. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242933 | Device For Delivery Service - In some cases, a handheld electronic device may operate in a voice input mode or a scanner input mode. When operating in the voice input mode, the handheld electronic device may record and store audio data in memory. In some cases, the stored audio data may be communicated from the handheld electronic device (e.g., via a Wi-Fi connection) to one or more remote computing devices (e.g., for speech processing). When operating in the scanner input mode, the handheld electronic device may record and store item identifier information (e.g., as barcode data) in the memory. In some cases, the stored item identifier data may be communicated to the one or more remote computing devices (e.g., for item identification processing). | 2015-08-27 |
20150242934 | REMOVING PURCHASES FROM ONLINE CONTAINERS - Techniques for removing purchases from online containers are described. For example, an indication of a purchase of a first product at a first store by a user is received. A user account associated with the user is identified. The user account has an online container for storing one or more desired products. The first product is matched to one or more desired products based on one or more product characteristics of the first product and of the one or more desired products. The one or more desired products that match the first product are removed from the online container. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242935 | GENETIC-BASED E-COMMERCE SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Genetic-based e-commerce systems and methods are provided. A genetic-based e-commerce system includes a genetic information database that is electronically accessible over at least one network system and stores genetic information associated with at least one user of the system. A public or private database is included and stores associations between genetic information and products or services. A genetic-based e-commerce application is included and facilitates purchase by the user of products or services based on the user's genetic information in the genetic information database and the associations in the public or private database. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242936 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTELLIGENT ORDERING BETWEEN A USER AND A PROVIDER - The present invention provides a computer system and method for facilitating a transaction between a buyer and a seller. The seller is one of multiple available providers of a product and/or service. Initially, the buyer sends out an order, and the order is automatically verified. A seller is then determined based on at least one desirable characteristic of that particular seller. Then, the order is automatically translated into a format understandable by the desired seller. The order is communicated to the desired seller and the status of the order is later communicated to the buyer. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242937 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR A PREDEFINED SUITE OF CONSUMER INTERACTIONS FOR INITIATING EXECUTION OF COMMANDS - Embodiments provide a computer-executed method, a computer system and non-transitory computer-readable media for facilitating consumer interaction with a consumer interface. The method includes displaying a representation of an item on a consumer interface rendered on a visual display of a computing device. The method also includes storing, on a non-transitory computer-readable medium: a predefined first association between a first compound consumer input and a first command such that receipt of the first compound consumer input at the consumer interface initiates the first command, and a predefined second association between a second compound consumer input and a second command such that receipt of the second compound consumer input at the consumer interface initiates the second command. The method further includes, upon detection of the first compound consumer input entered at the consumer interface, initiating execution of the first command in relation to the item; and, upon detection of the second compound consumer input entered at the consumer interface, initiating execution of the second command in relation to the item. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242938 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DEFINING CONSUMER INTERACTIONS FOR INITIATING EXECUTION OF COMMANDS - Embodiments provide a computer-executed method, a computer system and computer program product for initiating a command. The method includes causing a consumer input definition interface to be displayed on a visual display of a computing device associated with a consumer, wherein the consumer input definition interface includes an indication of a command. The method also includes, while the consumer input definition interface is displayed, receiving input definition data defining a consumer interaction by the consumer. The method also includes generating a compound consumer input based on the input definition data, and associating the compound consumer input with the command and the consumer. The method further includes storing the association between the compound consumer input and the command on a non-transitory storage device so that receipt of the compound consumer input from the consumer automatically initiates the command. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242939 | METHOD AND SERVER FOR PROCESSING ITEM IDENTIFIERS, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A method and server for processing item identifiers and a computer readable storage medium are disclosed. In one aspect, the method includes obtaining item transform information of the item identifiers and calculating item transform scores of the item identifiers based on the corresponding item transform information. The method also includes sorting the item identifiers according to the item transform scores of the item identifiers. The method further includes providing the sorted item identifiers to a display terminal. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242940 | MANAGING DUPLICATION OF CONTENT ITEMS ACROSS MULTIPLE CONTENT ITEM LISTS - A method of reducing duplications of content items across multiple content item lists presented to a user is disclosed. A first set of content items is received. It is detected that the first set of content items was communicated for presentation to a user in a first list. A second set of content items is received. It is determined that the second set of content items includes a duplicate content item, the duplicate content item being a content item that was included in the first set of content items. Based on a satisfaction of an omission criterion, an indication is provided that the content item is to be omitted from the second set of content items before the second set of content items is communicated for presentation to the user in a second list. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242941 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING CONSUMER INTERACTIONS FOR PERFORMING PURCHASE COMMANDS - Embodiments provide a computer-executed method, a computer system and computer-program product for facilitating a transaction. The method includes transmitting computer-executable instructions to cause a representation of an item to be displayed on a consumer interface rendered on a visual display of a computing device. The method also includes receiving, from the computing device, an indication of a compound consumer input associated with a consumer and performed using the consumer interface. The method further includes, based on a determination that the compound consumer input corresponds to a purchase command, retrieving information previously stored for the consumer, generating an order to purchase the item for the consumer, and transmitting an order confirmation configured to be displayed by the computing device. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242942 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADJUSTING ITEM RELEVANCE BASED ON CONSUMER INTERACTIONS - Embodiments provide a computer-executed method, a computing device, and computer program product for enabling indication of a relevance of an item. The method includes displaying a consumer interface on a visual display of a computing device associated with a consumer, the consumer interface rendering representations of one or more items. The method also includes receiving, at the computing device, an indication of consumer input with respect to at least one of the items. The method also includes, based on a determination that the consumer input corresponds to a relevance command, adjusting the display of the representations of the one or more items on the consumer interface. The method further includes, based on the relevance command, determining a relevance indication of a characteristic of the at least one item to the consumer. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242943 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING A RETAIL EXPERIENCE USING AN AUGMENTED REALITY SYSTEM - A waveguide apparatus includes a planar waveguide and at least one optical diffraction element (DOE) that provides a plurality of optical paths between an exterior and interior of the planar waveguide. A phase profile of the DOE may combine a linear diffraction grating with a circular lens, to shape a wave front and produce beams with desired focus. Waveguide apparati may be assembled to create multiple focal planes. The DOE may have a low diffraction efficiency, and planar waveguides may be transparent when viewed normally, allowing passage of light from an ambient environment (e.g., real world) useful in AR systems. Light may be returned for temporally sequentially passes through the planar waveguide. The DOE(s) may be fixed or may have dynamically adjustable characteristics. An optical coupler system may couple images to the waveguide apparatus from a projector, for instance a biaxially scanning cantilevered optical fiber tip. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242944 | TIME DEPENDENT INVENTORY ASSET MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR INDUSTRIES HAVING PERISHABLE ASSETS - The invention provides an automated TDIAM system which includes algorithms using a geographic information system which can calculate drive time automatically at time of reservation by taking into account the geometry of the road network, expected construction delays, weather patterns, and historical traffic conditions and speed to determine the “least cost” route on the date and time of service and from the pickup location to the drop off location. If the GIS is experiencing an outage and is not available, or in countries where GIS Systems do not yet have the geometry of the road system established but at least have major points of interest geocoded, an alternative approach to computing drive time must be used. This approach involves use of geocodes to establish the origin and destination points and the proprietary application of three dimensional geometry and related formulas to calculate the estimated drive time. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242945 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING BIDDING SERVICE - The present invention disclosed herein relates to a system and method for providing a bidding service. A bidding service providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a bidding condition determination unit configured to determine a maximum number of bidders and a bidding price on a basis of an equivalent value of a bid subject, a successful bidder selection unit configured to select a predetermined number of successful bidders from among bidders, and a repayment processing unit configured to set a credit-debt relation between the successful bidders and failed bidders and perform a process for repayment of debt to the failed bidders by the successful bidders. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242946 | Method for bidding battery storage into hour-ahead energy markets - A method for generating bids for a look-ahead, e.g. hour-ahead, energy market is disclosed. The method includes providing a processor configured to generate a lookup table approximating a value function having four dimensions including: state of the storage system, price of electricity, prior low bid and prior high bid. The processor is configured to observe an initial numeric value for a first set of dimensions and exploiting monotonicity to update a first region of the lookup table. The processor is configured to iteratively observe subsequent numeric values for a next set of dimensions and update subsequent regions of the lookup table while exploiting monotonicity to generate the lookup table. The value function is configured with numeric values for all possible sets of dimensions, the numeric values being usable to compute optimal bids. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242947 | ELECTRONIC AUCTION FOR OPTIMIZING AN EVENT TICKET SALES PARAMETER - Systems and methods are described for electronic auction of event tickets that permit bidders to bid on a plurality of mutually exclusive ticket options without worry about having to purchase more tickets than desired. The systems and methods also direct collected ticket revenue away from ticket resellers, and toward the event organizers and performers. In an exemplary auction, each bidder places bids for multiple seating options at different locations in the venue. A novel system then calculates which sets of seats should be won by which bidders, in order to optimize auction results according to parameters selected by the auction host. It is possible for a bidder to win tickets for a desired set of seats without being the highest bidder, if the higher bidders for that same set of seats had each won for their own bids on different sets of seats elsewhere in the venue. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242948 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VALIDATING MULTIPLE DOCUMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH A TRANSACTION - A method for validating multiple documents associated with a transaction, comprising: using a processor, determining whether respective values from the multiple documents are valid; when the values are valid, aggregating the values to determine an aggregate value; and, determining whether the aggregate value is valid, validity of the values and the aggregate value being indicative of validity of the multiple documents. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242949 | INVESTMENT CARD - In various embodiments, processes, methods, tools, strategies, and techniques are provided for linking an investment card to an investment card account including one or more securities or other assets. At least one value associated with the investment card can be linked to the value of a security within the investment card account. The investment card can be employed in a variety of transactions, such as purchase transactions involving products or services. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242950 | COMMUNICATION AND PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR DERIVATIVE OFFSETS - A method of facilitating trades of mismatch swaps including receiving trade data characterization a plurality of swap trades. Mismatches in at least two of the swap trades are identified and the mismatches are communicated to a plurality of traders. Offsetting mismatches may be identified and communicated to the plurality of traders also. The method may also include receiving offsetting mismatch trade requests from traders and communicating the offsetting mismatch trade requests to a clearinghouse. Identifying the offsetting mismatches may include determining a date gap between standard tenor instruments. And, the method may include determining whether the date gap is within a range of dates selected by a trader. The date gap will likely, in this instance, not be a benchmark tenor. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242951 | System and Method for Calculating Prospective Return on Investment of Academic Persons in Return for Future Income-Based Revenue Sharing - A method for investing in student debt based on a specific student candidate's predicted future earnings which comprises the steps of assessing information stored in a database relating to an academic program in which the student is, was or will be enrolled in, assessing the student's academic, professional and economic potential based on information stored in a database relating to qualifications, and combining the assessments of the academic program and the student's potential to create a metric represents the desirability of the student's debt as an investment. The method is preferably executed by a computer program installed in a computer having a processor and a memory where the computer is able to store data relating to an assessment of the said academic program as well as the specific student's credentials. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242952 | Methods And Systems For Constructing Risk Parity Portfolios - A method and system for constructing risk parity portfolios wherein the overall portfolio risk is diversified by allocating the risk equally or substantially equally across various portfolio components. The system receives a selection of investments assets, covariance matrix of the assets, and constraints including bounds on the weights of the investment assets. The system optimizes a mathematical formulation that is constrained by the bounds on the weights of the investment assets to generate a solution that is used for constructing a risk parity portfolio having optimal asset allocations that result in a balanced risk contribution. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242953 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING DATA THAT IS REPRESENTATIVE OF AN INSURANCE POLICY FOR AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE - Systems and methods for generating data representative of insurance coverage for autonomous vehicles are provided. In particular, systems and methods for generating data representative of insurance coverage for autonomous vehicles based on data representative of autonomous vehicle reliability are provided. The data representative of autonomous vehicle reliability may include data representative of the autonomous vehicle original equipment manufacturer test results, autonomous vehicle system manufacturer test results, autonomous vehicle system component manufacturer test results, insurance company autonomous vehicle, systems and/or component test results, and/or third party test results of the autonomous vehicle, systems and/or components. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242954 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND WEB SERVER - Display control means ( | 2015-08-27 |
20150242955 | Preauthorization Knowledgebase System - A preauthorization knowledgebase system. The preauthorization knowledgebase system parses relevant information from an order submitted by a health care provider and compares that information against a set of rules used to determine whether preauthorization is required for a medical service specified in the order. The rules are arranged into various hierarchical levels from payer level to procedure level. Even if the order is incomplete, the preauthorization knowledgebase system checks as many of the hierarchical levels as possible with the information provided. The preauthorization knowledgebase system returns a result indicating whether preauthorization is required for the order and, optionally, the hierarchical level(s) requiring preauthorization. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242956 | Systems and Methods for Processing Workers Compensation Claim Administration to Facilitate Claim Resolution - A system, method, and process improving the efficiency of the current workers compensation information supply chain, logistics and claims adjudication process and capture of data capture and analysis of work-related incidents. Employees, employers and insurance companies are legally, financially, ethically and morally compromised when unnecessary delays take place in the claims reporting process. Late reporting of an accident, injury or illness reduces the projected time line that it takes for an injured employee to return to full or partial health and the ability to return to work. Reducing lag time reporting reduces the financial exposure to the employee, employer and a workers compensation risk transfer facility also known as an insurance company. There is need for a fiduciary of claims information to have greater speed, reliability and accuracy of the information initiated through mobile devices and web portals through computers with Internet access. When combined with behavioral science professionals/concierge services or a relevant party follow-up team, the Workers Compensation rights of the employee, employer and insurance carrier are preserved and executed with greater transparency. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242957 | PRINCIPAL GUARANTEED SAVINGS AND INVESTMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method for mass market hedge fund investing is proposed that preferably works in conjunction with the U.S. Treasury's Treasury Direct program for direct investment in U.S. Government securities. A primary investment in a principal-guaranteed, fixed term financial instrument, such as U.S. Government securities, including U.S. Notes, Bonds and Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) having principal linked to the Consumer Price Index, wherein the principal is guaranteed to the extent of the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government, generates an interest income stream. The interest stream is electronically diverted to a separate account within an aggregated pool invested in a hedge fund over a predetermined time horizon. The fund is preferably run by an experienced chief portfolio strategist and a money-management team. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242958 | Counter-party license transaction (C.P.L.T.) - A Business Method Invention, to transact an Independent Inventor's Intangible Assets into Industry of Inventor's native Nation. A Process means to convey license usage to top-most Governmental and Industry leadership agencies and corporations, providing the formation, booking, or floating of Treasury Assets, a cash-equivalent, present discounted value, ledger item on the Asset-side of the Balance Sheet, of U.S., to municipality, to corporate, Treasury. Also, a net-equal tangible value swap of the pro-se Independent Inventor's IRS-governed Fair Market Value tax amortization deduction, said swap to U.S.A. Federal or other major municipality, providing Government a tool for Demand-side economic stimulus, of up to, over a fifteen year period, by distributing swap value as per capita U.S. taxpayer tax relief, or synthetic payraise, to targeted needs situations, or to. internal U.S. Federal fiscal nominal budget management. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242959 | AUTOMATIC AUDITING SYSTEM INCLUDING AGENCY DEBIT MEMO GENERATION - Methods, systems, and computer program products for auditing transactions involving sales of tickets by one business entity for a travel product provided by another business entity. An application receives data including a fare basis and a fare charged for a ticket. A plurality of priceable units each consistent with an itinerary of the ticket and each including a fare corresponding to the fare basis is determined. Combinations of these priceable units that conform to the itinerary are defined, and a fare for each combination determined. The fare of each combination is compared to the fare charged for the ticket, and a matching fare selected. The rules used to price the selected combination are compared to the ticket and pricing context of the ticket, and errors in pricing the ticket determined based thereon. An agency debit memo may be defined based on errors in pricing the ticket and audit discrepancies. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242960 | AUDITING SYSTEM WITH INCREASED ACCURACY - Methods, systems, and computer program products for auditing a transaction involving a sale by one business entity of a ticket for a travel product provided by another business entity. An audit module receives a pricing context of the transaction and determines an audit amount therefrom. The audit amount is compared to a price charged for the transaction to determine if an agency debit memo should be generated. If the pricing context for the transaction is not available and a ticketing office that issued the ticket is flagged for enhanced auditing, the audit module may determine one or more pricing context parameters by determining prices for a plurality of combinations of pricing context parameters. These prices may be compared to the price charged for the transaction, and the combination of pricing context parameters having a matching price may be selected. The pricing context parameters may then be used to generate audit related documents. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242961 | ENRICHED FINANCIAL TRANSACTION RECORDS - Example systems and methods of providing enriched financial transaction records are described. In one implementation, a method identifies a financial transaction record that describes a financial transaction associated with a financial institution. The method accesses metadata that has a relationship to the financial transaction and is not structured as a financial transaction record. The metadata is associated with the financial transaction record. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242962 | COMPUTER SYSTEMS COMPRISING DATABASE CLUSTER SERVER AND USES THEREOF - The examples described in this disclosure can sweep deposit values from a noninterest-bearing first account to a noninterest-bearing second account. The first account can be maintained by a first institution, while the second account can be maintained by a second institution. The first institution can earn a deposit fee by sweeping values to the second account at the second institution. As such, the second account can be a noninterest-bearing account. Other examples provide additional structures and functions. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242963 | Method and Apparatus for Representing an Account Movement - The embodiments relate to a method for electronically representing an account movement. The method includes representing an account movement with at least the following information elements: (1) date of the account movement, (2) reason for the account movement, and (3) amount of the sum of money involved in the account movement. The method further includes representing a further information element that may be used to obtain the information about the location at which a monetary transaction on which the account movement is based took place. The embodiments also relate to an apparatus for ascertaining data for the representation of an account movement and to a communication terminal. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242964 | Non-transitory Computer-Readable Medium, Data Management System and Data Management Server - A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores computer-readable instructions. A processor of a server connected to a network executes the instructions to obtain expense data from a terminal device via the network, store the specific user ID, the image data, the receipt information data and expense identification information in a first storage in an associated manner. The processor identifies service identification information stored in a second storage and associated with the specific user ID stored in the first storage. The second storage is configured to store the service information including at least service identification information and user identification information. The service identification information is used for a series of data processing regarding a specific business process. The processor further stores the service identification information identified in the service identifying operation in the first storage so as to be associated with the expense identification information associated with the specific user identification information. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242965 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR THE AGGREGATION OF DATA - Embodiments include a method of aggregating data from a plurality of QuickBooks (QB) files that may be in physically separate locations, and having at least one account name in common. In one embodiment, the method includes, assigning a different parent account identification (ID) number to each differently named parent account. The method includes creating an entry in a hash table for each, parent account ID, the contents of the entry being a collection of rows including a row for each different sub account of the parent account, wherein data for multiple instances of like named parent accounts are aggregated, the key of the entry in the hash table being the parent account ID. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242966 | Method, System, and Computer Readable Medium for Electronic Auditing - Embodiments of systems, methods, and computer-readable media for auditing electronic freight bills are disclosed. For example, one embodiment of the present invention is a method including the steps of receiving a first data source comprising a first set of data; receiving a second data source comprising a second set of data; generating a record comprising at least a portion of the first data set and at least a portion of the second data set; and conducting an audit of the record. In another embodiment, a computer-readable media comprises code for carrying out such a method. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242967 | GENERATING MEMBER PROFILE RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON COMMUNITY OVERLAP DATA IN A SOCIAL GRAPH - Systems and methods for generating recommendations based on data derived from a social network are described. For example, a community in a social network service to which a plurality of member profiles belongs may be selected. A first prediction score for a first member profile and a second prediction score for a second member profile may be generated. Each of the first prediction scores may be based on a function of a first time period in which both a source member profile and the corresponding member profile belonged to the community. A selection is then made between the first member profile and the second member profile based on a comparison of the first prediction score and the second prediction score. A connection recommendation representing the selected member profile is then surfaced to an account of the source member profile. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242968 | PROMOTING CONTENT FROM AN ACTIVITY STREAM - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, for providing a method that includes receiving an indication from a user to promote an item that is included in an activity stream associated with the user, the activity stream being presented in a social context by a social application; receiving a request for an advertisement; determining the item is responsive to the request; determining one or more advertisements responsive to the request; ranking the item and the one or more advertisements; and providing the item in response to the request rather than the one or more advertisements and based at least in part on the rankings. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242969 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WIRELESSLY ACTIVATING AN ELECTROMECHANICALLY CONTROLLED FUEL DISPENSER - A system and method are provided for remotely activating electromechanically controlled fuel dispensers. Each fuel dispenser is associated in a database with a unique identification code, and a first code is associated with an electronic payment system pre-identified by a fuel purchasing customer for automatic payment processing during fuel purchase transactions. In response to a wirelessly received identification code, the fuel dispenser associated in the database with the identification code that matches the wirelessly received identification code is identified, the identified fuel dispenser is activated to an active state in which the identified fuel dispenser is enabled to dispense fuel if the first code in the database matches a wirelessly received second code, and payment for the purchase of fuel dispensed from the identified fuel dispenser is automatically processed following activation thereof using the pre-identified electronic payment system associated with the first code in the database. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242970 | Environmental Management Zone Modeling And Analysis - Methods and systems for crop management are disclosed. An example method can comprise receiving first information associated with an environmental management zone. The first information can relate to one or more of a land characteristic and a management practice. The first information can comprise a soil type of the environmental management zone. An example method can comprise, receiving historical weather data relating to the environmental management zone. An example method can comprise receiving real-time weather data relating to the environmental management zone. An example method can comprise executing a growth model to predict a nitrogen range for the environmental management zone based on one or more of the first information, the historical weather data, and the real-time weather data. The nitrogen range can comprise probabilities for one or more of a current time period and a future time period in the growing season. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242971 | Selecting Deliverables and Publishing Deliverable Checklists - Methods, computer readable media, and apparatuses for aligning project deliverables with project risks are presented. According to one or more aspects, an architectural assessment of a new project may be received at an initial estimation phase of the new project. Subsequently, a rigor worksheet for the new project may be received at the initial estimation phase of the new project. A rigor score for the new project then may be calculated based on the architectural assessment and the rigor worksheet. Thereafter, one or more project deliverables to be imposed on the project may be selected based on the calculated rigor score. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242972 | MANAGEMENT OF DRONE OPERATIONS AND SECURITY IN A PERVASIVE COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - A method to provide negotiation control to data such that a person or entity can negotiate the use of data gathered beyond what is needed for a particular use by a third party transaction. The method also provides negotiation for the control and operation of autonomous vehicles such as drones operating in non-public space. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242973 | ANONYMOUS PRICE AND PROGRESSIVE DISPLAY EXECUTION APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD - An apparatus, system and method for buying, selling, and/or trading certain items in certain markets (such as, by way of non-limiting example, trading financial instruments) which offers a balance between complete multi-lateral anonymity amongst trading participants while retaining key information, and only making needed information involving historic and linked counter-party data available in a manner which discloses relevant information to the appropriate parties at the appropriate time is disclosed. The apparatus, system and method may comprise a electronic and/or computerized system for buying and selling of products, services, financial instruments including, but not limited to, securities, derivatives, commodities, liabilities, and/or other items which may be bought, sold and/or traded while maintaining the integrity of the markets in which such items are bought, sold and/or traded. The apparatus, system and method may allow for the progressive disclosure of information related the potential execution of product by establishing an anonymous alias and registering an interest in a proposed transaction based upon information that is both constructed by the alias and combined with information that is maintained and linked within a central facility wherein some or all such information within the central facility may be disclosed at an appropriate or desired time as the warranted by the situation related to a transaction. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242974 | ADAPTIVE E-LEARNING ENGINE WITH EMBEDDED DATAGRAPH STRUCTURE - Embodiments of the invention provide dynamically adaptive e-learning courses built on integrated datagraph macrostructures and microstructures. For example, an e-learning course includes a number of knowledge entities, each having one or more lesson and practice components. The knowledge entities can be instantiated as nodes of a course datagraph macrostructure, linked together via edges having edge attributes that can define a course flow relationship among the knowledge entities. Each node in the datagraph macrostructure can include its own set of datagraph microstructures. For example, each knowledge entity can include lesson and/or practice datagraph microstructures that include numbers of respective step objects (e.g., lesson step objects and/or practice step objects), each associated with defined responses, and each linked (e.g., via one or more of the responses) with one or more other respective step objects via edges, thereby defining lesson and practice flow relationships among the respective step objects according to attributes of the defined responses. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242975 | SELF-CONSTRUCTION OF CONTENT IN ADAPTIVE E-LEARNING DATAGRAPH STRUCTURES - Embodiments relate to authoring, consuming, and exploiting dynamically adaptive e-learning courses created using novel, embedded datagraph structures, including course macrostructures with embedded lesson microstructures and practice microstructures. For example, courses can be defined by nodes and edges of directed graph macrostructures, in which each node includes one or more directed graph microstructures for defining lesson and practice step objects of the courses. The content and attributes of the nodes and edges can adaptively manifest higher level course flow relationships and lower level lesson and practice flow relationships. Embodiments can exploit such embedded datagraph structures to facilitate dynamic course creation and increased course adaptability; improved measurement of student knowledge acquisition and retention, and of student and teacher performance; enhanced monitoring and responsiveness to student feedback; and access to, exploitation of, measurement of, and/or valuation of respective contributions; etc. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242976 | DYMAMIC CONTRIBUTION ACCOUNTING IN ADAPTIVE E-LEARNING DATAGRAPH STRUCTURES - Embodiments relate to authoring, consuming, and exploiting dynamically adaptive e-learning courses created using novel, embedded datagraph structures, including course macrostructures with embedded lesson microstructures and practice microstructures. For example, courses can be defined by nodes and edges of directed graph macrostructures, in which each node includes one or more directed graph microstructures for defining lesson and practice step objects of the courses. The content and attributes of the nodes and edges can adaptively manifest higher level course flow relationships and lower level lesson and practice flow relationships. Embodiments can exploit such embedded datagraph structures to facilitate dynamic course creation and increased course adaptability; improved measurement of student knowledge acquisition and retention, and of student and teacher performance; enhanced monitoring and responsiveness to student feedback; and access to, exploitation of, measurement of, and/or valuation of respective contributions; etc. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242977 | ELECTRONIC SYSTEM, METHOD AND DEVICE OPERABLE TO FACILITATE EDUCATION - An electronic system, method and device are operable to facilitate education. The electronic system, in one embodiment, enables teachers to build educational items, teach with the educational items, and market the educational items for use by other teachers. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242978 | CONTENT DEVELOPMENT AND MODERATION FLOW FOR E-LEARNING DATAGRAPH STRUCTURES - Embodiments relate to authoring, consuming, and exploiting dynamically adaptive e-learning courses created using novel, embedded datagraph structures, including course macrostructures with embedded lesson microstructures and practice microstructures. For example, courses can be defined by nodes and edges of directed graph macrostructures, in which each node includes one or more directed graph microstructures for defining lesson and practice step objects of the courses. The content and attributes of the nodes and edges can adaptively manifest higher level course flow relationships and lower level lesson and practice flow relationships. Embodiments can exploit such embedded datagraph structures to facilitate dynamic course creation and increased course adaptability; improved measurement of student knowledge acquisition and retention, and of student and teacher performance; enhanced monitoring and responsiveness to student feedback; and access to, exploitation of, measurement of, and/or valuation of respective contributions; etc. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242979 | Knowledge Management and Classification in a Quality Management System - A system manages education, career planning, workforce mobility for students and workers includes a database configured to store a code corresponding to a classification of a course. The course can include a single learning unit or any combination of learning units. The database also stores learner information including at least one code corresponding to the classified course and one code corresponding to assessment information for the classified course. An interface is configured to suggest recommended courses based on the learner information. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242980 | Processes to Enable Individuals to Opt Out (or be Opted Out) of Various Facial Recognition and other Schemes and Enable Businesses and other Entities to Comply with Such Decisions - Falling costs of imaging technologies, processing, data storage, and networking have led to an explosion in the use of facial recognition technologies previously used almost exclusively by governments at border checkpoints and around other high value and sensitive locations. Increasingly, private companies are using these technologies, usually paired with other technologies and data for commercial purposes. This widespread and growing use of facial recognition has profound implications for personal privacy. While government use of facial recognition technology is generally unrestricted in public places and commercial use is largely unregulated, more stringent controls are likely to be imposed upon uses of facial recognition. The disclosure provides a multifaceted method of administering a system whereby individuals can request or demand (depending on the legal framework) to opt out of facial recognition collection, processing, correlation, storage, and dissemination. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242981 | Extending Watermark Detection Distortion Tolerances - The present disclosures relates generally to digital watermarking and data hiding. One claim recites a smartphone comprising: a camera to capture video of a display that is rendering video, in which the video comprises a first watermark signal embedded in a first portion of the data, a second watermark signal embedded in a second portion of the data, and a third watermark signal embedded in a third portion of the data, in which at least two of the first watermark signal, second watermark signal and third watermark signal are inversely related to one another; electronic memory for buffering data representing captured video; one or more electronic processors programmed for: applying a first perspective distortion to the data representing the captured video to yield first perspective distorted video; and analyzing the first perspective distorted video to detect digital watermarking, in which a second perspective distortion is applied to the data representing the captured video to yield second perspective distorted video when the analyzing does not detect digital watermarking, and then performing analyzing the second perspective distorted video to detect digital watermarking. Of course, other claims are provided too. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242982 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING IMAGE - A method of operating an electronic device is provided. The method includes acquiring an image including one or more objects, detecting distances between the one or more objects and the electronic device, determining a display methods to display information related to the one or more objects based on the distances, and displaying the information related to the one or more objects based on the determined display method. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242983 | OVERLAY-BASED WATERMARKING FOR VIDEO SYNCHRONIZATION WITH CONTEXTUAL DATA - Systems and methods for synchronizing a broadcast video with contextual data are disclosed, wherein the broadcast video is enhanced by graphical overlays. Synchronization is achieved by means of digital watermarking of the broadcast video in conjunction with the graphical-overlays. Exemplary embodiments embed a watermark bitstream into the broadcast video based on an overlay-template, characteristic of a corresponding overlay-graphic. The watermarked video is then transmitted over a communication link to a receiving-end including a detector. According to some embodiment, the embedder inserts the watermark bitstream into the overlay-graphics' regions of the video and the detector extracts the watermark bitstream based on information in the overlay-template and based on a restored version of the original overlay-graphics. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242984 | EMBEDDING AND DECODING THREE-DIMENSIONAL WATERMARKS INTO STEREOSCOPIC IMAGES - Disclosed inventions relates to methods and systems for encoding at least one watermark into a stereoscopic conjugate pair of images. An example method comprises the step of encoding the at least one watermark by shifting selected pixels of said pair of images in one or more directions. The one or more directions include a horizontal direction. In the disclosed embodiments, ancillary information is not required to support decoding of encoded watermarks in addition to the transmitted left and right images. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242985 | ASSESSMENT OF CAMERA PHONE DISTORTION FOR DIGITAL WATERMARKING - The present disclosure relates generally to cell phones and cameras, and to digital watermarking involving such cell phones and cameras. One claim recites a method comprising: measuring distortion introduced by a cell phone camera; using a programmed electronic processor, quantifying the distortion; and providing quantified distortion as feedback to adjust a digital watermark embedding process in view of the distortion introduced by the cell phone camera. The act of quantifying distortion may include, e.g., quantifying a spatial frequency response (SFR) of the cell phone camera. Of course, other claims and combinations are provided too. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242986 | PICTURE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND SETTING MODIFICATION METHOD AND SETTING MODIFICATION PROGRAM THEREFOR - Provided is a picture display device having greater ease of use even when shared by a plurality of users. A picture display device comprising: an individual information storage unit for correlating and storing individual setting information and operator information; an operator identification unit for identifying an operator operating the picture display device; an operation confirmation unit for confirming whether the information of the operator identified by the operator identification device and who will operate the picture display device matches the operator information stored in the individual information storage unit; and a control unit for reading out the individual setting information correlated and stored with the operator information in the individual information storage unit and applying to the picture display device the setting modification based on the individual setting information thus read out. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242987 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An image processing method and electronic device are provided. The image processing method includes receiving an instruction to process an input image, determining at least one image processing unit to be used to execute the instruction based on a state of an electronic device, dividing the input image and distributing the divided input image to the determined at least one image processing unit, and processing the divided image using the at least one image processing unit and combining the processed divided image. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242988 | METHODS OF ELIMINATING REDUNDANT RENDERING OF FRAMES - A method for reducing redundant rendering of frames includes receiving draw calls including state information for a frame. The method includes generating respective bounding boxes for the draw calls. The bounding box is generated based on vertex data, vertex programs and transformation matrices. The method includes comparing the draw calls of the frame to the draw calls of one or more previous frames and identifying draw calls that are not identical in the compared frames. The method includes identifying the bounding boxes containing altered regions of the frames based on the draw calls that are not identical in the compared frames. The method includes reducing the altered regions into a smaller set of clip rectangles and rendering only inside the clip rectangles. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242989 | METHOD OF PROVIDING PREVIEW IMAGE REGARDING DISPLAY SETTING FOR DEVICE - A method of a first electronic device to display a preview image is provided. The method includes receiving, by the first electronic device, a user input for setting a screen of a second electronic device, transmitting, by the first electronic device, setting information based on the user input to the second electronic device, receiving, by the first electronic device, the preview image from the second electronic device, and displaying, by the first electronic device, the received preview image, wherein the preview image is for the screen of the second electronic device. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242990 | Dynamic Graphics Rendering Scheduling - Aspects can be for ray tracing of 3-D scenes, and include dynamically controlling a population of rays being stored in a memory, to keep the population within a target, a memory footprint or other resource usage specification. An example includes controlling the population by examining indicia associated with rays returning from intersection testing, to be shaded, the indicia correlated with behavior of shaders to be run for those rays, such that population control selects, or reorders rays for shading, to prioritize shading of rays whose shaders are expected to produce fewer rays. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242991 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PROCESSING A VIEWPORT WITHIN LARGE FORMAT IMAGERY - A computer system for processing a viewport within an image arranged as a matrix of tiles from a container file is disclosed herein. The computer system includes one or more processors configured to: (a) receive a request to read data of the viewport starting from a point of origin of the viewport, the viewport having a pixel width and a pixel height, the viewport being a portion of an image that is stored in a record within the file container; (b) compute column numbers or row numbers, or both, of the tiles containing the viewport; and (c) read in parallel or asynchronously each row or each column of tiles containing the viewport. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242992 | BLENDING MAP DATA WITH ADDITIONAL IMAGERY - In one aspect, a map is provided for display by one or more computing devices. The map includes one or more polygons. The one or more computing devices receive a zoom request for viewing the map. The one or more computing devices then determines whether a visual threshold has been reached based at least in part on the zoom request. When the visual threshold has been reached, the one or more computing devices identify a polygon of the one or more polygons. The one or more computing devices then provide for display alternate imagery corresponding to the polygon on the map. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242993 | USING PROXIMITY SENSING TO ADJUST INFORMATION PROVIDED ON A MOBILE DEVICE - A proximity metric is obtained that indicates a proximity of a user's face relative to a mobile device. The content, or a visual characteristic of information, on a user interface of the mobile device is adjusted, based upon the proximity metric. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242994 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ACCELERATING VIDEO PREVIEW DIGITAL CAMERA - A method for processing images in an imaging device includes the steps of using real time scalar software (RTSS) for: receiving scalar input data (SID) from video preview application software (VPAS) within a host computer; and performing scaling and cropping operations within the imaging device on raw image frame data to create a scaled down frame (SDF) within the imaging device. As a result, images of high resolution can be transmitted efficiently with significantly reduced amounts of data over the data links, and achieve a high number of frames per second. | 2015-08-27 |
20150242995 | VISUALIZATION OF OBJECTS ALONG A STREET - For visualization of objects along a length of street, a user selection of a street is received. The selected street is displayed in an above-street view. At least a first plurality of street view images are concurrently displayed for objects along at least a first side of the selected street. | 2015-08-27 |