35th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 67 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140244308 | HIPAA-COMPLIANT THIRD PARTY ACCESS TO ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS - Methods, computer systems, and computer storage media are provided for providing a third-party user HIPAA-compliant access to an electronic medical record system at a clinical site. A request for a clinical study participant list is received from the third-party user, and it is determined that the third-party user has viewing and access rights with respect to the clinical study participant list. The third-party user can select a participant on the clinical study participant list and access the participant's electronic medical record within the electronic medical record system. The electronic medical record is presented to the third-party user in a read-only view, and the third-party user is prevented from searching the EMR system for other electronic medical records. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244309 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASSEMBLING ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS - In some aspects, the present disclosure provides a computer program product for assembling a database comprising electronic medical records (EMRs). In certain embodiments, a EMR comprises at least one active diagnosis module (ADM). In some embodiments, the database is searchable based on at least some ADM content. Other aspects and features of the present disclosure are described herein. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244310 | AUTOMATED PROCESSING OF ELECTRONIC MEDICAL DATA FOR INSURANCE AND DISABILITY DETERMINATIONS - A system for assisting medical evidence collection for adjudication of a medical disability request includes a computer-readable library and a processor. The computer-readable library stores an inference rule associated with at least one claimable medical disability condition. The processor is configured to identify and locate, based on the inference rule, evidence in an electronic medical record of a patient that tends to confirm or disconfirm an existence of the claimable medical disability condition in the patient. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244311 | PROTECTING AGAINST DATA LOSS IN A NETWORKED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - An approach for protecting (e.g., insuring) against data loss (e.g., due to SLA failures) in a networked computing environment (e.g., a cloud computing environment) is provided. In a typical embodiment, a risk table is created that associates cloud/solution providers with a corresponding risk factor and a cost of insuring the providers based on the risk factors. The risk factors are typically calculated using historical data that is based on (among other things), each provider's historical capability of honoring SLA terms, expected performance levels, etc. In any event, each provider may be associated with a cost of insuring that provider against failing to perform/process one or more future jobs/workloads. This allows a consumer who needs a workload to be processed to: view the risk table, select a provider, and/or insure against any failure to properly and/or timely process the workload. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244312 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING INSURANCE INFORMATION EXCHANGE - A computer-implemented method for collecting and transmitting data relating to an insurable incident. First data and second data relating to the incident is collected with at least one device. A data package is formed by combining the first data and second data such that the first data is visible and the second data is obscured by the first data. The package is transmitted to an insurance provider. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244313 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CALCULATING OPTIMAL SOCIAL SECURITY ELECTION DECISIONS - In some embodiments, a non-transitory processor-readable medium stores code representing instructions to cause a processor to receive, from a user, an input of at least one value associated with financial information of a married couple, and calculate, using the at least one value, an average indexed monthly earnings (AIME) value and a primary insurance amount (PIA) value for each individual from the married couple. The code represents instructions to cause the processor to calculate, using the AIME value or the PIA value for each individual from the married couple, a set of Social Security election outcomes using each election strategy from a set of election strategies for each age combination from a set of age combinations for the married couple. The code further represents instructions to cause the processor to present the set of Social Security election outcomes to the user. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244314 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSET MANAGEMENT - A system and method for asset management and, in particular, cataloguing, organizing, analyzing, utilizing and managing the contents of a building is disclosed. The system involves a process for using various means to capture the assets/contents of an organization/building. One key goal of the cataloging of a building's contents is to establish an insurable amount of assets within the building. Additionally by organizing the task it can be made easier and more foolproof. Once assets have been added to the system, methods are provided to better utilize the information and add value by using the system. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244315 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING MOBILE DEVICE LIFE CYCLE - A method of managing mobile device lifecycle includes the step of providing a first module in an application residing on a mobile device, whereby upon selection by a user of the mobile device of an insurance purchase transaction, the application initiates a transaction for the purchase of insurance for the mobile device. The method further includes the step of providing a second module in the application residing on the mobile device, whereby upon selection by a user of the mobile device of a sale transaction, the application initiates a transaction for the sale of the mobile device. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244316 | METHOD OF QUOTING INSURANCE - A method of quoting insurance on one or more objects, the objects being owned by the same or different owners and having object information related to the objects in a database maintained by a party for a purpose independent of providing insurance, including electronically accessing object insurance information having been previously entered by an owner of one or more objects for a purpose other than obtaining insurance, electronically transferring the object insurance information to a carrier, generating an insurance quote based at least in part on the object insurance information, and presenting the quote to an owner of an object for acceptance. The method further contemplates providing the owner with the quote electronically and including a link to bind coverage, with payments that can be arranged automatically on a regular schedule. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244317 | Computerized System and Method for Pre-Filling of Insurance Data Using Third Party Sources - Systems and methods are disclosed herein for processing data in connection with insurance information submissions. The system may be configured to receive entity data relating to an entity for which insurance coverage is sought, and query an interface of a third-party platform based on the entity data. The system may then be configured to receive third-party platform interface data from the third-party platform, analyze the data to determine a web site address for a web page on the third-party platform relating to the entity, and retrieve third-party platform web site data from the web page on the third-party platform indicative of content related to the entity. The system may be configured to pre-fill insurance forms relating to the entity based on the third-party platform data. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244318 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLLECTING AND ASSESSING WILDFIRE HAZARD DATA* - A computer-implemented system for collecting and assessing wildfire hazard data comprising a mobile device with an application installed on the mobile device for on-site collection of wildfire hazard data and a wildfire risk assessment provider server. The data collected on the mobile device is merged with data at the wildfire risk assessment provider server to produce underwriting risk scores and reports for insurers, education-aimed recommendations and reports for policyholders, wildfire risk alerts for mobile device application users, strategies for client-to-policyholder wildfire awareness communication, and strategies for wildfire response teams used to drive pre-suppression and active fire actions. A method utilizing the system described above. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244319 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STORING AND FINDING ACTIVITIES - A method for finding and reserving activities, the method comprises receiving, at a search client, search criteria that comprise a search description, a search location and a search time period; searching, by a search tool, for activities stored in an activity repository based on the search criteria, wherein the activity repository stores, for each of a plurality of activities, an activity title, an activity location, and an activity time period and wherein activities stored in the activity repository have been provided by a plurality of activity managers; providing, using the search tool, the search results to the search client, the search results comprising activity data relating to at least one activity identified by the searching; receiving, at the search client, selection input selecting an activity of the search results; and making, in the event that the selected activity is open for reservation, a reservation for the selected activity. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244320 | SEAT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD FOR SEAT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - A related user identifying unit identifies a related user who has a given relation to an assigned user to whom at least one seat has been allocated. A restriction target selecting unit selects, as a restriction target, a seat or a group of seats that is adjacent to the seat allocated to the assigned user and that is not allocated to any user. An allocation restricting unit restricts the allocation of the seat or group of seats selected as the restriction target to any user other than related users for a given restriction period. A second allocation unit allocates, in a case where the request is received from the related user, the seat selected as the restriction target, or at least one seat out of the group of seats selected as the restriction target, to the related user. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244321 | TICKET PROCESSING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD FOR TICKET PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - A first reception unit receives an application for purchasing a physical ticket or an electronic ticket from a user. A purchase processing executing unit executes purchase processing of the ticket in a case where the application for purchasing the ticket is received. A second reception unit receives an application for canceling or transferring the ticket from a purchasing user who has purchased the ticket. An exhibition processing executing unit executes an exhibition processing for putting up the ticket for an auction service in a case where the application for canceling or transferring the ticket is received. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244322 | APPLICATION RECEIVING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD FOR APPLICATION RECEIVING SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - A reception order setting unit sets an order for receiving an application from a first user. A reception standby unit holds start of reception of the application on standby, based on the order. An estimated reception start time and date information obtaining unit obtains estimated reception start time and date information on an estimated time and date at which reception of the application will be started, based on the order. A presentation unit presents to the first user the estimated reception start time and date information. The estimated reception start time and date information obtaining unit updates the estimated reception start time and date information, based on a reception completion state concerning an application from a second user with an earlier order than the order of the first user. The presentation unit is able to present to the first user the estimated reception start time and date information updated. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244323 | APPLICATION RECEIVING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD FOR APPLICATION RECEIVING SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - A determination unit determines whether or not a number of desiring users who want to apply to reserve or buy the same product or service is equal to or smaller than an upper limit number. A reception order setting unit sets a reception order for receiving an application from each of the desiring users. In a case where the number of the desiring users is not equal to or smaller than the upper limit number, a first reception unit selects the number of users equal to or smaller than the upper limit number from among the desiring users, based on the reception order, and receives an application from each of the selected users. Meanwhile, in a case where the number of the desiring users is equal to or smaller than the upper limit number, a second reception unit receives an application from each of the desiring users. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244324 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING TABLE AND SEATING USE IN COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENTS - Computerized systems and methods are provided for allocating and managing table and seating inventory at commercial establishments, such as restaurants. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method receives a first request to allocate table inventory at a commercial establishment. In some aspects, the first request may include a first party size and a first requested time. Based on a received request, the method may determine a mode of allocation associated with the commercial establishment. The method may identifying one or more first units of table inventory capable of accommodating the first party size at the first requested time. In certain aspects, the identification may be based on at least the determined allocation mode. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244325 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CAPTURING, MANAGING, SHARING, AND VISUALISING ASSET INFORMATION OF AN ORGANIZATION - A system for semantically modeling relationships and dependencies between groups, enclosures, assets, and support entities according to an industry specific manner. An exemplary system includes a user interface device, a relational database and a processor. The processor receives relationship information and receives attributes with associated measurements for the groups, enclosures, assets, and support entities for the corporation from the user interface device. The attributes with associated measurements are formatted according the specific industry of the corporation. The processor generates a three dimensional (3D) visualization of the groups, enclosures, assets, and support entities and allows a virtual walkthrough of the 3D visualization as presented on the display device based on user entered commands from the user input device. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244326 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATED SERVICE SCHEDULE DERIVATION AND UPDATING - A method, apparatus and computer program products are provided for automatically determining or fine-tuning bus service schedules for bus stops along a route. One example method includes causing reception of GPS data from a plurality of buses or uses from along a transit route, the GPS data comprised of a plurality of location points and associated temporal data, aggregating the location data by route and direction to determine a trip count, causing reception of at least one bus stop location, partitioning the associated temporal data into a number of clusters in accordance with the trip count, calculating a mean arrival time at the at least one bust stop for each cluster, and generating, using a processor, at least one service schedule for the at least one bus stop, wherein the mean arrival time of each cluster represents the service schedule. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244327 | TECHNIQUES FOR ALLOCATING RESOURCES BASED ON A SOCIAL PROXIMITY SCORE - Techniques for allocating sales representatives to potential new and/or existing customer accounts are described. With sonic embodiments, for each member of the social networking service in a pre-defined group of members (e.g., team of sales representatives), a social proximity score is derived to reflect a measure of how socially connected the member is to a target entity (e.g., company, school, government institution, or some other organization). The new or existing accounts are then allocated to various members in the pre-defined group, based at least in part on the social proximity scores. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244328 | WIND TURBINE MAINTENANCE OPTIMIZER - A service planning engine may predict the future wind speed at a wind farm as well as the future price of energy of the utility grid coupled to the wind turbines. Based on the predicted values, the service planning engine identifies times to perform maintenance when lost revenue is minimized—e.g., when the predicted price of energy is low. Furthermore, the service planning engine may calculate a service priority associated with the turbine to determine when to perform service. The service priority may be based on a status signal associated with the component to be serviced or the time window stipulated in the service contract for performing the maintenance. In one embodiment, the service planning engine also considers resource constraints such as labor costs (e.g., work schedules, overtime costs, availability of technicians with certain skills, availability of components, shipping costs, and the like). | 2014-08-28 |
20140244329 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED PROJECT MANAGEMENT - A method and system for method for automated work project management. The methods and systems described herein provides for a total end-to-end business solution that will receive a data relating to a new work project, allow dispatching a job in a territory to a desired worker, allow quality assurance to be included as part of the dispatch, automatically track worker time and generate an invoice for the project, and provide analytics and feedback to the business on improving its product or service. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244330 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSESSING AND MANAGING A FACILITY - A web-based software as a service (SaaS) system and method that is designed to document and manage multiple participants involved in a construction project. The system and method can be used during or at the end of a construction project to document and manage a punch list. The present invention manages this process electronically and with higher functionality and interactivity than traditional punch list tools. In addition to punch list activities, the system can document multiple types of issues that arise during the course of a project, including issues arising during a project assessment, a project inspection, the closeout of the project, or similar types of events at a construction project. The invention uses an electronic “ticket” to document the imperfections, defects, damage, and incomplete items (collectively, the “deficiency” or “deficiencies”) discovered during a project assessment, a project inspection, or the closeout of a project. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244331 | RAPIDLY OPTIMIZING STAFFING LEVELS IN A TICKETING SYSTEM USING SIMULATION - A method, system and software for determining a final staffing schedule by scheduling a plurality of staffing resource units (SRUs) into a plurality of shifts. The method includes the following steps (not necessarily in the following order except as explicitly indicated): (i) determining an initial staffing schedule; (ii) iteratively-adding SRUs to the staffing schedule until it is determined that the staffing schedule meets a feasibility condition; (iii) iteratively-subtracting SRUs from the staffing schedule until it is determined that the staffing schedule meets at least one improper condition; and (iv) subsequent to the subtracting step, adding a single SRU to the staffing schedule to yield the final staffing schedule. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244332 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND SOFTWARE PRODUCTS FOR AUTOMATIC APPOINTMENT MATCHING - The present invention provides systems, software and methods for automatic event matching, the method including receiving time, location and duration data of planned events from a plurality of individual users and to store the data in a database, dynamically adjusting the data associated with each user to define individual dynamic user-data based profile rankings; minimizing total duration data responsive to the profile rankings and outputting future individualized events schedules responsive to the minimizing step. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244333 | OPTIMIZING STAFFING LEVELS WITH REDUCED SIMULATION - A method, system and software for determining a final staffing schedule in a ticketing system by scheduling a plurality of staffing resource units (SRUs) of multiple classes into one or more shift(s). The method includes finding a simulated staffing schedule for some sub-set of class(es), where the sub-set of class(es) is: (i) less than the total number of classes; and (ii) can accomplish all tasks that may come in during the shift(s) being scheduled. The schedule for the sub-set of classes is then converted into a schedule including SRUs of every class based on historical data relating to historical proportions between SRUs of various classes and/or incoming tasks of various types. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244334 | FACILITATING ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES TO TASKS - An aspect of the present invention facilitates allocation of resources to tasks. In an embodiment, a user provides inputs representing tasks, resources, and duration of allocation of each of the resources to respective tasks in respective days. A unified graphical interface (UGI) indicating the tasks, the corresponding resources allocated for each task, and an extent of utilization of each resource in each day, is displayed. According to another aspect, the UGI includes the identifiers and daily capacities of each resource along a first direction, a timeline identifying days along a second direction (perpendicular to the display of the first direction), and vertical columns, with each column corresponding to a respective resource, wherein a width of a column identifies the daily capacity of the corresponding resource. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244335 | TECHNIQUES FOR DERIVING A SOCIAL PROXIMITY SCORE FOR USE IN ALLOCATING RESOURCES - Techniques for analyzing a social graph of a social networking service to derive a social proximity score representing a measure of how socially connected a member is to a target entity are described. With some embodiments, for each member of the social networking service in a pre-defined group of members, a social proximity score is derived to reflect a measure of how socially connected the member is to a target entity (e.g., company, school, government institution, or some other organization). The social proximity score for each member-target entity pairing may be based on a variety of factors derived from analyzing the social graph, member profile information, and in some instances, the activity and behavior of the members. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244336 | APPOINTMENT SCHEDULER AND LOCATION TRACKER - The invention is directed to scheduling appointments for a field representative and tracking locations of the field representative. New or updated scheduling information regarding appointments to be carried out by the field representative at specified locations is received at a host device from an admin terminal and is stored. Location information about the field representative is entered into a first remote device each time that the field representative arrives at or departs from one of the specified locations and is sent over the network to the host device. The current location of the field representative is updated at the host device each time that the location information about the field representative is received. The current location of and an estimated arrival time of the field representative at a particular one of the specified locations are provided from the host device over the network to a second remote device. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244337 | Schedule Creating Method - To provide a schedule creating method to create a schedule condition relating to a content by a combination of a timing condition and a presentation condition. The timing condition defines a minimum period as a presentation unit in which an event relating to the content arises. The condition of the timing arising a specific event during a given period is represented by expressing “Presence” or “absence” of arising of the event in the presentation unit of the given period by coding to “1” or “0” without relating to a kind of arising condition. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244338 | Multi Condition Takeoff in Construction Project Software Programs - A method and system for simultaneously performing takeoff of multiple building conditions in a construction project software program is disclosed. The method comprises selecting two or more building conditions and moving a pointer to a construction drawing to select an area to perform takeoff of the multiple building conditions on. Once the area has been selected, the method and system automatically creates one or more live objects on the selected area for each of the selected building conditions and simultaneously quantifies each of the selected building conditions based on the size of the selected area. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244339 | ENTERPRISE CONTENT MANAGEMENT DEPLOYMENT, COLLABORATION, AND PROPOSAL TOOL - A method executed by a processor of a computing device provides enterprise content management (ECM) solution information. A set of ECM solutions is accessed from a data storage and transmitted through a network to an organization. Planning input comprising indications of selected ECM solutions is received through the network. Implementation information for implementing the indicated ECM solutions is determined based at least in part upon the planning input, and is transmitted to the organization through the network. When an organization is identified based on an ECM organization identifier, organization information associated with the identified organization is accessed from the data storage, and the planning data is modified based on the organization information. When implementing two or more ECM solutions together has a synergistic reduction in implementation requirements compared to implementing the solutions separately, the reduction is determined and included in the implementation information. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244340 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SERVICE CHAIN VISUALIZATION AND MONITORING OF REUSABLE COMMODITIES - A service chain visualization system graphically displays diverse supply chain information such as demand information, new buy information, defective returns information, out for repair information, good inventory information and bad inventory information. The display includes historical, present, and future supply chain information. In at least one embodiment, the system allows a user to change a supply chain attribute and observe the potential impact on other supply chain attributes. In at least one embodiment, the system graphically collectively displays results that are readily understandable by the user. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244341 | EVALUATING EXTENDED SUPPLY CHAINS - Techniques described herein generally relate to evaluating extended supply chains. In an embodiment, supply chains may be evaluated by efficiently linking current, past, and/or upcoming consumer demand signals to the supply chain. The evaluated supply chains may be extended supply chains, e.g., at select points along supply chains. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244342 | ACCOUNTING FOR CONTRACT FORMATION AND FULFILLMENT ACTIVITIES - Technologies are generally described for accounting for contract formation and fulfillment activities by combination event chaining and multidimensional measurement chaining, with event and measurement matching rules that apply variance and tolerance policies during evaluation. Building on chaining basis and derived measurements that participate in an equality relationship, chaining measurements may participate in a matching rule that applies tolerance policies. Furthermore, measurement chaining may be updated when the documented consequence of events are corrected or changed. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244343 | METRIC MANAGEMENT TOOL FOR DETERMINING ORGANIZATIONAL HEALTH - A metrics management module may be employed to determine organizational health based on data collected for control metrics of an organization. The metrics management module may determine a set of metric health ratings based on the control metric data collected and selects a subset of metric health ratings from the set of metric health ratings. The metrics management module may determine one or more aggregate health ratings based, at least in part, on the subset of selected metric health ratings. The aggregate health ratings may indicate the organizational health of at least a portion of the organization. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244344 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACTIVITY MONITORING - A system for activity monitoring includes a tracking component, an activity identification component, a procedural component, and a notification component. The tracking component tracks an individual and one or more objects in a work area using a three-dimensional tracking system. The activity identification component identifies an activity of the individual and any of the one or more objects that are affected by the activity. The procedural component determines whether the activity violates one or more procedural rules pertaining to one or more of the individual, the work area, and the one or more objects. The notification component provides a notification of a violation. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244345 | Measuring Effectiveness Of Marketing Campaigns Across Multiple Channels - A closed-loop marketing system and method provides the ability to measure the return on investment of marketing programs across channels, both online and offline, including impression, page view and response levels. The present invention provides mechanisms for measuring a marketing department's contribution to the sales pipeline by taking into account the effect of multiple campaigns. A multi-campaign attribution methodology takes into measures the effect of a first touch (a campaign that first brought in an account), a last touch (a campaign that was presented immediately prior to the closing of a deal or creation of a sales-ready opportunity), and any significant re-touch events (campaigns that represent lead-nurturing and/or remarketing efforts). | 2014-08-28 |
20140244346 | REAL ESTATE TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT PLATFORM - Methods, devices, and systems for real estate transaction management. Methods may include generating and displaying parts of one or more data sets based on data including a proposal and one more counterproposals for a transaction of real property. The method may include performing data analysis on at least part of the data of one or more of the proposal and counterproposals and generating at least one negotiation analysis data set; and providing at least part of the negotiation analysis data set to a related party. The negotiation analysis data set may be determined in dependence upon a procurement data set associated with a procurement party and representing at least part of a procurement real estate proposal for real property, and a property holder data set associated with a property holder party and representing at least part of a property holder real estate proposal for the real property. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244347 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING CONTENT INCLUDING INFORMATION DERIVED FROM A SOCIAL NETWORK - Systems and methods of providing information via a computer network are provided. A data processing system can receive a request for third-party content that identifies a first entity. The data processing system can obtain a marketability profile of the first entity based on a social network profile of the first entity and can identify interests of the first entity. The data processing system can identify a third-party content item based on the marketability profile and the social network profile and determine a quality score for the content item. Based on the quality score and a bid value of the content item, the data processing system can select the content item and provide the content item for display. The content item can indicate a second entity, a type of connection between the first entity and the second entity and a type of association between an organization and the second entity. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244348 | MERCHANT-DIRECTED COMPUTER-BASED COMMERCIAL PLATFORM USABLE WITH A MARKETPLACE - A system and a method are disclosed a self-service computing platform having a software interface, such as a webpage, which allows a merchant or advertiser to create a customized merchant platform and use it to enroll or register itself in a marketplace. In various embodiments, a webpage is provided pre-filled merchant-specific information including offers and incentives related to customer leads. A Customer Relationship Management (CRM) service is provided to assist the merchant in contacting and managing the given customer leads. Dynamic CRM (DCRM) and Advertiser CRM (ACRM) services may further assist the merchant in managing the sales and marketing activities relating to the given customers. Such activities may include contacting, engaging, status inquiry, and sales with respect to customers whose lead information were provided to the merchant. In various embodiments, incentives given to the merchant may include new customer leads, credits, discounts, services, and the like. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244349 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MOBILE ANALYTICS PLATFORM - The disclosed technology, in certain embodiments, provides a mobile analytics platform tailored to a specific industry, e.g., the life science/health care industry. This platform presents large amounts of data, organized and displayed as an analytical story on a portable electronic device. The platform may translate large amounts of data to provide insights and answer questions specific to a user's role. The system may take the user through an analytical story that delivers actionable insights, thus making it easy and intuitive to consume large amounts of information. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244350 | GLOBAL EXPANSION BUSINESS SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system for guiding business users through a process of globalizing their business and developing the plans and action items required to export specific products to specific markets. Other aspects and advantages of the present invention will become apparent from the following detailed description, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, illustrating by way of example the principles of the present invention. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244351 | CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT (CRM) SYSTEMS - A customer, prospect and campaign management system maintains a single view of customers in one unified funnel, allowing companies to share platform-based, single-funnel views of prospects and customers in a privacy-compliant networked system. Individual customer relationship data records can be shared in a distributed multi-master, multi-slave or peer-peer context, partially or fully anonymously by removal of personally identifiable information, to one or more distributed slave or peer CRM systems. Anonymous data records in the slave or peer CRM systems may be used to select, target and track customers through a customer relationship funnel for communications using one or more communication proxies. Target customers may be advanced within the master, slave or peer CRM funnels and, given appropriate customer permission, the customer record may be identified fully or partially. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244352 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO PROVIDE INTELLIGENT ANALYTICS TO CARDHOLDERS AND MERCHANTS - In one aspect, a computing apparatus includes: a transaction handler to process transactions, a data warehouse to store transaction data recording the transactions processed by the transaction handler, a portal coupled with the data warehouse to receive one or more parameters as an input and to provide spending activity information for presentation as a response to the input, and an analytics engine coupled with the portal and the data warehouse to analyze spending activities of a user based on the transaction data and the one or more parameters to generate the spending activity information regarding transactions in a plurality of accounts of the user. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244353 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO ENHANCE SEARCH DATA WITH TRANSACTION BASED DATA - In one aspect, a system includes a transaction handler to process transactions, a data warehouse to store data recording the transactions, a portal configured to communicate with a search engine and to provide a user interface to receive a request from a merchant, and at least one processor coupled with the data warehouse and the portal. In response to the request received from the merchant via the portal, the at least one processor identifies a set of first statistics based on search activities of the search engine, identifies a set of second statistics based on the transactions relevant to the search activities, and uses the portal to juxtapose the set of first statistics and the set of second statistics. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244354 | METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING BEHAVIOUR OF PERSONS PERFORMING ONLINE INTERACTIONS - A person performs online interactions with an entity, and one or more interactions are registered as a partial sequence of interactions. The partial sequence is compared to stored sequences and associated final events defining an outcome, of persons who have previously performed interactions with the entity. A final event and/or a probability of a final event of the partial sequence is/are predicted, based on the comparing step. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244355 | Smart Analytics for Forecasting Parts Returns for Reutilization - An approach is provided in which the approach maps first parts included in a first system to second parts included in a second system. The approach then utilizes functioning first parts returns data, which indicates an amount of parts included in the first system that have been returned and are functioning, to forecast an amount of functioning parts corresponding to the second system to be returned. As such, the approach generates a functioning second parts returns forecast based upon the amount of functioning second parts that are forecast to be returned. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244356 | Smart Analytics for Forecasting Parts Returns for Reutilization - An approach is provided in which the approach maps first parts included in a first system to second parts included in a second system. The approach then utilizes functioning first parts returns data, which indicates an amount of parts included in the first system that have been returned and are functioning, to forecast an amount of functioning parts corresponding to the second system to be returned. As such, the approach generates a functioning second parts returns forecast based upon the amount of functioning second parts that are forecast to be returned. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244357 | Inducing Customer Store Visits Via Mobile Application - The present disclosure extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for motivating customers to voluntarily provide information about themselves to retailers. The retailer provides the customer with an application for a mobile device, which application is configured for detecting the customer's presence in the retailer's store when the application is enabled. The application is enabled by the customer providing the requested information. When the application detects the customer's presence in the store for a selected time period or when the customer makes a purchase, then the retailer awards a contribution to charity. This charitable contribution is an incentive for the customer to use the mobile application in the store. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244358 | NEED DETERMINATION DEVICE, NEED DETERMINATION METHOD, AND NEED DETERMINATION PROGRAM - In an aspect of the present invention, a need determination device includes a storage unit configured to store survey data in which an assessment value of a quantitatively or qualitatively assessable survey item is set at each textbook that is the same type as an object of which needs are to be determined, and need assessment data in which an assessment value of a need is set at each of the textbooks; a determination logic generation unit configured to generate a determination logic for determining a need based on the survey data and the need assessment data; and a determination unit configured to determine a need of the object by applying, to the determination logic, input data in which the assessment value of the survey item of the object of which needs are to be determined is set. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244359 | USING MEDIA INFORMATION FOR IMPROVING DIRECT MARKETING RESPONSE RATE - Embodiments of the invention relate to improving direct marketing response rate through use of media information. One embodiment includes extracting samples of language usage in one or more social media activities. Language usage features comprising relationships to products are derived by analyzing the extracted samples for relevant language terms. The language usage features are mapped to one or more of personality traits, emotional state and personal features. The mapped language usage features and personal features are stored in a repository. Customers are segmented for direct marketing using the mapped language usage features and the personal features. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244360 | CUSTOMER UNIVERSE EXPLORATION - The present disclosure extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for identifying attributes associated with potential customers. Attribute data contained in a potential customer database are transformed into bit sets or binary fingerprints. These bits sets or binary fingerprints are then clustered into clusters based on similarities between the bits sets, which correspond to similarities of the attributes. These clusters are represented graphically in a two- or three-dimensional map. The two- or three-dimensional map is analyzed to identify attributes associated with the potential customers. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244361 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PREDICTING PURCHASE BEHAVIORS FROM SOCIAL MEDIA - In an example embodiment, a first social media profile is retrieved. Express interests in the first social media profile are extracted, and social media categories corresponding to the express interests are identified. Demographic information is also extracted from the first social media profile. Then, the identified social media categories and demographic information are correlated with ecommerce categories of purchases. Using results from the correlating, a machine learning process is configured, the machine learning process accepting a second social media profile as input and returning a prediction of an ecommerce category as output. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244362 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO PROVIDE PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS TOWARDS PERFORMANCE OF TARGET OBJECTS ASSOCIATED WITH ORGANIZATION - This disclosure relates to predictive performance analysis of target objects associated with an organization. In one embodiment, a performance predictive analysis method is disclosed, comprising: receiving one or more parameters and an associated intensity level to predict performance of a target object associated with an organization; determining a proportionality relation between the performance of the target object and the one or more parameters, by applying a logical regression technique over the one or more parameters; selecting a threshold value from a pre-defined truth table to convert the one or more parameters into one or more group-level model factors with the associated intensity level; determining an impact of the one or more parameters on the performance in terms of a band wise distribution; and identifying a probabilistic effect, based on the determined impact, of the proportionality relation between the performance of the target object and the one or more parameters. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244363 | PUBLICATION OF INFORMATION REGARDING THE QUALITY OF A VIRTUAL MEETING - Arrangements relate to the publication of information regarding the quality of a virtual meeting. One or more performance indicators related to an aspect of the meeting can be collected. The performance indicators can be collected automatically or by input by a meeting attendee. The collected performance indicators can be aggregated. The aggregated performance indicators can be published to an external computing system, such as a social collaboration system. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244364 | BENCHMARKING SYSTEM USING BENCHMARKING SCENARIO TAG TEMPLATES - In some implementations, a benchmarking system may be used to provide benchmarking data or reports. The benchmarking system may include benchmarking scenario tag templates that may include tags associated with defined data structures. In some instances, the data structures may be defined in a technology- or solution-independent manner. A business data provider may request a benchmarking tag template and associate the tags with the relevant elements of business data. The tagged elements of the business data may be extracted and transformed to be loaded into the benchmarking system. In some instances, the tagged elements of the business data may be transformed by anonymization or pseudonymization. The benchmarking system may use the tagged elements of the business data and other data to generate benchmarking data. The business data provider may opt in to a scenario to include the tagged elements of the business data into a benchmarking data database. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244365 | TOLL APP SYSTEM - The Toll App uses the user's smart phone to determine when the user crosses a toll zone. The app then automatically makes the correct payment for using the toll zone. The Toll App uses the phone's storage media to store toll zones defined on a web site by the toll operator. The Toll App uses the user's payment vehicle such as a credit card to make the payment. The Toll App web site provides a user interface for the toll operator to create and store toll zones on a database and those toll zones are sent to the storage media on the user's phone. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244366 | Tracking and Counting Wheeled Transportation Apparatuses - Tracking and counting wheeled transportation apparatuses is disclosed. Initially, three or more first images are received from a first camera having a first field of view, where the three or more first images show multiple wheeled transportation apparatuses traversing a portion of a roadway. Next, first and second static characteristics and first and second dynamic characteristics of a first of the multiple wheeled transportation apparatuses are determined. It is then determined that the second static characteristic is approximately equal to the first static characteristic and that the second dynamic characteristic is approximately equal to the first dynamic characteristic. Next, it is determined that the first wheeled transportation apparatus is traversing the portion of the roadway based on the comparisons. A count of the number of wheeled transportation apparatuses traversing the portion of the roadway is then incremented. Finally, the count is indicated. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244367 | PERSONAL CASTING SYSTEM - A profit redistribution device, profit redistribution method, program storage medium, profit redistribution system, content providing device, content providing method, program storage media, and content providing system are disclosed. Profit redistribution processing is performed according to the accumulated points proportionate to the number of times the content with a commercial video is provided to a client PC. Thus, a fair profit redistribution can be easily performed. A preset content with a commercial video is provided to a user when requested from the client PC, and it is possible to provide advertisement information without the user being aware of the commercial. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244368 | ESTIMATING PRODUCT PROMOTION SALES LIFT - Regular sales of a product during a period of time including at least one sales promotion for the product is estimated based on actual sales data for the product during the period of time. A correlation value for each pair of products is calculated. One or more products that are similar to a target product of are determined based on the correlation values of the similar products to the target product. Baseline sales of the target product during the period of time is calculated based on the estimated regular sales for each of the similar products. An incremental sales lift for the target product during the period of time is calculated based on actual sales data for the target product and the baseline sales of the target product during the period of time. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244369 | WISH LIST PRODUCT AVAILABILITY NOTIFICATION FOR A SOCIAL NETWORK-BASED WISH LIST - Systems, methods, and computer program products provide for generating a social network-based wish list of products desired by members of the social network and which are authorized to be purchased by other members of the social network on behalf of the member requesting the product. The present invention provides for automatically notifying a member of the social network that they are currently located at physical location, such as a retail store or the like, that currently has available one or more of the products on the wish list. The notifications may take the form of alerts communicated on the member's mobile communication device. Automatic notification occurs via a mobile communication device that is capable of identifying current location, determining that the current location has products available, and determine that one or more of the products currently available at the location are currently listed on the wish list. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244370 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION OF PRODUCT REDEMPTION COUPONS - Provided is a method and system for the electronic distribution of product redemption coupons to remote personal computers located at users' homes. A centrally located repository, such as an online service provider or web site on the Internet, stores packages of coupon data for downloading on demand to the user's computer. The user may view, select, sort and print desired coupons from the downloaded package. The user's demographic as well as coupon selection data is provided back to the online service and coupon distributor and issuers for subsequent marketing analysis. The online service can perform subsequent coupon processing on previously downloaded coupon packages such as variation of discount amounts. The online service provider can also determine how many times a particular coupon was viewed. When the printed coupons are presented at a retail store, the discount is provided to the user. Upon redemption by the store via a coupon redeeming center, transaction data is also supplied to the coupon issuers and distributor for integration into marketing analysis. The electronic coupon system is secure due to the inclusion of user-specific identification indicia printed thereon. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244371 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ISSUING, AGGREGATING AND REDEEMING MERCHANT REWARDS - A loyalty reward point system that utilizes the pre-existing infrastructure of a network such as a credit card network. A user makes a purchase at a merchant using a token such as a credit card. The user is awarded loyalty points from the merchant based on the amount of the purchase. The reward points, which are specific to the merchant and the user, are stored in a database at the issuing bank, the acquiring bank, or a central reward server. The user may redeem the reward points earned from the transaction with the merchant at a later time, or may redeem the points with another merchant in the same marketing cluster, or may aggregate those reward points with those of other merchants into a reward point exchange account, and then redeem the aggregated reward points for goods or services from any approved merchant on the network. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244372 | VALIDATING INTERNET AD CONVERSIONS - The present disclosure extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for selling advertising space for display of advertising on a website. A data broker, who controls a website, obtains information from customers, the information including identifying data, behavioral data, and demographic data concerning the customers. The data broker also obtains permission from the customers to provide this information to advertisers on the website and to track purchases made after receiving the advertising. The data broker then sells advertising space to advertisers and provides the advertisers with access to the customers' information. When the customers make purchases from the advertisers that can be attributed to the advertising, the data broker collects a payment from the advertisers and returns a portion of the payment to the customers. The customers benefit from this arrangement by receiving something in return for their purchases. The advertiser benefits by being able to target advertising to customers based on the information. The data broker benefits by collecting a payment for the sale of advertising space that is higher than would otherwise be possible. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244373 | MOBILE LOYALTY SYSTEM AND METHOD - A mobile loyalty system for preventing fraudulent redemption of a reward is disclosed which comprises a mobile communication device having a screen and configured to run a mobile application for obtaining a code representative of a visit to a merchant, the mobile application for transmitting information associated with obtaining the code representative of the visit to the merchant and for receiving information associated with a reward to be redeemed at the merchant, the screen for displaying the reward to be redeemed and a motion element for preventing fraudulent redemption of the reward. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244374 | TECHNIQUES FOR VOUCHER OR REBATE REDEMPTION - Techniques for voucher or rebate redemption are provided. An enterprise system electronically distributes an encoded voucher or rebate to a device of a consumer. In an embodiment, the consumer electronically presents the encoded rebate or voucher at a kiosk, via the device, and receives a card preloaded with a value for the voucher or the rebate. In another case, the consumer electronically presents the encoded rebate or voucher at a retailer, via the device, during a transaction and a value for the voucher or the rebate is debited based on the transaction. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244375 | REWARD DISTRIBUTION PLATFORM FOR INCREASING ENGAGEMENT - The present disclosure provides a system and method for providing relevant promotional incentives to increase engagement and participation by members of an entity, such as a non-profit, charitable institution, church or school. The present invention further provides a proactive registration system and method for increasing participation by vendors and entities. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244376 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING OFF-PEAK SALES USING A PAYMENT CARD NETWORK - A method for processing a discount for an off-peak transaction includes: receiving an off-peak offer, the offer including a merchant identifier, start time, end time, and transaction modifier; identifying an offer identifier; storing the offer with offer identifier; transmitting the stored offer; receiving a discount request, the request including a consumer identifier and offer identification; identifying a selected offer where the offer identifier matches the offer identification; receiving an authorization request including a consumer identification, merchant identification, transaction time, and transaction amount; calculating a new amount based on the transaction amount and the transaction modifier for the selected offer if the consumer identification matches the consumer identifier, the merchant identification matches the merchant identifier, and the transaction time is within the start and end times; and transmitting an authorization response for the new amount, where the response is for a final authorization rather than a partial authorization. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244377 | Systems and methods for electronic gifting - Disclosed herein are systems and methods for electronic gifting. In an exemplary gift purchasing method, a control system receives from a purchasing system a gift purchase request that includes a mobile telephone number (or other unique telephonic identifier) associated with a wireless gift recipient system, sends to a payment authorization system a payment authorization request, receives a payment authorization, and notifies the wireless gift recipient system of an electronic gift certificate. In an exemplary gift redemption method, the control system receives a gift redemption request for goods/services from a point-of-sale (POS) system, sends an authentication request addressed to the wireless gift recipient system by way of text message or other format, receives an authentication confirmation originating from the wireless gift recipient, and sends a redemption authorization to the vendor POS system. The control system has modules for conducting a targeted marketing campaign utilizing purchase and/or redemption information. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244378 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING REAL TIME RESPONSE TO CUSTOMER ACTIVITY - A computerized method and system for providing real-time response to consumer activity is disclosed. The method and system includes receiving a consumer activity, the consumer activity being associated with marketing engagement by a consumer, analyzing the consumer activity to determine one or more changes to previously known attributes of the consumer stored in a database, pushing the one or more changes into a data queue, processing the one or more changes from the data queue based on a business logic process, the business logic process comprising one or more marketing activities and a timing for each marketing activity of the one or more marketing activities, and performing the one or more marketing activities based at least in part on the business process. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244379 | ENGINE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATION OF BRAND AFFINITY CONTENT - An endorsed advertising engine, system and method, which includes at least one vault having media assets, a recommendation engine that matches the media assets from the vault with at least one requested creative, and a delivery engine that integrates the requested creative with the matched media assets from the vault. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244380 | Dynamically Allocating Marketing Results Among Categories - A computer-implemented system and method allow an analyst and/or automated system to dynamically adjust the allocation of marketing results among a plurality of categories of marketing items such as channels and/or campaigns. According to various embodiments, a continuous control element, such as a slider, is provided, allowing the analyst to specify an allocation at any point along a continuum. A displayed report is updated substantially instantaneously in response to the analyst's manipulation of the control element, so as to provide dynamic, real-time feedback. According to other embodiments, adjustments to allocations can be made automatically. The displayed report can indicate, for example, revenue, order allocation, average order value (AOV), profit, return on investment, or any other quantitative result(s), and can update these results substantially instantaneously in response to changes in allocations. Graphical and/or textual representations of the quantitative results can be presented and updated. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244381 | HIGH CHURN BUSINESS RING - An online system for managing multiple types of online sites for a company is disclosed. Such an online system is designed to retain user interest in the company. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244382 | FRAUD PREVENTION AND DETECTION FOR ONLINE ADVERTISING - A system and a method are disclosed for detecting and preventing fraud in online advertising environments. In one embodiment, the system and process include a publisher with a web page with which an advertisement set and a unique request identifier are sent to a user browser when the user requests the web page. The unique request identifier is unique, publisher specific, advertisement specific, for a single instance. A database keeps track of the unique request identifier so that when a user “clicks” on a link to access an advertiser's web site, the unique request identifier associated with the advertisement can be checked against the unique request identifier in the database to determine whether the “click” was one that may be non-fraudulent or valid. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244383 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION OF PRODUCT REDEMPTION COUPONS - Provided is a method and system for the electronic distribution of product redemption coupons to remote personal computers located at users' homes. A centrally located repository, such as an online service provider or web site on the Internet, stores packages of coupon data for downloading on demand to the user's computer. The user may view, select, sort and print desired coupons from the downloaded package. The user's demographic as well as coupon selection data is provided back to the online service and coupon distributor and issuers for subsequent marketing analysis. The online service can perform subsequent coupon processing on previously downloaded coupon packages such as variation of discount amounts. The online service provider can also determine how many times a particular coupon was viewed. When the printed coupons are presented at a retail store, the discount is provided to the user. Upon redemption by the store via a coupon redeeming center, transaction data is also supplied to the coupon issuers and distributor for integration into marketing analysis. The electronic coupon system is secure due to the inclusion of user-specific identification indicia printed thereon. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244384 | Method and apparatus for performing targeted advertising in documents - A method, apparatus and computer program product for performing targeted advertising in documents is presented. A document is identified as having advertisements associated therewith. A statistical ranking of terms derived from said document is received and at least one term is selected from the results to use as a keyword for associating at least one advertisement with the document. The at least one term is stored with the document. When the document is viewed, the document is identified as being enabled to have advertisements associated therewith. The at least one stored term is retrieved from the document and is submitted to an advertisement aggregator. At least one advertisement is received from the advertisement aggregator and is rendered with the document. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244385 | ADVERTISEMENT SERVICE USING MOBILE VEHICLE - The disclosure is related to an advertisement service using mobile vehicles. Particularly, the disclosure relates to providing advertisement content selected based on statistical information on an advertisement target at an advertisement display location. Furthermore, the selected advertisement content may be provided to a corresponding mobile vehicle before the corresponding mobile vehicle arrives at the advertisement display location. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244386 | TARGETING ADVERTISEMENTS TO LOGGED OUT USERS OF AN ONLINE SYSTEM - An online system stores a plurality of browsing histories for its users, each browsing history associated with a user's user identifying information. Based on a request for an advertisement from a client device that identifies a user and indicates the user does not have an existing session with the online system, the online system compares the identified user's browsing history to other stored browsing histories. Users associated with stored browsing histories similar to the identified user's browsing history are identified and user profiles of the identified users having an established session with the online system are identified. One or more common characteristics of the identified user profiles are used to select an advertisement for presentation to the user. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244387 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACCESSING FIRST PARTY COOKIES - An advertiser participating in a method of targeting based on first party cookies may update its DNS record to include a subdomain that redirects to a server associated with an ad network. The ad network may incorporate that advertiser's subdomain in an ad pixel tag published on one or more of the advertiser's web pages, to set a cookie on the advertiser's domain. Specifically, when a user visits one of the advertiser's web pages, the ad pixel tag may be redirected by the advertiser's DNS update to an ad network server for receipt of a cookie that matches the subdomain. The ad network may distribute to its publishers an ad call that checks for the presence of any first party domain cookies set via the second stage, and then pass any such cookie data to the network's ad servers to decide which ad to serve. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244388 | Social Content Synchronization - Methods, systems, and apparatus are disclosed which include filtering social media data for content resources that match one or more search terms, generating a feed based on the filtering, associating a content resource tag with each content resource, associating the feed with a first section of a layout of a content display, associating an advertisement campaign with a second section of the layout, providing the layout to be displayed on a display device, providing the content resources from the feed to be displayed in the first section of the layout, determining that one of the content resources currently displayed in the first section of the layout is associated with a content resource tag that matches one of the campaign tags of the advertisement campaign; and providing the advertisement image to be displayed in the second section of the layout. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244389 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLOUD BASED PAYMENT INTELLIGENCE - The present application provides a system and method that includes receiving first and second electronic information associated with a first and second entity. The information is filtered and quantified and, thereafter qualified using at least one processor. Moreover, information associated with at least one reward and/or advertisement is determined to be provided to at least one of the first and second entities in accordance with the qualifying. The information associated with the at least one reward and/or advertisement is transmitted to at least one computing device. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244390 | CUSTOMIZING PERISHABLE CONTENT OF A MEDIA CHANNEL - A user can specify particular news weather, traffic, or other perishable content received on a particular Internet radio station or other media channel. The user can customize the station so that wherever the user is currently located, he can receive perishable content related to a preferred geographic location or other category. In some embodiments, a user can specify that a customized station plays local news from one city at the top of the hour, traffic from another city at 10 minutes past the hour, and music or other content at other times. The user can also customize the station to select the perishable content, or other original content, from the personal libraries of specified users. Thus, a user can customize not only the genre of content or select a particular local station, but can also modify the perishable content provided by the customized station. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244391 | ONLINE ADVERTISING METHOD AND SYSTEM - A first party creates offers, generally comprising advertisements, which are associated on a server with names and categories; the first party may also bid on placement of the offers in online content. A second party, such as a publisher, obtains a script which the publisher includes in the publisher's online content. When a user access the online content, the user's browser and/or an app or browser plugin (or similar) notifies the server and the server parses the online content for names. If any are found, then the server obtains offers associated with the names and other criteria, such as the location of the user and locations associated with the offers. The obtained offers are sent to and rendered by the user's client device. The server logs interaction with the client device, may obtain consideration from the first party, and may provide consideration to the second party. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244392 | Graphical Recognition Inventory Management and Marketing System - A graphical recognition inventory management and marketing system is disclosed. An image comprising a plurality of product elements is captured. Graphical recognition is utilized to detect, isolate, and identify each element by comparing characteristics of the element with element data stored in a database. When a match is found, the detected and isolated element data is stored with the matched database entry. Additional element data obtained during the graphical recognition process is added to element data stored in the database to expand the database entry. The current location of a user device is detected and product element data is displayed along with a map indicating the physical location of the product element and a route to the product element from the user's current location. A user can also capture an image and have product data and a map to the product displayed. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244393 | FALL-BACK TO SAVED LOCATION WHERE USER LOCATION IS UNKNOWN - Presentation of a saved offer with a redemption location closest to a user's location. The user reviews and selects an offer, creating an offer instance. The user's current location at the time the offer instance is created is identified. The user's current location and the offer instance are saved by a user device. The user accesses the offer instance using an application resident on the user device. If the device cannot identify the user's current location or the application is not integrated with the device's location system, the user's last known location is identified by retrieving the location saved with the offer instance. Alternatively, the user device will determine the most recent saved location, or most relevant last known location. The user's last known location is retrieved and the nearest redemption locations are displayed with the offer. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244394 | Mixed-mode interaction - A user of a wireless device, such as a mobile phone, can make purchases or obtain information via a network, such as the Internet, using both voice and non-verbal methods. Users can submit voice queries and receive non-verbal replies, submit non-verbal queries and receive voice replies, or perform similar operations that many the voice and data capabilities of modern mobile communication devices. The user may provide notification criteria indicating under what conditions a notification should be sent to the user's wireless device. When purchasing opportunities matching the selected notification criteria become available, the user is notified. The user can respond to the notification, and immediately take advantage of the purchasing opportunity if he so desires. Mixed-mode interactions can also be used by sellers to more advantageously control the marketing of distressed, time sensitive, or other merchandise/services. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244395 | FOOTWEAR PRODUCTS INCLUDING DATA TRANSMISSION CAPABILITIES - Footwear systems include an article of footwear and a data transmission system engaged with the article of footwear. The transmission system transmits data to a remote system, such as a display system, another data transmission system, a processing system, etc. Such footwear systems further may include activation systems for activating the transmission and/or display systems. The transmitted data may be used for various purposes, such as: (a) identifying a user of the article of footwear; (b) activating targeted advertising or product information; (c) confirming the user's presence at a specific location and/or at a specific time; (d) determining start, finish, and/or intermediate split times for specific user; (e) confirming athletic equipment usage; (f) providing data for a game or reward program; (g) registering the user for an event or competition; or the like. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244396 | NAVIGATION SYSTEM WITH LOCATION-BASED SUPPLEMENTAL INCENTIVE NOTIFICATION MECHANISM AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - A method of operation of a navigation system includes: generating a notification of an initial offer; identifying a consumer's vacillation to the initial offer; and generating a second notification of the supplemental incentive offer based on the consumer's vacillation for displaying on a device. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244397 | System and Method for Providing Short Message Targeted Advertisements Over a Wireless Communications Network - A method and system for providing targeted advertisement information to consumers over a wireless communications network are provided. In one embodiment, local advertisers register to advertise on wireless communications devices that are in close proximity to the advertiser. As a consumer enters a cell site that is near the location of the advertiser, the wireless network delivers a message to the wireless device specified by the local advertiser. An acknowledgement signal is then received by the network, and the local advertiser's account is charged for transmission of the advertisement. In a further embodiment, each of the messages is associated with one or more demographic codes, and a demographic code is selected to describe an advertisement preference of a user of a wireless communications device. Messages to be transmitted to particular wireless communications devices are selected based upon both the location information and the demographic codes associated with the messages. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244398 | TARGETING OFFERINGS TO A CUSTOMER BASED ON PSYCHOGRAPHIC INFORMATION - Transmitting entertainment information for presentation to a user and receiving, on behalf of the user, user response information responsive to the entertainment information is disclosed. The entertainment information may include a set of questions such as trivia-related questions or polling questions. The user response information may indicate a set of corresponding responses provided by the user in response to the set of questions. The entertainment information may be identified based on available historical preference data associated with the user, demographic data associated with the user or may be randomly selected to gauge user interest. User psychographic data associated with the user may be generated based at least in part on the user response information. At least one offering for targeting to the user such as a product or service offering or a targeted advertisement may be identified based on the user psychographic data and may be transmitted for presentation to the user. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244399 | SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING USE OF PERSONAL DATA - The invention relates to a system configured to enable a user to track how his or her personal data is being used, and to control its collection, storage, and/or use, and delete certain personal data across information providers. A user may establish criteria regarding such collection, use, and storage of personal data generated by a security system device, capture the personal data at a control gateway before it is provided to an information provider; and applying the criteria to the personal data. The invention also relates to a system to present additional information to the user that is relevant to both the user and at least one marketing partner (such as targeted advertising); and to provide data to enable at least one marketing partner to provide value (a “reward”) to the user in exchange for the user allowing an information provider to collect and use personal data of the user. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244400 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SOCIAL ADVERTISEMENT SYNDICATION - Systems and methods for syndicating advertising content are described. In one embodiment, a method of syndicating relevant user activities includes obtaining a first advertising bid from a first advertising site, obtaining a second advertising bid from a second advertising site, recording user activities with a first participating site, classifying the recorded user activities describing at least one category associated with the recorded user activity, determining an auction strategy based on the first advertising bid, the second advertising bid, the first advertising site, and the second advertising site, where the auction strategy selects at least one winning advertising site, generating an ad unit ad unit including metadata describing the recorded user activity and the at least one winning advertising site, and syndicating the generated ad unit to at least one participating site within an advertisement network. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244401 | Creation of a Universal Profile of a User By Identifying Similar User-Managed Assets On a Plurality of Devices of the User - A system for identifying a same user of multiple communication devices is configured to perform the steps of: (a) receiving data corresponding to a first user-managed asset from a first communication device operated by a user, wherein the first user-managed asset is a plurality of applications and their placement within a graphical user interface of the first communication device; (b) receiving data corresponding to a second user-managed asset from a second communication device operated by a user, wherein the second user-managed asset is a plurality of applications and their placement within a graphical user interface of the second communication device, wherein the first user-managed asset is substantially the same as the second user-managed asset; and (c) determining that the user of the first communication device is the user of the second communication device based on identifying that the first user-managed asset is substantially the same as the second user-managed asset. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244402 | SYSTEM FOR SELECTIVELY DISPLAYING CONTENT - A system for selectively displaying content may include one or more processors and a memory. The one or more processors may display a graphical object at a first location on a map, determine a user interaction with the graphical object, and display, in response to the determining, a first content item on the map at a second location that is proximal to the first location, the first content item being associated with the graphical object. The one or more processors may identify a selection of the graphical object and display, in response to the identifying, a second content item on the map at a third location that is disparate from the first and second locations, the second content item being associated with the first content item and the graphical object. The one or more processors may transmit an indication of the selection of the graphical object. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244403 | ADVERTISING CHARGE ADJUSTING DEVICE - An advertising charge adjusting device is configured to set a minimum delivery price which determines a lower limit of a bid price. The advertising charge adjusting device includes a minimum delivery price calculating unit configured to calculate the minimum delivery price for each targeting element, based on bid information for using a targeting function and bid information for not using the targeting function, pieces of bid information being submitted by a plurality of advertisers. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244404 | AUTOMATED NEGOTIATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method of automated negotiation is provided. The method is implemented using at least one computer, and includes receiving, from a seller, an ask price for an item and a accept price for the item. The method also includes storing the ask price for the item and the accept price for the item in a memory element provided by the at least one computer. The method also includes providing the ask price for the item to a buyer and receiving, from the buyer, an offer price and a max price. The method also includes storing the offer price for the item and the max price for the item in the memory element. The method also includes calculating a final transaction price using the at least one computer and assessing a penalty to the buyer based at least on the offer price. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244405 | Automatic Generation of Digital Advertisements - In the disclosed embodiments, a method for automatically generating a digital advertisement includes receiving a source uniform resource locator (URL) and retrieving a document associated with the source URL. The method also includes processing the document associated with the source URL to derive at least a length of text associated with the document. The method also includes automatically generating a digital advertisement from at least the length of text. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244406 | PROVIDING ADVERTISEMENT CONTENT VIA AN ADVERTISEMENT PROXY SERVER - An advertisement (ad) proxy server acts as a proxy for serving content of third-party ads to users of an online system, reducing data leakage from users to advertisers. The ad proxy server acts as an intermediate storage and access point for content included in advertisement, such as images and videos. When an advertisement from an advertiser is selected for presentation by the online system, an ad tag identifying the location of the content for the selected ad is retrieved and used to retrieve a copy of the advertisement content. The ad proxy server stores the copy of the advertisement content and generates a modified ad tag identifying the ad proxy server. The modified ad tag is sent to a client device, which retrieves the copy of the advertisement content from the ad proxy server rather than directly from the advertiser. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244407 | NON-EXPANDING INTERACTIVE ADVERTISEMENT - An embodiment is directed to a non-expanding advertisement that displays a video loop or a portion of a video within the advertisement. If the user interacts with the advertisement, the entire video is played within the advertisement without expanding. The user is not given the option to stop or pause the video. In addition, since the advertisement does not expand, the user is not given the option to close the video, ensuring that a complete view of the video is delivered to the user. | 2014-08-28 |