39th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 57 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120245916 | CONVEYING DATA FROM A HARDWARE DEVICE TO A CIRCUIT SIMULATION - A system and method is described for connecting a logic circuit simulation to a hardware peripheral that includes a computer running software for communicating data to and from the hardware peripheral. The software transmits the data received from the hardware peripheral to the device being simulated by the logic circuit simulation. The computer also transmits the data received from the device being simulated by the electronic circuit simulation to the hardware peripheral. This allows the user to test the device being simulated using real hardware for input and output instead of simulated hardware. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245917 | Virtualized Policy Tester - Embodiments of the present invention are directed to testing policy changes associated with a production network. A virtual network that represents at least a portion of the production network can be generated. A first transaction log based on a first execution of the virtual network using test traffic and a first set of policies that are implemented in the production network can be obtained. A second transaction log based on a second execution of the virtual network using the test traffic and a second set of policies to be implemented in the production network can be obtained. Based on a comparison of the first and second transaction logs, it can be determined whether the second set of policies has a desired effect in the virtual network. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245918 | REMOTELY EMULATING COMPUTING DEVICES - Disclosed are various embodiments that facilitate remote emulation of computing devices. A model of a computing device and an application that is executable in the computing device are identified. The application is executed in a hosted environment. A video signal of the application is encoded into a media stream. A user interface is encoded for rendering in a client. The user interface includes a graphical representation of the model of the computing device. A screen of the graphical representation of the model of the computing device is configured to render at least a portion of the video signal from the media stream. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245919 | Probabilistic Representation of Acoustic Segments - An automatic speech recognition (ASR) apparatus for an embedded device application is described. A speech decoder receives an input sequence of speech feature vectors in a first language and outputs an acoustic segment lattice representing a probabilistic combination of basic linguistic units in a second language. A vocabulary matching module compares the acoustic segment lattice to vocabulary models in the first language to determine an output set of probability-ranked recognition hypotheses. A detailed matching module compares the set of probability-ranked recognition hypotheses to detailed match models in the first language to determine a recognition output representing a vocabulary word most likely to correspond to the input sequence of speech feature vectors. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245920 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE FOR MULTIPLE LANGUAGE TRANSLATION SYSTEM - A communication device for a multiple language translation system is disclosed. The communication device allows users to communicate with others using their own preferred language and the communication device provides a translation for each user in their preferred language. The communication device comprises a wireless transceiver for communicating with other users, networks, and the Internet. Operation switches are provided for controlling operation of the communication device. Signal indicators visually show status or conditions. A user hears the translation via an earphone or sees the translation on a display. A remote control allows the communication device to be controlled remotely. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245921 | Assistance Information Controlling - Controlling assistance information comprises determining a user mode based on computer input signals generated by a user. If the user is in a passive mode and assistance information is detected, the assistance information is disabled in response to detecting a hidden signal. The assistance information is then enabled if later a reset signal is detected. If the user is in passive mode and assistance information is not detected, the assistance information is enabled in response to detecting a trigger signal. If the user is in an active mode and assistance information is detected, the assistance information is disabled. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245922 | Insertion of Translation in Displayed Text - A computer method and an electronic device enable a user to lookup words and insert new words in a text based on the results of the look up. The method executed by the device includes: providing a user with a capability to select at least one word in a text displayed on the screen of the device; performing a dictionary lookup of the identified word so as to determine translation alternatives of the identified word; displaying at least some of the translation alternatives; selecting one of the displayed alternatives; determining its word forms; selecting one of the word forms; and inserting the selected word from in the text. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245923 | CORPUS-BASED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACQUIRING POLAR ADJECTIVES - A system, method, and computer program product for generating a polar vocabulary are provided. The method includes extracting textual content from each review in a corpus of reviews. Each of the reviews includes an author's rating, e.g., of a specific product or service to which the textual content relates. A set of frequent nouns is identified from the textual content of the reviews. Adjectival terms are extracted from the textual content of the reviews. Each adjectival term is associated in the textual content with one of the frequent nouns. A polar vocabulary including at least some of the extracted adjectival terms is generated. A polarity measure is associated with each adjectival term in the vocabulary which is based on the ratings of those reviews from which the adjectival term was extracted. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245924 | CUSTOMER REVIEW AUTHORING ASSISTANT - An authoring assistant includes a parser which automatically identifies opinion expressions in input text. The text may include an author's review of an item, such as a product or service. A computer-implemented opinion review component generates an analysis of the text, which is based on the identified opinion expressions. The opinion review component computes an effective opinion of the text as a function of a measure of polarity associated with the identified opinion expressions. A representation generator generates a representation of the analysis for display on an associated user interface. The representation of the analysis includes a representation of the effective opinion. In the case of a review, the authoring assistant may allow the author to modify the review to reduce incoherence with a rating of the item. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245925 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR ANALYZING TEXT - A method, operating model, system, method, computer program, application, online service, or application program interface (API) Application Program Interface (API), and computer program product for analyzing any email message or text, online post, online web pages, social media sites, and online news sites to detect predefined and actionable events and intent. A method for detecting important emails or messages, and actionable emails or messages that signify intent including questions or promises. A method for detecting past or possible future events in any online posts where the event is defined a priori. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245926 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR FORMATTING TEXT FOR CLINICAL FACT EXTRACTION - An original text that is a representation of a narration of a patient encounter provided by a clinician may be received and re-formatted to produce a formatted text. One or more clinical facts may be extracted from the formatted text. A first fact of the clinical facts may be extracted from a first portion of the formatted text, and the first portion of the formatted text may be a formatted version of a first portion of the original text. A linkage may be maintained between the first fact and the first portion of the original text. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245927 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONAURAL AUDIO PROCESSING BASED PRESERVING SPEECH INFORMATION - A method, system and machine readable medium for noise reduction is provided. The method includes: (1) receiving a noise corrupted signal; (2) transforming the noise corrupted signal to a time-frequency domain representation; (3) determining probabilistic bases for operation, the probabilistic bases being priors in a multitude of frequency bands calculated online; (4) adapting longer term internal states of the method; (5) calculating present distributions that fit data; (6) generating non-linear filters that minimize entropy of speech and maximize entropy of noise, thereby reducing the impact of noise while enhancing speech; (7) applying the filters to create a primary output in a frequency domain; and (8) transforming the primary output to the time domain and outputting a noise suppressed signal. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245928 | GATEWAY APPARATUS, RELAY METHOD, PROGRAM, FEMTO SYSTEM - In order to avoid deterioration in sound quality caused by band shortage between an HNB-GW and an HNB, in a femto system | 2012-09-27 |
20120245929 | TERMINAL DEVICE, AUDIO OUTPUT METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - In an audio output terminal device, a buffer control unit adjusts the buffer size of a jitter buffer in accordance with the setting of a sound output mode instructed in an instruction receiving unit. If the instruction receiving unit acknowledges an instruction for setting an audio output mode that requires low delay in outputting sound, the buffer control unit reduces the buffer size of the jitter buffer. Further, the buffer control unit controls, in accordance with the instructed setting of the sound output mode, timing for allowing a media buffer to transmit one or more voice packets to the jitter buffer. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245930 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING A SPEECH SIGNAL - According to the present invention, a linear prediction filter coefficient of a current frame is acquired from an input signal using linear prediction, a quantized spectrum candidate vector of the current frame, corresponding to the linear prediction filter coefficient of the current frame, is acquired on the basis of first best information, and the quantized spectrum candidate vector of the current frame and the quantized spectrum vector of the previous frame are interpolated. Accordingly, in contrast to conventional phased optimization techniques, optimum parameters which minimize quantization errors, can be obtained. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245931 | ENCODING DEVICE, DECODING DEVICE, AND METHODS THEREFOR - Disclosed is an encoding device that improves the quality of a decoded signal in a hierarchical coding (scalable coding) method, wherein a band to be quantized is selected for every level (layer). The encoding device ( | 2012-09-27 |
20120245932 | VOICE RECOGNITION APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a voice recognition apparatus includes a determination unit, an estimating unit, and a voice recognition unit. The determination unit determines whether a component with a frequency of not less than 1000 Hz and with a level not lower than a predetermined level is included in a sound input from a plurality of microphones. The estimating unit estimates a sound source direction of the sound when the determination unit determines that the component is included in the sound. The voice recognition unit recognizes whether the sound obtained in the sound source direction coincides with a voice model registered beforehand. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245933 | ADAPTIVE AMBIENT SOUND SUPPRESSION AND SPEECH TRACKING - A device for suppressing ambient sounds from speech received by a microphone array is provided. One embodiment of the device comprises a microphone array, a processor, an analog-to-digital converter, and memory comprising instructions stored therein that are executable by the processor. The instructions stored in the memory are configured to receive a plurality of digital sound signals, each digital sound signal based on an analog sound signal originating at the microphone array, receive a multi-channel speaker signal, generate a monophonic approximation signal of the multi-channel speaker signal, apply a linear acoustic echo canceller to suppress a first ambient sound portion of each digital sound signal, generate a combined directionally-adaptive sound signal from a combination of each digital sound signal by a combination of time-invariant and adaptive beamforming techniques, and apply one or more nonlinear noise suppression techniques to suppress a second ambient sound portion of the combined directionally-adaptive sound signal. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245934 | SPEECH RECOGNITION DEPENDENT ON TEXT MESSAGE CONTENT - A method of automatic speech recognition. An utterance is received from a user in reply to a text message, via a microphone that converts the reply utterance into a speech signal. The speech signal is processed using at least one processor to extract acoustic data from the speech signal. An acoustic model is identified from a plurality of acoustic models to decode the acoustic data, and using a conversational context associated with the text message. The acoustic data is decoded using the identified acoustic model to produce a plurality of hypotheses for the reply utterance. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245935 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND SERVER FOR PROCESSING VOICE MESSAGE - An electronic device includes a voice processing unit, a wireless communication unit, and a combining unit. The voice processing unit receives speech signals. The wireless communication unit sends the speech signals to a server. The server converts the speech signals into a text message. The wireless communication unit receives the text message from the server. The combining unit combines the text message and the speech signals into a combined message. The wireless communication unit further sends the combined message to a recipient. A related server is also provided. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245936 | Device to Capture and Temporally Synchronize Aspects of a Conversation and Method and System Thereof - A system, device, and method for capturing and temporally synchronizing different aspect of a conversation is presented. The method includes receiving an audible statement, receiving a note temporally corresponding to an utterance in the audible statement, creating a first temporal marker comprising temporal information related to the note, transcribing the utterance into a transcribed text, creating a second temporal marker comprising temporal information related to the transcribed text, temporally synchronizing the audible statement, the note, and the transcribed text. Temporally synchronizing comprises associating a time point in the audible statement with the note using the first temporal marker, associating the time point in the audible statement with the transcribed text using the second temporal marker, and associating the note with the transcribed text using the first temporal marker and second temporal marker. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245937 | Voice Rendering Of E-mail With Tags For Improved User Experience - Tags, such as XML tags, are inserted into email to separate email content from signature blocks, privacy notices and confidentiality notices, and to separate original email messages from replies and replies from further replies. The tags are detected by a system that renders email as speech, such as voice command platform or network-based virtual assistant or message center. The system can render an original email message in one voice mode and the reply in a different voice mode. The tags can be inserted to identify a voice memo in which a user responds to a particular portion of an email message. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245938 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR MANAGING AUDIO AND/OR VIDEO INFORMATION VIA A WEB BROADCAST - Provided Web broadcast information is managed by annotation markers. At least one marker is received that annotates the audio and/or video information and the annotated audio and/or video information is saved in an electronically searchable file. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245939 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONSIDERING INFORMATION ABOUT AN EXPECTED RESPONSE WHEN PERFORMING SPEECH RECOGNITION - A speech recognition system receives and analyzes speech input from a user in order to recognize and accept a response from the user. Under certain conditions, information about the response expected from the user may be available. In these situations, the available information about the expected response is used to modify the behavior of the speech recognition system by taking this information into account. The modified behavior of the speech recognition system according to the invention has several embodiments including: comparing the observed speech features to the models of the expected response separately from the usual hypothesis search in order to speed up the recognition system; modifying the usual hypothesis search to emphasize the expected response; updating and adapting the models when the recognized speech matches the expected response to improve the accuracy of the recognition system. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245940 | Guest Speaker Robust Adapted Speech Recognition - A method for speech recognition is implemented in the specific form of computer processes that function in a computer processor. That is, one or more computer processes: process a speech input to produce a sequence of representative speech vectors and perform multiple recognition passes to determine a recognition output corresponding to the speech input. At least one generic recognition pass is based on a generic speech recognition arrangement using generic modeling of a broad general class of input speech. And at least one adapted recognition pass is based on a speech adapted arrangement using pre-adapted modeling of a specific sub-class of the general class of input speech. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245941 | Device Access Using Voice Authentication - A device can be configured to receive speech input from a user. The speech input can include a command for accessing a restricted feature of the device. The speech input can be compared to a voiceprint (e.g., text-independent voiceprint) of the user's voice to authenticate the user to the device. Responsive to successful authentication of the user to the device, the user is allowed access to the restricted feature without the user having to perform additional authentication steps or speaking the command again. If the user is not successfully authenticated to the device, additional authentication steps can be request by the device (e.g., request a password). | 2012-09-27 |
20120245942 | Computer-Implemented Systems and Methods for Evaluating Prosodic Features of Speech - Systems and methods are provided for scoring speech. A speech sample is received, where the speech sample is associated with a script. The speech sample is aligned with the script. An event recognition metric of the speech sample is extracted, and locations of prosodic events are detected in the speech sample based on the event recognition metric. The locations of the detected prosodic events are compared with locations of model prosodic events, where the locations of model prosodic events identify expected locations of prosodic events of a fluent, native speaker speaking the script. A prosodic event metric is calculated based on the comparison, and the speech sample is scored using a scoring model based upon the prosodic event metric. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245943 | TRANSFORMING A NATURAL LANGUAGE REQUEST FOR MODIFYING A SET OF SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR A PUBLISH/SUBSCRIBE TOPIC STRING - A natural language request for modifying a set of subscriptions for one or more topics in a publish/subscribe topic hierarchy is received at a processing device. The natural language request includes a predetermined natural language element. The natural language request is transformed into a publish/subscribe topic string and the predetermined natural language element is transformed into a publish/subscribe symbol. The symbol represents one or more topics in the topic hierarchy. One or more subscriptions to one or more topics is modified based on the transformed topic string. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245944 | Intelligent Automated Assistant - The intelligent automated assistant system engages with the user in an integrated, conversational manner using natural language dialog, and invokes external services when appropriate to obtain information or perform various actions. The system can be implemented using any of a number of different platforms, such as the web, email, smartphone, and the like, or any combination thereof. In one embodiment, the system is based on sets of interrelated domains and tasks, and employs additional functionally powered by external services with which the system can interact. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245945 | IN-VEHICLE APPARATUS AND INFORMATION DISPLAY SYSTEM - An in-vehicle apparatus receives an image data representative of a screen image from a portable terminal with a touch panel. The apparatus extracts a text code data from the image data, and identifies a text-code display area in the screen image. The apparatus determines a command text based on a user-uttered voice command. The apparatus identifies a text-code display area as a subject operation area in the screen image of the portable terminal, based on the command text, the text code data extracted from image data, and information on the text-code display area corresponding to the text code data. An area of the screen image of the touch panel corresponding to the text-code display area is identified as the subject operation area, and a signal indicative of the subject operation area identified is transmitted to the portable terminal. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245946 | Reusable Mulitmodal Application - A method and system are disclosed herein for accepting multimodal inputs and deriving synchronized and processed information. A reusable multimodal application is provided on the mobile device. A user transmits a multimodal command to the multimodal platform via the mobile network. The one or more modes of communication that are inputted are transmitted to the multimodal platform(s) via the mobile network(s) and thereafter synchronized and processed at the multimodal platform. The synchronized and processed information is transmitted to the multimodal application. If required, the user verifies and appropriately modifies the synchronized and processed information. The verified and modified information are transferred from the multimodal application to the visual application. The final result(s) are derived by inputting the verified and modified results into the visual application. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245947 | MULTI-MODE AUDIO SIGNAL DECODER, MULTI-MODE AUDIO SIGNAL ENCODER, METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM USING A LINEAR-PREDICTION-CODING BASED NOISE SHAPING - A multi-mode audio signal decoder has a spectral value determinator to obtain sets of decoded spectral coefficients for a plurality of portions of an audio content and a spectrum processor configured to apply a spectral shaping to a set of spectral coefficients in dependence on a set of linear-prediction-domain parameters for a portion of the audio content encoded in a linear-prediction mode, and in dependence on a set of scale factor parameters for a portion of the audio content encoded in a frequency-domain mode. The audio signal decoder has a frequency-domain-to-time-domain converter configured to obtain a time-domain audio representation on the basis of a spectrally-shaped set of decoded spectral coefficients for a portion of the audio content encoded in the linear-prediction mode and for a portion of the audio content encoded in the frequency domain mode. An audio signal encoder is also described. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245948 | GAUGING RESOURCE INTENSIVENESS OF PROVIDING CARE TO A PATIENT - Subject matter described herein is related to estimating a quantity of resources that are consumed or expended when providing care to a patient. When estimating the quantity, non-clinical information might be used to draw various inferences. For example, information provided by a real-time location system might provide insight (e.g., duration, frequency, etc.) into instances in which a healthcare clinician visits a patient's room. In another example, information provided by a medical-device alarm system might provide insight into alarms that are triggered by equipment that monitors and/or provides assistance to a patient. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245949 | MULTIPLE RESOURCE PLANNING SYSTEM - A system for managing remote doctor medical request workflow may include a workflow module that optimizes assignments of medical requests to remote doctors based on parameterized doctor and scheduling information and may further include a forecasting module that predicts the hospital credentials, state licenses or doctors needed to fulfill a projected volume of future medical requests. In one embodiment, radiologists are parameterized and then matched with requests for radiological readings based on information extracted from DICOM image headers and merged with associated information contained in a medical work order. In this embodiment, the radiologists are parameterized based on their locations, schedules, hospital credentials, state licensing, compensation metrics, and performance metrics and incoming requests for review of CT scans and the like are filtered based on the parameterized radiologist information to identify one or more radiologists who are to fulfill the medical request. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245950 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING ASSET DIFFERENTIATION IN MEDICINE DEVELOPMENT - A computer implemented system and method of determining pharmaceutical asset market potential is disclosed. The system and method comprising: collecting asset information of a proposed pharmaceutical asset; determining a therapeutic category of the proposed pharmaceutical asset; determining an unmet need for proposed pharmaceutical asset by evaluating a plurality of Customer Value Statements (CVS) based on the therapeutic category. Also disclosed, the system and method computes a differentiation score based on the plurality of CVS and comparing a strength of the proposed pharmaceutical asset against existing competitor data in the therapeutic category and computes a Real/Win/Worth (RWW) score to determine the probability of success of the proposed pharmaceutical asset in the therapeutic category based, in part, on the differentiation score; and CVS. The disclosed system and method additionally generates an executive summary report of the proposed pharmaceutical asset market potential base, in part, on the RWW score. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245951 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPLIANCE REWARD - Systems and methods for rewarding compliance are disclosed. In one embodiment, compliance data is received from a compliance monitoring system. The compliance data includes an indication of compliance success or compliance failure associated with an event having an associated compliance action. A compliance measurement is determined based on, at least in part, the compliance data. A compliance point value associated with the compliance measurement is determined based on, at least in part, an incentive. A reward is provided based on, at least in part, the compliance point value associated with the compliance measurement. Other systems and methods are disclosed. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245952 | CROWDSOURCING MEDICAL EXPERTISE - Methods of crowdsourcing medical expert information are described. One such method includes receiving, from a first user during a first session over a network, a first query that includes a request for information regarding a patient condition, a therapy, and/or a medical test, and transmitting the query to a plurality of medical personnel. The first query further includes first session parameters selected by the first user from categories displayed by a processor to the first user. The method also includes receiving responses to the query from the plurality of medical personnel, and changing, based on the responses, an assigned probability of presenting to an index user, in response to a second query and during another session, at least one of a suggested diagnosis, a suggested therapy, a suggested inquiry to aid in establishing a diagnosis, a suggested medical test, a recommended source for further information, or a recommended medical professional. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245953 | ESTIMATING HEALTHCARE OUTCOMES FOR INDIVIDUALS - A method and apparatus for predicting a health benefit for an individual is provided. Outcomes from a first simulation on a set of simulated individuals reflecting a population are stored and used to determine a first risk function and corresponding cost values. Outcomes from a second simulation on a set of simulated individuals reflecting having a healthcare intervention are stored and used to determine a second risk function reflecting the intervention and corresponding cost values of the intervention. A benefit function is derived from the difference of the first and second risk functions. A cost function that describes the cost of the intervention is derived from the respective cost values. The derived benefit function and cost function are used to predict the corresponding benefit and cost of the healthcare intervention for a given individual. Individuals can be ranked by degree of expected benefit. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245954 | Medical Record Collection System - A medical collections system to provide an efficient, scalable, and accurate process for collecting, analyzing, and delivering medical records or analysis of medical records to a client, the system comprising a computer architecture that allows configuring projects to be performed and delivered according to the client's predetermined standards, loading data in a standardized and organized way to map provider information, scheduling requests, retrieving records, and utilizing quality checks to check for quality of the records retrieved, analyzing the records, maintaining accuracy of the analyzed record through an overread process, and delivering high quality results that can be reviewed by and delivered to clients according to the client's specification. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245955 | Notifying of Health Events in Peer Environments - Methods, systems, and products notify of health events. Personal health information is stored in memory of a mobile communications device. A peer device is discovered through a wireless personal data network. The peer device is queried for anonymous health information. The anonymous health information is aggregated with the personal health information to produce aggregated health information. The aggregated health information is stored in the memory of the mobile communications device. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245956 | Pharmacy-based data transfer methodology - A pharmacy-based data transfer methodology includes providing at least one computer with sufficient software and hardware to perform the following: (i) receive and store a set of unique identifiers corresponding to a specific patients; (ii) receive prescription medication information data on those patients, attaching received prescription medication information data to the corresponding unique identifier and storing it, and (iii) generate a printed pharmacy data card for a patient showing and corresponding prescription medication information data for each of the prescriptions that have been stored for the patient; and, providing the printed pharmacy data card to its corresponding patient. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245957 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING ELECTRONIC AFTERCARE INSTRUCTIONS - The apparatus and methods described provide aftercare instructions to a patient or patient caregiver (e.g., parent or guardian) upon releasing a patient from a hospital visit or other medical appointment. An electronic aftercare record may be created for a patient and used to track prescribed aftercare instructions that allows a medical practitioner to prescribe a targeted education plan to the patient/caregiver, and to deliver the targeted education electronically and instantaneously. In some aspects, aftercare instructions can be given following an acute illness or injury, or in anticipation of a problem or compliance at home. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245958 | Case-Centric Medical Records System with Social Networking - A case-centric medical records system with social networking capabilities is disclosed. Using the system, users can build charts that are centered around a single procedure or treatment and include physician notes as well as imagery and video relating to the procedure. Users can also build social networks around their records by identifying colleagues with whom chart data can be shared. Search functions allow the charts to be searched by diagnosis and procedure codes or by other keywords or information. Users can search their networks of colleagues for relevant experience and expertise and can search and review their colleagues' charts to gain insights. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245959 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING PERSONAL/INDIVIDUAL HEALTH RECORDS - A system and method for generating and/or updating a personal/individual health record. Inputs of data to the system may come from diverse sources including, but not limited to, patient questionnaires, insurance company (or other payor) claims data, hospitals, clinics and other institutional providers, and individual physicians and physicians' offices. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245960 | Points-Based Reward Program For Improving Medication Adherence and Outcomes - The invention relates to a method for improving medication adherence and outcomes. The method includes registering a patient in a predetermined manner with a web site thereby creating an associated user profile, manually entering patient medication data and patient health data associated with the user profile, automatically acquiring from a third party and then storing patient medication data and patient health data associated with the user profile and assigning a points based reward based on a comparison of at least one of the manually entered data and the automatically acquired data to a predetermined set of reward criteria parameters. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245961 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR FORMATTING TEXT FOR CLINICAL FACT EXTRACTION - An original text that is a representation of a narration of a patient encounter provided by a clinician may be received and re-formatted to produce a formatted text. One or more clinical facts may be extracted from the formatted text. A first fact of the clinical facts may be extracted from a first portion of the formatted text, and the first portion of the formatted text may be a formatted version of a first portion of the original text. A linkage may be maintained between the first fact and the first portion of the original text. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245962 | SLEEP MANAGEMENT VENDING KIOSK AND ASSOCIATED METHOD - A sleep management related vending kiosk is provided that includes a main housing, a processing unit provided within the main housing, a vending apparatus provided at least partially within the main housing, the vending apparatus storing a plurality of respiratory patient interface device products and being structured to selectively vend the respiratory patient interface device products under control of the processing unit. In a further embodiment, a facial scanning module is provided at least partially within the main housing, including a scanning device for scanning a face of a patient. The processing unit is programmed to recommend and cause the vending apparatus to vend one of the respiratory patient interface device products based on the scanning of the face of the patient. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245963 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING INSURANCE SOCIAL MEDIA RELATED INFORMATION - According to some embodiments, a system may detect an occurrence of a trigger event in connection with a first insurance agent of a plurality of insurance agents. For example, the system might detect that a person has added a friend on Facebook, changed his or her status, or that he or she is currently visiting a local coffee shop. Responsive to said detection, some embodiments may automatically post information to at least one social network server in connection with the first insurance agent. For example, an offer to meet at a particular location and/or a discount or other benefit associated with an insurance product might be posted or otherwise provided via one or more social networks. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245964 | Flight Accident Insurance - A system for providing flight accident insurance at low price and fixed coverage comprises means for limiting the number of policies that can be sold on any given flight to not more than a predetermined number. The predetermined number may be 20. The system comprises an input device for receiving information from a traveler and an output device for providing an insurance quote to said traveler. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245965 | Endowment with Institutionally Owned Life Insurance - A method of converting a series of donations by a donor to an institution so the institution is able to maintain premium payments on an institutionally-owned life insurance policy. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245966 | PARKING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Various arrangements for managing one or more parking facilities using a parking management server are presented. The parking management server may permit day users, lessees, parking facility managers, and group tenants (e.g., entities renting groups of parking spaces) to lease, reserve, and manage parking spaces within parking facilities. User accounts maintained by the parking management server may permit parking fees to be paid remotely by users such that payment is not required to be made at a parking facility. Further, a user's vehicle may be identified using license plate recognition, such that additional hardware does not need to be added to a vehicle for a user account to be established. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245967 | PREVENTING AN UNAUTHORIZED CARD TRANSACTION - An approach for preventing unauthorized card transactions is presented. An authorization record including an authorized geographic location and an authorized period of time is received from a travel reservation system (TRS) and stored to dynamically update a profile table that stores other authorization records. The authorization record identifies an itinerary specified by travel booking(s) purchased via the TRS using a debit or credit card. The itinerary specifies that the cardholder is scheduled to be in the authorized geographic location for the authorized period of time. In response to receiving a request for an authorization of a card transaction, a location and date associated with the card transaction are retrieved from the request. The card transaction is rejected based on a determination that the retrieved location is not within authorized geographic locations included in the stored authorization records that have authorized time periods that include the retrieved date. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245968 | BUILDING SYSTEM CONTROL AND EQUIPMENT FAULT AND DEGRADATION MONETIZATION AND PRIORITIZATION - An approach for monetizing performance of building system equipment such as HVAC equipment. Expected and actual performance curves may be obtained for the HVAC equipment. Differences between the curves may indicate energy consumption. The energy consumption may be monetized. The monetizing may be of degradation that occurs when the equipment deteriorates, incurs a fault or has a loss of performance as accrued over time. Monetizing may incorporate maintenance and capital risk exposure. The monetizing may be a conversion of analyses of the equipment to money in real time. Performance monitoring of the equipment may incorporate predictive trending which may lead to fault prognosis and preventative maintenance. Automation of the conversion may result in immediate information and feedback to customers. The information may be stored for historical purposes and future analyses. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245969 | On-Shelf Tracking System - A system to be installed on a merchandising unit having one or more inventory zones, one or more units of product, one or more product sensors, a mounting structure, and an electromagnetic signal processor. The one or more product sensors, each at least associated operatively with one of the one or more inventory zones, converts a sensed quantity of the one or more units of product into a respective analog electromagnetic signal. The mounting structure secures the one or more product sensors to the merchandising unit. The electromagnetic signal processor in communication with the one or more product sensors can sample output from the one or more product sensors. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245970 | FAST, DYNAMIC, DATA-DRIVEN REPORT DEPLOYMENT OF DATA MINING AND PREDICTIVE INSIGHT INTO BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE (BI) TOOLS - A Business Intelligence (BI) meta model template is selected based on one or more meta model object types in a model structure. A BI meta model is generated from the selected BI meta model template. One or more BI report specification templates are selected based on a mining model type. A BI report specification is generated from the selected one or more BI report specification templates, a schema of the model structure, and content of the model structure. The BI meta model and the BI report specification are deployed to a BI server for use in generating a BI report using a BI tool at the BI server. In response to a user request for a BI report, the BI report is generated with a BI tool at the BI server that uses the BI meta model and the BI report specification. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245971 | System and Method for Financing Promotional Services - Disclosed are systems, methods and computer program products for online marketing, scheduling and booking of service appointments as well as financing of promotional services. In one example, the system enables a service promoter and a service provider to execute a secured financing transaction pursuant to which a service promoter provides an agreed upon amount of monetary funds to a service provider in exchange for the right to promote to users a plurality of service offers from the service provider. The system then promotes service offers from the service provider and facilitates booking of service appointments for users with a service provider based on promoted service offers. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245972 | PROVIDING ACCESS TO FUTURE EXCEPTION INFORMATION IN A SUPPLY PLAN COLLABORATION SYSTEM - A supply plan collaboration system tracks supply plans and, based upon status information received from users of the system, identifies future exceptions that will arise due to the status information, in the absence of further changes to the supply plan. Future exceptions may be tracked by the system, provided to users before or at the time that they occur, and closed or otherwise managed by the system as they become relevant or are removed by further changes related to the supply plan. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245973 | Methods For Analyzing Job Functions And Job Candidates And For Determining Their Co-Suitability - A method and system for conducting an elemental analysis of a job's functions and requirements, conducting a medical diagnosis of a worker to determine the physical capabilities and limitations of the worker, and comparing the elemental analysis and the medical diagnosis to determine whether the worker can function in a particular job be it the current job, another existing job or a modification of either. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245974 | METHODS OF ACQUIRING ACTUAL REAL-TIME SHOPPER BEHAVIOR DATA APPROXIMATE TO A MOMENT OF DECISION BY A SHOPPER - The invention provides methods of acquiring actual real-time shopper behavior data during product selection of purchasable items by a shopper in a store. More specifically, disclosed herein are methods of using a communications multi-network, a First Moment of Truth device and a data collection device to track actual real-time shopper behavior data relating to the presumed locations of shoppers in a store, the time spent and location of time spent by a shopper while considering a purchasable item and products chosen for purchase. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245975 | System and Method for Researching Virtual Markets and Optimizing Product Placements and Displays - A system and method for researching virtual markets and using the research to optimize product placements and displays. The system includes a monitoring engine configured to monitor information about user reactions and/or at least one product. The system also includes a recommendation engine configured to recommend a location within a virtual universe to display the at least one product based on the information monitored by the monitoring engine and a display engine configured to display the at least one product at a recommended location. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245976 | COMPUTER-BASED ANALYSIS OF SELLER PERFORMANCE - A performance analysis system analyzes the performance of affiliate sites that provide links to specific items in an electronic catalog, and identifies catalog items that can be listed by such affiliate sites to improve performance. An association mining component analyzes transaction data attributable to specific categories of affiliate sites to identify items that are frequently purchased in combination by users of such sites. The detected item associations are used to evaluate, for a given affiliate site, whether significant disparities exist between the expected and actual sales quantities of specific items. The results of the analysis are incorporated into affiliate-specific performance reports, which may include specific recommendations for improving performance. The disclosed methods may also be used to analyze the performance of, and provide recommendations to, online sellers within an marketplace or auction system. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245977 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR MODELING UNCERTAIN FUTURE BENEFITS - Systems, methods and computer program products are provided for modeling future benefits. According to the method, modeling future benefits begins by defining a growth rate for the good for each time segment of a period of time, where the period of time includes a plurality of time segments. An uncertainty for the good is then determined for each time segment. Next, a benefit distribution is determined for each time segment based upon the growth rate and uncertainty for the respective time segment. Finally, a benefit value is selected for each time segment by randomly selecting each benefit value based upon a respective benefit distribution to thereby model future benefits over the period of time. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245978 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINIMG CONTEXTUAL CHARACTERISTICS OF MEDIA EXPOSURE DATA - Systems and methods are disclosed for providing contextual information to research data relating to media exposure. Ambient fingerprints are formed on a device, where the fingerprints are used to establish a logical location where media exposure took place. The ambient signatures are alternately combined with monitored data to provide more robust data sets for contextual processing. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245979 | Method and System for Managing Vending Operations Based on Wireless Data - A system coupled to one or more vending machines, such as soft drink vending machines, via a wireless data link can acquire operational vending data, for example sales data, hardware status, and product temperature. The system can compile data from multiple vending machines dispersed across a geographic area such as a city or state. The system can include software that refines the vending operations of one or more such vending machines based on analysis of acquired data, taking into consideration other information such as market, business, seasonal, or environmental factors. Refining vending operations can include adjusting product offerings, relocating vending machines, replicating favorable conditions, and addressing unexpected sales variations. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245980 | PRODUCTIVITY PREDICTION TECHNIQUE AND SYSTEM - Productivity prediction technique and system, in which user input defining workforce capability parameters is received and a prediction model is accessed. The prediction model quantifies an impact of workforce capability on productivity. The model was generated by applying statistical analysis on historical workforce data for projects and historical process metrics data for the projects. The prediction model is used to calculate a distribution of productivity for a given set of workforce capability parameters and the predicted productivity range for the workforce capability parameters is provided. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245981 | PARKING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Various arrangements for offering vehicle parking are presented. Utilization data and interest data regarding a parking space of a parking facility may be tracked and stored. An amount of time the parking space of the parking facility has been used based on the utilization data stored about the parking space. An amount of interest in the parking space may be determined based on the interest data. In accordance with a set of defined rules, a price for the parking space may be determined based at least on the amount of time and the interest. The parking space may be offered to a customer at the determined price. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245982 | Method and System of Providing and Presenting Content to a User - Method of providing and presenting content to a user is disclosed. A user may provide inputs such as categories, topics, key words; inputs as to quantity, quality, emphasis and/or inclusion; inputs as to order of presentation, geography or temporal characteristics. These inputs are used to create a presentation format. This format is populated with content using a systemic program and algorithms. The content comes from various sources. The sources are selected by a secondary party that is not the user. A user may interact with the presentation by skipping, saving, rewinding, indicating like or dislike or requesting more related content. User interactivity is recorded by the systemic program. The systemic program records what content has been presented to a specific user so that a subsequent presentation does not repeat content. One result of this method is a personalized news and information radio station. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245983 | Centralized Payment Method and System for Online and Offline Transactions - Embodiments described herein include an electronic transaction service network (also referred to herein as a centralized electronic transaction (CET) service) According to an embodiment, a financial management system hosts multiple CET web sites on behalf of multiple merchants. All transactions through any CET web site are executed and managed by the financial management system. Merchants may customize their web sites to include a branded look and feel. The merchant web sites are part of a CET service for which customer can register. Registered customers can then view and pay invoices from any merchants having CET web sites, whether purchases were made online or offline. Customers specify preferences for the CET service including choosing existing customer accounts from which the financial management system is to pay invoices on behalf of the customer. This eliminates the need for the customer to open and fund a separate payment account as in traditional methods. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245984 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACQUIRING A CAPTIVE CUSTOMER BASE WITHIN A CLOUD ENVIRONMENT - In one example embodiment, a computer-implemented method for acquiring a captive customer base within a cloud computing environment comprises providing customer software to a service organization, with the customer software being configurable to facilitate communications between the service organization and a client base of the service organization. The customer software provided to the service organization is subsidized based on a condition that the service organization allows a software provider to embed context-based marketing content in the customer software, and is provided to the client base via the customer software, with the context-based marketing content directed to products offered by the software provider, and the products being supplemental to service organization services, thereby using the customer software to generate revenue for the software provider, with costs of the context-based marketing being determined by software development costs. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245985 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING SYSTEM AND MOBILE DEVICE FOR PROCESSING PAYMENT AND DATA - A method of processing data for paying for at least one of item in a system having a Payment Gateway server and a mobile device is disclosed. The method includes steps of downloading an application by using address information in a memory of the mobile device, transmitting user information stored in the USIM of the mobile device to the PG server if the first phone number is identical with the second phone number, generating ID information for the user in the PG server, transmitting first barcode from the PG server to the mobile device if the mobile device requests a barcode to the PG server, transmitting request signal for second barcode from the mobile device to the PG server if a specific item is selected by the user of the mobile device, and transmitting the second barcode from the PG server to the mobile device. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245986 | MOBILE PAYMENT AND POINT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method allows a consumer to purchase goods and services from merchants and redeem offers made by a merchant with a digital transaction on a smart phone. The merchant receives and enters the consumer's telephone number into an application. The consumer's telephone number is sent to a server, which checks for electronic coupons and loyalty points. Accounting for the value of any coupon/accumulated loyalty points, the merchant enters the payment amount into the application. which. in turn sends it back to the server. The server then sends the payment amount, any coupon details and the merchant's name to the consumer's phone. The consumer can choose to accept or decline the sale with or without using the coupon/loyalty points. A PIN number confirms the sale, which transmits to the server and then to the merchant. A digital sales receipt is sent to the merchant and consumer. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245987 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING GIFT CARDS VIA SOCIAL NETWORKS - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for processing transactions using policies established via social networks. The system receives, via a communication in a social network, an identification of a merchant at a first time from a recipient associated with a recipient payment account comprising one of a credit payment account and a debit payment account existing prior to the first time. The system associates a policy with an offer. The system monitors, according to the policy, purchases using the recipient payment account at a second time, which is later than the first time, to yield purchasing information. Then, based on the purchasing information, the system can determine whether a qualifying purchase has been initiated at the merchant using the recipient payment account. If the qualifying purchase has been initiated, the system can apply an amount of money associated with the offer. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245988 | DYNAMIC BUNDLING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Techniques for bundle generation are described. Some embodiments include a mobile marketplace system (“MMS”) configured to provide dynamically generated content bundles to users in a mobile marketplace. Providing a dynamically generated content bundle may include generating a content bundle that includes multiple related content items, such as songs, ringtones, images, videos, or the like. Some embodiments generate linked bundles that include content items that share one or more attributes, such as artist, genre, or content provider. In other embodiments, content bundles may be generated based on activities of one or more users, including purchase or browsing history. The MMS may also determine a discounted price for a generated content bundle based on pricing information associated with the content items of the bundle. In addition, the MMS may assure compliance with license terms or other safeguards associated with content items. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245989 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING REFINED LOCATION RELEVANT MARKETING DEVICES - A method and system for providing refined location relevant marketing devices whereby a marketing device management system obtains: data representing one or more marketing devices from one or more merchants; location refinement data associated with the merchants; location refinement data associated with the marketing devices; and location refinement data associated with a consumer. The marketing device management system includes a marketing device matching engine that includes a location refinement matching filter. The location refinement matching filter uses all, or part of: the location refinement data associated with the merchant; the location refinement data associated with the marketing devices; and the location refinement data associated with the consumer; to determine the marketing devices in the marketing device database most relevant to the consumer, and the consumer's current state. The most relevant marketing devices are then provided to the consumer. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245990 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING CUSTOMER ACQUISITION BY BUSINESSES - Systems and methods are disclosed for facilitating acquisition of customers for merchants through targeted offers to prospective customers; improving the precision of targeting by Prospect Profiling and Intent Prediction. In certain embodiments, the system supports monetizing sources of data which contribute to Prospect Profiling and Intent Prediction, such as purchase history, third-party SNP data. In other embodiments, a “Customer acquisition fee” serves as the underlying business model for the Service Provider of the Platform. The system provides cost-effective marketing where merchants pay only after conversion of prospect to customer. Customers get higher savings through Opportunity Auctioning amongst merchants with the value of Discount offer as part of Bid. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245991 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COLLABORATIVE FILTERING OF CARD MEMBER TRANSACTIONS - The disclosed system allows a credit or charge card issuer to provide its card members with a list of merchants, products, services, vacation destinations or other offerings that might be of interest based on the purchases of similar card members. In one instance, this process looks at all card members that made purchases at a merchant and then it identifies all other merchants in the same category where those card members also made purchases. The associated merchants are ranked based on largest number of shared card members and the top results may be shared with card members or merchants in order to enhance promotions, card use and marketing. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245992 | Incentive Program Awarding Points Per-Mile-Driven - Embodiments in accordance with the present invention relate to incentive programs awarding loyalty points based at least in part upon the number of miles driven in a motor vehicle. Reward points may be earned by having the vehicle serviced at authorized locations. At the time of servicing, the authorized location notes a current vehicle odometer reading, and the odometer reading is communicated to an administrator of the loyalty program. The odometer reading is used to calculate a number of miles driven since the last authorized servicing, and the number of mile driven is then converted into loyalty points to be credited to a consumer of the vehicle. Thus, incentives for servicing only at authorized locations are provided to the consumer. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245993 | Discounted Pricing - A system and method that facilitates e-commerce volume pricing is provided. According to one aspect of the present invention, the system includes an offers and orders component that receives and aggregates orders for a product from a plurality of buyers. The system also includes a logistics component that determines a shipping price for the product for a subset of the plurality of buyers. The shipping price is determined at least in part upon the subset of buyers sharing a shipping method. According to another aspect of the present invention, a method is provided in which buyers within an aggregated purchasing group may be subject to different pricing structures for the same product. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245994 | TRACKING AND REWARDING MAILER RESPONSE - Direct mail campaigns for a plurality of vendors are included in a rewards program. The corresponding mailers have a distinctive identifier visible from the outside of the mailer and a unique code inside the mailer that is not visible from the outside of the mailer. Recipients of the mailers submit the corresponding unique codes to a rewards program implementer that tracks recipients' responses to the mailers and rewards the recipients for promoted activities. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245995 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENABLING LOCATION BASED ADVERTISEMENTS WITH PAY FOR PERFORMANCE - A system for offering mobile location based advertisements based on a pay for performance method is presented. The system serves and tracks advertisements and business locations searched and viewed by a user, and can determine if the user visited the business location and performed a transaction at the location in a specified timeframe of the advertisement. The advertising costs are determined based on cost per action models such as a cost per visit (CPV) or a cost per transaction (CPT). Additionally, a system to verify user visits, advertisement codes and transactions in a local business environment is presented, which can also be used for sending an electronic receipt of the transaction to the user's mobile device. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245996 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTENT-BASED CONTENT MATCHING - A method and system for generating a profile for a web page. The method and system includes extracting one or more phrases associated with one or more referring URLs to the web page and determining a phrase relevance distribution including a phrase relevance probability for each of the one or more extracted phrases. The method and system further includes applying at least one phrase relevance probability in the phrase relevance distribution to social media traffic directed to the web page and generating an inferred phrase relevance probability for the social media traffic based on the application of the at least one phrase relevance probability. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245997 | PERSISTENCE MECHANISM FOR FACILITATING ONLINE TRANSACTIONS - A method for supporting online transactions which may include selecting a product being offered for sale, storing information regarding the selected product, determining whether one or more predefined conditions has been met, and if so, notifying the buyer regarding the selected product information. The method may also allow the buyer to reestablish a prior transaction regarding the product. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245998 | ADVERTISEMENT DISPLAY SERVER DEVICE, ADVERTISEMENT DISPLAY METHOD, PROGRAM FOR ADVERTISEMENT DISPLAY SERVER DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An advertisement display server device, an advertisement display method, a program for advertisement display server device, and a recording medium for giving an application chance to a plurality of advertisers and enhancing advertisers' convenience are provided. | 2012-09-27 |
20120245999 | SELECTION OF RELEVANT ADVERTISING FOR ANONYMOUS CUSTOMERS - A marketing system for making presentations to customers in a retail store. 3-D object recognition techniques are used to identify articles which a customer has selected for an impending purchase. Age and gender of the customer are also inferred. The identities of the articles are used to make a prediction regarding (1) an upcoming activity, or (2) characteristics of the customer. Based on the prediction, advertising is selected for the customer, which promotes goods or services which relate to the activity or characteristics predicted. The inferred age and gender can assist in the selection. | 2012-09-27 |
20120246000 | TECHNIQUES TO CAPTURE CONTEXT AND LOCATION INFORMATION AND UTILIZE HEURISTICS TO TURN LOCATION TRACKED OVER TIME AND CONTEXT INFORMATION INTO SEMANTIC LOCATION INFORMATION - An embodiment of the present invention provides a method, comprising, capturing context information of a user and using heuristics based on a common knowledge database to turn location tracked over time combined with the context information into semantic location information. | 2012-09-27 |
20120246001 | Methods, Systems, and Products for Targeting Advertisements - Methods, systems, and products target advertisements to users. Clickstream data is received and compared to a purchase history. When a common attribute is determined, an advertisement associated with the attribute is retrieved and targeted to a user. | 2012-09-27 |
20120246002 | MEDIA ADVERTISING OVER PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKS - Advertising on P2P networks can include a three-step system in one embodiment of the disclosure. The first step can include the review of search requests, followed by a response linking to a media file containing an advertisement. The second step can be a delivery process. The advertising cannot be considered spam as the user can be redirected towards information that can directly correlate to the users search. The advertising can be done with the full cooperation and volition of the media company or companies involved. The advertisers' contract with the media companies can allow for payment and the media companies can then expose their product to potential buyers. The third step can be contacting an advertising server any time that media file is played. In this third step it can be determined what the optimal advertisement for this media file is. | 2012-09-27 |
20120246003 | Advertisement Service - An advertisement service allows advertisers to obtain a right to provide an advertisement to a mobile device that is located within or nearby a particular geographic region. For instance, the advertisement service may map one or more entities (e.g., retailers, schools, museums, etc.) to a geographic region at which these entities are located. The advertisement service provides an offer to one or more advertisers to provide an advertisement to a mobile device located within or nearby one of these geographic regions. Based on responses received to the offer, the advertisement service provides information to the mobile device for display of an advertisement. | 2012-09-27 |
20120246004 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CUSTOMER INTERACTION - Pursuant to some embodiments, methods, systems, apparatus, and computer program code for encouraging customer interaction are provided. In some embodiments, customer interaction may include receiving a request by a user operating a mobile device to provide feedback associated with an experience at a merchant. Device location data is identified associated with a current location of the mobile device. Merchant location data associated with a location of the merchant is identified, where the merchant location data includes information identifying a permitted review radius. A determination is made whether the current location of the mobile device is within the permitted review radius, and, if so, the user is permitted to provide feedback. | 2012-09-27 |
20120246005 | Advertisement Systems and Methods for Notification Systems - Advertisement systems and methods are provided for use in connection with notification services or systems. One such method, among others that are disclosed, can be practiced by performing at least the following steps: (a) monitoring travel data associated with a mobile thing; (b) contacting a party based upon the travel data; (c) providing an advertisement to the party during the contact; and (d) charging a fee for or otherwise monetarily benefiting from providing the advertisement. | 2012-09-27 |
20120246006 | System and Method for Peer-To-Peer Advertising Between Mobile Communication Devices - Disclosed are a method and system for peer-to-peer advertising between mobile communication devices. A subsidy program is set up based on a profile of an advertiser having at least one advertising media. A qualified subscriber is identified for the advertiser based on a profile of a subscriber. One or more advertisers and subsidy programs for the qualified subscriber is selected. In addition, when a communication transmission is received from a source communication device, at least one advertising media is associated with the communication transmission and the communication transmission is transmitted from a source communication device to a destination communication device. | 2012-09-27 |
20120246007 | PERSONALIZED AND DYNAMIC RESTAURANT INTERFACES AND SYSTEMS - A consumer profile can store consumer presence data and restaurant transaction data, as well as financial data and other secondary data. The consumer presence data can used to detect a consumer presence at a restaurant. A corresponding transaction between the restaurant and the consumer can be automatically initiated at the restaurant in response to the detected consumer presence at the restaurant and without requiring the consumer to explicitly request the transaction be initiated. A consumer can also be presented with a personalized interface for initiating a transaction at the restaurant in response to the consumer's presence being detected at the restaurant. | 2012-09-27 |
20120246008 | IMPLEMENTING COMPUTER INTERACTION RESPONSE TESTS - Embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for enhancing computer interaction challenge-response tests (e.g., Completely Automatic Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart, or CAPTCHA). Furthermore, embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for introducing advertising in such challenge-response tests, such that users are presented with opportunities to learn about or reinforce brands. In a typical embodiment, when a user attempts to access content (e.g., web content), the user will be presented with a CAPTCHA test. The CAPTCHA test typically includes an advertisement (e.g., logo, label, etc.) and an associated question for the user to answer. Along these lines, the advertisement is generally selected based on the user's demographics (e.g., interests, gender, age, etc.). If the user successfully responds to the question and/or responds within a certain amount of time, a reward can be determined (e.g., access to the content, preferred placement in a queue for computing resources, etc.). In one embodiment, a cumulative points total can be maintained for the user based on cumulative responses to CAPTCHA tests. In this embodiment, the CAPTCHA tests presented to the user can have increasing levels of difficulty with corresponding rewards. | 2012-09-27 |
20120246009 | Cross Marketing Tool Using a Customer Profile - The technology features a method and computer program product that can be used to provide a system and interface for generating a graphical representation on a mobile device such that consumers can view advertisements interspersed with other applications in a visually appealing fashion. The subject matter also includes a recommendation engine that will include specific content applications based on keywords associated with each specific content application. The recommendation engine can compare keywords associated with a content application to keywords associated with a customer profile. The recommendation can use matching keywords to associate a production list with content applications associated with the matching keywords. The production list can then be used to populate a graphical presentation on the mobile device with graphics associated with content applications on the production list. | 2012-09-27 |
20120246010 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING TARGETED ADVERTISING UTILIZING BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS MARKETING EXPERTS - A system and method for generating targeted advertising that utilizes behavioral economics marketing experts to generate advertising. The system prompts the user for the nature of their business (business vertical), the product they wish to promote, and a target audience for the advertising. Using the business vertical, the product selected, and the personas selected, the system scans a list of pre-defined advertising templates, prepared by experts in behavioral economics marketing, for matches based on the business vertical, product selected, and personas. The list of matching advertising templates is presented to the user for modification, if desired. The user, after selecting and modifying a template, if necessary, can then select that finished advertisement to be produced and sent to the target audience. | 2012-09-27 |
20120246011 | Media properties selection method and system based on expected profit from profile-based ad delivery - An automatic system facilitates selection of media properties on which to display an advertisement, responsive to a profile collected on a first media property, where a behavioral-targeting company calculates expected profit for an ad correlated with the profile and arranges for the visitor to be tagged with a tag readable by the selected media property. The profit can be calculated by deducting, from the revenues that are expected to be generated from an ad delivered based on the collected profile, at least the price of ad space at a media property where the BT company might like to deliver ads to the profiled visitor. When the calculated profit is positive (i.e., not a loss), the BT company arranges for the visitor to be tagged with a tag readable by the selected media property through which the BT company expects to profit. | 2012-09-27 |
20120246012 | OPEN MOBILE MEDIA MARKETPLACE - A system and associated methods are disclosed for implementing and sustaining an open opt-in media marketplace for cross-media advertising management using Rich Internet Applications in a cloud. This technology also provides a system and associated methods for providing collaborative data sharing and transfer among approved users and dynamically connecting from mobile and static devices to create, review, modify, and share advertising content, requests, and sales and purchases across multiple media type outlets simultaneously. | 2012-09-27 |
20120246013 | CLAIMING REAL ESTATE IN PANORAMIC OR 3D MAPPING ENVIRONMENTS FOR ADVERTISING - Techniques for identifying groups of features in an online geographic view of a real property and replacing and/or augmenting the groups of features with advertisement information are described. The techniques include providing a geographic view of a property within an online property management system, identifying a region of interest in the geographic view, analyzing the geographic view to locate one or more promotional features within the geographic view positioned upon a real property region, providing a user-selectable link associated with the region of interest in the geographic view, receiving a request for the region of interest in the geographic view via the user-selectable link, receiving data to alter at least one of the behavior or the appearance of the region of interest, storing the data in association with the geographic view, and updating the region of interest within the geographic view based upon the received data. | 2012-09-27 |
20120246014 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROMOTING USER GENERATION OF CONTENT - Systems and methods for promoting user generation of content are disclosed. More particularly, embodiments of systems and methods to facilitate the generation of content by users are disclosed. Specifically, in one embodiment, in order to drive generation of desired content, the generation of content by a user may be linked to an opportunity to generate additional content (where the two types of content may be the same or different). In particular, in certain embodiments when a user has generated a first type of content the opportunity to generate a second type of content may be presented to that user | 2012-09-27 |
20120246015 | SYSTEM FOR ONLINE SALES WITH AUTOMATIC REBATE AND COUPON REDEMPTION - A system for online sales with automatic rebate and coupon redemption provides customers making online purchases to automatically retrieve and redeem all applicable rebates and coupons during an online purchase. Purchase orders from customers are selectively fulfilled and products are shipped to the customers either by the system for online sales with automatic rebate and coupon redemption or by other merchant or manufacturer environments. The system makes purchases from merchants or manufacturers using all applicable coupons and rebates and then sells the products to the customers, passing the savings to them. The system automatically retrieves coupons and rebates for items in a shopping cart during the activity of an online purchase at an electronic mall or an online merchant site and to retrieve manufacturer's and merchant's coupons prior to an online purchasing activity for subsequent submission to an online merchant during a subsequent purchasing activity. | 2012-09-27 |