41st week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 50 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130268256 | REAL TIME POSTURE AND MOVEMENT PREDICTION IN EXECUTION OF OPERATIONAL TASKS - A system for determining the pose of an articulated model of a virtual subject in carrying out a task within a vehicle occupant packaging design is described. The system uses an initial posture of the articulated model prior to the virtual subject carrying out the task as a starting point. The system determines pose throughout the carrying out of the task by the virtual subject. The pose is determined based on the parameters of the virtual subject, the design, the task to be completed, and a set of constraints restricting the motion of the virtual subject. The pose can be analyzed to determine the feasibility of a design for a human subject, without the need for live subject testing. The method is analytically derived and results in a kinematically and dynamically consistent posture in real-time without requiring iterative optimization. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268257 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENERGY USAGE ACCOUNTING IN SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS - A method for generating an energy usage profile for a software program executed in a computing device includes generating a call trace of an executed system call, identifying a first power consumption and duration of a first power state due to the first system call using a model, identifying a second power consumption and duration of a second power state based on the model, and generating an energy usage profile for the software program. The energy usage profile includes energy consumption of the computing device for the system call based on the first power consumption level multiplied by the first duration and the second power consumption level multiplied by the second duration associated an identifier for the call trace. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268258 | MECHANISM AND SYSTEM FOR REPRESENTING AND PROCESSING ACTIVITY MODELS - This invention (KBM), extends the concept called color, of my previous invention KB (ref-1), to cover process oriented concepts, and linguistic notions. Colors of KBM are now capable of depicting a very wide variety of scenarios of information, biological, and mechanical systems. KBM provides a novel framework (called DSC) for operational modeling, which can be used to compose larger process structures from small process structures. KBM also provides a novel framework for model checking, and for planning a workflow. Thus, KBM may be used to build and execute complex workflows. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268259 | TRANSLATION APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed herein are a translation apparatus and a translation method. The translation apparatus includes: a speech input unit that receives a speech of a first language from a user; a control unit that generates sentences to be translated of the first language from the speech of the first language input from the speech input unit; a communication unit that transmits the sentences to be translated of the first language to a translation server and receives the sentences to be translated of a second language from the translation server; a display unit that displays the translated sentences of the second language along with previously translated sentences; a memory that stores a translation history including the sentences to be translated of the first language and the translated sentences of the second language; and a user input unit that receives an operation input of the previously translated sentences from a user. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268260 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR SEMIAUTOMATIC GENERATION AND TUNING OF NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERACTION APPLICATIONS - A system for supervised automatic code generation and tuning for natural language interaction applications, comprising a build environment comprising a developer user interface, automated coding tools, automated testing tools, and automated optimization tools, and an analytics framework software module. Text samples are imported into the build environment and automated clustering is performed to assign them to a plurality of input groups, each input group comprising a plurality of semantically related inputs. Language recognition rules are generated by automated coding tools. Automated testing tools carry out automated testing of language recognition rules and generate recommendations for tuning language recognition rules. The analytics framework performs analysis of interaction log files to identify problems in a candidate natural language interaction application. Optimizations to the candidate natural language interaction application are carried out and an optimized natural language interaction application is deployed into production and stored in the solution data repository. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268261 | SEMANTIC ENRICHMENT BY EXPLOITING TOP-K PROCESSING - Proper representation of the meaning of texts is crucial to enhancing many data mining and information retrieval tasks, including clustering, computing semantic relatedness between texts, and searching. Representing of texts in the concept-space derived from Wikipedia has received growing attention recently, due to its comprehensiveness and expertise. This concept-based representation is capable of extracting semantic relatedness between texts that cannot be deduced with the bag of words model. A key obstacle, however, for using Wikipedia as a semantic interpreter is that the sheer size of the concepts derived from Wikipedia makes it hard to efficiently map texts into concept-space. An efficient algorithm is proved which is able to represent the meaning of a text by using the concepts that best match it. In particular, this approach first computes the approximate top- concepts that are most relevant to the given text. These concepts are then leverage to represent the meaning of the given text. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268262 | System and Method for Analysing Natural Language - A computer implemented method for analysing natural language to determine a sentiment between two entities discussed in the natural language, comprising the following steps: receiving the natural language at a processing circuitry; analysing the natural language to determine a syntactic representation which shows syntactic constituents of the analysed natural language and to determine a sentiment score of each constituent; determining which constituents link the two entities; and calculating an overall sentiment score for the sentiment between the two entities by processing the sentiment score of each constituent of the constituents determined to link the two entities. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268263 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING NATURAL LANGUAGE AND MATHEMATICAL FORMULA AND APPARATUS THEREFOR - The present disclosure provides an apparatus and method for processing a natural language and a mathematical formula. The apparatus includes a natural language and mathematical formula input unit configured to receive a natural language and a mathematical formula inputted; an information generation unit configured to generate parsing semantic information of the mathematical formula from combined data composed of the natural language combined with the mathematical formula; an operation information extraction unit configured to extract operation information generated by using a logical condition from the combined data; a natural language and mathematical formula structuralizing unit configured to analyze, classify in terms of specific meaning and recombine the combined data; an operation structuralizing unit configured to structuralize the operation information; and a natural language and mathematical formula indexing unit configured to index the combined data. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268264 | SIGNAL ANALYZER, SIGNAL ANALYZING METHOD, SIGNAL SYNTHESIZER, SIGNAL SYNTHESIZING, WINDOWER, TRANSFORMER AND INVERSE TRANSFORMER - The present disclosure relates to a signal analyzer for processing an overlapped input signal frame comprising 2N subsequent input signal values. The signal analyzer comprises: a windower adapted to window the overlapped input signal frame to obtain a windowed signal, wherein the windower is adapted to zero M+N/2 subsequent input signal values of the overlapped input signal frame, wherein M is equal or greater than 1 and smaller than N/2; and a transformer adapted to transform the remaining 3N/2−M subsequent windowed signal values of the windowed signal using N−M sets of transform parameters to obtain a transformed-domain signal comprising N−M transformed-domain signal values. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268265 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSING AUDIO SIGNAL - The present invention relates to a method for processing an audio signal, and the method comprises the steps of: receiving an audio signal; determining a coding mode corresponding to a current frame, by receiving network information for indicating the coding mode; encoding the current frame of said audio signal according to said coding mode; and transmitting said encoded current frame, wherein said coding mode is determined by the combination of a bandwidth and bitrate, and said bandwidth includes two or more bands among narrowband, wideband, and super wideband. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268266 | Method and Apparatus for Generating a Candidate Code-Vector to Code an Informational Signal | 2013-10-10 |
20130268267 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CANCELLING WIDEBAND ACOUSTIC ECHO - Disclosed is an apparatus for cancelling a wideband acoustic echo, the apparatus including a determining unit to determine whether a monitor coefficient value obtained by dividing a Near-End Talker (NET) energy value by an ERROR energy value converges to an acoustic echo cancelling reference value. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268268 | ENCODING OF AN IMPROVEMENT STAGE IN A HIERARCHICAL ENCODER - A method and coding device are provided for coding a digital audio input signal in a hierarchical coder, which includes a core coding stage with B bits and at least one current improvement coding stage k, delivering quantization indices which are concatenated to form the indices of a preceding embedded coder. The method includes: obtaining possible quantization values for the current improvement stage k by determining absolute reconstruction levels of just the current stage k on the basis of the indices of the preceding embedded coder; and quantizing the input signal of the hierarchical coder having undergone or not a perceptual weighting processing, on the basis of the possible quantization values so as to form a scalar quantization index for the stage k and a quantized signal corresponding to one of the possible quantization values. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268269 | Systems and Methods for Off-Board Voice-Automated Vehicle Navigation - A system for providing navigational information comprises a mobile system processing and transmitting via a wireless link a continuous voice stream spoken by a user of the mobile system, the continuous voice stream including a complete destination address and a data center processing the continuous voice stream received via the wireless link into voice navigational information. The data center performs automated voice recognition processing on the voice navigational information to recognize destination components of the complete destination address, confirms the recognized destination components through interactive speech exchanges with the mobile system user via the wireless link and the mobile system, selectively allows human data center operator intervention to assist in identifying the selected recognized destination components having a recognition confidence below a selected threshold value, and downloads the complete destination address for transmission to the mobile system derived from the confirmed recognized destination components. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268270 | Forced/Predictable Adaptation for Speech Recognition - A method is described for use with automatic speech recognition using discriminative criteria for speaker adaptation. An adaptation evaluation is performed of speech recognition performance data for speech recognition system users. Adaptation candidate users are identified based on the adaptation evaluation for whom an adaptation process is likely to improve system performance. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268271 | SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM, SPEECH RECOGNITION METHOD, AND SPEECH RECOGNITION PROGRAM - A speech recognition system has: hypothesis search means which searches for an optimal solution of inputted speech data by generating a hypothesis which is a bundle of words which are searched for as recognition result candidates; self-repair decision means which calculates a self-repair likelihood of a word or a word sequence included in the hypothesis which is being searched for by the hypothesis search means, and decides whether or not self-repair of the word or the word sequence is performed; and transparent word hypothesis generation means which, when it is decided that the self-repair is performed, generates a transparent word hypothesis which is a hypothesis which regards as a transparent word a word or a word sequence included in a disfluency interval or a repair interval of a self-repair interval including the word or the word sequence. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268272 | TEXT DEPENDENTSPEAKER RECOGNITION WITH LONG-TERM FEATURE BASED ON FUNCTIONAL DATA ANALYSIS - One or more test features are extracted from a time domain signal. The test features are represented by discrete data. The discrete data is represented for each of the one or more test features by a corresponding one or more fitting functions, which are defined in terms of finite number of continuous basis functions and a corresponding finite number of expansion coefficients. Each fitting function is compressed through Functional Principal Component Analysis (FPCA) to generate corresponding sets of principal components. Each principal component for a given test feature is uncorrelated to each other principal component for the given test feature. A distance between a set of principal components for the given test feature and a set of principal components for one or more training features with the processing system is calculated. The test feature is classified according to the distance calculated with the processing system. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268273 | METHOD OF RECOGNIZING GENDER OR AGE OF A SPEAKER ACCORDING TO SPEECH EMOTION OR AROUSAL - A method of recognizing gender or age of a speaker according to speech emotion or arousal includes the following steps of A) segmentalizing speech signals into a plurality of speech segments; B) fetching the first speech segment from the plural speech segments to further acquire at least one of emotional features or arousal degree in the speech segment; C) determining whether at least one of the emotional feature and the arousal degree conforms to some condition; if yes, proceed to the step D); if no, return to the step B) and then fetch the next speech segment; D) fetching the feature indicative of gender or age from the speech segment to further acquire at least one feature parameter; and E) recognizing the at least one feature parameter to further determine the gender or age of the speaker at the currently-processed speech segment. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268274 | System and Method for Efficient Tracking of Multiple Dialog States with Incremental Recombination - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for tracking multiple dialog states. A system practicing the method receives an N-best list of speech recognition candidates, a list of current partitions, and a belief for each of the current partitions. A partition is a group of dialog states. In an outer loop, the system iterates over the N-best list of speech recognition candidates. In an inner loop, the system performs a split, update, and recombination process to generate a fixed number of partitions after each speech recognition candidate in the N-best list. The system recognizes speech based on the N-best list and the fixed number of partitions. The split process can perform all possible splits on all partitions. The update process can compute an estimated new belief. The estimated new belief can be a product of ASR reliability, user likelihood to produce this action, and an original belief. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268275 | SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM, SPEECH SYNTHESIS PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND SPEECH SYNTHESIS METHOD - Waveform concatenation speech synthesis with high sound quality. Prosody with both high accuracy and high sound quality is achieved by performing a two-path search including a speech segment search and a prosody modification value search. An accurate accent is secured by evaluating the consistency of the prosody by using a statistical model of prosody variations (the slope of fundamental frequency) for both of two paths of the speech segment selection and the modification value search. In the prosody modification value search, a prosody modification value sequence that minimizes a modified prosody cost is searched for. This allows a search for a modification value sequence that can increase the likelihood of absolute values or variations of the prosody to the statistical model as high as possible with minimum modification values. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268276 | Menu Hierarchy Skipping Dialog for Directed Dialog Speech Recognition - A method and a processing device for managing an interactive speech recognition system is provided. Whether a voice input relates to expected input, at least partially, of any one of a group of menus different from a current menu is determined. If the voice input relates to the expected input, at least partially, of any one of the group of menus different from the current menu, skipping to the one of the group of menus is performed. The group of menus is different from the current menu include menus at multiple hierarchical levels. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268277 | WIRELESS TRANSACTION COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND METHOD - The invention can be a simple method for data transfer from one electronic device to another. In this embodiment, a sender can upload data to a server using an out-of-band connection while broadcasting an identification signal over one or several mediums, such as acoustic and/or radio (Ultrasound, Bluetooth, infrared, etc. . . . ). In the case that a connection to the server can be established, the receiver will detect the identification signal, decode it, and request the information from the server. The receiver can then send an authorization for a transaction through the server via an out-of-band connection or directly to the sender via one of the primary communication mediums, at which point the transaction is complete. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268278 | Audio Communication System, An Audio Transmitter and An Audio Receiver - An audio communication system, an audio transmitter and an audio receiver are described herein. In one aspect, the audio transmitter includes: An analog to digital converter configured to convert an analog audio signal into a digital audio signal; a digital compressor configured to compress the dynamic range of said digital audio signal; a digital modulator configured to modulate the compressed digital audio signal into a wireless communication signal; and the analog to digital converter, the digital compressor and the digital modulator are integrated in one integrated circuit. The described devices improve the compression and expansion device linearity, resulting in better match for the compressor at the transmitter and the expandor at the receiver. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268279 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING VARIABLE BLOCK LENGTH WATERMARKING OF MEDIA - Methods and apparatus for performing variable block length watermarking of media are disclosed. An example method to encode auxiliary data in audio data comprises selecting a frequency based on a code, selecting a block size based on the code, a combination of the block size and the frequency to represent of the code, encoding the code in an audio stream according to the block size and the frequency, and transmitting the audio stream including the encoded code. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268280 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GEOMETRY-BASED SPATIAL AUDIO CODING - An apparatus for generating at least one audio output signal based on an audio data stream having audio data relating to one or more sound sources is provided. The apparatus has a receiver for receiving the audio data stream having the audio data. The audio data has one or more pressure values for each one of the sound sources. Furthermore, the audio data has one or more position values indicating a position of one of the sound sources for each one of the sound sources. Moreover, the apparatus has a synthesis module for generating the at least one audio output signal based on at least one of the one or more pressure values of the audio data of the audio data stream and based on at least one of the one or more position values of the audio data of the audio data stream. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268281 | Apparatus and Method for Decomposing an Input Signal Using a Pre-Calculated Reference Curve - An apparatus for decomposing a signal having an number of at least three channels includes an analyzer for analyzing a similarity between two channels of an analysis signal related to the signal having at least two analysis channels, wherein the analyzer is configured for using a pre-calculated frequency dependent similarity curve as a reference curve to determine the analysis result. The signal processor processes the analysis signal or a signal derived from the analysis signal or a signal, from which the analysis signal is derived using the analysis result to obtain a decomposed signal. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268282 | CALENDAR-BASED SCHEDULED THERAPY MEDIA SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method for implementing and using a calendar-based schedule therapy media system. Such a system may be implemented using a web based collection of applications and software modules related to therapy and media for Traumatic Brain Injured (TBI) and similar symptom patients so as to enhance the recovery process and to assist health care providers and families in cooperatively managing treatment programs. This set of computer-based applications is designed to assist and enhance patient recovery through an exercise management tool to manage the recovery treatment program. Further, an application, executable on any computing device provides an all-in-one mobile resource to assist in fulfilling treatment regimens, and managing exercises with more independence. To further enhance the ability of a patient to self-direct various aspects of a session, the calendar based events may include network links to media items for assisting the patient by viewing or listening to video. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268283 | Process to Streamline Workflow for Continuous Monitoring of a Patient - A method for displaying patient data includes receiving physiological data from a medical monitoring device. The medical monitoring device obtains the physiological data from a patient. A determination is made as to whether patient identification information and room location information have been received for the patient. When it is determined that both the patient identification information and the room location information for the patient have not been received, the physiological data is displayed at a temporary location on a display screen of a medical display device. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268284 | System and Method for Transferring Patients Between Hospitals - A system for transferring patients to or between hospitals comprising an online database storing information about at least two hospitals or physicians, a transfer request template, and a response template. Also provided is a physician interface for an originator, such as a physician, to populate the transfer request template to produce a completed transfer request, and to provide for selection of a selected hospital or selected physician. A hospital interface allowing a potential receiving hospital or receiving physician to view the completed transfer request and to provide a response. The server is further equipped with a communication module to transmit and receive communications between the originator and the potential receiving hospital or receiving physician. A processor executes the module which is stored on a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268285 | MEDICAL DEVICE QUALITY CONTROL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE - Software is described to provide for mapping of a data file generated by a medical imaging device relating to quality control for the device to a format suitable for manipulation by a medical imaging device quality control management software. Various display interfaces can be provided to introduce certain functionalities, such as set up of the mapping function, reconciliation of the data association during the mapping process and the like. In this way, device specific software data can be integrated into effective management software that can extend across many different quality control test, potentially relating to a plurality of medical imaging devices and potentially across several locations. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268286 | PROVIDING PROTOCOL VARIANCES FROM STANDARD PROTOCOLS - Systems and method for identifying and providing protocol variances are provided. In embodiments, the method includes referencing an ordered protocol associated with a health condition for a patient. Such an ordered protocol includes a plan for a course of health or medical treatment for the health condition of the patient. A standard protocol that corresponds with the ordered protocol is also referenced. Thereafter, the ordered protocol is compared to the standard protocol to identify at least one protocol variance that indicates a portion of the ordered protocol has been adjusted as compared to the standard protocol. Any identified protocol variances are presented, for example, to a user computing device for display to a user. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268287 | SYSTEM FOR CLINICAL TRIAL SUBJECT COMPLIANCE - The present invention is designed to develop research protocols for clinical trials. The invention also can track and enhance subject compliance with a research protocol. The invention further provides evaluability data related to subject performance in the clinical trial. According to an alternative embodiment of the invention, a portable electronic device is used to query and collect data from the subject. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268288 | DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR EXTRACTING ABNORMAL EVENT FROM MEDICAL INFORMATION USING FEEDBACK INFORMATION - An abnormality information creating means creates at least one or more abnormality information which is information indicating abnormality of each data based on specificity of medical data. A side effect detecting means decides a likelihood of a side effect indicated by the abnormality information according to a predetermined rule, and detects abnormality information the likelihood of which satisfies conditions set in advance as information indicating the side effect. When receiving an input of information used to create the abnormality information as the feedback information, the abnormality information creating means creates the abnormality information based on the information. Further, when receiving as the feedback information an input of the information used to detect the side effect, the side effect detecting means detects the side effect based on the information. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268289 | Dietary Analysis Tool - A computer-implemented dietary analysis tool. More particularly, aspects of the present invention relate to computer implemented methods and systems configured to analyze a user's dietary intake based on information received from a user regarding her diet and exercise within a first time frame, such as for example, a twenty-four hour period. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268290 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISEASE KNOWLEDGE MODELING - Systems and methods are described herein for disease knowledge modeling and clinical treatment decision support, and the prioritization of possible treatment options based on tumor or other disease biomarkers. Disease or indication information, including identification of biomolecular entities associated with the indication may be culled through text data mining to create a knowledge model of the indication. In some embodiments, the knowledge model may comprise a network of associations between molecular entities, including such drug targets and biomakers, genes, pathways. The model may be combined with patient-specific variant information and historical treatment records to identify and prioritize treatment decisions and allow for the prediction of disease drivers and provide treatment options tailored to a patient's genetic data. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268291 | PATIENT SAFETY PROCESSOR - A processor-based system for analyzing physiologic data and medical care is provided wherein the patient data is analyzed to construct images that are representative of a patient's condition. The processor provides a self-modulating analysis, which is responsive to the occurrence of additional data items to increase the information contained in the images. Identifications of modes of physiologic failure by the analysis of the generated images provides for earlier recognition and intervention and improved protocolization of testing and treatment. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268292 | USER TERMINAL DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING USER CUSTOMIZED HEALTH MANAGEMENT, AND METHODS THEREOF - A user health management method and device are provided. The user health management method includes receiving data from a data source using short-range wireless communication, the data indicating health-related information, determining health-related behavior information of a user based on the health-related information, generating a health care recommendation for the user based on the health-related behavior information, and outputting the health care recommendation. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268293 | HYGIENE COMPLIANCE SYSTEMS AND METHODS INCLUDING OPTICAL TAGS - Hygiene monitoring systems and methods are described herein. In various embodiments, the systems and methods may be used to monitor cleaning events (e.g., hand washing events, equipment sanitation events, etc.). | 2013-10-10 |
20130268294 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING MEDICAL IMAGING PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS - In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, professional certifications functionality is provided by a mammography management system that allows system users such as radiologist and technologists to track their professional credentials such as licenses, certifications, and education. The functionality is flexible such that a variety of credential types may be entered and stored in the system and so that the progress of such credentials are tracked and monitored for relevant continuing education requirements. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268295 | SYSTEM FOR LIMITING EXPOSURE TO LIABILITY IN MEDICAL BENEFIT PLANS - Systems and methods are provided to limit exposure of medical Plans to high liabilities for renal dialysis without exposing the insured patient to out-of-pocket liability while still allowing the patient to receive dialysis as they need it. In one embodiment, this goal is achieved by providing an ERISA medical insurance Plan structure that limits Plan responsibility to 125% of the Medicare approved amount for the services provided, and simultaneously supplements coverage of the patient under Medicare Part B. Because Medicare regulations prohibit providers from balance-billing patients subsequent to billing Medicare, the patient cannot be billed for amounts in excess of the Plan limits. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268296 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING, MONITORING AND TREATING MEDICAL SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS - A system for identifying and monitoring risk of a plurality of predefined mental health disorders in a single composite score is provided. The system includes a network portal providing access to at least one patient and at least one health care provider; a patient symptom inventory including a grouped, listing of questions corresponding to a plurality of mental symptoms; and a patient assessment progress record including an assessment record for tracking the patient's risk of suffering from the plurality of potential mental conditions over time. The system receives patient responses to the patient symptom inventory and determines, based on the patient selected responses, a composite score indicating the extent to which the plurality of mental symptoms impairs the patient's functioning and individual risk assessments indicating the likelihood the patient is suffering from each of the plurality of potential mental conditions. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268297 | DIRECT REPORTING OF ADVERSE EVENTS - Systems, methods, and computer readable media are described for communicating an adverse event report directly to an end-user receiving party and tracking one or more adverse event reports. An adverse event may be detected manually or automatically by a system and an electronic adverse event reporting form presented to a user with one or more data fields pre-populated with data from a patient's electronic health record (EHR). The user may enter and edit data in the electronic form and may submit the data in the electronic form directly to an end-user receiving party such as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. One or more receipts may be received from the receiving party and indicia from the receipts recorded to one or more records. The submitted adverse event reports may be tracked, accessed, and interacted with through a user interface and additional information may be provided to a user therein. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268298 | VIN BASED INSURANCE CLAIM SYSTEM - An insurance claim system that can display vehicle identification key information and vehicle option, package, engine, transmission, paint, production date information provided from multiple different sources. The system can perform a method that includes displaying at least one insurance claim with at least one vehicle description, a plurality of vehicle options, and a VIN field. A VIN is entered into the VIN field, which is decoded to determine vehicle information and vehicle option information. One or more vehicle options displayed by the client computer are selected with the vehicle option information, and the selected vehicle options are modified with supplemental vehicle options information provided by an OEM source. Modifying the vehicle options with the information provided by the OEM source improves the accuracy of the options information selected on the insurance claim page. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268299 | ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY INSURANCE - A computerized method is used for generating financial plans for the cost of infertility treatment. Further, the financial plans contemplate reimbursement for of the cost of unsuccessful infertility treatments. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268300 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF DETERMINING AND APPLYING INSURANCE PROFIT SCORES - Preferred embodiments of the invention include a new and innovative method and system of determining a profit score for an individual policy, which score may be used to evaluate the desirability of offering or renewing individual insurance policies. The present invention also may be applied to determine the profitability of aggregate books of business, which may be offered by individual insurance agents or agencies, whether captive or independent. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268301 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INSURANCE COVERAGE RECOMMENDATIONS - A dynamic computer system assists users in selecting insurance coverage types and levels appropriate for their present financial circumstances. The computer system includes a graphical user interface (GUI) representative of a user's financial data and coverage recommendations. The system may further access third party data to validate and enrich coverage determinations. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268302 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING A SOCIAL TRIP PLANNING EXPERIENCE - A system and machine-implemented method for facilitating a social travel planning environment, including receiving an indication of interest in an trip element being viewed at a remote store by a user participating in a social trip planning session, wherein the remote store is one of an online store or an offline store, wherein the social trip planning session includes one or more participants interested in planning a trip, retrieving, using the one or more computing devices, information regarding the trip element in response to receiving the indication, the information including trip element information corresponding to the trip element and providing the trip element and the retrieved information to be displayed to the one or more participants of the social trip planning session and providing a mechanism for receiving feedback regarding the trip element from the one or more participants. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268303 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO HOST ELECTRONIC INTERACTIVE PASSENGER BOARDINGS - A method and system for determining, organizing, directing, displaying,and calling out a dynamic real time better boarding order of passengers by their assigned seats. The method includes the interactive participation of boarding passengers with a better boarding machine that hosts and directs the systematic progression of the better boarding order. The system accommodates and adjusts for passenger purchases at the gate, standby passengers and passengers who are late. The system also provides passengers with educational and entrainment videos, promotional videos and advertisements. A system machine for boarding passengers is also disclosed. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268304 | Systems, Methods, and Computer Program Products for Purchasing Transportation Tickets - A system includes a memory storing user account information, wherein the information comprises an account identifier for a user; and one or more processors for determining a transportation station for a user based on a determined location of the user through a user mobile device; determining a direction of travel by the user; presenting a list of destinations to the user mobile device, the list of destinations being associated with a travel schedule corresponding to the transportation station and the direction of travel; receiving a selected destination from the list via the user mobile device; and presenting a ticket to the user mobile device, the ticket corresponding to the selected destination. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268305 | Social club networking environment - The instant invention is a method of organizing and displaying independent social club and social club events through a social network environment in which social club links and social club events are stored, organized, displayed and linked in such a manner that an individual may investigate a social club and join if desired or a member from one club may investigate and access another social club or another social club event for participation. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268306 | SCHEDULE ARRANGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRIPS MATCHING, INTEGRATION AND OUTPUT - The present invention provides a schedule arrangement system and a method for trips matching, integration and output, the schedule arrangement system includes at least one information of an itinerary displaying board displaying an itinerary; a general displaying module displaying the general; a geographic displaying module displaying geographic; and at least an interaction existing thereamong for assisting the users in completing their schedule plans. In one embodiment, the schedule arrangement system further includes a matching system. In another embodiment, the schedule arrangement system further includes an integration system of schedule arrangement and resource reservation. In still another embodiment, the schedule arrangement system further includes a personalized travel information automatic output system. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268307 | RESOURCE ALLOCATION MANAGEMENT - In accordance with aspects of the disclosure, a system and methods are provided for managing resource allocation by generating a finance-investment plan relative to one or more time intervals while maintaining a cash reserve at a predetermined threshold based on information related to financial activities including asset related activities and liability related activities. The systems and methods may include evaluating accounts receivable patterns for each asset to determine cash surplus ranges within the one or more time intervals, evaluating accounts payable patterns for each liability to determine cash flow gaps within the one or more time intervals, maintaining an asset-to-liability ratio during the one or more time intervals, and generating the finance-investment plan while maintaining the cash reserve at the predetermined threshold within the one or more time intervals based on the asset-to-liability ratio and potential cash flow forecasting schemes for each asset and liability. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268308 | DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE FRAMEWORK FOR DEFINING AND MANAGING GEO-TASK CAMPAIGNS - Defining and managing geo-task campaigns, in one aspect, may include enabling a creator of a campaign to define a collective data-gathering activity to be carried out by a plurality of participating respondents, the collective data-gathering activity defined at least by geographic location, time period and activity. One or more response values may be received from the plurality of participating respondents, the response values including data that conforms to the defined collective data-gathering activity including a description of the geographic location, a description of the time period, a description of one or more objects at the location associated with the activity. Response values are coordinated according to the defined geographic location, time period and activity. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268309 | CABLE CONSTRUCTION ASSISTANCE/MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Operation information which is provided from a construction DB server, assists an operation relating to a cable to which the operation is allowed, and is previously associated with a cable ID, is downloaded to a PDA which an operator carries. An RFID tag reader of a PDA is used to read information of an RFID integrated with a name indication card attached to a helmet possessed by the operator, and to read a cable ID of a cable from an index seal provided with an RFID and attached to an end of the cable. On the basis of the cable ID, operation information regarding the corresponding cable is acquired from among the downloaded operation information, and is displayed on a display means of the PDA. Each operator works with reference to operation assistance information displayed on the display means of the PDA, and when the operation is finished, RFID information of the operator is recorded again, to perform an association between the operation and the operation information at different times, and thereby, increase the reliability regarding history management. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268310 | SCHEDULING SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - There is a system for performing scheduling. The system includes a processor to perform dynamic priority scheduling based on a schedule including one or more flexible events associated with a flexible event object. The flexible event object includes a FlexibleDueTime and at least one of a FlexibleStartTime and a FlexibleEventDuration. The processor generates a priority value associated with the flexible event based on a time, the FlexibleDueTime, and at least one of the FlexibleStartTime and the FlexibleEventDuration. The system determines a priority assignment for the flexible event utilizing the generated priority value. There are also associated methods and computer-readable mediums for performing scheduling. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268311 | System and Method for Identifying and Upgrading a Transmission Grid - A system and method for upgrading or otherwise improving performance and/or operation of a transmission grid are provided. The system and method involve identifying transmission grid constraint(s), e.g., transmission bottlenecks or other causes of system congestion, and implementing step(s) to alleviate such constraint(s) on terms and conditions that shift initial capital requirements away from grid owners/operators. The capital-shifting mechanisms generally include installation of and/or access to equipment for monitoring and/or measuring grid performance parameter(s) on a predetermined basis, e.g., in real-time, on a daily basis or the like. A processor is provided that is programmed to calculate a payment stream to be paid to the independent party responsible for effectuating the grid performance upgrade based on measurement of performance parameters. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268312 | Digital Asset Management Protocol - A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium provide for receiving a user selection of an asset to be processed by an asset processing system; receiving a user selection of a type of asset processing order to be generated; identifying types of data to be obtained to generate an asset processing order, in response to receiving the type of asset processing order to be generated; obtaining order data that includes a work flow identifier; obtaining asset data that includes an asset identifier and asset characteristic data; obtaining at least one of ingest data, transform data, or distribution data; generating an asset processing order based on the obtained order data, the obtained asset data, and the at least one of the obtained ingest data, the obtained transform data, or the obtained distribution data; and transmitting the asset processing order and the asset to the asset processing system. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268313 | System and Method for Security Management - A security evaluation and scoring system includes a computer server in wireless communication with a mobile electronic device. The computer server is configured to receive input from the mobile electronic device, where the input is related to individuals to be evaluated. The server is further configured to evaluate risk, based on a plurality of predetermined parameters, and to provide both a qualitative and quantitative scoring-based risk assessment of the individual, and to output the results of the risk assessment to a display of the mobile electronic device. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268314 | BRAND ANALYSIS USING INTERACTIONS WITH SEARCH RESULT ITEMS - Embodiments of the invention relate to performing brand analysis based on user's interactions with search results. In one embodiment, at least one search result list is analyzed. The search result includes a set of items corresponding to at least one search request submitted by at least one user. The set of items in the at least one search result list is determined to include at least one item corresponding to a brand analysis target item, and at least one other item. A selection by the at least one user of one of the brand analysis target item and the other item from the at least one search result list is recorded for the at least one search result list. A brand analysis metric is generated based on the recording. The brand analysis metric indicates a ratio of selections between the brand analysis target item and the other item. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268315 | PREDICTING THE EFFECT OF INCENTIVE PROGRAMS - The present disclosure describes computer hardware, software, systems and methods for evaluating the effect of planned, future or hypothetical incentive programs on a financial arrangement that could be offered to customers such as automobile customers. Computer hardware and modules are disclosed that can store, receive, display, or calculate customer data corresponding to financial terms of current agreements of one or more customers and hypothetical incentive data, store, receive, display, or generate potential customer pools that include customers for which a replacement product and a replacement financial agreement has financial terms substantially similar to financial terms of a current product and current financial agreement, and generate a summary report that includes the customers in the potential customer pool. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268316 | MERCHANDISE USER TRACKING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A merchandising system and method for tracking user interaction with electronic items of merchandise on display in a retail store are provided. For example, the method includes obtaining identifying information from an electronic item of merchandise on display and detecting user interaction with the electronic item of merchandise. The method further includes tracking information relating to the detected user interaction with the electronic item of merchandise. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268317 | ARRANGEMENT FOR FACILITATING SHOPPING AND RELATED METHOD - An executing electronic arrangement for producing foodstuff recommendations and facilitating shopping in grocery stores, includes semantic context management entity configured to maintain semantic context-defining user information relative to a plurality of users, which indicates user preferences relative to groceries based on obtained explicit or implicit preference information, a base item recommendation entity configured to determine, for a first user, a plurality of more generic grocery recommendations based on the semantic context of the first user and the semantic contexts of a number of other users considered as neighbors to the first user according to predetermined similarity criteria, and a product recommendation entity configured to derive, for the first user, a shopping list incorporating a plurality of recommended products relative to a predetermined store offering such products, representing more specific instances of the determined more generic grocery recommendations and being derived utilizing knowledge of the store's product range or current stock. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268318 | Systems and Methods for Temporal Reconciliation of Forecast Results - In accordance with the teachings described herein, systems and methods are provided for generating a forecast. A first forecast model of a first type is applied to generate first forecast results. A second forecast model of a second type is applied to generate second forecast results. The first and second forecast results are combined using an optimization model to generate combined forecast results, where the optimization model applies one or more constraints to preserve one or more attributes of the first or second forecast results in the combined forecast results. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268319 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRICE OPTIMIZATION IN AN ONLINE CONSULTATION SYSTEM - Embodiments of the present invention further provide systems and methods for optimizing prices for paid question and answers in an online consultation website, where user attributes are defined and segmented based on parameters influencing the price. At least a high price and a low price test path are created for each segment, and revenue generated for each test path is measured and the highest revenue path is selected as the optimized path and the price corresponding to highest revenue path as the optimized price for the online consultation system. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268320 | DEMAND PREDICTION SYSTEM - In order to predict demand, in a demand prediction computing unit ( | 2013-10-10 |
20130268321 | Emotivity and Vocality Measurement - One embodiment of the present invention is directed to a computer-implemented system that analyzes free-form text comments provided by a user (such as a customer of a company) and draws conclusions about the tone of the user's feedback, such as whether the user's feedback is positive, negative, angry, critical, or congratulatory. Such conclusions may be reflected in a single numerical value referred to herein as “emotivity.” A customer's emotivity score may be used for various purposes, such as determining whether the customer is likely to provide a positive testimonial for the company, or whether a follow-up phone call should be made to the customer to improve the company's relationship with the customer. Furthermore, a measurement of the customer's loyalty to the company may be modified based on the user's measured emotivity. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268322 | TARGET MARKETING - A marketing method and system. The method includes receiving by a computing system total population data. A peer group is selected from the total population data. The peer group is associated with a first marketing action. A list of attributes characterizing the peer group is generated. The attributes are associated with the marketing action, demographic data, and additional purchasing habits of the peer group. A target group of individuals of the total population data is selected. The attributes are associated with the individuals of the target group. Scores associated with the individuals of the target group are generated. The individuals of the target group are ranked based on said scores. A ranking list based is generated. The ranking list includes the individuals of the target group in a ranked order. The ranking list is stored. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268323 | DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR PRICING, COSTING AND BILLING OF FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS - The present invention provides methods and systems for pricing financial transactions by defining product rules, providing links to appropriate price tables, and calculating a price for a financial transaction. A data processing system in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, creates a product rule corresponding to a financial transaction. The product rule contains mandatory attributes and optional attributes. Optional attributes may be looked up using identifiers constructed from said mandatory attributes. Optional attributes include a link to a price table which contains further attributes, including a pricing method. A price is then calculated in accordance with the pricing method. Billing is completed according to the billing method for the particular financial transaction. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268324 | USING COMMERCIAL SHARE OF WALLET TO RATE INVESTMENTS - Commercial size of spending wallet (“CSoSW”) is the total business spend of a business including cash but excluding bartered items. Commercial share of wallet (“CSoW”) is the portion of the spending wallet that is captured by a particular financial company. A modeling approach utilizes various data sources to provide outputs that describe a company's spend capacity. A mutual fund rating company can use this CSoW/CSoSW modeling approach to predict the performance of funds that invest in a particular industry or sector. In addition, since mutual funds often provide guidelines for selecting stocks, rating companies can use this modeling approach to predict the performance of companies in a fund's portfolio. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268325 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BENCHMARKING ENVIRONMENTAL DATA - Systems and methods for benchmarking collected or computed environmental data for one or more entities. The systems and methods involve determining a distribution for historical environmental data for the entity, collecting current environmental data for the entity, and generating, using the processor, a graphical representation benchmarking the current environmental data against the historical environmental data, wherein the graphical representation comprises the data segments and represents the current environmental data at a position within one of the segments, where the data segments are calculated using the distribution. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268326 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPUTERIZED RESOURCE OPTIMIZATION FOR INSURANCE RELATED TASKS - Disclosed herein are computer-implemented methods, computing systems, and related technologies that may be used for determining the optimal number of Full Time Equivalents (FTEs) that should be engaged by a service provider in order to provide a service to an insurance company. Multiple service level agreements (SLAs) exists between the service provider and the insurance company, each of which indicates that the service provider must complete a given percentage of assigned tasks for the service within a given time period. A resource optimization application (ROA) determines how many FTEs the service provider should employ, in order to complete assigned tasks as required by the SLAs. The ROA determines the number of FTEs based on factors such as an average handling time (AHT) for the tasks, the capacity of the service provider, historical data that describes tasks previously assigned to the service provider, and other factors. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268327 | PROCUREMENT QUALITY IMPROVING SYSTEM - Information that specifically points out quality problems in manufacturing processes can be provided to a supplier, thereby providing techniques capable of improving procurement quality. A present procurement quality improving system | 2013-10-10 |
20130268328 | GENERATING A DEAL SCORE TO INDICATE A RELATIVE VALUE OF AN OFFER - Techniques are described herein for generating a deal score to indicate a relative value of an offer for a commerce element. In one example, the deal score for a particular offer is based on a difference between a discounted price specified by the particular offer and an average of discounted price(s) specified by other offer(s). If the difference reaches a threshold, then a relatively high deal score is generated. Otherwise, a relatively low deal score is generated. In another example, the deal score is based on a difference between an intermediate value and the discounted price specified by the present offer. The intermediate value may be provided by combining discounted price(s) specified by other offer(s) and the non-discounted price of the commerce element being offered. If the difference reaches a threshold, then a relatively high deal score is generated. Otherwise, a relatively low deal score is generated. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268329 | Electronic Trading System and Method for Marketing Products and Services - A consumer is provided with a first asset in return for a promise to earn an agreed to number of points over an agreed to redemption period. The consumer subsequently earns the points by purchasing one or more second assets. At least one of the second assets is different than the first asset. Each purchase has an associated with point value, at least one of the point values being different than at least one other point value. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268330 | MARKETING METHOD FOR ARTIFICIAL TURF AT AIRPORTS - An airport advertising system includes a backing securely installed adjacent to an airport runway or taxiway, a plurality of base fibers secured to the backing, and a plurality of advertisement forming fibers secured to the backing so as to visually define at least a portion of an airport advertisement. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268331 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING ONLINE GROUP SHOPPING SERVICES - A method and system for providing an online group shopping experience via a computing device includes hosting a database of information regarding a first and second user, and associating the two user records. The group shopping experience is provided with a user interface for the first user and a user interface for the second user. The first user is provided with the ability to selectively share a summary of the information displayed on the first user's interface and the second user is provided with the ability to selectively navigate to and display the information displayed by the first user on the second user's interface. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268332 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCING CUSTOMER SERVICE - A method is disclosed for determining that a consumer is within an area encompassing a merchant. A visual description of the consumer is transmitted to the merchant. Consumer status information is transmitted to the merchant. The method may include determining that the consumer satisfies offer criteria. A promotion offer may he transmitted to the consumer. The merchant may use the visual description or consumer preferences to offer the consumer a personalized product or service. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268333 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO PROCESS TRANSACTIONS AND OFFERS VIA A GATEWAY - A system, configured to integrate the processing of transactions and offers applicable to the transactions, includes: a data warehouse storing an offer in association with a financial payment account; a gateway configured to receive an authorization request that is transmitted from a transaction terminal without going through an acquirer processor, the gateway coupled with the data warehouse to determine whether the offer is applicable to the authorization request and if so, apply a benefit of the offer to the authorization request; and a transaction handler coupled with the gateway to process the authorization request submitted from the gateway, provide an authorization response corresponding to the authorization request, and communicate with the acquirer processor to credit funds according to the authorization request to a merchant account associated with the transaction terminal. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268334 | CREDIT CARD HAVING REIMBURSEMENT FOR BENEFITS - An improved computerized method for provides credit card services by a card issuer. A cardholder has an account with the card issuer and the method includes storing, in association with the account, data associated with the cardholder's benefits. It also includes processing incoming merchant charges to be posted to the account to flag any charge identified as covered by the benefits and to store such charge as flagged. Finally it includes deferring billing of any flagged charge, pending settlement of such flagged charge under an arrangement with the benefit provider. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268335 | Media Based Coupon Distribution System - A digital coupon system for electronically distributing coupons and inducements to viewers over broadcast media. The system employs a viewable or audible signal to indicate to viewers the availability of a coupon or inducement during real time viewing using an image animation overlaid onto displayed ad or program content. Coupon inducements and delivery can be based on coupon business rules defining requirements for delivery. The system is especially well configured to encourage the viewing of broadcast media commercials which are frequently skipped over by viewers. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268336 | MERCHANT OFFER APPROVAL - Consumer and merchant accounts are stored in the data store of a server computer system. Voucher entries are received from merchant computer systems and stored in association with the merchant accounts. Consumer account identifiers are pushed from the server computer system to a network computer system. A list of consumer account identifiers is maintained at the network computer system is checked to determine whether a consumer account identifier in a charge request matches any one of the consumer account identifiers in the list. Reserve checking is provided in when in discount checking mode. A voucher redemption system matches a merchant account identifier in a discount checking call received from the network computer system to one of the merchant account identifiers to identify one of the voucher entries. The transaction clearing system transmits a response with a discount amount of the voucher entry to the network computer system. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268337 | Method and/or system for extending payment system architectures and/or order processing systems to assign merchant funded incentive options to customers performing a mobile remote check deposit capture (MRDC) routine from a smart mobile device to facilitate online commerce, online-to-offline (O2O) commerce and mobile commerce. - Method and/or system for extending payment system architectures and/or order processing systems to assign merchant funded incentive options to customers performing a mobile remote check deposit capture (MRDC) routine from a smart mobile device to facilitate online commerce, online-to-offline (O2O) commerce and mobile commerce includes:
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20130268338 | Electronic Commerce Using Streaming Media - The disclosure provides for electronic commerce using streaming media. (1) E-commerce opportunities are combined with incentives (e.g., random, pseudo-random, skill-based, or responsive to aggregate buying) for participation by recipients, enhancing the likelihood of responses from recipients and the value of distribution of the promotional information. (2) Techniques are applied to a server associated with e-commerce opportunities, to avoid unduly burdening that server. An applet may conduct the interactive process with the recipient and present results to the server, implement the incentives, conduct e-commerce transactions with the recipient, and select one or more recipients for an incentive reward. (3) The promotional material is associated with elements of the streaming media being presented, such as an actor or object. Presentation of promotional material at a device can be responsive to information about the recipient, gleaned from, for example: demographic information, preferences, fuzzy searching, or collaborative filtering. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268339 | System and Method for Varying Electronic Settlements Between Buyers and Suppliers with Dynamic Discount Terms - A method of making payment. A request is received to effect payment between a buyer and a seller for a transaction having established terms. The terms include a payment amount and a settlement date. Messages are exchanged between the buyer and the seller that include an offer and acceptance of new terms for payment at other than the established terms. The new terms include an adjusted amount of payment to be made at a particular time after an event associated with the transaction. An electronic notification that the event has occurred is received, and the after the notification, payment between the buyer and seller is effected under the new terms. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268340 | Method and System for Geographically Mapping Financial Transaction Data - A method of geographically mapping financial transactions may include receiving transaction data associated with an account and a financial transaction, and mapping an indicator representing the financial transaction based on the transaction location. The mapping of the financial transactions provides the account holder with a visual summary of financial transactions and may be used to detect various patterns or potential fraud. The method may include organizing financial transactions according to a transaction status, and setting a characteristic of the indicator based on the transaction status. In addition, the method may include correlating merchant data with the geographic location of the transaction occurrence, where an invoice address of the merchant data is not the same as the transaction location, and where the transaction location is determined using an address or latitude-longitude coordinates. Further, the merchant data may be associated with a public name of a merchant. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268341 | METHOD FOR MANAGING BONUSES AND SERVICE SERVER THEREOF - A method for managing bonuses is disclosed. The method for managing bonuses is executed by a bonus service sever and includes the following steps: providing a bonus management database which records a bonus of at least one member; calculating a bonus interest according to the bonus to generate an updated bonus; storing the updated bonus in the bonus management database | 2013-10-10 |
20130268342 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A REDEEMABLE POINTS CLEARINGHOUSE - A host clearinghouse account manager may maintain a system, such as a middleware system, for converting and/or exchanging loyalty points to value credits. The host clearinghouse's system middleware determines the appropriate number of loyalty points from a first merchant's loyalty point system to convert and/or exchange by implementing a conversion processor that converts the participant's loyalty points to an appropriate value credit equivalent. These value credits may then be converted and/or exchanged to loyalty points in a second merchant's loyalty point system. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268343 | SMART APPLIANCE REGISTRATION - In one example of smart appliance registration, a system comprises an electric device that is configured to transmit a unique identifier upon activation, a smart meter that is configured to receive the unique identifier and to further transmit the unique identifier, and a monitoring entity configured to receive the unique identifier from the smart meter for device-specific profiling. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268344 | Points Redemption Program Carried Out Via an On-Line Auction - An incentives points-based on-line auction method is presented that is based upon an on-line system including a catalog of potential auction items and a database of participants that are eligible to take part in the auction and the participants' associated eligible points. The method includes designating a set of auction items from the catalog of potential auction items. Thereafter, participants submit bids via on-line access for the set of auction items. The auction facilities initially prompt a participant to logon to gain access to the auction. Authorized, logged on participants are then provided access to a database describing the auction items and current bid information. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268345 | METHODS FOR AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATED PRESALE KIOSK - The present invention provides methods and apparatus for providing sales assistance to a Purchaser located within a store location. The present invention includes a Kiosk for fielding inquiries about a product included in the store inventory. A Purchaser may also use a mobile device to receive sales assistance. A Sales Incentive Artifact may be used to encourage a Purchaser to complete a Purchase at the store location. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268346 | SYSTEM TO PROVIDE PRICE ADJUSTMENTS BASED ON INDICATED PRODUCT INTEREST - A system to provide price adjustments based on indicated product interest includes reception of an indication from a customer of interest in a first product, reception of an indication from a customer of interest in a second product, determination of a price adjustment for the second product based on the indication of interest in the first product, and transmission of the price adjustment to the customer. By virtue of the foregoing features, a retailer may be willing to provide a price adjustment for the second product which would otherwise not be provided. Moreover, such a price adjustment may incent the customer to purchase the second product in a case that the second product would not otherwise be purchased, thereby potentially increasing a total profit received by the retailer. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268347 | Yield management system and method for advertising inventory - A computer program product automates and optimizes placement of advertising message campaigns on available publisher inventory to maximize an objective function while respecting predetermined contract requirements and constraints. The product comprises an allocation program code adapted to formulate performance data, inventory information and contract information as an optimization problem, and to solve the optimization problem; testing program code adapted to measure performance of advertising message campaigns and that, based on measurement results, associates the advertising message campaigns with available publisher inventory according to a placement scheme; and an inventory forecasting program code adapted to use past advertising message campaign performance data, expected future advertising message behavior, and one or more additional factors to forecast a number of impressions available on one or more publisher channels, the additional factors being one of: seasonal variation, day of a week, time of day, holiday, forecast of future demand, and combinations thereof. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268348 | Systems and Methods for Scoring Internet Ads and Ranking Vendors - Computer-implemented systems and method are taught for scoring an internet ad and/or ranking a vendor based on a combination of quantitative and qualitative characteristics. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268349 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF OPTIMIZING A MARKETING CAMPAIGN OF A SALABLE COMMODITY - Embodiments of the present invention may allow selling agents to create a marketing campaign analysis, and associated marketing campaign recommendations, for a prospective seller of a saleable in an interactive fashion with the prospective seller. Embodiments of the present invention may utilize historical marketing and/or sales data for comparable properties (that have either been sold or for which sale has, or is currently, being attempted) in order to identify successful advertising campaigns. The relative ‘success’ of an advertising campaign can be determined by reference to certain predefined performance metrics. Based upon the results of these performance metrics (which can be customized to meet a seller's desired selling strategy), embodiments of the present invention may allow a selling agent to present the seller with one or more optimized marketing campaigns, from which a final marketing campaign can be selected for the listing of the subject property. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268350 | System and Method for Optimization of Viral Marketing Efforts - Systems and methods for optimizing viral marketing efforts are disclosed in which a trial a viral marketing trial program is presented to a user. The viral marketing trial program includes a user incentive as well as a plurality of user tasks that needs to be completed to receive the user incentive. One or more user reactions to the plurality of user tasks are monitored; user feedback in accordance with the one or more user reactions is collected, the user feedback is analyzed using one or more metrics and the viral marketing trial program is adjusted in accordance with the analyzed user feedback. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268351 | VERIFIED ONLINE IMPRESSIONS - The present disclosure addresses improvements to online advertising, including improvements that verify, validate, or otherwise confirm that online ad impressions and/or online ad views and the like meet the needs of advertisers. In various embodiments, the data describing online ad impressions and/or online ad views is tested to validate or verify that the data satisfies various criteria defined by or for advertisers, such as demographic, brand safety, visibility, geographic or anti-fraud requirements. The present disclosure also describes improvements in measurements and metrics that describe advertising audiences and effectiveness based on the data describing validated online ad impressions. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268352 | OPTIMIZING PLACEMENT AND DELIVERY OF ADVERTISEMENTS - The efficient allocation of advertisements, also known as creatives, on one or more web sites is provided for while ensuring that guarantees to advertisers are honored. In one embodiment, a linear program solver allocates creatives to advertising slots according to an optimizing function designed to maximize revenue for the site. The linear program solver takes as input a set of creatives, creative performance data, constraints, and slot identifiers. The output of the linear program solver is an optimized schedule not violative of any of the input constraints. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268353 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR DELIVERING TARGETED MARKETING CONTENT TO MOBILE DEVICE USERS BASED ON GEOLOCATION - The present disclosure relates generally to proximity-based advertising and marketing systems, and more particularly to methods and systems for the creation, syndication, and distribution of advertising and marketing content to consumer mobile devices based at least in part on a physical, geo-location or proximity of the mobile devices. In particular, the present disclosure relates to systems and methods for distributing mobile content items to mobile devices of system subscribers, such mobile content items generally being targeted to a particular subscriber based on the subscriber's profile information. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268354 | Selecting Content Items for Display in a Content Stream - A method for selecting content items, comprising: receiving, using one or more processing devices, a request for content items for display in a content stream; retrieving, using the one or more processing devices, in response to the request, a condition for targeting a content item for display in the content stream; detecting, using the one or more processing devices, that the condition is satisfied; adjusting, using the one or more processing devices, the bid price in accordance with the condition; executing, using the one or more processing devices, an auction, based on the bid price adjusted and other bid prices for other content items in the auction; and selecting, using the one or more processing devices, based on the auction, the content items for display in the content stream. | 2013-10-10 |
20130268355 | 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. | 2013-10-10 |