44th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 66 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130290002 | VOICE CONTROL DEVICE, VOICE CONTROL METHOD, AND PORTABLE TERMINAL DEVICE - A voice control device includes a calculation section configured to calculate a response time representing a time difference between a voice in a received signal and a voice in a sending signal; a hearing estimate section configured to estimate hearing of a user based on the calculated response time; and a voice control section configured to control the received signal by a compensation quantity responsive to the estimated hearing. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290003 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING HIGH FREQUENCY FOR BANDWIDTH EXTENSION - Disclosed are a method and apparatus for encoding and decoding a high frequency for bandwidth extension. The method includes: estimating a weight; and generating a high frequency excitation signal by applying the weight between random noise and a decoded low frequency spectrum. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290004 | RESPITE CARE COORDINATION SYSTEM - A respite care coordination system permits the exchange of respite care for connecting primary care providers with respite care providers. Respite care providers access the respite care coordination system to enter information regarding themselves and their availability to perform respite care services. Primary care providers utilize the respite care coordination system to determine the availability of respite care services and the proper procedure to communicate with the selected respite care provider. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290005 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTELLIGENT CARE TRANSITIONS INFORMED BY PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS - Certain examples provide systems, methods, and apparatus for patient care and care transition support. The example system includes a strategy development and simulation tool to analyze a patient care plan and transitions of care within the care plan to develop and analyze a strategy for the transitions of care within the care plan. The example system includes a discharge planning tool including predictive analytics to provide scenario-based planning and visualization to develop the care plan for patient discharge. The example system includes visual analytics to track and display progress of the patient against the care plan for the patient. The example system includes an outcome tracker to measure care plan efficacy to provide feedback for the patient care plan and future care plans. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290006 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING CORRELATION ANALYSIS ON CLINICAL OUTCOME AND CHARACTERISTICS OF BIOLOGICAL TISSUE - Embodiments disclosed herein include methods, systems, and devices for determining a positive or negative correlation between a clinical outcome and one or more features of biological tissue. An exemplary user interface enables a user to select a clinical outcome and one or more aspects of a displayed field-of-view of biological tissue. Exemplary embodiments may automatically perform correlation analysis between the selected clinical outcome and one or more features characteristic of the user-selected aspects of the field-of-view of biological tissue. For example, exemplary embodiments may automatically perform correlation analysis between the selected clinical outcome and one or more features characteristic of one or more biological units in the biological tissue. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290007 | AUTOMATED PROACTIVE HEALTHCARE SERVICE AND PAYER BASED PATIENT SCHEDULING SYSTEM - The automated proactive healthcare service and payer based patient scheduling system proactively generates communications to patients with the purpose of scheduling medically appropriate, reimbursable healthcare services. The process utilizes a rules based system to identify patients contained in respective healthcare provider's practice management and patient databases. The system will identify patients eligible for certain healthcare services including but not limited to well-care visits, annual check-ups, and immunizations. The data analyzed by the system includes but is not limited to historical healthcare provider-patient service dates, historical payer reimbursement details, patient demographic data, and payer reimbursement/eligibility details. Those patients identified as eligible for healthcare services will be sent an automated interactive communication regarding that healthcare service to facilitate the scheduling process. The communication is automatically generated by the system and can take any known form including but not limited to voice communication, electronic communication and text communication. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290008 | STAFF ASSIGNMENT FOR CLINICAL TRIALS - Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with a graphical user interface for scheduling clinical staff are described. In one embodiment, a method includes generating a schedule for a plurality of events. The plurality of events are events for one or more clinical studies. Generating the schedule includes defining an order and an amount of time for each event of the plurality of events. The method also includes automatically generating a graphical user interface (GUI) from the schedule by displaying the plurality of events on a timeline grouped into shifts. The GUI displays conflicts between the shifts. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290009 | CLINICAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with scheduling study groups between clinics when performing clinical studies are described. In one embodiment, a method includes displaying a graphical user interface (GUI) with at least one of a plurality of display screens for scheduling a plurality of groups to clinics. The example method may also include generating, using at least a processor, a provisional schedule of assignments of the plurality of groups to dates for performing the study. The provisional schedule is displayed on the GUI. The provisional schedule displays scheduling conflicts when more than one of the plurality of groups is simultaneously scheduled on a day. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290010 | MEDICATION SERVICE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF MONITORING THE SAME - The inventive concept herein relates to medication service terminals and methods of monitoring the same, and more particularly, to a method of monitoring medication states of a plurality of users. The medication service terminal in accordance with the inventive concept may include a situation judgment module judging a medication situation with reference to a medication providing schedule and a terminal state that are provided from a server; and an output module determining a medication service corresponding to the medication situation and providing the determined medication service in the form that a user can sense. A communication with the server is performed only when the situation judgment module receives a medicine providing schedule from the server. According to some embodiments of the inventive concept, a medication monitoring system can be effectively provided to a massive user. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290011 | 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. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290012 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DELIVERING PATIENT SPECIFIC CONTENT - A method of providing patient specific content includes storing desired health related information; obtaining patient characteristics; obtaining health related information in accordance with the patient characteristics; and providing the obtained health related information to the patient. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290013 | MEDICAL ALERT SYSTEM - Systems and methods for providing medical identification tags wearable by a person that include barcodes (e.g., Quick Response (QR) barcodes, or the like) to provide personal medical information to users (e.g., first responders) with mobile devices capable of scanning the barcodes. The system also facilitates automatic notifications to relatives or others associated with the wearer of the medical identification tag when the barcode is scanned, which may indicate an emergency condition. Wearers of the medical identification tags may modify or update the stored personal medical information as needed. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290014 | Method of Equipoise Enrollment of Subjects in Clinical Trials - In a method of enrollment selection of subjects for a clinical trial, a plurality of physician investigators is polled regarding each subject of a plurality of subjects. Responses of the plurality of physician investigators are aggregated for each subject. A subject of the plurality of subjects is enrolled in response to the subject having an aggregate of responses for the clinical trial that exceeds a predetermined minimum value of responses for the clinical trial. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290015 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DOCUMENTING PATIENT PROCEDURES - The local surveillance sub-system recognizes that a patient medical procedure has or will soon commence by sensing the presence of a healthcare professional in or near the surveillance area, and in response, creates a separate patient medical procedure A/V file for the surveillance data that will be captured. A dedicated procedure remote may be provided for receiving manual interactions from HC professionals present for a procedure or, alternatively, the local surveillance sub-system may autonomously interact with a personal security token device possessed by the HC professional. A procedure data file is also created that holds all of the pertinent information concerning the procedure that is known by the local surveillance sub-system. The patient procedure surveillance A/V file is given a higher priority than ordinary surveillance data captured by the local surveillance sub-system and is then copied to a nonvolatile memory. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290016 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING BENCHMARKS FOR HAND PRODUCT USE AND COMPLIANCE - A hand product use benchmark is determined for a target institution based on observations of hand product use in a studied institution and relationships between the number of observed hand product uses and characteristics of the studied institution. The benchmark for the target institution is determined based on target institution characteristics and the relationships between institution characteristics and observed hand product uses of the studied institution. The benchmark for the target institution may be adjusted based on direct observation of hand product uses in the target institution and based on actual conditions on which the benchmark is based. Compliance with the benchmark is determined by comparison of activity within the target institution to the benchmark. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290017 | Methods and Compositions for the Prevention and Treatment of Kidney Disease - The invention provides compositions for preventing or treating kidney disease and improving kidney function comprising at least two ingredients selected from the group consisting of antioxidants and mitochondrial cofactors in amounts sufficient for preventing or treating kidney disease or for improving kidney function and methods for preventing and treating kidney disease or improving kidney functions comprising administering such compositions to an animal susceptible to or suffering from kidney disease or impaired kidney function. In a preferred embodiment, the composition is admixed with one or more food ingredients to produce a food composition useful for preventing or treating kidney disease and improving kidney function, particularly in senior animals. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290018 | HEALTH CARE DELIVERY VERIFICATION METHODS, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEMS - Methods, apparatus and systems for verifying proper delivery of health care bundles to patients are described. The methods, apparatus, and systems may be configured to monitor the delivery of health care bundles to one or more patients, to collect delivery data such as sounds and/or images that can be processed to determine if delivery of the health care bundle is being or has been properly delivered to a patient, to provide feedback during delivery of a health care bundle to a patient, and/or to store an indicator that is indicative of proper delivery of the health care bundle. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290019 | Context Based Medical Documentation System - A system populates a medical imaging examination report of a patient with generated text. An interface receives a patient identifier and data identifying characteristics of a medical imaging examination. At least one repository stores information derived using the patient identifier and the data identifying characteristics of the medical imaging examination. The information associates patient medical history data including, a patient diagnosis and a patient prior medical condition with medical imaging examination type and image acquisition characteristics including anatomical region imaged. A report processor uses the information in automatically selecting a text phrase from multiple predetermined text phrases. The report processor automatically populates the selected text phrase into a medical imaging examination report and prompts user data entry. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290020 | REAL-TIME AGGREGATION AND PROCESSING OF HEALTHCARE RECORDS - Methods, computer systems, and computer storage media are provided for utilizing clinical information in disparate formats or structures to generate multiple derived representations of the clinical information, each derived representation structured to meet a particular clinical need. Clinical information is aggregated from multiple, disparate data sources; the clinical information is in a first format. The information is restructured to generate a derived representation of the information; the derived representation is in a second format. The derived representation is communicated to a clinical application that meets the particular clinical need. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290021 | Method of Establishing Pain Management Protocols - The invention discloses a method for implementing pain protocols and reducing patient recovery times. The invention has a dynamically updated database of pain protocols that a consultant can use to improve medical facility conditions. The database contains training information, pain protocol techniques, and information on the effectiveness and use of the pain protocols that the consultant can refer to when evaluating the medical facility's current practices. The consultant establishes a medical director of pain management who then works with the consultant to create a pain protocol plan. The consultant helps the facility implement the plan and monitors the success of the pain management procedures. The database is updated based on the results of this monitoring. The updated database is then shared over the network with other medical facilities. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290022 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING METADATA-BASED NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING CAPABILITIES - A system and method for managing data in a healthcare environment can include a content based router, and a healthcare record bank. The content based router can be configured to collect the data from a clinical data provider and convert the data in a format in accordance with a defined standard. The healthcare record bank can include or be coupled to a data repository. The healthcare record bank can be configured to be coupled to the clinical data provider through the content based router over a communication network. The healthcare record bank can be configured to store the data received from the clinical data provider and can be accessible or searchable from within or outside the healthcare record bank. The healthcare record bank can be coupled to or include a data logging unit configured to maintain metadata associated with the clinical data and configured to facilitate natural language processing capabilities. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290023 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UNDERWRITING INSURANCE POLICIES BASED ON CARDIOVASCULAR RISK - The exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method for providing underwriting insurance policies system on a computer system. The method comprises receiving a request from an applicant for insurance and receiving medical data of the applicant. The method further comprises denying insurance coverage if applicant has high cardiovascular risk, constructing an action plan for reducing the applicant's cardiovascular risk if applicant is denied coverage, and sending the action plan to the applicant. The system includes a tangible storage medium readable by an instruction processing system, means for receiving a request from an applicant for insurance and means for receiving medical data of the applicant. The system further includes means for denying insurance coverage if applicant has high cardiovascular risk, means for constructing an action plan for reducing the applicant's cardiovascular risk if applicant is denied coverage and means for sending the action plan to the applicant. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290024 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM FOR THE SAME - A display device including a display control unit is provided. The display control unit is configured to display, in a display screen, a list image including a list of medical data that includes a part of a plurality of pieces of medical data of a patient having different time information. The display control unit is further configured to display a period image illustrating a total period from an oldest time to the present in time information of the medical data of the patient such that the total period fits in the display screen, wherein the display control unit is configured to display, in the period image, a partial period from an oldest time to a latest time of the time information of the medical data included on the displayed list of medical data. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290025 | SOFTWARE AND METHODS FOR ORGANIZING HEALTH DATA - Software and methods for organizing health data uses a patient's health information to produce a list of actions (such as tests, procedures, labs, counseling and the like) that should be done at a specific time. The software can be used for any branch of health care. When used for prenatal care, the software can follow the patient throughout her pregnancy and insure that her care is tailored to her specific health care health needs. For every problem that is on the problem list, there is a list of additional tests and counseling, suggested by medical experts as “best practices”. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290026 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR PROCEDURE-BASED MEDICAL CHARGE CAPTURE - A method and device for reducing a complexity of procedure based medical charge capture and coding utilizing a computer system. The method and device including searching for previously generated coding scenarios associated with the provider, using existing coding scenarios or adding coding scenarios to a library, generating and filtering codes associated with at least one of the steps of searching, using, and adding, formatting a graphical user interface specification to use the codes from the generating and filtering step, and storing the graphical user interface for presentation. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290027 | ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEM WITH ACTIVE CLINICAL GUIDELINES AND PATIENT DATA - An active guidelines capability or component is linked to a computerized patient record system to integrate the use of clinical guidelines in the workflow of clinicians treating patients. Many healthcare entities maintain sets of clinical guidelines describing recommended treatment or analysis options for patients displaying sets of symptoms or for whom certain diagnoses have been made. The active guidelines feature adds an active guidelines tag to such clinical guidelines so that when the clinician accesses the clinical guidelines and wishes to follow the recommendation, the clinician merely has to click on a hypertext created from the tag which then transmits action orders, also contained in the tag, to be transmitted to the computerized patient record system for implementation. Patient data associated with the recommendations, such as relevant test or lab results, interaction or allergy information, or other current treatments, is also identified and displayed. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290028 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING HEALTHCARE RISK INDICES USING MEDICAL CLAIMS INFORMATION - A healthcare risk index is generated using a patient or individual's medical claims. The index may be used to explain and predict variation in pharmacy-related costs and variation in total healthcare costs or utilization. In particular, one example of such a method involves first generating a medical condition score using the individual's medical information for each medical condition possessed by the individual. From there, each medical condition score is modified according to a regression coefficient, to result in one or more modified medical condition scores. Finally, the risk index may be generated by summing the medical condition scores. This risk index is indicative of at least one of the individual's medical costs, chronic medical conditions, and variation in medical costs. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290029 | Teleradiology System - Prior studies associated with a patient are pre-fetched from multiple institutions and made available to a radiologist while the radiologist is viewing a series. Intelligent report generation is template driven with templates based on modality, body part, and radiologist. The template provides access to macros specific to the study as well as previously dictated entries for particular fields, to enable re-use of standard text in a contextual manner. Likewise, entry of text in one field of the report may cause related text to be propagated to other fields, such as from the findings to the impression, automatically as specified by the radiologist. Billing codes are automatically applied based on the report content. Communication by the radiologist with other physicians and institutions is implemented via the reporting system. Since communication instances pass through the radiology system, it is possible to associate and log communication instances with the studies. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290030 | Teleradiology System - Prior studies associated with a patient are pre-fetched from multiple institutions and made available to a radiologist while the radiologist is viewing a series. Intelligent report generation is template driven with templates based on modality, body part, and radiologist. The template provides access to macros specific to the study as well as previously dictated entries for particular fields, to enable re-use of standard text in a contextual manner. Likewise, entry of text in one field of the report may cause related text to be propagated to other fields, such as from the findings to the impression, automatically as specified by the radiologist. Billing codes are automatically applied based on the report content. Communication by the radiologist with other physicians and institutions is implemented via the reporting system. Since communication instances pass through the radiology system, it is possible to associate and log communication instances with the studies. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290031 | Teleradiology System - Prior studies associated with a patient are pre-fetched from multiple institutions and made available to a radiologist while the radiologist is viewing a series. Intelligent report generation is template driven with templates based on modality, body part, and radiologist. The template provides access to macros specific to the study as well as previously dictated entries for particular fields, to enable re-use of standard text in a contextual manner. Likewise, entry of text in one field of the report may cause related text to be propagated to other fields, such as from the findings to the impression, automatically as specified by the radiologist. Billing codes are automatically applied based on the report content. Communication by the radiologist with other physicians and institutions is implemented via the reporting system. Since communication instances pass through the radiology system, it is possible to associate and log communication instances with the studies. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290032 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD DROPOFF - A digital processing device ( | 2013-10-31 |
20130290033 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ELECTRONIC RECEIPT BASED CONTENTS INVENTORY AND CASUALTY CLAIM PROCESSING - A method for investigating a casualty claim using a programmed computer system may include receiving a prompt to create a contents inventory, the prompt including an identification of one or more email accounts associated with an insured, analyzing the one or more email accounts for information related to the acquisition of personal property, and using the information related to the acquisition of personal property to generate a contents inventory for investigation of the casualty claim. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290034 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AND ACTIVATING COMMODITIZED INSURANCE - A system and method for providing commoditized insurance products to at least one consumer is disclosed. The system includes a commoditized insurance product including an activation code and an insurance company that underwrites the commoditized insurance product and provides the commoditized insurance product to a retail outlet. Based on consumer purchase of the commoditized product at the retail outlet and initiation of an activation process, the insurance company receives an activation code associated with the commoditized insurance product and provides verification queries to the consumer, and based on positive responses to the queries activates the policy providing the selected insurance coverage for the consumer. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290035 | INSURANCE PRODUCT, RATING AND CREDIT ENHANCEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INSURING PROJECT SAVINGS - In the present invention, an insurance product, rating system and method generally relates to a rating and pricing system for quantifying the risk that the annual savings will not fall below specified levels associated with implementing and maintaining economic improvements. Disclosed embodiments involve a credit enhancement system and method relating to the manner in which insuring a project savings floor (i.e., a minimum level of return on investment for a given improvement project) can be realized in a better credit rating for bonds or loans associated with the improvement project. The product, system and method can be applied to various industries, including, power generation, petro-chemical, manufacturing and refining facilities. Various embodiments disclosed herein relate to a system and method for establishing a rating system to determine the impact on an insured's credit risk. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290036 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OBTAINING INSURANCE OFFERS USING MOBILE IMAGE CAPTURE - Systems and methods for using a mobile device to submit an application for an insurance policy using images of documents captured by the mobile device are provided herein. The information is then used by an insurance company to generate a quote which is then displayed to the user on the mobile device. A user captures images of one or more documents containing information needed to complete an insurance application, after which the information on the documents is extracted and sent to the insurance company where a quote for the insurance policy can be developed. The quote can then be transmitted back to the user. Applications on the mobile device are configured to capture images of the documents needed for an insurance application, such as a driver's license, insurance information card or a vehicle identification number (VIN). The images are then processed to extract the information needed for the insurance application. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290037 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CALCULATING ESTIMATED CLAIM COSTS - A computer system includes a data storage device. The data storage module receives, stores, and provides access to historical claim data. A categorical aggregation component comprising program instructions stored in a program memory provides categorized and aggregated historical claim data by identifying claim categories based on the historical claim data, each of the one or more claim categories associated with a respective set of claim characteristics, identifying claims of the historical claim data associated with one of the claim categories, assigning each identified claim to one of a plurality of total severity ranges based on the total severity of the identified claim, and determining an average cost per claim year for claims of each total severity range when executed by a computer processor. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290038 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING THE REPORTING OF AN INJURY CLAIM TO AN INSURANCE COMPANY - In accordance with one or more embodiments, an apparatus for facilitating insurance claims provides for receiving a medical report from a treating physician, the medical report indicating an evaluation of an injury of an injured worker; determining whether a report of a claim for the injury has previously been received from a medical liaison; and authorizing, prior to a report of the claim by either an employer of the injured worker or the injured worker when a report of the claim has previously been received from the medical liaison, a progression of an investigation of the claim by a claim professional based on the medical report. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290039 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING INSURANCE ACCOUNTS IN RESPONSE TO LEAVE DATA - A computer system includes a data storage device including a database containing data for insurance policies covering individuals, a communication device to exchange data with an employer's computer system, and a processor in communication with the data storage device and communication device. A non-transitory storage medium stores program instructions operative with the processor to receive an eligibility data file including data for individuals covered by personal insurance; transmit to the employer computer system a bill file including payroll deductions data for the insurance premiums; receive from the employer computer system a remit file including actual payroll deductions made data and individual leave status data; determine which individuals are on leave based on a verification of an insurance payment; adjust and store data indicative of the premiums associated with individuals determined on leave; and transmit to the employer a payroll deduction modification request for individuals determined to be on the leave. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290040 | Method and System for Arranging Taxi and Transportation Services - The invention relates to a method and system to directly link and arrange taxi and transportation services. The method and system allows a user to link directly into the associated taxi dispatch system and order a cab, as well as finding friends and other users through social media applications to interact with, share rides and split payments. A user can join a cab ride already in progress by linking to the other riders that have already booked a cab ride. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290041 | RESERVATION SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTED MULTICHANNEL TRANSACTIONS - A reservation system for distributed multichannel transactions comprises hardware and software including one or more servers on which a database, such as a relational database, is stored and accessed. A reservation utility is integrated into a company's website seamlessly such that access to the reservation utility by a customer of the company using an input device over a network puts into use the reservation system. The utility automatically accesses the reservation system, accessing the database for availability and pricing information, reporting reservation information to the company and updating inventory information in the database. The utility provides a plurality of services, which may be unrelated services and may be tailored to the particular customer including access, availability and price of such services. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290042 | Method and Apparatus for Improved Customer Direct On-Line Reservation of Rental Vehicles - Disclosed herein is a reservation booking website wherein customers who plan to travel via general aviation (GA) are provided with a GA reservation creation path that is responsive to their GA travel needs. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290043 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR HANDLING TRANSPORTATION RESERVATION REQUESTS IN A DECENTRALIZED ENVIRONMENT - Methods and systems for handling transportation reservation requests in a decentralized environment are discussed herein. An example decentralized system for handling transportation reservation requests may include a road-side device, a hailing device and/or a vehicle device. In the example decentralized system, the road-side device and/or the hailing device can be configured to communicate with the vehicle device using a vehicular communication channel. In some implementations, the vehicular communication channel can be reserved exclusively for vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290044 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING A MARKETPLACE FOR SPACE RENTAL - Systems and methods for providing a space rental marketplace are provided. In some embodiments, space providers list spaces available for rent with a space management system. Each space may be associated with one or more activities to be performed during the rental. Each type of activity may include pre-activity, during-activity, and/or post-activity services that may be scheduled through the space management system at the time of scheduling the rental. Space providers may add new types of activities to the space management system to be associated with their rental space. Recurring rentals may be scheduled. In some embodiments, the space management system automatically ensures that complex scheduling requirements, such as predetermined amounts of certain types of renters, may be fulfilled. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290045 | PREDICTING THAT A PARKING SPACE IS ABOUT TO BE VACATED - A method implementable in a mobile device includes determining a driving or walking motion state of the mobile device associated with a user from at least a motion type of sensor on the mobile device and storing a parking location for a vehicle associated with the mobile device, received from a location type of sensor on the mobile device, when the mobile device changes from a driving state to a walking state. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290046 | SCHEMATIC CORPORATE DEVICE AND SYSTEM - A method for the creation of a schematic corporate relationship representations with respect to at least one identified individual or corporate entity, organising the information, and displaying it in the form of a schematic corporate relationship representations, including executing a set of algorithms by said system program for determining a schematic representations of the one or more entities if there is a defined one or more relationships between the one or more entities and rejecting any unrelated entities. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290047 | FACILITATING ASSESSMENT OF A SERVICE THROUGH USE OF USER ASSIGNED WEIGHTS - In a method for facilitating assessment of a service, values of a plurality of metrics corresponding to the service are acquired. In addition, weights that a user has respectively assigned to each of the plurality of metrics are acquired and a service-level metric value for the service is calculated through calculation of a function that statistically evaluates the weights respectively assigned to the plurality of metrics and the acquired values of the plurality of metrics. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290048 | EVALUATING BUSINESS COMPONENTS IN AN ENTERPRISE - A method and/or computer system evaluates an architectural fit of a business software application employed in an enterprise. A defined rating system establishes a rating of how effective a business software application is in meeting pre-determined requirements for each one of a set of business technology factors. An architectural fit analysis evaluates an architectural fit of the business software application based on inputted rating values. An analysis report is generated based on the architectural fit analysis, and a software application that provides the best architectural fit is installed. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290049 | COST ENTITY MATCHING - A method for cost entity matching can include constructing a first graph including a number of first entities and a number of second entities, and assigning a number of first cost values to each of a number of first edges connecting one of the number of first entities to one of the number of second entities in the first graph; adding a second graph to the first graph, wherein the second graph includes the number of first entities and the number of second entities, and assigning a second cost value to each of a number of second edges connecting one of the number of first entities in the first graph to the corresponding first entity in the second graph; and, matching each one of the number of second entities to one of the number of first entities based on the number of first cost values and the second cost values. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290050 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSESSING EMPLOYABILITY OR ADMITABILITY OF AN INDIVIDUAL AND ENABLING MODIFICATION OR REMOVAL OF RELATED INFORMATION - Systems and methods are provided for assessing the employability or admitability of a user from a search report and enabling modification of a user's perceived identity to enhance employability. A questionnaire is provided to a user and the answers are parsed to create key terms, which are used to create search queries. The search queries are provided to search engines that are capable of searching databases including, but not limited to, public records, private records, social media and criminal records. The results are compiled and analyzed to generate a report card along with a report catalog containing some or all information and content returned from the search. A user can make selections on the report card and report catalog indicating adverse, incorrect, erroneous or mistaken information through a user interface. Countermeasures are provided to the user according to the selections made by the user and a countermeasure matrix indicating possible solutions. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290051 | Dynamic Talk Radio Program Scheduling - Methods and systems for dynamically scheduling a talk radio program include registering potential participants of a talk radio program service and receiving participant preferences for each of the potential participants, wherein the participant preferences include at least one topic of interest and a time availability; scheduling a talk radio program for production when a combination the participant preferences reach predetermined thresholds; and sending the potential participants a notification of the scheduling of the talk radio program. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290052 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING RENOVATION OF A PROPERTY - Methods and systems for managing renovation of a property. Upon receiving signals representing instructions to carry out a renovation task for the property, a policy database is queried to determine an applicable policy based on the received instructions, and the renovation task is identified based on the received instructions and/or the applicable policy. A schedule is generated for the renovation task, by identifying a preferred time period for carrying out at least a portion of the renovation task, based on the applicable policy, and prioritizing performance of at least that portion during the preferred time period. An interface is provided for updating status of completion of the renovation task. A report of the renovation task is generated. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290053 | PROJECT MANAGEMENT TASK UPDATER - A system for providing a list of assigned tasks and updating at least one assigned task receives a request for a task list from a user. In response to the request, the system provides a task list to the user, wherein the task list includes at least one assigned task, and the task list allows the user to update the at least one assigned task. The system receives a message including an updated task list from the user. The system then applies updates based upon the updated task list. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290054 | METHOD OF MEASURING PROGRESS OF CONSTRUCTION WORK PROCESS USING MOTION SENSOR - The present invention relates to a method of measuring progress of a construction work process using a motion sensor. A reception unit of a management server receives data about expected engaged workers for different processes, for different days, and for different floors. A control unit of the management server arranges the received data into DBs in such a way as to store the data about the expected engaged workers for different processes, for different days, and for different floors in a process-based engaged worker DB, a day-based engaged worker DB, and a floor-based engaged worker DB of a DB unit, respectively. The control unit creates an expected work schedule using the stored data. A communication unit of the management server receives data actually collected via the motion sensor. The control unit measures progress of work by comparing the actually collected data with the expected work schedule. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290055 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING SCHEDULING OF EVENTS - Embodiments of the present invention provide a system and corresponding methods for facilitating scheduling of an event among plurality of users. The system may include various modules to received scheduling information corresponding to the event. The system may determine logical consequences corresponding to the schedule of the event based on predetermined plans of the users. The scheduling information may be shared among the plurality of users for enabling the users to update the scheduling information iteratively. The system may finalize the event automatically based on the updated scheduling information when each of the plurality of users approves the updated scheduling information. The system facilitates the scheduling of events with possibly limited resources by allowing incremental shared input from all participants and possibly by sharing their personal calendar information. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290056 | SCHEDULE OPTIMISATION - This disclosure concerns the iterative optimisation of schedules, such as calendars. A computer system receives or determines first candidate schedule items. Each candidate schedule item has parameters, and each parameter is fixed or variable and each candidate schedule item comprises a value for each parameter. The system determines second candidate schedule items by permutating the variable parameters of each of the first candidate schedule items and determines a cost for each of the second candidate schedule items. The system then selects a subset of the second candidate schedule items based on the cost and feeds back the subset to be taken as the first candidate schedule items. Since each parameter has a value the cost for each permutation can be determined and the number of candidate schedule items for the next iteration can be reduced. This avoids the exponential complexity of calculating the cost for each possible combination. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290057 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DEVICE MAINTENANCE REPORTING VIA A WIRELESS PROTOCOL - Systems and methods of device maintenance reporting via a wireless protocol are provided. Systems can include a central station and a plurality of remote systems such that the central station is in wireless bidirectional communication with each of the plurality of remote systems. When the central station receives a maintenance signal from a first of the plurality of remote systems, the central station can poll each of the plurality of remote systems located within a predetermined distance of a location of the first of the plurality of remote systems. The central station can also determine whether a maintenance need exists for each of the plurality of remote systems located within the predetermined distance. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290058 | APPOINTMENT NEGOTIATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A server for providing scheduling services to at least two remote devices includes a communications interface for transmitting scheduling options to the at least two remote devices and receiving user inputs from the at least two remote devices. The server further includes a processing circuit configured to manage scheduling services for the at least two remote devices. In one embodiment, the server provides scheduling services for two users, allowing the two users to schedule an appointment with each other. In another embodiment, the server provides scheduling services for a first user and a plurality of second users, allowing the multiple users to schedule an appointment with one another. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290059 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING SALES MEETINGS - The technology disclosed relates to helping sales engineers prepare for sales meetings. In particular, it relates to intelligently and automatically creating packages of information related to sales meetings. The information packages are stored in on-demand systems that are accessible by a plurality of devices used by the sales engineer. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290060 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING UPDATABLE TRAVEL-RELATED INFORMATION - A system and method for providing travel-related information. A calendar application is monitored for travel-related appointments. Travel-related information associated with a location of the travel-related appointment is retrieved in response to identifying the travel-related appointment. The travel-related information including travel time information is automatically updated in response to determining there are changes to the travel-related information. The travel-related information is communicated to a user. The travel-related information is communicated again in response to automatically updating the travel-related information. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290061 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ONLINE MARKETING, SCHEDULING AND BOOKING OF SERVICES - Disclosed are systems, methods and computer program products for online marketing, scheduling and booking of service appointments. In one example, the system for scheduling and booking of service appointments includes an inventory database containing schedules of booked and available service appointments associated with a plurality of service providers. The system further includes a calendar-based service provider interface for creating a schedule of services provided by the service provider and storing the schedule in the inventory database. The system further includes a calendar-based service user interface for displaying schedules of available service appointments and booking one or more service appointments. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290062 | PAVING COORDINATION METHOD AND SYSTEM - A system for implementing a method of coordinating activities associated with paving a roadway with a paver which receives batches of paving material transported to it by transport trucks from a paving material plant where the batches of paving material are prepared, includes computer systems on the paver, on one or more transport trucks, at the paving material plant, and a server having communication links to the computer system on the paver, the computer system on one or more transport trucks, and the computer system at the paving material plant. The server communicates with the computer systems on the paver, on one or more trucks, and at the plant over communication links to provide coordinated operation of the paver, trucks and plant so that the paving material produced by the plant is delivered to the roadway and applied in a manner by the paver that is efficient. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290063 | Optimizing Allocations In A Workforce Allocation Plan - A method for optimizing allocations in a workforce allocation plan begins when resource data is received. The resource data includes data that relates to employee resources and to demand for the employee resources. A first set of employee resource pairings is established using the user's resource preferences to assigning the employee resources to the demand for the employee resources. A second set of employee resource pairings is established using predetermined resource preferences to assign the employee resources to the demand for the employee resources. The second set of employee resource pairings includes all employee resource pairings that belong to an optimal solution. The first and second sets of employee resource pairings are compared to provide the workforce allocation plan having the optimal solution with the maximum number of the user's resource preferences to optimize allocations in the workforce allocation plan. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290064 | Managing A Workflow For An Oilfield Operation - Various implementations described herein are directed to a method for managing a workflow for an oilfield operation. The method may include receiving a request to perform the task workflow. The method may also include loading an adapted task workflow based on historical information. The method may further include receiving an input pertaining to one or more tasks of the adapted task workflow. In addition, the method may include determining whether the one or more tasks have been completed based on the received input. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290065 | Method and System to Analyze Processes - The present invention relates to a method and a system to analyze emergent properties of at least one process of handling at least one item. The method comprising at least creating a database containing all information with respect to entities related to the item from the group comprising at least completed transactions and actors. Further, the method involves a posteriori gathering from at least one source, such as at least one table in an information system, all data with respect to said entities on each of the at least one item. Yet further, the method involves assigning an identifying label to each of the at least one item, and arranging the data with respect to each entity on each of the at least one item with the label assigned thereto in the database, so as to allow distilling from the database at least one emergent property of the process, such as a sequence of previously performed transactions with respect to each of the at least one item on the basis of the label assigned thereto. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290066 | Managing A Workflow For An Oilfield Operation - Various implementations described herein are directed to a method for managing a workflow for an oilfield operation. In one implementation, the method may include receiving a request for approval of one or more tasks of the task workflow. The method may also include generating the request for approval, where the request for approval includes a hyperlink to a most current status of the one or more tasks of the task workflow. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290067 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSESSING RISK - The present disclosure relates to a risk module that determines an important set of a plurality of potential risk events for an organization, each member of the important set of potential risk events having no more than a selected probability of occurring but at least a selected significance of impact on the organization, whether a mitigation strategy exists for each member of the important set of the plurality of potential risk events, when a mitigation strategy exists for a selected member of the important set, determining a corresponding mitigated significance of impact for the selected member of the important set of the plurality of potential risk events, and a more important set of the plurality of potential risk events. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290068 | METHOD AND APPARATUS PERTAINING TO AN AUTOMATED CONSUMER-INTERACTION EXPERIENCE - A consumer-interaction kiosk features one or more displays (which can comprise touch-screen displays if desired) and a control circuit that operably couples to that display (or displays). Such a kiosk can be located, for example, proximal to or within a retail venue (such as, but not limited to, a grocery store or grocery department of a department or discount store). The content displayed by the kiosk can vary with the needs of the application setting but can include, for example, consumer-attraction content, information-gathering facilitation content, delivered-information content, entertainment content, and so forth. Such a kiosk can also be configured, if desired, to vend for-sale or free consumables (such as free product samples). | 2013-10-31 |
20130290069 | PRICING ENGINE REVENUE EVALUATION - A simulation framework for evaluating revenue that may use a pricing engine that runs at least one pricing algorithm with particular configurations and under particular model market conditions to provide revenue projections. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290070 | ATTRIBUTION OF DEMOGRAPHICS TO CENSUS DATA - In general, systems, components, methods, and techniques for gathering, recording, and development of accurate user demographics attributed to accesses by client systems of webpage, web content, or other online resources is provided. For a given a subset of unique users having known demographics for a segment of traffic or general population, a demographic profile may be created for all users of the segment or population within a tolerable margin of error. Demographic data for unique machine identifications (IDs) may be assigned, aggregated, and derived from a single source, or multiple sources, such as panel data, beacon level surveys, cookie exchanges, and the overlay of profile cookies from other publishers. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290071 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING THE VERTICAL ALIGNMENT OF AN INFRASTRUCTURE CORRIDOR - Methods, systems, and techniques for determining the vertical alignment of an infrastructure corridor having a certain horizontal alignment involve using a processor to model the cost of constructing the infrastructure corridor as a function of cost variables that vary with the vertical alignment of the infrastructure corridor. The processor looks up the cost variables at vertical offsets corresponding to certain vertical alignments of the infrastructure corridor and determines the cost of constructing the length of road at elevations located between pairs of the vertical offsets by interpolating from the cost variables at the vertical offsets; the interpolation may be linear. The processor determines, subject to infrastructure corridor design constraints, the vertical alignment of the infrastructure corridor from the cost of constructing the infrastructure corridor at the vertical offsets. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290072 | Automated Planning, Value Calculation And Decision Optimization System And Method - A computer-driven and implemented automated planning, value calculation, and decision-making system and method allows a user to calculate the actual value of current and future decisions based on user-defined values, by projecting future income, and monetization and other elements that may impact the user from possible decisions, provides a value range to uncertain factors, and then converts them into current value to optimize specific plans and decisions. The system also allows a user to quantify personal non-monetary and emotional factors and, at the same time, it provide ranges to uncertain values, and allows the user to specify monetized numerical amounts and ranges, and therefore the result is more personalized. It provides multi-level forecasting and synthesized analysis of possible future choices based on a user's preference, education, culture, decision-making history and other factors. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290073 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EFFICIENT CREATION AND RECONCILIATION OF MACRO AND MICRO LEVEL TEST PLANS - A method includes creating a macro plan for a test project, creating a micro plan for the test project, wherein the micro plan and the macro plan are based on at least one common parameter, and reconciling the macro plan and the micro plan by identifying deviations between the macro plan and the micro plan based on the at least one common parameter. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290074 | BENCHMARKING SUSTAINABILITY OF SERVICE PROVIDERS - A method of benchmarking a sustainability for service providers using a program having executable computer-readable instructions first includes selecting a plurality of service providers to evaluate for sustainability. A report is received from each of the selected service providers which includes at least one reported value characteristic having a value metric and at least one reported cost characteristic having a cost metric. The reported cost and value characteristics are compared to select at least one common value characteristic and at least one common cost characteristic each of which is common among the selected service providers. A service sustainability relationship is then computed as a function of the at least one common value characteristic and the at least one common cost characteristic to benchmark the sustainability of each of the selected service providers relative to one another. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290075 | LOCALIZATION QUALITY ASSURANCE OF LOCALIZED SOFTWARE - Described herein are representative embodiments for localization quality assurance (LQA) of localized software. In one exemplary implementation, a localization quality assurance plan for performing LQA of a localized software based on a base-language software is developed, and using the localization quality assurance plan, the LQA is performed for the localized software at least by performing a first test phase of one or more test phases. In the first test phase, one or more screen maps are created for a localized-software build using first location resources at a first location, and the one or more screen maps are evaluated using second location resources at a second location. Also, one or more resource bundles for the first localized-software build are generated based on the evaluating of the one or more screen maps. Additionally, a second localized-software build is generated using the first location resources based on the one or more resource bundles. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290076 | PARKING METER COMPRISING MEANS FOR TRANSMITTING A USER'S PERSONAL MESSAGE, AND URBAN PARKING ZONE COMPRISING SAID PARKING METERS - This on-street parking meter ( | 2013-10-31 |
20130290077 | METHOD FOR OFFERING ENERGY PRICING PROGRAMS - A method for offering energy pricing programs to energy consumers is disclosed. Graphical indicators representing the cost reduction and the comfort reduction for each energy pricing program are displayed, allowing the energy consumer to choose between the energy pricing programs. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290078 | Dual Device System for Secure Transactions - Methods and systems for operating a Smart Device | 2013-10-31 |
20130290079 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INSERTION OF CONTENT INTO AN EMAIL OVER IMAP - A system and method to insert content into an email over IMAP are disclosed. The system and method may receive an email from a first user and store the email from the first user on a server. In some embodiments, content such as an advertisement, news, image, and/or video may be created or selected for the stored email. The content may be inserted into the email. In some embodiments, the server may transmit the stored email with the inserted content to a second user. The content may be inserted as dynamic HTML tags within an email protocol. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290080 | SOCIAL MEDIA PRODUCT RESERVATION - Systems and methods for reserving products that have limited availability are provided. A social networking service may be used to announce the availability of reservations for limited availability products. The announcements may be at times unknown to consumers. Consumers may respond to the announcements via the social networking service and create virtual lines for the limited availability products. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290081 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INCENTIVE BASED COMPENSATION - Exemplary embodiments of a method and system for providing an incentive based compensation for an employee in a firm are provided. The employee can have an incentive based compensation that allows for compensation based on cash, firm equity, and service linked securities. The cash can be deliverable immediately, while the firm equity and service-linked securities can be vested and/or deliverable in equal or different portions each year. The service-linked security can be related to various parameters associated with service quality. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290082 | TECHNIQUES FOR TRACKING AND LIMITING ELECTRONIC OFFERS - Techniques for tracking and limiting electronic offers are provided. Identifiers are generated and linked to an electronic offer as the offer is propagated threw a network or propagated over disparate networks. Each identifier associated with a unique recipient receiving the offer. Metrics are gathered for the offer's propagation and a distribution policy is dynamically enforced as each new recipient attempts to access the offer. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290083 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING ONLINE AUCTIONS WITH SWEEPSTAKES ENTRIES - A method of conducting an auction is described herein. The method includes receiving a first bid unit purchase request from a user and responsively generating at least one initial bid unit for bidding on one or more auction items displayed in the auction. The method also includes distributing at least one sweepstakes entry into a sweepstakes event to the user in response to the received purchase request, providing a sweepstakes award to the user as a function of the at least one sweepstakes entry, and allowing the user to purchase at least one addition bid unit with at least a portion of the sweepstakes award. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290084 | SOCIAL NETWORK ADVERTISING - A computer-implemented method, computerized apparatus and computer program product. The method performed by a computerized device. The method comprising: publishing on a social network platform a dynamic promotion, wherein the dynamic promotion is attributed to a user, wherein the dynamic promotion is associated with a merchant; and in response to one or more interactions by other users with the dynamic promotion, calculating a reward for the first user that is redeemable in a transaction with the merchant. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290085 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO DETERMINE A VALUE RELATING TO A POST - Products and processes are provided in which an award for a commitment from an entity to post information, via a posting site, at or before a subsequent time is offered to an entity. In response to receiving the commitment, the award is provided to the entity. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290086 | Systems and methods to determine a value relating to a post - Products and processes are provided in which an award for a commitment from an entity to post information, via a posting site, at or before a subsequent time is offered to an entity. In response to receiving the commitment, the award is provided to the entity. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290087 | METHOD OF IMPLEMENTING A LOYALTY AWARD PROGRAM - The present invention relates to a system and method of implementing a loyalty awards program. The a loyalty award program can be implemented using tokenized user account data (e.g., credit card number, bank routing number, etc.) in lieu of original the account data. Using the tokenized data, the loyalty account can be identified and a loyalty award, based on purchase details of a transaction, can be associated with the user's account. The present invention does not require the loyalty system to be PCI compliant since the secure user account data is not handled and/or data warehoused at the loyalty system. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290088 | Systems and Methods for Incentive-Based Nutrition Enhancement - Incentivizing nutritional eating includes receiving data characterizing at least one basket level transaction for an incentivized product. The transaction is completed by a participant. Using the received data, a rating based on a measure of nutrition of the incentivized product is calculated. A reward based on the calculated rating is determined. Data characterizing the reward is provided. Related apparatus, systems, techniques, and articles are also described. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290089 | METHOD FOR INCREASING SHOP FOOT TRAFFIC WITH CUSTOMER REWARDS - A method and system for increasing store foot traffic by providing customers with reward incentive. Retailers and customers sign up to the incentive program with an app being provided to the customer on a mobile device. The customer, when shopping at a first retailer is provided with a virtual coupon for related items at another proximate retailer, which is accessed such as with a tangible receipt, having a scannable unique notation. The customer scans the notation with a smart phone and with a downloaded rewards app operating to process it for the reward with the app effecting a transmission to a centralized and controlled server, with details of the sales transaction. The server analyzes the customer's purchase and provides a reward for determined related items at another proximate establishment valid for controlled times, and downloads it directly on the display of smart phone for scanning by a redeeming retailer. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290090 | Multi-Application Smart Card Device Software Solution for Smart Cardholder Reward Selection and Redemption - A system for facilitating reward selection and redemption for a loyalty program is disclosed. The system includes a point-of-sale (POS) device that is capable of monitoring and processing a reward redemption. The POS device informs a participant of the loyalty program as to what rewards are available for redemption. The participant is given an opportunity by the POS device to select the desired reward for redemption. Alternatively, the POS device allows the participant to defer redemption of the available rewards. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290091 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TARGETING ADVERTISING TO GROUPS WITH STRONG TIES WITHIN AN ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORK - Systems and methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention target advertisements to groups with strong ties in a social network. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for targeting advertising campaigns includes obtaining a set of advertising content, where the advertising content includes advertising keywords and brand data, identifying one or more target members within a set of members associated with an online social network, where the target members are associated with messages on the online social network having target member keywords associated with the advertising keywords, determining a set of member groups within a set of members associated with an online social network, where a member group includes at least one target member and at least one non-target member that is related to at least one of the at least one target member, and targeting a portion of the advertising content to each of the member groups. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290092 | PROCESSES TO LEARN ENTERPRISE DATA MATCHING - A system and method for managing media advertising enterprise data including a process for learning enterprise data matching. An EDM (Enterprise Data Management) application module can be configured to include a set of rules at an enterprise level to manage disparate and disconnected records associated with an entity. A number of unmatched and enterprise entities that matches with respect to an active entity can be returned based on a fuzzy logic associated with various matching options stored in an EDM database. A matching process can then be performed to accurately match similar records regardless of manual input, location, and format of the records in a distributed system. Each unmatched record can then be assigned with a parent enterprise entity. Such an optimization mechanism can interactively manage and report records at the enterprise level in a simple and efficient manner. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290093 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING THE VALUE OF DISPLAY ADVERTISING - A system and method which allow estimation of the value of display advertising are disclosed. Access is provided to a simulated web browsing experience to a plurality of users on a browser on the users' computers. The users have agreed to act as test subjects in exchange for financial compensation. At least one web page comprising a randomly selected article and at least one advertisement is presented to the users. After a predetermined duration, a questionnaire including questions relating to the at least one advertisement is presented to the users. The users are provided with financial compensation for answering the questions. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290094 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO EXPLICITLY AND IMPLICITLY MEASURE MEDIA IMPACT - Example methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to explicitly and implicitly measure media impact are disclosed. An example method includes analyzing first survey response data obtained from a control group panelist responding to a first survey instrument after exposure to first media. An example first survey instrument includes an implicit measure. The example first survey response data includes first implicit response data. The example method further includes analyzing second survey response data obtained from a test group panelist responding to the first survey instrument after exposure to second media. The example second survey response data includes second implicit response data. The example second media includes elements of the first media and target advertising or entertainment material not included in the first media. The example method also includes assessing an effectiveness of the target advertising or entertainment material based on the first and second implicit response data. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290095 | USE OF LOCALIZED BROADCAST SIGNALS TO MODIFY MOBILE APPLICATION BEHAVIOR - A method is disclosed for tracking advertisement effectiveness. First information associated with desired advertising information is broadcast from at least one of a plurality of fixed information nodes. A mobile unit receives the broadcast information and outputs the desired advertising information. An advertisement counter is started at the time of receipt of the broadcast information and presence information is broadcast from at least one of a plurality of fixed monitoring nodes over a restricted broadcast range, which at least one fixed monitoring node is disposed in a predetermined fixed physical proximity with a vendor location. The broadcast presence information is received at the mobile unit and a presence counter is started in response to receipt of the presence information. At the mobile unit loss of receipt of the broadcast presence information, the presence counter is stopped. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290096 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MEASURING LIFT IN A MARKETING PROGRAM - This disclosure concerns methods of measuring lift in a marketing program that resides on a shopping device. The method includes identifying a test group as those shoppers who received a coupon for a unit on a shopping device based on at least one of a historical trait or a real time trait and identifying a control group as shoppers not using the shopping device that would have gotten the coupon for the unit based on at least one of a historical trait or a real time trait had they used the shopping device, wherein the control group and the test group shopped in the same timeframe in the same location of the same store and share the at least one historical trait or real time trait. The net incremental sales of units between the test and control groups is calculated. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290097 | AWARDING A GROUP- TARGETED PROMOTION - Systems, methods, and computer-readable and executable instructions are provided for awarding a group-targeted promotion. Awarding a group-targeted promotion can include defining a first condition for a customer to join a list of promotion-eligible customers and defining a second condition for a number of groups of customers from the list to qualify for a group-targeted promotion. Awarding a group-targeted promotion can include awarding the group-targeted promotion to a group among the number of groups that complies with the second condition, wherein the method is performed by a computing device. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290098 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BRAND AFFINITY CONTENT DISTRIBUTION AND PLACEMENT - An apparatus, system and method for placing an advertisement is disclosed. An audio work may be analyzed for at least one keyword. The at least one keyword may be accessed for its relevance to an advertisement. Based on the assessment of the at least one keyword and an avail of the audio work, the advertisement may be placed within the audio work. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290099 | SPONSORED LISTING RECOMMENDATION ENGINE - An online music system includes a music database configured to store musical selections and to store a user profile for respective users of the online music system, an advertiser account management system to store bid amounts from advertisers seeking to provide information to the users of the online music system and a user recommendation system coupled to the music database to present information about musical selections to respective users based on the stored user profile and the stored bid amounts. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290100 | REPRESENTATIVE KEYWORD SELECTION - This disclosure describes systems and methods for serving one or more contextually-relevant advertisements to an initial web page. Terms are selected from the initial web page that may later be used as representative keywords to select advertisements that are contextually relevant to the initial web page. In order to reduce the number of keyword candidates to a manageable number and to improve accuracy, keyword candidates are filtered via a series of operations that include: querying a network for web pages where the one or more keyword candidates are found, filtering the web pages based on time/date characteristics and a pre-defined number of web pages, analyzing the web pages using the one or more keyword candidates, and selecting certain keyword candidates to be representative keywords based on the analysis. The one or more representative keywords may be used to select one or more advertisements that may then be served with the initial web page. | 2013-10-31 |
20130290101 | MEDIA-ENABLED DELIVERY OF COUPONS - A method, and a corresponding system, provides for media-enabled delivery of coupons. The method includes providing a trigger for an advertisement, with the advertisement provided in a media stream for display to a viewer on a media display device. Activation of the trigger displays an option for acquiring a coupon. The method further includes receiving a coupon generation request from the viewer of the advertisement; receiving an identity of the media display device and metadata related to a display of the advertisement; determining eligibility for generation and delivery of the coupon; and if eligible, determining a coupon delivery option, and delivering the coupon. | 2013-10-31 |