52nd week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 57 |
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20110320185 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MACHINE TRANSLATION - Systems and methods for machine translation are presented. Embodiments of the systems and methods comprise receiving a phrase table, the phrase table comprising a bi-phrase having a source phrase in a source language and a parallel translated target phrase in a target language; replacing a word in the source and/or target phrase with an inflected version of the word, replacing a word in the source and/or target phrase with a declined version of the word, replacing the word in the source and/or target phrase with a word having a different conjugation, replacing the word in the source and/or target phrase with a word having an equivalent semantic function, and/or replacing the word in the source and/or target phrase with a different adjective or adverb; creating a new source and/or target phrase which is identical to the source and/or target phrase except for the replaced word; and storing the new source and/or target phrase in an augmented phrase table. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320186 | ENTITY RECOGNITION - The invention relates to a method of querying technical domains that recognises the concepts represented by strings of characters, rather than merely comparing strings. It can be used to compute conceptual similarity between terms. The method employs string distance metrics and a cyclic progression of lexical processing to recognise constituent term concepts that are then combined to form full-term concepts by means of a grammar. Terms can be extracted and identified as being conceptually similar (or dissimilar) to other terms even if they have never previously been encountered. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320187 | Natural Language Question Answering System And Method Based On Deep Semantics - In a computer system, systems and methods for automatically answering natural language questions using deep semantics are provided. Methods include receiving a natural language question, mapping it into one or more deductive database queries that captures one or more intents behind the question, computing one or more result sets of the question using one or more deductive database queries and a deductive database and providing one or more result sets. Systems include natural language question compilers and deductive databases. The natural language question compiler is configured to receive a natural language question and map it into one or more deductive database queries that capture one or more intents behind the question. The deductive database is configured to receive the mapped one or more deductive database queries, compute one or more result sets of the question using the one or more deductive database queries, and provide one or more result sets. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320188 | WEB-BASED SPEECH RECOGNITION WITH SCRIPTING AND SEMANTIC OBJECTS - The present invention is a system and method for creating and implementing transactional speech applications (SAs) using Web technologies, without reliance on server-side standard or custom services. A transactional speech application may be any application that requires interpretation of speech in conjunction with a speech recognition (SR) system, such as, for example, consumer survey systems. A speech application in accordance with the present invention is represented within a Web page, as an application script that interprets semantic objects according to a context. Any commonly known scripting language can be used to write the application script, such as JavaScript (or ECMAScript), PerlScript, and VBscript. The present invention is “Web-based” to the extent that it implements Web technologies, but it need not include or access the World Wide Web. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320189 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FILTERING DICTATED AND NON-DICTATED SECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS - A system and method for filtering documents to determine section boundaries between dictated and non-dictated text. The system and method identifies portions of a text report that correspond to an original dictation and, correspondingly, those portions that are not part of the original dictation. The system and method include comparing tokenized and normalized forms of the original dictation and the final report, determining mismatches between the two forms, and applying machine-learning techniques to identify document headers, footers, page turns, macros, and lists automatically and accurately. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320190 | AUTOMATED SENTENCE PLANNING IN A TASK CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM - The invention relates to a task classification system ( | 2011-12-29 |
20110320191 | TEXT CREATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A text creation system and method is described. Input text is provided in an authoring language and may be provided in one or more rendering languages and/or writing styles. The input text is analyzed to determine the semantic content of the input, and the semantic information is stored in a database. In one embodiment, templates are provided to acquire input and information about the template and the semantic data of the input, along with a database of equivalent meanings in different languages, are utilized to instantly generate output in a number of languages. One embodiment is a method and system of presenting advertisements in multiple languages. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320192 | GATEWAY APPARATUS AND METHOD AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A gateway apparatus receives a call control signal and/or a packet with voice data stored therein in a predetermined protocol from a packet transfer apparatus on a mobile high-speed network and converts the received protocol into a circuit-switched protocol used when an RNC connects to a circuit switching equipment on a mobile circuit-switched network, for output to the circuit switching equipment The gateway apparatus, on receipt of a call process signal and/or a voice signal, from the circuit switching equipment, converts the received protocol for output to the packet transfer apparatus. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320193 | SPEECH ENCODING DEVICE, SPEECH DECODING DEVICE, SPEECH ENCODING METHOD, AND SPEECH DECODING METHOD - Provided is a speech encoding device that is capable of performing encoding in an extension encoder even when the core encoder and core decoder of each layer have been interchanged, and that is also capable of performing high precision encoding by using the appropriate codec for each situation. The speech encoding device ( | 2011-12-29 |
20110320194 | Decoder with embedded silence and background noise compression - There is provided a method for use by a speech encoder to encode an input speech signal. The method comprises receiving the input speech signal; determining whether the input speech signal includes an active speech signal or an inactive speech signal; low-pass filtering the inactive speech signal to generate a narrowband inactive speech signal; high-pass filtering the inactive speech signal to generate a high-band inactive speech signal; encoding the narrowband inactive speech signal using a narrowband inactive speech encoder to generate an encoded narrowband inactive speech; generating a low-to-high auxiliary signal by the narrowband inactive speech encoder based on the narrowband inactive speech signal; encoding the high-band inactive speech signal using a wideband inactive speech encoder to generate an encoded wideband inactive speech based on the low-to-high auxiliary signal from the narrowband inactive speech encoder; and transmitting the encoded narrowband inactive speech and the encoded wideband inactive speech. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320195 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR LINEAR PREDICTION CODING ANALYSIS - The present invention relates to communication technologies and discloses a method, an apparatus and a system for Linear Prediction Coding (LPC) analysis to improve LPC prediction performance and simplify analysis operation. The method includes: obtaining signal feature information of at least one sample point of input signals; comparing and analyzing the signal feature information to obtain an analysis result; selecting a window function according to the analysis result to perform adaptive windowing for the input signals and obtain windowed signals; and processing the windowed signals to obtain an LPC coefficient for linear prediction. The embodiments of the present invention are applicable to LPC. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320196 | METHOD FOR ENCODING AND DECODING AN AUDIO SIGNAL AND APPARATUS FOR SAME - A method for coding and decoding an audio signal or speech signal and an apparatus adopting the method are provided. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320197 | METHOD FOR INDEXING MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION - It comprises analyzing audio content of multimedia files and performing a speech to text transcription thereof automatically by means of an ASR process, and selecting acoustic and language models adapted for the ASR process at least before the latter processes the multimedia file, i.e. “a priori”. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320198 | INTERACTIVE ENVIRONMENT FOR PERFORMING ARTS SCRIPTS - One or more embodiments present a script to a user in an interactive script environment. A digital representation of a manuscript is analyzed. This digital representation includes a set of roles and a set of information associated with each role in the set of roles. An active role in the set of roles that is associated with a given user is identified based on the analyzing. At least a portion of the manuscript is presented to the given user via a user interface. The portion includes at least a subset of information in the set of information. Information within the set of information that is associated with the active role is presented in a visually different manner than information within the set of information that is associated with a non-active role, which is a role that is associated with a user other than the given user. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320199 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FUSING VOICED PHONEME UNITS IN TEXT-TO-SPEECH - According to one embodiment, an apparatus for fusing voiced phoneme units in Text-To-Speech, includes a reference unit selection module configured to select a reference unit from the plurality of units based on pitch cycle information of the each unit and the number of pitch cycles of the target segment. The apparatus includes a template creation module configured to create a template based on the reference unit selected by the reference unit selection module and the number of pitch cycles of the target segment, wherein the number of pitch cycles of the template is same with that of pitch cycles of the target segment. The apparatus includes a pitch cycle alignment module configured to align pitch cycles of each unit of the plurality of units except the reference unit with pitch cycles of the template by using a dynamic programming algorithm. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320200 | SPEAKER RECOGNITION IN A MULTI-SPEAKER ENVIRONMENT AND COMPARISON OF SEVERAL VOICE PRINTS TO MANY - One-to-many comparisons of callers' voice prints with known voice prints to identify any matches between them. When a customer communicates with a particular entity, such as a customer service center, the system makes a recording of the real-time call including both the customer's and agent's voices. The system segments the recording to extract at least a portion of the customer's voice to create a customer voice print, and it formats the segmented voice print for network transmission to a server. The server compares the customer's voice print with multiple known voice prints to determine any matches, meaning that the customer's voice print and one of the known voice prints are likely from the same person. The identification of any matches can be used for a variety of purposes, such as determining whether to authorize a transaction requested by the customer. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320201 | SOUND VERIFICATION SYSTEM USING TEMPLATES - An audio signal verification system is presented for verifying the sound is from a predetermined source. Various methods for analyzing the sound are presented and the various methods may be combined to vary degrees to determine an appropriate correlation with a predefined pattern. Moreover a confidence level or other indication may be used to indicate the determination was successful. The sound may be reduced to templates with varying degrees of richness. Also different templates may be created using the same sound source and different sounds from the same source may be aggregated to form a single template. Comparisons may be made comparing a sound or a template derived from that sound with stored sounds or templates derived from that stored sound. Moreover comparisons can be made using templates of different richness to achieve confidence levels and confidence levels may be represented based on the results of the comparisons. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320202 | LOCATION VERIFICATION SYSTEM USING SOUND TEMPLATES - A system using sound templates is presented that may receive a first template for an audio signal and compares it to templates from different sound sources to determine a correlation between them. A location history database is created that assists in identifying the location of a user in response to audio templates generated by the user over time and at different locations. Comparisons can be made using templates of different richness to achieve confidence levels and confidence levels may be represented based on the results of the comparisons. Queries may be run against the database to track users by templates generated from their voice. In addition, background information may be filtered out of the voice signal and separately compared against the database to assist in identifying a location based on the background noise. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320203 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING AND CORRECTING ACCENT-INDUCED SPEECH RECOGNITION DIFFICULTIES - A system for use in speech recognition includes an acoustic module accessing a plurality of distinct-language acoustic models, each based upon a different language; a lexicon module accessing at least one lexicon model; and a speech recognition output module. The speech recognition output module generates a first speech recognition output using a first model combination that combines one of the plurality of distinct-language acoustic models with the at least one lexicon model. In response to a threshold determination, the speech recognition output module generates a second speech recognition output using a second model combination that combines a different one of the plurality of distinct-language acoustic models with the at least one distinct-language lexicon model. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320204 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INPUT DEVICE AUDIO FEEDBACK - Systems, methods, apparatuses and computer program products configured to provide sound feedback for input devices are described. Embodiments take input from a digitizer, such as input using as stylus/pen, and produce sound feedback to enhance the user's input interface experience. Embodiments thus provide a user with a more realistic interface with an electronic device, emulating use of conventional writing implements. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320205 | ELECTRONIC BOOK READER - An electronic book reader includes a display, an audio output device, a text obtaining module, a storing module, a text displaying module, a text analyzing module, a text highlighting module, a speech synthesis module, a player module, and a synchronization control module. The text obtaining module obtains a text from a text source. The storing module stores the text. The text displaying module displays the text on the display. The text analyzing module divides the text into a plurality of segments according to punctuations of the text, and read a selected segment. The speech synthesis module converts the selected segment into speech. The synchronization control module sends a command to the text analyzing module for reading the segment, and sends the segment to the text highlighting module and speech synthesis module synchronously. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320206 | ELECTRONIC BOOK READER AND TEXT TO SPEECH CONVERTING METHOD - An electronic book reader includes a text obtaining module, a text highlighting module, a speech synthesis module, a player module, and a synchronization control module. The text obtaining module obtains a selected segment of a text. The text highlighting module highlights the selected segment. The speech synthesis module converts the selected segment into a speech. The player module plays the speech. The synchronization control module sends the selected segment to the text highlighting module and speech synthesis module synchronously. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320207 | CODING, MODIFICATION AND SYNTHESIS OF SPEECH SEGMENTS - The invention relates to a method for speech signal analysis, modification and synthesis comprising a phase for the location of analysis windows by means of an iterative process for the determination of the phase of the first sinusoidal component and comparison between the phase value of said component and a predetermined value, a phase for the selection of analysis frames corresponding to an allophone and readjustment of the duration and the fundamental frequency according to certain thresholds and a phase for the generation of synthetic speech from synthesis frames taking the information of the closest analysis frame as spectral information of the synthesis frame and taking as many synthesis frames as periods that the synthetic signal has. The method allows a coherent location of the analysis windows within the periods of the signal and the exact generation of the synthesis instants in a manner synchronous with the fundamental period. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320208 | Page identification method for audio book - A page identification method for audio book with a main housing, a plurality of pages, a plurality of light blocking panels, an audio record and playback electronic circuit including microphone, speaker, power source, record switch and playback switch, a microprocessor and a plurality of light sensing devices. The top surface of the main body has a plurality of apertures. Each light sensing device located directly under each main body aperture. Each page has one or more apertures that are aligned with at least one of the main body apertures. Each light blocking panel is interleaved between each page so that when the page is turned by the user the light blocking panel will slide over to cover or uncover the page aperture causing the light sensing devices to send a signal to the microprocessor that tells the audio circuit which message to play for each page. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320209 | FREQUENCY DOMAIN MULTIBAND DYNAMICS COMPRESSOR WITH AUTOMATICALLY ADJUSTING FREQUENCY BAND BOUNDARY LOCATIONS - A multiband dynamics compressor implements a frequency-domain solution for addressing unwanted magnitude peaks which may occur at the crossover frequency (boundary) between two adjacent frequency bands. The solution proposes making slight adjustments to the frequency band boundary locations, for example on a frame-by-frame basis, in order to prevent a spectral peak in the input signal from being located midway between two frequency bands. The adjustment to the boundary location pushes the energy of the spectral peak substantially into one frequency band for compression. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320210 | MULTIBAND DYNAMICS COMPRESSOR WITH SPECTRAL BALANCE COMPENSATION - A multiband dynamics compressor implements a solution for minimizing unwanted changes to the long-term frequency response. The solution essentially proposes undoing the multiband compression in a controlled manner using much slower smoothing times. In this regard, the compensation provided acts more like an equalizer than a compressor. What is applied is a very slowly time-varying, frequency-dependent post-gain (make-up gain) that attempts to restore the smoothed long-term level of each compressor band. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320211 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING SIGNAL - A method and an apparatus for processing a signal are provided. The method includes: obtaining an energy average value of each sub-band for a current frame frequency-domain signal; obtaining a current frame modification coefficient of each sub-band for the current frame frequency-domain signal according to a spectral envelope and the energy average value of each sub-band; obtaining a weighted modification coefficient of each sub-band for the current frame frequency-domain signal by using the current frame modification coefficient and a relevant frame modification coefficient; and modifying the spectral envelope of each sub-band for the current frame frequency-domain signal by using the weighted modification coefficient. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320212 | AUDIO SIGNAL ENCODING METHOD, AUDIO SIGNAL DECODING METHOD, ENCODING DEVICE, DECODING DEVICE, AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEM, AUDIO SIGNAL ENCODING PROGRAM, AND AUDIO SIGNAL DECODING PROGRAM - When a frame immediately preceding an encoding target frame to be encoded by a first encoding unit operating under a linear predictive coding scheme is encoded by a second encoding unit operating under a coding scheme different from the linear predictive coding scheme, the encoding target frame can be encoded under the linear predictive coding scheme by initializing the internal state of the first encoding unit. Therefore, encoding processing performed under a plurality of coding schemes including the linear predictive coding scheme and a coding scheme different from the linear predictive coding scheme can be realized. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320213 | TIME-WARPING OF DECODED AUDIO SIGNAL AFTER PACKET LOSS - A technique is described for use in a decoder configured to decode a series of frames representing an encoded audio signal. The technique is for transitioning between a lost frame and one or more received frames following the lost frame in the series of frames. In accordance with the technique, an output audio signal associated with the lost frame is synthesized. An extrapolated signal is generated based on the synthesized output audio signal. A time lag is calculated between the extrapolated signal and a decoded audio signal associated with the received frame(s), wherein the time lag represents a phase difference between the extrapolated signal and the decoded audio signal. The decoded audio signal is time-warped based on the time lag, wherein time-warping the decoded audio signal comprises stretching or shrinking the decoded audio signal in the time domain. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320214 | DUAL STREAMING WITH EXCHANGE OF FEC STREAMS BY AUDIO SINKS - A system and method is described herein in which an audio source wirelessly transmits audio content to a first audio sink over one wireless link and to a second audio sink over another wireless link. The two audio sinks also exchange forward error correction (FEC) streams over a link between the two audio sinks, wherein the FEC streams are generated by FEC encoding the audio content received from the audio source. The audio sinks advantageously use the exchanged FEC information to synchronize the playback of the audio content as well as to improve the robustness of the wireless links with the audio source in a manner that does not consume additional bandwidth on those links. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320215 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR CONVEYING TELEFAMILIARIZATION OF A REMOTE LOCATION - A system, method and apparatus for providing TeleFamiliarization of a remote location to a plurality of users connected to a network is provided. The system comprises a plurality of real time sensory data gathering devices that can be manipulated remotely by the users of the system. The real time data provided by this system permits users to observe social traffic and patronage of a participating location remotely. The data assists users in their decision making process by allowing the user to assess the genre of a venue, assess patronage (quantity and quality), assess the venue's facilities and layout (handicap accessible, bathroom locations, menu), and to assist in determining whether the user will ultimately attend the venue. The system further comprises an interactive floor plan of the premise which will disclose to the users the locations of the installed sensory data gathering devices. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320216 | Computer pointing device having medical monitoring features and system for collecting, processing, storing, and dispersing data therefrom - A computer pointing device commonly called a mouse that, in addition to functioning as a computer mouse of the prior art, combines a sphygmomanometer and a thermometer. A glucometer or other specialized measurement devices may be attached via a built-in USB or similar interface. Data (e.g., blood glucose readings) from such attached instruments may be processed along with blood pressure, temperature, pulse, etc. A general purpose computer or a dedicated computer-like appliance is connected to the mouse and receives, stores, and processes data relating to measurements made by the mouse or an attached device. Data may be transmitted from the computer to a central data facility where it may be made available to authorized medical personnel and/or institutions. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320217 | PREPARATION OF DENTAL IMPLANT SURGERY AND PROSTHESIS INSTALLATION - There are provided a system and a method for assisting a user in preparing a dental implant surgery which includes a prosthesis installation. The system and the method provide a dental implant surgery plan for the user and generate a list of all items required for the dental implant surgery. The items of the list comprise a dental surgical guide, at least one implant and components for at least one prosthesis. The system and the method use a record of suppliers for the items of the list and, for each item of the list, propose to the user a supplier selected among the suppliers of the record. The system and method then allow the user to order all items of the list, which are shipped to the user for the surgery. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320218 | MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING SERVER AND MANAGING METHOD FOR MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING SERVER - A medical image processing server, connected with terminals, has an access time obtaining unit, an update time obtaining unit, a determining unit and a data outputting unit. The access time obtaining unit obtains an access start time at which each of the terminals accesses medical image data selected by each of the terminals. The update time obtaining, if each of the terminals issues an update request for edited medical image data, obtains a last update time of the edited medical image data. The determining unit determines whether to generate updated data or copied data of medical image data edited by one of the terminals based on the access start time obtained by the terminal and the last update time obtained by another of the terminals. The data outputting unit outputs the updated data and the copied data based on identification information complying with a predetermined medical protocol. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320219 | Computer-Implemented Method for Grouping Medical Claims into Episode Treatment Groups - A computer-implemented method for profiling medical claims to assist health care managers in determining the cost-efficiency and service quality of health care providers. The method allows an objective means for measuring and quantifying health care services. An episode treatment group (ETG) is a patient classification unit, which defines groups that are clinically homogenous (similar cause of illness and treatment) and statistically stable. The ETG grouper methodology uses service or segment-level claim data as input data and assigns each service to the appropriate episode. The program identifies concurrent and recurrent episodes, flags records, creates new groupings, shills groupings for changed conditions, selects the most recent claims, resets windows, makes a determination if the provider is an independent lab and continues to collect information until an absence of treatment is detected. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320220 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SECURE MULTI-PARTY MEDICAL CONFERENCING - A system and method for providing secure medical conferencing are provided. In one example, the system includes a database and a medical services authentication server (MSAS) coupled to the database and a packet network. The database includes medical information and the MSAS includes instructions for facilitating the medical conferencing, including enabling medical service consumers to identify and connect directly to medical service providers via the packet network using information from the database. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320221 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATING PATIENT INFORMATION - A method of communicating a patient care message is disclosed. The method comprises inputting patient information into the patient care message; inputting an urgency indicator into the patient care message; inputting health condition information into the patient care message; transmitting the patient care message electronically, wherein the patient care message comprises the patient information, the urgency indicator, and the health condition information. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320222 | Systems and methods for valuation of tangible items - Computer-based tangible property item valuation systems and methods are disclosed. In one general aspect, these include business logic responsive to a machine-readable inventory listing comprising a plurality of machine-readable entries that each include at least a description of an item to be valued. A database stores valuation information for at least a plurality of the item entries, and logic is provided for assembling a valuation listing that includes valuation information retrieved from the database for at least a plurality of the item entries. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320223 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYSIS OF INSURANCE CLAIMS - A computer system for analyzing insurance claim data is configured to receive data relating to a current insurance claim from a client device; query a database for data relating to insurance claims similar to the current claim; receive from the database data relating to insurance claims responsive to the query; analyze the received data; generate a display of the analyzed received data and communicate the generated display to the client device for display on the client device. The display may include a value of recoveries within the time window as a proportion of initial demands for settled similar claims and a value of recoveries within the time window as a proportion of initial demands for arbitrated similar claims. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320224 | Systems and Methods for Customizing Product Selections Based on Member Parameters and Providing the Selections to Members for Purchase - The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for identifying at least one health plan option for an individual or employee, where the health plan option(s) identified have been selected based on the unique characteristics and profile of the individual or the unique characteristics and profile of the employee and format selections of the employer. The health plan option(s) identified may also be based on criteria provided by the individual or the employer, such as for instance, the amount of deductible and/or premium the individual is willing to pay, or for example, the health insurers the employer has selected to provide employee group coverage. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320225 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATIC HEALTHPLAN DATA RETRIEVAL AND RECONCILIATION USING A PROCESSING DEVICE - A method and apparatus for automatic healthplan data retrieval and reconciliation using a processing device is disclosed. The method may include retrieving accounting data, human resources data and health insurance data, comparing the accounting data, the human resources data and the health insurance data, identifying discrepancies between the accounting data, the human resources data and the health insurance data, and outputting the identified discrepancies to a user. The accounting data, human resources data and health insurance data pertain to individual employees' healthplans, and the identified discrepancies are related to enrollment, coverage and payment of healthplans. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320226 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING SETTLEMENT OF INSURANCE CLAIMS - Systems, apparatus, methods and articles of manufacture provide for facilitating settlement of insurance claims. According to some embodiments, methods include facilitating settlement with respect to benefits owed by a carrier to a claimant (e.g., based on an injured worker's claim for benefits under a workers' compensation policy) and with respect to a subrogation interest of the carrier in any recovery by the claimant from a third party (e.g., accused of causing the injury). | 2011-12-29 |
20110320227 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MAPPING PRICE AND LOCATION OF TICKETS IN AN EVENT VENUE - A system and methods for mapping price and location of tickets in an event venue are described. An interactive event venue seat map is provided by a network-based system that implements an online marketplace for tickets for upcoming events. The interactive event venue seat map enables sellers to view pricing information and transaction information for both sold and current event listings for any section or zone in an event venue. The interactive event venue seat map allows sellers to browse and click on sections to see sold and listed data for any section and zone in the event venue and to compare a proposed sale price to available pricing information of sold and current event listings in comparable sections. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320228 | Automated Generation of Markov Chains for Use in Information Technology - Disclosed are methods and systems to automatically generate a model for pro-active rather than reactive enterprise systems management. In one embodiment, a Markov Chain model is constructed from a Configuration Management Database (CMDB), Service Impact models, event logs and system logs. The model can then be maintained and automatically updated or regenerated based on changing conditions and attributes of configuration items (CIs) being modeled. As part of model generations probabilities associated with potential state transitions of CIs can be calculated. The model can then be used to predict anticipated availability of a corporate enterprise or specific portions of a corporate information technology (IT) environment. In another embodiment, a model can be used to perform what-if scenarios to assist in planning or deferring change requests for the corporate IT environment. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320229 | AGRONOMIC OPTIMIZATION BASED ON STATISTICAL MODELS - Generating a crop prescription using a computer coupled to a memory area includes receiving yield data for a plurality of crop population trials, wherein each trial is varied by at least one of a hybrid line, a population density, and a row spacing. At least one statistical model is generated based on the yield data to obtain a plurality of coefficients, which are stored in the memory area. A predicted yield for at least one selected hybrid line is determined based on the coefficients and a selected row spacing, and a predicted profit is determined for the at least one selected hybrid line based on the coefficients and the selected row spacing. A crop prescription is presented that includes a recommended hybrid line and population density for use by a grower. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320230 | USER INTERFACE FOR PROVIDING A USER WITH THE ABILITY TO VIEW JOB ASSIGNMENT INFORMATION - A graphical user interface (GUI) implemented on a computer for displaying job assignment information associated with a given user. The GUI comprises an information display area for displaying a plurality of entries, each entry of the plurality of entries being associated with a respective job assignment for the given user, each entry further displaying a data element identifying the respective job assignment, wherein at least one entry of the plurality of entries is indicative of a past job assignment. The GUI further comprises a control component operable by the user at the computer to cause the graphical user interface to display additional information regarding a selected job assignment. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320231 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENABLING A USER TO BID ON A WORK ASSIGNMENT - A graphical user interface implemented on a computer for enabling a user to bid on a job assignment. The graphical user interface comprises an information display area for displaying a plurality of entries, each entry of the plurality of entries being indicative of a respective job grouping, each job grouping being associated with at least one job on which the user can bid. The graphical user interface further comprising a control component operable by the user at the computer to cause the graphical user interface to display additional information associated with a selected one of the job groupings. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320232 | Automatic Service Vehicle Hailing and Dispatch System and Method - A system and method are provided for improving efficiency of operation and convenience of access to a fleet of taxis, or other service vehicles, requiring rapid, on-demand dispatch to customer-determined locations. Automatic speech recognition (ASR) and/or radiolocation technology arc used to automate the entry of the customer pickup location, and optionally the dropoff location and other relevant information as well. A customer speaks the pickup location into a cellular telephone which then digitizes and transmits it as a data communication to an ASR system. The ASR system decodes the digitized utterance into a pickup location which is passed to a vehicle matching and dispatch system. The vehicle matching and dispatch system matches a taxi and dispatches it to the pickup location. In one embodiment, the identified pickup location is transmitted to the customer's cellular telephone for confirmation or correction, before dispatch of the requested taxi. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320233 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ARBITRAGING COMPUTING RESOURCES IN A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - Disclosed is are methods and systems for processing a workload among a plurality of computing resources that optimizes the processing price per workload. The method includes breaking the workload into two or more tasks each having a size optimized based on (i) a price history of one or more of the plurality of computing resources and (ii) a predicted duration to complete processing of each of the respective tasks; and sending one of the two or more tasks to a computing resources for which the size of the tasks is optimized. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320234 | System, Method, and Computer Readable Medium for Management of an Electronic Calendar - A system, method, and computer readable medium for providing management of electronic calendar appointments are provided. A database stores records of scheduled appointments of one or more users. The scheduled appointments may be displayed in a calendar view that includes scheduled appointments of the one or more users. A user may designate scheduled appointments associated with the user as private. The calendar system may then hide the scheduled appointments designated as private such that the private appointments are not displayed for view by other users. In another embodiment, a user may select multiple days for printing of scheduled events. In still another embodiment, a user may specify an interval for searching for a period of consecutive days during which the user does not have any scheduled appointments. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320235 | COMPUTER CONTROLLED MEETINGS CALENDAR SCHEDULER BASED UPON IMPORTANCE OF MEETING ATTRIBUTES - An invitee who is receiving invitations to meetings, usually via telecommunication, is enabled to predetermine a set of invitee-specific attributes that will be applied to each invitation and to relate the attributes of the invitation to the specific needs of the invitee in the determination of whether the proposed meeting may be scheduled on the specific invitee's calendar. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320236 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY APPLICATION DEPLOYMENT - The invention generally relates to IT, and more particularly, to a method and system to achieve project-based diffusion of IT innovations. In accordance with aspects of the invention, the system comprises three integrated components. The first component is directed to the project management stages taken by an organization to deploy new technology innovations. This in turn consists of four stages: visioning, matching vision, deployment, and evaluation and improvement. The second component is directed to knowledge barriers to IT innovation diffusion. The third component is directed to critical success factors (CSF) of IT innovation implementations. In one embodiment the system includes of a Program Management Module (PMM) to implement corporate strategy for project management and to transform the organization into a learning one. In further embodiments, system is explained in detail using an example of ERP implementation. In this manner, implementations of the invention may be used to manage the lifecycle of IT innovation deployment using knowledge from other projects as well as knowledge fed back into the lifecycle. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320237 | Meeting Calendar Optimization - A method, a computer program product, and an apparatus is provided for scheduling meetings which includes (1) evaluating a set of proposed meetings, (2) creating a number of calendars, each calendar containing schedule date for the proposed meetings, (3) ranking each calendar according to a calendar evaluation criteria and providing the ranking data with the calendar, and (4) displaying several of the calendars and their respective ranking data. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320238 | System and Method of Integrating Enterprise Applications - The present disclosure includes systems and techniques relating to enterprise application integration. In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in a computer system including a service oriented architecture (SOA), where the system includes a composite application configured to present sales targeted information by combining services from multiple application resources on a network, wherein the multiple application resources include: a sales force automation (SFA) tool configured to automate sales and sales force management functions; a real-time predictive analytics tool configured to evaluate customer purchasing data and recommend products or services based on the customer purchasing data; a knowledge management tool configured to search and retrieve data across multiple integrated applications; and a calendar tool configured to manage appointment scheduling. The multiple application resources can further include a collaboration tool; and a business intelligence tool, including at least one live news feed. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320239 | FAULT TOLERANT SOCIAL NETWORKS FOR SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS - A social network of service provider and service recipient teams, which in turn is analyzed from a global perspective of the provider organization, that is, the representation and analysis and recommendations are internally driven by a service provider organization. Informal and formal relationships alike can be noted in the network representation. The nodes in the networks are team members from the provider and client organizations. The key decision makers in the client organizations are marked out in the graph. Each client node has an orientation which reflects whether the person has a positive orientation or negative orientation overall, globally and at a current point in time, towards the service provider organization. The client organization and the internal relationships can initially be assumed to be embodied by formal and functional relationships that are already well known and established, and yet can be adapted at later times. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320240 | VIDEO-BASED ANALYSIS WORKFLOW PROPOSAL TOOL - Video of work being performed in a place of business can be analyzed. Patterns can be identified and scored within the work when analyzing the video. The identified patterns can be correlated with business processes of a business process management system of the business. In one embodiment, the tasks performed can be to monitor a business process flow, to update a business process flow, and/or to create a new business process flow. Business process flows can be written in a standardized business process execution language or other standards based languages. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320241 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVALUATING PERFORMANCE OF AFTERMARKET VEHICLE PART SALES - A system and method for evaluating the performance of aftermarket vehicle part sales for assortment planning, the method including: receiving a vehicle part identifier associated with a vehicle part to be evaluated, receiving information related to vehicles in operation in a given market, receiving product information related to the vehicle part, receiving sales information related to the vehicle part in the given market, processing the information related to vehicles in operation in a given market, the product information related to the vehicle part and the sales information related to the vehicle part to produce an evaluation of the aftermarket performance of the vehicle part sales, and generating an evaluation report of the aftermarket performance of the vehicle part sales. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320242 | MULTI-VARIATE SALES PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS SYSTEM - A data collecting and processing system captures the actions of sales personnel and presents performance metrics in accordance with specific corporate-wide assessment criteria. By using a system that standardizes the data collected, the performance metrics, and the assessment criteria, corporations can establish performance standards and goals beyond the traditional revenue v. cost of sales criteria. Because the performance standards and goals may be defined and presented based on the standardized assessment criteria, each salesperson's behavior can be attuned to achieve the established goals. As the system continues to be used, the assessment criteria may be fine tuned as particular metrics prove to be particularly relevant to generating revenue or developing future sales. Trend analysis and other tools may also be used to develop correlations between the actions of sales personnel and the likelihood of future success. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320243 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, APPARATUSES, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR FACILITATING RESERVATION FOR A PARKING SPACE WITH A NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION-ENABLED DEVICE - Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer readable media for facilitating reservation for a parking space with a near field communications (NFC)-enabled device are provided. A system can include an NFC-enabled parking meter associated with a parking space and a controller in communication with the NFC-enabled parking meter for measuring time and processing payment. A system can include an NFC-enabled device that upon interfacing with the NFC-enabled parking meter communicates with the controller to create a reservation of a parking space. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320244 | Pre-Paid Customer Reward Card - This invention relates to a plastic card, wallet size, equipped with magnetic strip to store customer information; the card will be labeled with identifying logos from the source of travel and with identifying information pertaining to the customer or owner of the card. The card is designed to be used to purchase modes of travel i.e., tickets from a selected source of travel, such as, but not limited to, planes, trains, automobiles, buses, boats and ships. This card is loaded by the customer with cash to be redeemed at any time for purchasing tickets and other services provided by their source/s of travel. The concept benefits the consumer; reduction in the use of credit cards and a opportunity to save on high interest rates. For the merchant/card issuer; the earned interest on pre-paid balances increases liquidity and enhances investment opportunities. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320245 | Coupons for On-Demand Content - A method includes receiving a coupon validation request associated with a user account and determining whether a coupon is valid based on the coupon validation request. Coupon data associated with the coupon is added to a valid coupon list associated with the user account when the coupon is valid. Transaction data is automatically compared to the valid coupon list to determine whether at least one coupon identified in the valid coupon list is applicable to at least one transaction. When two or more coupons identified in the valid coupon list are applicable to the at least one transaction, a first coupon is automatically selected to apply to the at least one transaction based on priorities associated with the two or more coupons. The first coupon is automatically applied to the at least one transaction. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320246 | Program, System and Method for Linking Community Programs and Merchants In A Marketing Program - The present invention is a system, data access management utility and a method of generating links between local merchants and a marketing system. For example, the marketing system may be that disclosed in PCT Patent Application No. PCT/CA2009/001605. The present invention may be operable to register members, merchants, community programs, intermediaries and other entities with the marketing system. Embodiments of the present invention may be operable to quickly and efficiently register multiple members and/or multiple merchant store types virtually simultaneously to the marketing system. An automated registration and/or boarding process may be operated by the present invention to undertake such registration and/or boarding of members, merchants, community programs, intermediaries and other entities with the marketing system, including automated boarding of merchants. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320247 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED MASS MEDIA COMMERCE - Systems and methods for implementing point of advertising purchasing include using mass media publications configured for or containing service, product or vendor transmittable signals, such as from radio frequency identification tags. In a preferred arrangement, a consumer perceiving an advertisement of the mass media publication may activate a reader in a portable communications device, such as a smart mobile or cellular phone, to receive information from the radio frequency signal associated with the advertisement to identify a vendor, product or service associated with the radio frequency identification. The smart mobile phone or communications device of the consumer may communicate with a system of a vendor across a network to order a product or product information from a system of the vendor over the network by using the information from the radio frequency identification. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320248 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATIC PRICING IN ELECTRONIC COMMERCE - An automatic pricing method and apparatus for use in electronic commerce environments is described. Automatic pricing uses live price testing to estimate and measure demand for specific products—taking into account where appropriate, a vendor selected segmentation scheme. The results of live price testing are compared using a vendor selected goal function, e.g. profit maximization, to select a new price. A goal function that balances short term gains versus long term gains based on customer lifetime value is described. The live price testing approach used is designed to minimize losses due to price testing through statistical methods. Additionally, methods for distributing price testing across time so as to avoid problems caused by too many ongoing tests as well as side effects from testing are described. The selected price is a win for both purchasers and vendors as the automatic price will approximate the efficiency of a reverse auction without the inconvenience of the auction format while being goal maximizing for the vendor. For example, a vendor that normally sets prices of items for sale to customers can use embodiments of the invention to great effect. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320249 | Reward Based Media Distribution System - A reward based media distribution system, the system having a token generation system having a sales platform and a token server, a token redemption system having a token redemption platform and a token redemption server, and a drawing processor through which winners are selected. The reward based media distribution system will provide content creators and distributors with a device that will motivate the public through games of chance to purchase digital content rather that stealing it. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320250 | ADVERTISING PRODUCTS TO GROUPS WITHIN SOCIAL NETWORKS - Within a social network, users may form social groups based on shared traits, such as experiences and interests. The social network may be able to detect a user interest among the users of a social group in one or more products offered by one or more vendors (e.g., by evaluating conversations within the social group and search queries executed by users of the social group), and to notify the vendors of the detected user interest. The vendors may be willing to extend an offer to the users of the social group regarding the product, and the social network may present the offer to the users of the social group. The social network may also track acceptances of the offer by users of the social group, and may provide an e-commerce infrastructure to allow users to complete purchases of the product and to provide the rewards featured in the offers. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320251 | System And Method For Performing A Redemption Transaction On A Point Of Sale Terminal - A method and system for performing a redemption transaction at a point-of sale terminal. The cardholder initiates the transaction using a redemption card. The terminal obtains a transaction amount, a private currency, and an exchange rate. The transaction amount is converted into a transaction amount miles equivalent using the exchange rate, and the transaction amount miles equivalent is compared against the balance of the redemption account associated with the redemption card. The terminal transmits a clearing record for further processing. The clearing record is received by a clearing server, which identifies a lodged card associated with the transaction. The clearing server computes a periodic aggregate amount comprising the aggregate transaction amount for all transactions associated with the lodged card and a particular merchant during that period. The clearing server triggers a single transaction towards an acquirer associated with the merchant for the periodic aggregate amount. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320252 | Apparatus and Method for Redeeming an Incentive on a Wireless Device - A non-transitory computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to collect a first wireless internet protocol address associated with a wireless client device that initiates an invoked offer. The first wireless internet protocol address is associated with incentive identification information corresponding to the invoked offer. An application invocation page is delivered to the wireless client device. Log in information is received from the wireless client device. A second wireless internet protocol address accompanying the log in information is collected. The incentive identification information is retrieved if the first wireless internet protocol address matches the second internet protocol address. An incentive specified by the incentive identification information is then downloaded to the wireless client device. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320253 | DELIVERY, ORGANIZATION, AND REDEMPTION OF VIRTUAL OFFERS FROM THE INTERNET, INTERACTIVE-TV, WIRELESS DEVICES AND OTHER ELECTRONIC MEANS - Disclosed are methods and systems for redeeming virtual coupons by associating the coupons with a consumer and a payment system associated with the consumer. In some embodiments, the method includes offering promotional offers to one or more of consumers, such that the promotional offers are associated with one or more source sites and can be electronically accepted by at least some of the particular consumers without redeeming the accepted offers. Upon electronic acceptance of at least one of the promotional offers by one or more consumer, establishing or maintaining an association of the accepted promotional offer with at least one payment system associated with the consumer. Upon purchase of the subject matter of the accepted promotional offer with the at least one payment system, electronically receiving a redemption of the accepted promotional offer. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320254 | PRODUCT MARKETING UTILIZING BROWSING HISTORY - A computer implemented method markets a particular product in an e-commerce system. A web page server receives a request for a current web page that displays a particular product. The request is accompanied by an authorization indicium to retrieve a content of a previous web page that offered the particular product at a previous price. A current price for the particular product is dynamically adjusted based on the previous price offered on the previous web page, and is then presented on the current web page. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320255 | System and method for method for administering a website promotional code and ensuring integrity of same - The present invention provides a method of administering a promotional code that is used to earn incentives but is unable to be shared among individual users. A promotional code is generated and is placed on a website that is affiliated with or connected to a rewards redemption website, but when a user goes to this page the promotional code system of the present invention generates a new, unique randomized code that is different each time a page is refreshed. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320256 | CITY PARKING SERVICES WITH AREA BASED LOYALTY PROGRAMS - Apparatus and methods related providing city services, such as parking, are described. Methods and apparatus for providing parking rewards programs are described. The methods and apparatus can include maintaining accounts for participants in the rewards program, tracking purchases of parking and other participant activities and determining parking awards based upon the activities. The parking rewards programs can be used to incentivize behaviors that balance the use of the parking space commodity according to the needs of different stakeholders, such as the city, residents, merchants and visitors. For example, parking awards and the criteria used for earning awards can be used to encourage particular behaviors while a parking space is being utilized, such as shopping, the use of public transportation or efficient trip planning. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320257 | DELIVERY, ORGANIZATION, AND REDEMPTION OF VIRTUAL OFFERS FROM THE INTERNET, INTERACTIVE-TV, WIRELESS DEVICES AND OTHER ELECTRONIC MEANS - Disclosed are methods and systems for redeeming virtual coupons by associating the coupons with a consumer and a payment system associated with the consumer. In some embodiments, the method includes distributing the enabled promotional offers, from one or more source sites, via the electronic contact addresses for the plurality of consumers, such that the promotional offers can be electronically accepted by at least some of the particular consumers with whom they are identified without redeeming the accepted offers. The method further includes electronically receiving a redemption of the promotional offer by means of the consumer's presentment of the associated payment system for purchasing the subject matter of the accepted promotional offer. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320258 | Store Solutions - Disclosed are systems and methods that time correlate input at a point of entry of consumer data of least two identifications for products, prescriptions, vouchers, or codes, uses positive correlation determinations for triggering output of predetermined information. The time correlation of identifications may be used to build a time correlation database, and thereafter use that database for targeted communications. Related inventions include an intelligent Y cable or the like to filter data transmitted from a scanner at a point of entry of consumer data, and a novel POS CS configured to receive bar codes that would otherwise cause the POS CS to enter an error condition. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320259 | LOCATION BASED ADVERTISING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A computer-implemented location based advertising method is provided. The method includes receiving advertising information and an indication of a physical location associated with the advertising information. The advertising information is transmitted to a first client associated with a first user. Entrance to the physical location is detected by either the first user or a mobile device associated with the first user. The transmission of the advertising information and the detection of the entrance to the physical location of the first user or the mobile device are reported to a second client associated with a second user. The present invention further provides a location based advertising systems. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320260 | CROSS-MEDIA CAMPAIGNS WITH BIAS ADJUSTMENT AND ATTRIBUTION MODELING - A method for determining advertising effectiveness of cross-media campaigns provided. The effectiveness of the combined campaign is plotted, and the effects of different media are isolated. Examining complementary effects and synergies are examined, and a dollar-for-dollar comparison for each of the media is performed. This dollar-for-dollar comparison may include a return on marketing objective calculation. If applicable, budget re-allocations are recommended. Optionally, post effectiveness, efficiency, and allocation analysis are performed. Such analysis may include providing descriptive advertising and media suggestions on each media independently. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320261 | Quality Scoring System for Internet Advertising Loci - An Internet advertising locus scoring system including a locus metrics database, a locus parameters database, a scoring engine and a system controller coupled to the locus metrics database, the locus parameters database and the scoring engine. The locus metrics database and the locus parameters database may be at least partially linked and may be at least partially distributed. In an embodiment, the scoring engine may include a weight function operating on at least some of the locus metrics. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320262 | MULTICHANNEL DIGITAL MARKETING PLATFORM - A method and system optimizes investments for each marketing channel of a multichannel marketing campaign. Past optimal investments are compared to current sales or profits for each marketing channel, and a new optimal investment is estimated for each marketing channel, which may be used as a marketing budget. A marketing dashboard is used to determine the new optimal investments for the marketing channels, and the new optimal investments are stored in a marketing database. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320263 | ADVERTISING EFFECTIVENESS MEASURING APPARATUS, ADVERTISING EFFECTIVENESS MEASURING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND ELECTRONIC ADVERTISING APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is an advertising effectiveness measuring apparatus, including: a display information acquisition portion configured to acquire display information representing whether or not an advertising content of a predetermined product was displayed in each of unit time slots; a purchaser information acquisition portion configured to acquire purchaser information representing the number of purchasers who bought the predetermined product in each of the unit time slots; and an indicator calculation portion configured to calculate an advertising effectiveness indicator representing the effectiveness of the advertising carried out by displaying the advertising content of the predetermined product, based on the display information acquired by the display information acquisition portion and on the purchaser information acquired by the purchaser information acquisition portion. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320264 | SYSTEM FOR TARGETING ADVERTISING CONTENT TO A PLURALITY OF MOBILE COMMUNICATION FACILITIES - A system for targeting advertising content includes the steps of: (a) receiving respective requests for advertising content corresponding to a plurality of mobile communication facilities operated by a group of users, wherein the plurality includes first and second types of mobile communication facilities with different rendering capabilities; (b) receiving a datum corresponding to the group; (c) selecting from a first and second sponsor respective content based on a relevancy to the datum, wherein each content includes a first and second item requiring respective rendering capabilities; (d) receiving bids from the first and second sponsors; (e) attributing a priority to the content of the first sponsor based upon a determination that a yield associated with the first sponsor is greater than a yield associated with the second sponsor; and (f) transmitting the first and second items of the first sponsor to the first and second types of mobile communication facilities respectively. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320265 | SYSTEM FOR TARGETING ADVERTISING CONTENT TO A PLURALITY OF MOBILE COMMUNICATION FACILITIES - A system for targeting advertising content includes the steps of: (a) receiving respective requests for advertising content corresponding to a plurality of mobile communication facilities operated by a group of users, wherein the plurality includes first and second types of mobile communication facilities with different rendering capabilities; (b) receiving a datum corresponding to the group; (c) selecting from a first and second sponsor respective content based on a relevancy to the datum, wherein each content includes a first and second item requiring respective rendering capabilities; (d) receiving bids from the first and second sponsors; (e) attributing a priority to the content of the first sponsor based upon a determination that a yield associated with the first sponsor is greater than a yield associated with the second sponsor; and (f) transmitting the first and second items of the first sponsor to the first and second types of mobile communication facilities respectively. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320266 | SYSTEM FOR TARGETING ADVERTISING CONTENT TO A PLURALITY OF MOBILE COMMUNICATION FACILITIES - A system for targeting advertising content includes the steps of: (a) receiving respective requests for advertising content corresponding to a plurality of mobile communication facilities operated by a group of users, wherein the plurality includes first and second types of mobile communication facilities with different rendering capabilities; (b) receiving a datum corresponding to the group; (c) selecting from a first and second sponsor respective content based on a relevancy to the datum, wherein each content includes a first and second item requiring respective rendering capabilities; (d) receiving bids from the first and second sponsors; (e) attributing a priority to the content of the first sponsor based upon a determination that a yield associated with the first sponsor is greater than a yield associated with the second sponsor; and (f) transmitting the first and second items of the first sponsor to the first and second types of mobile communication facilities respectively. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320267 | SYSTEM FOR TARGETING ADVERTISING CONTENT TO A PLURALITY OF MOBILE COMMUNICATION FACILITIES - A system for targeting advertising content includes the steps of: (a) receiving respective requests for advertising content corresponding to a plurality of mobile communication facilities operated by a group of users, wherein the plurality includes first and second types of mobile communication facilities with different rendering capabilities; (b) receiving a datum corresponding to the group; (c) selecting from a first and second sponsor respective content based on a relevancy to the datum, wherein each content includes a first and second item requiring respective rendering capabilities; (d) receiving bids from the first and second sponsors; (e) attributing a priority to the content of the first sponsor based upon a determination that a yield associated with the first sponsor is greater than a yield associated with the second sponsor; and (f) transmitting the first and second items of the first sponsor to the first and second types of mobile communication facilities respectively. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320268 | SYSTEM FOR TARGETING ADVERTISING CONTENT TO A PLURALITY OF MOBILE COMMUNICATION FACILITIES - A system for targeting advertising content includes the steps of: (a) receiving respective requests for advertising content corresponding to a plurality of mobile communication facilities operated by a group of users, wherein the plurality includes first and second types of mobile communication facilities with different rendering capabilities; (b) receiving a datum corresponding to the group; (c) selecting from a first and second sponsor respective content based on a relevancy to the datum, wherein each content includes a first and second item requiring respective rendering capabilities; (d) receiving bids from the first and second sponsors; (e) attributing a priority to the content of the first sponsor based upon a determination that a yield associated with the first sponsor is greater than a yield associated with the second sponsor; and (f) transmitting the first and second items of the first sponsor to the first and second types of mobile communication facilities respectively. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320269 | SYSTEM FOR TARGETING ADVERTISING CONTENT TO A PLURALITY OF MOBILE COMMUNICATION FACILITIES - A system for targeting advertising content includes the steps of: (a) receiving respective requests for advertising content corresponding to a plurality of mobile communication facilities operated by a group of users, wherein the plurality includes first and second types of mobile communication facilities with different rendering capabilities; (b) receiving a datum corresponding to the group; (c) selecting from a first and second sponsor respective content based on a relevancy to the datum, wherein each content includes a first and second item requiring respective rendering capabilities; (d) receiving bids from the first and second sponsors; (e) attributing a priority to the content of the first sponsor based upon a determination that a yield associated with the first sponsor is greater than a yield associated with the second sponsor; and (f) transmitting the first and second items of the first sponsor to the first and second types of mobile communication facilities respectively. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320270 | SYSTEM FOR TARGETING ADVERTISING CONTENT TO A PLURALITY OF MOBILE COMMUNICATION FACILITIES - A system for targeting advertising content includes the steps of: (a) receiving respective requests for advertising content corresponding to a plurality of mobile communication facilities operated by a group of users, wherein the plurality includes first and second types of mobile communication facilities with different rendering capabilities; (b) receiving a datum corresponding to the group; (c) selecting from a first and second sponsor respective content based on a relevancy to the datum, wherein each content includes a first and second item requiring respective rendering capabilities; (d) receiving bids from the first and second sponsors; (e) attributing a priority to the content of the first sponsor based upon a determination that a yield associated with the first sponsor is greater than a yield associated with the second sponsor; and (f) transmitting the first and second items of the first sponsor to the first and second types of mobile communication facilities respectively. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320271 | SYSTEM FOR TARGETING ADVERTISING CONTENT TO A PLURALITY OF MOBILE COMMUNICATION FACILITIES - A system for targeting advertising content includes the steps of: (a) receiving respective requests for advertising content corresponding to a plurality of mobile communication facilities operated by a group of users, wherein the plurality includes first and second types of mobile communication facilities with different rendering capabilities; (b) receiving a datum corresponding to the group; (c) selecting from a first and second sponsor respective content based on a relevancy to the datum, wherein each content includes a first and second item requiring respective rendering capabilities; (d) receiving bids from the first and second sponsors; (e) attributing a priority to the content of the first sponsor based upon a determination that a yield associated with the first sponsor is greater than a yield associated with the second sponsor; and (f) transmitting the first and second items of the first sponsor to the first and second types of mobile communication facilities respectively. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320272 | System and Method for Advertisement of Brand Specific Content on a Media Player Graphical User Interface - A system and method for customizing a media player graphical user interface integrated to a website for advertising one or more brand-specific content along with the streaming digital media content provided by the website. The system and method includes dynamically incorporating brand specific content into the media player graphic user interface. The appearance of the media player changing according to the predefined advertiser's preference. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320273 | SERVING CONTENT BASED ON CONVERSATIONS - Keywords may be extracted from conversations, such as Instant Messaging (IM) conversations, and content may be served based on the extracted keywords. In one example, an analysis component runs on a machine alongside a conversation application, such as an IM client. The analysis component compares words in the conversation with a dictionary of keywords. When keywords are detected, the keywords are sent to a server. Analysis components also run on other machines that participate in the conversation and, likewise, send keywords to the server. The server selects ads based on the detected keywords, and provides the ads to the machines that the participants are using to participate in the conversation, so that the ads can be displayed to the participants. The ads may be synchronized, so that all of the participants see the same ad impressions (or similar or related ad impressions). | 2011-12-29 |
20110320274 | METHOD FOR DISPLAY OFFLINE, TARGETED, INDIVIDUALLY SCHEDULED ADVERTISEMENTS IN ANY DESKTOP DISPLAY - The present invention relates to a method for displaying viewer targeted, offline advertisements in any desktop/display via a software installed in a user computer, displaying the said advertisements in a collapsible, movable, dynamic sized window(s) named active ad window on the said user's desktop, without interfering in any functionality of the other software or tampering and corrupting the actual core data which is in use by the user and without accessing any data of the users PC in anyway since it is a totally independent and isolated software and without the user's PC being connected to interne all the times. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320275 | ADVERTISING PROXIMITY ROUTE SELECTION - A request for route information to a destination is received by a route processing module. Available routes to the destination are determined in response to receiving the request. It is determined, for at least one available route to the destination, whether the available route provides proximity to at least one targeted advertisement. At least one available route to the destination is provided upon determining that the available route provides the proximity to the targeted advertisement. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320276 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ONLINE MEDIA RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON USAGE ANALYSIS - An online recommendation system, method and computer program product for recommending on-line item(s) including a recommended a usage for the on-line item(s). The recommendation method includes capturing, for one or more users at a respective client device, usage characteristics of each users' navigation to and use of one or more items, from among a plurality of items of an item set, on-line, via a respective user interface; obtaining corresponding profile information for each respective user, the profile information including user attributes; storing the usage characteristics and corresponding profile information of each of one or more users; and, for a current user navigating online to the set of items: deriving an item usage recommendation for the current online user based on items of the item set navigated to and used by other online users having similar profiles; and, recommending for the current user, via that current user's user interface, an on-line item and its suggested usage from among the set of items. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320277 | Network-Based Information and Advertising System - A network-connected server has software executing from a machine-readable medium for providing functionality, a web page with links to one or more further pages providing information or services related to a first enterprise hosting the server, an interface for communicating with a computerized appliance accessing the web page with a web browser; and functionality in the software for adding to the browser display at the computerized appliance an interactive interface not provided on the web page, the interactive interface providing one or more links to specific information or services. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320278 | GLASSES-FREE 3D ADVERTISING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A glasses-free 3D advertising system and method wherein a number of wireless electronic digital 3D/2D video advertising players | 2011-12-29 |
20110320279 | SYSTEM FOR TARGETING ADVERTISING CONTENT TO A PLURALITY OF MOBILE COMMUNICATION FACILITIES - A system for targeting advertising content includes the steps of: (a) receiving respective requests for advertising content corresponding to a plurality of mobile communication facilities operated by a group of users, wherein the plurality includes first and second types of mobile communication facilities with different rendering capabilities; (b) receiving a datum corresponding to the group; (c) selecting from a first and second sponsor respective content based on a relevancy to the datum, wherein each content includes a first and second item requiring respective rendering capabilities; (d) receiving bids from the first and second sponsors; (e) attributing a priority to the content of the first sponsor based upon a determination that a yield associated with the first sponsor is greater than a yield associated with the second sponsor; and (f) transmitting the first and second items of the first sponsor to the first and second types of mobile communication facilities respectively. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320280 | SYSTEM FOR TARGETING ADVERTISING CONTENT TO A PLURALITY OF MOBILE COMMUNICATION FACILITIES - A system for targeting advertising content includes the steps of: (a) receiving respective requests for advertising content corresponding to a plurality of mobile communication facilities operated by a group of users, wherein the plurality includes first and second types of mobile communication facilities with different rendering capabilities; (b) receiving a datum corresponding to the group; (c) selecting from a first and second sponsor respective content based on a relevancy to the datum, wherein each content includes a first and second item requiring respective rendering capabilities; (d) receiving bids from the first and second sponsors; (e) attributing a priority to the content of the first sponsor based upon a determination that a yield associated with the first sponsor is greater than a yield associated with the second sponsor; and (f) transmitting the first and second items of the first sponsor to the first and second types of mobile communication facilities respectively. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320281 | SYSTEM FOR TARGETING ADVERTISING CONTENT TO A PLURALITY OF MOBILE COMMUNICATION FACILITIES - A system for targeting advertising content includes the steps of: (a) receiving respective requests for advertising content corresponding to a plurality of mobile communication facilities operated by a group of users, wherein the plurality includes first and second types of mobile communication facilities with different rendering capabilities; (b) receiving a datum corresponding to the group; (c) selecting from a first and second sponsor respective content based on a relevancy to the datum, wherein each content includes a first and second item requiring respective rendering capabilities; (d) receiving bids from the first and second sponsors; (e) attributing a priority to the content of the first sponsor based upon a determination that a yield associated with the first sponsor is greater than a yield associated with the second sponsor; and (f) transmitting the first and second items of the first sponsor to the first and second types of mobile communication facilities respectively. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320282 | SYSTEM FOR TARGETING ADVERTISING CONTENT TO A PLURALITY OF MOBILE COMMUNICATION FACILITIES - A system for targeting advertising content includes the steps of: (a) receiving respective requests for advertising content corresponding to a plurality of mobile communication facilities operated by a group of users, wherein the plurality includes first and second types of mobile communication facilities with different rendering capabilities; (b) receiving a datum corresponding to the group; (c) selecting from a first and second sponsor respective content based on a relevancy to the datum, wherein each content includes a first and second item requiring respective rendering capabilities; (d) receiving bids from the first and second sponsors; (e) attributing a priority to the content of the first sponsor based upon a determination that a yield associated with the first sponsor is greater than a yield associated with the second sponsor; and (f) transmitting the first and second items of the first sponsor to the first and second types of mobile communication facilities respectively. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320283 | Methods, Systems, and Products for Monitoring Service Usage - Usage information is received that describes usage of communication services by a communications device. The usage information is compared to monitoring criteria. When the monitoring criteria is satisfied, an electronic notification message is sent to the communications device. The electronic notification message when a communications service is initiated and before an additional charge for the communications service is incurred. | 2011-12-29 |
20110320284 | Market for Social Promotion of Digital Goods - A social network marketplace may monitor communications between an advertiser and a consumer by generating signatures for communications and tracking those signatures through social network communications until a sale may be consummated. The marketplace may monitor the transactions to determine a user's influence on other users. A user's influence may also be determined or supplemented by monitoring formal or informal social interactions performed on a computer when those communications are able to be monitored. The influence information may be used to select outbound advertisements to those users who may benefit from an advertisement, as well as to filter inbound advertisements to suit a user or a user's situation. | 2011-12-29 |