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20080220855 | System and method for permutation betting - An improved system and method is provided for permutation betting. To do so, a permutation betting engine may be provided for providing services to support betting on an outcome resulting in an ordinal ranking of objects. Orders specifying a property of an ordering of one or more positions of an object in an ordinal ranking of objects may be received. The quantities for orders to accept may be determined, a response may be sent to traders indicating the quantities of orders for payment, and the amount owed for accepted orders may be collected. Winning accepted orders may be identified and payout may be made for winning accepted orders. Advantageously, the present invention may provide a framework for efficiently optimizing an auctioneer's objective using linear programming for a prediction market where the outcomes of interested events are ordered statistics. | 09-11-2008 |
20090024510 | System and method of making markets for a finite subset of orders placed across continuous and countably infinite outcome spaces - An improved system and method is provided for making markets for a finite subset of orders across continuous and countably infinite outcome spaces. To do so, a prediction market engine may be provided to support prediction markets by aggregating information about orders specifying a continuous subspace of a continuous outcome space and orders specifying a subset of a countably infinite set of outcomes. The pricing and/or quantities for orders received may be determined, a response may be sent to traders indicating the pricing or quantities of orders for payment, and the amount owed for accepted orders may be collected. Winning accepted orders may be identified and payout may be made for winning accepted orders. Advantageously, the present invention may support aggregation of more information from market participants in a prediction market to forecast the likelihood of the occurrence of a certain event. | 01-22-2009 |
20090164275 | REVENUE-SHARING TO INCENTIVIZE USERS TO REVEAL ONLINE PURCHASING INTERESTS - The various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods to incentivize online users to reveal their online purchasing interests so that advertisements matches their online purchasing interests can be displayed to the users. When users follow the displayed advertisements that match their online purchasing interests to make purchases, users are rewarded by sharing a portion of the advertising (or advertisement) revenue that are related to their online purchases and are collected by the web site(s) that displays the advertisements. The payout for the advertisements by the advertisers to the web site(s) is based on click-per-action (CPA) model, which generally pays more substantially per purchase action. Therefore, the users, who share a portion of the advertisement revenue directly related to their online purchases, can receive more substantial rewards. The reward is mainly monetary (or financial gain) and can come in various forms, such as discount, or credit. | 06-25-2009 |
20090254475 | PREDICTION MARKET MAKING METHOD AND APPARATUS - Generally, a method and apparatus for making a prediction-based market including unconventional prediction options to market participants includes determining a prediction framework that includes a plurality of conditional scenarios. The method and apparatus includes calculating realization odds for each of the conditional scenarios using an approximation calculation technique and via an interface, receiving a plurality of predictions associated with selected conditional scenarios, each prediction having an associated value and building the prediction-based market using the predictor. The method and apparatus further includes updating realization odds for each of the conditional scenarios in the prediction framework using the approximation calculation technique and settling the predictions based at least on the updated realization odds. | 10-08-2009 |
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20090222919 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTENT CATEGORIZATION - The invention discloses a method and system for content categorization, which aims at reducing the processing burthen of the content categorization as well as the network transmission traffic. The method comprises: transmitting, by a content categorization requester, a content digest of a content to be categorized to a content categorization provider; and performing, by the content categorization provider, content categorization according to the content digest. The device for requesting content categorization comprises: a digest operation determination component, adapted to determine whether it is necessary to obtain a content digest of a content to be categorized; a digest obtaining component, adapted to obtain the content digest of the content to be categorized when the digest operation determination component determines it necessary to obtain the content digest of the content to be categorized; and a first transmit component, adapted to transmit the content digest obtained by the digest obtaining component. | 09-03-2009 |
20100274834 | Method and system for content categorization - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for content categorization, where the method comprises transmitting, by a content categorization request entity, a categorization ability negotiation request to a content categorization providing entity to request the categorization ability of the content categorization providing entity; receiving the categorization capability of the content categorization providing entity returned by the content categorization providing entity. Furthermore, embodiments of the present invention disclose a system for content categorization, content categorization request entity and content categorization providing entity. Categorization ability negotiation or subscription helps to learn the content categorization ability so that the content categorization request entity or content categorization providing entity may mutually and accurately acquire content categorization capability information without delay. | 10-28-2010 |
20100318517 | Method, system and device for associating content with a category - A method for associating content with a category is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: receiving a request for associating content with a category, where the request carries a content reference; obtaining a category according to the content reference, and associating the content reference with the category. A system and device for associating content with a category are also disclosed by the embodiments of the invention. With the embodiments of the invention, the association request function provides a content reference in an association creating request; the association management function obtains a category according to the content reference, and associates the content reference with the category. In this way, it is possible to associate the content with the category based on only the content information when there is a lack of a category. Therefore, the existing association information may be fully utilized to optimize association relationship and save data flow. | 12-16-2010 |
20110029537 | METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR CATEGORIZING CONTENT - A method, device, and system for categorizing content are provided. The method for categorizing content includes the following steps. A content categorization request is received, in which the content categorization request carries a first content reference and a second content reference. The content is categorized according to the first content reference and/or the second content reference. A method for categorizing content is further provided, which includes the following steps. Content categorization method information is sent to a content categorization requester. A content categorization request determined by the content categorization requester according to the content categorization method information is received. The content to be categorized is categorized according to the content categorization request. A device and system for categorizing content are further provided. A content category can be obtained with multiple content references, and a content categorization requester can fully know categorizing ability of the content categorization provider, thereby determining the content categorization request. | 02-03-2011 |
20120036177 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTENT CATEGORIZATION - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for content categorization, where the method comprises transmitting, by a content categorization request entity, a categorization ability negotiation request to a content categorization providing entity to request the categorization ability of the content categorization providing entity; receiving the categorization capability of the content categorization providing entity returned by the content categorization providing entity. Furthermore, embodiments of the present invention disclose a system for content categorization, content categorization request entity and content categorization providing entity. Categorization ability negotiation or subscription helps to learn the content categorization ability so that the content categorization request entity or content categorization providing entity may mutually and accurately acquire content categorization capability information without delay. | 02-09-2012 |
20130031102 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTENT CATEGORIZATION - The invention discloses a method and system for content categorization, which aims at reducing the processing burthen of the content categorization as well as the network transmission traffic. The method comprises: transmitting, by a content categorization requester, a content digest of a content to be categorized to a content categorization provider; and performing, by the content categorization provider, content categorization according to the content digest. The device for requesting content categorization comprises: a digest operation determination component, adapted to determine whether it is necessary to obtain a content digest of a content to be categorized; a digest obtaining component, adapted to obtain the content digest of the content to be categorized when the digest operation determination component determines it necessary to obtain the content digest of the content to be categorized; and a first transmit component, adapted to transmit the content digest obtained by the digest obtaining component. | 01-31-2013 |
20140164421 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTENT CATEGORIZATION - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for content categorization, where the method comprises transmitting, by a content categorization request entity, a categorization ability negotiation request to a content categorization providing entity to request the categorization ability of the content categorization providing entity; receiving the categorization capability of the content categorization providing entity returned by the content categorization providing entity. Furthermore, embodiments of the present invention disclose a system for content categorization, content categorization request entity and content categorization providing entity. Categorization ability negotiation or subscription helps to learn the content categorization ability so that the content categorization request entity or content categorization providing entity may mutually and accurately acquire content categorization capability information without delay. | 06-12-2014 |