Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080281756 | TRUSTED THIRD PARTY CLEARING HOUSE FOR LEAD TRACKING - A method for tracking sales leads, including a lead clearing house logging receipt in a log of one or more encrypted leads received from a participant of the lead clearing house, the one or more leads including personal lead information having been encrypted with a one-way hash algorithm; comparing the received one or more encrypted leads with stored encrypted leads to find any matches; updating the log related to the one or more encrypted leads with unencrypted log information associated with the matching one or more encrypted leads; and communicating a status to the participant based on the log relating to the one or more leads. | 11-13-2008 |
20090018770 | MOBILE NOTIFICATION SYSTEM - A method for providing information to a traveler during a vehicle trip is provided, which comprises the following: monitoring a current location of a vehicle and at least one aspect of the vehicle trip other than the current location of the vehicle; and providing information to the traveler in response to as least one status change with respect to the at least one aspect of the vehicle trip based on the current location of the vehicle. | 01-15-2009 |
20090024621 | METHOD TO SET UP ONLINE BOOK COLLECTIONS AND FACILITATE SOCIAL INTERACTIONS ON BOOKS - A computer-implemented method for recommending books is provided, which comprises the following: receiving data representing at least one image of a collection of books; automatically determining at least one piece of standard information about the collection of books by processing the image data; and recommending at least one book that is not included in the collection of books to a person associated with the collection of books based on the collection of books. | 01-22-2009 |
20090106081 | INTERNET ADVERTISING USING PRODUCT CONVERSION DATA - Methods and apparatus for determining the effectiveness of web pages are described. For each of a plurality of conversion points corresponding to a particular product or service, a plurality of paths leading to the conversion point are determined. Each of the plurality of paths leading to the conversion point includes a plurality of web pages connected by links. Each web page is characterized with respect to each of selected ones of the plurality of conversion points which may be reached from the web page via at least one of the paths. Characterizing each web page and/or its content includes determining a measure of effectiveness which represents a likelihood that viewing of the web page will lead to one or more of the selected conversion points. | 04-23-2009 |
20090171748 | USING PRODUCT AND SOCIAL NETWORK DATA TO IMPROVE ONLINE ADVERTISING - Methods and apparatus for improving word-of-mouth online advertising are provided. Construct a social network including multiple users based on the users' social network data and optionally further based on the users' demographical and/or other personal information. Categorize the users in the social network with respect to a type of product in terms of their propensity to adopt the type of product and to influence others in the social network in adopting the type of product. Determine appropriate content object(s) for each category of users, and send the content object(s) to each category of users via different channels at the appropriate time during the product's lifecycle. | 07-02-2009 |
20130226811 | TRUSTED THIRD PARTY CLEARING HOUSE FOR LEAD TRACKING - A method and system for tracking sales leads includes receiving, with a processor of a lead clearing house server and over a network, messages that include personal lead information encrypted with a one-way hash algorithm, each message comprising at least one encrypted lead. The processor may store the received encrypted leads in memory of the server in relation to a log containing activity history with relation to respective encrypted leads. The processor may compare the encrypted personal lead information of the stored encrypted leads with personal lead information of received encrypted leads. The processor may update the log of respective encrypted leads responsive to identifying a match between personal lead information of a received and a stored encrypted lead. The processor may communicate, over the network to a participant that sent the matching encrypted lead, a status based on the updated log related to the matching encrypted lead. | 08-29-2013 |
20140206397 | MOBILE NOTIFICATION SYSTEM - A method for providing information to a traveler during a vehicle trip is provided, which comprises the following: monitoring a current location of a vehicle and at least one aspect of the vehicle trip other than the current location of the vehicle; and providing information to the traveler in response to as least one status change with respect to the at least one aspect of the vehicle trip based on the current location of the vehicle. | 07-24-2014 |
20150237161 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO PROVIDE PRE-POPULATED PERSONAL PROFILE ON A SOCIAL NETWORK - Methods, systems, and media are directed to the creation of a user-controlled, pre-populated personal information profile to be used in conjunction with social networks. The creation of the personal profile information includes electronically transmitting first instructions requesting entry of unique personal identification information of the potential new user, determining the validity of the received unique personal identifier information, and electronically transmitting second instructions requesting entry of profile information of the new user. Furthermore, processing the received profile information to generate a pre-populated personal profile of the new user, electronically transmitting the pre-populated personal profile in a form that is viewable and revisable to facilitate changes thereof, completing the registration process and establishing the newly-registered user personal information profile in the social network site. | 08-20-2015 |