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20110060621 | VALUE DRIVEN INTEGRATED BUILD-TO-BUY DECISION ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND METHOD - A value-driven build-to-buy decision analysis system and method is provided that addresses and integrates the system analysis for multiple parts of the build-to-buy business cycle. The system and method of the present invention includes a demand component and a supply component. The demand component includes decision analysis components for one or more demand oriented activities in the. build-to-buy cycle, such as selling and buying activities. The supply component includes decision analysis components for one or more supply oriented activities in the build-to-buy cycle, such as product creation, product packaging and product pricing activities. Each decision analysis component utilizes values-based object-oriented analytical models. | 03-10-2011 |
20110082718 | Analyzing Patterns within Transaction Data - A transaction data analyzer associated with a financial entity discovers patterns and/or sequences in consumer transaction data. The analyzer may provide businesses with feedback on spatiotemporal patterns in consumer spending habits. In certain embodiments, the transaction analyzer discovers the frequency of a sequence of purchases made at a first merchant immediately followed by purchases made at a second merchant. In another embodiment, the transaction analyzer discovers trends in consumer purchases made during the weekday versus those that are made during the weekend. The results of the analysis may be used in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, risk mitigation, merchant/consumer prospecting, and targeted promotions. | 04-07-2011 |
20110082719 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING AGGREGATED TRACKING METRICS FOR USER ACTIVITIES - In various exemplary embodiments, a system and method to provide tracking of user interactions and activities with subscribed-to media content is provided. Tracking data which reflects both online and offline activities with media content is accessed. The tracking data is processed to determine a plurality of tracking media associated with the media content. The plurality of tracking metrics is aggregated to generate an aggregated tracking metric. The aggregated tracking metric may comprise two or more of an audience metric, a frequency metric, and an engagement metric. | 04-07-2011 |
20110087518 | Method for quantifying the relative value of movies prior to spending substantial amounts of money on full production thereof - This invention relates to methods for quantifying the relative value of a movie concept, script, treatment or other representation of a movie prior to spending substantial amounts of money on fully producing it. The decisions to make major investments in large budget movies and smaller investments in mid sized budget movies, and even to make what might be considered comparatively minor investments, such as by indie filmmakers—although not necessarily minor investments to the indie filmmakers—in what are small budget movies, are greatly enhanced by a method that allows for some quantitative feedback on the potential for success of a movie before the bulk of the investment in its full production is made. The present invention provides such methods, and does so through the use of “investment trailers,” or “ITs”, a movie trailer that is different from ones used to promote a movie after it has been produced. The purpose of ITs is to create a vehicle, at a very low price, that can be placed on the internet for viewing. By monitoring various market metrics, such as the numbers of views for each IT, and collecting data on the market performance of those movies that are ultimately produced and distributed, one can create a basis for comparison with future movies to allow for data-supported predictions about the potential for success of a given movie, and do so very fast, very inexpensively and reasonably accurately. | 04-14-2011 |
20110087519 | Systems and Methods for Panel Enhancement with Transaction Data - In one aspect, a computing apparatus is configured to generate audience measurement data regarding presentation of information to a plurality of customers via one or more media channels, identify the plurality of customers to a transaction handler to request information, receive the information generated based on transaction data related to a plurality of transactions processed at the transaction handler, and generate a report based on the audience measurement data and the information generated based on the transaction data. The one or more media channels may include an online media channel, a mobile communication channel, or an offline media channel, such as television broadcast, radio broadcast, newspaper, magazine, direct mail, billboard, etc. | 04-14-2011 |
20110087520 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIA FOR VALUING AN EXISTING OR PROSPECTIVE CUSTOMER BASED ON NORMALIZED AND WEIGHTED MEASURES OR ATTRIBUTES - Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for valuing an existing or prospective customer based on normalized and weighted measures or attributes are disclosed. A method in accordance with an embodiment of the presently disclosed subject matter includes determining a plurality of valuation characteristics. The method can also include assigning different weights to the valuation characteristics. Further, the method can include normalizing magnitudes of the valuation characteristics for a plurality of customers. The method can also include applying the weights to the normalized magnitudes of each customer, and summing the results of applying the weights to provide a valuation sum for each customer. | 04-14-2011 |
20110099044 | Methods and Apparatus for Promotional Display of Images of Products Presented for Entry Into Purchase Transactions - Systems and techniques for managing promotional displays, including images of products being presented for entry into transactions. As each product is presented, an analysis is performed of promotional information relating to the product to determine the eligibility of the product for promotional display and to determine parameters governing such a promotional display. Promotional displays of one or more products are presented based on the results of the analysis. | 04-28-2011 |
20110106580 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXAMPLE BASED TARGETED MARKETING - Embodiments of the invention provide retailers with the ability to employ concept-based marketing using only a few representative examples. Embodiments of the invention take seed examples, utilize the seed examples to provide an expanded list (that can be edited as desired) representative of the concept, and map the expanded list to a final set of customers to be included in a targeted marketing operation. | 05-05-2011 |
20110106581 | METHOD FOR VISUALIZING CUSTOMER INSIGHTS - A method for visualizing customer insights, comprising the steps of: receiving information data including at least one of transaction, product, shop and customer-related information data; generating a predefined analysis report by associating respective information included in the received information data with each other; parameterizing the generated analysis report with at least one user defined parameter; and outputting the parameterized predefined analysis report. | 05-05-2011 |
20110106582 | CONTACT EXPECTANCY AND NORMALIZATION - Contact expectancy and normalization is described. A product can be normalized based on product complexity. The normalized product can be compared to a database of products having a similar product complexity to determine contact expectancy for the product. When a quantity of contacts is received, the quantity of contacts can be weighed based on the normalization of the product. The weighed quantity can then be compared to other weighed quantities of other products to facilitate an understanding of whether a product has an issue and/or achievement and to facilitate the allocation of quality control resources within an organization. | 05-05-2011 |
20110106583 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INDEXING TRAVEL ACCOMMODATIONS IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - A method for evaluating travel accommodations is provided that includes identifying a plurality of hotel properties and assigning a hotel marketability index score to one or more of the properties such that one or more of the properties may be ranked. The hotel marketability index score may be based on a selected one or more characteristics associated with one or more of the hotel properties, the characteristics including rate competitiveness, hotel availability, hotel location within a cluster location, and hotel quality within the cluster location. | 05-05-2011 |
20110112888 | Marketing and advertising systems - A method includes submitting marketing media to a media submission system, adapting the submitted media to a specification, and generating marketing output based on the submitted media and the specification. Another method includes operating an online marketing resource system, and facilitating collaboration of different types of users of the marketing resource system. An additional method includes procuring marketing media through a media submission system, and consigning the marketing media through peer-to-peer interaction on the system. A further method includes deploying marketing media through an online marketing resource system, collecting and storing empirical marketing data that relates to specific media content deployed through the system, and correlating the specific media content to target demographics. Another method includes operating an online marketing media creation system, and creating the marketing media through a combination of rules-based input sources. | 05-12-2011 |
20110119108 | Method and System for Modeling Behavior of a Visitor to An E-Commerce Location - A method for modeling the behavior of a visitor to an e-commerce location includes the steps of automatically obtaining one or more visitor characteristic values, and automatically developing a model of the visitor's behavior according to a nonlinear state estimation technique (NSET). The method also includes then automatically estimating a set of visitor behavior characteristic values with said model that model said visitor's behavior. | 05-19-2011 |
20110125549 | LONG-TERM MOVING AVERAGE WEEKLY FORECAST TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES - A method of determining a long-term forecast for a particular week can include identifying a week type of the particular week, identifying a number of prior weeks having the same week type as that of the particular week, retrieving driver data for each of the prior weeks, and averaging the retrieved driver data. | 05-26-2011 |
20110125550 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING CUSTOMER VALUE AND POTENTIAL FROM SOCIAL MEDIA AND OTHER PUBLIC DATA SOURCES - A system can determine the value of a customer that uses social media. An enterprise can provide an identity of a customer, identities of customers, or a profile of one or more customers. The enterprise can also provide one or more criteria in which to base the customer value calculation. The criteria can include the number of friends for a social media site, the number posts the user creates, the number of responses to the user's postings, the tenor of the user's postings, etc. Resources of information, including historic and current activity on social media sites, public resources, and other sources, are examined to provide a score for each criteria. A customer value score may then be generated from the criteria scores. The value score may then be used to modify the interactions of a contact center with the customer. | 05-26-2011 |
20110131077 | Context-Aware Recommendation Module Using Multiple Models - A hybrid recommendation module leverages multiple sources of information to generate robust and personalized recommendations. The recommendation module provides an initial set of items by considering context information. The context information pertains to at least one environmental factor that has a bearing on the relevancy of recommended items (such as location, time, etc.). The recommendation module then produces a ranked set of items, selected from among the initial set of items, based on a user's past preference, using two or more recommendation models. The recommendation module can be applied in various environments, such as an environment which accommodates the use of mobile devices. The recommendation module can also be applied to various types of recommended items, such as establishment (e.g., store) items, product items, coupon items, etc. As to the last-mentioned type of items, the recommendation module can recommend coupon items using at least two modes of operation. | 06-02-2011 |
20110137706 | FRAMEWORK AND SYSTEM FOR PROCUREMENT, IDENTIFICATION AND ANALYSIS OF POTENTIAL BUYERS OF REAL ESTATE - A method, computer program product and system are disclosed for procuring, identifying, collecting, analyzing and tracking potential buyers and investors of real property using an electronic network like the Internet. A central managing authority uses uniquely configured data processing devices and signage bearing QR Codes to induce potential buyers of real estate to electronically contact the central managing authority in manner which allows the central managing authority to track when, how and where the potential customers where induced to make contact. The disclosed method and system uniquely assist the central managing authority in the solicitation of the newly acquired sales leads to save expending inefficient amounts of time and money inherent in realizing traditional methods. Signage is printed bearing and RFID tag or two- or three-dimensional bar codes, such as a QR Code, and positioned in accordance with a predetermined criteria. Certain embodiments of the present invention include substitute means of identifying, soliciting, tracking, and analyzing potential buyers of real estate and other commercial offerings. | 06-09-2011 |
20110137707 | Customer experience improvement system and method - A customer experience improvement system and method for the hospitality industry is disclosed. Embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method for entering customer experience issues into a computer system that maintains records in a database. The user is guided to enter information that allows for collaboration, and identification of a root cause. Solutions for the customer experience issues can then be developed. Report tools provide an overview of various types of issues. | 06-09-2011 |
20110153384 | Visual comps builder - A user enters search criteria for comparable transactions into a computer system and the computer system generates a scatter plot of deals meeting the search criteria from a transaction database. A computer cache, data tray, or “shopping cart” can be used to save relevant deals which then can be automatically incorporated into an electronically generated comps report. | 06-23-2011 |
20110161134 | Expansion of Market Coverage - Methods and systems for funding an expansion of market coverage. One or more sales territories are initially identified for coverage, a pre-defined ranking is assigned to each of the sales territories, a capital contribution level is established for receiving a corresponding pre-determined capital contribution, wherein the capital contribution level is directly related to the sales territory ranking, and directing the capital contribution toward financing one or more sales representatives placed in each of the sales territories. | 06-30-2011 |
20110161135 | METHOD AND SYSTEMS FOR COLLATERAL PROCESSING - Methods and systems for processing collaterals are described. A method may include receiving qualifying criteria from a client. The qualifying criteria may define assignments of one or more collaterals. An assignment tool may be generated based on the qualifying criteria. The assignment tool may include a number of stored attributes and one or more interaction attribute to be determined based on a customer interaction. The assignment tool may be used to assign a collateral to a customer. Additional methods and systems are disclosed. | 06-30-2011 |
20110161136 | CUSTOMER MAPPING USING MOBILE DEVICE WITH AN ACCELEROMETER - Methods, devices, and systems are presented for detecting where shoppers in a store stop, turn, and look from accelerometers in their own smart phones or other mobile devices. These movement events can be correlated with merchandise on their receipts as well as the movement events and merchandise on the receipts of other users so that a map of the store's wares can be generated. The map can be used to inform manufacturers where their merchandise is stocked in the store or to advertise to shoppers as they browse the store. | 06-30-2011 |
20110166909 | Systems, methods and computer program products for implementing processes relating to retail sales - The present invention provides a system that facilitates the selection of purchasable items for use in an environs defined by the customer. In one aspect, the system includes a processing element capable of proposing a plurality of purchasable items to the customer for selection by the customer. The processing element also is capable of receiving data representing the environs and data representing at least one purchasable item selected by the customer. The processing element is further capable of generating and displaying a three-dimensional graphical representation of the environs and each purchasable item or items selected by the customer so that the customer can visualize the items in the environs. | 07-07-2011 |
20110166910 | POST-MIX BEVERAGE SYSTEM - A beverage dispensing system comprises a container, an attachment mechanism, and a cartridge. The container may hold a mixing solution or liquid, such as water, to be mixed with the contents of the cartridge. The attachment mechanism is generally located within the container. The cartridge generally engages with the attachment mechanism to open the cartridge to be dispensed into the container, thereby combining the contents of the cartridge with the liquid within the container to create a drinkable beverage. The cartridge may include a unique identifier to track a set of beverage characteristics associated with the contents of the cartridge and the beverage. The container may capture the unique identifier of the cartridge associated with the set of beverage characteristics and transfer the set of beverage characteristics over a wireless network to a computing device or network. | 07-07-2011 |
20110178838 | UNAFFILIATED WEB DOMAIN HOSTING SERVICE SURVIVAL ANALYSIS - Using data extracted by an OSS module from a service platform that enables hosting of a plurality of unaffiliated web domains to populate a client survival data model. | 07-21-2011 |
20110178839 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING A CONSUMER PRODUCT BASED ON WEB-SEARCHABLE CRITERIA - A method is provided for generating a value of a product by aggregating product information collected from a plurality of sources in a networked computer system. The method determines appropriate indicators for the product, and collects information associated with the located products from one or more of the sources. The method further selects a set of data from the parsed information and curve-fits the set of data based on the predetermined parameters to generate the value of the product. | 07-21-2011 |
20110178840 | UNAFFILIATED WEB DOMAIN HOSTING SERVICE CLIENT FINANCIAL IMPACT ANALYSIS - Based on usage patterns of clients who have purchased web domain offerings, using statistical analysis to determine factors that cause clients not to produce favorable financial results. | 07-21-2011 |
20110196714 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OVERRIDING APPARENT GEO-POD ATTRIBUTES - A system and method manage the exchange of information, especially geo-location information, between a customer and an enterprise. A customer can include any person that may enter into a relationship with the enterprise. An enterprise can be any business or organization that may provide goods, services, or be involved in a relationship with a person. The customer and enterprise are involved in a transaction. Thus, the relationship with the person and the enterprise may be temporal in that it will only last for a period of time or only be involved in certain periods of time or may be temporary. The customer is able to provide customer settings. Further, during the transaction, one or more transaction settings may be established by the enterprise and the customer. As such, when the exchange of information occurs, an enterprise server or other system may be able to limit the types of information provided per the customer settings and the transaction settings. | 08-11-2011 |
20110196715 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FINANCIAL ANALYSIS AND BRAND INDEX IN BRAND VALUATION - A brand name is used to generate a domain name portfolio comprising at least one brand domain name comprising the brand name and a top-level domain name, and at least one qualified brand domain name comprising the brand name, at least one qualifying term, and a top level domain name. Network traffic is tracked for each of the domain names in the domain name portfolio over an analysis period. A role of brand index is determined, wherein the role of brand index is determined using the ratio of network traffic for the brand domain name to a total of the network traffic for all domain names in the domain name portfolio. Additionally, revenue generated by websites linked to each of the domain names in the domain name portfolio is tracked over the analysis period. Brand earnings are then calculated the revenue generated by websites. | 08-11-2011 |
20110196716 | LEAD QUALIFICATION BASED ON CONTACT RELATIONSHIPS AND CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE - A lead qualification system receives from a potential customer lead information that includes an identification of the potential customer. The lead qualification system then identifies attributes of the potential customer. To qualify a lead, the lead qualification system may generate a lead score based on an experience score and a contact score. To generate the experience score, the lead qualification system may analyze sales history and other information of customers that have attributes similar to the potential customer. To generate the contact score, the lead qualification system may analyze the business relationships between people of the sales organization and the potential customer. The lead qualification system may generate the lead score by combining the contact score and the experience score. | 08-11-2011 |
20110196717 | Sales Performance Management Through Quota Planning - A method of quota planning. In one embodiment, the method includes determining a top-down goal. The top-down goal indicates an expected amount of sales for a sales territory of a sales territory hierarchy. The method also includes generating a bottom-up recommendation for the sales territory and specifying a quota for the sales territory. The bottom-up recommendation is reconciled with the top-down goal, resulting in a quota that indicates an assigned amount of sales for the sales territory. | 08-11-2011 |
20110213637 | REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING TOOL CALLED REQUIREMENT EDITOR - A method for defining requirements for features to be used in an automobile design. The requirements are developed and documented using a template-based method and software tool which helps authors write logically correct requirements. The requirements development method includes scanning a requirement for data variables, and ensuring that such variables are used in a consistent way from one requirement to another. The method also ensures that all resultant requirements will have the same format, which improves readability and proper interpretation by others. The result is that requirements developed using this method and software tool are assured of being clear, concise and accurate. | 09-01-2011 |
20110213638 | CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SERVER, AND CONTENT DISTRIBUTION PROGRAM - A content delivery server includes: a content DB for storing content information containing the content; and a goods sales history DB for storing goods sales history information indicating sales history of the goods. In the case where a content view request specifying the content is received, the content delivery server creates goods related information relating to the goods that appear in the specified content using the goods sales history information; creates a content view screen including the created goods related information and the content specified by the content view request; and transmits the created content view screen to a user terminal that carries out the content view request. | 09-01-2011 |
20110218836 | Seasonality-Based Rules for Data Anomaly Detection - In one embodiment, we describe a method that generates seasonality rules for anomaly detection for a hierarchical/tree based data structure. A new algorithm for processing nodes in hierarchy, as well as business rules for nodes, is described. Variations and examples are given to describe different scopes and embodiments of the invention. Exclusion criteria and children nodes are used as some examples for the implementations, with flow charts to describe the methods of application, as examples. | 09-08-2011 |
20110225020 | METHODOLOGY FOR IMPROVING A MERCHANT ACQUIRING LINE OF BUSINESS - A methodology for a merchant acquirer to leverage its own internal data for analysis purposes whereby it analyzes data associated with its issuing line of business to provide information for use in promoting/retaining business within its acquiring line of business. | 09-15-2011 |
20110225021 | EMOTIONAL MAPPING - Methods and systems are provided for emotional mapping, such as of online users, based at least in part on online activities of users. Techniques are provided in which information including a set of emotional states is generated or obtained, such as a hierarchical network of emotional states representing a spectrum of human emotions. Information regarding user online activities and content choices of a user is obtained. Based at least in part on this information, the user is classified into an emotional state of the set of emotional states, and advertisements or content may be targeted to the user accordingly. | 09-15-2011 |
20110225022 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING PRINT REVENUE BEHAVIOR - Methods and systems for determining print revenue behavior for an account are disclosed. A computing device may determine a print revenue for an account for each of a plurality of time periods. The computing device may select a best fit model from a plurality of models based on the print revenue for the account for the plurality of time periods. The computing device may determine a risk level associated with the account based on a best fit model. The risk level may be based on a difference between the best fit model and the print revenue for the account for each of time period. | 09-15-2011 |
20110231222 | Method and System for Enhanced Transaction Management - An integrated transaction module associated with an entity allows for consolidating and using information related to management of transactions. The integrated transaction system incorporates a transaction viewer for displaying information such as the companies involved in the transaction, level of interest shown by potential clients in hiring the entity to manage the transaction, whether or not the companies involved in the transaction present any conflict-of-interest for the transaction management company, and any attachments that may be relevant to the transaction. In addition, the integrated transaction system incorporates a transaction team conflicts checker to determine whether or not any of the team members involved in the transaction pose a conflict-of-interest and a best client analyzer for determining which of several potential clients offer the most benefits to the transaction management organization. | 09-22-2011 |
20110231223 | Systems and Methods to Enhance Search Data with Transaction Based Data - In one aspect, a system includes a transaction handler to process transactions, a data warehouse to store data recording the transactions, a portal configured to communicate with a search engine and to provide a user interface to receive a request from a merchant, and at least one processor coupled with the data warehouse and the portal. In response to the request received from the merchant via the portal, the at least one processor identifies a set of first statistics based on search activities of the search engine, identifies a set of second statistics based on the transactions relevant to the search activities, and uses the portal to juxtapose the set of first statistics and the set of second statistics. | 09-22-2011 |
20110231224 | Systems and Methods to Perform Checkout Funnel Analyses - In one aspect, a system includes a transaction handler to process transactions, a data warehouse to store data recording the transactions, a portal configured to communicate with an online store, and at least one processor coupled with the data warehouse and the portal. In one example, after users of the online store express interest in items of the online store, a first subset of the items are purchased from the online store. The processor is configured to determine a second subset of the items purchased by the users but not from the online store. Data representing user activities in the online store, and data representing the first subset and the second subset are combined to generate a checkout funnel analysis result. | 09-22-2011 |
20110231225 | Systems and Methods to Identify Customers Based on Spending Patterns - In one aspect, a system includes a transaction handler to process transactions, a data warehouse to store transaction data recording the transactions, a portal configured to receive a request specifying a spending pattern distribution across more than one merchant, and at least one processor coupled with the data warehouse and the portal and configured to determine, based on the transaction data, whether or not transactions of a user satisfy the spending pattern distribution. | 09-22-2011 |
20110238459 | PRODUCT ASSORTMENT PLANNING SYSTEM - The system includes a comparison unit that identifies products in an initial assortment of products, a desired assortment of products and the performance metric for each product. The comparison unit compares the initial assortment of products and the desired assortment of products to determine kept products, added product and deleted products. The system includes an interaction unit simulating the interaction of the kept products, the added products and the deleted products based on the performance metric. The system generates simulation results identifying the interactions between the kept products, the added products and the deleted products. | 09-29-2011 |
20110251870 | POINT-OF-SALE-BASED MARKET TRACKING AND REPORTING - Systems and methods are described for transforming actual aggregated data (e.g., transaction and terminal data) from a large number of POS terminals into market trend reports that include macro-level trend data and analyses. For example, POS datasets are aggregated from POS terminals distributed across many merchant outlet locations, each POS dataset including location data and transaction data for its respective POS terminal. A reporting request is received for a market trend report corresponding to a designated market over a designated timeframe. A market dataset is identified from the portion of the aggregated POS data corresponding to the designated timeframe and market. Unreliable portions of the data may be discarded. Market trend data is then calculated as a function of the reliable portion of the market dataset, and graphical report data is output as a function of the market trend data in response to the reporting request. | 10-13-2011 |
20110251871 | Customer Satisfaction Analytics System using On-Site Service Quality Evaluation - This invention provides a service quality monitoring and improvement system. It is designed so that a number of different organizations or service providers can use the system simultaneously to obtain satisfaction data from customers and highlight areas for improvement. Customer satisfaction data is conducted at the site where the service or product is provided, to improve the response rate and data quality. For each user organization, the apparatus provides focused questions or information to improve service quality that are selected on the basis of feedback from their own customers. By using the system and making improvements in the areas identified, each user organization may improve the quality of the service it provides—leading to a wider customer base and improved profitability. | 10-13-2011 |
20110251872 | Methods For Improving Skin Quality - A skin treatment regimen for delivery of a rinse-off personal skin care composition is provided. The rinse-off personal skin care composition includes varying ratios of a lathering agent to a hydrophobic benefit agent. The rinse-off personal skin care composition can be applied to skin of a user in phases over and/or in a treatment cycle. Each of the phases of the treatment cycle can include a ratio of the varying ratios that can be different such as higher or lower than a ratio of adjacent phase. | 10-13-2011 |
20110251873 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR GENERATING KEYWORD PAIRS FOR SEARCH ADVERTISEMENTS BASED ON ADVERTISEMENT PURCHASE HISTORY - The present disclosure relates to a method, system and computer readable recording medium for generating a keyword pair for search advertisement based on advertisement purchase history. The method includes acquiring a set of search keywords for each of advertisers having purchased or attempted to purchase the search keywords to place search advertisement or to make an attempt to place the search advertisement, selecting at least two search keywords among the set of keywords, generating a keyword pair of the selected search keywords correlated to each other, and storing information regarding the generated keyword pair. It is possible to provide an improved keyword determination model capable of determining correlated search keywords without processing an enormous amount of data such as search keywords of all users or keywords appearing on all of web pages, thereby enabling more efficient data processing. | 10-13-2011 |
20110258016 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING LEAD INTELLIGENCE - Techniques for generating marketing lead intelligence information are described. Some embodiments provide a marketing activity support system (“MASS”) configured to generate lead intelligence by aggregating marketing activity information and customer information. In one embodiment, the MASS transmits a marketing message that references a Web page or other marketing content. Next, the MASS receives tracking information about activities of a customer with respect to the referenced Web page. The MASS then generates lead intelligence information about the customer by aggregating the tracking information, personal information about the customer, and/or information about an associated marketing campaign. The MASS may then present the generated lead intelligence information, such as by displaying details about the customer and their activities with respect to the Web page. | 10-20-2011 |
20110258017 | INTERPRETATION OF A TRENDING TERM TO DEVELOP A MEDIA CONTENT CHANNEL - Methods and systems of interpretation of a trending term to develop a media content channel are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes interpreting a trending term to identify an association parameter when the trending term is received. In addition, the method also includes algorithmically determining a media attribute associated with the trending term using a computer process. The method also includes updating a channel with a related media content comprised of the media attribute. The media attribute may include a metadata, a visual data and/or an audio data. The trending term may be interpreted using an internal capturing and/or an external capturing when the trending term is received. The method may also include displaying the channel to a viewer using a cable transmission, a network, a wireless transmission, and/or a local storage medium. | 10-20-2011 |
20110264484 | ACTIVITY-CENTRIC GRANULAR APPLICATION FUNCTIONALITY - A system that can enable the atomization of application functionality in connection with an activity-centric system is provided. The system can be utilized as a programmatic tool that decomposes an application's constituent functionality into atoms thereafter monitoring and aggregating atoms with respect to a particular activity. In doing so, the functionality of the system can be scaled based upon complexity and needs of the activity. Additionally, the system can be employed to monetize the atoms or activity capabilities based upon respective use. | 10-27-2011 |
20110270648 | System and Method for Performing Conjoint Analysis - In a system and method for conjoint analysis, corresponding utility values are determined for a plurality of individual concept elements and for combinations of multiple concept elements, e.g., pair wise combinations of concept elements. A regression technique, e.g., least squares linear regression, may be used to determine the utility values. | 11-03-2011 |
20110276364 | Method and System for Optimizing Store Space and Item Layout - A method in a computer system for generating an efficient item assortment associated with a plurality of items includes obtaining choice set data specifying a multiplicity of choice sets associated with the plurality of items, where each of the multiplicity of choice sets includes several of the plurality of items, at least some of which are mutually substitutable, obtaining item interaction data descriptive of substitutions between pairs of items in each of the multiplicity of choice sets, obtaining a set of benefit metrics associated with the plurality of items, obtaining a constraint parameter associated with the item assortment, and generating an item selection based at least on the item interaction data, the set of benefit metrics, and the constraint parameter, where the item selection identifies at least one of the plurality of items selected for inclusion in the item assortment. | 11-10-2011 |
20110276365 | Computer assisted marketing process - A system for contacting leads and tracking the status of those contacts includes a website containing information of interest to the prospects. Preferably, the list of leads is a narrowly targeted group defined by one or more preselected metrics, and the information is narrowly directed to such targeted group. Each lead is contacted through a secondary channel, such as normal US Mail, and provided an offer and information related to the website. Each lead is provided with targeted sales information and a unique identifier to enable them to log on to the website to retrieve information of interest to them; the act of logging on to the website then qualifies them as prospects. A tracking system recognizes when a prospect logs on to the website and keeps identifiable records of the time and locations each prospect visits or utilizes on the website. Upon receipt of a log on by a new prospect, a designated representative is informed of such contact by email and put in direct touch with the prospect. The salesperson further has a dashboard available for viewing the accumulated logs of the prospect's visits. | 11-10-2011 |
20110276366 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING A MOBILE DEVICE MANUFACTURER PERFORMANCE - The present relates to a method and a system for evaluating a mobile device manufacturer performance. The method and system update a database of subscriber records representative of mobile devices used on a mobile operator network, and extract information from the subscriber records in the database in relation to a selected mobile device manufacturer and a selected time period. The method and system further process said information to calculate a metric representative of a performance of said selected mobile device manufacturer over said selected time period, wherein each subscriber record comprises at least a unique identifier of a subscriber, a mobile device manufacturer identifier, and a timestamp. | 11-10-2011 |
20110276367 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REAL-TIME REPORTING OF ELECTRONIC COMMERCE ACTIVITY - A method and apparatus is disclosed for tracking and reporting electronic commerce activity over a web site that is stored on a first server coupled to a wide area network. The web page is programmed to include data fields reflecting commerce transaction activity and data mining code. The web page is uploaded to a visitor computer responsive to a request over the wide area network from the visitor computer. Commerce information is accepted within the data fields of the web page at the visitor computer to form a completed web page. The data mining code is operated on the visitor computer to obtain technical and commercial data and sent to a second server on the wide area network for logging and analysis. | 11-10-2011 |
20110282711 | System and Method for Syndicated Transactions - A Web server hosted by a first enterprise has a first mechanism receiving a request for information or services to be provided to an end user, and a second mechanism determining whether the request comes directly from the end user, or from a server hosted by a second enterprise. If the request is determined by the second mechanism to come from the server hosted by the second enterprise, any information or service provided to the end user by the first enterprise is identified as coming from the second enterprise. | 11-17-2011 |
20110288906 | ADAPTABLE RETAIL PRICING ENVIRONMENT AND ELECTRONIC EXCHANGE, DELIVERING CUSTOMIZED RETAILER OPPORTUNITY REWARDS AND DISCOUNTS - An individualized discount and reward server includes one or more linked databases to store customer data associated with a loyalty program of a retailer. The server includes a processor to select a retail product purchased at least once by a loyalty customer. The processor determines, from at least a purchase history associated with the loyalty customer, an amount the loyalty customer spends on the selected retail product and an amount each customer from a plurality of customers forming a peer group spends on the selected retail product. Further, the processor compares the amount the loyalty customer spends on the selected retail product to the amount the peer group spends on the selected retail product to form a comparison result and allocate at least one customized offer to the retailer account according to at least the comparison result. | 11-24-2011 |
20110288907 | USING CONSUMER PURCHASE BEHAVIOR FOR TELEVISION TARGETING - In various embodiments, strategies, tools and techniques are provided for using consumer purchaser behavior for targeting delivery of content to consumers through television and other media. An advertising measurement system, which may be accessible through a software-as-a-service model or a client-downloaded computer program, may be used to process and analyze data. The system may be configured to receive and process household media exposure data, product purchase data, advertising data, program data, and demographic data, wherein the data may be obtained from various sources, including from a program delivery source (e.g., a television set-top box) located in a household of a consumer. Data may be collected from a variety of people identification tools for analyzing the identities of one or more people viewing content delivered on a program delivery source. Data may also be collected from various types of metering devices. The data may be matched for calculating return on advertising investment measurements and other metrics. The data may be used to optimize media placement generally or to address advertising content to specific households. Methods for storing and accessing data in the advertising measurement system by distributing the data across multiple shards are also provided. In addition, methods for protecting privacy of communicated data are disclosed. | 11-24-2011 |
20110295648 | Computer and Computer Program for Evaluating the Sales Force Effectiveness of a Selected Business - A computer for evaluating the sales force effectiveness of a selected business includes a processor, a data communication device operatively connected to the processor and computer readable memory operatively connected to the processor and storing a program. The program comprises code adapted to calculate a final score representing the sales force effectiveness of the selected business by calculating the difference between the sales force effectiveness score of the selected business and a sales force effectiveness benchmark score which it also calculates. Also provided are computer executable steps for evaluating the sales force effectiveness of a selected business. Finally provided is a computer program product comprising a computer usable medium having a computer readable program code embodied therein, the computer readable program code adapted to be executed to implement a method for evaluating the sales force effectiveness of a selected business. | 12-01-2011 |
20110295649 | AUTOMATIC CHURN PREDICTION - Churn prediction is performed by monitoring quality of service levels provided to customers. A time in which the customer is due to either churn or renew his agreement with the service provider may be monitored or computed. Machine learning methods may be utilized to determine a probability of churn based on historic data. Based upon the determination an output to retention personnel may be provided and an improved offer may be made to customers that are deemed in risk of churning. | 12-01-2011 |
20110302000 | MACHINE LEARNING FOR OPTIMIZATION AND SERVICES - A valuation optimization method includes generating offeree decision information (buyer decision information, by way of illustrative example) by presenting a sequence of mechanisms to a sequence of offerees wherein the mechanisms comprise menus of transaction offers (sale offer menus, by way of illustrative example). Actual transactions (sale transactions, by way of illustrative example) are conducted responsive to acceptances of transaction offers by buyers. At a selected time in the generating, an offeree valuation distribution belief and the current mechanism are updated optimize an offeree's utility. The offeree's utility comprises an offeree's utility function constrained by a robust learning constraint computed based on a local differential of an earlier offeree's utility function with respect to the earlier offeree's valuation. | 12-08-2011 |
20110307294 | DYNAMIC GENERATION OF PRODUCTS FOR ONLINE RECOMMENDATION - A method, system, and computer program product for dynamic generation of products for online recommendation. The method includes receiving a signal and processing the signal to extract one to many features and locating baseline products and embeddable items relating to the features a baseline product is dynamically matched with one or more embeddable items to generate a combined product and a representation of the combined product is provided as an online recommendation for a product; | 12-15-2011 |
20110307295 | Managing Consistent Interfaces for Campaign and Price Specification Template Business Objects Across Heterogeneous Systems - A business object model, which reflects data that is used during a given business transaction, is utilized to generate interfaces. This business object model facilitates commercial transactions by providing consistent interfaces that are suitable for use across industries, across businesses, and across different departments within a business during a business transaction. In some operations, software creates, updates, or otherwise processes information related to a campaign and/or a price specification template business object. | 12-15-2011 |
20120004947 | INTEGRATED DATA MANAGEMENT FOR NETWORK SERVICE PROVIDERS AND CUSTOMERS - A system receives, from a user device, a request for a joint business and services tracking tool. The system obtains business data associated with the customer and retrieve service management data associated with the customer. The system generates, in response to the request, a user interface, where the user interface includes a time-based graphical representation of the business data, a time-based graphical representation of the service management data, and a linking object to link the business data and the service management data over a particular time period. The system further provides a service management dashboard, associated with the linking object, to present the customer business data and the service management data within the particular time period. | 01-05-2012 |
20120004948 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ANALYZING AND OPTIMIZING DISTRIBUTION OF WORK FROM A PLURALITY OF QUEUES - A method and system for analyzing and optimizing the distribution of work from a plurality of queues includes storing historical data in a database. The historical data may include sets of different types of data items, each of the data items having an associated monetary value. The method further includes assigning a relative score to each of the data items within the sets and calculating a cumulative monetary value for each relative score, the cumulative monetary value being the summation of the monetary values for all items having relative scores up to and including the relative score. The method further includes determining the maximum cumulative monetary value calculated and its corresponding relative score. In one embodiment, the corresponding relative score is then used to determine which items to work in a set of queues that has not yet been worked. | 01-05-2012 |
20120010920 | Method, Apparatus and System for Visualizing User's Web Page Browsing Behavior - A visual technique for tracking user's webpage browsing behavior is provided. In one aspect, a method includes: gathering data related to the user's mouse clicks; determining a respective number of times the user accessed each section of a plurality of sections of a webpage based on the gathered data; matching each section of the webpage with the respective number of times to establish correlations; and displaying the correlations. A visual mechanism and system for monitoring how users browse the webpage are also described. The disclosed technique will help determine the amount of time and attention a user spends on a particular webpage, and how these correspond to the content of the site. As a result, the user's level of attention to the webpage can be clearly displayed. | 01-12-2012 |
20120010921 | VISUALIZATION FOR AGGREGATION OF CHANGE TRACKING INFORMATION - A method within a system wherein a first user of the system provides information on social patterns to a second user includes: receiving a request for social pattern information from the second user, the request comprising a query; assigning authorization level to the second user for restricting the type and amount of data provided to the second user; providing information on social patterns to the second user according to the second user's authorization level; and storing information about the second user to be used in future transactions with the second user, the information including transactional fee data and subscription data for notifying the second user of additional social patterns as they develop. | 01-12-2012 |
20120016715 | OPTIMIZING IT INFRASTRUCTURE CONFIGURATION - A computer implemented method optimizes a configuration of an information technology (IT) infrastructure. A processor establishes a technology rule set, which defines technology weights of an IT infrastructure by mapping capabilities of IT infrastructure components to IT infrastructure attributes needed to execute a specific workload. A candidate IT infrastructure for executing the specific workload is then configured. The processor then receives responses, provided by a customer, to an attribute questionnaire. Each question in the attribute questionnaire is mapped to an IT infrastructure attribute of the candidate IT infrastructure, and the responses define a customer's level of agreement/disagreement with the technology weights. In response to the processor determining that the candidate IT infrastructure fails to meet the customer's expectations, the candidate IT infrastructure is reconfigured until the customer's expectations are met. | 01-19-2012 |
20120016716 | JOINT MULTI-CHANNEL CONFIGURATION OPTIMIZATION FOR RETAIL INDUSTRY - A data integration module is operable to integrate a plurality of data sources, a customer preference module builds a model representing preference to different channels in merchandise category for each customer segment. A customer satisfaction module creates a model representing customer satisfaction metrics. A joint multi-channel optimization module is operable to use an optimization model that utilizes the customer preference model and the customer satisfaction model and maximize retailer's profit and customer satisfaction. | 01-19-2012 |
20120016717 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF ENHANCING LEADS - A client transmits one or more lead records to a lead enhancement module that is configured to enhance the received lead records and return enhanced lead records to the client. The lead enhancement module may return a contactability score for each lead record, indicating a likelihood that the individual identified in the lead may be contacted using the contact information provided in the lead record and/or additional contract information located by the lead enhancement module. The lead enhancement module may also receive additional data items associated with leads from one or more data sources. Additionally, statistical models that may be customized for each client may be applied to information associated with lead records in order to determine one or more propensity scores for each of the lead records, where a propensity score indicates a likelihood that an individual will take a particular action, such as purchasing particular goods or services. | 01-19-2012 |
20120022913 | Planogram Generation for Peg and Shelf Items - In one embodiment of a computer-implemented method, layout data and product data is collected and a planogram development module processes this data to create multiple test planograms for a display space. Multiple potential planograms may be created by placing merchandise in a planogram using one or more optional rules permitting deformation of non-rigid products such as bags of non-fragile items, permitting product impingement into an adjacent shelf or peg space, allowing for hanging products on a pegboard vertically adjacent to a shelf, allowing product placement a set distance from a shelf or pegboard boundary and allowing two adjacent instances of the same product where those instances are in vertical alignment. In this embodiment, an optimized planogram is selected based on the criteria of packing efficiency, sell-through index, the aggregate sell-through index of each item multiplied by the item's profit margin, and/or overall planogram profitability. | 01-26-2012 |
20120022914 | Web based System for collecting, storing, and distributing customer review/comment information, to aid with more informed decisions at the point of sale or service - Disclosed is a web based system for collecting user and merchant information and making that information available to users and merchants at the point of sale or service to aid in product or service selection. In a specific embodiment, a customer, upon being waited on at a restaurant is presented with a handheld computer device which enables the user to login to the backend server and review comments to previous experiences of a menu item to aid in menu selection. These comments may be personal comments or comments made by other users of the same product or service. Upon logging into the system, an email is sent to the user reminding them that they visited the merchant and can provide comments at the user's convenience. The user is also able to use this capability to determine what merchant may have a product of interest based upon predefined preferences. | 01-26-2012 |
20120022915 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COLLECTION AND USE OF WIRELESS APPLICATION ACTIVITY INFORMATION - A method for targeting one or more users. User interaction with a wireless application is monitored. Information based on the user interaction is analyzed. Based on the analysis, one or more customizations of the application are determined in order to target users. The customizations are dynamically applied to the application. | 01-26-2012 |
20120029972 | Method and system for brokering services with time-dependent labor rates - Service Providers (SPs) enter on a Broker Website a profile of their services, workdays, and Daily Labor Rates (DLRs). Users access the Website, and enter services they require, and when. The Website displays the identities, profiles, and DLRs of SPs who can do the required work during the User's time window. SPs set DLRs, directly or via criteria by which the Website calculates them, including by applying a Discount for Days Out from the present day. The User selects a SP and requests a booking for a date, locking in the DLR, if accepted. Once the work is completed, the SP bills the User, and is paid, through the Broker Website. | 02-02-2012 |
20120029973 | Methods For Verifying Satisfaction Of Prognostic Algorithm Requirements For A Component Having Multiple Failure Modes - Methods for verifying satisfaction of prognostic algorithm requirements for a component of a certain device of interest are provided. A method according to an example of an embodiment of the invention can include providing a prognostic algorithm requirements statement for a preselected component contained in each of a plurality of a certain type device, receiving field data indicating a number of premature component failures and a total number of replacements including both due to premature failures and scheduled maintenance, determining a probability density function providing a probability of failing to replace the prematurely failed components, determining a confidence value indicating a level of confidence that failure avoidance requirements provided in the prognostic algorithm statement are being met, and verifying whether or not the prognostic algorithm requirements provided in the prognostic algorithm requirements statement are being satisfied according to a preselected minimum level of confidence. | 02-02-2012 |
20120035977 | Enterprise Consumer Complaints Program - A method and system are provided for identifying, tracking and reporting customer complaints across multiple lines of business of an organization. Each line of business of the organization utilizes a system of record configured to identify an issue received from a customer as a “complaint” based on the same set of criteria and then collect data associated with the complaint. A centralized complaint portal of the organization extracts complaint data from each of the systems of record, processes the data to identify one or more lines of business and/or individuals responsible for or capable of handling the complaints, and routes the complaint data to the identified lines of business and/or individuals for resolution. The complaint portal also analyzes the extracted data to identify trends in the complaints, specific complaint escalations, stages of resolution for complaints, and other similar types of issues related to the complaints, and generates one or more summary reports based on the analyzed data. | 02-09-2012 |
20120035978 | System for and Method of Determining Relative Value of a Product - A system for and a method of determining relative value of a product. In accordance with an embodiment, a value is obtained that is representative of purchasing activity directed toward a product. This value is stored in a computer-readable storage medium. A value is obtained that is representative of non-purchasing activity that is directed toward the product. This value is also stored in computer-readable memory. The value representative of purchasing activity and the value representative of non-purchasing activity are combined and the result is displayed on a display screen. A result of the combining can be scaled and rounded so that the result is a whole number between 0 and 99. This number is referred to herein as a “Community Value” that reflects the relative value placed on the product by members of a community. | 02-09-2012 |
20120035979 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING CUSTOMER SERVICE WITH MODELS FOR SOCIAL SYNCHRONY AND HOMOPHILY - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for managing resources. A system for managing resources is configured for categorizing users according to at least one of common user characteristics and common user behaviors with respect to at least a first domain to yield a group of users. The system is also configured for identifying at least one user behavior during a first time interval for at least one user in the group of users and associated with an event in a second domain different than the first domain. The system is further configured for providing a response associated with the second domain for at least other users in the group of users during a second time interval after the first time interval. In the various embodiments, the response is based on the event and the at least one user behavior associated with the event. | 02-09-2012 |
20120035980 | Using Commercial Share of Wallet to Compile Marketing Company Lists - Commercial size of spending wallet (“CSoSW”) is the total business spend of a business including cash but excluding bartered items. Commercial share of wallet (“CSoW”) is the portion of the spending wallet that is captured by a particular financial company. A modeling approach utilizes various data sources to provide outputs that describe a company's spend capacity. Marketing companies that sell lists compile those lists by searching one or more databases for names and/or businesses that match certain criteria. Those marketing companies can use the CSoW/CSoSW modeling approach to show predicted spend and/or revenues for each company on a list. This makes the list more valuable to list buyers. | 02-09-2012 |
20120035981 | System and Method for an Electronic Product Advisor - A system and method operates on a client device and acquires a suspect list of user products based on information derived from the client device. The system normalizes the list, and the user confirms the accuracy of the product list. The user product list is sent to a server where the user product list is compared to other lists using collaborative filtering techniques. The collaborative filtering techniques determine products of interest for the use and the level of interest of the user. The system computes a similarity measure based upon the number of similar products that match the user's product list and rankings provided by the user and others. Demographic and behavioral data may also be used in performing the comparison and the similarity measure. The system acquires editorial rankings of products from other users and provides a ranked list of recommended products based upon the editorial rankings. | 02-09-2012 |
20120046991 | COMPETING SIMULATOR IN MULTI-CHANNEL RETAILING ENVIRONMENT AMONG MULTIPLE RETAILERS - A system, method and computer program product for providing the ability for retailers to devise a current channel strategy (e.g., adaptive price setting) that considers competitors in a dynamic competing environment, and that enables computing a competitive advantage of a channel. To estimate a price for selling a product j in a commerce channel comprises: a) receiving, at a processor device, real market data including sales and price history data of a product j sold by one or more retailers over one or alternate sales channels t; generating, by the processor device, a competitive advantage parameter value based on the sales and price history data; and, computing, utilizing the competitive advantage parameter value, an optimum price for a particular product to be marketed in one of the one or alternate sales channel. | 02-23-2012 |
20120046992 | ENTERPRISE-TO-MARKET NETWORK ANALYSIS FOR SALES ENABLEMENT AND RELATIONSHIP BUILDING - There are provided a system, a method and a computer program product for increasing of productivity of sales force in a first entity. The system locates or constructs at least one enterprise social network in the first entity. The system constructs at least one market social network. The system creates at least one connection between the enterprise social network and the market social network. Sales representative in the first entity expands new sales operations and/or identify new markets via the connected social networks. | 02-23-2012 |
20120046993 | METHOD AND REPORT ASSESSING CONSUMER REACTION TO A STIMULUS BY MATCHING EYE POSITION WITH FACIAL CODING - A method of reporting consumer reaction to a stimulus and resultant report generated by (i) recording facial expressions and eye positions of a human subject while exposed to a stimulus throughout a time period, (ii) coding recorded facial expressions to emotions, and (iii) reporting recorded eye positions and coded emotions, along with an identification of the stimulus. | 02-23-2012 |
20120046994 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COLLECTING, AGGREGATING AND PROVIDING POST-SALE MARKET DATA FOR AN ITEM - A sale of a product or service may trigger a third party, such as a payment provider, to arrange for the collection of individual post-sale market data from the customer. Alternatively, such post-sale market data may be directly provided by smart devices and the like. Dependent upon the type of product or service involved, a schedule for continuously submitting post-sale market data for the product or service may be provided and the consumer may be encouraged to submit post-sale market data in accordance therewith through a variety of incentives. The received, individual, post-sale market data may be aggregated by one or more sources to determine aggregate post-sale market data for the product or service. The submitted individual data and/or the determined aggregate post-sale market data may then be provided to consumers in order to assist them in making purchasing decisions. | 02-23-2012 |
20120066022 | Price indexing - Transactions involving assets that share a common characteristic are represented as respective data points associated with values of the assets. The data points include transaction value information. Respective statistical values are determined for the data points with respect to a probability density function that fits a power law parameterization to the data points. A probability function describing the statistical values is evaluated as a measure of confidence that the probability density function of the data points is validly represented by the power law parametrization. | 03-15-2012 |
20120066023 | Green Energy Database Including Verifiable Information for Implementing a National Level Green Energy Policy - A green energy, smart-grid residential system collects power usage information from a plurality of connected homes by progressively integrating information collected from each of the individual homes using a group of sensor devices. Such information is compiled to usable format using distributed computers. The in-home sensor devices include an intelligent master device, and one or more of a communication and power switch device, a ZigBee® enabled switch device, and a power control switch device, each of which typically operate over a power line communication network. The master device collects, compiles, and communicates the collected data to the Web or outside world. The information from a number of these homes in a local area is consolidated using local distributed processors on the Web and provided to a main processing unit for compilation and integration with other regional inputs for use in national policy decision making. | 03-15-2012 |
20120078681 | MULTI-HIERARCHICAL CUSTOMER AND PRODUCT PROFILING FOR ENHANCED RETAIL OFFERINGS - The current subject matter provides the ability to infer a richer customer profile using purchase transaction data in conjunction with various hierarchical groupings of products as well as an ability to characterize products such that they can be used to enrich customer profiles. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described. | 03-29-2012 |
20120078682 | CONSUMER RECEIPT INFORMATION METHODOLOGIES AND SYSTEMS - This is generally related to techniques for collecting and processing consumer document information. Consumers can transmit documents, such as receipts, to a host system. To transmit the documents, the documents can be scanned with a desktop scanner and transmitted via a web interface, forwarded via e-mail, photographed and transmitted via a mobile phone's e-mail or MMS capability, transmitted via a dedicated smart phone application, etc. Images of the document can be stored in a central archive, such that the consumer can access online images of their documents at any time and from any place. Submitted receipts can be interpreted by the host system to determine receipt information such as merchant, payment method, date, price, coupons, items purchased and/or returned, and the like. The interpreted information can be used to produce a wide range of reports that can be of value to the consumer, the host system, and/or merchants. | 03-29-2012 |
20120078683 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING ADVICE TO SERVICE PROVIDER - A method for providing advice to a service provider includes; a) accessing customer, network, and service data stored in disparate data sources, the data relating to services provided to customers by a service provider over a network infrastructure, a virtualization platform presenting the disparate data in a common logical view; b) processing the data in an analytics platform using a service advisor algorithm to form conclusions and predictions regarding management of customer churn and generate advice; and c) formulating results from the processing to enable the service provider to consider the data, conclusions, predictions, and advice in relation to reduction of customer churn. The service advisor algorithm may also be used for personalization of service provided to customers, targeted marketing of services to customers or non-customers, and management of the network infrastructure. An apparatus for providing advice to a service provider includes the virtualization and analytics platforms. | 03-29-2012 |
20120078684 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REPRESENTING A LEVEL OF INTEREST IN AN AVAILABLE ITEM - A method and apparatus for representing a level of interest in at least one available item includes determining a release date for one or more applications and calculating a level of interest for each of the one or more applications. Calculating the level of interest includes searching media for discussion of each of the one or more applications. The method and apparatus further include generating a user interface configured to represent the level of interest in the one or more applications based on the determined release date, and providing the user interface to a mobile device. Additionally, in optional aspects, a personalized level of interest may be calculated based on access to user information for one or more available items. | 03-29-2012 |
20120084116 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING WHETHER TO ALLOW CREATION OF A CONTENT CHANNEL - An apparatus may include a content channel drafting module configured to provide for drafting of a content channel. A content channel comparison module may compare the content channel with existing content channels to determine a similarity factor. A channel creation determination module may determine whether or not to allow creation of the content channel based at least in part on the similarity factor. Thereby, creation of the content channel may be allowed in instances in which the similarity factor is less than a threshold correlation value and disallowed in instances in which the similarity factor exceeds the threshold correlation value. Further, when creation of a content channel is allowed, selection of a public channel status configured to allow sharing of the content channel may be disallowed in an instance in which the similarity factor exceeds a lower threshold correlation value. | 04-05-2012 |
20120084117 | TRANSACTION LOCATION ANALYTICS SYSTEMS AND METHODS - One embodiment provides a method for evaluating transaction data to determine point of location usage. This could be, for example, to determine where customers are mostly likely to shop before or after shopping at a given merchant. For instance, the method could show the percentage of customers that shop at certain types of stores during a time period right before or after shopping at the merchant's location. As another example, the method could be used to determine when a merchant's customer makes a purchase at the merchant's store, then makes a purchase at a competing merchant's store within a specified time. | 04-05-2012 |
20120089436 | MAPPING ANALYTICS SYSTEM FOR ACTIVITY GROWTH - Systems and methods are described for transforming actual aggregated data (e.g., transaction and terminal data) from a large number of POS terminals into market trend reports. For example, POS datasets are aggregated from POS terminals distributed across many merchant outlet locations, each POS dataset including location data and transaction data for its respective POS terminal. A reporting request is received for a market trend report corresponding to a designated market. A market dataset is identified from the portion of the aggregated POS data. Market trend data is calculated and graphical report data is output as a function of the market trend data in response to the reporting request. | 04-12-2012 |
20120089437 | Interest Profiles for Audio and/or Video Streams - A method includes receiving at least one criterion to identify at least one media item. The method includes determining one or more media items that satisfy the at least one criterion. The method includes determining a group interest profile for each of the one or more media items. A particular group interest profile indicates a portion-varying level of group interest toward the at least one media item. The particular group interest profile is based on a plurality of ratings input by a plurality of members of a group for a plurality of portions of the at least one media item. The method includes determining a plurality of high-interest portions of the at least one media item based on the plurality of group interest profiles. The method also includes creating a high-interest media item that combines the plurality of high-interest portions. | 04-12-2012 |
20120089438 | POINT-OF-SALE-BASED MARKET TRACKING AND REPORTING - Systems and methods are described for transforming actual aggregated data (e.g., transaction and terminal data) from a large number of POS terminals into market trend reports that include macro-level trend data and analyses. For example, POS datasets are aggregated from POS terminals distributed across many merchant outlet locations, each POS dataset including location data and transaction data for its respective POS terminal. A reporting request is received for a market trend report corresponding to a designated market over a designated timeframe. A market dataset is identified from the portion of the aggregated POS data corresponding to the designated timeframe and market. Unreliable portions of the data may be discarded. Market trend data is then calculated as a function of the reliable portion of the market dataset, and graphical report data is output as a function of the market trend data in response to the reporting request. | 04-12-2012 |
20120101871 | USING MASKING PROPERTIES FOR MANAGEMENT OF A DYNAMIC IDENTITY TEMPLATE AS A PART OF A MARKETING AND SALES PROGRAM FOR UNIVERSAL LIFE STAGE DECISION SUPPORT - Methods and systems for using masking properties for management of a dynamic identity template as a part of a marketing and sales program for universal life stage decision support. While masking private data, a user-defined template can be shared (pushed) to other networks, and template fields can be dynamically populated (pulled) from other networks; thus a template can grow in extensible dimensions, as well as become automatically updated. Also disclosed are techniques for be-friending based on identity template field matching, and for matching user's needs to service providers by collecting user input in profiles, creating multi-axis match objects from the profiles, and applying heuristics to create scored matches between profiles. Techniques include defining extensible profile fields, launching automated agents, and recording reported action. Users may create and manage permissions to permit other users or third party agents to populate both private and shared information in a user-defined identity profile. | 04-26-2012 |
20120109709 | Systems and Methods for Panel Enhancement with Transaction Data - In one aspect, a computing apparatus is configured to generate audience measurement data regarding presentation of information to a plurality of customers via one or more media channels, identify the plurality of customers to a transaction handler to request information, receive the information generated based on transaction data related to a plurality of transactions processed at the transaction handler, and generate a report based on the audience measurement data and the information generated based on the transaction data. The one or more media channels may include an online media channel, a mobile communication channel, or an offline media channel, such as television broadcast, radio broadcast, newspaper, magazine, direct mail, billboard, etc. | 05-03-2012 |
20120116840 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MARKETING MANAGEMENT - A method and apparatus are disclosed for initiating and managing a mobile-based dialog by receiving a response to a request for a dialog, recording information about a respondent correlated with their response, analyzing the response, and sending a return response with a request to continue the dialog. Responses are individualized to particular consumers and may establish a market of one. Personal and/or relevant information may be sent between a consumer and a brand based on previous patterns unique to an individual consumer, and unique to individual preferences. Privacy of a consumer is maintained. The method may be applied to clinical trials and surveys. | 05-10-2012 |
20120143651 | DATA MINING OF USER ACTIVITY DATA TO IDENTIFY SEQUENTIAL ITEM ACQUISITION PATTERNS - A data mining component collectively analyzes item acquisition histories of users of an electronic catalog of items and identifies pairs of catalog items that tend to be acquired sequentially. The data mining component may also generate data regarding such sequential item acquisition patterns. For example, the data mining component may determine whether user acquisitions of the two items tend to be spaced apart in time by a characterizing time interval, and/or may determine percentages of users who have followed particular sequential acquisition patterns. Information regarding the detected sequential item acquisition patterns may be exposed to users on electronic catalog pages, and/or may be used to select the timing with which particular items are recommended to users. | 06-07-2012 |
20120158455 | ESTIMATING VALUE OF USER'S SOCIAL INFLUENCE ON OTHER USERS OF COMPUTER NETWORK SYSTEM - The social influence that each person in a computer network system exercises over others in the system may be valued by aggregating the differences in value of each of the others to the network both with and without the person being present. This calculated influence may be used as a basis for charging advertisers for advertisements to the users, as well as for providing preferential treatment to users that exert the greatest influence. | 06-21-2012 |
20120166250 | DATA VISUALIZATION FOR TIME-BASED COHORTS - Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to generating heat maps that facilitate analysis of user activity. In particular embodiments, a heat map represents activity intensity of time-based cohort groups over time. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166251 | SERVER AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AFFILIATE STORE INFORMATION - A server and method for providing affiliate store information are provided, in which a receiver collects transaction count information being information about the number of transactions made in each affiliate store and receives search condition information from a mobile communication terminal, a database stores affiliate store information generated based on the collected transaction count information, a generator extracts the affiliate store information of at least one affiliate store by searching the database according to the search condition information received through the receiver and generates search result using the extracted affiliate store information, and a transmitter transmits the search result to the mobile communication terminal. | 06-28-2012 |
20120173302 | METHOD OF PROVIDING ECONOMETRIC INFORMATION BASED ON REAL TIME/REAL DATA FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS - Econometric information is produced based upon real data that has been electronically acquired in real time. The acquired data is analyzed to select data records having attributes unique to a particular activity of interest. The selected data records are aggregated, adjusted, and used to create a statistical index or metric related to an economic activity. The statistical index or metric, together with information illustrating or interpreting information, is electronically distributed. As an example, a Pulse of Commerce Index related to shipment of goods is produced by electronically processing and storing data relating to financial transactions involved in purchase of goods and services. Data records are selected that involve fuel purchases, which act as a proxy for freight activity. Using the selected data records, both national and regional indices based upon fuel purchases are produced and distributed. | 07-05-2012 |
20120179509 | Method and Apparatus for Implementing a Personal "Get Out The Vote Drive" Software Application - A method and apparatus for a software tool that interfaces with a Field Operations software tool and incorporates Voter Score, Voter Scorecard, Post-Election Voter History, Household Visualization, Voter Support Visualization, Household Mailing Labels, E-Mail Voter Footer, and Voter List of Friends and Family. | 07-12-2012 |
20120185296 | Using Commercial Share of Wallet to Compile Marketing Company Lists - Commercial size of spending wallet (“CSoSW”) is the total business spend of a business including cash but excluding bartered items. Commercial share of wallet (“CSoW”) is the portion of the spending wallet that is captured by a particular financial company. A modeling approach utilizes various data sources to provide outputs that describe a company's spend capacity. Marketing companies that sell lists compile those lists by searching one or more databases for names and/or businesses that match certain criteria. Those marketing companies can use the CSoW/CSoSW modeling approach to show predicted spend and/or revenues for each company on a list. This makes the list more valuable to list buyers. | 07-19-2012 |
20120185297 | Using Commercial Share of Wallet to Rate Business Prospects - Commercial size of spending wallet (“CSoSW”) is the total business spend of a business including cash but excluding bartered items. Commercial share of wallet (“CSoW”) is the portion of the spending wallet that is captured by a particular financial company. A modeling approach utilizes various data sources to provide outputs that describe a company's spend capacity. Research analysts can use CSoW/CSoSW to provide a comprehensive and robust indication of the business prospects of a rated company. | 07-19-2012 |
20120191504 | USER INTERFACE DISPLAYING COMMUNICATION INFORMATION - A processor aggregates communications data received from one or more data sources via a communications network. The processor associates the aggregated communications data with supplemental data. The associated communications data is correlated based on temporal data, a tag, a query, and/or a command. A graphical user interface (GUI) is formatted based on the correlated communications data. The formatted GUI is provided to a display device. | 07-26-2012 |
20120197682 | Identifying Quality User Sessions And Determining Product Demand With High Resolution Capabilities - A session quality system collects and evaluates data from multiple user world wide web (“web”) product selection sessions and correlates the collected data with actual product purchases. The system assembles the data into a set of session profiles and assigns a score to each profile that represents a relative likelihood of purchasing the product. The system matches session data collected from future product selection sessions with a master profile. A weighted average of scores based on matched master profiles provides useful product demand information. Furthermore, the system can determine product demand with varying ranges of resolution. For example, the system can capture specific features of each product, such as color, audio system selections, and wheel types. Since these features can be common across multiple products, manufactures can expand their use of the high resolution product demand information. | 08-02-2012 |
20120203592 | METHODS, APPARATUS, AND ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE TO DETERMINE SEARCH ENGINE MARKET SHARE - Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to determine search engine market share are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes determining a first number of search results that were selected by a user and a second number of search results that were selected by the user, wherein the first number of search results is associated with searches performed via a first search engine and the second number of search results is associated with searches performed via a second search engine, and determining a first market share for the first search engine based on the first number and the second number of search results selected by the user. | 08-09-2012 |
20120203593 | SPEND DIAGNOSTICS AND LEAD MANAGEMENT - A method and system are used to optimize utilization of a transaction card by a card member. The system and method including generating a first data set based on data stored in a database representing industries of the card members. Generating a second data set representing an average amount charged to a transaction account by the card members in each respective one of the industries based on the first data set. Comparing the average amount charged from the first generating step to an actual amount charged by each individual one of the card members in a respective one of the industries. Communicating a result of the comparison to the card members. Receiving data from the card members based on their receiving of the comparison result. Storing the data in the database or a lead management device, such that the data is updated. | 08-09-2012 |
20120203594 | MONITORING MIGRATION BEHAVIOR OF USERS OF ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND RELATED SERVICE PROVIDERS - Migration events such as switching from one smartphone to another, switching from one mobile carrier to another, and/or switching from one Internet Service Provider to another are monitored and reported. User account based applications that are installed on the smartphone or other electronic device of the user or are web based and accessed by the electronic device of the user gather information related to the migration. The information for a given user account is obtained from the application from time to time and compared to prior information that has been received for the same user account to detect differences resulting from a migration event. The migration events may be recorded in the aggregate and reported to reveal trends. | 08-09-2012 |
20120209657 | LOCATION TRIGGERED SERVICE RESPONSE - An automated location based customer detection and ordering system determines proximity of a customer to a merchant and initiates an ordering mechanism for common routine purchases. Purchases such as coffee, bagels, donuts and other food and snack items are often readily available to a mobile customer from a variety of retail establishments of various merchants. A personal electronic device such as a cellphone or smartphone corresponds to the user and indicates the user's presence within proximity of a particular merchant. A user is registered with various merchants, typically retail service locations, for a particular predetermined service offering from available menu items. A central repository or clearinghouse receives the proximity indication of a user and a registered merchant, and sends a confirmation request for the predetermined service offering. Upon user confirmation or order modification, the clearinghouse sends a confirmed order request to the merchant for preparation and delivery on user arrival. | 08-16-2012 |
20120209658 | POPULATION MOBILITY ESTIMATION SYSTEM, POPULATION MOBILITY ESTIMATION METHOD, AND POPULATION MOBILITY ESTIMATION PROGRAM - A system includes a calculation master storage unit to store a calculation master that is required for estimating the number of visitors to steady mobility facilities within a predetermined period of time, and is obtained by further classifying the steady mobility facilities by type, and a calculation master that is required for estimating the number of visitors to variable mobility facilities within a predetermined period of time, and is based on an actual survey value for each type obtained by further classifying the variable mobility facilities by type, and a building visitor number calculation unit to extract a name of a facility from map information, estimate a type of the facility based on the name, and refer to the calculation master corresponding to the type from the calculation master storage unit based on the estimated type, to calculate an estimate value of the number of visitors to the facility. | 08-16-2012 |
20120215584 | TRACKING OFF-LINE COMMERCE AND ONLINE ACTIVITY - Systems and methods for tracking a user's off-line commerce and merging that data with online activity are disclosed. The off-line transaction data is associated with off-line purchases of a user and includes identification information that can be used to identify the user. A scone or modified cookie is created that includes the off-line transaction data. Online activity can also be tracked and merged with the user's off-line commerce data. | 08-23-2012 |
20120215585 | COMPUTER METRICS SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR IMPLEMENTING SAME - A metrics computer system is configured to collect and analyze metrics from a plurality of account opening data sources including at least one component of an account opening system and a local entity storing account opening data. The metrics computer system includes a data acquisition layer, a data processing layer, and/or an information delivery layer. Various embodiments are described, including a computer implemented method for collecting and analyzing metrics using a metrics component and/or module. | 08-23-2012 |
20120226520 | Fiber to the Premises Network Modeling Systems and Methods - An exemplary method includes a fiber to the premises (“FTTP”) network modeling system assigning a cost factor to each of a plurality of street segments within a geospatial polyline map of a fiber optic network service area, receiving input representative of a geospatial location of each of a plurality of FTTP demand sites, automatically determining a least cost path along one or more of the street segments for each of the FTTP demand sites to a central office included in the FTTP network in accordance with the assigned cost factors, automatically determining a demand associated with each street segment included in the plurality of street segments; and automatically determining a geospatial location and a size of a plurality of fiber distribution hubs to be included in the FTTP network. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed. | 09-06-2012 |
20120232950 | SPEND ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND METHOD - System and method for spend analysis are provided. The method includes identifying a spend category and associating a cost component model to the spend category. The cost component model indicates one or more cost contributors to the spend category. The method also includes receiving market information associated with at least a subset of the one or more cost contributors in the cost component model and outputting an analysis of spend associated with the spend category in relation to the cost component model. | 09-13-2012 |
20120232951 | SENDING PRODUCT INFORMATION BASED ON DETERMINED PREFERENCE VALUES - Determining which product information to send to a user based on a determined preference value is disclosed, including: determining pieces of user action data that are associated with a current information collection period, the user, and the product category; determining a new visit quantity associated with the current information collection period; determining an updated cumulative visit quantity associated with the product category based at least in part on the new visit quantity associated with the current information collection period; determining a total duration value associated with the product category based at least in part on a duration value associated with the current information collection period; determining a visit interval value associated with the product category and the current information collection period; and determining a long-term preference value associated with the user for the product category. | 09-13-2012 |
20120245974 | METHODS OF ACQUIRING ACTUAL REAL-TIME SHOPPER BEHAVIOR DATA APPROXIMATE TO A MOMENT OF DECISION BY A SHOPPER - The invention provides methods of acquiring actual real-time shopper behavior data during product selection of purchasable items by a shopper in a store. More specifically, disclosed herein are methods of using a communications multi-network, a First Moment of Truth device and a data collection device to track actual real-time shopper behavior data relating to the presumed locations of shoppers in a store, the time spent and location of time spent by a shopper while considering a purchasable item and products chosen for purchase. | 09-27-2012 |
20120245975 | System and Method for Researching Virtual Markets and Optimizing Product Placements and Displays - A system and method for researching virtual markets and using the research to optimize product placements and displays. The system includes a monitoring engine configured to monitor information about user reactions and/or at least one product. The system also includes a recommendation engine configured to recommend a location within a virtual universe to display the at least one product based on the information monitored by the monitoring engine and a display engine configured to display the at least one product at a recommended location. | 09-27-2012 |
20120245976 | COMPUTER-BASED ANALYSIS OF SELLER PERFORMANCE - A performance analysis system analyzes the performance of affiliate sites that provide links to specific items in an electronic catalog, and identifies catalog items that can be listed by such affiliate sites to improve performance. An association mining component analyzes transaction data attributable to specific categories of affiliate sites to identify items that are frequently purchased in combination by users of such sites. The detected item associations are used to evaluate, for a given affiliate site, whether significant disparities exist between the expected and actual sales quantities of specific items. The results of the analysis are incorporated into affiliate-specific performance reports, which may include specific recommendations for improving performance. The disclosed methods may also be used to analyze the performance of, and provide recommendations to, online sellers within an marketplace or auction system. | 09-27-2012 |
20120253884 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MODELING RELATIONSHIPS AT MULTIPLE SCALES IN RATINGS ESTIMATION - Systems and techniques for generating item ratings for a user in order to allow for recommendations of selected items for that user. A set of known ratings of different items for a plurality of users is collected and maintained, and these known ratings are used to estimate rating factors influencing ratings, including user and item factors. Initial user and item factors are estimated and new user and item factors are successively added, with the original rating factors being progressively shrunk so as to reduce their magnitude and their contribution to the rating estimation as successive factors are added. When an appropriate number of user and item factors has been estimated, the rating factors are used to estimate ratings of items for a user, and the estimated ratings are employed to generate recommendations for that user. | 10-04-2012 |
20120253885 | REFERRED INTERNET TRAFFIC ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND METHOD - Methods and a system for exploiting the secondary traffic generated by social networking sites are disclosed. Traffic on a commercial website is constantly monitored by a web analytics tool, which collects traffic measurements of hits, button presses, enquiries, purchases etc., as well as the referrer URL of a site such as a social networking site through which the commercial website is accessed. The collected measurements are forwarded to a Referred Traffic Analysis System. Concurrently, the Referred Traffic Analysis System crawls the Internet and collects a large number of social networking sites, analyses their content by extracting insight terms and phrases from them. In a third step, the collected traffic measurements are correlated with the collected insights from the social networking sites, and the top insights that reoccur frequently enough to appear to be a driver for the measurements observed, are presented to the client. A corresponding system is also provided. | 10-04-2012 |
20120259674 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING MARKET INSIGHT - The present disclosure includes a system, method, and article for providing market insight. The system may generate a market profile based upon actual purchase data. The market profile may include one or more of the following: a pricing trend, a high price, a low price, an average price, a median price, a mean price, a modal price, a most frequently paid price, an optimal date to make a purchase, an optimal date to redeem a purchase, an optimal merchant from which to purchase, and an optimal location to make a purchase. The system may further transmit the market profile to a client. | 10-11-2012 |
20120259675 | System and Method for a Retail Collaboration Network Platform - The present invention relates to a system and method for a retail collaboration network platform. In some embodiments, the system and method for a retail collaboration network platform includes a portal which the user is able to log in to via a network. The system includes connectivity to a plurality of retailer and vendor analytic tools. These analytic tools may include tools for promotion analysis, price optimization, product assortment, and market analysis. In addition to analytic tools, the platform may include collaborative tools which may interface with the analytic tools. These collaborative tools enable retailers and vendors to work together and with partners to share information and develop and implement strategies based on analytic tools to achieve their respective business objectives. The collaborative tools may be enabled to create at least one workgroup, generate a contact list, monitor the workgroup and contact list for activity and display any such activity. Moreover, the activity may be sorted into actions and alerts and displayed as an activity feed and notification, respectively. | 10-11-2012 |
20120278127 | GENERATING PRODUCT RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON DYNAMIC PRODUCT CONTEXT DATA AND/OR SOCIAL ACTIVITY DATA RELATED TO A PRODUCT - Systems and methods are described for generating online product recommendations. A plurality of data objects representative of a plurality of items for user consumption from an online merchant are stored at a computing device. A method then comprises, registering a device associated with a user with the online merchant; and in response to registering the device: associating the device with at least one other device registered with the online merchant associated with an other user in response to selection of the at least one other device by the device, monitoring a first social activity of the at least one other device, wherein the first social activity includes a first activity related to an interaction of the at least one other device with at least one of the plurality of data objects, and collecting and storing first social activity data related to the first social activity of the at least one other device. | 11-01-2012 |
20120278128 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING MARKET DEMAND FOR BUYING AND SELLING PROPERTIES - A dynamic property buying and selling system is described. The system is comprised of networked hardware, software, processes and methods that enable an auction like system to probe the market and inform buyers, sellers and interested third parties of current market demand information including dynamics. The described system may be used in real estate and other markets to complete early stages of a negotiation process as well as enable buyers and sellers to test for market demand information. Third party observers may use the system to investigate and report on market demand information and test economic theories regarding the market of interest. An integrated expert system is useful to buyers, sellers and third party observers in providing answers to queries regarding correlation of auction parameters and optimization of parameters for particular desired outcomes. | 11-01-2012 |
20120284080 | CUSTOMER COGNITIVE STYLE PREDICTION MODEL BASED ON MOBILE BEHAVIORAL PROFILE - It comprises computing values of cognitive and personality indicators of users of a telecom operator by means of machine learning and data mining algorithms from information available in a telecom operator system extracted from Social Network Analysis metrics, Call Detailed Record information and commercial information of said users stored in an operator's Data Warehouse and Customer Relationship Management systems as well as information from previous surveys, or questionnaires, answered by a representative sample of users as an input of said machine learning and said data mining algorithms. The method involves building a complex computer model that infers the values of the psychological dimensions of said users by means of said machine learning and said data mining algorithms to obtain a multi-dimensional vector for each of the users. | 11-08-2012 |
20120284081 | Methods and Apparatus for Gathering Intelligence from Itemized Receipts - An intelligence-gathering system operates on a network-connected server having at least one processor and at least one coupled data repository, with software executing on the at least one processor from a non-transitory medium. The software provides a first function obtaining data from itemized receipts, a second function obtaining related data from one or more merchant sites, and a third function matching data sets obtained from the itemized receipts to data sets obtained from the one or more merchant sites. | 11-08-2012 |
20120284082 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING AN AVERAGE RETIREMENT AGE INDEX - Systems and methods for determining an average retirement age index, the index including a year and week. The method determines a wealth at death of an average couple for a first retirement age. If wealth at death is greater than zero, the retirement age is decreased by one and the wealth at death value is recalculated. This process continues until the wealth at death value is less than zero, at which point the year of the retirement age index is determined by adding one to the current year of the retirement age. The week of the retirement age index is determined by: dividing the opposite of a wealth at death value for the year prior to the year of the average retirement age index by a wealth delta and multiplying the result by fifty-two. | 11-08-2012 |
20120290355 | Identification of Customer Behavioral Characteristic Data - Systems and methods for identifying one or more customer behavioral characteristics based on data received from one or more sources is provided. The system and method include receiving customer data from a first source which may include a current access parameter and a plurality of previous access parameters. A pattern may be identified in the current access parameter and previous access parameters. The system and method may include receiving customer data from a second data source different from the first data source. A second current access parameter and second plurality of previous parameters may be received and a pattern may be identified between the second current access parameter and the second previous parameters. The identified patterns may be compiled to identify one or more customer behavioral characteristics. | 11-15-2012 |
20120290356 | METHOD FOR OPERATING AN ONLINE SERVICE FOR EVALUATING AND AWARDING WEBSITES - The present invention relates to a method for operating an online service for evaluating and awarding websites. The objective for implementing the technology is to provide a method for operating an online service for evaluating and awarding websites, which enables an evaluation service operator server to invite public participation for providing an award and to receive applications from a variety of newly constructed or renewed websites in each field, and which selects, on the basis of preset evaluation criteria, a website that provides excellent service, and awards the selected website, to thereby propose website construction technologies and technical changes and direction. Therefore, to achieve the above objective, the present invention comprises the following specific means: an evaluation service operator server including an automatic information-processing unit, a registration applying unit, an evaluation board selecting unit, a review and evaluation processing unit, an information and data searching unit and an evaluation report generating unit; a website evaluation application server which applies and registers websites to be evaluated to the evaluation service operator server; and a user server which provides review and evaluation information on the applied websites. In addition, the objective of the present invention is accomplished by using the above-described system, and performing an evaluation registration applying step, a registration-type selecting step, an evaluation board selecting step, a review and evaluation preparing step, a review and evaluating step, a ranking processing step, a winner selecting step, and an award result information processing step. | 11-15-2012 |
20120296697 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED REAL TIME E-COMMERCE MARKETING ACTIVITIES - Systems and methods for e-commerce marketing activities are provided via an analytics server, which provides real-time information concerning customer visits to an e-commerce Website to a merchant that operates the Website, for example via a dashboard or other user interface. The real-time information allows the analytics system and merchant to monitor and optionally interact with customers visiting the Website, for example by sending instructions for advertisements or adjusting prices in response to consumer activity. Real-time telemetry concerning the customer visits is provided to the analytics server, which then presents the information in meaningful fashions via the dashboard or user interfaces for review by the merchant. Merchant responses to the information is facilitated via deal engines, recommendation engines, marketing engines, and other components, which may operate according to customized rule sets to implement key word bidding, advertisements, promotions, price adjustments, among other things. | 11-22-2012 |
20120303409 | Enterprise Opportunity Assessment - In some embodiments, a market assessment system comprises a market opportunity engine, a market capture engine, a comparison engine, and an attainability engine. The market opportunity engine is operable to provide an opportunity measurement for each market of a plurality of markets. The market capture engine operable to provide an actual capture measurement for each market of the plurality of markets. The actual capture measurement indicates an amount of the product actually provided by the enterprise within each market. The comparison engine operable to compare a first market of the plurality of markets to one or more different markets of the plurality of markets to determine one or more comparable markets. The attainability engine operable to calculate an attainable opportunity measurement for the first market based on the actual capture measurement and the opportunity measurement for each of the one or more comparable markets. | 11-29-2012 |
20120310701 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMIC USER PROFILE HANDLING AND MANAGEMENT - A method of generating a dynamic user profile for a user accessing products and/or services from a Travel Agent based on customer defined rules, the method comprising: determining via a computer a static user profile for a particular use case; determining via a computer one or more customer defined rules that apply to the use case; and determining via a computer a set of required fields for the dynamic user profile for the use case based on the applicable customer defined rules using the dynamic user profile to collect the required fields from the user in use. | 12-06-2012 |
20120310702 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING COMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR AND FOR IDENTIFYING EARLY WARNING INDICATORS ACROSS MULTIPLE WEBSITES - Various embodiments provide systems for monitoring a plurality of users over one or more websites. Such systems comprise a memory and at least one processor configured to: (a) receive transaction information from the one or more websites for the plurality of users; (b) after receiving the transaction information: (1) determine norms of behavior based on the transaction information; (2) compare the one or more attributes from the transaction information for each individual user of the plurality of users against the norms of behavior; (3) identify individual users of the plurality of users as potentially problem users, the potentially problem users comprising each individual user of the plurality of users who has at least one attribute diverge from the norms of behavior; and (4) save information on the potentially problem users in the memory. Associated methods are likewise provided. | 12-06-2012 |
20120310703 | TARGETED CONTENT DELIVERY USING OUTDOOR LIGHTING NETWORKS (OLNs) - This invention describes a system and method to provide a service to advertisers and businesses that enables adaptation of advertising priorities using information collected by a lighting infrastructure. The system uses outdoor lighting networks to manage/control data sensors connected to a network, e.g. hosted at lighting units. This invention enables new business scenarios where operators and/or owners of the city's lighting infrastructure can provide a value added service or generate revenue from ad providers and local businesses by leveraging the data acquired through the lighting and adjacent infrastructure (e.g. sensors) to help the businesses to increase their advertising performance/targets; particularly, with respect to Location Based Services (LBS). | 12-06-2012 |
20120316917 | EXTRACTING DIMENSIONS OF QUALITY FROM ONLINE USER-GENERATED CONTENT - The quality of a product may be an important driver of consumer satisfaction, competition, and long-term brand success. Identifying the right dimensions of product quality may be central to devising segmentation and positioning strategies, rankings brands, creating advertising content, improving current products, or designing new products. User-generated content, such as product reviews, may identify quality. Data in product reviews is analyzed across fifteen firms in five markets over four years to extract the dimensions of experienced quality using Latent Dirichlet Allocation. The face, external, and predictive validity of these dimensions is explored. Results suggest that a few dimensions may be enough to capture experienced quality, have good correspondence to other metrics of quality, and serve as reasonably good predictors of earnings and stock market returns. Dynamic analysis may enable tracking the importance of dimensions and of competitive brand positions on those dimensions over time. | 12-13-2012 |
20120323627 | Real-time Monitoring of Public Sentiment - The subject disclosure is directed towards a real-time or near real-time sentiment monitoring service. A set of rules such as keywords and data sources to crawl is provided to the monitoring service, which crawls the sources to obtain sentiment-related data for an entity, such as a corporation or product. Content items may be selected from the crawled data, and/or the data may be analyzed to provide results. The results may be displayed, such as on a content page, to quickly view the public's sentiment regarding the entity. The rules may be dynamically modified by a user or collaborating users to tune monitoring of the entity as desired, e.g., to obtain more relevant results. | 12-20-2012 |
20120323628 | BUSINESS INFORMATION AND INNOVATION MANAGEMENT - A system constructed using one or more of the techniques described includes a job or outcome engine for storing a job or outcome data structure in accordance with a coherent relational model, a solution engine for storing a solution data structure in accordance with a coherent relational model, and a capability computation engine for matching the job or outcome to the solution to determine the extent to which the solution meets the needs of the job or outcome. The results can then be provided to a commercial activity server for the purpose of acting on identified solutions that meet needs better than current solutions. | 12-20-2012 |
20120323629 | COMMERCIAL INVESTMENT ANALYSIS - A technique for performing commercial venture analysis involves establishing an empirically-derived structure and evaluating companies using analytical techniques within that structure. The technique may involve defining jobs, or goals a customer is attempting to reach, with dozens or even hundreds of outcomes. Ideally, the structure and tools facilitate analysis that would not be possible otherwise. Moreover, the nature of the system enables real-time input for changing conditions and the ability to calculate returns for new markets in which products or services do not exist. | 12-20-2012 |
20120323630 | Systems and Methods for Evaluating, Classifying and Predicting Game Trends Using Clustered Pattern Recognition - Features of electronically embodied games are logically categorized, analyzed, and compared. Features are preferably organized according to a hierarchical classification scheme, according to a classification scheme that is not strictly tautological. All suitable feature sets are contemplated, including sets corresponding to characteristics of personifications of players and non-players, types and/or uses of game space, methods of rewarding a player, etc. In other aspects comparisons are made between an evaluation game and one or more sets of historically available games. Such sets can be grouped by genre and the number of games in such sets can range anywhere from a single game to hundreds of games, or more. Reporting and guidance can include providing a risk assessment score or other risk analysis, feature assessment (prevalence), market placement, business model analysis, dynamic trend analysis, clustered pattern recognition, and image analysis. | 12-20-2012 |
20120330713 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING A MEDIA PURCHASE - A method. The method is implemented at least in part by a computing device. The method includes matching information in a first database with corresponding entries in a second database, utilizing a targeting engine to calculate a score for at least a portion of the consumers in the first database, and ranking at least a portion of the consumers in the first database based on the calculated scores. The second database is larger than the first database. The method also includes comparing media behavior of a first group of ranked consumers in the first database with media behavior of a second group of consumers in the first database. The matching, calculating, ranking and comparing are performed by the computing device. | 12-27-2012 |
20120330714 | ENHANCED SYSTEMS, PROCESSES, AND USER INTERFACES FOR TARGETED MARKETING ASSOCIATED WITH A POPULATION OF ASSETS - Enhanced systems, processes, and user interfaces are provided for targeted marketing associated with a population of assets, such as but not limited to any of real estate or solar power markets. For example, the enhanced system and process may create an ordered list from a population of data, wherein the list may be optimized by the likelihood of a given event, such as but not limited to any of the selling of a home by owner, the transition of a property from non-distressed to distressed, or the purchase of solar equipment. In some embodiments, enhanced valuation models and price indices are provided for one or more assets that are associated with a population of data. As well, enhanced scoring systems and processes are provided for one or more assets that are associated with a population of data. | 12-27-2012 |
20120330715 | ENHANCED SYSTEMS, PROCESSES, AND USER INTERFACES FOR VALUATION MODELS AND PRICE INDICES ASSOCIATED WITH A POPULATION OF DATA - Enhanced systems, processes, and user interfaces are provided for targeted marketing associated with a population of assets, such as but not limited to any of real estate or solar power markets. For example, the enhanced system and process may create an ordered list from a population of data, wherein the list may be optimized by the likelihood of a given event, such as but not limited to any of the selling of a home by owner, the transition of a property from non-distressed to distressed, or the purchase of solar equipment. In some embodiments, enhanced valuation models and price indices are provided for one or more assets that are associated with a population of data. As well, enhanced scoring systems and processes are provided for one or more assets that are associated with a population of data. | 12-27-2012 |
20120330716 | TRIGGERING COLLECTION OF CONSUMER DATA FROM EXTERNAL DATA SOURCES BASED ON LOCATION DATA - A method and system for gathering data relating to consumer behavior based at least in part on consumer location data. A method and system are provided for gathering data from one or more external data sources that store data relating to a consumer, a business, and/or an environment of consumer-business interactions. The system may request data from external sources based on an analysis of the electronically-derived consumer location data. In addition, location-derived insights can be used to segment and further inform and refine the information gathered from external data sources. | 12-27-2012 |
20130006703 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MARKETABILITY ASSESSMENT - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a processor operable to determine whether a correlation exists between first products or services consumed by a subscriber leader and second products or services consumed by a plurality of subscriber followers. The first and second products or services can be distributed by a media service provider over a communication system and can be consumed by way of one or more media processors. The processor can be further operable to identify a plurality of market sector classifications for each of the second products or services consumed, to assess a plurality of values of consumption for the plurality of market sector classifications, and to determine a plurality of marketable values for the subscriber leader. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 01-03-2013 |
20130006704 | Method and System For Creating Customer Profiles - A system for creating a customer profile includes at t one computer system configured to retrieve first business information regarding a customer from at least one first database including data regarding machine transactions. The at least one computer system is further configured to retrieve second business information regarding the customer from at least one second database including data regarding construction projects, retrieve third business information regarding the customer from at least one third database including data regarding fleet composition, and create a profile of the customer based on the retrieved first, second, and third business information. | 01-03-2013 |
20130006705 | Small business intelligence tool - Aspects of the disclosure relate to systems and methods for electronically displaying an indication of customer spending associated with a pre-determined business location. The method includes using a receiver to receive an electronic request. The request authorizes retrieval of customer spend information associated with the location. The customer spend information may be based on customer credit, debit and/or check transactions. The customer spend information includes a plurality of customer spend data points. The method further includes using the receiver to receive an electronic selection of a limitation of the distance from the pre-determined business location. The limitation may limit the retrieval of customer spend information to a radius corresponding to the limitation. | 01-03-2013 |
20130006706 | USING CONSUMER PURCHASE BEHAVIOR FOR TELEVISION TARGETING - In various embodiments, strategies, tools and techniques are provided for using consumer purchaser behavior for targeting delivery of content to consumers through television and other media. An advertising measurement system, which may be accessible through a software-as-a-service model or a client-downloaded computer program, may be used to process and analyze data. The system may be configured to receive and process household media exposure data, product purchase data, advertising data, program data, and demographic data, wherein the data may be obtained from various sources, including from a program delivery source (e.g., a television set-top box) located in a household of a consumer. Data may be collected from a variety of people identification tools for analyzing the identities of one or more people viewing content delivered on a program delivery source. Data may also be collected from various types of metering devices. | 01-03-2013 |
20130006707 | CRM APPLICATION FOR ANALYSING AND GENERATING ACTIONABLE REPORTS BASED ON ACTIVITY OF USERS ON A PRODUCT PORTAL - A computer implemented method of analyzing and generating actionable reports based on activity of users on a product portal using a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) application is provided. The product portal includes multimedia files demonstrating features of a product that are stored in a database ( | 01-03-2013 |
20130006708 | METHOD, MANAGEMENT SERVER AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR MANAGING A CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP - Disclosed herein is a method for managing customer relationship through multiplex-assigning password of access point. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a method for managing a customer relationship by a customer management server includes: receiving customer terminal information including customer terminal identification information and customer group identification information within a shop being transmitted by accessing the access points of a plurality of customer terminals; and setting the plurality of accessed customer terminals as the same group in customer groups within the same shop based on the received customer group identification information within a shop and storing the set group in customer information corresponding to the customer terminals included in the group as customer social information. | 01-03-2013 |
20130006709 | TECHNIQUES FOR LEVERAGING PLAYER'S SOCIAL INFLUENCE AND MARKETING POTENTIAL IN GAMING ENVIRONMENTS - Various aspects described or referenced herein are directed to different methods, systems, and computer program products for leveraging player's social marketing potential in gaming environments. In one embodiment, a gaming system may be configured or designed to provide functionality for automatically and/or dynamically determining Player Social Marketing Potential (PSMP) Score(s) for one or more identified user(s)/player(s) based upon selected information, criteria, considerations and/or objectives. The gaming system may also be configured or designed to facilitate and/or enable the influencing of outcomes of selected game-related activities, events, and/or situations using the respective PSMP Score(s) of one or more user(s)/player(s). | 01-03-2013 |
20130013371 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRACKING RETAIL SALES PERFORMANCE - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for tracking retail performance. A system configured to practice the method monitors transactions at a merchant point of sale and determines, from the transactions, a sales rate for a product. If the sales rate for the product goes below a target sales rate associated with the product, the system identifies a responsibility hierarchy associated with the product, wherein the responsibility hierarchy indicates a chain of responsible parties for the product, and sends an alert for the product to at least one of the responsible parties. The alert can be an audible alert, a visual alert, a vibration, a printed alert, a list entry, and/or a database entry. The system can send the alert to a responsible party and/or a supervisor of the responsible party. The alert can be associated with a period of time to resolve the alert. | 01-10-2013 |
20130013372 | Identifying Similar Items Based on Interaction History - One embodiment of the invention sets forth a mechanism for identifying similar items within a plurality of items available to a group of users. The mechanism includes identifying a first count that indicates a number of times any user has interacted with a first item included in the plurality of items and subsequently with any other item, identifying a second count that indicates a number of times any user within the has interacted with a second item included in the plurality of items after interacting with the first item, computing a probability that indicates the likelihood of a particular user interacting with the second item after interacting with the first item based on the first count and the second count, and computing a similarity score that indicates the similarity between the first item and the second item based on the probability and a popularity score associated with the second item. | 01-10-2013 |
20130018697 | SYSTEM TO FORECAST PERFORMANCE OF ONLINE NEWS ARTICLES TO SUGGEST THE OPTIMAL HOMEPAGE LAYOUT TO MAXIMIZE ARTICLE READERSHIP AND READERS STICKINESSAANM GIUFFRIDA; GiovanniAACI CataniaAACO ITAAGP GIUFFRIDA; Giovanni Catania IT - A system that supports the editor of an journal web site into deciding the layout of the homepage of the journal web site; the homepage is divided into a set of zones, and each zone consists of several locations; articles are published into each location; and the system suggests ways to rearrange the articles published in the homepages into different locations within the same zone, in order to maximize the total number of clicks generated by the homepage of the journal web site. | 01-17-2013 |
20130018698 | System and Method for Facilitating the Provision of Situation-Based Value, Service or Response - The present invention provides a structured sentiment expression and management system and method. The present invention can receive sentiment content from at least two contributing users, wherein the received content is structured according to a specific human emotion, gesture or feeling and a level of intensity of the specific human emotion, gesture or feeling. The present invention further displays the received content in a pre-defined and user-selected sentiment category related to the specific human emotion, gesture or feeling. In one embodiment, the present invention facilitates the provision of situation-based value, service or response by permitting outside users to receive and respond to sentiment expressions, as well as by permitting contributing users to submit requests for situation-based value, service or response. | 01-17-2013 |
20130018699 | Automated Omnipresent Real-time Credibility Management System and Methods - Some embodiments provide a credibility management system that aggregates user posts from several social media sites contemporaneously with the posts being published to those sites. The system parses each of the aggregated posts to identify an entity that is targeted in each of the posts and presents the posts to the targeted entities in a real-time manner. The credibility management system computes a score to determine the impact that a user post would have on the credibility of a targeted entity. By presenting the computed scores and aggregated posts to the targeted entities, the credibility management system notifies the targeted entities about what is being said about them across social media, identifies the impact of those posts, and provides a platform whereby the targeted entities can reply in order to mitigate or improve the impact that the posts would have on credibility. | 01-17-2013 |
20130024240 | CORPORATE ANNOUNCEMENT GENERATION - Systems and methods related to generating corporate announcements. In one implementation, the method comprises capturing, by a computing device, corporate action information corresponding to at least one corporate action from at least one corporate news source. The method further comprises comparing the corporate action information with another corporate action information, captured from at least one other corporate news source, corresponding to the at least one corporate action. Based on the comparison, a relevance factor is evaluated. The relevance factor is indicative of completeness and accuracy of a composite corporate action information obtained by combining the corporate action information and the another corporate action information. The method furthermore comprises generating a corporate announcement, based on the relevance factor. | 01-24-2013 |
20130030862 | TREND-BASED TARGET SETTING FOR PROCESS CONTROL - Determining a suitable target for an entity (such as a product) in a process control environment, based on observed process control data. A preferred embodiment organizes data in a hierarchical structure designed for automating the target-setting process; derives target “yardsticks” for various components based on this data structure; employs techniques to estimate proportions using sample-size-based trimming in conjunction with bias-correction techniques (where appropriate); and derives targets based on combining yardsticks and confidence regions for parameters that characterize component quality | 01-31-2013 |
20130030863 | TREND-BASED TARGET SETTING FOR PROCESS CONTROL - Determining a suitable target for an entity (such as a product) in a process control environment, based on observed process control data. A preferred embodiment organizes data in a hierarchical structure designed for automating the target-setting process; derives target “yardsticks” for various components based on this data structure; employs techniques to estimate proportions using sample-size-based trimming in conjunction with bias-correction techniques (where appropriate); and derives targets based on combining yardsticks and confidence regions for parameters that characterize component quality | 01-31-2013 |
20130030864 | Vehicle Desirability and Stocking Based on Live Markets - Systems and methods for determining one or more vehicles that are desirable for stocking an inventory of a dealer may include receiving one or more vehicle purchasing parameters from a dealer; receiving one or more behavior metrics associated with one or more consumers of at least one of the dealer, a vehicle wholesaler, or a vehicle retailer; determining, based at least in part on the vehicle purchasing parameters and the behavior metrics, one or more vehicles; determining, based at least in part on the vehicle purchasing parameters and the behavior metrics, a justifiable purchase price for the vehicles; determining a location of the vehicles; and determining, based at least in part on the justifiable purchase price and the location of the vehicles, at least a portion of the vehicles for restocking an inventory of the dealer. | 01-31-2013 |
20130030865 | METHOD OF CONSTRUCTING A LOYALTY GRAPH - Offers for goods or services are targeted more efficiently to potential consumers by using a loyalty graph having nodes that correspond to users and edges that correspond to relationships between the users. The offers are transmitted to only superusers, corresponding to supernodes in the loyalty graph. By targeting only the superusers, the number of invitations transmitted as part of the promotion is reduced. The superusers are determined by calculating a weighted score for each node. Each weighted score corresponds to a number of directed connections between a node and its leaf nodes, with the supernodes determined as the subset of nodes having a weighted sum above a pre-determined threshold. After identifying superusers, subgraphs can be generated corresponding to each superuser. The subgraphs can be selected according to different criteria. In this way, promotions can be targeted to superusers in only selected subgraphs or to all the users in selected subgraphs. | 01-31-2013 |
20130035979 | CROSS-PLATFORM AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT WITH PRIVACY PROTECTION - Systems and methods for performing market research studies using techniques for maximizing privacy for persons. Exposure data relating to television, radio, outdoor advertising, digital signage, newspapers and magazines, retail store visits, interne usage and panelists' beliefs and opinions relating to consumer products and services are received along with facial image data that is secured to allow only partial reproduction of the image data and/or otherwise minimize further identification of the person beyond a market study identity. Further privacy features are employed to allow for blind participation in a given market study. | 02-07-2013 |
20130035980 | METHOD FOR MEASURING MARKET SHARE FOR A COMMUNICATION SERVICE PROVIDER - The invention relates to a method of estimating market share for a communication service provider comprising collecting periodic packet data usage from a plurality of websites including details of the communication service provider used to access the websites; determining the market share of a communication service provider at the plurality of websites; and extrapolating the market share of the communication service provider at the plurality of websites to estimate the market share. Another method of estimating change in market share for communication service providers is also disclosed. The method comprises of collecting periodic packet data usage for a user from at least one user device which includes data on the communication service provider or providers used to access the internet from that device. The method further comprises of collecting periodic packet data usage from at least one website which includes details of the communication service providers used to access the website and co-relating the packet data usage for the user and from the website to measure the change in market share for the communication service providers. | 02-07-2013 |
20130035981 | SOCIAL NETWORKS GAMES CONFIGURED TO ELICIT RESEARCH DATA AS PART OF GAME PLAY - Techniques are described for conducting market research via interactive game play mechanics. A game platform may allow a market research sponsor to create and publish online games which can identify latent consumer sentiment (and other market research data), while simultaneously providing an entertaining and engaging experience for the game participants. The games may be tailored such that elements of game play elicit responses from participants that reveal the desired market research data, e.g., consumer product awareness, consumer sentiment, brand preferences, loyalty, trends in awareness and sentiment, etc. Providing an engaging online experience provides an element of situational distraction, leading to more authentic responses from the participants as well as greater participation rates. | 02-07-2013 |
20130035982 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING TARGETED ADVERTISING UTILIZING SOCIAL MEDIA ACTIVITY - Methods and systems for identifying, retrieving and analyzing social media data pertinent to a business' customers to derive personal information that can be used for targeted advertising, thereby helping the business improve and grow. A scanning engine searches social media spaces to identify the presence of a business' customers. A data engine will collect the social activity data from the various social networking sites based upon social presence identified by the scanning engine. An analytic engine will analyze the information collected by the data engine. This will give a business a 360 degree view of its business and customers and help the business to find the cause behind the effect and develop the right strategy to improve and grow its business. | 02-07-2013 |
20130035983 | VALIDATING CUSTOMER COMPLAINTS BASED ON SOCIAL MEDIA POSTINGS - A system may validate customer complaints about products. The system may include a computer data processing system configured to: query a computer system for social media postings made in a social media network system about the products; determine how widespread each complaint is based on the results of the query; and store information indicative of the determination. | 02-07-2013 |
20130035984 | DISTRIBUED SENSOR METHODS AND ARRANGEMENTS - A retail store is equipped with plural shelf-mounted sensors, which are employed in discerning a shopper's interests. The discerned information is used, e.g., in later online interactions with the shopper. A variety of other novel features and arrangements are also detailed. | 02-07-2013 |
20130041716 | METHOD FOR NOTIFYING A SALES PERSON OF A SALES PROSPECT - The present invention is directed to a computer system and method that immediately alerts a sales person with a notification message when the online behavior or usage criteria of a subscriber is met, so that the sales person may follow up on the sales lead before the subscriber loses interest in the commodity or buys elsewhere. With the preferred embodiment, the activity criteria for each subscriber (or a group of subscribers) can be preset by the sales person, so as to selectively quantify degrees of activity that triggers the sending notification messages. With the preferred embodiment records are kept of all the events, including triggers and messages sent in relation to the subscribers and sales persons and these records provide valuable management information for evaluating the efficiency of online marketing campaigns. | 02-14-2013 |
20130041717 | DETERMINING A COMMUNITY RATING FOR A USER USING FEEDBACK RATINGS OF RELATED USERS IN AN ELECTRONIC ENVIRONMENT - Community ratings are determined for users of an electronic marketplace. In a typical configuration, the community rating of an individual reflect the individual's reputation in the electronic community (e.g. feedback rating) as well as the reputations of the users the individual sponsors and the reputations of each user they sponsor, and so on. Various methodologies are provided for determining a community rating, such as aggregating feedback ratings, or weighting or thresholding these feedback ratings. | 02-14-2013 |
20130046575 | Broadcast display guide - Embodiments of the invention relate to methods for collecting, providing and displaying information related to at least one broadcast. The method comprises collecting information about a plurality of broadcast providers and collecting information about at least one broadcast station provided by each of the broadcast providers. The method further comprises collecting information about advertising related to the broadcast. | 02-21-2013 |
20130046576 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR BRAND PAIRING - A computer-implemented method for performing marketing research using social and information analytics. The computer is specifically programmed for performing the steps of collecting user-generated content that is associated with a user; and determining if the user-generated content contain a predetermined topic and if it does, storing the user-generated content and user information associated with the user in an audience database associated with the predetermined topic. The method may further includes receiving from a researcher computer a master topic; determining a master user list of user information associated with the master topic and for each of the plurality of the predetermined topics except for the master topic, determining the correlation between the user associated with the master topic and the users associated with each of the other predetermined topics to provide a ranked list of interests for users interested in the master topic. | 02-21-2013 |
20130046577 | Method and System for Determining Audience Response to a Sensory Stimulus - The present invention is directed to a method and system for measuring the biologically based responses of an audience to a presentation that provides sensory stimulating experience and determining a measure of the level and pattern of engagement of that audience to the presentation. In particular, the invention is directed to a method and system for measuring one or more biologically based responses of one or more persons being exposed to the presentation in order to determine the moment-to-moment pattern and overall level of engagement. Further, the invention can be used to determine whether the presentation or the content in the presentation is more effective in a population relative to other presentations (or content) and other populations and to help identify elements of the presentation that contribute to the high level of engagement and the effectiveness and success of the presentation for that population. | 02-21-2013 |
20130054303 | STAGNANT VISITOR MANAGEMENT FOR ENGAGEMENT PROGRESSION ON WEB SITES - A method and system for customizing web sites for visitor to increase the likelihood a visitor becomes deepens the relationship with the web site or becomes a customer is disclosed. A progression level design defines levels and conditions for moving between those levels. At each level, the web site is customized in predetermined ways commensurate with that level. Information on the visitor is gathered to evaluate their level and possibly upgrade or downgrade that level. Reports detail flow of visitors between levels for various time periods. Where that flow is not desired, the progression level design can be changed by adding, removing or changing levels and conditions. | 02-28-2013 |
20130054304 | METHOD OF ANALYZING A SALE PROCESS FOR AN ENTITY - A computer-implemented method determines determine an adequacy of a process to sell an entity responsive to competition, fairness, thoroughness, and good faith. A computer evaluates a sale of an entity by rating solicitation efforts associated with potential buyers of the entity (audience), by rating information about the entity prepared for potential buyers, by rating time frames surrounding the sale (timing), by rating circumstances associated with a transfer of the entity, and by rating a negotiation and execution efforts associated with the sale of the entity. Each criteria investigated is provided a weighting factor, where the weighting factor for the audience and transfer is around 0.25, the factor for the information and negotiation and execution is around 0.20, and the weighting factor for the timing is around 0.10. | 02-28-2013 |
20130054305 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING DATA STATISTICS - Providing data statistics includes receiving property information of selected products input by users, searching and locating a Standard Property Union (SPU) corresponding to the property information in a database, the SPU comprising a set of one or more products sharing a set of one or more properties, generating behavior data, including by summarizing a cumulative number of behavioral instances associated with each product in the set of products included in the SPU, and outputting the behavior data. | 02-28-2013 |
20130060601 | PRIVACY-PRESERVING ADVERTISEMENT TARGETING USING RANDOMIZED PROFILE PERTURBATION - A distribution and scheduling system for advertisements that targets ads to users and maximizes service-provider revenue without having full knowledge of user-profile information. Each user device stores a user profile and is pre-loaded with a set of ads that could possibly be shown during a timeslot. Each user device selects and displays an ad based on the user profile but does not identify the selected ad to the service provider. Instead, the user devices provide perturbed user-profile information in the form of Boolean vectors, which the service provider uses in conjunction with a guaranteed-approximation online algorithm to estimate the number of users that saw a particular ad. Thus, the service provider can charge advertisers for the number of times their ads are viewed, without knowing the users' profiles or which ads were viewed by individual users, and users can view the targeted ads while maintaining privacy from the service provider. | 03-07-2013 |
20130060602 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO DETERMINE IMPACT OF TEST SUBJECTS - Example systems and methods to determine the impact or effectiveness of a test subject on a panelist are disclosed herein. An example method involves obtaining first implicit response data from a panelist at a first time period before an interaction during which the panelist is exposed to a test subject, obtaining second implicit response data from the panelist at a second time period after the interaction, and determining an impact of the test subject on the panelist based on the first and second implicit response data. | 03-07-2013 |
20130060603 | Business Performance Forecasting System and Method - The invention disclosed is a system for providing an aggregated econometric database with selectable sources of economic data. The econometric database is accessible to a system application that graphically displays econometric data over selected periods, and allows display of external economic data in conjunction with internal company metrics. The system applications further provide for identifying the features of indicators, economic and business forecasting, and providing alerts based on the available econometric data. | 03-07-2013 |
20130066674 | MARKETPLACE FOR TIMELY EVENT DATA DISTRIBUTION - Delivering data. A method includes determining a relative monetary value of data, with respect to time, at a particular point in time. The method further includes based on the determined monetary value providing the data to a set of one or more end user consumer devices for consumers correlated to the monetary value. | 03-14-2013 |
20130066675 | DUAL-PURPOSE AUTOMATED SYSTEM THAT PROVIDES A CONSUMER INTERFACE AND A CLIENT INTERFACE - The current application discloses a dual-purpose automated system and related methods for collecting consumer data by providing a product-and-services consumer recommendation service and using the collected data to provide market research and analyses to clients. The consumer recommendation service assists consumers in evaluating and choosing particular products and services from among certain available and/or hypothetical products and services and, during operation, electronically stores information obtained from consumer interactions with the consumer recommendation service that is used as a basis for providing market-research data and analyses to retailers, manufactures, and other clients. | 03-14-2013 |
20130066676 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF ENHANCING LEADS - A client transmits one or more lead records to a lead enhancement module that is configured to enhance the received lead records and return enhanced lead records to the client. The lead enhancement module may return a contactability score for each lead record, indicating a likelihood that the individual identified in the lead may be contacted using the contact information provided in the lead record and/or additional contract information located by the lead enhancement module. The lead enhancement module may also receive additional data items associated with leads from one or more data sources. Additionally, statistical models that may be customized for each client may be applied to information associated with lead records in order to determine one or more propensity scores for each of the lead records, where a propensity score indicates a likelihood that an individual will take a particular action, such as purchasing particular goods or services. | 03-14-2013 |
20130066677 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEDIA AND COMMERCE MANAGEMENT - A system and method for media and commerce management is disclosed herein. The system includes a user interface, a customer overview module accessible through the user interface and configured to allow a user to manage customers, a search module accessible through the user interface and configured to allow the user to search for one or more of orders, customers, contacts, activities, leads campaigns, and opportunities, an activities module accessible through the user interface and configured to allow the user to manage tasks, an opportunities module accessible through the user interface and configured to allow the user to track potential opportunities for sales, a campaign module accessible through the user interface and configured to allow the user to create and manage plans to generate sales, and a leads module accessible through the user interface and configured to allow the user to manage potential customers. | 03-14-2013 |
20130073335 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LINKING KEYWORDS WITH USER PROFILING AND ITEM CATEGORIES - A system and method for linking keywords with user profiling and item categories is disclosed. A particular embodiment includes extracting keywords from a set of listings; collecting user behavior information, corresponding to the set of listings from which keywords were extracted, and associating the collected user behavior information with the extracted keywords; obtaining user demographic information corresponding to particular users associated with the collected user behavior information and generating a corresponding user demographic background; and associating the extracted keywords with the user demographic background. A particular embodiment also includes correlating particular keywords with merchandise categories or other merchandise characteristics. | 03-21-2013 |
20130073336 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING GLOBAL LOCATION INFORMATION, 2D AND 3D MAPPING, SOCIAL MEDIA, AND USER BEHAVIOR AND INFORMATION FOR A CONSUMER FEEDBACK SOCIAL MEDIA ANALYTICS PLATFORM FOR PROVIDING ANALYTIC MEASFUREMENTS DATA OF ONLINE CONSUMER FEEDBACK FOR GLOBAL BRAND PRODUCTS OR SERVICES OF PAST, PRESENT, OR FUTURE CUSTOMERS, USERS OR TARGET MARKETS - A method, apparatus, non-transitory computer readable storage medium, computer system, network, or system, is provided for using location information, 2D and 3D mapping, social media, and user behavior and information to provide alternative a consumer feedback social media analytics platforms for providing analytic measurements data of online consumer feedback for global brand products or services of past, present or future customers, users, and/or target markets, for companies, organizations, government agencies, and the like, by electronically collecting and analyzing, on a networked computer system using a processor, qualitative or quantitative online social media online communications, activity, and online communications and activity relevant to consumer products or services, or promotions thereof, of interest, in order to provide targeted, location based, 2D or 3D mapped, or impressions to generate online location information data or promotions to provide improved or desired customer perception or sentiment regarding a company's products, services or promotions thereof | 03-21-2013 |
20130085802 | Publication of efficiency and ecological impact data to a social media interface - Systems and methods for determining efficiency-of-use scores related to uses of a product by two or more users may implement operations including, but not limited to: computing at least one of an efficiency-of-use score and an environmental impact quantification according to data associated with a use of a physical product by a user over a period of time the user is indicated as having control of the physical product; and publishing the at least one of an efficiency-of-use score and an ecological impact quantification associated with the use of the product by the user to a social media interface. | 04-04-2013 |
20130085803 | BRAND ANALYSIS - A system provides an analysis of a the strength or weakness of a brand as reflected in both on-line and off-line media. The system automatically retrieves data relating to a particular brand from a plurality of different media channels which may reflect inputs received from the various media channels, perhaps in response to advertisement campaigns. The system generates a score for each media channel which reflects a comparison of the inputs that were received for the brand relative to other similarly situated entities. An aggregate score is generated from the scores that have been generated for the various media channels. Scores and analysis reflecting a relative strength and weakness for a brand are presented. | 04-04-2013 |
20130085804 | ONLINE MARKETING, MONITORING AND CONTROL FOR MERCHANTS - Systems and methods of online marketing, monitoring and control for merchants are disclosed. Third party providers are crawled to obtain information about a plurality of merchants and correlate the merchant information to create a merchant database. Third party providers are monitored for merchant information, and information about the merchants is stored. Alerts are provided to subscribing merchants when an alert trigger is identified within the system or at a third party provider. The method allows the subscribing merchant to view and respond to reviews, view and maintain online listings, prepare and send consumer offers, and prepare and send communications to consumers, all directly from the system. The method allows the subscribing merchant to view information and analyses for competing merchants. An overall marketing score for merchants is prepared and displayed. The method may be performed on a server and accessed via an Internet browser and mobile device applications. | 04-04-2013 |
20130085805 | PRIORITIZING MARKETING LEADS BASED ON SOCIAL MEDIA POSTINGS - A system may prioritize marketing leads. Each marketing lead may identify a prospect for a marketing effort. The system may include a computer data processing system that is configured to: query a computer system for social media postings made in a social media network system by each prospect; determine whether each prospect is a good candidate for the marketing effort based on the results of the query; and store information indicative of the determination. | 04-04-2013 |
20130090979 | Relationship prediction system using external databases - A Relationship Prediction System Using External Databases for providing a relationship prediction based on the correlation of personal characteristics and the analysis of genetic characteristics is disclosed. In one embodiment, a first person supplies descriptions of their own personal characteristics, as well as descriptions of the personal characteristics of their ideal match, to a website. The first person also furnishes an odor, tissue or fluid sample to a test facility, where genetic characteristics are analyzed and determined. A relationship match is then generated based on both a combination of both a positive correlation of the personal characteristics of the first person and second person, and a measured dissimilarity between the sequence of genetic characteristics of the first person and second person. In one embodiment, personal characteristics are obtained from one or more external webpages. | 04-11-2013 |
20130090980 | SYSTEM & METHOD FOR TRACKING MEMBERS OF AN AFFINITY GROUP - A system and method for affinity groups to enable peer-to-peer engagement, raise the relationship state of their membership and increase the probability of members making a purchase combined with a vehicle to accept a payment for a purchase. The system and method also allows an affinity group to capture and solicit a member while he/she is in a higher state before, at or subsequent to an engagement activity. The system and method include a central server or group of servers that the affinity group operates. The server includes software that enables the management of an electronic network of both peer-to-peer interaction and central-based interactions. The system and method uses data collected about the members, including historical data of previous affinity group activities and events to make predictions on when and what to offer members the opportunity to make purchases or donations related to the affinity group. Such offers are referred to as “Asks”. The system and method also provide for creating meetups for members, both planned and impromptu. | 04-11-2013 |
20130090981 | Location and Time Specific Mobile Participation Platform - A mobile participation platform enables a wireless network operator or third party to solicit response data related to a specific time and location specific event by signaling multiple mobile device users that meet predefined qualifications. The qualifications include presence at the specific location at the specific time, and may include other characteristics, such as prior consent to receive solicitations, and particular device type or data collection functionality. The platform locates mobile devices that may qualify for participation, and generates and transmits a solicitation. Mobile devices receiving the solicitation may activate a participation client to acknowledge the solicitation and to contribute by submitting the requested response data, which may include photos, text, sensor data, audio, video and the like. The qualifications are verified, the response data is validated, and anonymity and privacy are maintained by associating the mobile device and other pertinent non-identifying information with an encrypted identifier. | 04-11-2013 |
20130090982 | INSTITUTIONAL PROVIDED DATA SHARE PLATFORM - Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system, method, or computer program product for an institution provided data share platform. The institution provided data share platform allows customers and commercial partners to access data the institution may have. Specific platform data access may be limited and/or monitored by the institution to ensure customer safety and privacy compliance. Allowing access to the institution data provides a customer the means to create customized applications utilizing the data in combination with data provided by the customer. In return for access to the platform, the institution may recover assessments based on the application the customer creates. | 04-11-2013 |
20130096981 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZING COMMUNICATION ABOUT ENTERTAINMENT - A method for optimizing communication about entertainment events, including live music events. The method can include acquiring entertainment event data from a plurality of data sources, acquiring artist data, acquiring social media data, providing an application that allows a user of the application to access information associated with the entertainment event, wherein the user can save their favorite venues or artists, flag upcoming events, access special promotions, or share their plans and interests via social media, and creating a database, wherein the database includes information related to users, events, artists, venues, advertisers, and publications. The method may also include features for gamification of activity within the application and tracking of a “buzz” score to identify artists gaining in popularity. | 04-18-2013 |
20130096982 | INTEREST LEVEL ESTIMATION APPARATUS, INTEREST LEVEL ESTIMATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An interest level estimation apparatus | 04-18-2013 |
20130103455 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING AND INCREASING BUSINESS ACTIVITY - Systems and methods for determining relative business volume for a given time frame between a specific retail establishment and other comparable retail establishments. A database storing retail transactions for multiple retail establishments is accessed for data relating to retail transactions for a specific retail establishment. These transactions are for a specific time period in question. Retail transactions for other retail establishments that are comparable to the specific retail establishment are also retrieved for the same time period. These transactions for the other establishments are then aggregated to render the data anonymous. The aggregated data is then processed on a per-retail establishment basis and compared to the data for the specific retail establishment. If the specific retail establishment is considered to have lower business transactions than the other establishments, the data retrieved is then analyzed and promotional events designed to increase business for the specific retail establishment are then recommended. | 04-25-2013 |
20130110581 | EXTENSIBILITY MODEL FOR USAGE ANALYTICS USED WITH A SYSTEM | 05-02-2013 |
20130110582 | Method and System for Creating a Database for a Food-Related Social Network and Method of Utilizing the Database | 05-02-2013 |
20130110583 | MULTIPLE SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORK ANALYSIS FOR USER CONFLATION AND RELATED ADVERTISING METHODS | 05-02-2013 |
20130117067 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DEMAND-WEIGHTED SELECTION OF SALES OUTLETS - In embodiments disclosed herein, a computer may operate to determine, for each member in a set and each non-member under consideration for the set, an expected revenue to be passed to a parent organization. The expected revenue may be determined utilizing a plurality of weighted features. Members in the set may be ranked according to their expected revenues. Top performing members in the set may be protected to ensure their expected revenues. Bottom performing members may be removed from the set and/or replaced with new members outside of geographical protective areas of the top performing members. The optimization process can be repeated until the set of members can satisfy an existing demand while maximizing revenue for the parent organization. | 05-09-2013 |
20130117068 | ENTERPRISE DATA MATCHING - A system and method for managing media advertising enterprise data including a process for learning enterprise data matching. An EDM (Enterprise Data Management) application module can be configured to include a set of rules at an enterprise level to manage disparate and disconnected records associated with an entity. A number of unmatched and enterprise entities that matches with respect to an active entity can be returned based on a fuzzy logic associated with various matching options stored in an EDM database. A matching process can then be performed to accurately match similar records regardless of manual input, location, and format of the records in a distributed system. Each unmatched record can then be assigned with a parent enterprise entity. Such an optimization mechanism can interactively manage and report records at the enterprise level in a simple and efficient manner. | 05-09-2013 |
20130124257 | ENGAGEMENT SCORING - Systems and methods determine an engagement score reflecting a level of engagement for a customer with a company. The engagement score is determined using data from past interactions the customer has had with the company and using other factors such as sentiment expressed in interactions and the recency of interactions. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124258 | Methods and Systems for Identifying Customer Status for Developing Customer Retention and Loyality Strategies - Embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods and systems for developing customer retention and loyalty strategies. In one aspect, a method comprises calculating ( | 05-16-2013 |
20130124259 | LEAD MANAGEMENT IN BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS SALES - Methods and systems record and analyze visitors' interactions with a website aimed at turning the visitors into qualified sales leads. Lead scoring may be used, wherein a lead score is based on interactions with content, navigation through a website, and the providing of information from the visitor. Events (e.g., above-threshold lead scores) may prompt a request for information from the visitor. Providing information may increase a profile level and allow access to previously gated website content. Visitor information and/or associated business information may be stored in a user profile. Additionally, interests of the visitor and/or an associated business area may be ascertained. The interests, lead score, and progressive profiles may be used to tailor content and organization of the website, to suggest content and business solutions to the visitor, and to determine if/when a visitor is qualified as a lead, and thus ready for contact from a sales team. | 05-16-2013 |
20130132152 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETERMINE MEDIA IMPRESSIONS - Example methods and apparatus to determine media impressions are disclosed. An example method includes determining a tail of panelists associated with monitoring information received from a panel, determining that the tail is the cause of volatility in the monitoring information, and adjusting monitoring information associated with the tail to reduce the volatility. | 05-23-2013 |
20130138475 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSACTION-BASED SALES LEAD GENERATION - Systems, methods and apparatus for determining vendors relevant to a transaction. The relevance can be based on a number of factors, such as transaction data, timing data, and behavioral data. The relevant vendors can change over time as additional data become available. | 05-30-2013 |
20130138476 | DISTRIBUTED COMMERCE SYSTEM - A networked system for managing commercial interactions is providing. In some embodiments, the system includes: a bundle-passing interface between a plurality of networked users including distribution logic including a distribution control input responsive to machine-readable information in the bundles; and a statistics collection engine including a control input responsive to machine-readable information in the bundles. | 05-30-2013 |
20130144682 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING COMMUNICATION SERVICES BASED ON USER BEHAVIOR AND RELATIVE TRENDING PATTERNS - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for enhancing communication services based on relative trending. A system configured to practice the method identifies, from a set of historical communication data associated with a user, relative trending data. Based on the relative trending data, the system identifies a plurality of communication periods within the historical communication data. For a time series associated with one of the communication periods, the system identifies a relative trending pattern in the relative trending data, and performs an action based on a comparison of current communication data to the relative trending pattern for a respective communication period. The communication period can be a fixed, recurring duration of time. The relative trending data is typically associated with at least one variable, which may be, for example, a second user. The system can identify and use trend peaks, patterns, and confidence levels in this approach. | 06-06-2013 |
20130144683 | DETERMINING RESIDENTIAL TRANSACTION PRICE INDICES BASED ON PRIOR TRANSACTION PRICES - A residential index valuation server is operative to determine transaction price indices for corresponding transaction price bands of residential transactions. The residential index valuation server may include a residential transaction database operative to store a plurality of residential transactions, a residential index database operative to store a plurality of transaction price indices, and a data sufficiency rules engine comprising a plurality of data sufficiency rules for evaluating the data sufficiency of residential transaction information. The residential index valuation server may aggregate a selected plurality of the residential transactions into a plurality of transaction price bands according to a plurality of residential comparable characteristics. The residential index valuation server may then determine a transaction price index for one or more of the transaction price bands. When requested by a client device, the residential index valuation server may report one or more of the transaction price indices. | 06-06-2013 |
20130144684 | IDENTIFYING AND EXPOSING ITEM PURCHASE TENDENCIES OF USERS THAT BROWSE PARTICULAR ITEMS - A data mining system generates data values reflecting purchase tendencies of users who browse particular items in an electronic catalog. The data values may include conditional probability values representing, for example, a probability that, if a user makes a purchase after browsing a first particular item, the user will purchase a second particular item. The data values may be used to provide notifications on product pages of an electronic catalog. For example, an item detail page for a first item may be supplemented with a notification of one or more other items that tend to be purchased by those who browse the first item. | 06-06-2013 |
20130151307 | DERIVING MARKET INTELLIGENCE FROM SOCIAL CONTENT - Methods and arrangements for deriving market intelligence. Guidelines for deriving mercantile intelligence are input, and social content data is mined. A map is generated which reconciles the social content data with the guidelines, and elements related to mercantile intelligence are extracted from the map. A mercantile intelligence report is output. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151308 | Lifecycle Obsolescence Forecasting Tool - A lifecycle obsolescence forecasting system. The system may include a data integrator configured to receive part information for a plurality of parts. The system may include a sustainability optimizer configured to receive one or more sustainability requirements for a part in the plurality of parts. The system may include a forecaster coupled to the data integrator and the sustainability optimizer, wherein the forecaster may be configured to analyze the part information and the one or more sustainability requirements to establish a component stock-out date for the part, wherein the component stock-out date may comprise a date when a last spare of the part is forecast to be removed from stock, and wherein the component stock-out date may be established as a function of at least the part usage rate and a corresponding failure rate of the part. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151309 | DERIVING MARKET INTELLIGENCE FROM SOCIAL CONTENT - Methods and arrangements for deriving market intelligence. Guidelines for deriving mercantile intelligence are input, and social content data is mined. A map is generated which reconciles the social content data with the guidelines, and elements related to mercantile intelligence are extracted from the map. A mercantile intelligence report is output. | 06-13-2013 |
20130159051 | System and Method for Enhanced Information Gathering - A flexible, extensible, and dynamically configurable Content Collection, Aggregation, and Enhancement Facility (CCAEF) that a (e.g., small or mid-size) merchant may employ and which would leverage aspects of the merchant's existing infrastructure (such as for example a merchant's Web site)—with for example no or minimal effort or intervention on the part of the merchant—to inter alia develop all of the required data so that the merchant can fully engage a Real-Time Offer Management System (RTOMS), or other such system, and thus more effectively compete with large merchants in the world of commerce. | 06-20-2013 |
20130166347 | UTILITY FOR DETERMINING COMPETITIVE RESTAURANTS - A utility for determining the competitors of a subject restaurant accesses a database that contains information about other, nearby restaurants. The utility assigns a competitor score to each restaurant within the maximum radius based on the distance from the subject restaurant, as well as the cuisine types, menus, and order histories of the subject and competitor restaurants. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166348 | Utility for Creating Heatmaps for the Study of Competitive Advantage in the Restaurant Marketplace - A utility builds and displays heatmaps of competitive activity that aid in studying the competitive advantage of a particular restaurant. The heatmaps are constructed based on activity logged with a restaurant service, and available within the restaurant service's database(s). | 06-27-2013 |
20130166349 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ACCESS TO AN AUDIENCE - A method of matching a buyer and a seller of audience access includes storing a plurality of profiles associated with a respective plurality of performers by a computing system. Each of the plurality of performers offers access to an audience having one or more distinct characteristics. At least one of the distinct characteristics of the audience associated with each of the performers is determined. A discovery request is received from a requestor. The discovery request identifies one or more target audience characteristics. The computing system compares the one or more target audience characteristics of the discovery request with the determined at least one of the distinct characteristics of the audience. At least one of the plurality of performers matching the discovery request is identified based on the comparing. The identified at least one performer is output over the network in response to the request. | 06-27-2013 |
20130173333 | PRIORITIZING SOCIAL ACTIVITY POSTINGS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for prioritizing social activity postings. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a request for prioritized social activity postings, the request being associated with a company identifier. Social activity postings are identified. The social activity postings are available to users on a social activity system of one or more computers, and each social activity posting is associated with a user identifier. For each social activity posting, the user identifier associated with the social activity posting is matched with a customer identifier associated with the company identifier. A respective priority rating is determined for the social activity posting using configuration information associated with the customer identifier. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173334 | INFERRING USER DEMOGRAPHICS THROUGH NETWORK ACTIVITY RECORDS - Personal information on a networked client computer is used by a server from which the device has requested information to infer demographic characteristics of the user of the client computer in order to add customized content to the requested information. The personal information provided to the server is gathered from the use of network browser software by the client computer and includes cookies, history and bookmarks. Inferring demographic characteristics of the user involves application of predetermined demographics inference rules stored by the server to the personal information provided by the client. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173335 | LIFESTYLE APPLICATION PLATFORM - A lifestyle application platform receives consumer information from a user device associated with a consumer, where the consumer information includes preference, demographic, identity, relationship, transactional, and location information associated with the consumer. The lifestyle application platform creates a consumer profile for the consumer based on the consumer information, and receives enterprise information from an enterprise device associated with an enterprise, where the enterprise information includes consumer interaction, transaction, and wish list information associated with the enterprise. The lifestyle application platform performs an analysis of the consumer information and the enterprise information, and provides, to the user device, notifications, reports, and offers, associated with the enterprise and relevant to the consumer, based on the analysis. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173336 | LIFESTYLE APPLICATION FOR CONSUMERS - A user device receives consumer information from a consumer, where the consumer information includes preference information, demographic information, identity information, relationship information, and location information associated with the consumer. The user device provides the consumer information to a lifestyle application platform, and receives, from the lifestyle application platform, a consumer profile for the consumer based on the consumer information. The user device receives, from the lifestyle application platform, notifications, reports, and offers, associated with an enterprise and relevant to the consumer, based on the consumer profile, and provides the notifications, reports, and offers for display to the consumer. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173337 | LIFESTYLE APPLICATION FOR ENTERPRISES - An enterprise device receives, from a lifestyle application platform, consumer profile information for a consumer associated with a user device, where the consumer profile information is relevant to an enterprise associated with the enterprise device. The enterprise device provides a portion of the consumer profile information to other enterprise devices associated with other enterprises, and receives additional consumer profile information from the other enterprise devices. The enterprise device creates enterprise information based on the consumer profile information and the additional consumer profile information, where the enterprise information is relevant to the consumer. The enterprise device provides the enterprise information to the lifestyle application platform, and the lifestyle application platform provides the enterprise information to the user device. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173338 | CONTEXT RICH CONSENT CONTROLLED FOOD PURCHASE MANAGEMENT - A network of computers/portable devices that can capture context rich information about purchases and creates a shared secret system that can be used to exchange data between one or more retailers, one or more manufacturers and one or more consumers. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173339 | FOOD MANAGEMENT SERVICES - A food chain procurement and consumption management service tailored to support consumer specific goals that may evolve and be altered over time. While described in terms of the preferred embodiment, the system for procurement and consumption management may be adapted to encompass products and services that are not food specific. | 07-04-2013 |
20130179216 | ESTIMATING THE SPEND CAPACITY OF CONSUMER HOUSEHOLDS - The spend capacity of a consumer typically increases as the number of consumers in the household increases, since the consumer can draw on the spending power of other consumers in the household. The size of wallet of the household is thus a better indicator of the consumer's spend capacity than an individual size of wallet. All consumers in a given household can be aggregated based on, for example, their address of record. Duplicate tradelines within each household are removed from consideration in a size of wallet estimate. A spend capacity is then estimated for each tradeline using calculations derived from a consumer behavior model. The spend capacities for all tradelines in the household are combined to determine a household size of wallet. Each consumer in the household is then tagged with the household size of wallet, rather than their individual size of wallet. | 07-11-2013 |
20130179217 | REFERRED INTERNET TRAFFIC ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND METHOD - Methods and a system for exploiting the secondary traffic generated by social networking sites are disclosed. Traffic on a commercial website is constantly monitored by a web analytics tool, which collects traffic measurements of hits, button presses, enquiries, purchases etc., as well as the referrer URL of a site such as a social networking site through which the commercial website is accessed. The collected measurements are forwarded to a Referred Traffic Analysis System. Concurrently, the Referred Traffic Analysis System crawls the Internet and collects a large number of social networking sites, analyses their content by extracting insight terms and phrases from them. In a third step, the collected traffic measurements are correlated with the collected insights from the social networking sites, and the top insights that reoccur frequently enough to appear to be a driver for the measurements observed, are presented to the client. A corresponding system is also provided. | 07-11-2013 |
20130179218 | SELLER CONVERSION FACTOR TO RANKING SCORE FOR PRESENTED ITEM LISTINGS - Various embodiments include a method and system for a seller conversion factor to ranking score for presented item listings. In an online marketplace with sellers and item listings, multiple-item item listings within fixed-price listings can be identified. The multiple-item item listings can each offer for sale a plurality of equivalent items and the multiple-item item listings can be a subset of item listings corresponding to a seller. An aggregate sales value can be calculated for each of the multiple-item item listings by identifying the number of sales corresponding to a multiple-item item listing. An impressions value can be calculated for the multiple-item item listings. An aggregate sales factor can be calculated using the aggregate sales value and the impressions value. The aggregate sales factor can be used as a component in an item listing quality score for some item listings of the seller. | 07-11-2013 |
20130185115 | PARKING REWARD SYSTEM - A combination parking and shopping system comprising a data collection system for collecting purchase data of a user of the system, a parking entry machine comprising a portable user device dispenser, and a parking station comprising an identity input device and a data input device. The data collection system comprises a data input device for receiving the purchase data from a portable user device, an identity input device for receiving a user identification input in association with the purchase data, and a communication interface for communicating with a user database adapted to store user records corresponding to respective users of the system. The records comprise purchase data of the respective users. The communication interface is adapted to output to the user database the purchase data received by the data input device in association with a user identifier comprising or derived from the user identification input received by the identity input device, for storage in a user record of the user database corresponding to the user identifier. | 07-18-2013 |
20130191178 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SECURE REGISTRATION, AUTHENTICATION, VALUATION AND EXCHANGE OF VIRTUAL GOODS AND OBJECTS - Systems and methods for management of virtual goods and objects including registration, authentication, market valuation and exchange thereof. Any virtual good or object may be registered via a Virtual Content Integration module which collects information about the virtual good or object from the creator thereof which, when complete, is transmitted to a Virtual Content Authentication module, where ownership information is embedded within the virtual good or object as meta data and/or cross referenced by the metadata within an authentication registry. All transactions involving the virtual good or object are transmitted through and referenced by a Virtual Content Transaction module. All transactions managed by the system and method are evaluated by a Virtual Content Exchange module which determines the real world equilibrium price of the virtual good or object based on estimated supply and demand curves to establish the parameters for and provide a commodity exchange for virtual goods and objects. | 07-25-2013 |
20130197968 | BEHAVIORAL FINGERPRINTING WITH RETAIL MONITORING - Disclosed herein are example embodiments for behavioral fingerprinting with retail monitoring. For certain example embodiments, one or more devices may: (i) communicate for at least one interaction related to a user of a user device in a behavioral fingerprint habitat; or (ii) administer at least an aspect of at least one interaction related to a user of a user device in a behavioral fingerprint habitat. However, claimed subject matter is not limited to any particular described embodiments, implementations, examples, or so forth. | 08-01-2013 |
20130197969 | USING COMMERCIAL SHARE OF WALLET TO RATE BUSINESS PROSPECTS - Commercial size of spending wallet (“CSoSW”) is the total business spend of a business including cash but excluding bartered items. Commercial share of wallet (“CSoW”) is the portion of the spending wallet that is captured by a particular financial company. A modeling approach utilizes various data sources to provide outputs that describe a company's spend capacity. Research analysts can use CSoW/CSoSW to provide a comprehensive and robust indication of the business prospects of a rated company. | 08-01-2013 |
20130204657 | FILTERING REDUNDANT CONSUMER TRANSACTION RULES - Redundancy filtering for consumer transaction rules can be achieved via a variety of techniques. A support band can be used to cluster rules during redundancy analysis. Bit vectors can be used to identify redundant rules. Other features, such as anyfication can be used to advantage. Various benchmarks can be used to demonstrate improved performance. | 08-08-2013 |
20130204658 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING EFFECTIVENESS OF INTERNET MARKETING - A system for improving effectiveness of Internet marketing contains a memory and a processor configured by the memory to perform the steps of: assuming that all entities within a beginning entity list are from a first social product market network; determining information about at least one entity of the beginning entity list that can be tracked on the Internet by following a footprint of the at least one entity; running a qualification process on each new entity, attribute, and/or link discovered during following of the footprint of the at least one entity of the beginning entity list to validate relevance of the new entity, attribute, and/or link discovered to the product market network of the beginning entity list; storing entities, attributes, and/or links determined to be relevant during the step of running a qualification process; determining information about the new entity by tracking the information on the Internet and following a footprint of the new entity; and running a qualification process on each additional new entity, attribute, and/or link discovered during following of the footprint of the new entity. | 08-08-2013 |
20130211874 | System and Method for Mass Production and Sale of Configurable and Personalized Tablet Computers - A method to mass produce and sell electronic devices using open architecture manufacturing model and group-buying business model is provided. A group-buying company receives a plurality of offers to buy electronic devices from a plurality of consumers, and each offer is associated with a minimum requirement for each corresponding electronic device. The group-buying company determines one or more final device configurations of a plurality of electronic devices that satisfies the minimum requirements of all the offers, and all the electronic devices are substantially identical to be sold to the plurality of consumers as a group-buying deal. The group-buying company then arranges a single run of the identical electronic devices to be mass produced by a third entity. Finally, the group-buying company supplies the identical electronic devices to each of the plurality of consumers. | 08-15-2013 |
20130211875 | COLLECTION AND PROCESSING OF PRODUCT CONSUMPTION TIMELINES - Disclosed herein are apparatus and methods for collecting and utilizing product consumption cycle information from product purchasers. In one example a method comprises, responsive to a purchase of a product by a purchaser, selecting an end of use criteria for the product from a plurality of end of use criteria, determining a length of a consumption cycle of the product based on the end of use criteria, recording information identifying the purchaser, the product, and the length of the consumption cycle in an electronic database, and contacting the purchaser proximate expiration of the consumption cycle. | 08-15-2013 |
20130211876 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLLECTION, AGGREGATION, ANALYSIS, REPORTING, AND MONETIZATION OF PERSONAL DATA GENERATED ACROSS HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS AND DEVICES - A method and system is disclosed for the authorization, collection, analysis, reporting, and monetization of personal data collected from heterogeneous external systems and electronic devices. The inventive system designates acting users as either data sellers or data purchasers. Data sellers may authorize the system for collecting personal data associated with accounts they hold across external systems or on digitally-accessible electronic devices. Collected data, as well as analytics and charting based on collected data, is reportable in various forms to the data seller. The inventive system defines a mechanism for allowing sellers direct access for monetizing their personal data. Data purchasers may attempt engaging with data sellers to create a data-based transaction: the seller receives some pre-defined benefit or incentive for participating in the transaction; the purchaser receives access to data, data-based analytics, or some form of digital or physical response from the seller. | 08-15-2013 |
20130218631 | LIFECYCLE CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A system for lifecycle relationship management in an electronics device. Lifecycle data is collected, wherein this includes hardware data with respect to operation of hardware units in the device, utilization data with respect to operation of utilization units in the device, and user data present in the device that identifies the user. A cycle message is transmitted to a remote server on a communications network, wherein this cycle message is based on the lifecycle data. An offer message is received from a remote server on the communications network, wherein this offer message includes offer data that is based on the lifecycle data in at least one prior cycle message. An offer is then presented on a display of the electronics device to the user, wherein this offer is based on the offer data, and a user choice is accepted with an input sub-unit based on the offer. | 08-22-2013 |
20130218632 | CATEGORY-AGNOSTIC LEADSTORE - A lead store system may receive a plurality of leads in a plurality of formats. The leads may include a set of information about a prospective customer who may desire to purchase a good or service. The leads may be converted into a universal format and, on some occasions, the universal format being category and/or industry agnostic. The converted leads may be stored in a database and when a request for a lead from a lead buyer is received a criterion included in the lead request may be matched to a stored converted lead. The matching lead may them be provided to the lead buyer. | 08-22-2013 |
20130218633 | VIEWING IMAGES FOR REVIEW IN MERGED IMAGE FORM AND WITH PARAMETER-BASED IMAGE PROCESSING - A method involves on-line viewing of a first article through a linking node for virtual merging on another structure. A particular application of the invention is directed to on-line apparel shopping involving a matching scheme using codes provided with images to be merged. For example, on-line viewing of one article, such as clothing, on another structure, includes creating an item from image-data corresponding to an article selected by an on-line viewer from an on-line viewer site with an image of a structure selected by the on-line viewer, and indicating whether the article and the structure satisfy a category-matching criterion. In certain embodiments, the articles are represented by (search) parameters that permit organizational advantages. | 08-22-2013 |
20130218634 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LEAD MANAGEMENT AND LITERATURE DELIVERY - A lead management and literature delivery system includes: a controller configured to: receive information identifying a user, the information received including electronic contact information; receive a selection of one or more electronic items to be provided to the identified user; electronically deliver the one or more selected electronic items to the user using the electronic contact information; assign a relationship between the identified user and a sales representative; and automatically notify the sales representative of the assigned relationship, information relating to the user identification and the electronic items delivered to the user. | 08-22-2013 |
20130226654 | PLANT-CULTIVATION CONTROL SYSTEM AND CONTOL METHOD - A plant-cultivation control method includes: receiving a number of types of agricultural products and quantities of each type inputted by a first user, and storing the information in a memory. Receive a desired type and desired quantity of the desired type inputted by a second user. Querying available quantity of the desired type, and determine if the available quantity is at least equal to the desired quantity. Indicate to the second user to adjust plan when the available quantity is less than the desired quantity. Indicate to the second user to select updating or not updating the quantity remaining when the available quantity is more than or equal to the desired quantity. Subtracting the desired quantity from the available quantity when the second user selects updating and storing the updated available quantity in the memory. A plant-cultivation control system is also provided. | 08-29-2013 |
20130226655 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF CUSTOMER MOVEMENT AND INTEGRATION WITH OTHER DATA - Movement patterns for customers in a retail environment are quantified using a set of movement traces. The quantifications are correlated with other retail metrics to determine which patterns are conducive to positive results for the retailer. In an implementation, first and second distributions are generated using the movement traces. One of the first or second distributions is compared to another of the first or second distributions. A value is calculated indicating a degree of difference between the distributions. In another implementation, a set of node sequences representing paths of customers in the retail environment are obtained. The node sequences are associated with consumer behavior patterns. A target customer is tracked and a target node sequence representing a current path of the target customer is generated. The target node sequence is compared with the set of node sequences to make a prediction about the target customer. | 08-29-2013 |
20130226656 | DETERMINING INFLUENCE OF A PERSON BASED ON USER GENERATED CONTENT - Techniques are disclosed relating to determining an influence rating for an author of user-generated content (UGC) items. In one embodiment, a computer system analyses consumer behavior of individuals viewing UGC items authored by a particular person about one or more goods or services. Based on the analyzing, the computer system determines an influence rating for the particular person predictive of the particular person's ability to affect the consumer behavior of subsequent viewers of UGC items authored by the particular person. In some embodiments, the analyzing includes determining navigation actions performed by individuals within websites that display UGC items of the particular person. In some embodiments, the computer system also determines an expertise metric for the person indicative of the person's expertise relative to a good or service, and determines the influence rating based on the expertise metric. | 08-29-2013 |
20130226657 | Digital Consumer Data Model And Customer Analytic Record - As a company expands its businesses to include digital products and services in addition to more traditional telecommunications and media offerings, digital consumption data may be used along with telecommunications consumption data and other customer-centric information in order to create a more comprehensive data model and make better predictions. A customer-centric data model identifies entities with data from diverse locations and product sectors associated with a single customer. Customer analytic records aggregate existing data into base variables and store it for each customer along with additional variables generated by performing calculations on exiting data. Both the data model and the customer analytic records can be used by the company to make more accurate business and marketing decisions. | 08-29-2013 |
20130226658 | CONTENT ANALYZING SYSTEM, CONTENT ANALYZING APPARATUS, CONTENT ANALYZING METHOD, AND CONTENT ANALYZING PROGRAM - A contents analysis system comprises a user terminal, and a contents analysis device which receives a predetermined request from the user terminal and returns a result, wherein the contents analysis device comprises a propagation pattern extraction unit which extracts a pattern of propagation indicating, with respect to each of contents included in history data formed of histories of use of a plurality of contents, how the content propagated to a user, and a correlation calculation unit which obtains a correlation between the patterns of propagation of the contents. | 08-29-2013 |
20130231974 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO QUANTIFY CONSUMER SENTIMENT BASED ON TRANSACTION DATA - A computing apparatus is configured to quantify consumer sentiment at an aggregated or micro level using transaction data that records the transactions processed by a transaction handler of a payment system. A quantification model is generated based on correlating transaction data with respective emotional content indices extracted from data sources, such as regional news, weather, stock markets, movie themes, local sports, employment, traffic conditions, etc. Using the quantification model, consumer sentiment can be evaluated at various granularity levels, based on the granularity of the user group and the time period of the transaction data used in the quantification model. | 09-05-2013 |
20130231975 | PRODUCT CYCLE ANALYSIS USING SOCIAL MEDIA DATA - Systems and methods for product cycle analysis using social media data are provided herein. Some exemplary methods may include evaluating social media conversations for an author, executing a semiotic analysis of the social media conversations to categorize the social media conversations, and computing a product commitment score for the author, for social media conversation having been categorize within a product commitment score domain. | 09-05-2013 |
20130238390 | INFORMING SALES STRATEGIES USING SOCIAL NETWORK EVENT DETECTION-BASED ANALYTICS - A method of informing sales strategies using a social network includes receiving an input from an organization, wherein the input comprises information relating to an item for sale, extracting sales data from a first database, event history data from a second database, and action history data from a third database, wherein the sales data represents past sales of the item, the event history data represents past events, and the action history data represents past actions taken by the organization, establishing a connection with the social network via a communication network, monitoring a real-time data stream via the connection to the social network for mentions relating to the item, and generating an action recommendation relating to the item based on the sales data, event history data, action history data, and mentions relating to the item. | 09-12-2013 |
20130238391 | PRODUCT ORIENTED WEB SITE ANALYTICS - A system for generating web page analytics generates a plurality of web pages that each include a plurality of products and a plurality of web page sections, and each product is displayed in at least one of the sections of the web page. The system receives a plurality of selections by a user of one or more of the products and, for each selection, logs data that includes a selected product and a section of the web page where the selected product was displayed when it was selected by the user. The system then generates web page analytics from the logged data, where the analytics are based at least on the selected product and the corresponding section of the web page where the selected product was displayed. | 09-12-2013 |
20130238392 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, APPARATUSES, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR FACILITATING INTERACTION AND INTERCONNECTIVITY IN A LIVE ENTERTAINMENT SETTING - Systems, methods, apparatuses and computer program products are provided herein for facilitating interaction and interconnectivity in a live entertainment setting. In this regard, in some example embodiments, users (e.g., attendees of live entertainment events) are provided with a credential object, which may contain a readable indication uniquely identifying a user, such as a near field communication (NFC), radio frequency identification (RFID) tag, bar code, or the like that may be used to facilitate an interactive experience for a user, collect information about the user and the user's social media network, and/or provide interconnectivity between multiple users. The credential object may take any of a variety of forms, such as, by way of non-limiting example, a name tag, ticket, badge, wrist band, mobile device or other object in which an RFID tag may be embedded. The user is incentivized through virtual or real rewards to use the credential object in connection with, for example, participation in specific activities, purchase of products, or fulfilling an objective associated with an event. | 09-12-2013 |
20130238393 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BRAND MONITORING AND TREND ANALYSIS BASED ON DEEP-CONTENT-CLASSIFICATION - A system and method for monitoring a brand sentiment through a plurality of different web sources are provided. The method comprises receiving a request to monitor a brand; searching the plurality of web sources for multimedia content elements related to the brand; generating at least one signature for each multimedia content element determined to be related to the brand, wherein each of the at least one generated signatures represents a concept; and correlating the concepts respective of the generated signatures to determine a context of the multimedia content elements determined to be related to the brand, wherein the context is the brand sentiment. | 09-12-2013 |
20130246120 | Systems and Methods Determining a Merchant Persona - The method of processing an analysis cycle to determine interest merchants may include selecting a seed merchant relevant to a topic interest, identifying consumers that have completed a transaction with the seed merchant to generate a list of identified consumers, determining merchants visited by the identified consumers, scoring all the merchants based on network connectivity, activity, and merchant over-index, updating the seed merchant in response to the list of scored merchants relative to a scoring threshold, and scoring the list of identified consumers based on the number of distinct merchants in transaction and over-indexing. Additionally, the method may further comprise producing a list of updated interest merchants and a list of updated identified consumers, where the updated interest merchants and the updated identified consumers are relevant to the topic interest. | 09-19-2013 |
20130253980 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASSOCIATING BRAND ATTRIBUTES WITH A USER - An approach is provided for associating one or more attributes of a brand with one or more users. A brand association platform determines one or more attributes for one or more branded objects associated with at least one user, at least one device associated with the at least one user, or a combination thereof. The brand association platform then processes and/or facilitates a processing of the one or more attributes to determine profile information associated with the at least one user, the at least one device, or a combination thereof. | 09-26-2013 |
20130253981 | PROVIDING MARKETING ANALYTICS RELATED TO A SALES OPPORTUNITY OVER A TIMELINE IN A MARKETING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A marketing management system interfaces with a sales platform, company servers, and various other sources of data to obtain information about leads, contacts, interactions, events, and opportunities. The system provides a user interface that displays marketing events (i.e., interactions with various leads in an account) in a temporal context along with opportunity creation and/or close, together with filtering capabilities to display/hide activities associated with various leads. This enables visualization of the relationship between an individual opportunity and all the activities that are linked to the leads related to the opportunity, thus allowing comparison of marketing events to sales activities facilitating understanding of how to attribute marketing contributions to sales revenue. The interface may allow for assignment of leads to opportunities based on the level of interaction between the marketing/sales staff and the lead. | 09-26-2013 |
20130253982 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LOCATING PRODUCTS - A system and method for locating a product within a store are disclosed. The system and method include a database for indexing at least one location of substantially each product within the store. The database includes information related to substantially each product. The system and method include a local device suitable to receive information related to a product to be located within the store. The local device is coupled to the database and identifies at least one product to locate from a comparison of the received information to the information included in the database. The system and method include a location engine that provides the location within the store of the identified at least one product. | 09-26-2013 |
20130262178 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND INTERFACE FOR EVALUATING A LEAD - A method includes receiving a set of lead information. The method also includes generating a case evaluation associated with the set of lead information and retrieving a set of additional information associated with the set of lead information. Furthermore, the method includes generating and transmitting a display signal associated with the set of lead information, the case evaluation and the set of additional information. Another embodiment includes analyzing one or more of the set of lead information, the case evaluation and the set of additional information. Another embodiment includes notifying a professional when a set of criteria is satisfied, the set of criteria associated with meeting or exceeding a threshold for at least one of the set of lead information, the case evaluation and the set of additional information. | 10-03-2013 |
20130262179 | INFORMATION TERMINAL FOR ANALYZING SALES AND RELATED METHODS - An information terminal includes an acquisition unit configured to calculate the number of people who stop at a counter where a product is displayed over a time period, and acquire sales data of the product over the time period. The information terminal further comprises a display unit configured to display the number of people who stop at the counter over the time period and the sales data of the product over the time period. | 10-03-2013 |
20130262180 | CLOUD INFORMATION TRADING SYSTEM AND CLOUD INFORMATION TRADING METHOD USING THE SAME - A cloud information trading system and an information trading method using the system includes a cloud agent including a cloud storage module to store information provided from a device supporting a cloud service, an information search module to search the stored information, and an information trading module to provide an environment in which the information is traded, an information provision device to acquire information and to provide the cloud agent with the acquired information, and an information reception device to connect to the cloud agent and to download the information through the information trading module. | 10-03-2013 |
20130268314 | BRAND ANALYSIS USING INTERACTIONS WITH SEARCH RESULT ITEMS - Embodiments of the invention relate to performing brand analysis based on user's interactions with search results. In one embodiment, at least one search result list is analyzed. The search result includes a set of items corresponding to at least one search request submitted by at least one user. The set of items in the at least one search result list is determined to include at least one item corresponding to a brand analysis target item, and at least one other item. A selection by the at least one user of one of the brand analysis target item and the other item from the at least one search result list is recorded for the at least one search result list. A brand analysis metric is generated based on the recording. The brand analysis metric indicates a ratio of selections between the brand analysis target item and the other item. | 10-10-2013 |
20130268315 | PREDICTING THE EFFECT OF INCENTIVE PROGRAMS - The present disclosure describes computer hardware, software, systems and methods for evaluating the effect of planned, future or hypothetical incentive programs on a financial arrangement that could be offered to customers such as automobile customers. Computer hardware and modules are disclosed that can store, receive, display, or calculate customer data corresponding to financial terms of current agreements of one or more customers and hypothetical incentive data, store, receive, display, or generate potential customer pools that include customers for which a replacement product and a replacement financial agreement has financial terms substantially similar to financial terms of a current product and current financial agreement, and generate a summary report that includes the customers in the potential customer pool. | 10-10-2013 |
20130268316 | MERCHANDISE USER TRACKING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A merchandising system and method for tracking user interaction with electronic items of merchandise on display in a retail store are provided. For example, the method includes obtaining identifying information from an electronic item of merchandise on display and detecting user interaction with the electronic item of merchandise. The method further includes tracking information relating to the detected user interaction with the electronic item of merchandise. | 10-10-2013 |
20130268317 | ARRANGEMENT FOR FACILITATING SHOPPING AND RELATED METHOD - An executing electronic arrangement for producing foodstuff recommendations and facilitating shopping in grocery stores, includes semantic context management entity configured to maintain semantic context-defining user information relative to a plurality of users, which indicates user preferences relative to groceries based on obtained explicit or implicit preference information, a base item recommendation entity configured to determine, for a first user, a plurality of more generic grocery recommendations based on the semantic context of the first user and the semantic contexts of a number of other users considered as neighbors to the first user according to predetermined similarity criteria, and a product recommendation entity configured to derive, for the first user, a shopping list incorporating a plurality of recommended products relative to a predetermined store offering such products, representing more specific instances of the determined more generic grocery recommendations and being derived utilizing knowledge of the store's product range or current stock. | 10-10-2013 |
20130275177 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BROKERING DATA PRODUCTS - Systems and methods for data brokering, and more specifically, data brokering regarding a data provider's search-related activities, are described. In at least some implementations, a method in accordance with the present disclosure includes facilitating an arrangement between a data provider and a data consumer regarding one or more data-provider-related search activities, providing a data product to the data consumer in accordance with the arrangement, the data product including information regarding the one or more data-provider-related search activities, receiving a first consideration from the data consumer in accordance with the arrangement, and providing a second consideration to the data provider in accordance with the arrangement. | 10-17-2013 |
20130275178 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING DATA BROKERING ARRANGEMENTS - Systems and methods for data brokering, and more specifically, data brokering regarding a data provider's search-related activities, are described. In at least some implementations, a method in accordance with the present disclosure includes facilitating an arrangement between a data provider and a data consumer regarding one or more data-provider-related search activities, providing a data product to the data consumer in accordance with the arrangement, the data product including information regarding the one or more data-provider-related search activities, monitoring a performance of the data consumer, and providing a consideration to the data provider in accordance with the arrangement. | 10-17-2013 |
20130275179 | Methods, Devices and Systems for Referral Opportunity Identification in Social Media Settings - In some embodiments, opportunities for a customer of a business to recommend the business may be automatically identified within the customer's social media account. The customer may grant a third-party application access to his social media account, which is then monitored or occasionally scanned for keywords that identify opportunities such as open requests for referrals. The customer may be presented with the requests and allowed to post a referral for the business. When the referral results in a new customer for the business, both the existing customer and the new customer may receive a reward, such a voucher for a gift card. | 10-17-2013 |
20130275180 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SOCIAL-MEDIA GENERATED TRANSIT AGENCY CONTENT - There is a system for social media content for a transit agency, the system comprising a social media manager configured to detect a social media event (SME) relevant to the transit agency, add the SME to a queue of SMEs, characterize the SME, and store the characterized SME. | 10-17-2013 |
20130275181 | SERVICE PROVIDER ANALYTICS - A system, apparatus, computer readable media, and method are disclosed for generating analytics on customers of service provider merchants. In an example, a transaction record associated with an account identifier of a customer that purchased a first service from a first merchant may be processed and a service date for the first service may be determined. Other transaction records comprising the account identifier and that satisfy a temporal filter may be identified. Each of the other transaction records may include transaction data associated with at least one of: (1) purchase of another service to be provided within a first predetermined amount of time of the service date, and (2) purchase of a product within a second predetermined amount of time of the service date. A spending profile including information on the first service, the service date, and the transaction data for each of the other transaction records may be generated. | 10-17-2013 |
20130282427 | REPUTATION-BASED SERVICE VALUATION - A system and method for reputation-based service valuation are provided herein. The method includes receiving, within a computing system, subjective evaluation criteria relating to a service from any of a number of users of the service. The method also includes scaling the subjective evaluation criteria based on a reputation of each of the users to produce reputation-based subjective evaluation criteria. The method further includes generating a service valuation for the service based on the reputation-based subjective evaluation criteria. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282428 | PROBABILISTIC INFERENCE OF SITE DEMOGRAPHICS FROM AGGREGATE USER INTERNET USAGE AND SOURCE DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION - A demographic attribute value of a sink online document (such as Websites or Web pages) may be determined given a set of users who have visited at least one of the source documents and the sink document, by (a) accepting a value(s) of the demographic attribute, each of which values is associated with a source online document (where each of the source online documents has a value for the demographic attribute and has been visited by at least one user of the given set), (b) determining an estimate of the demographic attribute value of each of the users of the given set using the accepted demographic attribute value of each of the source online documents visited by the user, and (c) determining the demographic attribute value of the sink online document using the determined estimate of the demographic attribute value of each of the users of the given set. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282429 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTEXT BASED ACTIVITY MODELING - A context-based activity modeling apparatus is provided which includes an activity element input interface via which data about an activity element including one or more of activity information of an activity modeling target, activity subject information, object information, tool information, and context information are input; a data mapping unit for mapping the data input via the activity element input interface based on relations therebetween; and an activity modeling display unit that graphically displays the mapped data on a screen. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282430 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AN INTUITIVE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE - Improvement of customer experiences during online commerce is accomplished by providing unique experiences to customers as a result of anticipating customer needs, simplifying customer engagement based on predicted customer intent, and updating system knowledge about customers with information gathered from new customer interactions. In this way, the customer experience is improved. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282431 | STAGNANT VISITOR MANAGEMENT FOR ENGAGEMENT PROGRESSION ON WEB SITES - A method and system for customizing web sites for visitor to increase the likelihood a visitor becomes deepens the relationship with the web site or becomes a customer is disclosed. A progression level design defines levels and conditions for moving between those levels. At each level, the web site is customized in predetermined ways commensurate with that level. Information on the visitor is gathered to evaluate their level and possibly upgrade or downgrade that level. Reports detail flow of visitors between levels for various time periods. Where that flow is not desired, the progression level design can be changed by adding, removing or changing levels and conditions. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282432 | METHOD OF GENERATING SOCIAL MARKETING GROUP INFORMATION OF EACH AFFILIATE STORE IN WHICH CREDIT CARD PAYMENT INFORMATION IS ASSOCIATED WITH SOCIAL NETWORK INFORMATION AND AFTER-MARKETING METHOD INTENDED FOR SOCIAL MARKETING GROUP - Disclosed are a method of generating social marketing group information of each affiliate store in which credit card payment information is associated with social network information and an after-marketing method intended for a social marketing group. A personal connection-based consumption group is formed by combining credit card members who are a consumption group with social network subscribers who are a personal connection group, and marketing intended for the person connection-based consumption group is conducted. A plurality of social marketing groups are formed for each affiliate store using credit card payment information and social network information. When a member of the social marketing group purchases a product or service in the affiliate store, the affiliate store provides purchasers belonging to the social marketing group with a benefit as the price for advertising expenses. Thus, it is possible to overcome the constraints in item of a product or service, the number of purchases, or time, which are problems of conventional social commerce, network marketing, and group purchase. Since credit card members having a personal interchange relation through a social network service form a marketing group for each affiliate, a consumption group is formed which is strong in purchasing power and high in information transfer power and reliability. Thus, customers can receive more benefits or services. In addition, a seller (advertiser) can conduct efficient advertising at low cost and secure a purchaser group having high loyalty. | 10-24-2013 |
20130290068 | METHOD AND APPARATUS PERTAINING TO AN AUTOMATED CONSUMER-INTERACTION EXPERIENCE - A consumer-interaction kiosk features one or more displays (which can comprise touch-screen displays if desired) and a control circuit that operably couples to that display (or displays). Such a kiosk can be located, for example, proximal to or within a retail venue (such as, but not limited to, a grocery store or grocery department of a department or discount store). The content displayed by the kiosk can vary with the needs of the application setting but can include, for example, consumer-attraction content, information-gathering facilitation content, delivered-information content, entertainment content, and so forth. Such a kiosk can also be configured, if desired, to vend for-sale or free consumables (such as free product samples). | 10-31-2013 |
20130297378 | Real Estate Heat Map - Some embodiments provide a system for generating price maps. The system includes a data module for retrieving (1) data related to locations of real estate properties and (2) data related to prices of the real estate properties. The system also includes a contour generator for generating a contour map that includes several contours based on the data related to the locations of the real estate properties and the data related to the prices of the real estate properties. Each contour represents a set of real estate properties having prices within a defined range of values. | 11-07-2013 |
20130297379 | PRIVACY PROTECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method and system for asserting control over and protecting the privacy of individuals' personal and transactional information, to prevent unauthorized use thereof, and permit limited use thereof, with compensation, to the extent permitted the individual. Privacy notices are given in printed and electronic form to other parties involved in the individuals' transactions. The individuals' own data are collected and maintained in a privacy trust database. On a voluntary basis, abstracted, anonymous profile information can be made available to advertisers, in exchange for compensation to the individuals. One use is in a content broadcasting system, where receipt of profile based viewer-specific commercial messages provide financial compensation for the cost of user-selected content received by the individual. | 11-07-2013 |
20130304536 | Harvest Customer Tracking Information - An embodiment of a system comprises one or more processors; and one or more memories adapted to store machine-readable instructions which when executed by the processor(s) cause the system to: receive tracked user device information from a distributed network of sensors configured for tracking user device information associated with one or more user devices of corresponding users in a proximity of the distributed network of sensors, wherein the user device information is tracked even when the corresponding users have not opted in the one or more user devices to be tracked by the distributed network of sensors; store the tracked user device information in a tracking database, wherein the tracked user device information is stored even for corresponding users that have not been identified and is for later use when such corresponding users are identified; and analyze the tracked user device information to infer interests of the corresponding users. | 11-14-2013 |
20130304537 | System and Method for Access to, Management of, and Display of Property Data - A system and method for analyzing property data includes accepting links from a plurality of property files and to at least one library on a data storage device. Each property file has data identifying a property. Thereafter, the system receives at least one set of assumptions of property data for storage at the at least one library. The system also permits the at least one set of assumptions to be selected for use with a plurality of the property files linked to the at least one library. | 11-14-2013 |
20130304538 | CONSUMER FEEDBACK COLLECTION SYSTEM - The systems, methods and apparatuses described herein provide for consumer feedback input and retention management, allowing feedback providers to provide inputs using electronic devices. According to the present disclosure, feedback providers are able to provide feedback to a wide variety of feedback recipients, and an application running on the user's device may automatically locate and deliver these inputs via the correct communications channel associated with a specific feedback recipient location. Feedback recipients may be able to manage the inputs, listen, read voice to text translation, and respond to inputs with emails and/or coupons. Feedback recipients may be able to use the given inputs to feed positive and negative comments back to employees, add comments, set priorities for internal uses, and extract transcripts to combine with existing analyses of customer complaints and service measurements. The systems, methods and apparatuses described herein may also allow customers to provide feedback on specific products by requesting a product identifier and assisting customers in locating product production codes. | 11-14-2013 |
20130304539 | User recommendation method and device - Techniques for user recommendation are described herein. These techniques include sorting, by a server, sellers from transaction records of buyers according to sequential orders associated with these transaction records. The server also creates transaction tracks for individual buyers, determines identical transaction tracks among transaction tracks of different buyers, and establishes associations among the sellers included in identical transaction tracks. Based on the associations, the server may make user recommendations. These techniques increase accuracy of associations among sellers as well as of user recommendation, and also save computing resources. | 11-14-2013 |
20130304540 | ANALYSIS OF MARKETING AND ENTERTAINMENT EFFECTIVENESS USING MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY - Example methods, apparatus, systems and machine readable media are disclosed herein for analyzing magnetoencephalographic response data from subjects exposed to media. An example method includes identifying a degree of phase synchrony between a first pattern of oscillation in a first frequency band and a second pattern of oscillation in a second frequency band of magnetoencephalographic response data gathered from a subject exposed to an advertisement or entertainment. In the example method, the magnetoencephalographic response data comprises the first frequency band and the second frequency band. In addition, the example method includes determining an effectiveness of the advertisement or entertainment based on the degree of phase synchrony | 11-14-2013 |
20130317881 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING INVENTORY AND PROMOTIONS CAMPAIGN BASED ON REDEMPTION DATA - Provided is a method and system for the management of inventory and/or promotional campaigns associated with electronic distribution of secure money saving or discount incentives, including coupons and other marketing incentives and, in particular, to modifying a promotional campaign and/or modifying inventory levels and product ordering based on transaction data relating to coupons distributed as part of an online computer system for interactively distributing such incentives to remotely connected consumer computers. | 11-28-2013 |
20130317882 | AUTOMATED AUCTIONING OF EXCLUSIVE COMMUNICATION RIGHTS TO SUBSET POPULATIONS - In an example, a method includes defining a subset of one or more individuals records, wherein the individual records are stored in a population database; creating an auction record in an auction database for the subset, wherein the auction record stores data representing a period of time and a conversion metric for the one or more individuals in the period of time, and wherein the period of time is an exclusive period of time for communicating to the subset population; evaluating the conversion metric for the one or more individual records during the period of time, wherein the one or more individuals records are classified as converted or non-converted based on the evaluation; and based on the evaluation, extending the first period of time for a portion of the one or more individuals records that are classified as converted. | 11-28-2013 |
20130317883 | COMPANY AND CONTACT INFORMATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A user interface for providing information regarding a subject company to a user. The user interface may comprise a company tile, which may have an indicator of the subject company. A state of the company tile, such as, for example, its color, may indicate a property of the subject company. The user interface may also comprise a financial information module displaying financial information regarding the subject company, and a subject individual module displaying information regarding a subject individual related to the subject company. According to various embodiments, the user interface may also include a navigation toolbar including a second company tile comprising an indicator of a second company. Selecting the second company tile may cause the second company to become a new subject company. | 11-28-2013 |
20130325546 | PURCHASE BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS BASED ON VISUAL HISTORY - Methods for providing and comparing visual purchase deconstructions are provided. One example method for providing a visual purchase deconstruction includes recognizing a pre-purchase event, tracking movement of a focus position of one or both eyes of the shopper, recognizing a purchase event of the product, and, upon recognizing the purchase event, determining the purchase deconstruction representing the purchase based on the movement of the focus location during a pre-purchase window, the pre-purchase window having a duration from the pre-purchase event to the purchase event. The visual purchase deconstruction may be compared to one or more other purchases for any combination of products and shoppers. The visual purchase deconstruction and/or the comparisons thereof may be usable to determine one or more the factors that resulted in a product being purchased. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325547 | Calculating the Value Contributed by Physical Stores to a Mobile Device User Who Makes a Subsequent Online Purchase and Potentially Distributing that Value Calculation to Either Physical Stores the User or Both - A method is disclosed for calculating the “experiential value” a physical store provides toward a consumer's subsequent online purchase. The method is embodied in a computer program or series of computer programs, available from a web portal linked to a server, which store relevant information for a consumer, a physical store, and an online store; track the physical location of a consumer's electronic mobile device; compare the device's location against the locations of physical stores and saves any positive comparisons; track the mobile device user's subsequent online purchases; compare any subsequent online purchase to the data on record for the physical stores previously visited by the user; perform a series of calculations to estimate any previously visited physical store's contribution to the user's subsequent online purchase; and translate that value into a monetized or monetizable form which can be returned to the physical store, the user, or both. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325548 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OBTAINING MERCHANT SALES INFORMATION FOR MARKETING OR SALES TEAMS - Disclosed herein is a method of obtaining merchant sales information for marketing or sales teams. Including accessing transaction data from one or more financial institutions and extracting metadata associated with the transaction data in accordance with at least one rule. The metadata is then analyzed to identify transaction data associated with one or more merchants. The transaction data associated with the one or more merchants is provided to the marketing or sales teams. | 12-05-2013 |
20130332226 | SYSTEM CONTAINING AN INTEGRATION OF COST SAVINGS TRACKER AND SPEND ANALYZER FOR CALCULATING ACTUAL EFFECTIVE SAVINGS - A system containing an integration of cost savings tracker and spend analyzer for calculating actual effective savings of a spend category in a procurement cycle; the system comprises cost savings tracker module and spend analyzer module; cost savings tracker module of the present system facilitates computation of actual effective cost savings of a spend category and thus facilitates tracking of cost savings of a spend category while Cost Component Model of the spend analyzer module of the present system is meant for spend analysis which facilitates analysis of the procurement cost in relation to market indices of the underlying commodities. | 12-12-2013 |
20130332227 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND ARTICLE OF MANUFACTURE FOR HOUSEHOLD UNIT ORGANIZATION AND COMMUNICATION - A method of, system for, and article of manufacture for organizing and managing a household unit using a communications network. The method may include acquiring information from plural members of a household; acquiring planning information for a household-oriented goal(s); and sharing, with a third party via the network, data and content associated with the household-oriented goal(s) in order to solicit targeted quotes from the third party to accomplish the household-oriented goal(s). | 12-12-2013 |
20130332228 | USER TERMINAL DEVICE FOR PROVIDING ELECTRONIC SHOPPING SERVICE AND METHODS THEREOF - A user terminal device including a display, a sensor configured to detect a user input on the display, a controller configured to extract objects displayed within an area on the display indicated by the user input on the display and add the objects to a wish list, and a memory configured to store the wish list. The user terminal device executes a method for providing an electronic shopping service, the method including receiving a user input at a user terminal device, determining a selection area on a screen of the user terminal device corresponding to the user input, determining a shopping object within the selection area, extracting information of the shopping object within the selection area, and adding the information to a wish list. | 12-12-2013 |
20130332229 | METHOD, SERVER AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR PROVIDING USER-CUSTOMIZED INFORMATION USING E-BOOK SERVICE - A method includes the steps of: (a) setting a relationship between users by referring to at least one piece of information on direction between the user who gives an e-book as a gift and the other user who receives it, information on the number of times the gift has been provided, and information on a price of the gift; (b) judging a first user and a second user whose degree of friendliness exceeds a preset value; and (c) acquiring information on a degree of involvement in reading that shows to which level the second user has read the gift, if the gift is provided from the first user to the second user; and (d) providing a service by referring to information on the gift, if the information on the degree of involvement in reading is judged to exceed a prefixed value. | 12-12-2013 |
20130339082 | CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL FOR GROUPWARE INTEGRATION - A groupware application may be modified to include additional functionality enabling data from the groupware application to be exchanged with customer account data in a customer relationship management (CRM) system. After selecting a message or meeting object, a third party email address included in the object may be identified and sent to the CRM system. Account information relating to an account in the CRM system associated with the email address may be retrieved and sent to the groupware application. This additional account information may include marketing leads and/or opportunities, which may be displayed in the groupware application. The user may select a lead and/or an opportunity to associate the user selected object with the user selected lead and/or opportunity. This information may be sent to CRM system. Other information relating to the user selected object may also be sent to the CRM system. | 12-19-2013 |
20130339083 | PRODUCT PLACEMENT IN RETAIL SETTINGS - Products are selected for placement on check-out lane end caps at retail store locations. In one example, products are selected for placement on check-out lane end caps in one or more stores based on historical sales data for each product across all of the stores. Each check-out lane end cap includes a fixture configured to hold and display product(s) for sale in a store. A total number of stores into which each product is to be placed in at least one check-out lane end cap is received. A sales performance metric is determined for each selected product based on in-store historical sales data representative of sales of the product in each store. A particular store into which to place each selected product in a check-out lane end cap is determined based on the received total number of stores and the determined sales performance metric for the product. | 12-19-2013 |
20130339084 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OFFERING VETTED SERVICES OF AN ORIGINATOR/SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT - A system and method for offering vetted services of an originator/subject matter expert (O/SME) by a third party source of products and services of multiple O/SMEs may include storing data associated with the O/SME, the data inconclusive of product or service content representative of products or services being offered by the O/SME. Select data associated with the O/SME may be collected. An O/SME vetted data repository storing vetting data representative of vetting results of the O/SME may be queried. In response to receiving vetting data indicative of the O/SME having a vetting score above a passing vetting threshold value, an interactive booking feature may be displayed in relation to the select data associated with the O/SME and activated to enable a user to book services with the O/SME. Otherwise, the interactive booking feature may not be enabled to be displayed and activated. | 12-19-2013 |
20130339085 | IDENTIFYING A NON-OBVIOUS TARGET AUDIENCE FOR AN ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN - Identifying candidate topics for the allocation of advertising resources by calculating a relevance value of a candidate topic with respect to a base topic as a function of a number of individuals that is associated with the base topic, a number of individuals that is associated with the candidate topic, and a number of individuals that is associated with both the base topic and the candidate topic, determining that the relevance value of the candidate topic is above a predefined threshold, and identifying the candidate topic as a target for an advertising resource. | 12-19-2013 |
20130339086 | Systems and Methods for Classifying Computer Video Game Genres Utilizing Multi-Dimensional Cloud Chart - Features of electronically embodied games are logically categorized, analyzed, and compared. Features are preferably organized according to a hierarchical classification scheme, according to a classification scheme that is not strictly tautological. All suitable feature sets are contemplated, including sets corresponding to characteristics of personifications of players and non-players, types and/or uses of game space, methods of rewarding a player, etc. In other aspects comparisons are made between an evaluation game and one or more sets of historically available games. Such sets can be grouped by genre and the number of games in such sets can range anywhere from a single game to hundreds of games, or more. Reporting and guidance can include providing a risk assessment score or other risk analysis, feature assessment (prevalence), market placement, business model analysis, dynamic trend analysis, clustered pattern recognition, and image analysis. | 12-19-2013 |
20130346143 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPEND ANALYSIS OF THE SERVICE CATEGORY - A computer based system containing Service Cost Model for spend analysis of spend category, which facilitates analysis of the service procurement cost with respect to market dynamics of labor rates for the underlying services; the system determines market trend of individual cost components i.e., primary, secondary and tertiary cost components for a service spend category based on Service Cost Model of spend analyzer module; the system comprises: a processor unit and a computer readable medium storing instructions executable by the processor unit, the computer readable medium comprising: Service Receiving System; Matching System; Associating System; Information Receiving System; and Outputting System. | 12-26-2013 |
20130346144 | TECHNIQUE AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYZING VIDEO AND DIALOG TO BUILD VIEWING CONTEXT - A media processing device may include a processing component and a viewing context builder operative on the processing component. The viewing context builder may analyze media content comprising an audio stream, a video stream, and/or a closed captioning stream from a selected channel; extract context relevant data from the analyzed media content; and build a viewing preference profile from the context relevant data. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 12-26-2013 |
20130346145 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM THEREFOR - A communication device that is capable of reducing ineffectual process and load by checking continuity of a SIP session depending on whether a network charges a fee or not. The communication device communicates with another communication device by a predetermined communication protocol. A determination unit determines whether a network used for communication charges a fee or not. A checking unit checks whether the communication continues when the determination unit determines that the network charges a fee. A communication control unit finishes the communication when the checking unit determines that the communication does not continue. | 12-26-2013 |
20130346146 | Universal Customer Based Information and Ontology Platform for Business Information and Innovation Management - A system may include a search engine coupled to an Outcome Driven Innovation (ODI) repository. The system may include a segmentation engine having segmentation tools that segments a market using segmentation tools. A metadata engine may tag and bundle data records algorithmically, append meta-data associated with business information (BI) to data records, facilitate portfolio optimization decisions, facilitate capturing relationships between different records and record types, and facilitate calculation, ranking, analysis, and reporting of opportunity scores. A strategy engine may include strategic tools for pulling in data from various sources, visualizing, interacting with, capturing and synthesizing insights so as to facilitate strategic planning. An extract, transform, load (ETL) engine may extract data from outside sources, transform the data to fit operational requirements, and load the transformed data into to ODI data repository. | 12-26-2013 |
20130346147 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING A RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF A USER WITHIN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - Methods and systems for determining a relative importance of a user within a network environment are disclosed. Interaction information pertaining to a plurality of interactions in an network environment may be received over a period of time. One or more relational actions may be identified among a plurality of users in the network environment based on the interaction information. A relative importance of at least one of the plurality of users in the network environment may be determined. A portion of a financial consideration may be assigned to each user based on the relative importance of the user. | 12-26-2013 |
20130346148 | PERSONAL PROFILE BROADCASTING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF - The invention comprises a profile system and/or a profile matching system. In the profile matching system, a profile of an individual is optionally linked to a second profile using a matching system. For example, a broadcast profile of an individual is matched with any of: (1) a second individual, (2) a group, (3) a piece of property, (4) a cluster of property, (5) an event, and (6) a company. Matching of profiles allows personalized service to the individual and more efficient use of resources. | 12-26-2013 |
20130346149 | Network-Based Methods and Systems for Initiating a Research Panel of Persons Operating Under a Group Agreement - Methods and systems for initiating participation of a user of a portable device (PUA) in a research operation using a respective one of a plurality of PUA's providing communication services pursuant to a single agreement with a communication service provider. Data identifying the PUA user is associated with data identifying a group of persons receiving communication services pursuant to the single agreement, and demographic data of the PUA user is associated with the data identifying the PUA user. | 12-26-2013 |
20140006096 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING CONGESTION USING POINT OF SALE AUTHORIZATION DATA | 01-02-2014 |
20140006097 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING MERCHANT LOCATION AND AVAILABILITY USING TRANSACTION DATA | 01-02-2014 |
20140006098 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS UTILIZING AN ENGAGEMENT CODE | 01-02-2014 |
20140006099 | TOOL FOR GRABBING AFFILIATE LINKS FROM SITES OF OTHER AFFILIATES FOR USE IN A NEW AFFILIATE SITE | 01-02-2014 |
20140006100 | CONTROL PANEL FOR LIVE UPDATING OF PRODUCT CODES DIRECTLY FROM AFFILIATE SITE | 01-02-2014 |
20140006101 | SYSTEM FOR THE REGISTRATION, COMPENSATION, MANAGEMENT AND ANALYSIS OF PRODUCT OR CONTENT CUSTOMIZED PURCHASE OR SELLING | 01-02-2014 |
20140006102 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR OPTIMIZING TRANSACTIONS IN A HOUSEHOLD ADDRESSABLE MEDIA NETWORK | 01-02-2014 |
20140012622 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A data processing apparatus of the present invention, which receives sales data transmitted from a terminal device installed in a mobile sales vehicle via a communication network and processes the sales data, includes a receiving section which receives current position data and sales data from the terminal device as a sales report of mobile sales, a sales venue storage section which stores and manages position data for each of sales venues where mobile sales by mobile sales vehicles are permitted under contracts with operators operating business of renting the sales venues by hour, a search section which specifies a sales venue relevant to the position data by searching the sales venue storage section based on the position data received together with the sales data, and a processing section which processes, when the sales venue is specified, the sales data as sales data regarding sales at the sales venue. | 01-09-2014 |
20140012623 | Systems and Methods for Analysis of Legal Service Providers and Comparative Unit Costs or Ratio Costs - Systems and methods for analyzing legal service providers and unit or ratio costs are provided. Billing data from legal services providers is analyzed to identify common tasks based on task codes. The common tasks are then analyzed to determine a unit cost or ratio cost for the tasks or a ratio cost for the tasks compared to the total costs for a matter. Analysis constraints are applied to the billing data to generate a cost model, which can be output in a variety of different graphical formats. This output, which identifying at least some of the total matter costs on a unit cost or ratio cost basis, allows for comparison of legal services provided by a number of different legal services providers. It also allows for comparing price quotes from a number of legal services providers against each other and against historical cost information. | 01-09-2014 |
20140012624 | CLOUD-BASED SKIP TRACING APPLICATION - A method executed at least in part in a computing device for providing cloud based skip tracing is provided. The method includes providing a cloud based service enabling data interchange with a plurality of vendors providing skip tracing services and receiving at the cloud based service and from a user a file of records for skip tracing. The method further includes applying a waterfall process to the records using the computing device wherein the waterfall process includes at least a subset of the plurality of vendors and returning to the user a results file containing skip tracing results corresponding to the records. The method may further include generating a waterfall score card and sending the waterfall score card to the user, the waterfall score card summarizing performance of the subset of the plurality of vendors. | 01-09-2014 |
20140019199 | AUTOMATICALLY EVALUATING CUSTOMER SATISFACTION - A method for evaluating a satisfaction of a customer in a retail environment includes identifying an item for which the customer is searching in the retail environment, monitoring an activity of the customer with respect to the item in the retail environment, and automatically evaluating the satisfaction of the customer based on the activity of the customer with respect to the item. | 01-16-2014 |
20140019200 | LOCATING A SPECIFIC PRODUCT WITHIN A RETAIL ENVIRONMENT IN FURTHERANCE OF A COMPARISON OF PRODUCT INFORMATION BASED ON PRODUCT CODES - A method for comparison of product information based on product codes to determine the cost per unit weight per product and hereby determine the cheapest product per unit weight is disclosed herein. The method further comprises of displaying the location information of the cheapest product within the retail store and providing navigational information for enabling the consumer to access the product easily. | 01-16-2014 |
20140019201 | AUTOMATICALLY EVALUATING CUSTOMER SATISFACTION - A system for evaluating a satisfaction of a customer in a retail environment includes a search system for identifying an item for which the customer is searching in the retail environment, a plurality of sensors for monitoring an activity of the customer with respect to the item in the retail environment, and an evaluation system for automatically evaluating the satisfaction of the customer based on the activity of the customer with respect to the item. | 01-16-2014 |
20140019202 | METHOD FOR COLLECTING INFORMATION, COMPUTER PROGRAMME PRODUCT AND BUSINESS MODEL THEREFOR - A method for providing and collecting information via crowdsourcing by means of an Internet browser, includes providing a first memory location and at least two memory sublocations liked thereto on a server. The first memory location is writable with data by a first group of users via an Internet browser the first group of users loads a description of a searchable object into the first memory of the server. The memory sublocations can be written with data by a second group of users, to provide information that applies to the searchable object. | 01-16-2014 |
20140019203 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO COLLECT WIRELESS INFORMATION - Example methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to collect wireless information are disclosed. A disclosed example method involves installing an operating system and a data collector to execute outside a context of the operating system on a wireless handheld device. A testing process is performed to ensure functionality of the wireless handheld device. An application is installed on the wireless handheld device to execute in the context of the operating system. The data collector is to collect usage information regarding the application and to provide the usage information to a network provider. | 01-16-2014 |
20140019204 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COLLECTING AND DISSEMINATING INFORMATION OVER A COMPUTER NETWORK - The apparatus comprises at least one database for storing digital information associated with at least a first user and a second user, at least one links module for the first user and for the second user, at least one manipulations module and at least one display device for respectively displaying at least said linked digital information wherein said linked digital information associated with said first user is automatically updated on at least said display device of said second user when that information is manipulated, and wherein said linked digital information associated with said second user is automatically updated on at least said display device of said first user when that information is manipulated. | 01-16-2014 |
20140025427 | INFERRING AND SUGGESTING ATTRIBUTE VALUES FOR A SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICE - Disclosed in some examples is a method of inferring one or more attribute values of a member of a social networking service by collecting a plurality of attribute values associated with attributes of a plurality of members of a social networking service, the plurality of attribute values including member profile information; and inferring one or more attribute values regarding a particular member in the plurality of members based upon the collected plurality of attribute values and a plurality of collected attribute values of the particular member. | 01-23-2014 |
20140032259 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRIVATE AND SECURE COLLECTION AND MANAGEMENT OF PERSONAL CONSUMER DATA - Computer systems and related methods for managing and protecting consumer data and increasing the accuracy of consumer purchasing alternatives by means of private and secure collection and management of personal online and/or offline consumer data from disparate data sources. In one example, a method for collecting information includes collecting and aggregating a plurality of data relating to a user from a plurality of unaffiliated data sources, wherein the data comprises data of varying formats. Collection of the data is performed in part under authorization by the user. The method may include normalizing the data into a standardized form. The method also includes generating an aggregated data profile associated with the user based on the data that is collected and aggregated. The aggregated data profile gives the user control over their personal data and, with express user permission, provides vendors with a comprehensive view of the user, their interests and characteristics. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032260 | INFERING BEHAVIOR-BASED LIFESTYLE CATEGORIZATIONS BASED ON MOBILE PHONE USAGE DATA - A processor implemented method for categorizing mobile phone users. The method including receiving call level data for a plurality of mobile phone users, the call level data being for a period of common duration. After receiving the call level data, a raw attribute table can be updated by extracting raw attributes from the call level data. After updating the raw attribute table, a transformed attribute table based on the one or more raw attributes can also be updated. After updating the transformed attribute table, a selected model can be applied to the data of the updated transformed attribute table using parameters associated with the selected model. After applying the model, one or more output tables based on the applied selected model can be outputted. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032261 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TREATING LOCATION AS AN OBJECT - The technology disclosed relates to identifying accounts and prospects nearby a salesman's location based on his real-time goal statuses and pre-assigned preferences. In particular, it relates to locating those accounts and prospects in the salesman's geographic vicinity that most likely require his attention or visit. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032262 | LEAD GENERATION AND MARKETING NETWORK - A network is presented that includes a server having a processor, a non-transitory computer readable medium in communication with the processor, and computer readable program code encoded in the computer readable medium. Encoded in the computer readable medium are multiple professional member profiles and multiple nonprofessional users, where each of the professional member profiles is associated with a professional member of the network and each of the nonprofessional user profiles is associated with a nonprofessional user of the network and is assigned to a professional member, and an activity database having multiple records each corresponding to activity of one of the nonprofessional users on the network. The computer readable program code comprises computer readable program steps that, when executed by the processor, generate a lead based on one of the plurality of records. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032263 | ADAPTIVE GATHERING OF STRUCTURED AND UNSTRUCTURED DATA SYSTEM AND METHOD - Content is obtained from a webpage accessed via a URI, which URI is obtained from a URI queue. The content is parsed for price and product information according to a parse map, with the resulting parse result being stored. The priority of URIs in the URI queue is adjusted based on analysis of the parse result for changes in price and product attributes and according to other criteria. The parse map may be one associated with the URI or a general purpose parse maps. The parse result may be validated by human- and machine-based systems, including by graphically labeling price and product information in the content for human confirmation or correction. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032264 | DATA REFINING ENGINE FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND METHOD - Price and product attributes from webpages are analyzed over time to identify price changes specific to products on individual webpages and for products across all webpages as well as to identify longitudinal correlations between price changes and product attributes. Users may search the data and set alerts. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032265 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF AGGREGATING CONSUMER INFORMATION - Disclosed herein are systems and methods of aggregating consumer data. The data may be acquired from numerous sources so that small portions of reliable data may be gathered into a single data set. Furthermore, by aggregating and analyzing such data, new insights and information about consumers may be discovered. Additionally disclosed are computer implemented arrangements for sharing of information that may provide incentives for data to be shared for purposes of aggregation and analysis. Some embodiments include a cooperative database system in which entities, such as marketers or communicators, may exchange data relating to consumers, such as email list activity data. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032266 | COMPUTERIZED SYSTEM FOR MANAGING COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN A BUYER, SELLER, AND LENDER - A computerized system and method are presented for exchanging information between a buyer, a seller, and a lender. The system permits sellers and lenders to input buyers that are then submitted for activation. The buyers use the system to obtain information about items, while the sellers and lenders make consistent contact with the buyer in order to work with the buyer. Information about the buyers is shared with both the sellers and the lenders. A business plan is also input into the computerized system by the financial institution employing the lender. This business plan includes goals for numbers of sellers and buyers using the system, and for loan officer candidates to be recruited. Activity on the computerized system is calculated for compliance with the business plan. Feedback is provided to management relating to whether the business plan is being met. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032267 | User controlled system and method for collecting, pricing, and trading data - A method for user directed collection and pricing data for trading or sale. The method enables the user to capture field labels and entries for assignment to one or a plurality of domain categories and processing classes. The user retains control over the data as it is captured, categorized, priced, and packaged for sale to participants in a data supply chain. | 01-30-2014 |
20140039973 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SETTING A HOT PRODUCT ALERT ON TRANSACTION DATA - A system and a method for determining when a predetermined number of a specific product or of a type of product has been sold so that an alert can be generated when the number sold exceeds the predetermined number. Transaction rules can be set to monitor transaction data in a database to achieve this result. The transaction rules can be set for a generic product, for a specific product, or to exclude certain products. The system and the method issue an additional alert when data in a database indicates that the number of a specific product or of a type of product being sold in a selected time frame is below the selected predetermined number or another selected predetermined, for a selected period of time. | 02-06-2014 |
20140039974 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING CREDIT/DEBIT CARD TRANSACTION DATA AS A MEASURE OF CUSTOMER SATISFACTION WITH A MERCHANT - A system and a method for determining customer satisfaction with a selected merchant based on chargeback transaction data in a database of transactions. An indication, which can be a number representative of customer satisfaction, is generated by comparing the number of chargeback transactions for the selected merchant with the total number of transaction not involving chargebacks for that merchant. The comparison can be made during various time periods, such as from a month to a year. The indication representative of customer satisfaction for selected merchants may be made available to merchants and to consumers, so that comparisons may be made to other businesses to help make decisions concerning improving performance for a merchant, and for deciding from which merchant a consumer should make a purchase. The data is collected automatically as a result of the transactions, without requiring input from the consumer. | 02-06-2014 |
20140039975 | EMOTIONAL MODELING OF A SUBJECT - Systems and techniques for emotional modeling of a subject are described herein. Emotional data of a subject during exposure to a stimulus can be received. The emotional data can be interpreted to produce a result. The result can include an emotional model of the subject. The result can be presented to the user. | 02-06-2014 |
20140039976 | VIDEO INFORMATION ANALYSIS SYSTEM - A video information analysis system that objectively and instantaneously evaluates a value of broadcasting information broadcasted on television or video information distributed and provided through the Internet to make it possible to examine influences including an economic influence of the television related broadcasting information or the video information provided through the Internet on a company, an association, an individual, a commodity, a service, a brand and the like, and compares the pieces of information with various economic indicators to make it possible to consider correlation between the video information and the evaluations of the company, the association, and the like. | 02-06-2014 |
20140039977 | CONTACT CENTER DATA VISUALIZATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A data visualisation system is disclosed that includes a retrieval component, a display component, and a contour generator. The retrieval component is configured to retrieve data representing interactions between customers and the merchant, and to construct a finite set of data values from the retrieved data. The display component is configured to display a graphical representation of a merchant and a graphical representation of each of the set of data values represented as data points. The contour generator is configured to generate and display one or more contour lines at least partly around each data point to form a contoured surface, in which the areas of representation around each data point are shown in a series of contour lines, and the nature of the contour lines gradually fans away from each data point. Each data point is vertex of the contoured surface. | 02-06-2014 |
20140046723 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF PROVIDING A MARKETPLACE FOR DISTRIBUTING LEADS - Systems and method of providing a web-based marketplace for distributing leads to a network of agents are provided. A method includes receiving data indicative of user identification and user insurance coverage from a plurality of website users, identifying a subset of the plurality of website users that fail to purchase insurance, generating a database that stores the data received from the subset of website users, and generating a price for purchasing the data received from each of the subset of website users. The price is added to the respective website user's data in the database. The method includes transmitting a portion of the database including the price to a third party, and receiving a request to purchase a first website user's data. | 02-13-2014 |
20140052495 | Systems and methods for determining if change events affect viewership - Elements of a document that can affect viewership are identified, monitored and recorded as change events. The numbers of computers, individuals or others viewing a publication (viewers) and what times they viewed it are collected from the appropriate source for the medium. One or more groups of change events for a given period of time are compared to the corresponding viewers via statistical regression to determine how much a given set of change events affects the changes in total viewers. | 02-20-2014 |
20140052496 | AUTOMATED ATTACHMENT OF SEGMENTATION DATA TO HOT CONTACT LEADS FOR FACILITATING MATCHING OF LEADS TO INTERESTED LEAD BUYERS - In an automated leads-and-bids matching system, bid profiles are defined to describe desires of lead buyers. Received leads are matched to active ones of the bid profiles whose specifications the leads substantially match. Lead segmentation data is captured on-the-fly for example by inducing potential consumers to navigate their way through tree-organized web sites that categorize the consumers according to their geographic location, income/revenue range, class of products desired and/or other attributes. Live voice or other telecommunication connections to the pre-classified consumers are coupled to corresponding, pre-classified telecommunication nodes of a call processing system. The call processing system deduces the segmentation data of the consumers from the identities of the pre-classified nodes through which their connections pass. The deduced segmentation data is passed to an automated matching system or auctioning subsystem that finds the highest bids for each given lead. A quality rating database rates the quality of leads provided by different sellers. A price discounting engine discounts the amount paid to sellers who are hot-rated as sources of inferior leads. | 02-20-2014 |
20140058790 | DEUTERATED PEPTIDES - Methods and compositions described herein relate to processes for the production of deuterated peptides, and the deuterated peptides produced accordingly. Deuterated peptides produced according to methods and compositions described herein may be produced more efficiently than such peptides produced according to prior art processes. The production process of according to methods and compositions described herein may lead to advantages in yield, purity, and/or price for deuterated peptides. Methods of marketing deuterated peptides are also disclosed. | 02-27-2014 |
20140058791 | Apparatus, System and Method for a Brand Affinity Engine Using Positive and Negative Mentions and Indexing - An apparatus, system and method of implementing a computerized brand affinity engine. The apparatus, system and method include at least a plurality of computerized access points having accessible thereto a plurality of sites mentioning at least one sponsor, a categorized, hierarchical database of keywords, wherein at least the keywords falling in at least one category of the hierarchy correspond to a sponsor category of the at least one sponsor, and a tracker, wherein the tracker tracks positive ones of the mentions of the at least one sponsor on ones of the plurality of sites and negative ones of the mentions of the at least one sponsor on ones of the plurality of sites, in accordance with positive and negative keywords of the categorized, hierarchical database in the sponsor category, and wherein the tracker issues an rating with regard to the at least one sponsor in accordance with the positive ones and the negative ones of the mentions. An assessment of optimal sponsors for particular markets and/or in particular geographies that additionally increases sponsorship opportunities in particular markets and/or in particular geographies is thereby provided. | 02-27-2014 |
20140058792 | Management of E-Commerce Data by Consumers - A system and a method for electronic commerce allowing consumers to centrally receive and send electronic data from multiple merchants. The system includes a central server having software which gathers the electronic data including emails and event notifications from member merchants directed to consumers accounts who maintain and register accounts on a centralized server. The system provides a web-based browser interface through which the consumer is able to view and edit the information in the database, to exert control over what information is made available to each merchant, and to view emails and event notifications directed to the consumer's account on the server. | 02-27-2014 |
20140067462 | INTEGRATING ELECTRONIC PAYMENTS AND SOCIAL MEDIA - An operator of a payment network obtains transaction data from a plurality of entities which make payments with the payment network. The operator of the payment network also obtains a plurality of consents from the plurality of entities which make payments with the payment network. The plurality of consents authorize the operator of the payment network to share at least a portion of the transaction data from the plurality of entities which make payments with the payment network with an operator of a social media site. At least portion of the transaction data is made available to the operator of the social media site. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067463 | PREDICTIVE AND PROFILE LEARNING SALES AUTOMATION ANALYTICS SYSTEM AND METHOD - A sales automation system and method, namely a system and method for scoring sales representative performance and forecasting future sales representative performance. These scoring and forecasting techniques can apply to a sales representative monitoring his own performance, comparing himself to others within the organization (or even between organizations using methods described in application), contemplating which job duties are falling behind and which are ahead of schedule, and numerous other related activities. Similarly, with the sales representative providing a full set of performance data, the system is in a position to aid a sales manager identify which sales representatives are behind others and why, as well as help with resource planning should requirements, such as quotas or staffing, change. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067464 | FACILITATING INTRODUCTIONS BETWEEN BUYERS AND AUTOMOBILE DEALERS - An automotive market place system that allows consumers to search for vehicles and that facilitates introductions between consumers and dealers is provided. The system allows consumers to enter vehicle search criteria, returns a list of available vehicles that fit the search criteria, and connects the consumer to the dealer of a selected vehicle from the list of available vehicles. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067465 | Systems and Methods for Assignment of Sales Leads - The invention provides systems and methods for processing sales leads. Illustratively, the invention provides a method of assigning sales leads in a network environment, the sales leads relating to persons interested in effecting a purchase, the method comprising: obtaining a lead, the lead including lead information relating to a person interested in effecting a purchase; loading the lead into a lead processing portion; determining if the lead is auto-assignable; assigning the lead to a sales agent; and outputting the lead information over the network environment to a lead distribution portion, so as to be accessible to the sales agent. | 03-06-2014 |
20140074549 | System and Method for Providing a Comparative Assessment of Potential Vendors - In certain embodiments, a method includes accessing, for each of a plurality of potential vendors, vendor data corresponding to one or more operational efficiency criteria and vendor data corresponding one or more market viability criteria. The method further includes determining, for each of a plurality of potential vendors, (1) an operational efficiency score accounting for criteria-specific scores determined based on the accessed vendor data for each of the one or more operational efficiency criteria, and (2) a market viability score accounting for criteria-specific scores determined based on the accessed vendor data for each of the one or more market viability criteria. The method further includes generating a graphical display depicting each of the plurality of potential vendors, wherein each of the plurality of vendors is positioned relative to a first axis according to the determined operational efficiency score and a second axis according to the determined market viability score. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074550 | AUGMENTING PROGRESSIVE PROFILE STATES WITH EXTERNAL DATA SOURCES - A method for using an external login procedure to track interactions on a website includes detecting an interaction between a web server and a user device including a request for login credentials of the user; receiving a transmission that includes information provided by a remotely-located external data source in response to the external data source verifying the login credentials, the information including a user identifier, and information associated with the user that is stored at the external data source; accessing a user profile in a profile database using the user identifier, where profiles have a hierarchy of profile states based at least in part on an amount of information provided by each user; storing the information in the user profile; and determining whether the profile state associated with the user profile should be changed based on the information associated with the user. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074551 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING A SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING AND ENGAGEMENT APPLICATION - Disclosed is an approach for allowing a business entity to access and integrate with social media data, which is capable of accessing data across multiple types of internet-based sources of social data and commentary and to perform semantic analysis upon that data. Tags are associated with the analyzed content that pertain to actionable categorization of the data. Community managers can then view and take action with respect to the data. In addition, enterprise business applications can utilize the tagged data to perform business processing. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074552 | LEAD BIDDING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A lead bidding system and methods allows users to bid on leads based on dynamically qualified electronically transmissible documents and dissemination of those leads. The system and methods reduce the barrier to conversion associated with interacting with electronically transmissible documents and also provides a technique to create customized leads. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074553 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONSTRUCTING SPATIALLY CONSTRAINED INDUSTRY-SPECIFIC MARKET AREAS - Disclosed is a new methodology for defining fixed industry-specific market areas (ISMAs). A system implementing an ISMA construction algorithm may extract relevant primary geographic polygon (PGP) data and operate to optimize a predefined industry-specific objective function, given relevant constraints such as the spatial relationships between PGPs and their adjacencies, industry-specific constraints such as the number of sales, and non-industry-specific constraints such as median household income. A PGP represents an undividable geographic administrative unit such as counties, states, Census tracts, 5-digit or 3-digit ZIP Codes, etc. A set of ISMAs may be constructed using a hierarchical PGP merging process in which PGPs are merged iteratively until a stopping condition is met. An iterative PGP swapping process may be employed to adjust the outcome from the hierarchical PGP merging process to achieve the best possible outcome for the objective function. | 03-13-2014 |
20140081701 | DETERMINING AND USING BRAND INFORMATION IN ELECTRONIC COMMERCE - An apparatus and method for predicting a brand name of a product are disclosed herein. A product identification number for the product is converted into a normalized global trade item number (GTIN). For each of a plurality of GTIN prefixes corresponding to the normalized GTIN, brand names and counts of each of the brand names using product information stored in a product catalog are identified. A probability distribution of the brand names is determined in accordance with the brand names and the counts of the brand names for the plurality of the GTIN prefixes. A predicted brand name for the product is identified from among the brand names for the plurality of the GTIN prefixes, the predicted brand name having a highest probability score in the probability distribution of the brand names. | 03-20-2014 |
20140081702 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF RAPID SALES LOGGING - The technology disclosed relates to rapidly logging sales activities in a customer relationship management system. It also relates to simplifying logging of sale activities by offering a streamlined data entry path that as immense usability in a mobile environment. The streamlined data entry path can be completed by triple-action, double-action, or single-action. In particular, the technology disclosed relates to automatically identifying and selecting entities that are most likely to be selected by a user. The identification of entities as most likely to be selected is dependent at least upon access recency of records of the entities, imminence of events linked to the entities, and geographic proximities of the entities to the user. It further relates to automatically identifying and selecting sales activities that are most likely to be performed by the user. The identification of sales activities as most likely to be performed is dependent at least upon position of the sale activities in a sales workflow and time elapsed since launch of the sales workflow. | 03-20-2014 |
20140081703 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR CALIBRATING USER AND CONSUMER DATA - A system and method that calibrates subject data for which a relationship to a target population is not known, so that the calibrated subject data can more accurately represent the target population. In many cases the calibration will involve the use of a differential weighting scheme applied to the data at the constituent level. The system and method allows the values of the observed variables in the subject data set to be weighted so that their incidence is equivalent to that of a reference population represented by a reference data set, even if the variables used in the reference data set to make estimates for the reference population were not collected or measured for the subject data set. | 03-20-2014 |
20140089041 | TWO SIGMA INTELLIGENCE - Apparatus for identifying misclassified customers in a customer database is provided. The apparatus may include a receiver configured to receive information corresponding to a plurality of customers and information corresponding to a plurality of transactions. The apparatus may additionally include a processor configured to calculate a mean transaction value and a standard deviation from the mean transaction value, wherein the mean transaction value is calculated using the plurality of transactions. The processor may be further configured to identify a subset of customers included in the plurality of customers and modify at least a portion of the electronic classifications of the subset of customers. The modification may include changing an individual customer classification to a small business or preferred customer classification. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089042 | Method, Apparatus and System for monitoring competition price and for providing corrective messages - A computer-implemented method of detecting price discrepancies over time and providing analysis messages comprises: retrieving a set of price results based on at least one parameter selected from a set of parameters; detecting a pattern in the set of price results; accessing and updating a pattern cause database for identifying at least one predetermined pattern cause based on the detected pattern; analyzing each predetermined pattern cause and associated corrective actions; and generating at least one analysis message containing: the at least predetermined pattern cause and the associated corrective actions. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089043 | Audience Size Estimation and Complex Segment Logic - Selection of a trait may be received. A complex segment rule may be created that is usable to evaluate one or more qualification events. For example, the segment rule may be usable to evaluate a combined recency and frequency of the one or more qualification events. The qualification events may be based on collected network data associated with the plurality of visitors with each qualification event corresponding to a separate qualification of visitor according to the trait. The qualification events may be evaluated together according to the segment rule. For example, the combined recency and frequency of the one or more qualification events may be evaluated according to the segment rule. Evaluating the segment rule may include estimating a segment population size in real-time. | 03-27-2014 |
20140095251 | Methods and Systems for Optimizing Marketing Strategy to Customers or Prospective Customers of a Financial Institution - Methods and systems for optimizing marketing strategy to financial institution customers or prospective customers employ a processor coupled to memory and other computer hardware and software components for receiving customer profile data with a plurality of transaction card issuers other than the financial institution, developing models based at least in part on the customer profile data and at least in part on financial institution customer account and credit data, and generating estimated spend and balance behaviors for at least one financial institution customer with the plurality of transaction card issuers other than the financial institution based at least in part on said models. Based at least in part on the estimated spend and balance behaviors, financial institution marketing initiatives are created. | 04-03-2014 |
20140095252 | TAGGING SOCIAL MEDIA POSTINGS THAT REFERENCE A SUBJECT BASED ON THEIR CONTEXT - A system may identify and tag social media postings that contain information of interest about a subject. The system may determine whether any of the social media postings that do not contain information indicative of the subject were posted in a context that is indicative of the subject; determine whether any of the social media postings contain information that is of interest about the subject; to add metadata tagging the information of interest about the subject to each of the postings that contains information that is of interest about the subject and that contains information that is indicative of the subject; and to add metadata tagging the information of interest about the subject to each of the postings that contains information that is of interest about the subject and that does not contain information that is indicative of the subject, but was posted in a context that is indicative of the subject. | 04-03-2014 |
20140095253 | BUSINESS PROCESS GLOBAL SEARCHING - Embodiments of the invention provide for performing a search across business objects of one or more business processes. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention provide for performing a search across business objects of one or more business processes based on an index of business objects and additional information supplementing the index. The additional information can indicate business objects of different types or of different business processes that are related to the indexed business objects. According to various embodiments of the present invention, providing business object and business process searching can include but is not limited to: the ability to more quickly find related documents using search in one step; the ability to do so without using menus; the ability to quickly refine search results with common facets; and/or the ability to do advanced common attributes searches across business objects such as comments for a supplier across numerous business objects. | 04-03-2014 |
20140095254 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING PROFILES FOR AN ENTERPRISE BUSINESS APPLICATION - Methods and systems for implementing extensible profiles for enterprise applications. Users of the system are able to continuously extend their contact model by adding additional attributes or by adding related custom objects over a period of time. This permits the users of the system to adapt to changing circumstances and needs. Web services are able to perform operations on the extended attributes and objects through the use of profile adapters. Some embodiments also provide the ability to capture data from various sources, such as web surveys, data imports, and web services and write it to the extended attributes/objects. | 04-03-2014 |
20140095255 | RADIO STATION MARKET ANALYSIS - A radio station market analysis program extends Cume values for individual stations to multiple stations (for a particular geographic market, a particular demographic, and a particular daypart) according to the formula C=[1−Π | 04-03-2014 |
20140095256 | MARKET EVALUATION INVESTIGATION DEVICE AND INVESTIGATION METHOD - By adopting a component index with which it is possible for the evaluation subject to freely move over a screen and cite components of interest of an evaluation object overall image, it is possible to efficiently acquire information of the components which receive attention through the eyes of a typical consumer without being constrained by components which the specialists have prepared as objects to be evaluated, and by organizing and grouping the information thus acquired and displaying together with positions and frequencies of components of interest, it is possible to easily comprehend investigation results. | 04-03-2014 |
20140100914 | System Solution for Derivation and Provision of Anonymised Cellular Mobile Network Data for Population Density and Mobility Report Generation - A system for derivation and provision of anonymised cellular mobile network data for population density and mobility report generation can be implemented on a computer, e.g. in a data warehouse system. The system includes effective anonymisation measures to protect the privacy of the mobile network customers. It comprises a load extractor and a database production environment, where the load extractor is connected with the mobile network to receive and anonymise traffic data from a mobile communications network, and where the production environment is set up to allow a third party to query the traffic data for the purpose of population density and mobility report generation. The production environment of the system presents itself as a “black box,” which can be operated by the third party only via specific interfaces. Thus, the system can be operated by a third party without compromising the privacy of the mobile network users. | 04-10-2014 |
20140108090 | PRICE MINING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MINING THE PRICE - In a price mining system and a method of mining a price, the price mining system includes a price miner and a terminal. The price miner searches information on historical prices of a product, and provides blended historical prices of the product based on the information on the historical prices of the product. The terminal receives information requested by a user, provides the received information to the price miner as a query, and provides the blended historical prices of the product from the price miner to the user. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108091 | Method and System for Attributing Metrics in a CRM System - In an embodiment of the present invention, a Response object collects and synchronizes information from other types of objects as may be implemented in a CRM system. For example, certain objects may include a Lead or Contact Object, a Campaign object, and an Opportunity Object that is synchronized into a Response object. In this way, the results for a given Lead or Contact can be directly attributed to the Campaign or Opportunity without having to guess as may be necessary in certain typical CRM systems. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108092 | ENHANCED ADSERVING METRIC DETERMINATION - A user can view creative from multiple locations (same laptop) and multiple devices (work computer, home computer, tablet, smartphone). The user can also adjust their privacy settings on their browser to accept or reject cookies and/or have anti-spam/spyware software that regularly deletes cookies. An enhanced counting method uses first-party cookie technology to track users across access channels and across privacy settings on their browser. The non-acceptance and deletion of cookies causes the accuracy of the traditional third-party cookie calculated reach and frequency calculations to vary widely. First-party cookies reduce this variability but are still subject to non-acceptance or deletion so additional actions need to be taken to provide the opportunity for accurate reports. Additional steps to increase the accuracy of reach and frequency reporting are provided. | 04-17-2014 |
20140114722 | Method and Apparatus For Ranking a Customer Based on The Customer's Estimated Influence on Other Customers and The Customer's Churn Score - A method is disclosed wherein churn scores and influence scores for each customer in a particular set of customers (the set may include all customers of the network or some subset of all the customers) is determined. Each customer in the set can be ranked based on the customer's churn score and influence score. For example, a customer with a low churn score and a low influence score would be ranked lower than a customer with a high churn score and a high influence score. The customers that are ranked the highest should be the target of a retention campaign on a timely manner. | 04-24-2014 |
20140114723 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ESTIMATING A NUMBER OF USERS OF A WEBSITE BASED ON LOSSY COMPRESSED DATA - The invention relates to a method and system for estimating a number of users of a website. According to the method, it is repeatedly determined that the website is accessed by an entity and data dependent on the entity is determined and stored. The stored data is repeatedly compressed using a lossy compressing algorithm and based on the compressed data a number of users of the website is estimated. | 04-24-2014 |
20140122165 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SYMMETRICAL OBJECT PROFILING FOR ONE OR MORE OBJECTS - A system is described that implements symmetrical object profiles across one or more objects, wherein an object profile is influenced by other object profiles with which it interacts. In particular, the system includes a configuration for a first object profile that is associated with a first object, wherein the first object profile comprises a set of attributes having a first set of valuations. The system includes a configuration for a second object profile that is associated with a second object, wherein the second object profile comprises said set of attributes having a second set of valuations. The system includes a profile updater for managing the first object profile and the second object profile, wherein in a transaction involving the first and second objects, corresponding object profiles are updated based on valuations in the first and second set of valuations. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122166 | CROWDSOURCED BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION - Systems and methods are disclosed for providing crowdsourced contest for a behavior modification plan such as a plan to modify a user's diet, spending habits, or meals. A contest definition may be formulated based on a request received from the user and an analysis of the user's purchase history. The contest may be published to potential respondents based on analysis of the respondent's own purchase history. Payments may be authorized upon selection of a respondent's plan. The user's purchasing activity may be monitored and reported to the selected respondent to facilitate coaching. Coaching activity may be facilitated and or detected and payment authorized for such activity. Achievement of goals may be verified using the purchase activity of the user and payment authorized to the selected respondent to the extent goals are achieved. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122167 | Food Supply Chain Automation Grocery Information System And Method - A computationally implemented system and method that is designed to, but is not limited to: electronically storing grocery operations information regarding at least in part one or more grocery implementation aspects pertaining to grocery related merchandizing of one or more commercial grocery products; and electronically associating at least a portion of grocery operations information concerning at least in part one or more grocery implementation aspects pertaining to grocery related merchandizing of one or more commercial grocery products with identification information obtainable through one or more tags said one or more tags logged as being at least temporarily within at least a vicinity of one or more food based substances. In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122168 | Food Supply Chain Automation Residential Information System And Method - A computationally implemented system and method that is designed to, but is not limited to: electronically accumulating residential food management information including one or more food related residential conditions affecting residential service of one or more residential food items; and electronically indicating informational connection between at least a portion of residential food management information including one or more food related residential conditions affecting residential service of one or more food items and between one or more descriptors logged as contained by one or more label carriers, said one or more label containers logged as being at least temporarily within at least a vicinity of said one or more residential food items. In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122169 | Food Supply Chain Automation Residential Food Management Interface System And Method - A computationally implemented system and method that is designed to, but is not limited to: electronically transmitting one or more residential food management information requests associated with at least in part one or more food related residential conditions affecting residential service of one or more residential food items; and electronically receiving, subsequent to said electronically transmitting, at least a portion of residential food management response information associated with at least in part one or more food related residential conditions affecting residential service of one or more residential food items, said residential food management response information including description logged as accessible through one or more physical accessories and including description of said one or more physical accessories as at least temporarily near to one or more food items. In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122170 | DETECTION OF GUEST POSITION - The present disclosure relates to a system configured to manage a dining experience for guests at a food service establishment. In some implementations, the system may comprise one or more guest identification devices, one or more sensors, one or more host systems, and one or more processors. The system may be configured such that real-time detailed information about the food service establishment, guests of the food service establishment, food orders placed by guests of the food service establishment, table states of the tables in the food service establishment, and tasks performed by staff members is provided to the staff members of the food service establishment. The information may facilitate a unique guest experience for guests of the food service establishment wherein the guests may place a food order remotely, arrive at the food service establishment and self-select a table, and receive delivery of their food order at their selected table. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122171 | Method and System for Credit Card Holder Identification - The present invention is associated with a method that takes a subsequence of a credit card number, in particular the suffix (or last n digits), and transaction data associated with the cardholder. For each subsequence of the credit card number, a set of data may be used in order to uniquely identify the cardholder. The identification of the cardholder may be performed in a particular search space that is composed of all possible credit card numbers and includes the transaction data associated with the cardholder. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122172 | Electronic Transaction Receipt System and Method - In connection with a sales transaction, an electronic receipt is issued to the buyer that includes hyperlinks. A hyperlink can be associated with post-sale interaction with the product seller, the product manufacturer or parties acting on their behalf that involves the product itself, such as a product return procedure, a product warranty procedure, receiving rebate notices and recall notices, product registration procedures and similar functions. | 05-01-2014 |
20140129288 | Systems and Methods for Detecting and Eliminating Marketing of Fraudulent Goods - Online commercial activities are susceptible to high levels of fraud. Online sources of goods, including business-to-business resources, marketplace web sites, custom retail web sites, and the like may knowingly or unknowingly pass off counterfeit goods as genuine, sell overstock goods at low prices without production and commission costs, and solicit customers anonymously. In some embodiments of the present disclosure, electronic commerce sites are monitored using data metrics to track electronic retailer activities, monitor distribution volumes by source, and monitor pricing. Analysis of such items may be used to detect potentially fraudulent activity, and, based on manufacturer policy and threshold settings, may automatically report, notify, or take action against such illicit product sources. | 05-08-2014 |
20140129289 | MEASURING QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE ASSOCIATED WITH A MOBILE DEVICE - Implementations and techniques for measuring quality of experience associated with a mobile device are generally disclosed. | 05-08-2014 |
20140136278 | COMPETITIVE PRICE ALERT SYSTEM WITH COMPETITIVE PRICE RULES ENGINE - Price alerts relating to competitor products are transmitted to a user. A user provides product information, which is used to generate a product set. The products in the product set are used to generate a competitor set, which includes competitors that offer products in the product set. A rule set is generated that includes rules applied to the products and the competitors. A search is performed for the products against the competitors to determine if a rule has been broken. If so, an alert is transmitted to the user. In some implementations, instructions are also transmitted to correct the broken rule. Steps to correct the broken rule may include lowering the price offered by the user for the product. | 05-15-2014 |
20140136279 | OneClue Software System and Method - OneClue Software Process & Method captures single clue non-intrusively and use it in analysis to identify the customer (user) experience problem areas. | 05-15-2014 |
20140143012 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREDICTIVE MARKETING CAMPIGNS BASED ON USERS ONLINE BEHAVIOR AND PROFILE - The present invention discloses a method for providing prediction of content usage in a website. The method comprising the steps of: real time monitoring traffic of visitors in a website, tracking visitors that are visiting the monitored website to identify one or more parameters relating to user profile, navigation path or content usage, applying at least one statistical algorithm on identified parameters, said algorithm is at least one of: clustering algorithm, nearest neighbor algorithm or probability algorithm and defining content replacement and recommendation for visitors when visiting the monitored website according analysis results of the at least one statistical algorithm. | 05-22-2014 |
20140149176 | METHOD FOR GATHERING MARKET DATA - A method establishes a connection by way of a communication network between a user computing device and a ticketing application server. The user is prompted to create a user account on the computing device. The user is prompted to provide user information associated with the user account on the computing device. The user information associated with the user account is stored in a system database on the computing device. | 05-29-2014 |
20140149177 | Responding to uncertainty of a user regarding an experience by presenting a prior experience - Responding to uncertainty of a user regarding an experience, comprising: receiving a first token instance representing the experience for the user, an indication of uncertainty of the user regarding the experience, token instances representing prior experiences, and affective responses to the prior experiences. Identifying, from among the prior experiences, a prior experience represented by a second token instance that is more similar to the first token instance than most of the token instances representing the other prior experiences, and affective response to the prior experience reaches a predetermined threshold. Whereby reaching the predetermined threshold implies that the user may remember the prior experience. Generating an explanation regarding relevancy of the experience to the user based on the prior experience. And presenting the explanation to the user as a response to the indication of uncertainty. | 05-29-2014 |
20140149178 | LEAD SCORING - A system for scoring and distributing sales leads. A scoring model may score sales leads based on attributes of the leads and the likelihood of the lead resulting in a desired outcome. The scoring model may be updated based on new information about the outcome of sales leads, or in response to a determination that the scoring model is not providing adequate accuracy. A distribution module may distribute sales leads to sales entities. The entities may be assigned to tiers which determine the manner in which leads are distributed. The assignment of entities to tiers may be updated based on changes in the attributes of the sales entities. | 05-29-2014 |
20140149179 | USING COMMERCIAL SHARE OF WALLET IN PRIVATE EQUITY INVESTMENTS - Commercial size of spending wallet (“CSoSW”) is the total business spend of a business including cash but excluding bartered items. Commercial share of wallet (“CSoW”) is the portion of the spending wallet that is captured by a particular financial company. A modeling approach utilizes various data sources to provide outputs that describe a company's spend capacity. Private equity firms and other investors of small businesses can use the CSoW/CSoSW modeling approach to more accurately evaluate small and privately held companies, both during investment and for evaluating prospective investments. Over-the-counter securities trading systems can also use this modeling approach to provide more accurate information and/or rankings of listed companies to their customers. | 05-29-2014 |
20140156341 | IDENTIFYING POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS USING SOCIAL NETWORKS - Embodiments are directed to a method for operating at least one computing device to identify potential customers. The method includes analyzing social media content to determine a need of a social media user. A business that can meet the determined need is identified. The method notifies the identified business that the social media user may be a potential customer. Some embodiments are directed to a computer device comprising a processor adapted to perform the above method. Other embodiments are directed to at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising computer-executable instructions that, when executed, perform the above method. | 06-05-2014 |
20140156342 | SYSTEM FOR SELECTING TARGET DATA ACCORDING TO ATTENTION TIME AND METHOD THEREOF - A system for selecting target data according to attention time and a method thereof are provided. After a user image is captured when target data is displayed, attention time in which a user gazes at the target data is determined according to the captured user image, and statistics are made on the attention time to use the attention time as a technical means for selecting target data in a next time. Responses of the user when the user watches displayed information may be collected, so as to assist a provider of the target data to know whether the user understands the provided target data and/or is interested in the provided target data, thereby achieving the technical efficacy of selecting target data suitable for the user. | 06-05-2014 |
20140156343 | MULTI-TIER CHANNEL PARTNER MANAGEMENT FOR RECURRING REVENUE SALES - A system and method for multi-tier channel partner management for recurring revenue sales are disclosed. A plurality of tiers related to a recurring revenue asset is designated. Each tier of the plurality of tiers having a set of permissions and rules, the permissions of the tier enabling a user associated with the tier to access information in a database about the recurring revenue asset, and the rules defining permitted interactions between the user and the recurring revenue management system with respect to the recurring revenue asset. Data representing one of the plurality of tiers is received relating to the recurring revenue asset and associated with the user. Data relating to the recurring revenue asset is transmitted. The transmitted data is permitted to be sent to the user based on the tier associated with the user and the recurring revenue asset. A permitted interaction for the user is then executed with the recurring revenue management system to manage the recurring revenue asset. | 06-05-2014 |
20140156344 | AUSPICATE SYSTEM AND METHOD - Provided is a computerized system and method for performing business analytics and predictive analytics algorithms. The system includes a computer interlace operating on a user's computer device. The computer device includes a processor and associated computer memory, a display and one or more input device. The computer device is in communication with one or more computer database. The processor and memory are configured to provide the interface for the user to access the computer database(s). The processor and memory are configured to perform the steps of accepting input instructions from the input device to access information from one or more database, accepting input from the input device providing instruction to perform business analytics or a predictive analytics algorithm, performing a the business analytics or predictive analytics algorithm, and displaying on the display device the results. | 06-05-2014 |
20140156345 | NEEDS-BASED MAPPING AND PROCESSING ENGINE - A mechanism is disclosed that dramatically minimizes the time it takes to gather needs, dramatically minimizes the expense it takes to gather those needs, and ensures those statements are formulated in manner that comply with a set of rules designed to ensure the right inputs are used in downstream strategy formulation, marketing, product development, and related company workflows. In addition, the mechanism may or may not minimize the time it takes for a company to acquire the capability to uncover these needs statements. | 06-05-2014 |
20140164055 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING IMPLICIT FOLLOW AND AUTOMATIC UNFOLLOW - Disclosed is an approach for implementing implicit follow and automatic unfollow of objects in an enterprise application system. Automated following and unfollowing can be provided for objects in a CRM application, such as objects pertaining to sales opportunities. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164056 | Biosensitive response evaluation for design and research - Biosensitive response evaluation improves both design and marketing research by combining eye tracking information with time-coded biosensor information to determine the relative brain state of various market research respondents at the precise moment they are exposed to a stimulus. Areas of interest (AOI) are demarcated on detected objects. Relative physiological effects associated with each demarcated AOI are identified as part of biosensor response data and may be directly statistically correlated with a subsequent action. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164057 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING CONSUMER PURCHASING BEHAVIOR - Systems and methods are disclosed for analyzing and predicting spending behaviors of consumers. A financial service system configures a financial service account for a user associated with a merchant. The financial service system, after receiving notification of purchase transactions made by the user with the account, may collect information relating to the transactions. The financial service system may determine other merchants that “co-occur” with the first merchant—in other words, where else are the first merchant's customers shopping and who are their true competitors? The financial service system may then compile this data and provide it to the merchant, who may modify their business practices based on the information. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164058 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A MULTILATERAL TRANSACTION DATA MART - Systems and methods include multilateral transaction data mart, including one or more institutions, a central party, and a centralized database. Additionally, example embodiments may receive information from a one or more institutions, store the information in a centralized database, and provide information to one or more institutions upon request. Further, a system and method in accordance with example embodiments may include sending information to a centralized database, sending a request to the centralized database for information regarding one or more users, and receiving information regarding one or more users. | 06-12-2014 |
20140172498 | Relationship prediction system using external databases - A Relationship Prediction System Using External Databases for providing a relationship prediction based on the correlation of personal characteristics and the analysis of genetic characteristics is disclosed. In one embodiment, a first person supplies descriptions of their own personal characteristics, as well as descriptions of the personal characteristics of their ideal match, to a website. The first person also furnishes an odor, tissue or fluid sample to a test facility, where genetic characteristics are analyzed and determined. A relationship match is then generated based on both a combination of both a positive correlation of the personal characteristics of the first person and second person, and a measured dissimilarity between the sequence of genetic characteristics of the first person and second person. In one embodiment, personal characteristics are obtained from one or more external webpages. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172499 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS PROVIDING CONTENT RATINGS BASED ON ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS - Methods and systems for tracking user ratings based on release date and rerelease date of a media asset in an interactive media guidance application for display on a device. Methods and systems are provided to compute and store, in a first data structure, a plurality of initial ratings of a media asset made available to a plurality of users for a threshold period of time. After the media asset is rereleased, methods and systems are provided to independently compute and store, in another data structure, rereleased user ratings of the media asset made available to users after the threshold period of time has passed. Methods and systems are provided to generate a simultaneously independent display of the initial rating and retransmission rating of the media asset. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172500 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD AND PROCESS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR DYNAMICALLY ADAPTING PROCESSES - Certain example embodiments relate to a computer-implemented method for adapting at least one process defined as a base model in a process management system. In the process management system, at least one adaptation layer is defined separate, from the base model. The adaptation layer includes at least one definition of an adaptation of the base model. The at least one adaptation layer is applied on the base model in accordance with at least one aggregation rule to generate an adapted model of the at least one process. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172501 | System Apparatus Circuit Method and Associated Computer Executable Code for Hybrid Content Recommendation - Disclosed are systems, apparatuses, circuits, methods and computer executable code sets for generating and providing hybrid content recommendations. One or more recommendation engines are collaboratively arranged based on the conditions of a recommendation request. The collaborative recommendation engine arrangement is used for generating a set of content recommendations for the request. | 06-19-2014 |
20140180757 | Techniques For Recording A Consumer Shelf Experience - A computer-implemented method is disclosed herein. The method includes the step of recording, with a processing device of a commerce server, video of a product as a consumer is viewing the product in a retail store. The method also includes the step of correlating with the processing device, the video recorded in the recording step with consumer data. The consumer data can be demographic data associated with the consumer or a purchase history of the consumer. The method also includes the step of offering the correlated video and consumer data for sale to the manufacturer of the product. | 06-26-2014 |
20140180758 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMAGE QUALITY SCORING - A system receives images of objects. The system identifies a category for each of the objects, and extracts features from the images. The features relate to a quality of the image. The features of the images are stored in a database according to the category of each object, such that each set of features is associated with its corresponding image. The system displays the images on a network-based publication system, and receives data relating to the displayed images. The data is analyzed, and the images are ranked as a function of the analysis. The system redisplays the images on the network-based publication system as a function of the ranking of the images. | 06-26-2014 |
20140180759 | SOCIAL MARKETING SYSTEM, SERVER, AND METHOD - A social marketing system, server, and method. The social marketing system includes an e-lead platform that is configured to acquire social network service (SNS) message data on a plurality of SNS systems and a social marketing server that is configured to collect the acquired SNS message data from the e-lead platform to select a target to be marketed from possible purchase customers extracted from the collected SNS message data. In addition, the social marketing server is configured to transmit a marketing message to the selected target and influencers of the target to allow marketing to be performed. | 06-26-2014 |
20140180760 | METHOD FOR CONTEXT-AWARE RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON IMPLICIT USER FEEDBACK - Method for Context-Aware Collaborative Filtering comprising:
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20140180761 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT PLATFORM TO INCREASE RESIDENTIAL WATER USE EFFICIENCY - A computer-implemented method is disclosed for providing a customer engagement platform to increase residential water-user efficiency with one or more servers programmed to execute the method. The method comprising estimating, with the one or more servers, outdoor irrigable area of a household, wherein the estimating includes calculating outdoor irrigable land of the household for estimating outdoor water usage of the household. | 06-26-2014 |
20140180762 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CUSTOMIZED MUSIC SELECTION - Improved systems and methods for customized selection and distribution of music are described herein. In one embodiment, a system for selecting music is provided that includes a plurality of profiles stored in a digital data store that correlate a group of users to a plurality of music tracks. The system further includes a user interface configured to receive input data including at least one characteristic of a user and at least one of (i) a purpose for playing music and (ii) a characteristic of an environment in which music is played. The system also includes a digital data processor configured to search the plurality of profiles for at least one match to the input data and select at least one music track from the plurality of music tracks that is correlated with the at least one match to the input data. | 06-26-2014 |
20140188550 | Provision Of Customer Attributes To A Person - The present disclosure extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for establishing an attribute template for a customer for distribution to recipients. In operation, customer information is received and placed as attributes in a template that is then made available to predetermined recipients. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188551 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING NAVIGATION TENDENCIES TO USERS OF A WEBSITE - The example systems and methods provide ways for websites to monitor, store, retrieve, and display navigation tendencies of users of websites. More particularly, the systems and methods involve websites displaying measures of user traffic associated with various categories of web content. The measures of user traffic may inform a user of how the user previously navigated the various hierarchical categories of web content, or the measures of user traffic may inform a user of how others navigate the various hierarchical categories of web content. Moreover, the user may select an identifiable group of users for which the website will display navigation tendencies. In the alternative, the website may display navigation tendencies of an identifiable group of users based on an identity of the user viewing the website. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188552 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO REACH TARGET CUSTOMERS AT THE RIGHT TIME VIA PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL MOOD ANALYSIS - The disclosure generally describes computer-implemented methods, software, and systems for assessing a customer's mood by analyzing social network data. One computer-implemented method includes identifying a customer to monitor for mood, identifying at least one set of social network account information for the identified customer, accessing content items from at least one social network associated with the at least one set of social networking account information for the customer, determining a mood score for the identified customer based on the content items, and recording the determined mood score in a database. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188553 | Quota Cell Priority Determination to Match a Panelist to a Market Research Project - A method of matching a panelist to a market research project includes assigning, by one or more computer processors, priorities to quota cells. The method additionally includes accessing, by the one or more computer processors, a set of the prioritized quota cells identified for the panelist. The method also includes selecting, by the one or more computer processors, one of the quota cells based at least in part on the priorities. The method further includes matching, by the one or more computer processors, the panelist to the market research project based on the selected quota cell. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188554 | Priority-Weighted Selection to Match a Panelist to a Market Research Project - A method of matching a panelist to a market research project includes accessing, by one or more computer processors, a set of quota cells identified for the panelist and having priorities assigned thereto. The method additionally includes selecting, by the one or more computer processors, a market research project by weighting random selection of market research projects according to the priorities assigned to their respective quota cells identified for the panelist. The method further includes matching, by the one or more computer processors, the panelist to the market research project based on the selection. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188555 | IDENTIFYING AND MANAGING STRATEGIC PARTNER RELATIONSHIPS - Systems and methods that identify and manage partner relationships are disclosed. A third-party trustee collects and processes confidential customer information from more than one interested parties. The third-party trustee acts as a neutral intermediary between the parties. The third-party trustee processes and analyzes the information received from the various parties to identify mutual and/or prospective customers between the interested parties. The processing results may then be used for further analysis to help at least one of the interested parties to improve their marketing efforts, risk management, and servicing of their customers. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188556 | ANALYZING MARKETPLACE LISTING STRATEGIES - A method and system analyze marketplace listing strategies. In some embodiments, the method accesses data associated with multiple marketplace listings. Each marketplace listing is associated with a product category. A state-action model, associated with the product category, is created based on the data associated with the multiple marketplace listings. The state-action model is then analyzed to identify a marketplace listing strategy associated with the product category. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188557 | Systems And Methods For Providing A Multi-Tenant Knowledge Network - Business intelligence, decision support and knowledge management network systems and methods provide efficient, robust, and business-friendly services for the rapid analysis of massive amounts of business, electronic, and other disparate data into actionable intelligence. An advantageous element of the multi-party knowledge network allows the aggregation of common data formats in order to analyze a combined dataset consisting of information from multiple parties, thereby providing additional business intelligence than with a single set of data alone. | 07-03-2014 |
20140195298 | TRACKING OF NEAR CONVERSIONS IN USER ENGAGEMENTS - A computing method and system is disclosed for analyzing interactions between a user and a customer support agent. Typical interactions include inquiries about a product or service, and a service call. When the user purchases a good or service, or successfully completes a service call, the customer converts, e.g. the sales pitch or service solution was successful. If the customer does not convert, then the interaction between user and agent is analyzed to determine why the user did not convert and whether the user should be categorized for potential retargeting. | 07-10-2014 |
20140195299 | Computer system for accumulating descriptive profile data along with source information for use in targeting third-party advertisements - A method of accumulating descriptive profile data uses a databank that can be contacted by profile providers who contribute profile elements about an online visitor. The method includes keeping track of which profile provider contributed which elements, so that use of particular elements in targeting electronic third-party advertisements automatically can result in compensation. | 07-10-2014 |
20140195300 | SITE OF INTEREST EXTRACTION DEVICE, SITE OF INTEREST EXTRACTION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A site of interest extraction apparatus ( | 07-10-2014 |
20140200955 | DYNAMIC DETERMINATION OF LOCALIZATION SOURCE FOR WEB SITE CONTENT - Method and system for localizing an element present in a piece of content having a plurality of elements. A cost of localizing an element with respect to each of one or more localization sources is first computed. At least one criterion based on which a localization source for localizing the element is to be determined is obtained. A localization source for localizing the element is then selected based on an assessment with respect to the at least one criterion. The element of the content is then localized using the selected localization source. | 07-17-2014 |
20140200956 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF GATHERING CONSUMER INFORMATION - A computer-implemented method for collecting consumer information, including receiving a plurality of images of consumers; identifying at plurality of consumer characteristics from the images of consumers; and storing the identified characteristics in a consumer information database. Consumer characteristics include consumer age, race, weight, height, information regarding clothing worn by consumer (brand, style, type, color, etc.), body temperature, amount of time spent in a location, travel path through a location, time spent in proximity to a particular product, and/or identification of a product considered but not purchased. The method may include receiving information from a point of sale device and storing the received information and/or generating an advertisement, an alert regarding a consumer travel pattern within a location, a list of products that share one or more consumer characteristics, and/or at least one of a survey and coupon for a product not purchased. | 07-17-2014 |
20140200957 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING CUSTOMER PREFERENCES - Exemplary embodiments provide a method for determining a customer preference, the method includes receiving, at a merchant terminal, a customer ID token from a customer identification device; the merchant terminal communicating the customer ID token to a preference storage server which includes a plurality of customer preference records that are associated with one of a plurality of different customer ID tokens. The preference storage server determines a refined set of customer preference records associated with the customer ID token, and communicates, to a merchant associated with the merchant terminal, the refined set of customer preference records. | 07-17-2014 |
20140207516 | Methods and Apparatus for Procurement - Systems and techniques for procurement of equipment and services are disclosed. Data is collected relating to operations of an organization and the information is made accessible to vendors who may supply goods and services for carrying out the operations. The collected data may include information relating to inputs of the operations, size, shape, and weight of objects handled in the operations, actual and desired throughput, energy use, waste, and other data. Data may be anonymized before being made accessible to vendors, and proposals made by vendors in response to data from a particular organization may be directed to the organization from which the data is collected. | 07-24-2014 |
20140207517 | INFORMATION COMMUNICATION METHOD - An information communication method that enables communication between various devices includes: transmitting position information indicating a position of a terminal device; obtaining one or more sets of identification information of respective one or more devices and one or more sets of service information respectively associated with the one or more sets of identification information, and holding the one or more sets of identification information and the one or more sets of service information; setting an exposure time of an image sensor; obtaining a bright line image including a plurality of bright lines; obtaining identification information of a subject, by demodulating data specified by a pattern of the plurality of bright lines included in the obtained bright line image; and selecting service information associated with the identification information of the subject from the held one or more sets of service information, and presenting the service information to a user. | 07-24-2014 |
20140207518 | Method and Apparatus for Building a User Profile, for Personalization Using Interaction Data, and for Generating, Identifying, and Capturing User Data Across Interactions Using Unique User Identification - A user profile is creates, and personalization is provided, by compiling interaction data. The interaction data is compiled to generate a value index or score from a user model. Parameterized data is used to build tools which help decide an engagement strategy and modes of engagement with a user. Several facets relating to the user, such as user behavior, user interests, products bought, intent, chat language, and so on, are compiled to create a user profile based personalization technique. In another embodiment, a unique ID is provided that can be mapped across multiple channels for use by the user to contact various organizations across multiple channels, and thus upgrade the user's experience. | 07-24-2014 |
20140214479 | BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT AND EXPENSE INSIGHT SYSTEM - A behavior management and expense insight system stores user profiles, points of interest, and information for determining recommendations for the points of interest. An expense allowance module may compare an average amount spent for each point of interest by each user with a spending limit for each user, and determine an expense allowance indicator indicating whether an average amount spent is above, in par with, or below the spending limit for a geographic location for a user. A recommendation engine may determine a category of a point of interest in a request and select recommendations of points of interest for the request based on the category, the stored profile of the user, and the average amount spent for each stored point of interest in the category. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214480 | DETERMINING A CUSTOMER PROFILE STATE - First data is received from a device, where the first data includes a usage pattern of the device by a customer. Second data of the customer is received from a social media source, the second data including information regarding sentiment about an attribute expressed by the customer. A profile state of the customer is determined based on the first data and the second data. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214481 | Determining The Position Of A Consumer In A Retail Store Using Location Markers - A computer-implemented method is disclosed herein. The method includes the step of positioning at least one location marker at a position in a retail store. The method also includes the step of receiving, with a processing device of a position detection server, a video signal from an electronic device possessed by a consumer as the consumer shops in the retail store. At least one image frame of the video signal contains the at least one location marker. The method also includes the step of determining, with the processing device, a location of the consumer within the retail store in response to the receiving step. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214482 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF ENHANCING LEADS - A client transmits one or more lead records to a lead enhancement module that is configured to enhance the received lead records and return enhanced lead records to the client. The lead enhancement module may return a contactability score for each lead record, indicating a likelihood that the individual identified in the lead may be contacted using the contact information provided in the lead record and/or additional contract information located by the lead enhancement module. The lead enhancement module may also receive additional data items associated with leads from one or more data sources. Additionally, statistical models that may be customized for each client may be applied to information associated with lead records in order to determine one or more propensity scores for each of the lead records, where a propensity score indicates a likelihood that an individual will take a particular action, such as purchasing particular goods or services. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214483 | Use of Behavioral Portraits in Web Site Analysis - A method is provided for determining a website user behavioral portrait based on navigation on the website and dynamically reconfiguring web pages based on those portraits. In accordance with the method, data relating to the progress of a user through a website is recorded, and an ongoing behavioral portrait of the user is built based on the data. The portrait is then used to dynamically reconfigure web content. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214484 | CUSTOMER CATEGORY ANALYSIS DEVICE, CUSTOMER CATEGORY ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND CUSTOMER CATEGORY ANALYSIS METHOD - A customer category analysis device includes: a customer category identification unit configured to identify a customer category of each customer based on image information provided by an imaging device capturing images of customers and obtain customer category information indicating a result of identification; a customer category ratio obtaining unit configured to obtain customer category ratios based on the customer category information; a customer number obtaining unit configured to receive sales information from a sales information management device and obtain a number of customers based on the sales information; a category-based customer number obtaining unit configured to obtain a number of customers in each category by reflecting the customer category ratios on the number of customers; and an output information generation unit configured to generate output information representing a result of analysis based on the number of customers in each category. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214485 | DISASTER MITIGATION AND RECOVERY SYSTEM AND METHOD - A computer-based system where mobile computing devices, including, but not limited to, cell phones, smart phones, tablet computers, netbook and notebook computers, and laptop computers, are used in the field to map and record individual damage assessments of a possible disaster area. GPS technology may be used in conjunction with local databases and mapping programs to map specific locations and associate location data with assessments. The assessments are reported through a data network to an administrative application, which may reside on one or more computing devices, tablet computers, or network servers. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214486 | Dual Push Sales Of Time Sensitive Inventory - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for continuous dual push sales. The method may include, inter alia, determining a continuous real time distribution channel, comprising at least one match of said at least one customer specification and said at least one supplier specification, wherein said real time distribution channel determination comprises at least a dynamic pricing of the set of the desired item, upsells and cross-sells; conducting a sale wherein the offered item of said determined real time distribution channel is made available to said at least one potential customer; collecting non-winner data from said at least one potential customer that was not selected as the at least one winning customer; and delivering the collected non-winner data to said at least one supplier. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described. | 07-31-2014 |
20140222499 | System and method of integrating plurality of customer care service centers for registering and tracking customer requests using one single platform - The present invention provides a system and method of integrating plurality of customer care service centers for registering and tracking customer requests using one single platform to address products or service related issues with the customers. The system acts as a single point of contact for the customers to register and track complaints or issues with multiple customer care service centers of various products or service providers which are owned and used by the customer. The system completely eliminates the manual intervention at the back end i.e. on the customer care service centre during the time of registering a new complaint. The invention provides automation of raising/tracking complaints for multiple services provided to the customer by multiple service providers and avoids manual intervention from the customer care service centers where a customer care representative comes in to log a complaint or provide details for an existing complaint. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222500 | Consolidating Leads into a Lead Group - In some example embodiments, a system and method are illustrated to consolidate leads received from multiple user devices used by a single user. The system and method may include identifying a first plurality of leads received from one or more user devices as being submitted by a same user via the one or more user devices. The first plurality of leads may be directed to a listing provided by a lister. The first plurality of leads may be added to a lead group. Then, a second plurality of leads received from one or more users including the same user may be forwarded to the lister. The forwarding may include notifying the lister of a first count of the second plurality of leads. The first count may include the lead group counted as one lead. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222501 | CUSTOMER BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS DEVICE, CUSTOMER BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND CUSTOMER BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS METHOD - A customer behavior analysis device includes: a tracking unit configured to track persons moving in an area around a self-service area where items are provided for self-service, based on image information provided by an imaging device capturing images of the area around the self-service area; a detection unit configured to obtain, based on a result of tracking performed by the tracking unit, a moving direction of each person relative to an access area, which a customer needs to enter to choose and pick up items from the self-service area, and a staying time of the person in the access area, and to detect non-completing persons who gave up completing self-service action based on the moving direction and the staying time; and an output information generation unit configured to generate output information representing a result of analysis based on a result of detection performed by the detection unit. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222502 | DETECTION OF EXIT BEHAVIOR OF AN INTERNET USER - Use action in the form of movement of a tracking device on a webpage, represented by cursor gestures on the webpage, is used to detect it a user intends to leave the webpage. Upon detection of an intent to leave the webpage, an advertisement may be displayed to a use. The advertisement may be targeted to the user and/or based on the content the user was viewing on the webpage. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222503 | DYNAMIC PREDICTION OF ONLINE SHOPPER'S INTENT USING A COMBINATION OF PREDICTION MODELS - Online browsing behavior is used to predict the intent of online users dynamically. The category of online user is predicted and the prediction can be used to provide assistance to the user, if required. Such prediction is based on a combination of a Naïve's Bayes classifier and a Markov model. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222504 | ELECTRONIC DATA SHARING DEVICE AND METHOD OF USE - A method of enabling selected users to share contact information, comprising the steps of: an issuing entity issuing, electronic data sharing devices that are either free, subsidized, or bundled with other products or services to a plurality of selected users for the purposes of sharing user related information, wherein the user related information is shared a) between two or more of the users, between one or more of the users and the issuing entity, or with other parties authorized by the users or entity, and b) based on a preliminary, user-to-user initiated, exchange of data between two or more of the electronic data sharing devices or one or more of the electronic data sharing devices and a static or mobile hub configured to operate in the same manner as an electronic data sharing device; a server retrieving the exchanged data from the electronic devices, and providing the exchanged data to the issuing entity to enable the issuing entity to perform one or more of the following steps: i) identify the user related data associated with the users; ii) match users with users they exchanged data with; iii) analyze the user related data to determine one or more of: demographic information associated with the users; network inter-relationships of users; networking trends. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222505 | Generating a User Profile - An example method for generating a user profile for a user based on a static profile and a dynamic profile of the user includes compressing dynamic rules into aggregated rules for validation. The dynamic rules associated with a particular user are matched to one or more validated aggregated rules to generate the dynamic profile for that user. The static profile for the user is generated for the user based on factual user information and historical transactional data for the user. The static and dynamic profile are then combined to form the user profile. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222506 | CONSUMER FINANCIAL BEHAVIOR MODEL GENERATED BASED ON HISTORICAL TEMPORAL SPENDING DATA TO PREDICT FUTURE SPENDING BY INDIVIDUALS - A method for selecting a next action includes reading transaction data, determining insights and relationships between a first entity and a second entity from the collected transaction data. Once these relationships and insights have been determined, the possibility of a future event occurring in one of a number of selected time periods can be determined using a predictive time-to-event component. A system for selecting a next action includes a memory for storing transaction data, an insight/relationship determination module, and a predictive time-to-event module. The memory, the insight/relationship determination module and the predictive time-to-event module carry out the above method. A programmable media having an instruction set can also cause a machine to carry out the above method. | 08-07-2014 |
20140236669 | Apparatus and Method for Identifying and Employing Visitation Rates - Provided is a computer-implemented method that includes obtaining a user location dataset indicative of a location visited by a user, the user location dataset being based at least in part on a location signal received from a mobile computing device associated with the user, determining that the location visited corresponds to a geographic location of a place of interest, determining, using a computer, a visit count corresponding to the location dataset, adjusting a visit count for the place of interest to include the visit count corresponding to the location dataset, and storing the adjusted visit count for the place of interest in a visitation rate datastore. | 08-21-2014 |
20140236670 | Data Communication and Analytics Platform - A processor in an attribute retrieval module determines retrievable customer attributes from a plurality of data locations, wherein at least one of the retrievable customer attributes is retrieved from a data location external to the enterprise. The interface receives a customer attribute request from a first computer, the request includes at least one customer identifier and requested customer attributes. The requested customer attributes is a subset of the retrievable customer attributes. The processor determines the data location of each requested customer attribute and generates an information call for each data location. The interface communicates the information call to each data location. The interface receives a data report in response to the information call from each data location. The processor generates a complete data report based on the data report received from each data location, and the interface communicates the complete data report to the first computer. | 08-21-2014 |
20140236671 | NUTRITIONAL MONITORING AND FEEDBACK - A method and system for tracking items is provided. The method includes retrieving, from empty food packages in garbage containers, data associated with multiple attributes of multiple consumed food products from the empty food packages. Package data objects associated with the data are generated. The package data objects include identification numbers and attributes associated with the empty food packages. The package data objects are transmitted to a central processing server for generation of aggregated data. The aggregated data is analyzed with respect to nutritional content of the multiple consumed food products. | 08-21-2014 |
20140236672 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO PROVIDE REAL-TIME OFFERS VIA A COOPERATIVE DATABASE - In one aspect, a computing apparatus is configured to: store transaction data recording transactions processed by a transaction handler; organize third party data according to community, where the third party data includes first data received from a first plurality of entities of a first community and second data received from a second plurality of entities of a second community; and responsive to a request from a merchant in the second community, present an offer of the merchant in the second community to users identified via the transaction data and the first data received from the first plurality of entities of the first community. In one embodiment, the first data provides permission from the merchant in the first community to allow the merchant in the second community to use intelligence information of the first community to identify users for targeting offers from the merchant in the second community. | 08-21-2014 |
20140236673 | Systems and Methods for the Assessment of Vertical Goodwill in Social Media Performance - Described herein are systems and methods for analyzing social media data, assessing various aspects of social media performance, comparing the social media performance of a plurality of entities within a peer group, and displaying useful information to a user in a comprehensive and/or intuitive fashion. The social media performance assessment information pertaining to an asset may take into account the social media performance of a related entity and/or another asset belonging to a different hierarchical tier of a peer group, organization, or industry. A peer group, and its hierarchical tiers, may be customized or dynamically defined such that the user may specify the influence one asset's social media performance may have on another or the influence that the social media performance of a group of assets may have on one or more other assets. | 08-21-2014 |
20140244345 | Measuring Effectiveness Of Marketing Campaigns Across Multiple Channels - A closed-loop marketing system and method provides the ability to measure the return on investment of marketing programs across channels, both online and offline, including impression, page view and response levels. The present invention provides mechanisms for measuring a marketing department's contribution to the sales pipeline by taking into account the effect of multiple campaigns. A multi-campaign attribution methodology takes into measures the effect of a first touch (a campaign that first brought in an account), a last touch (a campaign that was presented immediately prior to the closing of a deal or creation of a sales-ready opportunity), and any significant re-touch events (campaigns that represent lead-nurturing and/or remarketing efforts). | 08-28-2014 |
20140244346 | REAL ESTATE TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT PLATFORM - Methods, devices, and systems for real estate transaction management. Methods may include generating and displaying parts of one or more data sets based on data including a proposal and one more counterproposals for a transaction of real property. The method may include performing data analysis on at least part of the data of one or more of the proposal and counterproposals and generating at least one negotiation analysis data set; and providing at least part of the negotiation analysis data set to a related party. The negotiation analysis data set may be determined in dependence upon a procurement data set associated with a procurement party and representing at least part of a procurement real estate proposal for real property, and a property holder data set associated with a property holder party and representing at least part of a property holder real estate proposal for the real property. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244347 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING CONTENT INCLUDING INFORMATION DERIVED FROM A SOCIAL NETWORK - Systems and methods of providing information via a computer network are provided. A data processing system can receive a request for third-party content that identifies a first entity. The data processing system can obtain a marketability profile of the first entity based on a social network profile of the first entity and can identify interests of the first entity. The data processing system can identify a third-party content item based on the marketability profile and the social network profile and determine a quality score for the content item. Based on the quality score and a bid value of the content item, the data processing system can select the content item and provide the content item for display. The content item can indicate a second entity, a type of connection between the first entity and the second entity and a type of association between an organization and the second entity. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244348 | MERCHANT-DIRECTED COMPUTER-BASED COMMERCIAL PLATFORM USABLE WITH A MARKETPLACE - A system and a method are disclosed a self-service computing platform having a software interface, such as a webpage, which allows a merchant or advertiser to create a customized merchant platform and use it to enroll or register itself in a marketplace. In various embodiments, a webpage is provided pre-filled merchant-specific information including offers and incentives related to customer leads. A Customer Relationship Management (CRM) service is provided to assist the merchant in contacting and managing the given customer leads. Dynamic CRM (DCRM) and Advertiser CRM (ACRM) services may further assist the merchant in managing the sales and marketing activities relating to the given customers. Such activities may include contacting, engaging, status inquiry, and sales with respect to customers whose lead information were provided to the merchant. In various embodiments, incentives given to the merchant may include new customer leads, credits, discounts, services, and the like. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244349 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MOBILE ANALYTICS PLATFORM - The disclosed technology, in certain embodiments, provides a mobile analytics platform tailored to a specific industry, e.g., the life science/health care industry. This platform presents large amounts of data, organized and displayed as an analytical story on a portable electronic device. The platform may translate large amounts of data to provide insights and answer questions specific to a user's role. The system may take the user through an analytical story that delivers actionable insights, thus making it easy and intuitive to consume large amounts of information. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244350 | GLOBAL EXPANSION BUSINESS SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system for guiding business users through a process of globalizing their business and developing the plans and action items required to export specific products to specific markets. Other aspects and advantages of the present invention will become apparent from the following detailed description, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, illustrating by way of example the principles of the present invention. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244351 | CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT (CRM) SYSTEMS - A customer, prospect and campaign management system maintains a single view of customers in one unified funnel, allowing companies to share platform-based, single-funnel views of prospects and customers in a privacy-compliant networked system. Individual customer relationship data records can be shared in a distributed multi-master, multi-slave or peer-peer context, partially or fully anonymously by removal of personally identifiable information, to one or more distributed slave or peer CRM systems. Anonymous data records in the slave or peer CRM systems may be used to select, target and track customers through a customer relationship funnel for communications using one or more communication proxies. Target customers may be advanced within the master, slave or peer CRM funnels and, given appropriate customer permission, the customer record may be identified fully or partially. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244352 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO PROVIDE INTELLIGENT ANALYTICS TO CARDHOLDERS AND MERCHANTS - In one aspect, a computing apparatus includes: a transaction handler to process transactions, a data warehouse to store transaction data recording the transactions processed by the transaction handler, a portal coupled with the data warehouse to receive one or more parameters as an input and to provide spending activity information for presentation as a response to the input, and an analytics engine coupled with the portal and the data warehouse to analyze spending activities of a user based on the transaction data and the one or more parameters to generate the spending activity information regarding transactions in a plurality of accounts of the user. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244353 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO ENHANCE SEARCH DATA WITH TRANSACTION BASED DATA - In one aspect, a system includes a transaction handler to process transactions, a data warehouse to store data recording the transactions, a portal configured to communicate with a search engine and to provide a user interface to receive a request from a merchant, and at least one processor coupled with the data warehouse and the portal. In response to the request received from the merchant via the portal, the at least one processor identifies a set of first statistics based on search activities of the search engine, identifies a set of second statistics based on the transactions relevant to the search activities, and uses the portal to juxtapose the set of first statistics and the set of second statistics. | 08-28-2014 |
20140249885 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CUSTOMIZED SEARCH RESULTS BASED ON A SHOPPING HISTORY OF A USER, RETAILER IDENTIFICATIONS, AND ITEMS BEING PROMOTED BY RETAILERS - The disclosure relates to systems and methods for providing a custom search based on search input entered by a user, shopping history of the user, retailer identifications, and products to be promoted by the retailers. The system may leverage a combination of retailer and user information to customize search results for the user. The system facilitates a search platform where retailers may provide items being promoted such that promoted items may feature prominently in search results and/or be included in search results while non-promoted items may be featured less prominently n search results and/or be excluded from the search results. In this manner, the retailer may more successfully drive sales of promoted items. Users may benefit from use of the search platform by receiving relevant results that are customized for the user and include items that are being promoted so that the user is made aware of relevant promotions. | 09-04-2014 |
20140249886 | BILLBOARD EXPOSURE DETERMINING SYSTEM AND METHOD - This invention relates to a method and system for determining probable exposure to a visual display at a particular location. The invention involves receiving object data associated with at least one object proximate, or in viewing proximity, to the visual display; and processing the received object data to determine a probable demographic profile associated with the object, wherein the determined probable demographic profiles are used to determine the exposure to the visual display. | 09-04-2014 |
20140257919 | REWARD POPULATION GROUPING - An apparatus and method convert user behavior data into rewards. The method and apparatus determine an undiluted reward for a user of a population of users. The method and apparatus divide the population of users into groups. The apparatus and method determine a dilution factor for each of the groups and assign and/or transmit a reward to the user based upon the undiluted reward and the dilution factor for the group to which that user belongs. | 09-11-2014 |
20140257920 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OFFER TARGETING BASED ON OFFER REDEMPTION - A method for distributing an offer to a consumer based on redemption history includes: storing consumer profiles, each including a consumer identifier and offer redemption data; receiving redeemed offers associated with a consumer identification, the offers associated with offer categories; identifying a specific profile, wherein the consumer identifier of the profile corresponds to the consumer identification; storing, in the offer redemption data of the specific profile, the redeemed offers; generating a behavioral profile for the specific profile based on the corresponding offer redemption data, wherein the behavioral profile includes a propensity to redeem an offer for each offer category; and transmitting an offer to a consumer associated with the specific profile, based on an offer category associated with the offer and the propensity to redeem an offer for that offer category associated with the consumer. | 09-11-2014 |
20140257921 | SOCIAL INFLUENCERS METHOD AND SYSTEM - Disclosed is an approach for implementing a system, method, and computer program product for providing a more complete approach to analyzing the commercial importance of individuals on interactive websites. Person of high commercial importance can be identified even where those individuals are not themselves directly spending high monetary amounts on personal purchases. | 09-11-2014 |
20140257922 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING SOCIAL DISCOVERY RELATIONSHIPS - The disclosed embodiments include methods and systems for providing social discovery service operations. In one embodiment, a system for providing a social discovery service is disclosed. The system may be configured to receive transaction data relating to one or more purchase transactions involving one or more merchants and one or more consumers. The system may also be configured to receive product data identifying one or more products included in the one or more purchase transactions. The system may also receive location data associated with the one or more purchase transactions. Based on the transaction data, location data, and the product data, the system may be configured to generate one or more social discovery graphs. Further, the system may be configured to perform one or more social discovery operations based on the one or more social discovery graphs. | 09-11-2014 |
20140257923 | VIDEO AWARE PAGES - A method is provided that includes retrieving user interface (UI) analytics data describing interactions with a UI provided by an online service, and retrieving media player state information describing interactions with video data included in the UI. The method further includes generating, based on the UI analytics data and the media player state information, UI data describing how the video data affects usage of the online service and how one or more elements within the UI affect user access to the video data, and presenting a comparison between a first subset of the UI data where the video data is not viewed and a second subset of the UI data where the video data is viewed to facilitate evaluation of how viewing the video data on the UI affects navigation to and from the UI. | 09-11-2014 |
20140278736 | UTILIZING SHARED CUSTOMER DATA - Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for utilizing shared customer data are presented. In some embodiments, a computing device may detect a mobile device that is linked to a user account. Subsequently, the computing device may identify a user of the mobile device, based on shared customer data associated with the user account. The computing device also may retrieve customer information associated with the identified user from the shared customer data. Then, the computing device may provide the retrieved customer information to at least one merchant device. In one or more embodiments, the shared customer data may be collected by at least two different commercial entities, and the shared customer data may be available for use by the at least two different commercial entities. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278737 | PRESENTING CHARACTERISTICS OF CUSTOMER ACCOUNTS - In general, the subject matter described in this disclosure can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products. Multiple customer accounts for which to display a graph that illustrates differences between characteristics of the multiple customer accounts are identified. A display of the graph that illustrates the differences between the characteristics of the multiple customer accounts is presented. User input that interacts with the displayed graph to select the user interface elements for a subset of the multiple customers is received. The selected user interface elements are presented in a different manner than the indication for those of the multiple customers that have not been selected. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278738 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR UNIFIED SCORING - A scoring system and methodology thereof that is capable of combining quantitative and qualitative aspects to produce a composite score. A task can be performed and performance metrics can be recorded. The performance metrics can be scaled to facilitate their combination independent of units. Thereafter, an opinion evaluation can be provided to a user that performed the task. The user can provide feedback in subjective categories that is stored and/or converted to numerical values. The user can provide additional feedback relating to the relative importance of one or more of the subjective categories. The relative importance can be used to weight one or more subjective categories. Thereafter, the performance metrics and opinion evaluations can be combined to a unified composite score. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278739 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MONITOR PRODUCTS IN STORES - Methods and apparatus are disclosed to audit products in stores. An example method includes receiving, at a collection entity, a first request from a first entity to audit a first product, the first request including a first instruction to determine information about a second product that competes with the first product, receiving, at the collection entity, a second request from a second entity to audit a third product, determining that the second request includes a second instruction to determine information about the second product identified in the first request, in response to the second request, generating a second question about the second product, in response to determining that a first question and the second question match, combining the first question and the second question to generate a combined question, and tagging the combined question with an identification of the first entity and an identification of the second entity. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278740 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING PAYMENT CARD TRANSACTION DATA - A method for analyzing payment card transaction data that includes storing transaction information, the transaction information including, for each transaction: an identifier of a physical terminal at which the transaction was conducted, an indicator of a time at which the transaction was conducted and an indicator of a cardholder account number to which the transaction is charged. The transaction information is analyzed to compute from the transaction information an indicator of a presumed acquaintance between a first cardholder with a first account number and any further cardholder with another account number in response to the cardholders conducting respective transactions within a period of time at a given terminal a plurality of times within a given interval with the interval being greater than the period of time. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278741 | CUSTOMER COMMUNITY ANALYTICS - A method, system and software for using customer community analytics for: (i) discovering relationships (for example, financial transactional relationships) between customers and other entities (such as companies); (ii) representing the customers, other entities and their relationships in the form of a machine readable graph; and (iii) using the graph to perform graph-based functions. These functions may include: up-selling, cross-selling, making personalized recommendations, discovering a financial products supply chain and/or facilitating social interactions between and among customers and other entities. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278742 | STORE-WIDE CUSTOMER BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS SYSTEM USING MULTIPLE SENSORS - A system for analyzing a customer's behavior in a store is provided. The system includes a data capturing unit, which has a first sensor configured to capture an image and an activity of the customer at a preset interval in the store during a first time period when the customer navigates a pre-defined area. The system also includes a data processing unit for processing the image and activity of the customer, which creates a behavior file for the customer from the image and the activity captured by the data capturing unit, and creates a statistics for activities of a plurality of customers in the store for a pixel or a predefined zone in the store for a pre-defined second time period wherein the statistics value is set at zero at the beginning of the pre-defined second time period. The system further includes a data reporting unit for presenting the statistics. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278743 | Consistent Interface for Lean Lead Business Object - A business object model, which reflects data that is used during a given business transaction, is utilized to generate interfaces. This business object model facilitates commercial transactions by providing consistent interfaces that are suitable for use across industries, across businesses, and across different departments within a business during a business transaction. In some operations, software creates, updates, or otherwise processes information related to a lead lean business object. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278744 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECOMMENDING COMPETITOR SETS - A computer system for recommending potential competitor merchants to a subscriber merchant and/or a market analyst is provided. The computer system includes a memory device in communication with a processor. The processor is programmed to receive transaction information for a plurality of cardholders from a payment network. The transaction information includes data relating to purchases made by the cardholders at a plurality of merchants. The processor may receive subscriber merchant preference information for at least one of the merchants input by the cardholder. The computer system determines a merchant rank for each merchant based on the received transaction information and/or the subscriber merchant preference information, and determines a neutral merchant rank and a merchant score for each merchant. After ranking, a ranked list of potential competitor merchants is generated for presentation to a subscriber merchant and/or a market analyst for further analysis. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278745 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING RETAIL PROCESS ANALYTICS INFORMATION BASED ON PHYSIOLOGICAL INDICATOR DATA - Systems and methods for providing retail process analytics information based on physiological indicator data are disclosed herein. According to an aspect, a method may include using a processor and memory for receiving physiological indicator data associated with a person. The processor and memory may also be used for determining a retail environment condition at a time associated with the physiological indicator data. Further, the processor and memory may be used for generating retail process analytics information for user presentation based on the physiological indicator data and the retail environment condition. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278746 | INTERACTIVE PRESENTATIONS WITH INTEGRATED TRACKING SYSTEMS - Systems and methods for tracking user interaction in a presentation may be provided. A presentation may be augmented to include user interaction tracking features, which facilitate tracking of a user's clickstream and browser session data generated during the playback of the presentation. A player may be configured to play the presentation and to track the user's browser session and clickstream data. The presentation player may be configured to dispatch this tracking data to a tracking server system. The server may be configured to facilitate calculation of an engagement score based on the tracking data, which indicates the user's level of engagement with the presentation. The engagement score and at least portions of the tracking data can be transmitted to a third party system, such as a marketing automation system, to trigger a responsive event. The responsive event may be generated based at least in part on the engagement score. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278747 | STRATIFIED SAMPLING APPLIED TO A/B TESTS - Embodiments provide techniques for testing a plurality of variations of a user experience, where each of the plurality of variations is distinct from other variations in the plurality of variations. For each permutation of a plurality of stratification factors that characterize users of the online site, embodiments generate a respective set of pseudorandom numbers. Additionally, user requests are assigned to variations in the plurality of variations, based on the generated sets of pseudorandom numbers. Embodiments also track user retention information relating to the user requests. At least one of the plurality of variations is rated, based on the user retention information. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278748 | UNIVERSAL TAG FOR PAGE ANALYTICS AND CAMPAIGN CREATION - A system for creating and using a universal tag to gather consumer data from a website for the purposes of targeted advertising is provided. The universal tag system has two main subsystems. The first subsystem is a configuration system that is used to define the consumer data to be collected from the website and to define taxonomy and transformation rules to be applied to the collected consumer data. The second subsystem is a runtime system that runs a universal tag client-side script, which is triggered when a consumer lands on a webpage of the website, for collecting the defined consumer data. The runtime system then applies the transformation rules to the collected data and updates a user profile corresponding to the consumer with the transformed data. As well, the runtime system applies the taxonomy rules to the collected data and categorizes the consumer for the purposes of subsequent targeted advertising. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278749 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING WEBSITE POLARIZATION AND FOR CLASSIFYING POLARIZED VIEWERS ACCORDING TO VIEWER BEHAVIOR WITH RESPECT TO POLARIZED WEBSITES - Websites and viewers are characterized for online advertising media campaigns, enabling online bidding capabilities for media campaigns, including pricing based on delivered Gross Rating Points (GRPs) instead of delivered impressions. GRPs for a campaign are estimated based on characterizing polarized Websites and then characterizing polarized viewers. A truth set of viewers having known characteristics is established and then compared with historic and current media viewing activity to determine a degree of polarity for different Media Properties (MPs), such as Websites offering ads, with respect to viewer characteristics such as gender and age bias. A broader base of polarized viewers is then characterized for age and gender bias, and their propensity to visit a polarized MP is rated. Based on observed and calculated parameters, bidding functionalities are enabled, including predicting a GRP total and pricing GRPs to a client and/or advertiser for an online ad campaign. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278750 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECLASSIFYING SMALL BUSINESS CUSTOMERS - In certain embodiments, a system includes one or more memory modules operable to store business transaction data for a plurality of customers of an enterprise, the business transaction data including a size classification for each of the plurality of customers. The system further includes one or more processing modules operable to determine, based on the business transaction data, a first list of customers comprising one or more of the plurality of customers that have a particular size classification. The one or more processing modules are further operable to access publicly-available financial information (including revenue information) for each of the one or more customers of the determined first list of customers and determine, based on the accessed publicly-available financial information, a second list of customers comprising one or more customers of the first list of customers that have revenue exceeding a predetermined amount. The one or more processing modules are further operable to store, in the one or more memory modules, a new size classification for each of the one or more customers of the second list. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278751 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING RAPIDLY-GROWING BUSINESS CUSTOMERS - In certain embodiments, a system includes one or more memory modules operable to store business transaction data for a plurality of current and former customers of an enterprise. The system further includes one or more processing modules operable to access publicly-available financial information (including revenue information) for each of a plurality of entities and determine, based on the accessed publicly-available financial information, a first list of entities comprising a subset of the plurality of entities whose revenue in a first time period exceeds revenue is a second time period by more than a predetermined amount. The one or more processing modules are further operable to determine, based on the business transaction data and the determined first list of entities, a second list of entities comprising one or more entities of the first list of entities that are a selected one of current and former customers of the enterprise. The one or more processing modules are further operable to store, in the one or more memory modules, the determined first and second lists of entities. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278752 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING POTENTIAL MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS - In certain embodiments, a system includes one or more memory modules operable to store business transaction data including expenditures and revenues for a plurality of customers of an enterprise. The system further includes one or more processing modules operable to determine, based on the business transaction data, a first customer having an amount of expenditures corresponding to an amount of revenue of a second customer. The one or more processing modules are further operable to access publicly-available financial information for the second customer that includes total revenue information for the second customer and determine, based on the accessed publicly-available financial information, whether the amount of revenue of the second customer exceeds a predetermined proportion of the total revenue of the second customer. The one or more processing modules are further operable to store, in the one or more memory modules, information linking the first customer to the second customer in response to determining that the amount of revenue of the second customer exceeds a predetermined proportion of the total revenue of the second customer. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278753 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS - In certain embodiments, a system includes one or more memory modules operable to store business transaction data for a plurality of customers of an enterprise, the stored business transaction data including expenditures for each of the plurality of customers of the enterprise. The system further include one or more processing modules operable to determine, based on the business transaction data, a first customer of the plurality of customers having an increase in expenditures and a second customer of the plurality of customers having an decrease in expenditures corresponding to the increase in expenditures of the first customer. The one or more processing modules are further operable to store, in the one or more memory modules, data associating the first with the second customer. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278754 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR IMPLEMENTING PREDICTIVE QUERY INTERFACE AS A CLOUD SERVICE - Disclosed herein are systems and methods for implementing predictive query interface as a cloud service including means for exposing an interface to client devices operating remotely from a host organization, wherein the interface is accessible by the client devices via a public Internet; executing a predictive database at the host organization as an on-demand cloud based service for one or more subscribers; authenticating one of the client devices by verifying the client device is associated with one of the subscribers and based further on authentication credentials for the respective subscriber; receiving a request from the authenticated subscriber via the interface; executing a predictive query or a latent structure query against indices of the predictive database generated from a dataset of columns and rows on behalf of the authenticated subscriber, the indices representing probabilistic relationships between the rows and the columns of the dataset; and returning a predictive record set to the authenticated subscriber responsive to the request. Other related embodiments are further disclosed. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278755 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR IMPLEMENTING CHANGE VALUE INDICATION AND HISTORICAL VALUE COMPARISON - Disclosed herein are systems and methods for implementing change value indication and historical value comparison at a user interface including means for storing records in a database, wherein updates to the records are recorded into a historical trending data object to maintain historical values for the records when the records are updated in the database; receiving input from a user device specifying data to be displayed at the user device; receiving historical filter input from the user device; querying the records stored in the database for the data to be displayed; querying the historical trending data object for the historical values of the data to be displayed; comparing the data to be displayed with the historical values of the data to be displayed to determine one or more changed values corresponding to the data to be displayed; and displaying a change value indication GUI to the user device displaying at least the data to be displayed and a changed value indication based on the one or more changed values determined via the comparing. Other related embodiments are further disclosed. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278756 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING AND PREDICTING THE IMPACTOF SOCIAL PROGRAMS - The present disclosure includes a method, system, and computer program for analyzing the impact of social programs. The analysis of the impact of a social program may be facilitated by one or more application program units residing on a service provider's server. The service provider server may include an outcomes taxonomy, evidence base, data collection unit, data evaluation unit, program rating unit, metric calculations unit, and a benchmark database. The analysis may result in the generation of a program scorecard that includes a plurality of metrics that may estimate the likelihood of success of a social program. Each of the one or more metrics may be utilized in order to predict the impact of a social program. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278757 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LEAD GENERATION - A non-transitory computer-readable medium including program code stored thereon is provided which, when executed by a computer, causes the computer to perform the operations of: receiving a request for an input form for display on an electronic interface, each input form including at least one information request and an associated data input field; and selecting the input form for display on the electronic interface from among a set of input forms, wherein each input form of the set of input forms differs from all other input forms of the set of input forms, and which input form of the set of input forms is selected in response to separate requests for input forms is varied based on a test instruction. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278758 | CUSTOMIZABLE DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - The invention relates to methods, systems, and computer-readable media related to a system having a plurality of users, designed to display a user-customized subset of item and/or provider information to the user. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278759 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LEAD DEVELOPMENT IN A BUSINESS TO BUSINESS MARKETPLACE - A combination of personal contact, digital tools, and focused means of communication to improve customer interaction, resulting in effective lead generation, nurturing, and development. The various embodiments of the present disclosure leverage hardware and software components in order to automate various aspects of lead capturing and nurturing processes based on a predetermined sequence of actions or steps and a set of predetermined rules with the purpose of triaging initial leads and identifying the “right” contacts who influence or impact the purchasing decisions, and routing of the triaged leads for follow-up and on-going managed pursuit involving various means of communication. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278760 | AUTOMATED CONSULTATIVE METHOD AND SYSTEM - A computer program facilitates a consultation between an authorized user and a human consultant. During the consultation, the human consultant maps a user need to one or more marketing objectives. The consultant interacts with the computer program to identify one or more tactics that are relevant to accomplishing the one or more marketing objectives. The consultant or the user selects from the one or more tactics identified by the computer program to cause the computer program to identify marketing packages available to implement a selected tactic. The consultant facilitates selection of a marketing package by the authorized user to implement a selected tactic. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278761 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DATA MATCHING AND INTEGRATION - Certain embodiments generally relate to data matching, such as, but not limited to systems, methods, apparatuses and computer program products for data matching and integration. For example, the method may include receiving data from a plurality of delivery channels in any channel. The method may also include matching cross-device user identifiers and profiles in near real-time. The method may further include synchronizing the received data in near real-time by server-to-server direct messaging to a plurality of integrated services. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278762 | Methods and systems for signal construction for distribution and monetization by signal sellers - Methods and systems for generating signals or indicators from distributed data sources controlled by a multiplicity of owners are also provided. Signals are indicators of data that are derived from data sources and abstracted to protect the underlying data. Each entity that sells data in the virtual marketplace first converts data into a “signal” or indicator that represents the data without disclosing it or providing it. The value of the signal cannot be determined separately from one or more buyers and their objectives. Sellers of signals determine if it wants to share information based upon buyer, price, and other rules. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278763 | Methods and systems for signals management - Methods and systems for managing signals by signal owners. Signals are indicators of data that are derived from data sources and abstracted to protect the underlying data. The signal owner first converts its own underlying data into a “signal” or indicator that represents the data without disclosing it or providing it. Signal sellers determine if they wants share signals based upon buyer, price, and other rules, including limitations on signal use. Signal buyers determine signal value based upon their objectives. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278764 | Methods and systems for a virtual marketplace or exchange for distributed signals including data correlation engines - Methods and systems for providing an automated virtualized signal marketplace or exchange for signals from distributed data sources that are controlled by a multiplicity of signal sellers or signal owners, including at least one data correlation engine that is operable for processing the signals to generate at least one correlation value relating to a specific objective for signal buyers corresponding to the behavior of the object and/or the activity and/or the event. Signals are indicators of data that are derived from data sources and abstracted to protect the underlying data. Each entity that sells data in the virtual marketplace first converts data into a “signal” or indicator that represents the data without disclosing it or providing it. Signal sellers determine if they wants share signals based upon buyer, price, and other rules, including limitations on signal use. Signal buyers determine signal value based upon their objectives. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278765 | Trend Analysis using Network-Connected Touch-Screen Generated Signals - A method of identifying and analyzing a trend is disclosed. A signal created on a network-connected touch-screen by actively filtering content is received by a programmed data processor. The processor creates a signal-vector by mapping the signal to two or more vector-dimensions, one being a location of origination of the signal. This is repeated for more signals. A trend is identified as a cluster of signal-vectors having a size that exceeds a predetermined threshold. One use of identifying and analyzing trends is to then influence the trend. Advertising is one form of influencing a trend. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278766 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING APPLICATION PROVISIONING - Methods and Apparatus are described herein for providing a provisioning platform on an electronic device. In some embodiments, a method includes receiving from an electronic device a request to download an access application. A code that is configured to cause the access application to be installed on the electronic device is sent to the electronic device. The access application is configured to provide a dynamic access point on a display of the electronic device. When selected by a user of the electronic device, the dynamic access point provides access to at least one of a website, an application previously downloaded on the electronic device, or an application store within the access application. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278767 | ADMINISTRATION AND CUSTOMIZATION PLATFORM FOR IN-VEHICLE-SERVICES - An approach to facilitating in-vehicle-services-related tracking of passengers is provided. A first set of information relating to a first carrier and a second set of information relating to a second carrier that is different from the first carrier may be obtained. The first set of information may include first identification information and one or more first trip details. The second set of information may include second identification information and one or more second trip details. The first set of information may be determined to relate to a first trip of a particular passenger with the first carrier. The second set of information may be determined to relate to a second trip of the particular passenger with the second carrier. Preference information of the particular passenger may be determined based on the one or more trip details and the one or more second trip details. | 09-18-2014 |
20140288998 | System and method for obtaining and paying for consumer data - Consumer data is securely obtained and offered to merchants or their agents in return for monetary compensation. The data's financial worth depends on whether a consumer provides anonymous, personally identifiable information, geo-tracking data, or mobile payment tracking data. The micropayments can be agreed upon in advance, bid on, or a combination of both. A necessary characteristic of the system is the safe and efficient flow of privacy data in return for micropayments that are securely made to consumers and able to be aggregated. | 09-25-2014 |
20140288999 | SOCIAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION (SCR) SYSTEM - A social character recognition system includes a user profile constructer and a data analyzer. The user profile constructer generates a user profile from user's social information available on the internet and from other external information, the user profile having multiple scales, where the lowest scale includes the raw data, higher scales aggregate the data into generic attributes and the topmost level defines a social character of the user. The data analyzer calculates similarities at least between a first user profile and a second user profile based on weighted functions of distances between the each of the scales in the user profiles. | 09-25-2014 |
20140289000 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CROWD SOURCED METRICS FOR NETWORK CONTENT BROADCASTERS - A system and method for providing crowd sourced metrics for broadcast content providers. For determinations of such metrics, user consumption of broadcast content in multiple streams by multiple content providers may be monitored and user consumption information regarding the broadcast content may be obtained. One or more content consumption metrics may be determined to quantify individual user consumption of the broadcast content. Audience metrics may be determined, for a content provider, to inform about users that are available to consume broadcast content provided by the content provider. Events within the broadcast content may be determined and event information regarding individual user consumption of the broadcast content at the event may be obtained. Event metrics may be determined based on the obtained event information to inform about consumption of the broadcast content at the event by users. | 09-25-2014 |
20140289001 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECRUITING SUBJECTS FOR RESEARCH STUDIES AND CLINICAL TRIALS OVER THE INTERNET - A system and method for managing private records and other confidential information is provided, including a patient interface that allows patients to configure privileges for various parties to access various private records or portions thereof. A database can be accessed via a privacy engine, which respects the configured privileges and allows searching for private records. A plurality of user interfaces is provided to allow records managers, patients, and interested parties to access selected private information. A clinical trials interface allows limited access to a private records database for interested parties to identify germane clinical trials and research studies. A recruitment interface allows conductors of research studies to access private records to locate appropriate research subjects. | 09-25-2014 |
20140289002 | METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING AND PROVIDING NOTIFICATION ABOUT WEB CONTENT ASSOCIATED WITH AN ORGANIZATION AND DEVICES THEREOF - A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus that identifies and provides notification about web content associated with an organization includes identifying one or more sets of web content which contains one or more organization keywords. At least a portion of each of the identified one or more sets of web content is extracted. One or more business units within each of one or more organizations and one or more business words for each of the one or more business units are obtained. One or more of the business words are associated with one or more of the extracted portions of the one or more sets of web content. Each of the extracted portions of the one or more sets of web content are provided to a designated recipient computing device based on the association of the one or more business words with the one or more of the extracted portions of the one or more sets of web content. | 09-25-2014 |
20140297362 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FACILITATING COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN PROVIDERS OF ON-LINE SERVICES AND POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS - Systems and methods are provided that can include monitoring of activities of potential customer users, for example, on an e-commerce Web site. Based at least in part on the monitored activities, a notification or alert may be provided to a merchant or a merchant administrator, regarding a potential customer, such as by being sent to a mobile device of the merchant or merchant administrator. Real-time communications may be facilitated or initiated between the merchant or the merchant administrator and the potential customer, such as with regard to a potential purchase, which communications can include the use of mobile devices. | 10-02-2014 |
20140297363 | On-Site and In-Store Content Personalization and Optimization - In an example implementation, a method receives first-party data and third-party data and generates a customer profile for the customer of a merchant based on the first-party data and the third-party data. The customer profile has a set of attributes. The method further generates a set of rules for evaluating a disposition of the customer based on the set of attributes of the customer profile, receives real-time intelligence data associated with the customer during a visit to the merchant or an interaction with marketing content of the merchant, predicts the disposition of the customer using the real-time intelligence data and one or more of the rules, and adapts a shopping experience of the customer during the visit to the merchant or a marketing content of the merchant for the customer using the predicted disposition. | 10-02-2014 |
20140297364 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR USING MULTIPLE DATA SETS TO ANALYZE PERFORMANCE METRICS OF TARGETED COMPANIES - New and improved methods and systems for modeling the performance of selected company metrics. Multiple, non-traditional sets of objective data along with mathematical analytical techniques are used to provide transparency and visibility into company performance relating to the particular metrics. Company inflection points and changes in strategy may be identified. The performance of a company and/or the performance of a selected industry or industry sector may be analyzed. | 10-02-2014 |
20140297365 | Mining of Distributed Scientific Data for Enriched Valuation - Methods and systems are described that detail the rapid validation of scientific products and scientist consumer information derived from multiple science/research based sources, such as peer-reviewed scientific publications and online resources, for example, as well as any other available tasked forum or venue. The refined information will facilitate unique product evaluation opportunities via an accessible website/forum, trade shows, etc., and provide previously unknowable sales leads, market intelligence, and targeted advertising opportunities for product manufacturers. | 10-02-2014 |
20140304031 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING ANALYSIS OF ITEM ORDER FREQUENCY - An improved approach is described for identifying frequently ordered items. This approach allows the counts for the months that are currently relevant to be summed quickly and ranked at runtime so the items with the highest frequency can be recommended. In addition, this approach provides very up-to-date data at very low levels of incremental expense. | 10-09-2014 |
20140304032 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING DISPLAY OF REVENUE OPPORTUNITIES - An improved approach is described for performing analysis and display of revenue opportunities for large data sets. A user interface is provided to the CSR which provides real-time data relevant to the sales process. The information includes, for example, up-selling opportunities, cross-selling opportunities, profitability analysis, and/or fulfillment analysis. | 10-09-2014 |
20140304033 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND SYSTEMS FOR DATA VISUALIZATION AND RELATED APPLICATIONS - A computer implemented method of analyzing and graphically representing the correlation of a plurality of transaction items, the method comprising the steps of: retrieving data associated with groups of the transaction items, correlating a plurality of groups of transaction items in a dimensionally reduced manner, creating a tree hierarchy which classifies the groups of transaction items in a hierarchy according to a defined user understandable factor, wherein the tree hierarchy is linked to the groups of transaction items, and graphically representing the correlated groups of transaction items and tree hierarchy to enable interaction between the correlated groups of transaction items and the linked tree hierarchy. | 10-09-2014 |
20140310057 | MANAGEMENT OF SUBSCRIBERS OF A MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - A method and system for managing subscribers in a mobile communication network, the method includes receiving, in a server, predetermined subscriber specific information from at least one of the following: charging system, mobile communication network, mobile communication device; valuing each received piece of information according to a predetermined valuing scheme on a subscriber basis; aggregating the values in order to determine a value rep-resenting subscriber satisfaction in the mobile communications network on the subscriber basis; and determining one or more subscribers, whose subscriber satisfaction value is below a predetermined level, by comparing the value representing subscriber satisfaction to the predetermined level. | 10-16-2014 |
20140310058 | Identifying Influential and Susceptible Members of Social Networks - Methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on computer readable media, for generating a message associated with a user, wherein the user is associated with a plurality of peers in a social network. A subset of peers is randomly chosen from the plurality of peers. The message is sent to the subset of peers. Data pertaining to one or more behaviors from one or more peers of the plurality of peers is collected. A time for a target behavior is evaluated as a function of who received the message and who did not receive the message. From the evaluation, particular members of the social network are identified. | 10-16-2014 |
20140316848 | Cross-Channel Analytics Combining Consumer Activity on the Web and in Physical Venues - Machines, systems, products and methods for cross-referencing a consumer's shopping activities in a physical venue to the consumer's online activities, the method comprising: uniquely identifying a consumer based on a unique ID associated with the consumer's mobile communication device; monitoring speed and location of the consumer in one or more zones in a physical venue by detecting and processing communication signals broadcasted by the consumer's mobile communication device; determining level of interest of the consumer in one or more products positioned in the one or more zones in the physical venue based on speed with which the consumer moves through the one or more zones; and equating a first level of interest in a first product in the physical venue to a page view on a webpage that promotes the first product or group of products. | 10-23-2014 |
20140316849 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING ITEM SPECIFIC USER INTEREST - A method for determining item specific user interest includes rendering a tag on top of a content item of a website, activating an e-commerce application from the tag related to the content item, and rendering a second item related to the content item on the e-commerce application. The method also includes monitoring one or more actions performed by the user related to the item on the e-commerce application. The method further includes assigning scores to the one or more actions performed by the user related to the item. In addition, the method includes determining a level of interest value of the user for the item based on scores assigned to the one or more actions. | 10-23-2014 |
20140316850 | Computerized System and Method for Determining an Action's Importance and Impact on a Transaction - The present invention is a computerized method of determining the importance of an action performed by an action person to the occurrence of a transaction. | 10-23-2014 |
20140316851 | PREDICTING CUSTOMER RECEPTIVITY FOR COMMERCIAL ENGAGEMENT - In an exemplary embodiment of this disclosure, a computer-implemented method includes storing in a rules database one or more rules related to customer receptivity. A first subset of the rules is processed, by a computer processor, to determine a computed level of customer receptivity (LOCR) for each of one or more customers. One or more observed LOCRs are received for the one or more customers. Each observed LOCR may be based on contact with a corresponding customer of the one or more customers. One or more predicted LOCRs are predicted for the one or more customers, using one or more predictive models. Each predicted LOCR is based at least in part on an observed LOCR associated with the corresponding customer of the one or more customers. The rules in the rules database are then modified, repeatedly, to reflect the predicted LOCRs and additional predicted LOCRs after they are predicted. | 10-23-2014 |
20140316852 | USING COMMERCIAL SHARE OF WALLET TO RATE BUSINESS PROSPECTS - Commercial size of spending wallet (“CSoSW”) is the total business spend of a business including cash but excluding bartered items. Commercial share of wallet (“CSoW”) is the portion of the spending wallet that is captured by a particular financial company. A modeling approach utilizes various data sources to provide outputs that describe a company's spend capacity. Research analysts can use CSoW/CSoSW to provide a comprehensive and robust indication of the business prospects of a rated company. | 10-23-2014 |
20140324522 | Detecting Fraud In Internet-Based Lead Generation Utilizing Neural Networks - Artificial neural network models trained using historical lead data are used to identify leads that are likely to be fraudulent or inaccurate and to additionally identify lead sources that provide leads likely to be fraudulent or inaccurate. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324523 | Missing String Compensation In Capped Customer Linkage Model - The present disclosure extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for determining customer linkages between a plurality of customer profiles and providing missing cost values in the attribute fields. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324524 | EVOLVING A CAPPED CUSTOMER LINKAGE MODEL USING GENETIC MODELS - The present disclosure extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for determining customer linkages between a plurality of customer profiles having corresponding attribute pairs for comparison. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324525 | ANALYZING CAREER SITE VIEWER INFORMATION - Methods and systems for using social network information in analyzing career site viewership are described. In some example embodiments, the methods and systems access information associated with multiple viewing sessions of job listings presented at a career site, determine users associated with the multiple viewing sessions are members of a social network service, access profile information for users that are members of the social network service, and present information identifying characteristics of the users associated with the multiple user viewing sessions based on accessed profile information. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324526 | CAPTURING VIEWER INFORMATION FROM MULTIPLE PAGES OF A CAREER SITE - Methods and systems for capturing viewership information from multiple pages of a career site are described. In some example embodiments, the methods and systems access first information captured by a first javascript beacon located at a job listing page of a career site, access second information captured by a second javascript beacon located at one or more job application pages of the career site, compare the first information to the second information, and present viewership information for the career site based on the comparison. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324527 | PROXIMITY DETECTION USING SENSORS BASED ON A PROGRAMMABLE MULTI-ARRAY STRUCTURES - Embodiments of the present disclosure is directed to the use of spatially diverse multiple antenna structures and associated radio transmitters and receivers in a sensor for accurate proximity detection. In a retail environment, a system based on a network of such (smart) sensors can accurately detect presence and location of a shopper's wireless mobile device as the shopper moves along the shopping aisles carrying the wireless mobile device (e.g. smartphone). Based on the location of the shopper and the duration of the shopper stopping in front of a product shelf in an aisle, embodiments can engage the shopper (through the wireless mobile device) in transaction-oriented interactions using the ‘sense, analyze, and connect’ capability of the various embodiments described herein. Such interactions result in increased revenue for the retailers as well as better understanding of the shopping behavior of the retail shoppers. Such understanding can be embodied in improved analytics. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324528 | Computerized System and Method for Determining an Action's Relevance to a Transaction - The present invention is a computerized method to compute a relevance factor representing a degree of relevance of a first content with respect to a second content using at least one processor to execute instructions to perform, for each action person's action entities. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324529 | Method and System for Business Lead Generation and Auctioning - A computer-implemented method of business lead auctioning includes receiving a request for a service from a potential customer. The received request is matched with a plurality of service providers. The request and the plurality of service providers are matched according to a category of the service requested and a geographic area corresponding to the service. The matched plurality of service providers are notified that a virtual auction will be conducted for a business lead including vital contact information for the potential customer. A virtual auction for the business lead is generated. The virtual auction is conducted and one or more of the matched plurality of service providers bid for access to the vital contact information for the potential customer. The auction is closed and a winning service provider of the matched plurality of service providers is given the vital contact information for the potential customer. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324530 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING PATTERS IN DATA STREAMS - A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to detect patterns in at least one data stream. First, the at least one data stream is received and analyzed to detect an event in the least one data stream, wherein the detected event occurs in relation with an entity and includes at least one attribute indicative of at least one of an identity of the entity, an event type, and contact information for the entity. Once the event is detected and/or received from an external source, it is compared with a plurality of predefined patterns to determine if a match between the event and at least one of the predefined patterns is found. If a match is found successfully, a notification indicative of the entity and/or the event and the at least one predefined pattern that has been successfully matched with the event is generated and transmitted with instructions for actions by another application. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324531 | AUTOMOTIVE DATA MINING SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC LEAD GENERATION AND CONTACT MANAGEMENT - A data mining system can generate leads for, and facilitate outreach by, automotive dealerships. Such a system can include a view server, and access controls. A contact management subsystem can track automotive marketing interactions with a task list view. Contact stage controls can allow a user to specify a current stage for a particular contact in a multi-stage contact management process. A notification generating subsystem can be integrated with the contact management subsystem, providing individualized offers for selected prospects. It can use an assessment server configured to automatically identify contacts as prospects using historical transaction data and current automobile identifiers to perform a payment comparison. A deal sheet view can facilitate outreach to prospects by consolidating payment comparison information and contact information, as well as indicating a current stage for the prospect in the multi-stage contact management process. | 10-30-2014 |
20140337089 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO CONNECT INFORMATION - A system and method to link online and offline user data via transaction data. Online and/or offline user data can be tracked via various anonymous tracking methods that do not require the users to explicitly identify themselves. Through linking online payment transactions with online user data and linking offline payment transactions with offline user data, the system and method links the online user data and the offline user data that are linked respectively to online and offline payment transactions made in the same payment account. Combining the online user data and offline user data in connection with online and offline payment transactions provides comprehensive information about the user, which can be used to provide improved services to the user. | 11-13-2014 |
20140337090 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO MEASURE INFLUCENCE POWER - A system and method to determine influence power of users based on transaction data and social networking data. An influence score represents the effectiveness of users in influencing the purchase decisions of others. For example, after comparing the transactions of a user and the transactions of the followers or friends of the users, as identified by the social networking data and/or a registration process, the transactions of the followers or friends influenced by the user can be identified and used to determine the influence score of the user. The influenced transactions may be identified based on correlating items purchased via the influenced transactions, and/or based on correlating merchants with whom the influenced transactions are performed. The influence score can be computed based on a size of the influenced transactions and be used to rank users for the targeting, customization, and/or prioritization of future offers. | 11-13-2014 |
20140337091 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTEXTUAL PROFILING FOR OBJECT INTERACTIONS AND ITS APPLICATION TO MATCHING SYMMETRICAL OBJECTS - A method for constructing a context profile within a system implementing symmetrical object profiles. The method includes establishing one or more contextual boundary parameters defining a context within which transactions occur. A plurality of transactions associated with the context is filtered using the contextual boundary parameters to obtain a pool of filtered transactions. Each of the transactions is conducted between at least two objects in the system including a plurality of objects associated with the symmetrical object profiles. An array of filtered objects including objects involved in at least one filtered transaction is established. Each filtered object is defined by a current version of a corresponding object profile and is associated with a corresponding transaction. The method includes generating a context object profile associated with the context that is based on attribute values of filtered object profiles associated with the array of filtered objects. | 11-13-2014 |
20140337092 | Systems and Methods for Predicting Occurrences of Consumers Returning Purchased Devices - Systems and methods are provided for reducing consumer electronic device returns. According to various aspects, a server receives ( | 11-13-2014 |
20140337093 | ADVISING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH SENSOR INPUT - Systems and methods to facilitate advising management are provided. A communication connection between an advisor and an advisee may be facilitated. First data captured via an end-user communication device may correspond to one or more sensor inputs. A set of qualification rules that includes a set of criteria for qualifying advisees based at least in part on captured data relating to advisees may be accessed. A first set of information for the first advisee may be derived based at least in part on the first data and the set of qualification rules. The first set of information may include a first characterization of the first advisee. Indication, to a computing device of the advisor, of the first characterization of the first advisee may be caused at a time corresponding to the communication connection between the advisor and the first advisee. | 11-13-2014 |
20140337094 | ACCREDITED ADVISOR MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Systems and methods for an accredited advisor management are provided. First information enabling unique identification of a first advisor may be processed. The first advisor may be matched to a first category of advising services. Input from the first advisor may be processed based at least in part on the first category. Data sources corresponding to accrediting authorities may be selected. Credential information that came electronically from the data sources may be processed. A first set of advisor information may be consolidated at least partially based on the input and on the credential information. A second set of advisor information may be prepared for exposure to advisees. At least part of the second set of advisor information may be transmitted to an end-user communication device. | 11-13-2014 |
20140344011 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING A TRANSACTION BETWEEN A MERCHANT AND A CARDHOLDER - A system and method for facilitating a transaction, e.g., shopping experience, between a merchant and a cardholder. The system comprises an electronic storage device having a database of cardholder profile information and location information stored therein; an access path for allowing access to the cardholder profile information and location information; and a processor for assembling the cardholder profile information and location information in the database, and for providing the assembled cardholder profile information and location information to a merchant and a cardholder that have been granted access to the database. The assembled cardholder profile information and location information are provided to the merchant and the cardholder so as to effect targeted interaction between the merchant and cardholder based at least in part on the assembled cardholder profile information and location information. A method for monitoring efficiency of a transaction between a merchant and a cardholder, and for determining customer shopping trends at a merchant facility. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344012 | INTERESTINGNESS SCORING OF AREAS OF INTEREST INCLUDED IN A DISPLAY ELEMENT - Examples are disclosed for determining an interestingness score for one or more areas of interest included in a display element such as a static image or a motion video. In some examples, an interestingness score may be determined based on eye tracking or gaze information gathered while an observer views the display element. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344013 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTERACTIVE EVOLUTIONARY OPTIMIZATION OF CONCEPTS - A method includes determining a plurality of data points, determining a distance between each data point and each of the other plurality of data points, choosing a first one of the plurality of data points, identifying all of the other plurality of data points within a maximum distance of the chosen data point, repeating steps the previous steps to choose a different one of the plurality of data points until all of the data points have been chosen, identifying one or more clusters each having a predefined minimum number, K, of data points within a predefined search radius and analyzing the one or more clusters with respect to K linkages. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344014 | VEHICLE DEALER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM APPARATUS AND RELATED METHODS - Methods and apparatus are disclosed for vehicle dealership management and similar activities. Embodiments facilitate monitoring and tracking and managing one of more of the following types of data, preferably in virtually real-time, for purposes of test drives and other activities of the dealership (or for other activities involving a store's inventory, whether vehicles or otherwise): customers, vehicle inventory, sales personnel, financial and credit information related to the inventory and/or the customers, and other information. Embodiments of the invention assist in management of vehicle dealerships or other “dealer-financed” sales outlets, using computer and Internet tools and methods and apparatus to capture, track, coordinate, and use information regarding past and potential customers, inventory, salespeople and their efforts and interactions with specific customers, financing and/or insuring purchases by such customers, and other related items. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344015 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS ENABLING CONSUMERS TO CONTROL AND MONETIZE THEIR PERSONAL DATA - The present invention relates to systems and methods for providing personal computing and service provider platforms for enabling a consumer to control and monetize their personal data while managing their online privacy. Business methods utilizing the systems and methods of the present invention resemble those of profit-sharing and asset-sharing paradigms such as cooperatives, and they comprise means for enabling a diverse array of individual subscriber shareholders to receive dividends, share profits and assets, pool resources, and otherwise participate in the ownership of the personal and behavioral data and other content that they generate. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344016 | Real-Time Subjective/Objective Venue Evaluation Method - Disclosed is a method for providing a real-time evaluation of venues such as clubs, bars and restaurants. The real-time evaluation provides a user member with an instantaneous snapshot of a venue's happenings. The method evaluates a venue based upon both subjective and demographic criteria. Subjective criteria provide an understanding of the feeling or mood associated with a venue. Demographic criteria provide information on who is attending a venue. The method provides a real-time impression or view of the ever-changing happenings in a venue. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344017 | Audience Attendance Monitoring through Facial Recognition - In accordance with some implementations, a method for measuring viewership of media content is disclosed. The method is performed on a client system. The client system captures visual data of one or more users of the client system with the camera. The client system then analyzes the captured visual data to determine a facial image for each respective user of the one or more users. Based on the facial image, the client system then determines if a respective user is a participant in a media viewership study. In accordance with a determination that the user is a participant in the media viewership measurement study, the client system determines the media content being presented. The client system creates viewership data based on the user and the media content being displayed in the proximity of the user and transmits viewership data to a server system. | 11-20-2014 |
20140351000 | Dynamic Modification of A Parameter of An Image Based on User Interest - Methods and systems for changing a parameter associated with an image displayed on a display screen based on criteria related to a user are described. One of the methods includes receiving a selection of an image from a plurality of images. The method further includes examining the selected image to identify a keyword and criteria associated with the selected image. The keyword includes an identification of the image and the criteria including a time associated with the selected image. The method further includes ranking the selected image compared to remaining images of the plurality of images based on the keyword and the criteria, assigning a weight to an image parameter of the selected image to associate the image parameter with the rank of the selected image, and sending the assigned weight of the image parameter to a display device for display of the selected image according to the assigned weight. | 11-27-2014 |
20140351001 | BUSINESS ENTERPRISE SALES AND OPERATIONS PLANNING THROUGH A BIG DATA AND BIG MEMORY COMPUTATIONAL ARCHITECTURE - Disclosed are methods, devices, and systems to provide sales and operations planning (S&OP) for a business enterprise. In one embodiment, a machine-implemented method includes aggregating a S&OP raw data by one or more relational database management systems (RDBMS) communicatively coupled to a big data computation engine; performing a S&OP simulation, by one or more processing nodes of the big data computation engine, using the S&OP raw data; caching a result of the S&OP simulation in a big memory cache communicatively coupled to the big data computation engine; and edge caching the result of the S&OP simulation in an edge cache server near a geographical point of origin of the S&OP raw data. The S&OP raw data may be a historical or forward-looking data input from an ERP program, a CRM program, an SRM program, an MRP program, an SKU database, or a user client device. | 11-27-2014 |
20140351002 | CONTENT EFFECTIVENESS VIA ANALYSIS OF THE PROVISIONING THEREOF BY A CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - The facilitation of access to content may be enhanced. The content may be received from a content provider. The content may be made available for access by a plurality of content consumers. Data related to access to the content by at least one of the plurality of content consumers may be obtained. The obtained data may be analyzed. One or more recommendations corresponding to the content may be formulated. The one or more recommendations may be provided to the content provider. | 11-27-2014 |
20140351003 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPUTATION OF VALUE REALIZATION INDEX - System and Method for computing a value realization index for Information Technology (IT) services is disclosed. According to the system and the method, a data receiving module may be configured for receiving input data indicative of monetary value invested by a use on the IT services. Further, computational weights for qualities associated with the IT services may be received from the user. A data normalization module may be configured for normalizing the computational weights. A metric capturing module may be configured for capturing quality metrics for the qualities and the business metrics for the IT services. A metric mapping module may be configured for mapping the quality metrics with the business metrics using the normalized computational weights and domain benchmark values. A derivation module may be configured for deriving a business value. An index computation engine may be configured for computing the value realization index for the IT services. | 11-27-2014 |
20140351004 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLLECTING CONSUMER INFORMATION AND REWARDING CONSUMERS THEREFOR - A method and system is provided for obtaining, maintaining and using consumer information of interest including consumer demographic information and consumer transaction information. The information is obtained with the consent and participation of the consumers who are compensated for the use of their information by clients of the system and method. The system and method can obtain information directly from the consumers and from a variety of transaction service providers that the consumer interacts with. By having active participation from the consumers, and by compensating the consumers for the use of their data, it is believed that a more comprehensive and better quality data set will be obtained than that available from other consumer information systems. Preferably, the compensation to the consumers is based upon each use of their data and thus compensation can be paid multiple times for the same data and may be earned over extended time periods, thus encouraging consumers to continue their participation in the system and method. | 11-27-2014 |
20140351005 | Data Collection Method and Apparatus - Example implementations described herein are directed to collection of social media information based on a social media event. The example implementations provide for the service of digital marketing, especially for public sector marketing in which it may be necessary to collect user's needs and opinions at the early stage. The example implementations may determine a start time for collection of social media based on the social media event, as well as a stop time. | 11-27-2014 |
20140351006 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AND UTILIZING GLOBAL INFORMATION FROM TRANSACTION RECORDS - A system and method is provided for utilizing global information determined from commercial transactions by first storing data identifying a plurality of store locations of the multi-point merchant. The stored data is associated with an account of the multi-point merchant. A transaction record is received from each of a plurality of devices. Each of the devices is associated with a corresponding store location of the multi-point merchant. The information provided with each transaction record is processed in order to extract information that is non-specific to at least each of a corresponding transaction, a user of the corresponding transaction, and a merchant of the transaction. The processed information is then aggregated based on one or more global criteria so that reports may be generated based on the processed information and the one or more global criteria. | 11-27-2014 |
20140351007 | ESTIMATING THE TOTAL SALES OVER STREAMING BIDS - A mechanism is provided for computing an estimation of maximum total sales over streaming items. Each item having an associated value is designated as an item value pair. Value ranges are established to place the item value pairs. The value ranges are distinct. Each of the item value pairs is added into the value ranges according to each of the associated values for the item value pairs. Repeated item value pairs are removed that are in the same value ranges. A number of the item value pairs is reduced in each of the value ranges respectively based on an error factor, by randomly selecting the item value pairs to remove from each of the value ranges. An estimate of a total maximum value of the bids for the item value pairs in all of the value ranges is computed based on a scale factor. | 11-27-2014 |
20140351008 | CALCULATING MACHINE, PREDICTION METHOD, AND PREDICTION PROGRAM - A calculating machine stores intermediate data generated for each product based on social media data including statements on a plurality of products. The intermediate data about each of the products includes at least a frequency of statements on each of the products for a predetermined period of time. The products include a first product that is not displayed for provision to a consumer at a present time, or at least a second product that has been displayed for provision at the present time. The calculating machine stores sales amount data indicating a sales amount of the second product, and calculates a social media correlation degree indicating a correlation between the intermediate data about the first product and the intermediate data about the second product to predict a sales amount of the first product based on the calculated social media correlation degree and the sales amount data about the second product. | 11-27-2014 |
20140351009 | ANONYMIZING FACIAL EXPRESSION DATA WITH A SMART-CAM - A method comprises: receiving, from a content provider, a request for information collected from users who meet one or more criteria; determining at least one particular user who meets the one or more criteria; retrieving timestream data collected for the at least one particular user; wherein the timestream data is time-stamped and associated with a history of user sessions; wherein absolute time references in the timestream data have been converted to relative time references that relate to start-times of the user sessions; determining one or more levels of privacy requested by each of the at least one particular user; processing the timestream data to ensure the one or more levels of privacy in the timestream data; generating one or more statistical datasets from the processed timestream data; determining a fee for providing the one or more statistical datasets, and determining an award for the at least one particular user. | 11-27-2014 |
20140351010 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DEMOCRATIZING POWER TO CREATE A META-EXCHANGE - The present invention provides a system and method for providing democratizing power in a power grid system. In architecture, the system includes a module for receiving a plurality of user preferences concerning load shedding using a graphical user interface, and a module for implementing the user preferences during a grid irregularity. The system is operable to aggregate power in order to facilitate continuous demand response and for emergency purposes. The method of providing democratizing power, can be broadly summarized by the following steps of determining if a device needs a transfer of energy, determining if an electric network connected to the device is able to supply backup power, and determining the quantity of the backup power. The method further includes the steps of determining the cost of the backup power and facilitating payment of the cost of the backup power. | 11-27-2014 |
20140358628 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EVALUATING INTERRELATIONSHIPS AMONG BUSINESS DRIVERS - An apparatus configured to evaluate influence interrelationships among a plurality of business drivers generates an interrelationship matrix that quantifies the influence interrelationships among the plurality of business drivers, ranks the quantified influence interrelationships included in the interrelationship matrix to yield influence rankings, sums the influence rankings, ranks the plurality of business drivers based on the summed influence rankings to yield business driver rankings, and outputs the business driver rankings. | 12-04-2014 |
20140358629 | COMPETITIVE PRICING PLATFORM AND MANAGED INVENTORY REPOSITORY - Techniques for competitive pricing analysis and inventory management are described. According to various exemplary embodiments, a competitive pricing system is configured to crawl competitor websites for comparative pricing information at various time intervals. Moreover, the competitive pricing system is configured to determine if a price for an item on a home retailer website represents a “deal”, based on information crawled from competitor websites. According to various exemplary embodiments, a managed inventory repository system may enable improved identification of deals and specials within an inventory of a retailer website. For example, the managed inventory repository system may perform data mining operations to identify deals or specials offered for inventory items on a home retailer website. In some embodiments, a “special” can be defined in a variety of ways to suit different business units, campaigns, metrics, etc. | 12-04-2014 |
20140358630 | APPARATUS AND PROCESS FOR CONDUCTING SOCIAL MEDIA ANALYTICS - A system, apparatus and method for performing social media analytics for a movie are provided. The present disclosure provides for a social media analytics platform that builds a rich landscape of interests of movie audiences by mining data from social networking or microblogging services, such as Twitter™. The present disclosure provides for associating at least one user with a movie; collecting, for the at least one associated user, at least one of user location data, user interest data, user-cited website data, and user television viewing habits data from a social networking or microblogging service; processing the collected data to generate movie campaign data, the movie campaign data including at least one of movie marketing data, movie advertising data, and movie distribution data; and providing the at least one movie marketing data, movie advertising data, and movie distribution data for display in a user interface. | 12-04-2014 |
20140358631 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS - In accordance with an example embodiment a computer-implemented method and an apparatus for generating FAQs is provided. The method comprises receiving interaction data corresponding to interactions between a plurality of users and customer support representatives by a processor. A plurality of user parameters associated with the plurality of users is also received by the processor. A plurality of clusters is generated from the interaction data based on the plurality of user parameters. The method further comprises determining one or more visitor parameters corresponding to a visitor on an interaction medium. At least one cluster related to the visitor from among the plurality of clusters is identified based on the one or more visitor parameters. Further, at least one FAQ is generated based on the identified at least one cluster. The method further comprises providing the generated at least one FAQ to the visitor on the interaction medium by the processor. | 12-04-2014 |
20140358632 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCED EVENT PARTICIPATION - The various implementations of the present invention are provided as a computer-based system for enhanced communications and event management that focuses on customization of the event attendee experience. Each event attendee is provided with the tools necessary to effectively and efficiently create an event experience that most closely matches their goals and objectives. For example, a variety of dynamic event activity maps provide event attendees with the ability to quickly and easily identify and locate the most interesting and pertinent seminars, classes, speakers, vendors, exhibitors, etc. Additionally, event attendees can update and control their event schedule, customize communications that are sent and received, set up meetings with other event attendees, and receive updates about event activities and schedules. Vendors, exhibitors, and event organizers are provided with a series of tools, including “gamification” tools, that will allow them engage event attendees in event activities to increase attendee participation. | 12-04-2014 |
20140365272 | PRODUCT DISPLAY WITH EMOTION PREDICTION ANALYTICS - A system and method for determining customer emotional reaction to products is provided. The system may include a physical retail store with both a plurality of physical products for sale, and a virtual interactive product display allowing customers to virtually interact with three-dimensional rendered images of products. Gesture sensors such as motion sensors and video cameras are provided at various locations near the physical products and the interactive display. Emotional reaction can be analyzed based on customer facial expression, skeletal joint movement, and other physical factors. Machine learning techniques can be employed to analyze the reactions. In the system the customer emotional reactions are associated with the particular product that the customer was interacting with when the customer expressed the emotion. The information relating the emotional reaction to a particular product may be provided to a product manufacturer to improve the design of future products. | 12-11-2014 |
20140365273 | Data analytics collection for customer interaction with products in a retail store - A system and method for data analytics includes a physical retail store having a plurality of sensors provided in various locations around the physical store. The sensors may include motion sensors, visual imaging cameras, heat sensors, or other kinds of sensors. Information about the customer's shopping behavior is collected by detecting the customer at a first sensor and monitoring the customer's motion as the customer moves out of the sensing range of the first sensor and into the sensing range of other sensors around the store. The system may track the customer anonymously. In one embodiment, the customer self-identifies in the store, for example when making a purchase. If the customer chooses to self-identify, the previously anonymous shopping behavior for that customer can be associated with the customer's unique ID. Based on the shopping behavior, the retailer can provide the customer with deals and customized content. | 12-11-2014 |
20140365274 | PRICE PAID DATABASE METHOD AND SYSTEM - A novel price paid database, method, system, and computer program product in which checkout items are scanned at a plurality of stores, and a checkout computer identifies the purchased items. The checkout computer determines a price paid for each purchased item. A central computer records in a price-paid database an item identification and price-paid for each purchased items. The central computer publishes the price-paid database. The checkout computer recurrently updates the price-paid database in the central computer with the price paid for each purchased item, the customer identification (if available), the store identification, and a list price for each purchased item. | 12-11-2014 |
20140365275 | METHODS AND SYTEMS FOR COMPILING MARKETING INFORMATION FOR A CLIENT - Methods and systems for compiling marketing information for a client are provided. Data can be obtained from a plurality of social media websites, where each of the social media websites includes a universal resource identifier that points to a client website. A plurality of insights can be extracted from the obtained data, resulting in extracted insights. Each of the extracted insights comprises text elements that denote product approval for at least one product available for sale at the client website. Measurements of traffic to the client website can be collected, the traffic being referred to the client website by the plurality of social media websites. A referred traffic dynamics summary table can then be generated based on the extracted insights and the measurements of traffic. The referred traffic dynamics summary table aggregates the extracted insights across the plurality of social media websites to rank the extracted insights. | 12-11-2014 |
20140372168 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF INITIATING CONTACT WITH A PROSPECT - The technology disclosed relates to easily and efficiently initiating contact with a prospect. In particular, it relates to identifying colleagues of a sales representative that are connected to the prospect and further determining strength of relationships between the colleagues and the prospect. The strength of relationships is determined by logging levels of communication between the colleagues and the prospect on one or more communication media and calculating proximity metrics dependent on commentary provided by the colleagues about the prospect. | 12-18-2014 |
20140372169 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING BUSINESS RATINGS - The disclosed embodiments include methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for providing business ratings. The disclosed embodiments include, for example, a system that may be configured to access spending transaction data including at least a unique payor identifier, a payee description, a payee category code, and a postal code. The system may determine a payee identification for the spending transaction data by comparing the spending transaction data to a plurality of known payees having the same payee category code as the spending transaction data. Further, the system may access one or more historical spending transactions matching the payee category code, and generate a business rating score for a payee associated with the determined payee identification based on at least the determined one or more historical spending transactions. | 12-18-2014 |
20140372170 | Methods for organizing, qualifying, scoring, mapping and analyzing cultural data - A method is provided for quantification and mapping of cultural characteristics. Using an analytic engine, cultural attribute information is collected and organized by assigning binary scores to cultural tendencies. Using a cultural score engine coupled to the analytic engine, cultural attribute data is scored for each cultural attribute category to create scored data. Scored data is mapped to a graphic output using a map engine. Quantification of areas, organization priorities, or cultural tendencies associated with each graphic output is performed with an assessment engine. Comparing multiple cultures or scenarios affecting cultural attributes is executed by a comparison engine that compares multiple cultural graphic outputs in a single comparison graphic output of cultural tendencies. | 12-18-2014 |
20140372171 | Providing A Multi-Tenant Knowledge Network - A non-transitory computer-readable medium is disclosed comprising executable instructions that when executed by a processor cause the processor to effectuate a method comprising the steps of: obtaining raw data from a plurality of different data sources; analyzing the raw data to identify one or more data structures of the raw data and to tag data identifying at least one of the plurality of different data sources; generating a plurality of Universal Data Model (UDM) constructs, each UDM being based at least in part on the one or more data structures of the raw data and each UDM excluding the source-identifying data; redacting the source-identifying data from the raw data to generate anonymous raw data; and generating anonymous UDM transformed data by integrating the anonymous raw data by extracting, transforming, and loading the anonymous raw data such that the anonymous raw data conforms to the UDM construct. | 12-18-2014 |
20140379419 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADAPTIVE OUTBOUND CAMPAIGNS - A method and a system for adaptive outbound campaign are provided. The system includes a monitoring module for real-time monitoring of public sentiment to an outbound campaign. Further, the system includes an adaptive module communicably coupled to the monitoring module. The adaptive module further adapts one or more parameters corresponding to the outbound campaign based on the monitored public sentiment. | 12-25-2014 |
20140379420 | Methods and Systems for Finding Connections Among Subscribers to an Email Campaign - Methods and systems to find connections among subscribers to a particular electronic mail (email) newsletter. A list of email addresses to an email campaign is representative of the subscribers to email newsletters that are sent as part of the campaign by a source. A subscriber to a particular email newsletter may receive email newsletter from other sources. A determination is made as to what other email newsletters of each subscribers of the source receive from other sources. The other email newsletters of each subscriber on the list of email addresses of a source are compared to the other subscribers on the list of email addresses. Email newsletters common to subscribers on the list of email addresses are noted. The connections between/among subscribers on the list of email addresses is determined. The weight of a connection may be determined. The connection information may be provided as a service to the source. | 12-25-2014 |
20140379421 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO CHARACTERIZE HOUSEHOLDS WITH MEDIA METER DATA - Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to characterize households with media meter data. An example method includes calculating, with a processor, an exposure proportion for a category of interest based on visitor exposure minutes and total exposure minutes, calculating a tuning proportion for the category of interest based on household tuning minutes and total tuning minutes, calculating expected exposure minutes for the category of interest based on a product of the total exposure minutes and the exposure proportion, calculating expected tuning minutes for the category of interest based on a product of the total tuning minutes and the viewing proportion, and determining an average visitor parameter (AVP) based on a ratio of the expected exposure minutes and the expected tuning minutes. | 12-25-2014 |
20150012331 | Computer-Implemented Intelligence Tool - A method is directed to visually displaying aggregate social media sentiment data potentially impacting the value of an organization. The organization, which purchases or sells a good, is selected and multiple search terms related to the organization are sent to a sentiment analysis system. Multiple scores are received from the sentiment analysis system. Each score is associated with corresponding ones of the search terms and is indicative of a sentiment level on a first set of one or more social networking services about the corresponding search term. An aggregate sentiment value is calculated based on the scores. The aggregate sentiment value is indicative of an aggregate sentiment about the corresponding search term on the first set of one or more social networking services. A first visual representation is displayed to indicate a relationship between a monitored characteristic of the selected organization and the aggregate sentiment. | 01-08-2015 |
20150012332 | BUSINESS TO BUSINESS TO SHARED COMMUNITIES SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method and a system for providing, on one side, businesses customer communities they can manage and offer services to. An aspect of the invention is the concept of shared communities between two or more businesses (customers belonging to two or more businesses at the same time). This shared community signals a potential relationship between the businesses sharing it. The current invention captures and defines such a relationship. On the other side, it allows customers to opt for and join businesses that are relevant to them. The system includes a number of components to help businesses keep their communities active and interested such an event manager, a reward manager, a campaign manager, an aftersale manager, an address book, a social engine etc. It provides also components to the businesses that help them understand their communities such as the analytics manager. The system's structure allows the creation of embedded advanced sensor network. | 01-08-2015 |
20150019286 | INFORMATION DISPLAYING METHOD, INFORMATION DISPLAYING SYSTEM, INFORMATION DISPLAYING PROGRAM, AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION DISPLAYING PROGRAM - An information displaying method includes: obtaining, for each of users, usage history information items on one or more appliances used by the user; calculating a utilization characteristic based on a usage history information item on a predetermined appliance among the one or more appliances used by a predetermined user among the users, the utilization characteristic being of the predetermined user using the predetermined appliance, and the usage history information item on the obtained predetermined appliance; obtaining, for each of the user, a post information item posted by the user; and displaying, in association with each other, (i) a utilization characteristic information item on the utilization characteristic calculated in the calculating and (ii) the post information item posted by the predetermined user, the utilization characteristic being of the predetermined user using the predetermined appliance, and the post information item being obtained in the obtaining of a post information item. | 01-15-2015 |
20150025934 | CUSTOMER-CENTRIC ENERGY USAGE DATA SHARING - A method of sharing energy usage data may include requesting customer-specific energy usage data (CSEUD). The method further includes receiving a modified CSEUD record. The modified CSEUD record includes modified energy usage data with respect to original energy usage data of an original CSEUD record from which the modified CSEUD record is derived. The method also includes authenticating the modified CSEUD record to verify the integrity of the modified energy usage data. | 01-22-2015 |
20150025935 | CONTENT TRIAL USAGE VIA DIGITAL CONTENT DELIVERY PLATFORM - A content distribution platform receives a respective trial time window for each of multiple items of digital content stored at the content distribution platform, and offers one of the items of the digital content to multiple customers during the respective trial time window. The content distribution platform tracks, during the respective trial time window, usage of the one of the plurality of items of digital content by one or more of the multiple customers. The content distribution platform generates, based on the tracked usage, a first usage report for the one of the multiple items of digital content at expiration of the respective trial time window | 01-22-2015 |
20150025936 | SYSTEM FOR MONITORING AND ANALYZING BEHAVIOR AND USES THEREOF - Systems for monitoring and analyzing behavior in various applications and uses thereof. Generally, the systems (and uses thereof) are for monitoring and analyzing consumer purchasing behavior in real-time to drive sales via engaging digital customer experiences. In embodiments, the disclosed system can include a retail store system that features and includes MAC address tracking, user eye tracking, object identification of goods on shelves, open API, advertising broker rules engine. In addition, the system can include a customer engagement with interactive output displays including displays with demographic intelligence, displays with demographics and MAC-panels throughout store at product, displays with demographics and MAC-single panel or few panels scattered throughout store, automated customer assistance at shelf, customer purchase at shelf. | 01-22-2015 |
20150032502 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SALES AND INVENTORY MANAGEMENT - A method for sales and inventory management of items offered for sale by at least one merchant and supplied by at least one vendor is disclosed. The method may include configuring a sales and inventory management utility and report generator using a processor coupled to a data storage device. It may also include receiving, by the sales and inventory management utility, a plurality of sets of retailer inventory data from a plurality of retailer systems, wherein each set of retailer inventory data identifies a plurality of items, a tag, and for each of the plurality of items, a stock keeping unit (SKU), a quantity in stock, a retailer, and a vendor. The method may store the plurality of sets of retailer inventory data as a plurality of retailer item records stored on the data storage device, each item record identifying an item of the plurality of items, the SKU, the quantity in stock, a retailer code for the retailer system, and a vendor code for the vendor, and then receive, by the sales and inventory management utility, point-of-sale data feeds from one or more retailer systems from the plurality of retailer systems, wherein the point-of sale data feeds comprises sales data, wherein the sales data identifies one or more items of the plurality of items, a retailer, and a quantity sold. For each of the one or more items identified in the sales data, the method may update, by the sales and inventory management utility, the retailer item record on the data storage device by adjusting the quantity in stock based on the quantity sold, and generate, by the report generator, a sales and inventory report based on the sales inventory data stored on the data storage device. | 01-29-2015 |
20150032503 | System and Method for Customer Evaluation and Retention - The present invention provides a system and method for customer evaluation and retention. The system is adapted to receive and record all data concerning customer's interaction during the transaction from various touch points and sends the data to a server for further processing. The scoring module of the system allocates values to each customer by assigning score based on various scoring attributes. The final updated information about each customer is pushed back to all touch points that will be further used by business owners for formulating customer retention programs. The availability of real time information regarding customer net present value is beneficial in computing and proposing retention program as the evaluation data is based on past trends taking into consideration recency, frequency, monetary history and individual sentiment scores. | 01-29-2015 |
20150032504 | INFLUENCE SCORES FOR SOCIAL MEDIA PROFILES - An influence score can be determined for each of multiple social media profiles. Values can be extracted from the social media profiles and/or data associated with the social media profiles. The values can relate to various metrics, such as messages associated with the social media profiles, attributes of the social media profiles, and network relationships between the social media profiles. An influence score for each social media profile can be determined based on a weighted average of the values. | 01-29-2015 |
20150039387 | BUSINESS SUPPORT METHOD AND SYSTEM - A business support method and system includes a terminal and a server. The terminal displays marketing activity data delivered from the server and acquires details of the marketing activity data; transmits to the server a calculation request including the details and obtains a calculation result when the details acquired include certain predetermined items; applies a predetermined calculation algorithm to the details to obtain a calculation result when the details do not include the predetermined items; stores the calculation result obtained at the server or the calculation result acquired at the terminal in a storage unit in association with the client's identification information; and displays the calculation result. The server receives a calculation request including the details from the terminal, applies a predetermined calculation algorithm to the details, and returns the obtained calculation result to the terminal. | 02-05-2015 |
20150039388 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING CONSUMER PROFILES FOR TARGETED MARKETPLACE ACTIVITIES - A system and method implemented by a computing system is provided for determining consumer economic profiles to form selected virtual marketplace communities. The created communities provide benefits to consumers, such as leveraging purchasing power for increased return on goods and services desired by the consumers. The system and method comprise three primary components or aspects, namely (1) a data gathering component in which consumer spending data is obtained, validated, analyzed, and categorized; (2) profiles created for each consumer regarding their spending history taking into account calculated spend scores and spend categories corresponding to each of the consumers; and (3) virtual marketplace communities created from the profiles for matched consumers and vendors enabling consumers to conduct commerce with the vendors in an e-commerce environment. An exchange pod can be created to provide an object in which consumers offer to purchase pre-designated amounts and categories of goods/services over pre-defined time periods. Vendors bid to obtain the right to offer the goods/services for sale. The bids are made with discount offers and consumers are able to select the most favorable bid. | 02-05-2015 |
20150039389 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR METERING MEDIA FEEDS IN A MARKET - Methods and apparatus for metering media feeds in a market are disclosed. An example method includes determining if a media distribution ambiguity exists for a time period associated with received media metering data, when the media distribution ambiguity does not exist, combining, via a processor, the media metering data with previously received media metering records to generate a first model for media presentation for a first regional network and a second regional network, and when the media distribution ambiguity exists, crediting, via the processor, the first regional network for a first portion of media presentation identified in the media metering data and crediting the second regional network for a second portion of the media presentation based on the first model. | 02-05-2015 |
20150046213 | METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING A SHOPPING GROUP IN A STORE - A method is provided for identifying a shopping group in a store. A store server receives a list of items expected to be purchased by the shopping group to be identified and determines items placed in carts of a plurality of customers in the store. The items placed in the carts of the plurality of customers are compared with the list of the items expected to be purchased by the shopping group. The two or more customers are identified as a shopping group when the items expected to be purchased by the shopping group matches the combination of items placed in the carts of two or more customers. The information related to the identified shopping group is transmitted to a third party, such as a security department server and/or police department server. | 02-12-2015 |
20150046214 | SALES LEAD QUALIFICATION OF A CONSUMER BASED ON SALES LEAD RULES - Systems and methods for qualifying a sales lead may include one or more of the following. Information, received via a network, about an identified end-user computing device and/or an end-user of the identified end-user computing device may be processed. Lead qualification rules that include criteria for qualifying a lead may be accessed. A characteristic of the end-user of the identified end-user computing device may be derived based at least in part on the information about the identified end-user computing device and/or the end-user. A lead characterization of the end-user of the identified end-user computing device may be generated based at least in part on the characteristic of the end-user of the identified end-user computing device and the lead qualification rules. The lead characterization may indicate a lead assessment of the end-user. The lead characterization of the end-user of the identified end-user computing device may be stored. | 02-12-2015 |
20150046215 | SCORING SALES LEADS IN A SALES LEAD MARKETPLACE - Systems and methods are disclosed to receive at a computing system user entered data that was entered by a first user into a plurality of data entry fields published by a first webpage hosted by a first webserver. The user entered data may comprise at least first data entered into a first field of the plurality of data entry fields, second data entered into a second field of the plurality of data entry fields, and third data entered into a third field of the plurality of data entry fields. The computing system may compute a data score based on a function including at least the first data and the second data. The data score and the first data may be published on a second webpage hosted by a second webserver, but not publishing the second data on the second webpage. | 02-12-2015 |
20150046216 | SMART RETAIL ANALYTICS AND COMMERCIAL MESSAGING - A real-time fraud prevention system enables merchants and commercial organizations on-line to assess and protect themselves from high-risk users. A centralized database is configured to build and store dossiers of user devices and behaviors collected from subscriber websites in real-time. Real, low-risk users have webpage click navigation behaviors that are assumed to be very different than those of fraudsters. Individual user devices are distinguished from others by hundreds of points of user-device configuration data each independently maintains. A client agent provokes user devices to volunteer configuration data when a user visits respective webpages at independent websites. A collection of comprehensive dossiers of user devices is organized by their identifying information, and used calculating a fraud score in real-time. Each corresponding website is thereby assisted in deciding whether to allow a proposed transaction to be concluded with the particular user and their device. | 02-12-2015 |
20150051946 | WEIGHTING SENTIMENT INFORMATION - Weighting sentiment information includes capturing sentiment information of a post from an electronic source, categorizing the post into categories based on the sentiment information, and assigning a weight to the post based on an interest attribute. | 02-19-2015 |
20150051947 | Systems and Methods for Transaction-Based Profiling of Customer Behavior - A system and method is provided for updating customer profiles based on current information on merchant transactions performed by the customers. The customer profiles, which include data fields for customer attributes, are stored in a profile data base. The customer profiles may be updated when a batch of merchant-customer transaction reports in a given time period becomes available. The information in the batch of merchant-customer transaction reports, which may be supplemented with additional known information on the merchants and/or customers, is sorted by customer account number. The customer profiles then are updated, one customer account number at time, using the sorted information. Profiling models which relate transaction types or characteristics to customer attributes are used to assign updated values to the customer attribute data fields. | 02-19-2015 |
20150051948 | BEHAVIORAL ATTRIBUTE ANALYSIS METHOD AND DEVICE - Provided is a technology for extracting a user behavior pattern from history data accumulating personal behaviors, and enabling exhaustive and efficient analysis of a user behavior tendency or features from various aspects, such as location and time, using the pattern. A behavioral characteristics analysis device according to the present invention expresses a behavior pattern by scene vectors describing behaviors of a set of persons as scene values in each time band, extracts a life pattern included in all of the set of persons by clustering the scene vectors, and performs classification based on to which life pattern each person belongs (see FIG. | 02-19-2015 |
20150058073 | CROWDSOURCED INNOVATION EXCHANGE - A method for crowdsourcing, funding, and development of innovative projects. The method includes posting proposed projects on an online database, allowing experts and investors access to project files. Experts may only write positive reviews of the projects, thus supporting those projects which they believe should be successful and beneficial. By creating a professional network where experts receive commission only after a project is funded by investors, experts become active, enthused, and much more engaged in the review process as well as the development of the projects they choose to endorse. This method solves problems such as the finite number of passive expert reviewers, high examination fees, and weak competition rates. | 02-26-2015 |
20150058074 | CHANGING DEPTH OF ANALYTICS TRACKING OR CONTENT TARGETING BASED ON USER VALUE - In an example embodiment, user interactions with a software component may be tracked in an efficient manner. Specifically, an analytics tracking request triggered by user interaction with a software component is received. Then a value assigned to the user is retrieved. It is then determined if the value assigned to the user exceeds a value threshold assigned to the analytics tracking request. Based on a comparison between the value assigned to the user and the threshold value, an analytics tracking function associated with the analytics tracking request is launched. | 02-26-2015 |
20150058075 | SOCIAL NETWORK MARKETING - A method of grouping business contacts based on social network user preferences which includes retrieving profile detail, including a social graph, of a primary social network user from an online social network, retrieving profile detail, including the social graph, of a secondary social network user from an online social network, storing the profile detail of the primary social network user and the secondary social network user in a database, defining a selection of the profile detail of any one or more of the primary social network user and the secondary social network user, and recommending the selection to a consumer. | 02-26-2015 |
20150058076 | ONLINE MARKETING, MONITORING AND CONTROL FOR MERCHANTS - Systems and methods of online marketing, monitoring and control for merchants are disclosed. Third party providers are crawled to obtain information about a plurality of merchants and correlate the merchant information to create a merchant database. Third party providers are monitored for merchant information, and information about the merchants is stored. Alerts are provided to subscribing merchants when an alert trigger is identified within the system or at a third party provider. The method allows the subscribing merchant to view and respond to reviews, view and maintain online listings, prepare and send consumer offers, and prepare and send communications to consumers, all directly from the system. The method allows the subscribing merchant to view information and analyses for competing merchants. An overall marketing score for merchants is prepared and displayed. The method may be performed on a server and accessed via an Internet browser and mobile device applications. | 02-26-2015 |
20150066579 | Method of and Apparatus for Determining Worth of a Displayed Component - A method comprising determining a value indicative of worth of a component. The component is configured for display in an online browsing window. The determining is in dependence at least on the occurrence of a predetermined at least one user interaction relating to the component and a predefined event following the predetermined at least one user interaction. The predetermined at least one user interaction may comprise a predetermined sequence of user interactions. The the component may occupy one of plurality of possible positions in the online browsing window. The value may be determined in dependence on the potential value or actual value of the event. | 03-05-2015 |
20150066580 | CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method, computer program product, and computer system for sharing, via a first computing device, customer relationship management opportunity data between a customer relationship management application and an instant messaging application, wherein the customer relationship management opportunity data is associated with an opportunity. At least a portion of the customer relationship management opportunity data is provided to an instant messaging application client executed by a second computing device, the instant messaging application client associated with the instant messaging application, wherein at least the portion of the customer relationship management opportunity data is provided for user access at the second computing device via the instant messaging application client. | 03-05-2015 |
20150066581 | DEVICE FOR INCREASING SELF-SERVICE ADOPTION - A device is configured to receive customer information associated with a set of customers and determine a set of self-service customers, of the set of customers, based on the customer information. The set of self-service customers may be associated with a likelihood, of participating in future self-service transactions, that is greater than a first threshold. The device is configured to determine attribute information associated with the set of self-service customers and identify a set of target customers, of the set of customers, based on the attribute information. The set of target customers may be associated with a likelihood, of participating in future self-service transactions, that is less than a second threshold. The device is configured to determine target information based on identifying the set of target customers, and to provide the target information. The target information may include information that identifies the set of target customers. | 03-05-2015 |
20150066582 | Methods, Systems, and Graphical User Interfaces for Customer Relationship Management - A method is performed at an electronic device with a display. The method includes displaying a first graphical user interface for customer relationship management that includes a first region corresponding to a first sales phase and a second region corresponding to a second sales phase. The first sales phase is associated with a first progress threshold and the second sales phase is associated with a second progress threshold. The device displays a first representation of a first sales opportunity within the first region, the first representation being associated with a first progress metric of the first sales phase. The device displays a first indication of the first progress metric with respect to the first progress threshold. | 03-05-2015 |
20150066583 | CONTENT DISCOVERY WITH FRIEND AND ANALYTIC DATA - A user may have difficulty making a decision about content such as whether to watch a particular content or determining whether the content is something in which the user will be interested. Disclosed are implementations directed to reengage a user in response to an abandonment event and/or provide analytic data to inform a user's decision regarding consumption of content. Analytic data may be provided to the user to help the user make a decision about what content to consume based on, for example, an abandonment rate or other user metrics that indicate interest or disinterest in certain content. | 03-05-2015 |
20150066584 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACQUIRING AN UNDERSTANDING OF A BUSINESS SEGMENT - A method for acquiring an understanding a business segment is provided. The method comprises: storing in an electronic storage device a database of information in which the information is generated from at least four linked data sources including a firmographics data source, a risk data source, a transaction behavior data source, and an attitudinal data source; accessing information in the database concerning the business segment; and assembling the information concerning the business segment. The information from one or more of the linked data sources is summarized to a link, at least some of the information is integrated by data fusion, and at least some of the integrated information is imputed via the link to the business segment. The method also provides the assembled information to a user that has been granted access to the database. A system for acquiring an understanding of a business segment is also provided. | 03-05-2015 |
20150066585 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING A RISK OF AN EMOTIONAL RESPONSE OF AN AUDIENCE - A method for determining a risk of an emotional response of an audience to at least one publication is described. Additionally, a computing device for determining a risk of an emotional response of an audience to at least one publication is described. Moreover, a computer-readable storage device having processor-executable instructions embodied thereon, for determining a risk of an emotional response of an audience to at least one publication, is described. | 03-05-2015 |
20150066586 | EVALUATION CALCULATING DEVICE, EVALUATION CALCULATING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A delivery device according to the present invention includes a storing unit and a calculating unit. The storing unit stores a number of views a webpage concerning a commercial product and a number of behaviors which result in profitable behavior which leads a profit of a provider who provides the webpage by the user who accesses the webpage in a memory unit for every commercial product. The calculating unit calculates an evaluation value of the commercial product based on the number of views the webpage concerning the commercial product and the number of behaviors of the webpage stored in the memory unit. | 03-05-2015 |
20150066587 | CONTENT SITE VISITOR PROCESSING SYSTEM - A visitor processing system can include features for providing a fully configurable visitor model. The visitor processing system may also provide the ability to see the results of this visitor model in a real time or near real time. This level of configurability can be beneficial when a goal is to reduce a visitor set to a highly targeted visitor segment. This rich configurability can include the ability to set and manipulate a number of attributes and rules for a visitor. By allowing marketing users to configure attributes regarding their content sites' visitors, the visitor processing system can enable marketing users to obtain real-time (or near real-time) reports on these visitors. These reports can provide a highly desirable capability to filter a live and/or historic stream of visitors on the specified attributes, resulting in precisely targeted reporting on a highly segmented and highly targeted segment of visitors. | 03-05-2015 |
20150066588 | METHOD FOR REDESIGNING ONE OR MORE PRODUCT OR PROCESS PARAMETERS OF A MANUFACTURED ARTICLE - Method for redesigning one or more product or process parameters of a first manufactured article, to provide different product or process parameters of a second, transformed, manufactured article, comprising: (a) associating a unique identifier with individual first manufactured articles, or with groups thereof; (b) capturing and recording product data and/or process data relating to the first manufactured articles; (c) soliciting and recording consumer feedback relating: to in-use performance of the first manufactured articles; (d) correlating consumer feedback with product data and/or process data of a specific, individual, first manufactured article by means of the unique identifier; (e) determining different product or process parameters for a second manufactured article; and (f) applying one or more different product or process parameters to the first manufactured articles to transform them into second manufactured articles, the second manufactured articles being better adapted to meet consumer needs than the first manufactured article. | 03-05-2015 |
20150066589 | USER BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS METHOD, AND RELATED DEVICE AND METHOD - A user behavior analysis (UBA) method, and a related device and system are provided. The method is applied to a UBA system including at least one UBA cloud server. The method includes: receiving, by a UBA cloud server, a network content identifier reported by a first UBA subnode, where the network content identifier cannot be identified by the first UBA subnode; acquiring network content corresponding to the network content identifier; extracting a keyword from the network content; updating a behavior knowledge base by using the extracted keyword; and delivering, by the UBA cloud server, the updated behavior knowledge base or updated content of the behavior knowledge base to a UBA subnode set, where the UBA subnode set at least includes the first UBA subnode and a second UBA subnode. The UBA cloud server and the UBA subnodes are associated with a telecommunication network. | 03-05-2015 |
20150066590 | OPTIMIZATION OF SOCIAL MEDIA ENGAGEMENT - Methods for optimizing social media are disclosed. Such methods may include identifying at least one keyword utilized for at least one webpage, identifying social media correspondence referencing the at least one keyword, analyzing content collected from the social media to determine a frequency of references to the at least one keyword and generating at least one report including information based on the analysis. The report may include recommendations for optimizing social media by, for example, increasing visibility by using high-performing keywords. Systems for performing the methods are also disclosed. | 03-05-2015 |
20150066591 | STATE-MACHINE PROGRESSION FOR AGGREGATE INFORMATION SOURCES - A method of analyzing Internet-based communication sessions may include detecting interactions during a communication session and detecting an associated characteristic. The method may also include identifying other communication sessions that are also associated with the characteristic and accessing a group profile of the other communications sessions. The group profile may be assigned a first group profile state in a state-machine-based progression of group profile states and have a group lead score. The method may additionally include associating the communication session with the group profile, adjusting the group lead score based on the communication session to cross a threshold value, and moving to a second group profile state. The method may further include authorizing devices associated with the group profile access to additional data after moving to the second group profile state. | 03-05-2015 |
20150073863 | Method and System for Linking Browsing History to Proprietary Transaction Data - A method for linking browsing data to transaction history includes: storing, in a database, a plurality of consumer profiles, wherein each consumer profile includes data related to a consumer including at least a plurality of consumer demographic characteristics and a plurality of transaction data entries across a plurality of merchants, each transaction data entry corresponding to a payment transaction involving the related consumer; receiving, by a receiving device, browsing data, wherein the browsing data includes webpage browsing history and a plurality of browser-associated demographic characteristics; identifying, by a processing device, at least one consumer profile of the plurality of consumer profiles where at least a predefined number of the included plurality of consumer demographic characteristics correspond to the plurality of browser-associated demographic characteristics; and associating, in the database, each of the identified at least one consumer profile with the webpage browsing history included in the received browsing data. | 03-12-2015 |
20150073864 | Method and System for Property Damage Analysis - A system and method for combining CAD, inspection, and building guideline data for analyzing repair decisions and selecting waste containers is described. One embodiment includes receiving digital building facet data for a first building facet of a set of one or more building facets; receiving digital inspection data for the first building facet; determining an amount of building material required to repair damage to an area of the first building facet, including determining a first amount of waste building material; determining a repair indicator for the first building facet, the determining a repair indicator based at least in part upon the digital facet data for the first building facet and the inspection data for the first building facet; determining an appropriate waste container based upon the first amount of waste material; and displaying an electronic image of the set of one or more building facets. | 03-12-2015 |
20150081380 | COMPLEMENT SELF SERVICE BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE WITH CLEANSED AND ENRICHED CUSTOMER DATA - According to some embodiments, a method of self-service business intelligence and an apparatus are provided to receive a first plurality of data records at a client device executing a self-service business intelligence application. A request to a master data service to lookup the first plurality of data records is sent via an intermediary database. A second plurality of data records comprising a cleansed and consolidated version of the first plurality of data records is received. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081381 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECORDING TIME - A system and method for recording time. The system may consist of a software extension. The extension may record the time a user is on a device, software, or application. The user may use the extension to redeem vouchers or trade with other members of the community. The method may consist of a user logging into a plugin or extension. The extension may record a user's activity, including time spent on the device, software, or application. The time recorded may then be exchanged for vouchers, which the user may redeem or trade with other members. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081382 | CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP ACCOUNT AUGMENTATION BASED ON WIRELESS DETECTION OF MOBILE DEVICES, WITH PERSONALIZED MESSAGING - A customer relationship system includes a local computing system located on-premises of a public accommodation and a remote computing system that communicates with the local computing system. The local computing system includes or interfaces with a wireless access point that provides a wireless communications network to the public accommodation. The local computing system validates that a target wireless communication device associated with a target MAC address or hardware identifier of the one or more identified MAC addresses or hardware identifiers is present at the public accommodation by matching an on-premises characteristic of the detected beacon frames transmitted by wireless communication devices. The remote computing system augments a visit counter based upon a message received from the local computing system, and transmits a personalized message to the wireless communication device in which the personalized message is programmatically modified based upon a value of the visit counter. | 03-19-2015 |
20150088598 | CROSS-RETAIL MARKETING BASED ON ANALYTICS OF MULTICHANNEL CLICKSTREAM DATA - A method and associated system of cross-retail marketing based on analysis of multichannel clickstream data that comprises a client application capturing, aggregating, and analyzing multiple clickstreams of a user. These clickstreams may be captured from multiple unrelated or competing sales or distribution channels and from multiple electronic platforms. The analysis may use methods of artificial intelligence, text analytics, semantic analytics, or other analytical methods to infer characteristics of the user, of the user's online commercial behavior and other commercial activities, and of products or services that the user may be interested in purchasing. The output of this analysis is forwarded to other channels or platforms visited by the user in order to allow those other channels or platforms to perform targeted commercial marketing functions related to the user's prior activities. In preferred embodiments, this method may be require an active consent or other authorization from the user. | 03-26-2015 |
20150088599 | Methods, Apparatuses, And Computer Program Products For Automatically Detecting Levels Of User Dissatisfaction With Transportation Routes - An aspect of this invention is a method that includes monitoring sensors to collect information for a transportation route, and generating a graph from the collected information where the graph includes a plurality of nodes, each node representing a stop on the at least one transportation route. Each of respective nodes is associated with a corresponding transportation stop density and a corresponding passenger leaving rate. The corresponding transportation stop density is compared with at least one predetermined density threshold and the corresponding passenger leaving rate is compared with at least one predetermined leaving rate threshold to determine a level of dissatisfaction for each of the respective nodes. A tangible output is generated that identifies a level of user dissatisfaction for each of the plurality of nodes. | 03-26-2015 |
20150088600 | BUSINESS NETWORK MAPPING - A method is described for determining a business network for a plurality of websites engaged in commerce and a plurality of end users, i.e., customers of the websites engaged in commerce. A network mapping entity and/or other websites, such as one or more of the plurality of websites engaged in commerce, may store a customized tracking cookie on each computer of a plurality of visitors to the network mapping entity or the websites engaged in commerce. If the visitors are also customers of the network mapping entity, the network mapping entity may store the customers' login information, tracking cookies, and/or other visitor's data as desired. The plurality of websites engaged in commerce may have a tracking code on them. The tracking code allows the websites engaged in commerce to collect additional information about the visitors/customers (now referred to as end users) and communicate the additional information, i.e. end users data, to the network mapping entity. The network mapping entity may use all of the collected information to determine a business network for the plurality of visitors, customers and/or end users in relation to the plurality of websites engaged in commerce. | 03-26-2015 |
20150088601 | SYSTEM FOR CAPTURING AND ENGAGING PROSPECTS - A system for true one to one advertising where prospects are exposed to messages that attract them requesting them to provide their electronic mail information and identifiers associated with the messages seen by the prospects. In addition to the offered incentives, a server selectively sends subsequent sets of information to participants based on predetermined conditions, with additional awards or probabilities of earning awards, to prompt replies relevant to sponsors advertising their goods and/or services. As the participant becomes engaged with the system, the sponsors formulate offers for products and/or services based on the replies received. Marketing reports are compiled from the information received and forwarded to the sponsors measuring the penetration of their advertising messages. | 03-26-2015 |
20150088602 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DEFINING AN OFFLINABLE VIEW/CONTROLLER GRAPH - A method and system for defining an offlinable view/controller graph. In one embodiment of the method a first view definition is received from a server via data communication link, wherein the first view definition comprises a first identifier. The first view definition is stored in memory at a location identified by a first universal resource locator (URL). The first URL is mapped to the first identifier in a table. | 03-26-2015 |
20150088603 | USER-CONTROLLED IDENTITY PROFILES - In an example embodiment, an identity system comprises a data repository for storing user-controlled personal data; an enrollment module to enroll users with the data repository; a first communication module to receive an enrolled user authentication and personal data relating to the user; a control module allowing an authenticated user to supplement or modify the received personal data and to select recipients of user-identified aspects of the received personal data; and a second communication module to communicate the user-identified aspects to a selected recipient. A payment module may be configured to convey a value to the user based on the communication to, or use by, the selected recipient of the user-identified aspects of the personal data. | 03-26-2015 |
20150088604 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ENHANCING A LEAD EXCHANGE PROCESS - A system and method of enhancing the lead exchange process simultaneously and in real-time calculates a quality index of a lead or plurality of leads within the lead exchange process. The quality index provide a measure of the quality of the leads with the lead exchange process. The calculations are done electronically by a computer system and are based on differences to the mean, allowing for relative indices, which permit the use in a dynamic environment. | 03-26-2015 |
20150088605 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING A MARKETPLACE STATUS - A system for diagnosing an object that includes a preset of an object, a visual representation associated with one or more sub objects of at least part of the object, and a module to analyze the applicable visual representation. The visual representation is captured by a device and provides a specified status of the object. Further the analysis provides a measure of fit between the preset and the specified status of the object as captured and is carried out based on keypoint descriptors used to separate sub objects on the applicable visual representation. The device has a reproduction capturing device and data connectivity. | 03-26-2015 |
20150095103 | CREATING AND MANAGING COMMERCE INSIGHTS IN WASTE MANAGEMENT - Methods and arrangements for creating and managing commercial insights in waste management. Codes of discarded products which enter a receptacle bin are scanned. There are provided, to an external entity, data relating to discarding of the products, the data including spatial location data and at least one of: temporal data relating to the discarding of the products, and product-specific data. Other variants and embodiments are broadly contemplated herein. | 04-02-2015 |
20150095104 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR EFFECTING TARGETED ACCESS TO ANONYMOUS USERS OF A NETWORK - A method, system, and apparatus for effecting targeted access to anonymous users of a network is provided. A second entity delineates parameters of an audience with heightened interest in an offering, and a first entity provides the second entity with access to an audience accordant with these parameters. Consumer data collected by a network connected appliance used by an appliance user is linked with an appliance user anonymous identifier, and communicated to the first entity. Using the parameters, the first entity analyzes the collected consumer data and aggregates the appliance user's anonymous identifier with anonymous identifiers of other appliance users, thereby generating an aggregate set of anonymous identifiers that point to members of the audience. This set is marked with an identification code that is communicated to the second entity that can be used by the second entity to gain access to the audience through the first entity. | 04-02-2015 |
20150095105 | INDUSTRY GRAPH DATABASE - Information may be extracted from a variety of source materials and mapped onto elements of a graph topology representative of industry information. The topology may comprise information indicative of industries and companies including partnerships, capabilities, products, solutions, and promotions. The topology may describe interrelationships between elements. Various qualities such as position within an industry, partnerships, promotions, technological and organizational capabilities, products and solutions, and so on may be quantified by examination of relationships within the industry graph topology. Quantified and unquantified data may be used for benchmarking and to compare trends. Information sets may be extracted by searching and/or traversing the industry graph topology. | 04-02-2015 |
20150095106 | Customer Relationship Management (CRM) System Having a Rules Engine for Processing Sales Program Rules - A CRM system is provided having a rules engine to process sales program rules. One or more sales programs are processed in a CRM system by obtaining one or more sales program rules defining the one or more sales programs; and applying the one or more sales program rules to a rules engine in the CRM system to determine if the one or more sales programs are applicable by accessing one or more of enterprise data and external commercial data. The sales program rules are optionally entered into the rules engine using a graphical user interface. The sales program rules can also be updated using the graphical user interface. The sales program rules comprise, for example, time-based conditions to enforce time restrictions of a given sales program and/or one or more collaborative filters. | 04-02-2015 |
20150095107 | STAY DURATION MEASUREMENT DEVICE, STAY DURATION MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND STAY DURATION MEASUREMENT METHOD - A stay duration measurement device for measuring a stay duration in a measurement area for each moving object, includes: a movement line obtaining unit that obtains a movement line of each moving object detected from images including the measurement area; a movement line assessment unit that determines whether the movement line obtained by the movement line obtaining unit includes a missing part in the measurement area; and a stay duration obtaining unit that, in a case where it is determined by the movement line assessment unit that the movement line of a moving object of interest includes a missing part in the measurement area, obtains a stay duration compensated for the missing part based on a time period(s) required for movement(s) of one or more other moving objects in the measurement area. | 04-02-2015 |
20150095108 | SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR ASSESSING REACH, ENGAGEMENT, CONVERSATION OR OTHER SOCIAL METRICS BASED ON DOMAIN TAILORED EVALUATION OF SOCIAL MEDIA EXPOSURE - Embodiments described herein provide a social media analytics platform. An entity may be configured with respect to the platform and a number of social media accounts, and other data such as aliases or search terms associated with the entity. Data is collected at certain intervals from the various online sites, including social media sites, using the various disparate and proprietary interfaces and data models provided by the sites and the configurations for the social media accounts associated with an entity. Using this data obtained from these online sites one or more scores can be calculated or update based on the data, where the score(s) may serve to quantify a facet of the entity's social media exposure and may serve to be domain specific to the entity. The scores for each of the indices for an entity can thus serve to quantify facets of an entity's social media exposure. | 04-02-2015 |
20150095109 | METHOD AND A DEVICE FOR DECODING DATA STREAMS IN RECONFIGURABLE PLATFORMS - A decoding device is implemented on an integrated circuit, for decoding a market data input stream received in a given data representation format. The decoding device comprises an engine built around a finite state machine, the engine being generated from at least one description file and configured to perform the following steps, in a current state of the finite state machine: i) dividing the market data input stream into a number of tokens and reading a set of tokens, ii) accumulating the set of read tokens in internal registers, iii) generating output commands from the tokens accumulated in the internal registers depending on a condition related to the tokens accumulated in the internal registers, and iv) selecting the next state of the Finite State Machine state based on a triggering condition. | 04-02-2015 |
20150095110 | FUNNEL ANALYSIS OF THE ADOPTION OF AN APPLICATION - A funnel approach is used to analyze the behavior of users in adopting a software application offered through an electronic store. The electronic store may include an electronic store client module that provides a virtual electronic store front to users interested in licensing software applications offered by the electronic store. The electronic store may utilize a server that stores the applications store as well as collect instrumentation data representing user's actions in progressing through the various stages of adoption. | 04-02-2015 |
20150100371 | Detecting Closure of a Business - Provided is a process of updating a listing of businesses by detecting that a business has closed, the process including: obtaining interaction time-series data identifying when users interacted with data about a business; calculating a baseline rate of user interactions with the data about the businesses based on the interaction time-series data; detecting a decrease in the rate of user interactions with the data about the business based on baseline rate and the interaction time series data in response to the detected decrease, transmitting a message to the business requesting confirmation that the business is still open; and detecting that a time has passed without the requested confirmation and, in response, removing the business from a business listing or otherwise indicating in the listing that the business is dosed. | 04-09-2015 |
20150100372 | ORDERING POTENTIAL LEADS IN A LEAD QUEUE SYSTEM FOR A POOL OF ONE OR MORE REPRESENTATIVES - A system and method to prioritize leads for a pool of representatives is presented herein. Leads have corresponding lead profiles stored or referenced in a lead queue system. Each lead profile includes data that indicates how likely the corresponding lead is to purchase a good or service, or to take an offer. The lead queue system orders lead profiles, such that the highest lead profile corresponds to the lead that is estimated to be the most likely to purchase a good or service, or to take an offer. A lead profile may be updated automatically based, at least in part, on the actions of the corresponding lead. Additionally or alternatively, a lead profile may be updated manually by a representative, manager, or someone other than the corresponding lead. In response, the lead queue system updates the order of the lead profiles. | 04-09-2015 |
20150100373 | DEMOGRAPHICS PREDICTIONS USING MOBILE DEVICES - A method and system predicts the demographic characteristics of people within a geographic area with cellular coverage. The method can include determining that a first mobile phone user is domiciled within a first geographic area. Upon determining that the first mobile phone user is domiciled within the first geographic area, a demographic profile can be associated with the user. The present invention can detect that the first mobile phone user has relocated domiciles to a second geographic area. The present invention can then calculate an updated demographic profile of the second geographic area by incorporating the specific demographic profile associated with the first user into a demographic profile associated with the second geographic area. | 04-09-2015 |
20150100374 | WEARABLE TEXT PERSONALIZATION - In one embodiment, information indicating content that has been consumed by a user may be obtained, where at least a portion of the information is received from a mobile device such as a wearable device worn by the user while consuming the content, where the content is not generated or provided by the mobile device. A profile of the user may be updated based, at least in part, upon the information such that the information is associated with the user, where the information indicates one or more characteristics of the content. Further content to be provided to the user or characteristics thereof may be identified based, at least in part, upon the information. | 04-09-2015 |
20150100375 | MULTIMEDIA MARKETING AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - A central server having a computer readable storage media for storing multimedia material, such as motion pictures and television programming, in digital format is connected to a communications network such as the Internet. Exhibitors, such as theaters and television stations, can access the central server, preview available programming, verifying the ownership of such material, review contract provisions for obtaining and paying for the desired programming, and download the programming along with marketing materials for the program or movie. The central server loads material onto the storage media as its received from producers and owners of such material. In addition, central server retains data retains data regarding requests for material, such as titles requested, who requested such, and where the requestors are located geographically. This information can be used to help producers market their material more economically. | 04-09-2015 |
20150100376 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USING NEUROSCIENCE TO PREDICT CONSUMER PREFERENCE - A system and method provides techniques and analysis tools for measuring how individuals perceive and respond to valences and more subtle “micro-valences” present in stimuli. The invention includes a process that uses human neuroimaging and behavioral techniques to measure valence in order to predict how individuals will perceive and react to any stimulus designed to engage individuals, e.g., end users or consumers, including, but not limited to, products, brands, logos, packaging, banner ads, and advertisements and their subcomponents or features, such as shape, color, pattern, and material properties. | 04-09-2015 |
20150100377 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BRAND MANAGEMENT USING SOCIAL NETWORKS - A system for brand management using social networks comprising an application server, social network crawler software modules, third party service integration software modules, an analytics server, a report generator, a search engine, a behavioral analysis engine, a recommendation engine, and a database. A user registers and provides data pertaining to a brand. Upon retrieving content from a plurality of social networks pertaining to the brand, the analytics server module analyzes the content to a content value specific to the brand among members of the social networks. The behavioral analysis engine obtains content elements generated by a first member a social network and analyzes the first member's behavior to compute an audience value of the first member. The report generator prepares reports specific to the brand, the reports comprising at least indicia of content value, indicia of audience value, and recommendations for improving member engagement with the brand. | 04-09-2015 |
20150106155 | Determining and Visualizing Social Media Expressed Sentiment - A technique includes determining social media expressed sentiment, including processing data indicative of a plurality of social media messages to decompose each of the social media messages into a plurality of attributes; for each social media message, identifying attributes of the plurality of attributes, which are associated with user selected attribute categories and are part of the message, and for each identified attribute, assigning a sentiment to the attribute and updating statistics for the selected attribute categories based on the assigned sentiment. The technique includes visualizing the social media expressed sentiment, including displaying at least some of the statistics. | 04-16-2015 |
20150106156 | INPUT/OUTPUT INTERFACE FOR CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS ENGINE - A contextual analysis engine systematically extracts, analyzes and organizes digital content stored in an electronic file such as a webpage. Content can be extracted using a text extraction module which is capable of separating the content which is to be analyzed from less meaningful content such as format specifications and programming scripts. The resulting unstructured corpus of plain text can then be passed to a text analytics module capable of generating a structured categorization of topics included within the content. This structured categorization can be organized based on a content topic ontology which may have been previously defined or which may be developed in real-time. The systems disclosed herein optionally include an input/output interface capable of managing workflows of the text extraction module and the text analytics module, administering a cache of previously generated results, and interfacing with other applications that leverage the disclosed contextual analysis services. | 04-16-2015 |
20150106157 | TEXT EXTRACTION MODULE FOR CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS ENGINE - A contextual analysis engine systematically extracts, analyzes and organizes digital content stored in an electronic file such as a webpage. Content can be extracted using a text extraction module which is capable of separating the content which is to be analyzed from less meaningful content such as format specifications and programming scripts. The resulting unstructured corpus of plain text can then be passed to a text analytics module capable of generating a structured categorization of topics included within the content. This structured categorization can be organized based on a content topic ontology which may have been previously defined or which may be developed in real-time. The systems disclosed herein optionally include an input/output interface capable of managing workflows of the text extraction module and the text analytics module, administering a cache of previously generated results, and interfacing with other applications that leverage the disclosed contextual analysis services. | 04-16-2015 |
20150106158 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING FOLKSONOMIC OBJECT SCORING - An approach for providing folksonomic object scoring includes processing user content according to a folksonomic vocabulary to determine one or more mentions of a concept object in the user content. An initiation of the processing, an ending of the processing, an extent of the user content, or a combination thereof is based on a cost function. The approach also includes calculating an impact score for the concept object based on the one or more mentions. | 04-16-2015 |
20150106159 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DECENTRALIZING PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION PASSENGERS USING TRANSPORTATION CARD READER - Provided are a system and method for decentralizing public transportation passengers using a transportation card reader. The system includes a vehicle terminal including a transportation card reader counting the number of touches of transportation cards of riding and exiting passengers of a public transportation means and configured to transmit a count value to a center, an integrated database server provided in the center and configured to update a count value of each public transportation means with a transmitted count value of the public transportation means and transmit the updated count value to a station, a station terminal provided at the station and configured to display the updated and transmitted count value, and a mobile device configured to receive information on the riding and exiting passengers of the public transportation means from the integrated database server or the station terminal and output the received information. | 04-16-2015 |
20150106160 | Telecommunication system, apparatus, and method for capture, certification, distribution, and contact of online generated sales leads - A telecommunication system for lead capture, certification, distribution, and contact can include a lead certification server, a lead certification database, a lead certification device, and a phone switch. The lead certification server can dynamically generate a consent agreement text of a lead capture form, based on information stored and issued from the lead certification database, so that the system can store the consumer consent of an agreement text, and connect a phone call to the consumer via the phone switch. A lead certification device can include a processor, non-transient memory, an input/output, a content display an information capture component, and a submission processor component. Also disclosed is a computer-implemented method including displaying content, capturing information, obtaining consent, processing a submission, and completing the submission. | 04-16-2015 |
20150112753 | SOCIAL CONTENT FILTER TO ENHANCE SENTIMENT ANALYSIS - Techniques are disclosed for filtering and analyzing social network content so that consumer sentiment can be gauged more accurately and efficiently. In certain embodiments social network content can be filtered so that individual content items can be identified as comprising neutral, sentiment bearing, spam or foreign language content. Such filtering can be performed by marking certain features that are indicative of a particular type of content, and then using machine learning systems to classify individual content items based on the marked features. A portion of the filtered content, such as only the items containing sentiment bearing content, can then be subjected to sentiment analysis. The results of this sentiment analysis can be presented to a social network campaign manager via a sentiment browser interface, optionally with the underlying filtered content. This allows the campaign manager to easily view the results of the sentiment analysis with the filtered social network content. | 04-23-2015 |
20150112754 | USER INTENT TRACKING STREAMS - Systems, methods and media are proposed for user intent tracking streams. One example embodiment relates to a system that comprises an identification module to identify a plurality of aspects of contextual or personal information relating to a user, and an analysis module to analyze the plurality of aspects of contextual or personal information to identify user intent or a likelihood relating to a pre-determined action. The system further comprises a correlation module to correlate the user intent or likelihood with at least a sub-set of the analyzed aspects of contextual or personal information to identify an intent tracking stream for the user, the intent tracking stream based on the correlated sub-set, and a tracking module to track the intent tracking stream as a user identifier or a predictor of the pre-determined action. | 04-23-2015 |
20150112755 | Automated Identification and Evaluation of Business Opportunity Prospects - Embodiments identify and evaluate business opportunity prospects in an automated fashion. An engine receives one or more inputs used to identify business opportunities. These input(s) can comprise recent events gathered from external sources, for example feeds from news websites, and/or publicly-available business information (e.g. compiled by third parties). Other inputs can comprise information from internal sources, such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERM) and/or Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications. Still other inputs can comprise personalized user preferences, for example an industry and/or territory assigned to a particular user. From these input(s), the engine automatically generates a business lead, together with a score reflecting a strength of that lead. To this existing lead information (e.g. score, lead name, lead contact information, etc.), a user can manually add further information, for example monetary value and/or an closing date, in order to create a deal pipeline for visualization. | 04-23-2015 |
20150112756 | Automated Software Tools for Improving Sales - A sales application is described that includes multiple automated sales tools that can be combined to help improve sales within a sales team. A deal finder sales tool is described to help identify sales opportunities. A deal playbook sales tool is also described to help structure the sales opportunity into a sales play by recommending products to sale in conjunction and also constructing a sales team. An influencer sales tool is also described to help identify business relationships that can be utilized to influence members of the sales team. | 04-23-2015 |
20150112757 | INSIGHT MARKET - In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes receiving a plurality of belief signals from a plurality of parties, where each belief signal indicates a piece of information that a party providing the belief signal believes to be true. A request for an insight is received from an interested party. An insight is determined by evaluating, by a computer processor, a subset of the belief signals. Payment is received from the interested party for the insight. The parties who provided the subset of belief of signals are compensated out of the payment, based on their contribution to the determining the insight. | 04-23-2015 |
20150112758 | ENHANCED DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS - A method and corresponding apparatus that is configured to receive data from a mobile operator, process the data by, at least, anonymizing and aggregating the data to identify at least one market opportunity within a predefined market footprint, and generate a report that highlights the at least one market opportunity. | 04-23-2015 |
20150112759 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING CUSTOMIZED FOOD LIFE SERVICE - A method and apparatus for providing a customized food life service is provided. The method includes: sensing a wireless frequency identification tag attached to food to receive data; processing and storing the received data; analyzing and modeling the stored data; and providing food management information based on the analyzing and modeling result. | 04-23-2015 |
20150112760 | Website Visitor to Phone Call Tracking System - A website visitor tracking method includes receiving a request from a user device to view a webpage. With this request a unique visitor ID is assigned. A unique phone number is assigned to this visitor session. Returning the webpage to the website visitor, including the unique phone number to the user device. When a phone call is placed and received from this unique phone number the call and the visitor session can be associated together along with all other historical website visits of the visitor. | 04-23-2015 |
20150112761 | CENTRALIZED CUSTOMER CONTACT DATABASE - According to some embodiments, a method receives a request for contact information associated with a customer. The method determines a plurality of contact values associated with the customer. The plurality of contact values include a first set of contact values that a first line of business associates with the customer and a second set of contact values that a second line of business associates with the customer. The method determines priority information associated with each contact value. In response to the request for contact information, the method communicates one or more of the contact values. For each contact value being communicated, the method communicates at least some of the priority information associated with the each contact value being communicated. | 04-23-2015 |
20150120377 | MEASURING EFFICACY OF ERGONOMIC INTERVENTIONS - According to an aspect of an embodiment, a method of measuring efficacy of an ergonomic intervention includes tracking a utilization of the ergonomic intervention over time and storing the utilization of the ergonomic intervention over time. The method further includes tracking a state of a user of the ergonomic intervention over time and storing the state of the user over time. The method further includes calculating an efficacy measurement based at least in part on the utilization of the ergonomic intervention over time and the state of the user over time. | 04-30-2015 |
20150120378 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PRODUCT CONSUMPTION DETERMINATION - Methods and systems for acquiring, processing and tracking product consumption data acquired from a point of sale and standardizing the consumption data using financial transaction data are provided. The method includes acquiring member information, product information and purchase ticket information for a given purchase by a given member where the member includes an individual, a household, a group, a third party, or combinations thereof. Associating product content dimensions with products for at least two purchases, where the product content dimensions include quantitative or qualitative values of any of nutrients, calories, ingredients, chemicals, and combinations thereof. Generating a cumulative set of data points for a given product content dimension over a period of time or set of purchases. Fitting the data to trend equations where slopes can be used to determine consumption rates for a given member over a period of time or a set of purchases. | 04-30-2015 |
20150120379 | Systems and Methods for Passage Selection for Language Proficiency Testing Using Automated Authentic Listening - Test designers looking for test ideas often search online for audio/video materials. To minimize the time wasted on irrelevant/inappropriate materials, this invention describes a system, apparatus, and method of retrieving media materials for generating test items. In one example, the system may query one or more data sources based on a search criteria for retrieving media materials, and receive candidate media materials based on the query, each of which including an audio portion. The system may obtain a transcription of the audio portion of each of the candidate media materials. The system may analyze the transcription for each candidate media material to identify associated characteristics. The candidate media materials may be filtered based on the identified characteristics to derive a subset of the candidate media materials. A report may then be generated for the user identifying one or more of the candidate media materials in the subset. | 04-30-2015 |
20150120380 | Development of Dynamic Business Data for Marketing to Moving Spatiotemporal Phenomena and Events - Embodiments are directed to a computer implemented method of developing data for use by a business system. The method includes identifying, by a processor circuit, an occurrence having at least one characteristic that changes over time. The method further includes determining, by the processor circuit, a pattern of the change over time, wherein the pattern includes past changes and expected future changes. The method further includes identifying, by the processor circuit, a plurality of associations among data of an offering, data of a potential consumer and the pattern of the at least one characteristic's change over time. The plurality of associations also change over time, and the data for use by the business system is derived from the plurality of associations that change over time. | 04-30-2015 |
20150127418 | NOTIFYING AN ADVERTISER OF HIGH ENGAGEMENT POSTS IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - To enhance user engagement with a page posts maintained by a social networking system, a social networking system reviews posts associated with a page (e.g., a business or brand page) in a social networking system and measures a degree of user engagement with each post at one or more measures of exposure (e.g., time points or impressions). The social networking system then identifies posts for which the user engagement exceeds a threshold as high engagement or “hot” posts. An administrator associated with the page is notified of the identified high engagement post and can use this information for further promotion or boosting of the identified high engagement post. | 05-07-2015 |
20150127419 | ITEM-TO-ITEM SIMILARITY GENERATION - A system that generates an item-to-item similarity for a category that includes a plurality of products receives attribute values for each product in the category and product-store-week sales units for each product in the category. The system estimates attribute weights. The system then determines the item-to-item similarity as a weighted attribute match score. | 05-07-2015 |
20150127420 | DETERMINING VELOCITY DATA FOR CONTACT - Embodiments of the disclosure relate to systems, methods, and computer program products for determining velocity data. The system, method, and computer program product are configured to determine one or more contacts for a customer; determine a number of communication attempts to the one or more contacts over a predetermined time period; compare the number of communication attempts over the predetermined time period to a maximum number of attempts over the predetermined time period; and exclude the customer from a contact list when the number of communication attempts is greater than or equal to the maximum number of communication attempts for the predetermined time period. The system allows a user to track the total number of contacts across a variety of metrics in order to comply with business decisions and local rules. | 05-07-2015 |
20150127421 | INFORMATION ACQUISITION METHOD, INFORMATION ACQUISITION SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION ACQUISITION APPARATUS - Provided is a server device ( | 05-07-2015 |
20150127422 | Social Network Marketing System and Method - A system is disclosed for providing information including an interface for receiving the information from a source and a delivery channel for transmitting the information to a subscriber. The system may include a commerce component for monetization. The information may be at least partially exclusive. A method is described for transmitting information including receiving the information from a source, and transmitting the information to a subscriber. | 05-07-2015 |
20150127423 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRACKING AND RATING NON-GAMING ACTIVITIES - A system and method for tracking patron events at a plurality of devices is provided. The plurality of devices include electronic gaming machines and non-gaming machines. Each game device has a value associated therewith. The system includes a plurality of player tracking devices (each associated with one of the electronic gaming machines) and a server. The player tracking devices identify patrons interacting with the system, track wagers made by the patrons on the electronic gaming machines and record wager data. The server receives the wager data and stores the wager data in a database and receives transaction data associated with a transaction associated with the patrons use of the non-gaming devices and stores the transaction data in the database, and establishes a player rating associated with each player as a function of the wager data and the transaction data. | 05-07-2015 |
20150134401 | IN-MEMORY END-TO-END PROCESS OF PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS - An in-memory end-to-end method for predictive analytics is implemented. A predictive business process to consume a predictive functionality is initiated. At runtime of the predictive business process, a trained predictive model is retrieved from an in-memory database. In one aspect, the trained predictive model is based on a predictive scenario implementing the predictive functionality. In one aspect, the predictive scenario is stored in the in-memory database. A key predictive indicator is calculated by executing the trained predictive model. Calculating is performed in the in-memory database. | 05-14-2015 |
20150134402 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NETWORK-OBLIVIOUS COMMUNITY DETECTION - Disclosed is a system and method for detecting online social communities through network-oblivious community detection techniques that involve modeling social contagion from a log of user activity. The log includes a dataset of tuples that record the instances when a user has adopted an item at a specific time. The disclose systems and methods then apply a stochastic framework that assumes that the adoptions of the item are governed by an underlying diffusion process over an unobserved social network, and that such diffusion model is based on community-level influence. By fitting the model parameters to the user activity log, community membership information and level of influence information can be derived for each user in each community. | 05-14-2015 |
20150134403 | CONTEXTUAL SEARCHING VIA A MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE - In response to a mobile computing device querying information for a product within a retail store, program code may instruct a camera of the mobile computing device to capture an image as part of a query for the product. The program code may also collect information for the query of the product, which includes information from the barcode and the mobile computing device. The program code adjusts a calculation of an approximate location of the product via use of distance vectors that are within the information that is collected for the query the product. The program code generates a query object to perform the query. The program code defines an optimal arrangement of products within the retail store. The program code updates an electronic planogram based on the optimal arrangement of products. The program code retrieves product information that is customized for an end user, based on the query object generated. | 05-14-2015 |
20150134404 | WEIGHTED PROMOTER SCORE ANALYTICS SYSTEM AND METHODS - The methods, apparatus, and systems described herein provide weighted promoter scores (WPS) for customers that have increased precision and/or accuracy compared to a traditional NPS®. The methods include receiving a communication between an agent and a customer, extracting a data attribute from the communication including personality type of the customer, inputting the personality type into an algorithm trained to output a WPS, and outputting a WPS for the customer. | 05-14-2015 |
20150134405 | PERSONAL SERVICE PROVIDING SYSTEM, INFORMATION COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS SERVER, AND METHODS THEREOF - A personal service providing system, an information collection and analysis server and the methods thereof are provided. The information collection and analysis server receives a record of a transaction from a service end, generates a distinct link associated with the record, and transmits the distinct link to the service end. The service end generates a machine-readable code by embedding the distinct link therein. A user device obtains the distinct link from the machine-readable code and transmits an identity to the information collection and analysis server through the distinct link. The information collection and analysis server receives the identity from the user device and associates the identity with the record according to the distinct link. | 05-14-2015 |
20150134406 | INSIGHT MARKET - In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes receiving a plurality of belief signals from a plurality of parties, where each belief signal indicates a piece of information that a party providing the belief signal believes to be true. A request for an insight is received from an interested party. An insight is determined by evaluating, by a computer processor, a subset of the belief signals. Payment is received from the interested party for the insight. The parties who provided the subset of belief of signals are compensated out of the payment, based on their contribution to the determining the insight. | 05-14-2015 |
20150134407 | ORGANIZATION AND CONTRACT SCORING FOR PROCUREMENT OPPORTUNITIES - A system and method are provided for analyzing government procurement activities based on scores calculated for a customer, fulfilling organization and complexity of each procurement opportunity (e.g., contract) involved. The customer score is based on the number of opportunities and awards provided to the marketplace. The fulfilling organization score is based on the number of opportunity awards won and the frequency and recency of awarded opportunities. Compensation for the award also can be factored into customer and fulfilling organization scores. The complexity score is generated for each opportunity and is based on various attributes of the opportunity, e.g., associated industries, description, life cycle, etc. A user interface is provided for customers and fulfilling organizations to view analytics for procurement activities in each industry and contact information for each customer and fulfilling organization within the system. | 05-14-2015 |
20150134408 | INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - Information on a location and a time of a terminal device | 05-14-2015 |
20150134409 | ACCURATE MECHANISM FOR ESTIMATING A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SERVICE PROVIDER'S MARKET SHARE - A method of enabling a specific mobile communication service provider (Dt) to estimate his market share on a street level in real time during a specific period of time over a particular point of interest (POI) is disclosed. | 05-14-2015 |
20150142510 | METHOD, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE DEVICE, AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYZING TEXT MESSAGES - A method, computer-readable storage device and apparatus for analyzing text messages are disclosed. For example, the method receives the text messages, tokenizes each one of the text messages to extract a token, identifies the token as trending, wherein trending comprises the token having a frequency above a threshold, classifies a sentiment for each one of the text messages having the token that is identified as trending, identifies a demographic for the sentiment of the token that is trending, and provides the demographic and the sentiment of the token that is trending to a third party entity associated with the token. | 05-21-2015 |
20150142511 | RECOMMENDING AND PRICING DATASETS - A computer processor provides a set of datasets, including at least a first dataset, with each dataset of the set of datasets respectively being configured to allow the dataset to be presented according to multiple variations, with each variation being defined by a selection of at least one transformation. The computer processor receives customer feedback information relating to at least a first variation of the first dataset. The computer processor trains a first machine learning algorithm, based, at least in part, upon the customer feedback information. The computer processor performs, by the first machine learning algorithm, a marketing act. The marketing act includes at least one of the following: (i) defining a new variation of the first dataset, (ii) defining a new transformation for defining variations of the first dataset, (iii) recommending a predefined variation of the first dataset, and (iv) pricing a predefined variation of the first dataset. | 05-21-2015 |
20150142512 | USER INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS, USER INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, AND ADVERTISEMENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - A user information providing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a business operator information database, an information acquiring unit, a user information extracting unit, and a user information output unit. The business operator information database stores user information of a business operator. The information acquiring unit acquires information on an identification target provided in a place corresponding to the business operator from a user terminal. The user information extracting unit extracts user information of the business operator corresponding to the place where the identification target is provided from the business operator information database based on the information on the identification target acquired by the information acquiring unit. The user information output unit outputs the user information extracted by the user information extracting unit. | 05-21-2015 |
20150149243 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTING CONSUMER ANALYTICS TO A POINT OF SALE DEVICE - A method for distributing consumer analytics to a point-of-sale device includes: storing a plurality of consumer profiles, each profile including data related to a consumer including a consumer identifier associated with the related consumer, a plurality of consumer characteristics, and a plurality of transaction data entries, each entry corresponding to a payment transaction involving the related consumer and including transaction data; receiving a consumer profile request, the request including a specific consumer identifier and one or more requested consumer metrics; identifying a specific consumer profile where the included consumer identifier corresponds to the specific consumer identifier; calculating the requested consumer metrics for the consumer related to the specific consumer profile based on the transaction data included in the plurality of transaction data entries included in the specific consumer profile; and transmitting the consumer characteristics included in the specific consumer profile and the calculated consumer metrics in response to the request. | 05-28-2015 |
20150149244 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTEGRATING BIOMETRIC DATA WITH TRANSACTION DATA - A method for linking biometric data to transaction history includes: storing, in a database, a plurality of consumer profiles, wherein each consumer profile includes data related to a consumer including at least a plurality of consumer characteristics and a plurality of transaction data entries, each transaction data entry corresponding to a payment transaction involving the related consumer; receiving, by a receiving device, a biometric profile, wherein the biometric profile includes biometric data associated with a specific consumer and a plurality of demographic characteristics associated with the specific consumer; identifying, by a processing device, at least one consumer profile of the plurality of consumer profiles where at least a predefined number of the included plurality of consumer characteristics correspond to the plurality of demographic characteristics; and associating, in the database, each of the identified at least one consumer profile with the biometric data included in the received biometric profile. | 05-28-2015 |
20150294321 | Review system with location-verified reviews - In general, the subject matter described in the specification can be embodied in methods, systems and program products for an improved review system with location-verified reviews. The system verifies a user's location using one or more available sources, such as geographic location by global positioning system (GPS), cellular localization systems, or wireless local area network (WLAN). The user confirms the business or attraction at the current geographic location that the user would like to review. The system then accepts a review of the business or attraction at the current geographic location. The review is indexed for retrieval. Preferably, the system includes a delay before indexing a review, wherein the management of the business or attraction is notified of the review so that it can respond to any complaints in the review before it is made available for retrieval. | 10-15-2015 |
20150294322 | SECURITY-MONITORING IMPLEMENTING CUSTOMER RECOGNITION VIA AN AUGMENTED REALITY DISPLAY - Systems, apparatus, and computer program products are provided for security-monitoring at a place of business by automatically determining which individuals within a business location, such as a retail store, banking center or the like, are established customers of the business. Such a determination of established customer status is conducted without requiring any action on behalf of the individuals/customers and may be accomplished proximate in time to the individuals arriving at the business location. Once the established customers have been determined, the present invention provides for attaching customer identifiers to the established customers appearing within a live video stream displayed by the security-monitoring system to thereby create an augmented reality environment within the display. | 10-15-2015 |
20150294323 | MARKETING DATA COLLECTION SYSTEM AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM THEREFOR - A marketing data collection system includes commodity information storage unit ( | 10-15-2015 |
20150294324 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONICALLY COLLECTING DATA ASSOCIATED WITH PRODUCTS OR SERVICES PURCHASED BY A PLURALITY OF CONSUMERS - A system and a method for the incentivized collection of data associated with the purchase of products or services by a plurality of consumers. The incentivization primarily involves the award of prizes, according to particular predetermined procedures, to consumers who participate, at no cost, in the data collection. These procedures for awarding prizes are determined in such a way as to stimulate the increasingly enthusiastic, intensive and frequent participation of consumers in the data collection. | 10-15-2015 |
20150294325 | METHOD FOR ANALYZING ECONOMIC PHENOMENA - New methods and strategies for analyzing, characterizing, and assessing economic phenomena are described. The methods utilize principles from physics and in many applications actual laws of physics to evaluate economic phenomena. | 10-15-2015 |
20150294326 | GENERATING APPARATUS, SELECTING APPARATUS, GENERATION METHOD, SELECTION METHOD AND PROGRAM - A generating apparatus is arranged to generate a set of gain vectors with respect to a transition model having observable visible states and unobservable hidden states and expressing a transition from a present visible state to a subsequent visible state according to an action, the set of gain vectors being generated for each visible state and used for calculation of a cumulative expected gain at and after a reference point in time. The apparatus includes a generation section for recursively generating, by retroacting from a future point in time to the reference point in time, a set of gain vectors containing at least one gain vector including a component of a cumulative expected gain with respect to each hidden state, from which set of gain vectors the gain vector giving the maximum of the cumulative expected gain is to be selected. | 10-15-2015 |
20150294327 | Identification of Product Categories - Disclosed are various embodiments for identifying clusters of user accounts who have similar purchase histories and generating product assignments for products identified in the purchase histories. The clusters of user accounts may depict an affinity towards a first type of product while depicting an aversion to a second type of product. The first type of product and the second type of product may have one or more opposing attributes. Product assignments for the products may be generated based on attributes of the products, product categories associated with the products, or the clusters. | 10-15-2015 |
20150302422 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTI-USER BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH - Exemplary embodiments provide methods, mediums, and systems for behavioral research. In some embodiments, an environment supporting three types of users may be provided. A first type of user may represent a participant whose behavior is being monitored. The first type of user may freely interact with the environment. A second type of user may represent a moderator directing the experience of the participant. The moderator may be provided with an ability to manipulate the environment or the participants' interactions with the environment. A third type of user may represent a client interested in the participants' behavior, and the third type of user may be provided with an ability to view the environment from the perspective of the participant. Different interfaces may be provided for allowing the different types of users to interact with the environment according to their roles. | 10-22-2015 |
20150302423 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CATEGORIZING USERS - Methods and systems for categorizing users. A first set of communities and a second set of communities are identified based on a set of keywords and one or more messages posted by at least the users on one or more websites. The first set of communities corresponds to at least one of a product or a service, and second set of communities corresponds to at least one of a competitor-product or a competitor-service. The one or more conversations associated a user in at least one of the first set of communities or the second set of communities are determined. The one or more conversations correspond to exchange of messages at least between the user and a user-representative. The one or more conversations are analyzed to obtained one or more attributes. The users are categorized based on the one or more attributes. | 10-22-2015 |
20150302424 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING CONTENT PROVIDER-DRIVEN SHOPPING - Systems and methods for providing content provider-driven shopping are disclosed. A system may include a processor and a non-transitory, processor-readable storage medium. The non-transitory, processor-readable storage medium may include one or more programming instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to receive content from a provider via a content publishing platform, determine one or more products from the content, for each product, determine one or more merchants offering the product for sale and determine a price for the product from each merchant, determine one or more discounts or incentives offered by each merchant, and, for each product, select a merchant of the one or more merchants based on the price for the product from the merchant and the one or more discounts or incentives offered by the merchant. | 10-22-2015 |
20150302425 | ASSIGNING PRIORITY LEVELS TO CITIZEN SENSOR REPORTS - Various embodiments prioritize incidents associated with citizen sensor reports. In one embodiment, a plurality of citizen sensor reports is received from a plurality of users. A context associated with each of the plurality of citizen sensor reports is determined. A set of citizen sensor reports associated with at least one incident from a plurality of different incidents is identified based on the determined context. A severity level of the incident associated with the set of citizen sensor reports is calculated for each of the set of citizen sensor reports based on a reputation value assigned to each of a set of users who generated the set of citizen sensor reports. Each of the plurality of incidents is prioritized based on their calculated severity levels. | 10-22-2015 |
20150302426 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT CONSTRUCTION FOR BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH - Exemplary embodiments provide methods, mediums, and systems for behavioral research. In some embodiments, a simulated environment may be created. The simulated environment may be displayed to a user on a proprietary display device which utilizes a proprietary data format for storing the simulated environment. Multiple different types of proprietary devices may be supported by providing a hardware agnostic canvas and translation logic. The hardware agnostic canvas may be stored in a neutral format that is not specific to a proprietary display device. The translation logic may translate the hardware agnostic canvas into a format that is interpretably by a proprietary display device, and may translate data gathered from the proprietary display device into a hardware neutral format for further analysis. | 10-22-2015 |
20150302429 | REPORT GENERATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A report generation system is provided. The system includes a database configured to store customer data and transactional data for a plurality of customers of a client. The report generation system also includes a query generator accessible by an analyst to define one or more report queries using a plurality of input variables. The query generator is configured to deconstruct the one or more report queries to create a query tree structure. The query tree structure includes a plurality of distinct report queries. The report generation system further includes a report processor configured to process the customer data and the transactional data based on the plurality of distinct report queries and values of input variables to generate one or more reports with output data. The report processor includes a report design module accessible by the analyst to define a plurality of data visualization formats. The report processor is configured to generate the one or more reports with output data displayed in accordance with the defined data visualization formats. The report processor further includes a report communication module configured to provide an interface to deliver the one or more generated reports to a plurality of users. The report communication module is configured to control display of the one or more generated reports to the plurality of users based on an access level of the respective user. | 10-22-2015 |
20150302430 | YIELD OPTIMIZATION FOR PRODUCT BUNDLES - Techniques for optimizing yield for product bundles are disclosed. Product presentation conditions and product information including product financial information is generated for a plurality of products. Products classified into different categories of the plurality of products are determined and added to a yield optimized product bundle. The products classified into different categories and added to the yield optimized product bundle are organized into a single product flow for the yield optimized product bundle based on the product financial information. It is determined whether to present the products in the yield optimized product bundle using the product presentation conditions in an order which is determined based on the product flow for the yield optimized product bundle. | 10-22-2015 |
20150302464 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUDIENCE PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION USING CREDIT CARD DATA, HISTORICAL NETWORK TRANSACTION DATA, AND PROMOTION CONTACT DATA - A method includes receiving a data set that represents payment card transactions of a set of cardholders during a current time period. The method further includes filtering the set of cardholders based on one or more spending characteristics exhibited by the set of cardholders and indicated by the payment card transactions during the current time period, to produce a subset of the cardholders. Still further, the method includes filtering the subset of cardholders based on one or more spending characteristics of the subset of cardholders during a historical time period that ended substantially prior to an ending point of the current time period, to produce an audience set of the cardholders. Promotional contact information relating to previous contacts with cardholders, and/or non-transactional account information (e.g., credit limits), may also be used in defining the audience set instead of twice filtering the set of cardholders based on spending habits. | 10-22-2015 |
20150302481 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING NETWORK INTELLIGENCE THROUGH REAL-TIME ANALYTICS - Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for generating network intelligence based on network data. In one implementation, a network traffic dataset representative of network traffic across one or more ports of a primary network is obtained. The ports are associated with a secondary network in communication with the primary network. A content distribution network log associated with the secondary network is obtained. The content distribution log includes a history of content requests. A domain name system log associated with the secondary network is obtained. The domain name system log includes one or more Internet Protocol addresses. Network intelligence is generated based on the network traffic dataset, the content distribution network log, and the domain name system log. The network intelligence may be customer analytics, an aggregated data feed, and/or recommendations for inventory placement. | 10-22-2015 |
20150310457 | User managed method for capturing and pricing data items to develop a salable digital persona - A method for a user to capture, configure, store, link, exchange, and set trading parameters (prices and other exchange values) for data drawn from the user's personal data file combined with other user generated data; including data resulting from the user's interactions with file creation software, data items generated from user interactions with electronic devices and components, and data automatically generated by electronic components and devices owned by a user. In combination, these combined data sources coupled with a personal data file form a digital persona or a “digital doppelganger” that may be traded or sold or retained as private in a data marketplace. | 10-29-2015 |
20150310459 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VIDEO-BASED DETECTION OF DRIVE-AROUNDS IN A RETAIL SETTING - A system and method for detection of drive-arounds in a retail setting. An embodiment includes acquiring images of a retail establishment, analyzing the images to detect entry of a customer onto the premises of the retail establishment, tracking a detected customer's location as the customer traverses the premises of the retail establishment, analyzing the images to detect exit of the detected customer from the premises of the retail establishment, and generating a drive-around notification if the customer does not enter a prescribed area or remain on the premises of the retail location for at least a prescribed minimum period of time. | 10-29-2015 |
20150317648 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSESSING AND RANKING NEWSWORTHINESS - A system and method for making a recommendation for increasing a newsworthiness score for a news story that includes determining, by the processor, the newsworthiness score for the news story, analyzing at least one of: a set of pre-determined factors in data describing the news story, or at least one of a set of pre-calculated values, to identify a change to the data describing the news story that will increase the newsworthiness score, and generating, by the processor, a recommendation, where the recommendation includes instructions to implement the change to the data. | 11-05-2015 |
20150324809 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING POLITICAL AFFILIATIONS AND ATTITUDES - A method and a system are provided for determining political affiliations and/or attitudes of payment card holders. The method involves retrieving from one or more databases a first set of information including payment card transaction information, and retrieving from one or more databases a second set of information comprising external information. The external information includes merchant political affiliation and/or attitude information and payment card holder political affiliation and/or attitude information. The method further includes analyzing the first set of information and the second set of information to identify one or more associations between the payment card transaction information and the external information, and determining political affiliation and/or attitude of one or more payment card holders based on the one or more associations. The method and system can be used by merchants or businesses to better target customers or enhance existing customer relationships. | 11-12-2015 |
20150324810 | PERSONAL UNIVERSAL PROFILE - A method and a system for creating, updating and processing a universal profile which includes an aggregation of previous transaction with multiple, distinct transaction entities. A universal profile (UP) manager creates a universal profile for an account. The universal profile comprises transaction data based on an aggregate of transactions with multiple, distinct transaction entities. The UP manager receives a universal profile preference indicating whether at least a portion of the transaction data is to be shared. The UP manager provides the transaction data to a particular transaction entity according to the universal profile preference. The UP manager receives, from the particular transaction entity, a transaction context comprising at least a portion of a transaction customized based on transaction data shared according to the universal profile preference. | 11-12-2015 |
20150324813 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING BY AN EXTERNAL ENTITY THE HUMAN HIERARCHIAL STRUCTURE OF AN RGANIZATION, USING PUBLIC SOCIAL NETWORKS - The present invention relates to a method for determining the hierarchical structure of an organization, using data from a social network, for example, Facebook. The method is partially indirect, as it includes some determinations with respect to the departmental division of the organization as well as determination of leadership personnel that are not explicitly indicated anywhere in the social network. The method of the invention is mainly based on analyzing the connections between people, or more particularly the method is based on analysis of “friends” lists of persons within Facebook (or another social network). | 11-12-2015 |
20150324814 | HARVEST CUSTOMER TRACKING INFORMATION - An embodiment of a system comprises one or more processors; and one or more memories adapted to store machine-readable instructions which when executed by the processor(s) cause the system to: receive tracked user device information from a distributed network of sensors configured for tracking user device information associated with one or more user devices of corresponding users in a proximity of the distributed network of sensors, wherein the user device information is tracked even when the corresponding users have not opted in the one or more user devices to be tracked by the distributed network of sensors; store the tracked user device information in a tracking database, wherein the tracked user device information is stored even for corresponding users that have not been identified and is for later use when such corresponding users are identified; and analyze the tracked user device information to infer interests of the corresponding users. | 11-12-2015 |
20150332284 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING SERVICE INTERVALS BASED ON TRANSACTION DATA - A system for determining service intervals of a serviceable property based on payment card transaction data. A data storage device contains payment card transaction data of a plurality customers and merchants. A processor is configured to identify purchasers of a serviceable property based on processing payment card transaction data including statistical analysis of the payment card transaction data to identify relationships between different payment card transactions representing a correlation of a given property of a purchaser with a particular service linked to the property. Characteristic traits and service frequencies are determined for purchasers of the serviceable property. A particular serviceable property is selected from the payment card transaction data, and the determined profile data is applied, along with selected data characteristics of a given service, to obtain data representative of an updated service interval for a given service associated with the serviceable property. | 11-19-2015 |
20150332285 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAKING WEATHER BASED ACTIVITY RECOMMENDATIONS - A system for correlating customer payment card purchases and contemporaneous weather conditions. The system comprises a first data storage device containing payment card transaction data and a second data storage device comprising historic weather data. A processor is provided and configured to identify correlations between payment card transactions and weather conditions contemporaneous to the transactions or otherwise associated therewith. | 11-19-2015 |
20150332286 | SYSTEM AND METHOD IDENTIFYING HOLDERS OR RE-SELLABLE COMMODITIES - A system for identifying a holder of re-sellable commodities is provided. The system includes one or more data storage devices containing payment card transaction data of a plurality of customers and a filter configured to identify payment card transactions associated with a predetermined re-sellable commodity from the payment card transaction data. The system further comprises one or more additional data storage devices containing at least one of market or industry data related to the predetermined re-sellable commodity. A processor is provided and configured to analyze the card payment transaction data and the market or industry data related to the predetermined re-sellable commodity for identifying a customer likely to be in possession of the predetermined re-sellable commodity. | 11-19-2015 |
20150332288 | INTEGRATING METADATA FROM APPLICATIONS USED FOR SOCIAL NETWORKING INTO A CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT (CRM) SYSTEM - Integrating metadata from applications used for social networking into a customer relationship management (CRM) system includes obtaining, from applications used for social networking, metadata associated with users of the applications, analyzing the metadata from the applications to infer opportunities, relationships for mapping clients, structures, and subject matter experts, and integrating the opportunities, the relationships for mapping the clients, the structures, and the subject matter experts into a CRM system to populate the CRM system. | 11-19-2015 |
20150332289 | INTEGRATING METADATA FROM APPLICATIONS USED FOR SOCIAL NETWORKING INTO A CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT (CRM) SYSTEM - Integrating metadata from applications used for social networking into a customer relationship management (CRM) system includes obtaining, from applications used for social networking, metadata associated with users of the applications, analyzing the metadata from the applications to infer opportunities, relationships for mapping clients, structures, and subject matter experts, and integrating the opportunities, the relationships for mapping the clients, the structures, and the subject matter experts into a CRM system to populate the CRM system. | 11-19-2015 |
20150332290 | METHOD, SYSTEM, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND PROGRAM FOR CREATING AND USING ACTIONABLE JOURNEY MAPS - The present invention describes a method, a system, a computer program product and a computer program for creating and using a journey map and for associating user interactions with a system such as a computer system to steps of the journey map. Embodiments of the invention relate to user interactions with an organisation across a range of different communication channels and associating these interactions with steps of a journey map. | 11-19-2015 |
20150332291 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING CUSTOMERS USING PAYMENTS DATA - Systems and methods may identify customers based on payment and point-of-sale (POS) data collected from a merchant POS system. In one aspect, the systems and methods receive the POS data at a secure server. Customer identities may be determined based on a randomly-generated token associated with a payment identifier. Customer payment data and third-party reservation data may be matched with the POS data and the customer identities at the secure server based on ticket information to generate consumer metrics. In some embodiments, the systems and methods generate the consumer metrics for display on a client electronic device for a merchant/retailer. | 11-19-2015 |
20150339677 | CUSTOMER INSIGHT HUB FOR MULTI-CHANNEL CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT SOLUTIONS - Embodiments provide systems and methods for providing customer insights across multiple channels based on cross-channel interactions with the customer. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention are directed to a customer insight hub that leverages data sources across a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) product suite of a plurality of different CRM applications to generate rich customer insights that can be easily leveraged across customer channels including but not limited to web, telephony, chat, emails, social, etc. These insights can be used by different processes and/or provided on an agent desktop to facilitate the delivery of a personalized, efficient, and consistent end customer experience across customer touch points or channels. Embodiments include defining and generating commonly used customer insights, including but not limited to customer identity, customer intent, customer priority, and customer preferences, as well as custom insights. | 11-26-2015 |
20150339678 | CORRESPONDENT BANKING NETWORK ANALYSIS FOR PRODUCT OFFERING - A system, method and program product are provided for evaluating clients in a correspondent banking (CB) network with regard to CB product offerings. The disclosed system includes: a network modeling system that creates a model of a CB network, wherein the model is defined by a set of banks and a set of clients based on existing relationships among and between the banks and clients, and wherein the model is further defined with inputted risk data, expected return data, demand data, and cost data; and an evaluation engine that utilizes the model to generate a clientele evaluation for an inputted CB product offering within the CB network, wherein the evaluation engine determines a potential economic benefit of each client with regard to the inputted CB product offering. | 11-26-2015 |
20150339679 | CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION MONITORING - Context information in a computer system is collected. Dependent context data maintains a reference to parent context data so that system context can be reconstructed and analyzed. | 11-26-2015 |
20150339680 | ANALYSIS DEVICE, ANALYSIS PROGRAM, ANALYSIS METHOD, ESTIMATION DEVICE, ESTIMATION PROGRAM, AND ESTIMATION METHOD - An analysis device including a substitution unit for substituting each event in an impulse-like event series with rectangular windows; a dividing unit for dividing the event series timewise at least at one transition point in the rectangular windows; a state vector generation unit for generating a state vector corresponding to the state of the rectangular windows in response to each of the divided time periods; and an analysis unit for performing Poisson regression using the state vectors corresponding to the time periods. A method comprising computer-executable steps is provided that substitutes each event in the inputted event series with rectangular windows; divides the event series timewise at least at one transition point in the rectangular pulses; generates a state vector corresponding to the state of the rectangular pulses in response to each of the divided time periods; and performs a Poisson regression using the state vectors corresponding to the time periods. | 11-26-2015 |
20150339681 | Enterprise Evaluation Using Structured Data - A solution for evaluating an enterprise is provided. The solution can include constructing an enterprise governance library from a set of enterprise governance documents. Each enterprise governance document can include natural language text defining at least a portion of the enterprise. The enterprise governance library can be constructed by parsing the natural language text to identify a set of references relating to the enterprise and creating structured data based on the set of references. Each reference can identify a key object relating to the enterprise, such as an organization of the enterprise, an agent of the enterprise, a product of the enterprise, or a product used by the enterprise. The structured data for each key object can include attributes of the key object, data associating the key object with the enterprise governance document, and data for enabling access to data corresponding to the reference. | 11-26-2015 |
20150339682 | ADAPTIVE GATHERING OF STRUCTURED AND UNSTRUCTURED DATA SYSTEM AND METHOD - Content is obtained from a webpage accessed via a URI, which URI is obtained from a URI queue. The content is parsed for price and product information according to a parse map, with the resulting parse result being stored. The priority of URIs in the URI queue is adjusted based on analysis of the parse result for changes in price and product attributes and according to other criteria. The parse map may be one associated with the URI or a general purpose parse maps. The parse result may be validated by human- and machine-based systems, including by graphically labeling price and product information in the content for human confirmation or correction. | 11-26-2015 |
20150341230 | ADVANCED DISCOVERY OF CLOUD RESOURCES - A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium has tangibly embodied thereon and accessible therefrom instructions interpretable by at least one data processing device. The instructions are configured for causing the at least one data processing device to perform a method comprising creating a resource group for providing cloud services, receiving a request to increase a quantity of the virtual machines of the resource group; and instantiating one or more additional virtual machines within the resource group in response to receiving the request. The resource group includes one or more virtual machines that all have virtual machine specifications of a particular configuration. Instantiating the one or more additional virtual machines includes providing each one of the one or more additional virtual machines with virtual machine specifications of the particular configuration. | 11-26-2015 |
20150347624 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LINKING AND ANALYZING DATA FROM DISPARATE DATA SETS - Systems and methods for linking or matching data of disparate datasets and then performing business related data analysis. Consumer-related data of two or more disparate datasets are linked in a privacy-friendly manner, and then analyzed to provide business information and/or consumer information to clients. The linking and analysis is performed in a manner to protect personally identifiable information (PII) of the consumers. In an embodiment, a processor receives a plurality of disparate anonymized datasets originating from a plurality of different data sources, formats the de-identified data to provide a plurality of formatted anonymized datasets, and links the data entries of the de-identified individuals by matching at least date data, time data, and location data. The processor then analyzes the activity data of the linked data entries, and generates a report based on the analysis. | 12-03-2015 |
20150348057 | Determination of a Customer Store Segment Sales Model - A method comprising identifying a set of stores, the set of stores comprising information indicative of a plurality of stores, and each store of the set of stores comprising a set of store attributes, identifying a first set of customer attributes, segmenting the set of stores into a first set of customer store segments, identifying a first set of product attributes, generating a first set of product attribute sales summaries that comprises a product attribute sales summary for each customer store segment of the first set of customer store segments, determining a first distinctiveness rating for the product attribute sales summary for each customer store segment of the first set of customer store segments, and determining a customer store segment sales model based, at least in part, on the first set of customer store segments, the first set of product attribute sales summaries, and the first distinctiveness rating is disclosed. | 12-03-2015 |
20150348059 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE SHOPPING PHASE OF A SHOPPER - The present disclosure relates to methods of systems for analyzing online shopping behavior. Embodiments of the disclosure may receive an event indicating shopping activities of a shopper from a shopping channel and determine an action type associated with the event. A rule engine may classify the event into one of a plurality of shopping phases based on at least one of: classification rules, the action type, or a history of past events. Some embodiments may also calculate a raw score for the shopping phase base on at least one of: an existing number of events in that shopping phase or an event weight associated with the event. In addition, some embodiments may calculate a weighted score based on the raw score and a weighting factor associated with the shopping phase into which the event is classified and determine a target shopping phase based on the weighted score. | 12-03-2015 |
20150348060 | CONTROL METHOD FOR DISPLAYING MERCHANDISING INFORMATION ON INFORMATION TERMINAL - An MD management device manages action statistics associated with each of a plurality of shelving units. Action statistics for one shelving unit indicate actions that store visitors make near the shelving unit. An information terminal device acquires, from the MD management device merchandising information for each shelving unit. Merchandising information for one shelving unit includes a value of statistics for the shelving unit. The information terminal device displays a store screen including one or more shelving unit icons each representing one of one or more shelving units located in a store. Further, the information terminal device displays a graphic item in the vicinity of each shelving unit icon. The graphic item is displayed in a display state that is in accordance with the value of statistics for the corresponding shelving unit. | 12-03-2015 |
20150348061 | CRM ACCOUNT TO COMPANY MAPPING - In an example embodiment, a similarity matching process is performed on one or more fields in account records obtained from a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system and corresponding one or more fields in information obtained from a social network service to locate matches between one or more accounts in the account records for a first user and one or more company/organizations in the information obtained from the social network. Then a mapping is stored in a data store for each of the matches. The mappings are used to provide insights to the first user. | 12-03-2015 |
20150348062 | CRM CONTACT TO SOCIAL NETWORK PROFILE MAPPING - In an example embodiment, contact information pertaining to a contact related to a first user in a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system is obtained. Then a similarity matching process on one or more fields in the contact information and corresponding one or more fields in information obtained from a social network service to locate a match between the contact and a social network profile in the social network service. The mapping for the match is stored in a data store. The mappings are used provide insights to the first user. | 12-03-2015 |
20150348063 | BRAND CUSTOMIZED BOOK SERIES PUBLICATION - A method and system for creating collateral items is provided where a series of publications bearing the branding of a third party are made. The series of publications bear the color schemes, patterns or other identifying characteristics of a third party brand. A series of electronic publications bearing the branding of a third party are also provided where the series of publications bear the color schemes, patterns or other identifying characteristics of a third party brand. | 12-03-2015 |
20150348216 | INFLUENCER ANALYZER PLATFORM FOR SOCIAL AND TRADITIONAL MEDIA DOCUMENT AUTHORS - According to some embodiments, an influencer analyzer platform may access a document database storing documents associated with various social and traditional media sources, each document being associated with an author. A first influencer score may be calculated for a selected author based on a first algorithm and the documents in the document database. Similarly, a second influencer score may be calculated for the selected author based on a second algorithm, different than the first algorithm, and the documents in the document database. An overall influencer score may then be calculated based on the first influencer score adjusted by a first weighing value and the second influencer score adjusted by a second weighing value. | 12-03-2015 |
20150356570 | PREDICTING INTERACTIONS OF SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM USERS WITH APPLICATIONS - A social networking system provides instructions to third-party application developers for inclusion in applications. When executed, the instructions communicate information from an application to the social networking system describing user interactions with the application. Based on received information describing a user's interaction with an application, the social networking system determines likelihoods of the user performing various types interactions with applications and classifies the user based on the determined likelihoods. A user's interactions with additional applications similar to an application may be used to determine the likelihoods of the user performing different types of interactions with the application. Classifications associated with users may be used as targeting criteria for advertisements, allowing advertisers to target advertisements to users having a threshold likelihood of performing certain types of interactions with an application. | 12-10-2015 |
20150356571 | Trending Topics Tracking - In techniques for trending topics tracking, input text data is received as communications from a user or between users, where the communications are from one user to other users, or between two or more of the users. A topics tracking application is implemented to determine topics from the communications that are from or between the users, and track how the topics are trending over a time duration. The topics can include expressed sentiments and/or expressed emotions. An input selection of at least one of the topics can be received, and the topics tracking application generates a visual dashboard that displays a trending representation of the at least one topic that is trending over the time duration. The visual dashboard can also display data sources of the communications between the two or more users and/or an overview of one or more of the topics determined from a selected data source. | 12-10-2015 |
20150356574 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING DESCRIPTIVE MEASURES THAT ASSESSES THE FINANCIAL HEALTH OF A BUSINESS - A system and a method for generating indicators of the financial health of a business provides data in a number of cases, including a situation where financial statement are publically available, and those where they are not publically available. Data records are analyzed in accordance with a first set of steps if publically available financial statements of the business are available; and in accordance with a second set of steps if publically available financial statements of the business are not available. When financial statements are not publically available, certain proxies provide data concerning a business. A computer readable non-transitory storage medium stores instructions of a computer program, which when executed by a computer system, results in performance of steps of the method. A method for developing a scorecard for data indicative of the financial health of a business is also disclosed. | 12-10-2015 |
20150363792 | Product Purchase Study Combining Active and Passive Purchase Data Sources - A method, implemented by a processor, for combining multiple data sources in a product purchase study includes acquiring, by a processor, first product purchase data for a product from a first data source, the first product purchase data uniquely identifying the product; sending, by the processor, the first product purchase data to a remote server; receiving, by the processor, a signal from the remote server based on the first product purchase data, the signal comprising a request for additional product purchase data; acquiring by the processor in response to the request, second product purchase data from a second source independent of the first source to the remote server; and sending the second product purchase data to the remote server. | 12-17-2015 |
20150363793 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COLLECTING AND USING RETAIL ITEM INSPECTION DATA - Systems and methods for collecting and using retail item inspection data are provided. Consumer inspection data for a retail item (e.g., a product or service) are collected at an offline location and received at a computing system. The consumer inspection data indicate a number of consumer inspections of the retail item at the offline location. The computing system uses the consumer inspection data to generate an inspection-related metric for the retail item. The inspection-related metric is a function of the number of consumer inspections of the retail item at the offline location. The inspection-related metric can be exposed to content a content provider of online content (e.g., to help determine an offline impact of online content) and/or a retailer or merchant at the offline location (e.g., to help in pricing the retail item or to diagnose issues in poor sales performance). | 12-17-2015 |
20150363794 | CONTENT PLACEMENT RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON PATH ANALYSIS - Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media that may be used to generate content placement recommendations are provided. One method includes determining conversion path data and determining, for each of a plurality of domains: (1) a first metric based on a first set of the conversion paths for which interactions related to the domain are earlier in the conversion paths than one or more last interactions prior to the conversion actions; (2) a second metric based on a second set of the conversion paths for which interactions related to the domain are one of the one or more last interactions prior to the conversion actions; and (3) an analysis metric based on the first metric and the second metric. The method further includes generating one or more recommendations for obtaining content placements in one or more of the domains based on the analysis metrics for the domains. | 12-17-2015 |
20150363795 | System and Method for gathering, identifying and analyzing learning patterns - The present invention describes a community based computerized method and system which automatically gathers, acquires and collects students' usage data in a dynamic knowledge base as they perform their routine learning assignments from any educational source (e.g. printed textbooks, e-textbook etc.), for the purpose of assessing their achievements, competencies, areas of interest, preferences and requirements, and then providing automatically generated students-related information and services which are based on this knowledge, such as custom study guides, preparation plans for exams and academic skills assessment reports. The system also provides insights, trends and behavioral patterns within students' groups, which are identified and deduced from actual activities of users, such as learning habits, areas of interest, and demand for new and existing educational learning sources. | 12-17-2015 |
20150363796 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FILTERING SOCIAL MEDIA MESSAGES FOR PRESENTATION ON DIGITAL SIGNAGE SYSTEMS - A method for retrieving filtering social media messages from a local retailer's social media accounts. The filtering of social media messages retains localized content for the particular retail location and provides the social media content in a format suitable for display on the retail store's digital signage display devices. | 12-17-2015 |
20150363797 | Vehicle Test System - A method of using private vehicles for testing is provided, where the method includes the steps of (i) transmitting a request to users of the vehicle/technology to be tested, (ii) transmitting test protocols and/or software updates to users that accept the request to participate in the test, (iii) monitoring a set of vehicle performance characteristics during the test, (iv) transmitting a data log generated during the test for each participating user/vehicle, and (v) issuing participation rewards, such as a coupon for goods and services offered by the vehicle's manufacturer, to test participants. | 12-17-2015 |
20150363798 | METHOD, COMPUTER SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR ESTIMATING PURCHASE BEHAVIOR OF CUSTOMER IN STORE OR ACROSS STORES - A technique that can estimate purchase behavior of a customer in a store is provided. The technique includes acquiring article information on at least one article that a target customer purchases in the store, and layout information on each store and shelving allocation information on each store. The technique includes reading at least one of previous path information on actual travel of one or more customers in the store, and previous path information on actual travel of the target customer in the store or across the stores. The technique includes estimating a traffic line of the target customer in the store or across the stores, according to a tendency acquired from the path information read, based on each piece of the information acquired. | 12-17-2015 |
20150363799 | Updating a Social Graph Based on Recency of Sharing Activity of Users of the Open Web - A social graph is built which includes interactions, sharing activity, and connections between the users of the open Web and can be used to improve ad targeting and content personalization. Sharing activity between two users will affect ads or content that both users will be presented while surfing the Web. This sharing activity includes sending of links, sending of videos, sending of files, cutting and pasting of content, sending text messages, and sending of e-mails. A technique can include a sender sending a first link to at least one recipient. When a first node representative of the sender in a social graph is not identified and after receiving the activity information, creating a second node to represent the sender in the social graph. The social graph can be updated based on a recency of the sharing activity. | 12-17-2015 |
20150371239 | PATH ANALYSIS OF NEGATIVE INTERACTIONS - Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media that may be used to evaluate impact of negative interactions on revenue are provided. One method includes receiving path data representing a plurality of paths and identifying one or more negative interactions within one or more of the paths ending in an interaction other than a conversion. Each negative interaction includes one of one or more types of interactions that decrease a likelihood of a path resulting in a conversion. The method further includes, for each of the one or more negative interactions, determining an estimated probability that the one or more paths including the negative interaction would have resulted in a conversion if the one or more paths excluded the negative interaction. The method further includes estimating an amount of lost revenue associated with one or more of the negative interactions based on the estimated probability. | 12-24-2015 |
20150371241 | USER IDENTIFICATION THROUGH SUBSPACE CLUSTERING - A method to detect a number of individual users included in a composite set of movie ratings having ratings from a plurality of individual users includes accessing the composite set of movie ratings and movie profiles and loading the composite set and movie profiles into a rating analysis engine. Processing the composite set along with the movie profiles determines a number of partitions present in the composite set, wherein the number of partitions is determined iteratively using subspace clustering of ratings from the composite set. The determined number of partitions is output and corresponds to the number of individual users included in the composite set of movie ratings. | 12-24-2015 |
20150379525 | DEVELOPING A CUSTOMER BASE THROUGH SOCIAL NETWORKS AND OTHER SOURCES - Methods and arrangements for identifying a potential customer base of a concern. A contemplated method includes: identifying a prospective customer of a concern, via a social media network; identifying connections of the prospective customer within the social media network; determining a subset of the connections, wherein members of the subset comprise members of the concern; determining connections of the members of the subset; determining whether the connections of the members of the subset comprise the prospective customer; and if the connections of the members of the subset comprise the prospective customer, determining contact information of the prospective customer. Other variants and embodiments are broadly contemplated herein. | 12-31-2015 |
20150379527 | DERIVATIVE NETWORK PROFILE FOR CUSTOMER INTERACTIONS - Derivative network profile is provided for determining a more complete picture of a customer on a social media website or websites for improved customer interactions. A customer may have a social media presence with any number of connections to other individuals, businesses, etc. As provided herein, the relevancy of those connections is determined within the context of a “seed” or business purpose. As a benefit, a customer who may share a substantial amount of information (e.g., funny videos, favorite sports teams, etc.) with a large pool of connections, may have a particular relationship identified (e.g., a more obscure relative who travels frequently) when a contact center is interacting with the customer with respect to the business purpose (e.g., providing travel-related services to the customer). | 12-31-2015 |
20150379528 | SOCIAL NETWORK USAGE-BASED SALES INSIGHTS - In an example embodiment, information about one or more Customer Relationship Management (CRM) entities is received from a CRM system, the information including an identification of each of the one or more CRM entities and usage information about how a user interacted with each of the one or more CRM entities. Then, at a software tool distinct from the CRM system, one or more actionable insights related to the one or more CRM entities are identified. The relevance of the one or more actionable insights to the user is then determined based on the usage information. One or more of the one or more actionable insights are then presented to the user based on the determined relevance via the software tool. | 12-31-2015 |
20150379529 | System, service and methodology of data collection, processing, analysis and effective delivery of dashboard snapshot presentations of organized customer proprietary information on an individualized secure basis to multiple customers - A System, service and methodology of data collection, processing, analysis and effective delivery of dashboard snapshot presentations of organized customer proprietary information on an individualized secure basis to multiple customers includes an interface and communications component easily accessible by each customer for securely and efficiently communicating with the System service provider to submit raw customer data and to receive the dashboard presentations, a data processing and delivery component for developing the presentations of each customer's data in individualized snapshot formats selected by the customer, and an analytical component for enabling the System host to quickly analyze the customer's processed data and to timely deliver the customer specific results as requested by the customer via a System website, or the like, easily accessible by each customer on a secured, as wanted, basis using any type of electronic communications device capable of providing graphical visualization of the dashboard presentations. | 12-31-2015 |
20150379532 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING BAD COMMODITIES BASED ON USER PURCHASE BEHAVIORS - A method and system for identifying bad commodities based on user purchase behaviors is disclosed. In one aspect, the method includes selecting, by a user screening module a set of users who only perform a single shopping behavior within a specific time period and constructing, by the user screening module, a user-commodity purchase relationship matrix based on the set of users and specifications of the commodities purchased by all the customers. The method also includes calculating, by an identifying module and based on the user-commodity purchase relationship matrix, a probability that a commodity is bad to identify bad commodities, generating, by the identifying module, a list of bad commodities based on the identified bad commodities, and providing, by a pushing module, the generated list of bad commodities to a commodity intervention system. | 12-31-2015 |
20160005013 | REAL-TIME REGIONAL MEDIA SYNDICATION AND DELIVERY SYSTEM - Described herein are systems, methods, and media for forming syndication relationships, the systems methods and media comprising a database of content, a software module configured to provide an interface for a user to browse the content, and a software module configured to provide an interface for the user to purchase a syndication right for a content item. | 01-07-2016 |
20160005052 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - This invention provides an information processing technique making it easy to determine merchandise placement in a store. | 01-07-2016 |
20160005053 | TECHNIQUES FOR AUTOMATIC REAL-TIME CALCULATION OF USER WAIT TIMES - A computer-implemented technique can process overhead images of users in a line at a venue to obtain a user wait time for the line. The processing can include (a) identifying a user of the group of users that is second in the line to obtain a target user, (b) detecting when the target user becomes first in the line to obtain a start time, (c) after the target user becomes first in the line, detecting when the target user leaves the line to obtain an end time, (d) determining a period from the start time to the end time, and (e) calculating the user wait time by calculating a product of (i) the determined period and (ii) a quantity of the group of users in the line after the target user leaves the line. The calculated user wait time can then be output. | 01-07-2016 |
20160005054 | DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A system, method, and computer program product are described that implement an analysis system that provides a quantitative basis for redirecting research projects, marketing efforts, and innovation initiatives. A computer implemented decision tool and method is described with a graphics user interface that provides a visual dashboard of fused research/innovation/market activities for observing imbalance in professional activities. The system provides graphical analysis to recommend management oversight adjustments of funding initiatives to provide a greatest return on investment. | 01-07-2016 |
20160005072 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ONLINE COMMERCE ANALYSIS - A system for analyzing spending data includes a receiving device and a processing device. The receiving device is configured to receive transaction data for a plurality of payment transactions for a plurality of consumers, wherein the transaction data for each of the plurality of payment transactions includes at least purchase data and a payment transaction type. The processing device is configured to: categorize the transaction data from the storage device based on the payment transaction type; generate a filtered list of transaction data including transaction data for payment transactions conducted online; and analyze, for each of the payment transactions included in the filtered list of transactions, spending behaviors based on the associated transaction data, wherein analyzing spending behaviors includes categorizing the plurality of consumers based on frequency of payment transactions conducted online. | 01-07-2016 |
20160012452 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING CARD HOLDER PREFERENCE | 01-14-2016 |
20160012453 | System and Method for Inferring the Intent of a User While Receiving Signals On a Mobile Communication Device From a Broadcasting Device | 01-14-2016 |
20160012454 | DATABASE SYSTEMS FOR MEASURING IMPACT ON THE INTERNET | 01-14-2016 |
20160012455 | Recommending Link Placement Opportunities | 01-14-2016 |
20160012456 | Product Qualification Engine.COPYRGT. [PQE] is a system and computer-implemented method to evaluate and score consumer product readiness, practicality, pricing and viability of the company, or individual, presenting the product, for placement considerations in a retail outlet | 01-14-2016 |
20160012457 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SALES STRATEGY OPTIMIZATION | 01-14-2016 |
20160019556 | DETERMINING AN ASPECT OF A PHYSICAL LOCATION BASED ON INTERACTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH THE PHYSICAL LOCATION - Methods and apparatus for determining aspects of locations based on interactions of users with the locations. In some implementations, an aspect of a location may be determined based on comparing a first interaction measure for the location to a second measure. The first interaction measure may be determined based on a first group of interactions that are associated with the location. In some implementations, the second measure may be determined based on a second group of interactions that include additional interactions that are in addition to the interactions of the first group. | 01-21-2016 |
20160019557 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING MACHINE-TO-MACHINE AND CONSUMER-TO-MACHINE INTERACTION APPLICATION PLATFORMS - Systems, methods, and computer readable media for facilitating machine-to-machine communication and consumer-to-machine communications are disclosed. Systems include a distributed interstitial platform configured to provide one or more application programming interfaces for the creation of first and second “inverse facing” applications. The platform may allow for receiving of instructions, such as from an end user, at the first application. The platform may allow for the instructions to be processed by a machine integrated with the second application. These instructions may thus be used to operate the machine or device. The distributed interstitial platform may then track the use of first and second created applications for revenue generation. | 01-21-2016 |
20160019558 | INTELLIGENT ASSET PLATFORM - An method of displaying information parameters of an intelligent asset by defining an intelligent asset, gathering information from multiple, channel specific external databases about the intelligent asset, grouping the information according to user-defined information channels, an chronologically displaying the grouped information in a visual timeline over a pre-determined timeframe. | 01-21-2016 |
20160019559 | TASTE PROFILE AND BEVERAGE DISTRIBUTION METHOD - Disclosed is a method that includes providing at least one sample of a beverage or beverage source ingredient in a package to a subscriber, where an identity of the beverage or beverage source ingredient is not provided but an identifying characteristic is provided that does not provide the subscriber with the identity. The method includes providing a computer application, wherein the application performs the steps of receiving the identifying characteristic, prompting the user to enter information about the user's experience tasting the beverage or a resulting beverage that derives from the beverage or beverage source ingredient, receiving information from the user about the user's experience tasting the beverage or the resulting beverage, and comparing the information about the user's experience tasting the beverage or the resulting beverage with the data pertaining to an expert's experience tasting the beverage or the resulting beverage. | 01-21-2016 |
20160019561 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR MONITORING COMPANIES - Method and arrangement for matching of enterprises and detection of changes for an enterprise by the use of mathematical models that make it possible to match and find similarities between enterprises and also discover changes in an enterprise. The method uses mathematical representation models for enterprises and is suited to make a large number of comparisons automatically. The characteristics of the enterprises are represented by different vectors. The direction and length of the vectors are compared by taking the scalar product between them. Changes for the characteristics of an enterprise appear as changes in the direction and length of the vectors. By continuously monitoring the derivative of the characteristics of the enterprises this show how large and how quickly a change has occurred. The market for the invention is local and global enterprises that wish to find new customers, partners, distributors or other business contacts and also discover changes for in their customers, partners or other business contacts so that they can get an early warning of larger changes that will have consequences for the relationship. | 01-21-2016 |
20160019600 | VISUAL TAG EDITOR - According to various embodiments, techniques and mechanisms described herein facilitate the editing of computer programming tags associated with a website. A user interface displaying a representation of a website may be presented on a display screen. The representation may include a plurality of webpage identifiers that each identifies a respective webpage associated with the website. The representation may also include a plurality of active tag indicators that are each associated with a respective one of the webpages. Each active tag indicator may identify a respective portion of computer programming code included in the respective webpage with which the active tag indicator is associated. User input indicating an editing action to be performed with respect to one or more of the computer programming code portions may be received, and a message identifying the editing action may be transmitted via a communications interface. | 01-21-2016 |
20160027024 | GATHERING AND PROVIDING CONSUMER INTELLIGENCE - A method for gathering and providing consumer intelligence includes the steps of receiving and storing data in a first database relating to a transaction between a consumer and a business enterprise, receiving and storing cognitive data in the first database, wherein at least some of the cognitive data relates to the consumer's emotions during a transaction between the consumer and the business enterprise, receiving and storing data in the first database relating to a transaction between two or more business enterprises, and providing data from the first database to a business enterprise in response to a request for data sent by the business enterprise. | 01-28-2016 |
20160027025 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF COUNTING UNIQUE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN USERS OF A SOFTWARE APPLICATION - Systems and methods are provided for counting unique user interactions within an application. Records of interactions between two or more users are obtained, and hash values that represent the users are calculated based on the records. In some embodiments, a conditional put of the hash value is performed in a database to determine whether a matching hash value has already been recorded. Once it is determined whether a given interaction is a duplicate or a unique interaction, counts of unique interactions or duplicate interactions for the users may be incremented. | 01-28-2016 |
20160034904 | DETERMINING A POLICY CHANGE FOR AN OUTCOME RELATED TO AN OPPORTUNITY - Determining a policy change for an outcome related to an opportunity includes monitoring factors and outcomes associated with opportunities stored in a customer relationship management (CRM) system, extracting the factors and the outcomes associated with the opportunities stored in the CRM system into a queryable database, analyzing, via a queryable database, the factors and the outcomes associated with the opportunities to identify patterns related to the outcomes of the opportunities, and determining, based on the patterns related to the outcomes of the opportunities, a policy change to improve the outcomes related to the opportunities. | 02-04-2016 |
20160034915 | DOCUMENT PERFORMANCE INDICATORS BASED ON REFERRAL CONTEXT - A computer-implemented method for providing performance indicators of destination documents includes identifying a referral document to a destination document, where the referral document comprising a source of at least one visitor to the destination document. The method also includes extracting referral keywords from content of the referral document, the referral keywords corresponding to a referral context of the referral document. The method further includes determining a degree of correlation between the referral document and the destination document based on a comparison between the referral keywords and destination keywords, the destination keywords corresponding to destination context of the destination document. Additionally, the method includes providing one or more performance indicators to a user based on the correlation between the referral document and the destination document, where the one or more performance indicators correspond to a performance metric that quantifies interactions between visitors and the destination document. | 02-04-2016 |
20160034916 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING PAYMENT CARD HOLDER INTERESTS AND HOBBIES - A method and a system are provided for identifying payment card holder hobbies or interests. The method includes retrieving from one or more databases a first set of information comprising payment card transaction information, payment card holder information and merchant information. The method further includes analyzing the first set of information to construct one or more groupings of merchants based on merchant line of business or merchant association with a hobby or interest; analyzing the first set of information to identify one or more payment card holder purchase behaviors; and associating the one or more payment card holder purchase behaviors with the one or more groupings of merchants to identify one or more payment card holder hobbies or interests. The method and system provide advantages in fraud prevention, and can also be used by merchants or businesses to better target customers or enhance existing customer relationships. | 02-04-2016 |
20160034917 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING ENHANCED MERCHANT IDENTIFICATION - A computer implemented method for creating merchant profiles based on check transactions is provided. The method uses a computing device having a processor communicatively coupled to a memory. The method includes receiving a plurality of payment transactions including payment by a check where each payment transaction includes plurality of fields from the associated check that include at least a payee field, an address field, and a memo field, generating a list of unique merchants based in part on the payee fields of the plurality of payment transactions, generating two or more merchant profiles, and determining one or more connections between two or more merchant profiles in the plurality of merchant profiles. Each connection represents a relationship or association between two or more merchant profiles. The method also includes storing the one or more connections and the two or more merchant profiles. | 02-04-2016 |
20160034919 | COLLECTION AND AGGREGATION OF LARGE VOLUME OF METRICS - A system processes a large volume of real time hierarchical system metrics using distributed computing by stateless processes. The metrics processing system receives different types of hierarchical metrics coming from different sources and then aggregates the metrics by their hierarchy. The system is on-demand, cloud based, multitenant and highly available. The system makes the aggregated metrics available for reporting and policy triggers in real time. The metrics aggregation and roll up method involves two different classes of stateless java programs that work in tandem to receive, aggregate and roll up the incoming metrics. The method also involves a persistence store to save incoming and aggregated metrics. The method uses a quorum to communicate between these processes. | 02-04-2016 |
20160034920 | Modifying A Number Of Opportunities In A Customer Relationship Management (CRM) System - Modifying a number of opportunities in a customer relationship management (CRM) system includes obtaining, from a CRM system, a number of opportunities, the opportunities representing a complex record structure in the CRM system, in which each of the opportunities captures a number of fields of metadata, comparing the metadata associated with the opportunities with a number of archived opportunity templates to create a comparison, analyzing the comparison to identify a number of patterns for the opportunities, and modifying, based on the number of patterns for the opportunities, the opportunities to create at least one new opportunity. | 02-04-2016 |
20160034921 | REASSIGNING A BUSINESS HIERARCHY OF ROLES ASSOCIATED WITH AN OPPORTUNITY IN A SOCIAL CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT (CRM) SYSTEM - Reassigning a business hierarchy of roles associated with an opportunity in a social customer relationship management (CRM) system includes receiving modifications, the modifications representing an adjustment to a business hierarchy of roles, identifying, in a social CRM system, an opportunity associated with the business hierarchy of roles, and reassigning, based on the modifications, the opportunity associated with the business hierarchy of roles, in which reassigning, based on the modifications, the business hierarchy of roles associated with the opportunity includes adding or deleting a member or a department from the business hierarchy of roles. | 02-04-2016 |
20160034922 | Determining Brand Exclusiveness Of Users - Embodiments of the present invention relate to a determination of a user's exclusiveness toward a particular brand. User-specific entities are extracted from social media content associated with a user. At least a portion of the user-specific entities are brand-related entities that are specifically relevant to a particular brand. These brand-related entities are analyzed with respect to the user-specific entities extracted from the social media content to determine a level of exclusivity of the user to the brand. | 02-04-2016 |
20160034923 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTI-CHANNEL DATA AGGREGATION - Systems and methods for multi-channel data aggregation that can facilitate consumer engagement are provided to enable customer-centric solutions by collecting data across the lifecycle of consumers, studying usage patterns and protection needs and facilitating meaningful collaborations between peers and experts. Gamification techniques are employed to aggregate voluminous data captured from multiple channels that can be analyzed for usage patterns to provide an insight into consumers' psyche and enable tailor-made solutions for promoting consumer stickiness. | 02-04-2016 |
20160034924 | ESTIMATING DISTRIBUTION OF PERSONS IN A PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT - Tracking systems and methods of estimating a distribution of persons in a physical environment are provided. A tracking system may comprise a wireless receiver configured to detect instances of a wireless signal from each mobile device passing through an entryway in and out of the environment and a computing device configured to identify an identifier transmitted in each instance and compute a trip time for each mobile device and an aggregate trip time spent by all mobile devices during an analysis period. The computing device may read a probability map that indicates a probability that one of the mobile devices is located in each predetermined location and oriented in a predetermined direction. The computing device may assign each time unit a predetermined location and orientation based on the probability map, and for a selected target location, compute and display an aggregate time and a probability distribution of shopper orientation. | 02-04-2016 |
20160034966 | DRIVING BEHAVIORS, OPINIONS, AND PERSPECTIVES BASED ON CONSUMER DATA - A method includes receiving an input identifying a target audience segment (e.g., reflecting a behavior, perspective, or opinion an advertiser would like to influence/increase). The method further includes identifying a first attribute measured by a measurement system, where the first attribute is determined to correlate to users tracked by the measurement system and that belong to the target audience segment, which reflects the behavior that the advertiser wants to influence/increase. The method further includes identifying a second attribute that corresponds to the first attribute, where a messaging action directed to the first attribute, the second attribute, or a combination thereof is available at one or more digital networks. The digital networks may require payment for message delivery or may allow such messaging for free. The method further includes initiating the messaging action aimed at driving behavior directed to the first attribute, the second attribute, or a combination thereof. | 02-04-2016 |
20160035046 | INFLUENCER SCORE - A method and system are shown for identifying the most influential members of a social network. The social networking system receives a request to rank a plurality of members of a social networking system based on the influence held by each of the plurality of members. For a respective member in the plurality of members of the social networking system, the social networking system analyzes member interactions of the respective member on the social networking system and generates an influencer score for the respective member based on the analysis of member interactions through the social networking system. The social networking system orders two or more members in the plurality of members of the social networking system based on the influencer scores associated with the two or more members. | 02-04-2016 |
20160042362 | RECORDING PURCHASE BEHAVIOR USING DEVICE WITH MULTIPLE FEEDBACK AND INPUT MODALITIES - A method for recording product purchase behavior includes receiving, at a processor, primary product data read by a local media device from a data element associated with a product to be purchased; comparing, by the processor, the primary product data to stored product data to identify the product to be purchased; sending, by the processor, a feedback signal to the local media device; in response to the feedback signal, receiving, by the processor, secondary product data from the local media device; and storing the primary product data with the secondary product data. | 02-11-2016 |
20160042363 | PUBLIC DATA TO PROFESSIONAL CLIENT MATCHING - The present invention relates to a web service/site wherein the site searches the public database for individuals involved in events that would require the services of a professional, such as a lawyer. The site matches individuals in the public database with the professional's clients so that the professional can offer help to the individuals before the individual reaches out to find a professional. | 02-11-2016 |
20160042364 | DETERMINING A USER'S EVENT EXPERIENCE THROUGH USER ACTIONS - There is provided systems and method for determining a user's event experience through user actions. A user may attend an event at a venue and take various actions with respect to the event. For example, the user may dance and cheer at the event, which may be captured by a biometric reading device on a user device that the user has in their possession. Additionally, the user may share media and generate social networking interactions while at, or after the event. The user may also make purchases at the event or after the event, such as purchasing media content corresponding to the event. Based on the actions taken by the user, an enjoyment level may be determined, which may be used to further determine a quality or how overall enjoyable was the event. Thus, users may be provided with sales of products or future events matching their interests. | 02-11-2016 |
20160042366 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING COMPETITIVE PERFORMANCE OF BRANDS - Described herein are systems and methods for monitoring competitive performance of brands. In one embodiment, a method includes aggregating data from a plurality of content sources, the aggregated data being descriptive of a plurality of content items. The aggregated data is filtered based at least partially on a brand identifier to identify a subset of the plurality of content items within the aggregated data. For each content item of the subset, an associated ontological record is generated, each ontological record including an identifier of its associated content item, an identifier of an associated content source of the plurality of content sources from which the content item is sourced, and a descriptor of a relationship between the associated content item and one or more content items of the subset. | 02-11-2016 |
20160042367 | Networked Location Targeted Communication and Analytics - In certain examples, systems and methods here may use a combination of GPS location data provided by a user's device and the use of low-energy beacons in a shopping location which interact in real time with a user's device to enable the targeted interactions. User flow through a retail shopping location is collected and then mapped to provide interaction data used to present targeted unique interactions and experiences for each user. | 02-11-2016 |
20160042416 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COLLECTING COMMODITY CONSUMPTION DATA AND A METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING AN OFFER - A method for generating an offer, the method comprising the steps of: receiving commodity consumption data for at least one commodity on a computing device; generating the received commodity consumption data into an individual consumption profile; receiving bids over a networked computer environment from suppliers for the individual consumption profile. | 02-11-2016 |
20160048847 | Information Marketplace - A method for enabling a user to sell or grant information filtered to align with the user's life state. This information may include at least demographic information, health information, ethnic information, social information and psychological information. The system may grant customers permission to purchase or obtain the information about the user's life. Customers are also members of the information marketplace system and may respond to user offers, or customers may offer to purchase or obtain user information. Offers are evaluated using a set of criteria before they are accepted by a user or customer; and may use the transacted information about the user's life. The method also enables the customer to rate the user according to the user's behavior, and to enable search engines, web sites, systems, databases, resources, and personnel to filter search results according to the information about the user's life. The information transaction may also allow the purchased or obtained information to be periodically or dynamically updated or renewed over time. A user's information may be transacted using a variety of transaction methods, including traditional payment options, point systems, or other means according to user and customer preferences. | 02-18-2016 |
20160048849 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CLUSTERING AND CLASSIFYING ONLINE VISUAL INFORMATION - A scalable system to provide a means for a brand manager, marketer, consultant, or researcher to identify, monitor, measure, and rank the propagation of a brand's digital imagery across the web, including the social web, the sys tem configured to implement a novel process in which digital image files obtained from social networks that are perceptually similar (i.e., appear identical to the human visual system), but whose digital representation differs, are identified, data associated with the images files is clustered into groups, each group representing a common single piece of content that originated from the user, and enabling a user to access and organize the clusters of brand image data to measure and track the engagement of users on the social network with that brand image content, thereby providing measurable statistics for the user. | 02-18-2016 |
20160048850 | COLLECTING, AGGREGATING, ANALYZING AND REPORTING TRACTION DATA ON INTERNET-CONNECTED APPLICATIONS - Described is a way to improve efficiency in relaying software application traction data from developers to interested parties. Traction data is collected from a plurality of software applications through analytics modules. The traction data is forwarded in real-time to a network server which in turn aggregates and publishes the data in an indexed live feed. Within the live feed are controls for both subscribers and applications owners. Subscribers are enabled to configure threshold alerts concerning predetermined traction criterion. Application owners are enabled to determine which subscribers have access to traction data concerning their software application. | 02-18-2016 |
20160048851 | APPLYING RELATIVE WEIGHTING SCHEMAS TO ONLINE USAGE DATA - Systems, methods and articles of manufacture allow adjusting the relative weighting associated with evaluation criteria associated with a unified view of dissimilar data. The operation generally includes collecting data regarding attributes of a user interacting with an application, where the collected data has associated evaluation criteria. The data is collectively represented according to the evaluation criteria. The systems, methods and articles of manufacture then allow dynamically modifying the evaluation criteria before evaluating and collectively representing the data according to the adjusted criteria. | 02-18-2016 |
20160055491 | OBJECT OPINION REGISTERING DEVICE FOR GUIDING A PERSON IN A DECISION MAKING SITUATION - The present invention relates to an object opinion registering device ( | 02-25-2016 |
20160055492 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRACKING CUSTOMERS IN PREDETERMINED LOCATIONS - A system for tracking patrons within a predetermined space is provided. The system includes a controller and at least one wifi router selectively positioned around the predetermined space. Each router can communicate with patron-held wifi devices within its range of coverage. The controller can then determine the route taken by each wifi device-carrying patron throughout the predetermined space based on the identity of each router that communicated with the associated wifi device and the times of those communications. | 02-25-2016 |
20160055493 | System and Method for a Service Sentiment Indictor - The systems and methods may be used to recommend an item to a consumer. The methods may comprise determining, based on a collaborative filtering algorithm, a consumer relevance value associated with an item, and transmitting, based on the consumer relevance value, information associated with the item to a consumer. A collaborative filtering algorithm may receive as an input a transaction history associated with the consumer, a demographic of the consumer, a consumer profile, a type of transaction account, a transaction account associated with the consumer, a period of time that the consumer has held a transaction account, a size of wallet, and/or a share of wallet. The method may further comprise generating a ranked list of items based upon consumer relevance values, transmitting a ranked list of items to a consumer, and/or re-ranking a ranked list of items based upon a merchant goal. | 02-25-2016 |
20160055566 | PRODUCT DISPLAY RACK SYSTEM, PRODUCT DISPLAY RACK METHOD, AND PRODUCT DISPLAY RACK PROGRAM - To guide other products related to a product which is taken out in hand by a customer. The present product display rack system carries out a first step for detecting an RFID number of a product taken by a customer from desired display racks | 02-25-2016 |
20160063506 | CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT (CRM) COMPUTER PROGRAM USER INTERFACE ADAPTATION BASED UPON SALES INTERACTION EVALUATION - Embodiments of the invention include adapting a CRM user interface responsive to an analysis of CRM interactions data. In a method of the invention, different organizational representatives assign different qualitative values to correspondingly different interactions with one or more customers registered with the CRM system. Selected ones of the interactions are associated with resulting stages of a sales cycle for the corresponding customers and an elapsed time between the stages of the sales cycle is computed for the corresponding customers resulting from corresponding ones of the interactions. A particular stage of the sales cycle is selected for a particular customer and a specific interaction to be performed is determined based upon a computed fastest elapsed time for other customers at the particular stage. Finally, a user interface to the CRM system is updated to promote the specific interaction and to present the qualitative value assigned to the specific interaction. | 03-03-2016 |
20160063511 | SHOPPING PATTERN RECOGNITION - Shopping patterns for a customer with respect to a particular product that is repeatedly purchased by the customer with a given frequency are recognized across multiple channels. The shopping patterns are utilized to make suggestions, reminders, and default shopping lists on behalf of the customer. | 03-03-2016 |
20160063512 | IDENTIFYING A CLOUD SERVICE USING NETWORK TRAFFIC AND OTHER DATA - Managing cloud service usage includes receiving an identity of a potential cloud service provider utilized by an entity of the enterprise, wherein the identity of the potential cloud service provider is based on network traffic information of the enterprise. Management also includes receiving additional information related to the potential cloud service provider, wherein the additional information is in addition to the network traffic information; and analyzing the identity of the potential cloud service provider and the additional information. Also, based on the analysis, a list of cloud service providers utilized by the enterprise is revised. | 03-03-2016 |
20160063513 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING WHEN AND WHAT TIME TO GO SHOPPING - A method and a system are provided for determining when and what time a shopper should go shopping at a merchant. In particular, the present disclosure provides a method and a system for conveying to a shopper various shopping patterns by date and time, and by gender or age group, of a plurality of payment card holders at one or more merchants, based on one or more payment card holder purchase behaviors, to enable the shopper to select a date and time, or gender or age group, for shopping at the one or more merchants. The method and system can be used by shoppers to choose the preferred date/time, or gender or age group of fellow shoppers, to visit a specific merchant. | 03-03-2016 |
20160063514 | MARKETING PLATFORM THAT PROVIDES ANONYMOUS AND COMPARATIVE PERFORMANCE INFORMATION RELATED TO VENDORS - A device receives user information associated with users of user devices, and receives vendor information associated with vendors. The device identifies a performance metric for the vendors based on a request received from a particular vendor of the vendors, and determines performance information for the vendors based on the identified performance metric, the user information, and the vendor information. The device anonymizes the performance information for the vendors to produce anonymous performance information, without anonymizing the performance information for the particular vendor. The device generates a user interface that visually depicts the anonymous performance information and the performance information for the particular vendor, and provides the user interface to a device associated with the particular vendor. | 03-03-2016 |
20160063515 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING ONLINE SURVEY QUESTIONS - An electronic device-controlled method can include receiving responses to a question of an online survey, determining an average daily response for the question, and determining an upper confidence level and a lower confidence level for the question. A subsequent determination can be made as to whether the question is stable based on the average daily response and upper and lower confidence levels over a specified period of time. | 03-03-2016 |
20160063516 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO ESTIMATE COMMERCIAL CHARACTERISTICS BASED ON GEOSPATIAL DATA - Methods and apparatus to estimate commercial characteristics based on aerial images are disclosed. An example method includes identifying, using a computer vision technique, a feature in a first aerial image of a geographic location of interest, identifying a reference aerial image that includes the feature from a set of reference aerial images, the reference aerial image being associated with commercial characteristics, and associating a first one of the commercial characteristics with the location of interest. | 03-03-2016 |
20160063517 | PRODUCT EXPOSURE ANALYSIS IN A SHOPPING ENVIRONMENT - Systems and methods for analyzing product exposure to one or more shoppers in a shopping environment are disclosed herein. One method may include developing a three-dimensional model of the shopping environment indicating a product location of each of a plurality of products, capturing a plurality of images of shoppers using an overhead camera, and computing an estimated field of view of each shopper captured in the plurality of images. Computer vision techniques may be used to determine a location of a facial feature in the plurality of images, determine a head pose, and then assign the estimated field of view. The method may further include, based on the three-dimensional model, computing that a product location exists within the estimated field of view for each shopper, and generating a visibility metric based on an extent to which the product location exists within each estimated field of view. | 03-03-2016 |
20160063518 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RANKING LEADS FROM TRANSACTIONAL DATA - Some embodiments rank entities within a lead list to identify the quality of each lead. Each entity is ranked based on stability component and a transactional component. The stability component accounts for the size and years of operation of the lead. The transactional component accounts for the recency of purchases, total amount of purchases, and changes in spending behavior of the lead. The stability component and transactional component are then quantified into a lead rank score and presented in conjunction with the lead in the lead list. | 03-03-2016 |
20160063520 | System for Analyzing Patterns - A data analyzer associated with an entity determines patterns and/or sequences in user data. The analyzer may provide businesses with feedback on spatiotemporal patterns in user habits. In certain embodiments, the analyzer determines the frequency of a sequence of purchases made at a first entity immediately followed by purchases made at a second entity. In another embodiment, the analyzer determines trends in user purchases made during the weekday versus those that are made during the weekend. The results of the analysis may be used in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to merchant/consumer prospecting, and targeted promotions. | 03-03-2016 |
20160070732 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING AND DERIVING MEANING FROM LARGE SCALE DATA SETS - There is disclosed method of and system for performing the following steps: obtaining a data set comprising a plurality of datum; reviewing the data set to determine the presence of at least one of a set of monitoring traits which includes one or more monitoring traits; analyzing the data set to extract a secondary data set which includes data related to each of the datum having one or more of the monitoring traits; adjusting the contents of the set of monitoring traits based on consideration of the data from the secondary data set; generating a set of vectors, wherein each of the vectors comprises data indicative of the source of each datum; and, creating a key, wherein the key comprises a selected set of the vectors. | 03-10-2016 |
20160070809 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACCESSING ELECTRONIC DATA VIA AN IMAGE SEARCH ENGINE - The present invention provides a system and method for accessing electronic data through entry of images as queries in search engine. The system uses various image capturing devices and communication devices to capture images and enter them into image database. Image recognition techniques encode images in a computer readable format. The processed image is then entered for comparison into at least one database populated with images and associated information. Once the newly captured image is matched with an image in the database, the information linked with that image is returned to the user. | 03-10-2016 |
20160071115 | MATCHING MOBILE DEVICE TO TRANSACTION AND/OR CUSTOMER ACCOUNT - Systems, methods, and apparatus are disclosed that provide enhanced customer services based on detected mobile identifiers of mobile devices. One system includes a point-of-sale (POS) terminal, a wireless sensor, and a backend system. The POS terminal handles sales of items and generate transactions for sold items. The wireless sensor is positioned proximate the POS terminal and detects mobile identifiers from mobile devices proximate the POS terminal. The backend system receives transactions from the POS terminal and detected mobile identifiers from the wireless sensor. The backend system matches a received transaction to a received mobile identifier based on a detection time of an associated mobile device proximate the wireless sensor and a transaction time for an associated transaction of the POS terminal. The backend system updates a purchase history associated with the matched mobile identifier based on sold items of the matched transaction. | 03-10-2016 |
20160071117 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING MARKETING AUTOMATION ACTIVITY DATA FOR LEAD PRIORITIZATION AND MARKETING CAMPAIGN OPTIMIZATION - A system and method for using marketing automation activity data for lead prioritization and marketing campaign optimization are disclosed. A particular embodiment uses marketing activity data to predict whether or not the lead will be qualified by sales (lead conversion) and whether the lead will result in a successful sale. In order to reduce the feature dimensionality while maintaining key information about activity types and marketing campaigns, we perform topic modeling to represent activities as a mixture over topics. We then use random forest classification to predict the probability of lead conversion and successful sale. In addition, we map the topic importances assigned by the classifier, to a “Mean Topic Importance” (MTI) score. We confirm that the relative MTI scores of different activities are intuitive. These MTI scores can be used to give marketing teams information about which marketing campaigns and assets are more important for a lead prioritization model. | 03-10-2016 |
20160071118 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LEAD PRIORITIZATION BASED ON RESULTS FROM MULTIPLE MODELING METHODS - A system and method for lead prioritization based on results from multiple modeling methods are disclosed. A particular embodiment is configured to: provide data communication with a database including a plurality of sales leads in a list of leads, each sales lead having a plurality of associated activities; generate a plurality of scores for each lead in the list of leads using a plurality of different processing models; evaluate results from each of the plurality of processing models; rank the list of leads based on a set of criteria corresponding to the plurality of scores generated from the plurality of processing models; assign a composite score to each of the leads in the list based on the ranking of the corresponding lead in the list; re-evaluate the composite score for each lead relative to corresponding scores for each lead from the plurality of individual processing models; and use the composite score for a lead as a final score for the lead if the composite score for the lead is at least as strong as the strongest score from the plurality of individual processing models. | 03-10-2016 |
20160071119 | SENTIMENT FEEDBACK - Techniques associated with sentiment feedback are described in various implementations. In one example implementation, a method may include generating a proposed sentiment result associated with a document, the proposed sentiment result being generated based on a rule set applied to the document. The method may also include receiving feedback about the proposed sentiment result, the feedback including an actual sentiment associated with the document and a feature of the document that is indicative of the actual sentiment. The method may also include identifying a proposed modification to the rule set based on the feedback. | 03-10-2016 |
20160071120 | Generating Audience Response Metrics and Ratings from Social Interest In Time-Based Media - Social media content items are mapped to relevant time-based media events. These mappings are used as the basis for calculating metrics based upon the mappings, and ratings of the time-based media there from. Audience response metrics (ARMs) are calculated from the mappings, which provide an indication of audience engagement or response. In addition, ARMs provide information about the virality, depth, and breadth of the response by the viewing audience. The calculated metrics are stored and are used to generate ratings for the time-based media. The ratings may be published in whole or in part, e.g., as part of a ratings system. | 03-10-2016 |
20160071122 | System and Method for an Estimated Consumer Price - The systems and methods may be used to recommend an item to a consumer. The methods may comprise determining, based on a collaborative filtering algorithm, a consumer relevance value associated with an item, and transmitting, based on the consumer relevance value, information associated with the item to a consumer. A collaborative filtering algorithm may receive as an input a transaction history associated with the consumer, a demographic of the consumer, a consumer profile, a type of transaction account, a transaction account associated with the consumer, a period of time that the consumer has held a transaction account, a size of wallet, and/or a share of wallet. The method may further comprise generating a ranked list of items based upon consumer relevance values, transmitting a ranked list of items to a consumer, and/or re-ranking a ranked list of items based upon a merchant goal. | 03-10-2016 |
20160071123 | Indices for Credibility Trending, Monitoring, and Lead Generation - Some embodiments provide a credibility system that computes credibility scores to quantify the credibility of different businesses and to coalesce the generated credibility scores into various indices. The indices comparatively present the credibility of a particular business relative to other businesses along one or more dimensions. Based on the indices, the system identifies trends in the credibility of a particular business. The system derives preliminary credibility for a new business for which credibility data has not yet been obtained based on credibility that has been previously established for other businesses in an index associated with the new business. The system provides automated services for monitoring credibility of a business and for generating alerts to notify the business that its credibility has reached various thresholds. The system identifies business practices that improve upon or adversely affect the credibility of a particular business. | 03-10-2016 |
20160078453 | Determining Groups of Individuals Based on Multiple Items of Individual Transaction Data - Methods, systems, and computer program products for determining groups of individuals based on multiple items of individual transaction data are provided herein. A method includes initializing a customer segment value for each of multiple purchased items identified in a purchase record based on one or more historical purchasing patterns; updating the customer segment value for each of the multiple purchased items based on the customer segment values for the other purchased items identified in the purchase record; and determining a customer segment composition of a group of individuals associated with the multiple purchased items identified in the purchase record based on the updated customer segment values. | 03-17-2016 |
20160078454 | METHOD OF WEBSITE OPTIMISATION FOR A WEBSITE HOSTED ON A SERVER SYSTEM, AND A SERVER SYSTEM - There is provided a method of website optimisation for a website hosted on a server system, the website for use by a plurality of users, the method including steps executed by the server system of: (i) collecting data for constructing a plurality of user profiles corresponding to the plurality of users; (ii) constructing the plurality of user profiles using the collected data; (iii) quantifying affinities between the plurality of user profiles; (iv) constructing a user network map, in which users are represented as nodes, and in which the affinities are represented as links between the nodes; (v) segmenting the user network map into a plurality of communities of users, and (vi) providing website content to each user according to the segmented community of each user. | 03-17-2016 |
20160078455 | METHOD OF ENHANCING CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT CONTENT AND WORKFLOW - Forward-looking sales activities are poorly served by existing Customer Relationship Managements systems, as the customer information those systems maintain by definition does not include the speculatively interested “leads” pursued in initial sales contacts. An Enrichment database, asynchronously loaded with corporate and optionally individual contact information in anticipation of use, provides real-time access to information in support of such first customer contacts. The Enrichment information may also be used to expedite creation and revision of CRM records. | 03-17-2016 |
20160086108 | CONTINUOUS DYNAMIC BOUNDARIES - Among other things, we describe a reality alternative to our physical reality, named the Expandaverse, that includes multiple digital realities that may be continuously created, broadcast, accessed, and used interactively. In what we call an Alternate Reality Teleportal Machine (ARTPM), some elements of the digital reality(ies) can be implemented using and providing functions that include: devices, architectures, processing, sensors, translation, speech recognition, remote controls, subsidiary devices usage, virtual Teleportals on alternate devices, presence, shared planetary life spaces, constructed digital realities, reality replacements, filtered views, data retrieval in constructed views, alternate realities machine(s), multiple identities, directories, controlled boundaries, life space metrics, boundaries switching, property protection, publishing/broadcasting, digital events, events location/joining, revenues, utility(ies), infrastructure, services, devices management, business systems, applications, consistent customizable user interface, active knowledge, optimizations, alerts, reporting, dashboards, switching to “best”, marketing and sales systems, improvement systems, user chosen goals, user management, governances, digital freedom from dictatorships, photography, and entertainment. | 03-24-2016 |
20160086195 | DETERMINE A COMPANY RANK UTILIZING ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORK DATA - Method and system to determine a company rank utilizing on-line social network data is described. A company ranking system may examine member profiles representing respective members of an on-line social network system and extract transition data. From the transition data, the company ranking system may construct a company transition graph having nodes that represent respective companies and edges that represent transitions of employees from one company to another. A rank or a node score for each node of the company transition graph may be determined by applying a ranking algorithm to the graph. The scores generated for respective nodes in the company transition graph may be stored for future use in a database. | 03-24-2016 |
20160086196 | PERSPECTIVE DATA ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT - A system and computer-implemented method for managing perspective data is disclosed. The method may include identifying a variant feature of an item having a first set of perspective data. The method may include grouping, based on the variant feature, the first set of perspective data into a first group and a second group. The method may include determining a first set of relevancy scores for the first group and a second set of relevancy scores for the second group. The method may also include establishing, using at least one of the first and second relevancy scores, a second set of perspective data configured to include a subset of the first set of perspective data. | 03-24-2016 |
20160086197 | METHOD FOR ANALYZING SHOPPING PATTERN AND SYSTEM THEREIN - A method for analyzing shopping pattern includes providing a shopping pattern analyzing system having a cart and at least one commodity-communicating module; determining whether the cart moves or not via a sensing apparatus of the cart; determining whether a motionless time of the cart exceeds a predetermined time or not; determining whether the cart passes through a repeating area or not; and determining whether the user pushes the cart with one hand or two hands via two sensing members of the pushing portion. The present invention enables to analyze the shopping patterns of consumers at the moment the consumers shop to learn which commodities are interested by the consumers so as to perform customized promoting commodity notice for each of the consumers. | 03-24-2016 |
20160086198 | Distribution Of Media With Tracking And Analysis Of Media Usage For Royalty, Loyalty And Collection Of Metadata - An apparatus, device and method for the distribution of media with tracking and analysis of media usage for royalty, loyalty and collection of media metadata using wireless communication such as near field communication comprised in a portable platform. Each device comprises a wireless communication arrangement capable of conducting wireless communication between wirelessly capable devices enclosed in a solid case which projects the content of the data in an illustrative depiction. Upon user prompt, the wireless communication arrangement of the physical platform establishes communication with a mobile device thus initiating the mobile device communication with a digital interface which performs digital interaction protocols for file fetching, metadata storage and metadata analysis. | 03-24-2016 |
20160086290 | SOCIAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT - A computer implemented method comprising: storing data associated with a project in a data store, associating at least one user with the project using at least one data type and providing a communication tool to enable the user to communicate to another person about the project. | 03-24-2016 |
20160092889 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING LEAD DISTRIBUTION - Systems and methods are provided for facilitating lead distribution. A method may include determining, by a service provider server that includes one or more processors, vehicle search information associated with one or more consumers. The method may include accessing lead preference information associated with a dealer. The method may also include aggregating vehicle search information associated with one or more consumers and generating, based at least in part on the vehicle search information, one or more vehicle leads. The method may also include comparing lead criteria information and the lead age information associated with a respective vehicle lead with the lead preference information and determining, based at least in part on the comparison, that the respective lead is to be provided to the dealer. Furthermore, the method may include transmitting the respective vehicle lead to a dealer device associated with the dealer. | 03-31-2016 |
20160092890 | MULTIDIMENSIONAL MONITORING AND ALERTING OF BUSINESS METRICS - Techniques for multidimensional monitoring and alerting of business metrics of an online system are described. According to various embodiments, a user specification of a business metric associated with operations of an online social networking system, and multiple dimensional values that are included in the business metric, are received. A revenue-impacting event corresponding to a change in a specific one of the dimensional values is then detected. Thereafter, it is determined that the revenue-impacting event is caused by a release of a particular online service associated with the online social networking system. A notification specifying the revenue-impacting event, and indicating that the revenue-impacting event was caused by the release of the particular online service, is then displayed. | 03-31-2016 |
20160092891 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLLECTING CONSUMER INFORMATION AND REWARDING CONSUMERS THEREFOR - A method and system is provided for obtaining, verifying, maintaining and using consumer information of interest including consumer demographic information and consumer transaction information. The information is obtained with the consent and participation of the consumers, which ensures that the resulting databases do not include redundant records, thus reducing the amount of database storage required for the databases and enhancing the ability to search and process the information stored therein. Because consumers provide the system and method with access to their transaction service providers, the system and method can provide the clients of the system with the ability to measure the success of their marketing campaigns using the system. | 03-31-2016 |
20160092892 | Computer-Aided System for Improving Return on Assets - Systems and methods are described for managing assets in a manufacturing environment. The use of a time-based approach for determining costs of using individual resources in such an environment allows for the generation of detailed reports on assets, liabilities, equity, income and expenses (cost), and cash flows of a business. In addition, the time-based approach can be used in conjunction with transactional processing management systems to perform a variety of tasks such as tracking resources, filling orders, and operating a factory. | 03-31-2016 |
20160092945 | Quality Users Information Employed For Improved User Experience Including Ratings And Recommendations - An apparatus, method, and computer readable medium related to monitoring computer users to acquire information regarding use of application programs and device features as well as the context of such use. Computer users are monitored and data is collected to indicate the computer users' activities including the use of any particular application program. Profiles of each computer user may be created where the profiles are an aggregate of the collected information or a portion thereof. The Profiles may correlated to determine relationships between user behaviors. Various analytics regarding the relationship information may be employed to improve customer-oriented information such as ratings, recommendations, customer support, marketing, communications, and product features design. | 03-31-2016 |
20160098731 | DYNAMIC DETERMINATION OF SERVICE ALLOCATION AND FULFILLMENT - A determination is produced as to the number of leads that can be provided from a system to a target business entity, wherein the leads are generated from a plurality of platforms. The platforms may include platforms that comprise system sources for leads, i.e., sources that are internal or organic to the system, for which it is unnecessary to pay third parties for the leads. The platforms may also include platforms that comprise external sources for leads, such that the leads must be purchased from the external sources. In response to parameters related to the target business entity, an estimated number of leads per unit time is generated for a range of payments to the system by the target business entity. The number of leads to be originated from each of the respective platforms is determined by business rules preferences, which may be specified by the target business entity. Adjustments can be made in real time to the mix of platforms from which leads are generated, in response to received performance data and pricing information. | 04-07-2016 |
20160098732 | Handling Data from Online Retail Transactions - There are disclosed methods and apparatus for operating a panel of online consumers. A redirection email address is generated and provided to a retailer computer system in substitution for a consumer email address. As part of an online transaction, the retailer forwards a purchase record to the consumer, but uses the redirection email address. A researcher computer system which is the addressee of the redirection email address is therefore able to intercept the purchase record for analysis, and pass the purchase record on to the consumer. | 04-07-2016 |
20160098733 | WEB PRESENCE RECOMMENDATION - Technologies are generally described for systems, devices and methods effective to generate a report. A keyword related to a product may be received. A network may be monitored for use of the keyword. Keyword data may be produced based on the use of the keyword on the network. Inventory information related to the product may be received from a memory. The keyword data and the inventory information may be transformed into a report. The report may reflect an association between the product and the use of the keyword on the network. | 04-07-2016 |
20160098734 | A PERSONAL DATA INTEGRATION AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND A METHOD THEREOF - The present disclosure relates to a personal data integration and management system and a method thereof wherein the system comprises a personal data processing and analysis application platform and a behavior recording and information request platform, both of which are connected to each other: the personal data processing and analysis application platform divides members' personal data into personal information and other reference information; the behavior recording and information request platform based on a signature of one member who initiates his/her action logins the personal data processing and analysis application platform to access other reference information as well as behavior information, configuring analysis-related conditions by which the personal data processing and analysis application platform enables statistics and analyses, transmitting analyzed data to the behavior recording and information request platform that delivers the analyzed data and other derived data to any predetermined demander. | 04-07-2016 |
20160104173 | REAL-TIME ECONOMIC INDICATOR - Electronic messages may comprise pieces of economic data, such as an email comprising a first sales receipt and an instant message comprising a second sales receipt. Pieces of economic data may be extracted from electronic messages to obtain a set of extracted economic data. A scale factor may be determined based upon historical economic data (e.g., gross domestic sales data, stock data, etc.). A real-time economic indicator (e.g., a coincident indicator, a leading indicator, etc.) may be determined based upon the set of extracted economic data and the scale factor. The real-time economic indicator may be provided to users, such as through a real-time feedback (e.g., according to a license agreement). | 04-14-2016 |
20160104174 | ACTIVITY SITUATION ANALYSIS APPARATUS, ACTIVITY SITUATION ANALYSIS SYSTEM, AND ACTIVITY SITUATION ANALYSIS METHOD - Position information on every moving object is acquired from a moving image of a monitoring area, and activity information during every unit time is acquired from the position information on every moving object. Conditions of an observation period of time are set according to a user input operation, the observation period of time is controlled in accordance with the conditions of the observation period of time, and the activity information during every unit time is aggregated during the observation period of time to acquire the activity information during the observation period of time. An activity map image is generated from the activity information during the observation period of time, and the activity map image and the moving image of the monitoring area are generated and output at every predetermined point in time. | 04-14-2016 |
20160104175 | ARRANGING A STORE IN ACCORDANCE WITH DATA ANALYTICS - A system can access data about items for a store and generate a plan for configuring the store based on the accessed data. The system can further provide, for example, information for configuring reconfigurable shelving units so as to produce the layout of the store according to the plan. | 04-14-2016 |
20160110726 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LINKING HANDWRITING TO TRANSACTION DATA - A method for identifying purchase behavior using handwriting characteristics includes: storing, in a handwriting database, a plurality of handwriting profiles, wherein each handwriting profile includes at least a handwriting characteristic and one or more associated purchase behaviors; receiving, by a receiving device, a handwriting sample; analyzing, by a processing device, the received handwriting sample to identify one or more handwriting characteristics; identifying, in the handwriting database, a specific handwriting profile for each of the identified one or more handwriting characteristics, wherein the specific handwriting profile includes the respective handwriting characteristic; and transmitting, by a transmitting device, the one or more associated purchase behaviors included in each of the identified specific handwriting profiles. | 04-21-2016 |
20160110727 | GESTURE BASED IN-STORE PRODUCT FEEDBACK SYSTEM - As disclosed herein, an in-store feedback system permits shoppers to provide positive or negative feedback for a particular item using gestures or spoken language. To do so, the feedback system includes a gaze tracking module that identifies what product a shopper is currently focusing on. For example, a rack, which may contain multiple rows of shelves, is divided into a grid that includes a plurality of cells. By determining what cell the shopper is currently staring at, the gaze tracking system can identify a particular item by knowing which items are placed in which cell. The in-store feedback system may also include a gesture recognition system that identifies and decodes a gesture made by the shopper. For example, a thumbs up is positive feedback but a thumbs down is negative feedback. By recognizing the gesture, the gesture recognition system assigns positive or negative feedback to the item. | 04-21-2016 |
20160110728 | ENHANCED DATA COLLECTION, PROCESSING, AND ANALYSIS - A method and corresponding apparatus configured to receive data from a plurality of wireless devices. The collected data includes recorded activity at the wireless devices. The method includes analyzing the collected data to produce demographic data. The analyzing includes calculating, based on the collected data, probabilities of individual steps in a path. Each step represents a visit to a website in the path or a physical location in the path. The demographic data is supplied to a data consumer device. | 04-21-2016 |
20160110730 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER-ACCESSIBLE MEDIUM FOR PREDICTING USER DEMOGRAPHICS OF ONLINE ITEMS - Exemplary systems, methods and computer-accessible mediums for generating a demographics model can be provided, which can include, for example, receiving information related to content information, generating a plurality of clusters based on the content information, and generating a demographics model based on demographics information for each of the clusters. | 04-21-2016 |
20160110788 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING THE PROCUREMENT OF ITEMS - Various embodiments are directed to systems and methods for requesting commodities/items from a plurality of competing vendors. In various embodiments, vendor information/data indicative of commodities/items offered by each vendor is received and stored, request information/data is received from a consumer indicative of the commodities/items desired, as well as any additional request parameters. The system filters the vendor information/data to identify those vendors who satisfy the request parameters, and displays a graphical user interface identifying these vendors to the consumer. The consumer may then select one or more of the identified vendors, and the system enables access to a bidding tool for each of the selected vendors to submit a detailed bid/response to provide the goods or services to the consumer. The consumer may then select one or more of the bids/responses and confirm the commodities/items requested. | 04-21-2016 |
20160117688 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ESTIMATING VISITOR TRAFFIC AT A REAL PROPERTY LOCATION - A computer-implemented method for estimating visitor traffic at a real property location based on interrogation signal data is provided. The method includes receiving, by one or more processors, a real property location, defining a geographic region that includes the real property location, receiving, by the one or more processors, interrogation signal data for a group of mobile devices included within the plurality of mobile devices, determining a location of each of the mobile devices included within the group of mobile devices over the selected period of time based on the received interrogation signal data, and estimating visitor traffic for the real property location over the selected period of time based on the location of each of the mobile devices included within the group of mobile devices. | 04-28-2016 |
20160117689 | PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR ASSIGNING A MATCH CONFIDENCE METRIC FOR INFERRED MATCH MODELING - Systems, methods, means, computer program code and computerized processes include receiving a first set of de-identified transaction data from a first transaction data source, receiving a second set of de-identified transaction data from a second transaction data source, removing data associated with an identifier field for each of the transactions in the first data set to created a de-identified first data set, removing data associated with an identifier field for each of the transactions in the second data set to create a de-identified second data set, and processing the first and second de-identified data sets using a probabilistic engine to establish a linkage between data in each data set. The probabilistic engine may assign probability scores to pairs of data profiles based on two-way matching of transactions and based at least partly on matching of transactions to nearest neighbors. | 04-28-2016 |
20160117690 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING BROADCAST DATA ANALYSIS - Systems and methods for providing broadcast data analysis. One embodiment of a method includes receiving broadcast related data for a discrete content segment from a plurality of vehicles at a plurality of different geographic locations, where the plurality of vehicles receives the discrete content segment at the respective geographic locations. Similarly, the method may include determining whether any of the broadcast related data may be filtered due to overlap of the plurality of different geographic locations, calculating a statistic based on the broadcast related data from the plurality of vehicles and providing information related to the content, based on a comparison of the discrete content segment and other discrete content segments. | 04-28-2016 |
20160117691 | Aggregating Foodstuff Data - Systems and methods for providing aggregated foodstuff usage data to one or more foodstuff vendors are provided. A computer-executable tool (typically in the form of an app or application) is provided to a plurality of users/consumers. The computer-executable tool includes features that encourage its use and the tool reports foodstuff usage data to a foodstuff data aggregator. The foodstuff data aggregator aggregates the foodstuff usage data from a plurality of users, organized according to a variety of aspects for easy identification and retrieve in response to a request from a foodstuff vendor. The foodstuff data aggregator is also configured to assist the plurality of users in regard to various rewards, loyalty, and offer programs from the various vendors. | 04-28-2016 |
20160117692 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR CONSUMER MANAGED BEHAVIORAL DATA - A method may permit a consumer to manage behavioral data. The method may include receiving, at an infrastructure device, parameters provided by an administrative device over a local area network (LAN), and configuring, based on the received parameters, the infrastructure device for collection and control of consumer managed behavioral data (CMBD) associated with at least one client device. The method may further include monitoring, at the infrastructure device, data transmitted and received by the at least one client device, and identifying, by the infrastructure device, CMBD from the monitored data based on the received parameters. The method may further include performing actions associated with the at least one client device based on the CMBD and the received parameters. | 04-28-2016 |
20160117693 | DIGITAL MATURITY ASSESSMENT FOR TRANSPORTATION PROVIDERS - An aspect of the present disclosure facilitates the assessment of the digital maturity of a transport provider. In one embodiment, data indicating availability of engagement capabilities on respective digital channels of the transport provider is received, and scores representing digital maturity of the transport provider are computed based on the availability. The engagement capabilities may be categorized according to functional areas qualifying an industry of the transport provider, and as such the scores may correspond to respective functional areas. Thus, the transport provider is enabled to compare the engagement capabilities of his/her organization with those of other providers or with pre-defined standards. | 04-28-2016 |
20160117694 | CLIENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - In various example embodiments, a system and method for client management are presented. Inactive clients in the client population based on a lack of client use of a service offering for a predetermined period of time is determined. Customized electronic messages to the inactive clients are generated and sent. Timed subsequent electronic messages to clients who remain inactive after the receipt of the first electronic messages are further generated and sent. Statistics associated with client activity is calculated. The calculated statistics are caused to be displayed. | 04-28-2016 |
20160117696 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING ON-LINE INFLUENCE IN SOCIAL MEDIA - Methods and system are provided for determining a topical influence value of the individual based on aggregated viral properties of tagged content citing the individual. A processor of a computer is used to match content within a web-site with a selected topic and to tag matching content to generate tagged content. Viral properties for the tagged content are extracted, and viral properties of the tagged content citing an individual in the tagged content are aggregated to form aggregated viral properties of the tagged content citing the individual. Based on the aggregated viral properties of the tagged content citing the individual, a topical influence value of the individual can be computed. | 04-28-2016 |
20160117697 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COLLECTING AND DISSEMINATING INFORMATION OVER A COMPUTER NETWORK - The apparatus comprises at least one database for storing digital information associated with at least a first user and a second user, at least one links module for the first user and for the second user, at least one manipulations module and at least one display device for respectively displaying at least said linked digital information wherein said linked digital information associated with said first user is automatically updated on at least said display device of said second user when that information is manipulated, and wherein said linked digital information associated with said second user is automatically updated on at least said display device of said first user when that information is manipulated. | 04-28-2016 |
20160125426 | Determining Engagement Levels Based On Topical Interest - The current subject matter describes generating effective personal connections and/or marketing leads based on scores computed per topic for individuals attending an event. A computing device associated with an event attendee can receive data characterizing an attendee's activity related to a topic. The computing device can send this data to a computing server connected to the computing device via a communication network. The computing server can obtain a weight associated with the activity from a database. The computing server can generate a score for one or more topics for the event attendee based on the weight. The computing server can send a recommendation based on the score(s) to at least one of a computing device of another event attendee, an entity having a marketing interest in the event, a marketing automation application, and a customer relationship management application. | 05-05-2016 |
20160125427 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LINKING PERSONAL NEEDS AND SPEND BEHAVIOR - A method for identifying relationships between consumer and merchant service characteristics includes: storing consumer profiles that include consumer characteristics associated with a consumer and transaction data for transactions involving the associated consumer and a specified merchant; storing merchant profiles that include service characteristics associated with a merchant; identifying a group for each consumer characteristic that includes consumer profiles having that consumer characteristic; identifying a group for each service characteristic that includes merchant profiles having that service characteristic; and identifying characteristic relationships that include a consumer characteristic and service characteristic based on transaction data included in consumer profiles in the consumer group of the consumer characteristic that involve merchants associated with merchant profiles in the merchant group of the service characteristic. | 05-05-2016 |
20160125428 | Systems and Methods for using a Product History to Create a Linguistic Corpus for a Product - There is provided a system having a memory for storing a software application, where the software application includes a product database. The product database includes a product history for a plurality of products. A processor is configured to execute the software application. The software application receives product requirements for a new product, determines at least one related product from the plurality of products based on the product requirements for the new product, evaluates the product history of the at least one related product to determine a linguistic corpus for the new product, and creates the linguistic corpus for the new product. | 05-05-2016 |
20160125430 | Behavior Analysis Device - In order to solve the problem of an increase in the number of electronic devices that transmit specific signals and are installed inside a store in order to obtain traffic line information, the present invention calculates position coordinates in a facility using a calculation formula based on the number of signals received and the pattern of the number of signals received, and determines traffic line information. | 05-05-2016 |
20160125431 | COMPETITIVE AIRLINE MARKET DATA ANALYSIS - Methods for competitive market data analysis is disclosed herein. The methods comprise receiving historical data for a plurality of air carriers. The historical data is normalized and partitioned into competitive market segments. Additionally, historical airline data related to an airline is received. The historical airline data is analyzed in view of the competitive market segments. Based on the analysis, a schedule and fleet selection of the airline can be modified. | 05-05-2016 |
20160125432 | IDENTIFYING INFLUENTIAL USERS OF A SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICE - A system includes a memory storing a dataset representing a community of users of a social networking service, the social networking service providing a platform enabling a user within the community to communicate with at least one of a plurality of other users within the community. The system includes a processor coupled to the memory, the processor configured to determine a ranking of the service users in the dataset based on an initial influence score for at least one of the users. The processor is also configured to determine a contribution to a first user within the community by at least one second user of the plurality of other users within the community, and calculate an influence score for the first user. The ranking is revised based at least in part on the calculated influence score, and information is rendered to a target user based on the revised ranking. | 05-05-2016 |
20160132899 | Monitoring of Events and Key Figures - A system, a method, and a computer program product for monitoring of events and key figures are disclosed. An event in a plurality of events associated with a business process is identified. The identified event is monitored. A business value of the identified event is determined in real time. Based on the determined real-time business value, at least one key figure associated with the monitored event is retrieved and displayed in a user interface. | 05-12-2016 |
20160132900 | Informative Bounce Rate - In embodiments of informative bounce rate, keywords can be obtained from content of a Web page, and source content is extracted from a referring source that includes a selectable link to the Web page. The keywords that are obtained from content of the Web page are identified as also occurring in the source content of the referring source. A sentiment that is associated with each keyword can be determined, and a correspondence between the sentiment associated with a respective keyword and a bounce rate that is associated with the Web page is generated. The Web page can be identified as needing a redesign based on a high bounce rate and a corresponding overall positive source sentiment, which indicates visitors having a positive sentiment when visiting the Web page, yet a high number of the visitors bouncing from the Web page. | 05-12-2016 |
20160132901 | Ranking Vendor Data Objects - A system and method of providing web pages of ranked organization to a user. The user may update data about an organization which will cause the ranking to be changed and the webpage regenerated. The system may inform the user or other users of changes to the ranking. | 05-12-2016 |
20160132902 | Search and Rank Organizations - A computer method and system provide means for outputting data about organizations to a user. The system includes a database of business relationships between organizations. A user may search for first organizations according to search criteria. The method will select a set of first organizations that match the criteria. The user may select preferred values of second organizations connected to the first organizations. Using the preferred values, the method will reselect and rank the first organizations for display on the user's computing device. | 05-12-2016 |
20160132903 | IDENTIFYING AN INDUSTRY SPECIFIC E-MAVEN - Disclosed is a method and system for identifying an industry specific e-maven by analyzing textual data from social media. The system may collect textual data posted by users on social media. The system may then determine characteristics of the users by analyzing the textual data. The system may further calculate a maven score for the users by using the characteristics. The system may compute an industrial maven score for the users by using the maven scores and an industry adjustment factor. An industry specific e-maven may thus be identified based on the industry adjustment factor. | 05-12-2016 |
20160132904 | INFLUENCE SCORE OF A BRAND - An example method for determining an influence score of a brand in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure includes receiving data regarding a plurality of social media profiles associated with a plurality of social media platforms based on relevancy to a plurality of keywords, identifying a first set of data received from a first social media platform and a second set of data received from a second social media platform, extracting, values from the first set of data for a first set of categories of metrics for each social media profile associated with the first social media platform, extracting values from the second set of data for a second set of categories of metrics for each social media profile associated with the first social media platform, assigning a weight to each metric, determining an influence score for each social media profile based on calculating a weighted sum of the extracted values for each social media profile, and determining an influence score for the brand for each social media profile based on the influence score for each social media profile. | 05-12-2016 |
20160132906 | SURGE DETECTOR FOR CONTENT CONSUMPTION - A content consumption monitor (CCM) identifies events from a domain, a number of the events, content associated with the events, and a relevancy of the content to a topic. The CCM may generate a consumption score for the domain and topic based on the number of events and the relevancy of the content to the topic. The CCM may identify domain surges for the topic when the consumption score reaches a threshold. The CCM may adjust the consumption score based on the changes in the relevancy, number of events and/or the number of users over different time periods. The consumption scores not only identify companies interested in different topics but also identifies consumption surges that indicate when the companies are most receptive to direct contacts regarding those topics. | 05-12-2016 |
20160140491 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTEGRATING INTERMEDIARY AND END-USER ONLINE RETAIL EXPERIENCES - A network connected system for inventory management is disclosed including an intermediary module, including providing sales and inventory management functions for intermediaries such as wholesalers and retailers and an end-user module, including providing sales to end-users using an end-user identifier which is associated with a wholesaler or retailer. | 05-19-2016 |
20160140575 | Multidimensional Customer Relationship Model - Techniques are described for updating a multidimensional customer relationship model (MRCM). The MRCM can be configured to store a plurality of causal attribute that describe different factors relevant to customer satisfaction and customer loyalty. In some examples, the MRCM can be analyzed to provide recommend actions to the company. The recommended actions can include actions to improve the customer relationship, actions to improve revenue, and actions to identify prospective customers. | 05-19-2016 |
20160140576 | DETERMINING PUBLISHING DATE FOR MARKET REPORTING - Methods and systems define a publishing group and/or select a publishing date. The method may customize and optimize a planned publishing date. Data may be received from a plurality of different data sources on different time schedules. Data may be extrapolated and the data sets harmonized in time, which may partially form the basis for selecting a publishing date. The method may automatically determine a publishing date based on an amount of data that would be extrapolated for various potential publishing dates. Analysis regarding a publishing date, including the amount of data for each database covered in a reporting period, may be rendered on a user interface. The system may include a global report processor including a processor for grouping regions and/or categories and suggesting/selecting a publishing date. | 05-19-2016 |
20160140578 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - There is provided an information processing device including a determination unit configured to acquire a first history of system information including at least any of input information based on an operation of a user and control information indicating a state at a time of the operation, and to compare the acquired first history with a second history including the system information stored in advance, and a report unit configured to make a report for acquiring an opinion related to the first history from the user on the basis of a result of a comparison made by the determination unit. | 05-19-2016 |
20160140579 | METHOD AND APPARTUS FOR MEDIA EVENT ANALYSIS - The invention relates to a method and apparatus for utilising data relating to one or more predetermined events which occur in at least one visual and/or audible media. The invention identifies the one or more predetermined events and collects response data from one or more user sources and allocates the collected data to response times or time intervals. At least part of the collected response data is allocated as occurring as a result of one or more of the predetermined events and other of the collected response data is not taken into account as it is identified as resulting from general activity rather than being specific to a predetermined event. | 05-19-2016 |
20160140581 | Market Share Simulator - A system, method, and computer program product for determining an expected market share for a generic product, are provided. A market share simulator receives a selected category for a selected attribute of a generic product. Based on the selected category and the selected attribute for the product, the market share simulator determines the utility of the selected attribute, and a sum of a plurality of utilities for the selected attribute associated with a plurality of products, wherein the generic product and the plurality of products compete for a portion of a market share. Market share simulator then compares the utility of the selected attribute to the sum of the plurality of utilities to generate an expected market share for the generic product. | 05-19-2016 |
20160140582 | INFORMATION TRANSACTIONS OVER A NETWORK - In one example, a method for managing information in an environment that includes a client device includes accessing, at the client device, an electronic input interface. Next, the client device transmits a signal to a host system associated with the electronic input interface by entering consumer profile information into the electronic input interface. A request is then made for creation of an information account for storage of the consumer profile information. The client device then receives authentication information from the host system. Finally, the client device enables the vendor to access some of the consumer profile information stored in the information account. | 05-19-2016 |
20160140609 | Visualizing Audience Metrics - A social networking system receives a selection of user characteristics defining a benchmark audience and a target audience, and generates audience metrics that compare the audiences across a set of user characteristics. These user characteristics include demographics, interests, purchasing activity, and actions on the social networking system. The audience metrics are provided to an advertiser who may select additional user characteristics to refine the benchmark or target audiences. The audience metrics may include an affinity score that compares the audience metrics for a particular type of interaction, and may normalize the frequency of interactions relative to interactions of the audience as a whole. Advertisers may use the defined audiences to establish targeting criteria for an advertisement, and may use existing targeting criteria to seed the selection of an audience. | 05-19-2016 |
20160140669 | MULTI-ATTITUDE SUPPORT WITHIN SOCIAL NETWORK SPACE - Social media network system that provides for a customized recipient lists, where the customized recipient list will depend upon a mode (or “attitude”) that the user entity selects (and changes as desired). In this way, multiple social actions can conveniently be subject to the same customized recipient list, specifically the customized recipient list that was effectively selected by the user entity when selecting his/her attitude. For example, a user may choose an attitude at the beginning of a social media session, so that all social media actions performed by the user entity during that session will only be accessible by other entities on the customized recipient list associated with the user-selected attitude. | 05-19-2016 |
20160140670 | RANKING APPLICATIONS FOR RECOMMENDATION TO SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM USERS - A social networking system obtains information describing one or more interactions performed by users of the social networking system with various applications. The information identifies users, applications, and interactions by users with applications. Based on the obtained information, the social networking system determines likelihoods of a selected user performing another type of interaction with each application in a set of applications. The set of applications are ranked based on the determined likelihoods, and one or more of the applications from the set are selected based on the ranking Information describing the selected one or more applications is then provided to the selected user. | 05-19-2016 |
20160148218 | Customer Service Based Upon In-Store Field-of-View and Analytics - Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to aspects of customer service based upon in-store field-of-view and analytics. According to one aspect disclosed herein, a store analytics system can collect user information associated with a plurality of users located within an environment. The store analytics system also can collect user device information associated with a plurality of user devices associated with the plurality of users. The store analytics system also can collect estimated fields-of-view associated with the plurality of users. The store analytics system can analyze the user information, the user device information, and the estimated fields-of-view to identify at least one commonality shared among at least two of the plurality of users. The store analytics system can create a logical group. The logical group can include the at least two users of the plurality of users that share the commonality. | 05-26-2016 |
20160148219 | Systems and Methods for Providing Consumer Networks Based on Transaction Data for Consumers - Systems and methods are directed toward providing a consumer network, and links between consumers in the network, based on transaction data for consumers. The system generally includes a memory having a data structure of consumers and transaction data associated with the consumers, and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to execute instructions, stored in the memory, to cause the processor to access transaction data from the data structure for a group of consumers, link consumers in the group based on the transaction data for the consumers, and associate the linked consumers within a consumer network. Each linked consumer in the consumer network is able to view one or more products purchased by at least another linked consumer in the consumer network. | 05-26-2016 |
20160148220 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPACT MODELING OF BRAND REPULSION - A method for identifying repulsive brands includes: storing a plurality of brand profiles, each brand profile including data related to a brand including a brand identifier and a plurality of competitor brand identifiers associated with competitors to the related brand; storing a plurality of transaction data entries, each transaction data entry including data related to a payment transaction involving a consumer including a specific brand identifier associated with a brand involved in the related payment transaction; identifying an associated brand profile for each transaction data entry where the included brand identifier corresponds to the specific brand identifier included in the respective transaction; and identifying repulsive brands based on inclusion of an associated competitor brand identifier in the competitor brand identifiers included in each associated brand profile identified for each transaction data entry in the transaction database. | 05-26-2016 |
20160148221 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus obtains selection object identification information identifying a selection object to be added to a list and user identification information identifying a user who has performed an addition operation to the list. The information processing apparatus stores the selection object identification information and the user identification information in association with each other in storage means. The information processing apparatus retrieves specific information indicating a range including a selection object identified by the selection object identification information associated with the user identification information. The information processing apparatus controls modification of at least one of an excess and a deficiency of selection objects in the list, when the range of selection objects added to the list is determined to have converged based on the specific information. | 05-26-2016 |
20160155136 | AUTO-ENCODER ENHANCED SELF-DIAGNOSTIC COMPONENTS FOR MODEL MONITORING | 06-02-2016 |
20160162909 | AUTOMATIC MODIFICATION OF REQUIREMENTS BASED ON CONSUMPTION AND MARKET CHANGES - A computer processor monitors a service marketplace and a deployed service application that includes one or more services based on a set of service requirements. The computer processor collects consumption data of the deployed service application and service marketplace information including change and trend information associated with the service marketplace. The computer processor analyzes the consumption data and the service marketplace information with respect to the set of service requirements, and the computer processor determines a gap between at least a requirement of the set of requirements and the consumption data, and a gap between at least a requirement of the set of requirements and the service marketplace information. | 06-09-2016 |
20160162911 | END-TO-END EFFECTIVE CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT VIA ADVANCED ANALYTICS AND SENSOR-BASED PERSONAL ASSISTANT CAPABILITY (EECEASPA) - Providing an end-to-end citizen engagement, in one aspect, may comprise obtaining data of multiple disintegrated sources from one or more of communication and social computing channels via one or more adapters. Data refactoring and management, integration and process orchestration of the data according to a data model as data attributes of the data model may be provided. One or more analytics may be performed based on the data attributes stored according to the data model and input specified to the one or more analytics. One or more results computed by performing the one or more analytics may be provided. One or more application logics supporting one or more front-end applications may be produced. One or more front-end applications for automated sensing of user activities and sensor-based personal assistant capability may be provided. | 06-09-2016 |
20160171507 | Systems and Methods for Identifying Customers of Businesses Through Gathered Named Entity Data | 06-16-2016 |
20160171508 | Systems and Methods for Identifying and Scoring Customers of Businesses using Information Aggregated from Multiple Information Sources | 06-16-2016 |
20160171509 | Systems and Methods for Estimating the Transaction Values of Customer Interactions | 06-16-2016 |
20160171511 | REAL-TIME DATA ANALYTICS FOR ENHANCING SALES AND OTHER SUPPORT FUNCTIONS | 06-16-2016 |
20160171512 | DISPLAY MONITORING SYSTEM | 06-16-2016 |
20160171513 | PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTION SYSTEM, PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTION METHOD AND PROGRAM | 06-16-2016 |
20160171514 | Crowd-based scores for food from measurements of affective response | 06-16-2016 |
20160180352 | System Detecting and Mitigating Frustration of Software User | 06-23-2016 |
20160180354 | RESOURCE PROPAGATION METHOD AND SYSTEM | 06-23-2016 |
20160189171 | ANALYSING TOPICS IN SOCIAL NETWORKS - Systems and methods are provided for analyzing social media content. In exemplary embodiments, the invention can include obtaining a plurality of data items communicated through at least one social media platform over a time interval, with each data item from the plurality of data items being associated with a time value within the time interval; analyzing at least a subset of the plurality of data items to assign each data item from the subset to a respective category from a plurality of categories; and generating for at least one category from the plurality of categories, a representation of data items assigned to the at least one category as a function of time over the time interval for presenting via a user interface. | 06-30-2016 |
20160189172 | SENTIMENT ANALYSIS - A method may include analyzing images of a setting that are captured by an image capture system. The method may further include determining, based on the analysis of the images, non-verbal expressions captured in the images. The non-verbal expressions may be of a person in response to a stimulus perceived by the person. The method may also include determining a sentiment of the person with respect to the stimulus based on the non-verbal expressions. In addition, the method may include determining, based on the determined sentiment, a suggested action with respect to the stimulus, the person, or a combination of the stimulus and the person. | 06-30-2016 |
20160189173 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO PREDICT ATTITUDES OF CONSUMERS - Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to predict attitudes of consumers are disclosed. An example method includes obtaining purchasing behavior data associated with a consumer and obtaining product review data associated with a plurality of reviewers. The example method also includes identifying a set of reviewers from the plurality of reviewers based on a strength of relationship between each of the plurality of reviewers and the consumer. The example method further includes predicting, using a processor, an attitude of the consumer based on the product review data associated with the set of reviewers. | 06-30-2016 |
20160189174 | Systems, computer media, and methods for using electromagnetic frequency (EMF) identification (ID) devices for monitoring, collection, analysis, use and tracking of personal, medical, transaction, and location data for one or more individuals - Methods, apparatus, non-transitory computer readable storage medium, computer systems, networks, and/or systems using a wireless device for detection and tracking of user's data that uses electromagnetic frequency (EMF) identification (EMFID) technologies to provide data transfer and communications for EMFID sensors for automatic identification data collection of personal data for one or more individuals or end user, multiple EMFID tag interactions, remotely storing, monitoring and retrieving data and location data, physical, emotional and mental state data, integration of biometric data, healthcare, physical health conditions, medical conditions, diseases and conditions for disease control and prevention, pharmaceutical data and other data to develop a profile for one or more individuals, using radio and other frequency tags and relaying data from EMFID tag interactions to a database that can be accessed by members of a network, wherein predictive analytics are used for one or more individuals analysis, marketing, monitoring, behavior, diagnosis and promotions, of interest, of medical care, drugs, products, illegal activity, or other services, of interest, of past, present or future customers, users, targets and/or target markets. | 06-30-2016 |
20160196563 | METHOD TO EXPAND SEED KEYWORDS INTO A RELEVANT SOCIAL QUERY | 07-07-2016 |
20160196564 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING CONSUMER SENTIMENT WITH SOCIAL PERSPECTIVE INSIGHT | 07-07-2016 |
20160203498 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING AND SCORING LEADS FROM SOCIAL MEDIA | 07-14-2016 |
20160203499 | CUSTOMER BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS SYSTEM, CUSTOMER BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS METHOD, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND SHELF SYSTEM | 07-14-2016 |
20160253680 | REAL-TIME INTER AND INTRA OUTLET TRENDING | 09-01-2016 |
20160253682 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO IMPROVE SERVICE MARKET SHARE | 09-01-2016 |
20160253684 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF STRUCTURING REVIEWS WITH AUTO-GENERATED TAGS | 09-01-2016 |
20160253685 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO IDENTIFY NON-TRADITIONAL ASSET-BUNDLES FOR PURCHASING GROUPS USING SOCIAL MEDIA | 09-01-2016 |
20160379226 | INTELLIGENT IDENTIFICATION OF MULTIDIMENSIONAL INSIGHTS FROM PROCESS DATA - Technologies are described herein for providing intelligent identification of multidimensional insights from staged process data. In some configurations, the techniques described herein obtain process data defining a multistage process and attributes relating to individual stages of the process. Configurations analyze the process data to identify the attributes characterizing at least one conversion between individual stages. For example, attributes associated with users interacting with a retail site may be identified. The attributes can include any activity or characteristic such as a user's location, age, length of time on a site, etc. The attributes define classifications that provide insights into target areas. Techniques disclosed herein also involve the generation of output data defining the one or more attributes associated with at least one stage and/or conversion of the process. Graphical elements representing the attributes may be displayed in proximity to graphical representations of relevant stages of the process. | 12-29-2016 |
20160379227 | FPGA MATRIX ARCHITECTURE - High volume data processing systems and methods are provided to enable ultra-low latency processing and distribution of data. The systems and methods can be implemented to service primary trading houses where microsecond delays can significantly impact performance and value. According to one aspect, the systems and methods are configured to process data from a variety of market data sources in a variety of formats, while maintaining target latencies of less than 1 microsecond. A matrix of FPGA nodes is configured to provide ultra-low latencies while enabling deterministic and distributed processing. In some embodiments, the matrix can be configured to provide consistent latencies even during microburst conditions. Further book building operations (determination of current holdings and assets) can occur under ultra-low latency timing, providing for near instantaneous risk management, management, and execution processes, even under micro-burst conditions. In further embodiments, a FPGA matrix provides a readily expandable and convertible processing platform. | 12-29-2016 |
20160379327 | METHOD OF FACILITATING NATURAL DISASTER RELIEF PLANNING - A computer-implemented method for facilitating natural disaster relief planning, comprising: obtaining current payment-card transaction data after a natural disaster occurs; identifying distinct merchants whom payment-card holders have made payment-card transactions with after the natural disaster occurred based on the current payment-card transaction data; obtaining a location of each of the distinct merchants by referring to a database having stored thereon the location of each of the distinct merchants; and ranking each of the obtained locations based on the current payment-card transaction data, wherein natural disaster relief is provided at the obtained locations based on their ranking. | 12-29-2016 |
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20170236132 | AUTOMATICALLY MODELING OR SIMULATING INDICATIONS OF INTEREST | 08-17-2017 |
20170236133 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR LEAD GENERATION | 08-17-2017 |
20170236145 | BUSINESS MODEL AND METHOD OF PUBLICATION USING A PIZZA BOX SPACER | 08-17-2017 |
20180025365 | VECTOR-BASED CHARACTERIZATIONS OF PRODUCTS AND INDIVIDUALS WITH RESPECT TO SELECTING ITEMS FOR STORE LOCATIONS | 01-25-2018 |
20180025367 | ACCREDITED ADVISOR MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | 01-25-2018 |
20180025368 | Crowd-based ranking of types of food using measurements of affective response | 01-25-2018 |
20180025393 | SMART APPLICATION RATING | 01-25-2018 |
20220138770 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYZING SALES CONVERSATION BASED ON VOICE RECOGNITION - There is disclosed a method for analyzing a sales conversation based on voice recognition. The disclosed method comprises obtaining voice information about a sales conversation between a sales representative and a customer, converting the voice information into text, extracting at least one of a keyword and a sentence corresponding to each of a plurality of business items from the text, extracting analysis information for each of the plurality of business items based on at least one of the keyword and the sentence, and calculating an evaluation score for each of the plurality of business items based on the analysis information for each of the plurality of business items. | 05-05-2022 |
20220138774 | SYSTEMS FOR PREDICTING ACTIVITY DISTRIBUTION ACROSS MEDIUMS AND METHODS THEREOF - Systems and methods of the present disclosure enable the prediction of activity distribution across mediums of activities by employing processors that receive an activity record history across channels of mediums of activity. A candidate activity channel profile of a future activity channel is received that includes candidate channel attributes including: a medium attribute identifying the medium, and an activity category attribute identifying a category of activities of the future activity channel. Cannibalization forecasting models are used to predict channel metrics based on the candidate channel attributes and model parameters trained on the activity record history. New candidate channel attributes are automatically generated that improve the at least one channel metric based on the at least one channel metric, and a new candidate activity channel profile is automatically modified using the new candidate channel attributes. The channel metrics are displayed on computing devices associated with users. | 05-05-2022 |
20220138775 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMPUTING ENGAGEMENT SCORES FOR RECORD OBJECTS BASED ON ELECTRONIC ACTIVITIES AND FIELD-VALUE PAIRS - Methods, systems, and storage media for computing engagement scores for record objects are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: access data of a record object; identify a plurality of electronic activities linked with the record object; determining a field-value pair of the record object corresponding to a first time instance; determining a length of time between the first time instance and a second time instance; determining a first count of electronic activities included in the plurality of electronic activities generated between the first time instance and the second time instance; determining a second count based on the plurality of electronic activities generated between the first time instance and the second time instance; computing an engagement score for the record object based on the first count, the second count, and the length of time; and storing, in one or more data structures, an association between the engagement score and the record object. | 05-05-2022 |
20220138813 | System and Method of Analyzing Changes in User Ratings - A method and system for displaying changes in user ratings may include receiving a request to calculate a value for an amount of change in a parameter associated with user ratings between a first time period and a second time period, retrieving data from a data structure associated with the user ratings, the data structure including a plurality of dimensions for each user rating and each dimension having one or more levels, calculating based on the retrieved data the value for the amount of change for at least one of the plurality of dimensions, quantifying, for the calculated value, a first portion resulting from changes in user population and a second portion resulting from true change in the parameter associated with user ratings, and providing display data for generating a user interface (UI) screen to display at least one of the calculated value, the first portion and the second portion on a display device. | 05-05-2022 |