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20110093311 | MOBILE TRANSACTION - Embodiments of the invention are directed to a method, system and computer program product for providing a specific attribute of a particular product. The method may comprise receiving a sequence of characters on a mobile device; determining a list of potential products, each of the list of potential products having a corresponding attribute comprising a matching portion that matches the sequence of characters; determining a location of the mobile device; filtering the list of potential products to a list of relevant products based upon at least one of the location of the mobile device, a consumer defined preference setting, a purchase history of the consumer, and a product ranking but not restricted to the same; ordering the listed products based upon at least one of the above listed criteria's; displaying a list of relevant products on the mobile device; receiving a selection of the particular product from the list of relevant products; and providing the specific attribute of the particular product. | 04-21-2011 |
20110099047 | ELECTRONICALLY CAPTURING CONSUMER LOCATION DATA FOR ANALYZING CONSUMER BEHAVIOR - In embodiments, methods and systems for electronically capturing consumer location data for consumer behavior analysis may be provided. The location data may be gathered for one or more consumers from any suitable source. In some cases, the location data may be gathered using electronic devices associated with consumers, such as mobile phones. The gathered data may be analyzed to determine behavior patterns or other characteristics of the one or more consumers. Further, inferences or predictions about consumers may be derived based on the characteristics. The inferences and predictions may be the basis of consumer analytics supplied to a business or other entity. | 04-28-2011 |
20110099048 | PERFORMING STUDIES OF CONSUMER BEHAVIOR DETERMINED USING ELECTRONICALLY-CAPTURED CONSUMER LOCATION DATA - In embodiments, methods and systems for performing studies of consumer behavior are provided. The consumer behavior may have been determined using electronically-captured consumer location data for multiple consumers. The gathered data may be analyzed to determine behavior patterns or other characteristics of the multiple consumers. Further, inferences or predictions about consumers may be derived based on the characteristics. The inferences and predictions may be the basis of consumer analytics supplied to a business or other entity as results of a study of the consumer behavior. | 04-28-2011 |
20110099049 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE GENERATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF AN ELECTRONIC INTERACTIVE CALL SHEET - A system and method for the generation and distribution of an electronic call sheet. The method includes receiving geographic information for a shoot location, and a date for when a production shoot will be held at the shoot location. A user selected location parameter is determined that is associated with the geographic information. One or more listings are accessed from a directory for at least one category of information. The accessing of listings is based on the geographic information, the user selected location parameter, and the date. The directory includes a listing of entities providing products or services relevant to the production industry. The listing are presented to a user for selection, whereupon a selection of the one or more listings is received. Information related to the selection is included into an entry that is incorporated into a call sheet associated with the production shoot. | 04-28-2011 |
20110137710 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OUTLET LOCATION SELECTION USING THE MARKET REGION PARTITION AND MARGINAL INCREMENT ASSIGNMENT ALGORITHM - A system and method of determining at least one location for a retail outlet in a region are described. The system and method use clustering technology for partitioning the region into a fixed number of sub-regions. Then, the system and method compute marginal increments from input data for each sub-region. The system and method choose a sub-region having a maximal marginal increment for a location of a first retail outlet. | 06-09-2011 |
20110161137 | Web based interactive geographic information systems mapping analysis and methods for improving business performance including future scenario modeling - A web based interactive geographic information systems mapping analysis and methods for improving business performance including future scenario modeling are provided. The system uses a radical efficiency model to increase profitability since competitiveness can be improved by the radical efficiency model that allows businesses to reduce money wasted on bad initiatives. The system also gives businesses competitive intelligence on how to find new markets (expanding the pie) and to capitalize on competitors' inefficiencies and weaknesses to capture the competitors' market share (eating the competitor's slice of the pie). The system also shows businesses how to make more money by maximizing their strategic advantages against competitors and by identifying the best places and recommended strategies for business growth. The system also expands the list of potential vendors and customers a business can buy from and sell to. The system also provides advertisement recommendations for the business. | 06-30-2011 |
20110213641 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING LOAN OPPORTUNITIES - A loan opportunity system is configured to analyze loan data and/or population data in order to determine loan opportunities for a lender, such as a credit union. In one embodiment a lender is initially provided with one or more estimated loan opportunity indicators, such as indicators of quantities of loans in a specific geographic region for which the lender can likely offer lower rates. Subsequently, upon completion of a payment agreement with a loan opportunity provider, for example, and establishment of loan parameters associated with borrowers (and their existing loans) to which the lender would like to make firm offers of credit, the lender is provided with a loan opportunity list indicating details of borrowers and their respective loans for which the particular lender can likely offer lower rates. | 09-01-2011 |
20120066029 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A GEOGRAPHIC REGION FROM WHICH TO SOURCE A RESOURCE - A computer system for determining a geographic region from which to source a resource. The computer system has an associated database which stores region-specific cost data for each of a plurality of geographic regions (e.g. countries). The computer system is operable to present an interface to enable a user to input resource data for a resource; to store the resource data; to calculate a potential cost of sourcing the resource from each of the plurality of geographic regions based on the region-specific cost data and the resource data; and to output the calculated potential cost of sourcing the resource from one or more of the plurality of geographic regions. Advantageously, the should be cost of sourcing a resource from a low cost region can be calculated and used to identify the best low cost region sourcing opportunities. | 03-15-2012 |
20120095805 | ACQUIRING CUSTOMER INSIGHT IN A RETAIL ENVIRONMENT - The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method of acquiring customer insight information in a retail environment. The method includes receiving a product interaction from a mobile device, the product interaction comprising a product identifier corresponding to a product located in the retail environment. The method also includes determining a customer location within the retail environment based on a planned location of the product. The method also includes performing a business action based, at least in part, on the product interaction. The method also includes storing customer insight information corresponding to the product interaction to a data structure. | 04-19-2012 |
20120150587 | DATA INTEGRATION AND ANALYSIS - Uncorrelated data from a variety of sources, such as consumer panels or retailer points of sale, are combined with maximal coverage of a universal data set for a population in a manner that permits useful inferences about behaviorial propensities for the population at an individual or household level. | 06-14-2012 |
20120158459 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROPERTY INFORMATION DEVELOPMENT DISTRIBUTION AND DISPLAY - An apparatus for creating and maintaining a database containing information relating to residential properties includes an AVM device configured to receive information relating to residential properties, producing AVM values for each property and updating an AVM database with the AVM values. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158460 | DATA INTEGRATION AND ANALYSIS - Uncorrelated data from a variety of sources, such as consumer panels or retailer points of sale, are combined with maximal coverage of a universal data set for a population in a manner that permits useful inferences about behavioral propensities for the population at an individual or household level. | 06-21-2012 |
20120185299 | HOUSEHOLD MEMBER NUMBER DISTRIBUTION ESTIMATION APPARATUS AND HOUSEHOLD MEMBER NUMBER DISTRIBUTION ESTIMATION METHOD - A household member number distribution estimation apparatus of the present invention includes a subscriber information acquisition unit that acquires subscriber information that is information regarding subscribers of mobile terminals of a specific carrier in a region within a predetermined range and with which user IDs and main line numbers of the mobile terminals are associated, a household terminal number extraction unit that, by referring to the subscriber information, extracts the number of household terminals that is the number of the mobile terminals for each main line number, a household number extraction unit that extracts the number of households per number of terminals, and a household number estimation unit that, by using a terminal subscription rate in the region within the predetermined range to correct the number of households per number of terminals, estimates the number of households per number of household members that is the number of households for each of the number of household members constituting a household. Thus, the household member number distribution estimation apparatus enables to obtain the number of households for each of the number of household members with high accuracy on the basis of easily obtainable data. | 07-19-2012 |
20120197685 | GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACCESSING AND DISPLAYING AFFORDABILITY DATA - The present invention is a computer-implemented method and system for providing a graphical representation of a geographic area where household expenses, for example, transportation costs, fit a user's budgetary restrictions. The method and system allows for users to select a geographic region to search, select values for individualized household variables to determine household transportation costs, and select a affordability criteria threshold for the search results. | 08-02-2012 |
20120215589 | NETWORK ANALYTICS SYSTEMS AND METHODS - In one method, a request is received for a market trend report corresponding to a designated payment type over a designated timeframe. A payment type dataset is identified from aggregated POS data. The payment type dataset comprises POS datasets corresponding to the timeframe and to transactions categorized by payment type. Market trend data is generated as a function of the payment type dataset and is output as a report. The method may produce a variety of reports. For example, a report may display the percentage of transactions for each payment type in terms of numbers of transactions. A report may further show whether each payment type is increasing or decreasing in numbers of transactions over the timeframe. | 08-23-2012 |
20120215590 | Defining Marketing Strategies Through Derived E-Commerce Patterns - A mechanism, in a data processing system, is provided for defining marketing strategies. The mechanism dynamically obtains information related to customer interactions associated with a plurality of customers, analyzes the information to identify patterns, selects patterns to define a marketing strategy for a marketer, and defines a marketing strategy based on the selected patterns. | 08-23-2012 |
20120226522 | PERFORMING STUDIES OF CONSUMER BEHAVIOR DETERMINED USING ELECTRONICALLY-CAPTURED CONSUMER LOCATION DATA - In embodiments, methods and systems for performing studies of consumer behavior are provided. The consumer behavior may have been determined using electronically-captured consumer location data for multiple consumers. The gathered data may be analyzed to determine behavior patterns or other characteristics of the multiple consumers. Further, inferences or predictions about consumers may be derived based on the characteristics. The inferences and predictions may be the basis of consumer analytics supplied to a business or other entity as results of a study of the consumer behavior. | 09-06-2012 |
20120226523 | PERFORMING STUDIES OF CONSUMER BEHAVIOR DETERMINED USING ELECTRONICALLY-CAPTURED CONSUMER LOCATION DATA - In embodiments, methods and systems for performing studies of consumer behavior are provided. The consumer behavior may have been determined using electronically-captured consumer location data for multiple consumers. The gathered data may be analyzed to determine behavior patterns or other characteristics of the multiple consumers. Further, inferences or predictions about consumers may be derived based on the characteristics. The inferences and predictions may be the basis of consumer analytics supplied to a business or other entity as results of a study of the consumer behavior. | 09-06-2012 |
20120232958 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC VENUE DEMOGRAPHICS AND MARKETING - Systems and methods for acquiring, managing, providing, and/or utilizing information identifying and/or descriptive of patrons of a venue are provided. | 09-13-2012 |
20120245978 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINIMG CONTEXTUAL CHARACTERISTICS OF MEDIA EXPOSURE DATA - Systems and methods are disclosed for providing contextual information to research data relating to media exposure. Ambient fingerprints are formed on a device, where the fingerprints are used to establish a logical location where media exposure took place. The ambient signatures are alternately combined with monitored data to provide more robust data sets for contextual processing. | 09-27-2012 |
20120278132 | LOCATION BASED CONSUMER PROFILING - A system and method for profiling a consumer includes an agent with a memory in communication with a processor, the memory including program instructions for execution by the processor to receive a visit record information element comprising information about a location visited by the consumer and a unique consumer identifier, retrieve location information element associated with the location, retrieve a consumer profile element associated with the unique consumer identifier, generate an updated consumer profile information element based at least in part on one or more of the consumer profile information element, the detailed visit record information element, and the location characterization information element, and store the updated consumer profile information element. | 11-01-2012 |
20120290360 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MAPPING LOCATIONS OF WIRELESS TRANSMITTERS FOR USE IN GATHERING MARKET RESEARCH DATA - Methods and systems are provided for mapping locations of wireless transmitters for use in gathering market research data. A layout map includes location data representing a plurality of locations within a market research area. Transmitter data representing respective ones of the wireless transmitters is provided and the transmitter data is associated with the location data. | 11-15-2012 |
20120316923 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR THE DETERMINATION OF LEVELS OF INFLUENCE OF A GROUP - A level of influence score is determined for at least one member of a group of persons based on biographical data corresponding to the at least one member of the group of persons. The level of influence scores for the group are aggregated to determine aggregate level of influence score. The aggregate level of influence score can be used to determine a composite level of influence for the group of persons. An influenced-group parameter may be utilized in conjunction with the biographical data corresponding to the at least one member of the group of persons to determine the level of influence score. A spatial scale parameter may also be utilized in conjunction with the biographical data corresponding to the at least one member of the group of persons to determine the level of influence score. | 12-13-2012 |
20120330723 | DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USED VEHICLE VALUATION - A distributed vehicle valuation system provides actual wholesale, retail, purchase, and reconditioning prices of used automobiles based on actual transactional data retrieved from a plurality of dealership management systems. The distributed vehicle valuation system leverages a client-server, multi-tier software solution for collecting, mapping, and processing data from various dealership management systems in order to attain the necessary data. The data mining software resides on the dealership computer systems to mine such data from the dealership management systems and uploads the data to the central server. The data mining software is configured to mine and transmit data without any human intervention or interaction at the dealership. Such data includes actual wholesale sold amounts, actual retail sold amounts, actual purchase amounts and actual reconditioning amounts, as well as additional relevant information, such as stock date, sold date, gross profit, geographical data, etc. | 12-27-2012 |
20130054308 | Accurate and Instantaneous Commodity Pricing Information System - The present invention relates to collecting and dissemination of exact and instantaneous commodity pricing information of any market from remote locations with the help of individuals present in the market by utilizing localization application loaded in their mobile phones or base station. The current prices undertaken by individuals in the market is updated in a centralized commodity database which can be queried from any remote location using mobile phone or remote computer over internet. The presence of the information provider is determined by approximating contours of the target premises which minimizes the memory required to store information in the mobile phone. In an alternative embodiment, the instantaneous price information is obtained by connecting electronic transaction payment system with the central commodity database. | 02-28-2013 |
20130060608 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETERMINE MOBILE DEVICE MARKET SHARE - Methods and apparatus to determine mobile device market share are disclosed. An example method includes generating a panel of phone numbers; querying a network register to determine a hardware address associated with a phone number of the panel of phone numbers; associating the hardware address with at least one of a manufacturer or a model of a mobile device; and calculating a mobile device market share based on the association of the hardware address with the at least one of the make or the model of the mobile device. | 03-07-2013 |
20130066682 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMIC GEOSPATIAL MAPPING AND VISUALIZATION - A computer-implemented method for acquiring geospatial data, compiling the geospatial data and providing and interactive visual representation of the geospatial data based on user input is provided. The method acquires and evaluates geospatial data vendors providing historical geospatial data under multiple categories. The categories comprise national variables, metro market datasets, monthly/quarterly datasets, and all national property datasets. The method compiles variables from the acquired and evaluated geospatial data into individual geospatial datasets. The method loads a twenty four month geospatial forecast with statistical confidence based on mathematical processes performed on the individual geospatial datasets by a predictive engine. A user-defined, ranked or tiered weighted search comprising multiple choices is provided to the user for generating geospatial maps. The geospatial maps generated from the geospatial forecast are visually represented as heat maps. Further more, the user accesses all spatial boundary information using a spatial slider. | 03-14-2013 |
20130085809 | System, Apparatus and Method for Customer Requisition and Retention Via Real-time Information - A hand-held computing device and system is provided comprising an executable method for providing the user the ability to allocate geographical regions to a predetermined or on-the-fly representative or groups of representatives. The executable method in conjunction with the hand-held computing device provides a field representative with the means to view a predetermined allocation of customer's houses or business addresses that are part of scheduled daily activity. The system provides user ability to access a particular property, display information at the point-of-sale, capture information including digital signatures and verbal verifications, and storing the outcome of the interaction in a particular case. A user interface on a hand-held computer device is provided that includes a group management module, a user allocation module, a team leader module, a customer interaction module, and a mapping module. A further user interface is provided at one or more web consoles. Said web console user interface includes a form builder module, a form management module, a reporting module, and an allocation module. | 04-04-2013 |
20130090987 | METHODS AND SYSTEM FOR WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT OF SALES OPPORTUNITIES - The embodiments relate to tracking some or all of the sales opportunities at a particular firm through an active business cycle. An active business cycle is representative of the progression of sales opportunities from beginning to end. Within an active business cycle, a sales opportunity may be categorized according to the stage through which the opportunity has progressed. Sales opportunities in the active business cycle are tracked and segmented according to their age, such as when they became active. The sales information may then be queried and graphically displayed with a representation of a plurality of opportunities according to their age. | 04-11-2013 |
20130096987 | CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT FOR ENERGY EFFICIENT COMMUNITIES - An analytic system includes a communication interface that connects to a client device. A front-end cluster acquires user billing and consumption data from one or more utility database machines and acquires geographic information system data. A geocoding server converts selected data rendered by the front-end cluster into geographic coordinates. The front-end cluster is configured to render comparisons of a user's utility usage to peer group usages. | 04-18-2013 |
20130096988 | NOMINATION ENGINE - A system and method for nominating candidate enterprises for inclusion in a competitive set assembled for the purpose of competitively analyzing a subject enterprise. Characteristics of the subject enterprise in which the subject enterprise is comparable to a plurality of candidate enterprises are identified. The characteristics may include location, size of the physical presence, a dollar volume of revenue, classification of the business engaged, market share, average purchase size; of the subject purchase frequency of customers; size of customer base; demographic characteristics of the customer base, location of customers, degree of customer loyalty, and share of the customer's wallet. A list candidate enterprises is compiled based upon a predetermined degree of similarity between the subject enterprise and/or an identified competitor enterprise on the one hand, and the candidate enterprise on the other. A plurality of nominee enterprises are selected from the list of candidates to populate the competitive set. | 04-18-2013 |
20130096989 | Method and System for Determining Freight Shipping Pricing Based on Equipment Type, Market Geographies, Temporal Currency, and Trip Type Characteristics - A system and method of determining the shipping price rates of goods being shipped using a unique integration of geographic areas, rate data and shipping trip types. The geographic areas are defined in terms of similar market characteristics, the rate data is defined in terms of age and shipping trip types are defined in terms of distance as well as in terms of distance involving overlaps for adjacent shipping trip types. Expansion rules are provided for each of these categories that permit these categories to be expanded or contracted to achieve minimum data requirements when calculating the shipping price rates. Pertinent data is collected from a variety of source systems using FTP, email and other web services which is then passed to a data acquisition/integration system for data extraction and reconfiguration. A rate engine then uses that data and implements the method to calculate the shipping price rates by using the respective expansion rates of the different categories based on a user's particular shipping price request. | 04-18-2013 |
20130103457 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A HOME DATA INDEX MODEL - The present invention builds Home Data Index (HDI) models. One driving force behind this HDI initiative is that no one model or measure can truly capture the widely dynamic movement of home prices. Even within a small geographical area, such as a ZIP code, there is significant variation in property sale types, sale frequencies and sale values. To better describe these variations, the present invention presents a suite of paired sales and price per square foot index models built around an array of property transaction characteristics. These HDI models expand on the usage and understanding of traditional home price indices (HPIs) by implementing a multidimensional index comprised of four main dimensions: geography; time frames; value range; and property sales type. Several layers exist within each dimension, allowing for more than 300 different index model perspectives for a given property address. For each permutation among the layers of the four main dimensions, a model is constructed with an associated confidence score that reflects the statistical relevance of each estimate. | 04-25-2013 |
20130124263 | Systems and Methods to Summarize Transaction data - A computing apparatus is configured to summarize transaction data via aggregating transactions according to geographical regions (e.g., based on postal codes) for a plurality of merchant categories, normalize the aggregated spending across the merchant categories for each geographical region, rank the regions for each category based on the normalized spending, generate percentile indicators based on the ranking result, and generate spending indices that are proportional to the normalized spending within each category. The spending indices and percentile indicators of a geographical region across the set of merchant categories represent a spending profile of the region. The spending profile is indicative of the spending preferences of the region but does not reveal the actual spending amounts of any individual, family or region. The spending profile can be used in targeted advertising, and in measuring advertisement audience and campaign performance. | 05-16-2013 |
20130159058 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING THE LIQUIDITY AND DISTRIBUTION NETWORK FOR LUXURY AND OTHER ILLIQUID ITEMS - Systems and methods for improving the liquidity and distribution network for luxury and other illiquid items are provided. These systems and methods preferably include the trading of futures and options contracts, which will provide the liquidity and distribution network for luxury items. Possible embodiments of these systems and methods include the trading of futures and options contracts for diamonds and wine. Another embodiment of this invention preferably includes generating indexes for diamond prices, wine prices, luxury item prices, housing values, mortgage prepayments, privately-held companies or for anything with from sufficiently liquid points of value. Another embodiment of this invention preferably includes a centralized data base for retrieving closing and current auction prices for determining the value of, and best method for the auctioning of various items. The data provided by this data base would improve liquidity by creating greater price transparency. | 06-20-2013 |
20130173346 | INFORMATION ANALYSIS DEVICE AND INFORMATION ANALYSIS METHOD - An information analysis device includes: a receiving unit for receiving a location registration signal including a sector ID, location registration time information and a user ID subjected to location registration; an extracting unit for extracting a location registration signal of which the location registration time is immediately preceding a target time and a location registration signal of which the location registration time is immediately following the target time, from the location registration signal for each user; and a population distribution calculation unit for calculating population distribution by sector at the target time based on location registration time information and a location corresponding to the sector ID in the location registration signal immediately preceding the target time for each user, location registration time information and a location corresponding to the sector ID in the location registration signal immediately following the target time for each user, and the target time. | 07-04-2013 |
20130179224 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AND CONVERTING SALES OPPORTUNITIES - Implementations of the present disclosure involve a system and/or method of displaying and reviewing prospective customers. The system and/or method may display a prospect map showing geographic areas, corresponding technical infrastructure, and prospects present in the areas. The prospect displayed may be adjusted based on user defined prospect attributes. | 07-11-2013 |
20130179225 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AND CONVERTING SALES OPPORTUNITIES - Implementations of the present disclosure involve a system and/or method of sales prospect and customer service optimization. The system and/or method may include a computing device which operates a plurality of computing modules. These modules include a prospect module for displaying a geographic map along with technical infrastructure information and prospect information, a present module displaying a plurality of content associated with rich content, by providing an interface allowing a user to drag and drop content into a presentation flow; and a quote module for quickly creating a quote for presentation to a customer. | 07-11-2013 |
20130191183 | Information Sharing System for On-Line Real-Time, Localized Cost Comparison for Services - A computer implemented method for providing a user with a cost comparison for neighborhood services comprising creating a database of categories of neighborhood services, the categories created by a system administrator and by users submitting categories, users also submitting prices they have actually paid for neighborhood services and the computer providing to users the prices actually paid by other users and an average of prices actually paid. | 07-25-2013 |
20130204668 | Energy Price Protection Method for Business and Residential Structures - A method for protecting consumers against increases in the price of energy, especially for their residential and/or business structures. The protection may be provided for an agreed-in-advance quantity of energy and/or for an agreed-in-advance duration. | 08-08-2013 |
20130204669 | Online exchange for personal data - Technology is disclosed for an online exchange for personal data. In various embodiments, the technology receives data (e.g., geographic location data and/or personal data); determines whether the first user is to be compensated based at least on the received data; and if the first user is to be compensated, provides a compensation to the first user. | 08-08-2013 |
20130226666 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO SAMPLE MARKETS BASED ON AERIAL IMAGES - Methods and apparatus to sample markets based on aerial images are disclosed. An example method includes identifying a first geographic area to be sampled for a first product, the identifying being based on an aerial image, estimating a density of the first product in the first geographic area, and calculating a sampling rule to be used in sampling the first geographic area for the first product. | 08-29-2013 |
20130226667 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO ANALYZE MARKETS BASED ON AERIAL IMAGES - Methods and apparatus to analyze market channels based on aerial images are disclosed. An example method includes determining, using a processor, whether a first element in an aerial image of a geographic area represents a man-made object; determining, using the processor, whether a second element in the aerial image represents a natural object; and estimating a market channel for the geographic area based on a second market channel for a second geographic area when the first element represents a man-made object and the second element represents a natural object | 08-29-2013 |
20130231976 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING TRANSACTION PATTERNS - Transaction data is collected from POS terminals in order to generate transaction paths for account holders. The transaction paths link merchant locations where transactions are conducted. Common features of transaction paths, such as intersecting path locations, and transaction data associated with the merchant locations are used for marketing and other purposes. | 09-05-2013 |
20130253986 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONNECTING CONSUMERS WITH ONE OR MORE PRODUCT OR SERVICE PROVIDERS - A method and apparatus that for matching consumers with product or service providers is disclosed. The method may include establishing one or more profiles from one or more product or service providers, establishing one or more profiles from one or more consumers, receiving a consumer's subject matter request, matching the consumer with one or more products or service providers based on at least one of the consumer's profile and subject matter request, and providing the consumer's contact information to the matched one or more products or service providers. | 09-26-2013 |
20130262184 | Systems and Methods for Presence Detection and Linking to Media Exposure Data - A computer-implemented system, apparatus and method for monitoring media exposure data and correlating media exposure data to locations. Location data may be generated utilizing measurements of radio waves from WiFi and/or Bluetooth. Identification may also be transmitted when WiFi and/or Bluetooth transmission are received. As media is reproduced or received on/near a portable device, media exposure data is generated. Subsequent location data is monitored and processed to determine specific locations that may include commercial establishments. The locations are then correlated to the media exposure data to determine user actions related to media exposure. | 10-03-2013 |
20130304544 | Fuel price activation and management system - A computer implemented method and system provides a fuel price management server (FPMS) for managing actions associated with fuel prices, and a fuel price activation system (FPAS). The FPMS is accessible by multiple user devices and fuel stations at multiple geographical locations via a network. The FPAS communicates with the FPMS and one or more display units positioned at each fuel station via the network. The FPMS dynamically acquires and sorts the fuel prices based on geographical locations via the network. The FPMS selectively transmits the sorted fuel prices to the FPAS at each fuel station via the network based on their geographical location. The FPAS performs actions at each fuel station based on the selectively transmitted fuel prices, for example, dynamically activating and displaying the fuel prices on the display units, scheduling refueling of fuel tanks, transmitting notifications on a low fuel price to user devices, etc. | 11-14-2013 |
20130325553 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AND CONVERTING SALES OPPORTUNITIES - Aspects of the present disclosure involve apparatus, systems and methods for generating and converting sales opportunities. The apparatus and system may involves an applicatoin and various possible graphical user interfaces (GUI's) running on some form of smart tablet type computing device that accesses geographical information, customer analytic information, and telecommunication infrastructure (or other technical infrastructure) and allows a user to define an optimal travel route between various possible customer based on geographic, customer and infrastructure criteria. | 12-05-2013 |
20130332235 | Optimizing Market Research Based on Mobile Respondent Location - Systems and method for conducting meaningful market research on respondents using mobile devices. Data relating to mobile respondent location is leveraged to initiate more effective market research applications such as surveys. Using a mobile respondent's location, a market research enterprise initiates market research specifically related to that location. The market research applications may be transmitted to a mobile respondent using a number of different mechanisms such as push message, text message, email, etc. Also, mobile respondents may download and install an application that allows them to quickly access the market research applications and transmit the market research data. | 12-12-2013 |
20130332236 | Optimizing Market Research Based on Mobile Respondent Behavior - Systems and method for conducting meaningful market research on respondents using mobile devices. Data relating to mobile respondent behavior is leveraged to initiate more effective market research applications such as surveys. Using a mobile respondent's behavior, a market research enterprise initiates market research specifically related to that behavior. The market research applications may be transmitted to a mobile respondent using a number of different mechanisms such as push messages, text messages, SRS messages, emails, etc. Also, mobile respondents may download and install an application that allows them to quickly access the market research applications and transmit the market research data. | 12-12-2013 |
20130332237 | Leveraging RFID Generated Consumer Behavior through a Web Map Service - An approach is provided to analyze consumer behavior data. In the approach, location data corresponding to the consumers is identified. Discarded tagged packages are received from the consumers. The discarded tagged packages include wireless tags that associate the discarded tagged packages product identifiers. At a refuse collection point, each of the wireless tags are read (e.g., using an RFID reader). The reading retrieves the product identifiers associated from the tags on the discarded packages. The product identifiers and the location data are stored in a data store. Consumer consumption maps are generated from the stored product identifiers and location data. | 12-12-2013 |
20130332238 | Leveraging RFID Generated Consumer Behavior through a Web Map Service - An approach is provided to analyze consumer behavior data. In the approach, location data corresponding to the consumers is identified. Discarded tagged packages are received from the consumers. The discarded tagged packages include wireless tags that associate the discarded tagged packages product identifiers. At a refuse collection point, each of the wireless tags are read (e.g., using an RFID reader). The reading retrieves the product identifiers associated from the tags on the discarded packages. The product identifiers and the location data are stored in a data store. Consumer consumption maps are generated from the stored product identifiers and location data. | 12-12-2013 |
20130339094 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INCLUDING AND EXCLUDING SPECIFIC COMPARABLES - A system and method for automatically accessing property data corresponding to properties within the geographic area and displaying on a display device a map corresponding to said geographic area. Applying a comparable selection model based on a subject to the property data to generate a set of comparable properties, altering the set of comparable properties based on a variation command to generate an altered comparable property set, and displaying on the display device the map with the altered comparable property information. | 12-19-2013 |
20140006107 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING PEDESTRIAN ORIGIN USING POINT OF SALE TRANSACTION DATA | 01-02-2014 |
20140025432 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR OBTAINING INFORMATION - A predetermined geographic region is associated with a building offering goods or services. The region has a shape and size chosen depending upon the type and/or location of the building to define a region of relevance of the building. Probe data is used to identify probe devices which enter the region, and to include the devices in a database. The database is provided to someone wishing to promote the services or goods provided by the building to enable promotional material to be sent to users associated with the devices. As the devices were found in the predetermined region, the users are considered to be potential local users of the building. | 01-23-2014 |
20140032271 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING DEMOGRAPHIC DATA - Embodiments relate to a computer-implemented method comprising a process of receiving geographic data corresponding to a geographic area, receiving population data corresponding to a population of the geographic area, and generating a distribution of the population over the geographic area based on characteristics of geographic features of the geographic area. Characteristics of the geographic features can be classified into one or more usage categories corresponding to an estimated populated density associated with the particular geographic feature. A grid can be generated to overlay the geographic area, and the distribution of the population to an area encapsulated within each of the plurality of grid cells can be interpolated based on the usage categories of the geographic features and a position of the geographic features with respect to each of the plurality of grid cells. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032272 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PREDICTING VALUE OF LEAD - Embodiments disclosed herein provide a solution in determining a lead value and making an introduction accordingly. In some embodiments, in response to a consumer's search request for a retail item within a geographical area, a decision system may obtain from a local database a list of dealers capable of provisioning the retail item—such as a new or used vehicle—at various locations within the geographical area. For each dealer, the system may calculate a dealer score across a plurality of tests and set a dollar value to an introduction utilizing the dealer score associated therewith. The performance measures of the tests may be normalized and adjusted utilizing a set of coefficients. The list of dealers may be sorted per dollar value of introduction and presented to the consumer. To provide more accurate dealer evaluations, the system may periodically reset the set of coefficients using sales data. | 01-30-2014 |
20140046730 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING COMPETITORS OF A RESTAURANT - 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. | 02-13-2014 |
20140052497 | CORRELATING LOCATION DATA - An example embodiment includes a method of associating mobile devices with transactional entities. The method includes identifying a first transaction performed by a first transactional entity and identifying a first set of mobile devices in a location of the first transaction at a time of the first transaction. The method further includes identifying a second transaction performed by the first transactional entity and identifying a second set of mobile devices in a location of the second transaction at a time of the second transaction. The first set of mobile devices is compared to the second set of mobile devices. When a single mobile device is common to the first set of mobile devices and the second set of mobile devices, the single mobile device is associated with the first transactional entity. | 02-20-2014 |
20140058796 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING PROXIMITY-BASED CROSS MARKETING AND PAYMENT ACTIVITY DATA - An approach for providing proximity-based cross marketing and payment activity data is described. A purchase-related action of a user performed at a first store is tracked. A second store within proximity of the first store is determined based on the tracked purchase-related action. An offer relating to the second store is generated for the user in real-time with respect to the purchase-related action performed at the first store. | 02-27-2014 |
20140067477 | Systems and Methods for Shopping Trend Alert - Systems and methods are disclosed for running a product trend application on a user device to obtain personalized product trend information from a service provider when making in-store purchase decisions. The user may use the product trend application to specify product trend information for products in a product category, for products purchased from a specific store, and/or for products purchased over a specified time period. The user device may obtain and transmit its current location to the service provider, which may provide a list of stores in the vicinity of the user device for which the product trend information is available. The user may also use the product trend application to select how the product trend information is filtered and displayed. Advantageously, the user may tailor the product trend information to the requirements of the user, such as to find the most popular product in a product category. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067478 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DYNAMICALLY ESTIMATE CONSUMER SEGMENT SALES WITH POINT-OF-SALE DATA - Methods and apparatus are disclosed to dynamically estimate consumer segment sales with point-of-sale data. An example method includes generating a dataset of observed category panelist trips for a segment of interest, identifying a first signal variable associated with non-panelist data for a time period of interest, calculating a trip likelihood for the segment of interest based on the first signal variable, and estimating a decomposition of purchases by segment based on the trip likelihood and the non-panelist data. | 03-06-2014 |
20140074554 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A TARGET MARKET BUSINESS STRUCTURE - This is a system and method for an entity to collect commission payments for sales of goods or services from suppliers. Information regarding the goods or services of the suppliers is compiled and adapted for presentation to target markets by a first server. This adapted information is transmitted to a second server located in the target market which is made available to consumers of the target market by a website controlled by the second server. Consumer queries are received at the website and consumer appointments are made at target market stores associated with the suppliers. These appointments are made to an in store electronic device located in the target market stores. Information regarding consumer purchases are recorded by the in store electronic device, transmitted to the second server, and then commissions are billed accordingly for payment by the suppliers. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074555 | Match Scenario mechanism and display - A job benchmarking system and method that allow a user to create a job scenario for a job based on scenario attributes, according to the market value of the job. A job modeling engine generates the job scenario for the job based on defined scenarios having defined scenario attributes and quantified market value dimensionalities representative of the market value of the job. After generating the job scenario, a user can request a comparison with other generated scenarios for the job. When a scenario is satisfactory, it can be formatted to work with a human resources system, such as for posting a job opportunity. | 03-13-2014 |
20140089050 | Mobile Seller Analytics - Methods and systems are provided for combining historic data with geospacial data to help mobile sellers enhance their profits. Data can be collected, stored, and analyzed, such as via a server, to help mobile sellers select new locations for selling their products. For example, information regarding the sales of a plurality of other mobile sellers can be collected, stored, and analyzed to help the mobile sellers decide which one of a plurality of different candidate locations should be selected as the next location where the mobile sellers should sell products. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089051 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO ALIGN PANELIST DATA WITH RETAILER SALES DATA - Methods and apparatus are disclosed to align panelist data with retailer sales data. An example method includes calculating a panelist reporting period for a panelist dataset having a first number of occasions, the panelist dataset having a household resolution, applying trip weights to a retailer dataset, the retailer dataset including a second number of occasions during a market research reporting period, the retailer dataset having a trip resolution, and minimizing a gap between the household resolution and the trip resolution. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089052 | Entity Display Priority in a Distributed Geographic Information System - A system for ranking geospatial entities is described. In one embodiment, the system comprises an interface for receiving ranking data about a plurality of geospatial entities and an entity ranking module. The module uses a ranking mechanism to generate place ranks for the geospatial entities based on the ranking data. Ranked entity data generated by the entity ranking module is stored in a database. The entity ranking module may be configured to evaluate a plurality of diverse attributes to determine a total score for a geospatial entity. The entity ranking module may be configured to organize ranked entity data into placemark layers. | 03-27-2014 |
20140095261 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING STAND POPULATION, STAND CONSISTENCY AND STAND QUALITY IN AN AGRICULTURAL CROP AND ALERTING USERS - A computer-based system for combining data related to stand population, consistency and quality in agricultural crops and dynamically analyzing the data whereby stand determinations based on that analysis during a crop growing season can be made. The system is programmed to alert a user (farmer) or other designated parties when the stand fails to meet user-defined parameters. | 04-03-2014 |
20140129292 | FACILITATING SOCIAL INTERACTION USING PURCHASE OR INTEREST HISTORY - An apparatus and method for facilitating social connections are disclosed herein. A purchase or interest in a first item by a first user is tracked. A match between one or more second users and the first user is determined, each of the one or more second users having purchased or shown interest in the first item and located in a same geographical area as the first user. Providing a notification to a device associated with the first user, the notification configured to facilitate initiating contact with one or more of the matching second users. | 05-08-2014 |
20140129293 | Method and Apparatus for Dynamic Fencing - The present disclosure provides embodiments of an apparatus and method for generating dynamic fences representing geographical regions where advertisement campaigns can take place. The dynamic fences can have arbitrary shapes and can change over time and in real-time. The method comprises receiving campaign information via connections to a packet-based network; generating at least one dynamic fence of arbitrary shape based on the campaign information; and updating the at least one dynamic fence in response to data received from the packet-based network. | 05-08-2014 |
20140136286 | VISUAL INFORMATION SYSTEM AND COMPUTER MOBILITY APPLICATION FOR FIELD PERSONNEL - A system for providing visual crop data to a mobile device includes at least one server computer in communication with a mobile device. The at least one server computer is configured to receive location data relating to a geographical position of the mobile device; retrieve topographical data associated with at least a portion of the location data; generate shape data based at least partially on the topographical data; and transmit at least a portion of the shape data to the mobile device, such that at least one shape is visually displayed on at least a portion of a map image displayed on the mobile device. Also disclosed is a computer-implemented method and computer program product for providing and/or interacting with visual crop data, including appropriately communicatively connected hardware components. | 05-15-2014 |
20140136287 | USING GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION TO DETERMINE ELEMENT AND AREA INFORMATION TO PROVIDE TO A COMPUTING DEVICE - A database has a plurality of elements, where each element is associated with a location and at least one set of different attribute values, wherein each set includes a timestamp when the attribute values in the set were determined. A determination is made of a reference geographical location, an element having a geographical location within a geographical region including the referenced geographical location, a most recent set of the attribute values for the element having a most recent timestamp, a previous set of attribute values for the determined element comprising the set of attribute values having a previous timestamp prior to the most recent timestamp, and whether a condition with respect to at least one of the most recent set of attribute values and the previous set of attribute values of the determined element is satisfied. | 05-15-2014 |
20140136288 | REAL ESTATE ANALYSIS SYSTEM - A real estate analysis system that provides an integrated approach for gathering available real estate data and synthesizing the real estate data for various uses by various users. The real estate data may be real time data, historical data, and/or most recent data. The processing of the data utilizes cloud resources in a cloud computing architecture. In addition, cloud resources are used to store various accumulated real estate data in a manner such that the cloud resources can quickly process calculations and have the results returned to an end user who requested the data. | 05-15-2014 |
20140156350 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MAPPING LOCATIONS OF WIRELESS TRANSMITTERS FOR USE IN GATHERING MARKET RESEARCH DATA - Methods and systems are disclosed to map locations of wireless transmitters for use in gathering market research data. A disclosed example method involves displaying a representation of a commercial establishment on a portable device, obtaining transmitter data via the portable device from a wireless transmitter located within the commercial establishment, and in response to the portable device receiving a user selection of a first location on the representation of the commercial establishment, associating the first location with the transmitter data and location information generated by the portable device representative of a physical location in the commercial establishment. | 06-05-2014 |
20140164063 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING AFFLUENCE - A system and method for determining affluence is provided. A plurality of accounts associated with a first geographic area are identified with each account has a number of transactions in a historical spend database associated with it that exceed a frequency of use threshold. The average income of the geographic area exceeds a predetermined income threshold. A total spend for each account from transactions in the historical spend database is associated with a spending range. The discretionary portion of the total spend for each account from transactions in the historical spend database is determined. An affluence category is associated with each account based on the total spend and the discretionary portion of the total spend of each account. | 06-12-2014 |
20140172509 | SALES MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An sales management apparatus of the present invention for managing sales data transmitted from a sales terminal device via a communication network includes a receiving section which receives sales data and position data of a sales venue transmitted from the sales terminal device placed on a mobile sales vehicle side when sales are being conducted at the sales venue by the mobile sales vehicle, a totalizing section which totalizes the sales data by mobile sales for each sales venue based on the sales data and the position data received by the receiving section, an analyzing section which analyzes the totalization results obtained by the totalizing section according to an analysis condition for analyzing the totalization results obtained by the totalizing section, and an output section which develops and outputs the analysis results obtained by the analyzing section on a map. | 06-19-2014 |
20140180767 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSIGNING SPENDING BEHAVIORS TO GEOGRAPHIC AREAS - A method for identifying spending behaviors in a geographic area includes: storing, in a database, a plurality of geographic centroids, each corresponding to a centroid of a predefined geographic area; receiving a plurality of financial transactions involving each consumer of a plurality of consumers; identifying a geographic location of each transaction; calculating, for each consumer, a purchase centroid of the transactions involving the consumer based on a centroid of the location of each of the transactions involving the consumer; analyzing, for each consumer, spending behaviors based on the consumer's transactions; associating the analyzed spending behavior for each consumer with the corresponding purchase centroid; associating the analyzed spending behaviors for each purchase centroid with a predetermined number of geographic centroids based on the distance from the purchase centroid to each of the geographic centroids; and aggregating, each of the spending behaviors associated with each geographic centroid. | 06-26-2014 |
20140188566 | AUTOMATED GENERATION OF NEW WORK PRODUCTS AND WORK PLANS - A method comprises the steps of selecting one or more constituents and one or more classes of work products, analyzing one or more existing work products to identify constituents frequently combined with the selected constituents and to identify constituents frequently used to create work products in the selected classes, determining a set of constraints for combining constituents for the set of classes based at least in part on a result of the analyzing step, and generating one or more new work products in the set of classes using the set of constraints. The selecting, analyzing, determining and generating steps are performed by at least one processor device. | 07-03-2014 |
20140200961 | ELECTRONIC SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING BIG GAME HARVESTING - A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium is provided. The medium has encoded thereon program code, wherein, when the program code is executed by a machine, the machine implements a method for managing the harvesting of a big game animal. The method includes the steps of selecting a jurisdiction; downloading a form from the jurisdiction, the form providing fillable fields for providing data about the harvesting the animal; filling out the form with the data; saving the data to a database; and providing the jurisdiction with access to the database. | 07-17-2014 |
20140200962 | DYNAMIC GEOSPATIAL RATING AND DISPLAY SYSTEM - A dynamic geospatial rating and display system enables a user to select a plurality of property and/or socio-economic variables that are used to rate and/or rank geographical areas and wherein these ratings are displayed as a geospatial map wherein each of said plurality of location areas are displayed in a rating color. The dynamic geospatial rating and display system includes an algorithm that utilizes the data for computing a rating for a plurality of locations areas. A user of the system may select a geographical area for analysis as well as a resolution within the geographical area. A user may also request a rate of change display, wherein the colors relative to location areas displayed are related to the rate of change of input variables selected. | 07-17-2014 |
20140200963 | NEIGHBORHOOD POLLING IN A GEO-SPATIAL ENVIRONMENT - A method, apparatus and system of polling in a geo-spatial environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes generating a community network of user profiles, each user profile associated with a specific geographic location, determining a geographic region associated with a neighborhood, determining a first group of user profiles, the specific geographic location of each user profile associated with the geographic region, generating a first play view to include a three-dimensional map view embodied by the community network and the first group of the user profiles represented at locations in the three-dimensional map view associated with the specific geographic location of each user profile, generating a poll associated with the first group of user profiles and receiving poll results associated with the poll via a communication mode. The method may also include automatically tabulating the poll results and publishing, via the communication mode, the poll results. | 07-17-2014 |
20140207524 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING CONSUMER SHOPPING CORRIDORS - The disclosed embodiments include systems and methods for determining shopping corridor. In one embodiment, a system is disclosed that may include one or more processors and one or more memory devices storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, performs operations consistent with the disclosed embodiments. In one embodiment, the operations may include receiving geo-coded financial transaction data associated with a plurality of financial transactions that were performed using a financial service account associated with a customer. The operations may also include grouping the financial transactions into a plurality of clusters based on the geo-coded financial transaction data. In another aspect, the operations may include generating a shopping corridor associated with the customer based on at least the plurality of clusters, and providing a financial service using the generated shopping corridor. | 07-24-2014 |
20140222515 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCED PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS - Systems and methods for providing geodemographic analyses using a unique weighting, centering and scaling approach for intensive variables is provided in a principal components analysis. The system may use an extensive variable as a size parameter that is appropriate for the particular geodemographic application. Additionally, a sizing function may be applied to the determined principal components before a clustering analysis. | 08-07-2014 |
20140236678 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO ENHANCE SEARCH VIA TRANSACTIONDATA - A computing apparatus is configured to: receive a search term from a user; identify a region within which a residence location of the user is located; obtain a spending profile generated based on aggregating transaction data of users residing in the region; and customize a search result based on the spending profile. For examples, spending of users residing in different regions (e.g., identified via zip+4 postal codes) can be aggregated within respective regions, and normalized and/or ranked across the regions to generate spending preference indicators. Further, the average distances between the residence locations of users residing with different regions and merchant locations at which the users make transactions using payment accounts are determined for the respective regions. The spending indicators and the average distance are used to select, prioritize and/or customize search results to reflect the spending preferences of users based on the residence regions of the users. | 08-21-2014 |
20140257932 | SEGMENT ASSIGNMENT OPTIMIZATION ENGINE - Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods, and computer program products for assigning a user to a user segment. In some embodiments, a system is configured to: receive transaction data associated with a user; analyze the transaction data; identify a user segment based on the analysis of the transaction data; and assign a user to the user segment. | 09-11-2014 |
20140257933 | MICRO SEGMENTS OPTIMIZATION ENGINE - Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods, and computer program products for identifying a user segment. In some embodiments, a system is configured to: receive first information from a first system; receive second information from a second system; verify first information with the second information; in response to positive verification of the first information with the second information, assign a first category to the first information. | 09-11-2014 |
20140257934 | PRICE SCORING FOR VEHICLES - Vehicle pricing such as used vehicle pricing is improved by supplementing statistical modeling techniques with additional algorithms to accommodate factors such as geography and dealer reputation that do not readily yield to regression analysis or similar tools that might be used to characterize a population. | 09-11-2014 |
20140278800 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR GENERATING LOCATION ESTABLISHMENT SEVERITY IDENTIFICATION - A computer system for real-time generation of location establishment severity profile alert based on aggregated quality-data corresponding to a plurality of location establishments is provided herein. A computer system provides for the electronic intake, and aggregate analysis of quality-data for establishment locations. Quality-data is accessed from one or more sources, and corresponds to multiple establishment locations. The system stores quality-data events identifying received quality-data, with a stored representation of a quality-data event's severity level. The system aggregates the stored quality-data events for example by calculating aggregate severity values associated with groups of establishment locations. In some embodiments, quality-data and/or aggregate severity values are normalized according to one or more factors, such as historic geographic data. Resulting aggregate data is then provided, such as through a graphical user interface that graphically codes regions according to their aggregate severity values. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278801 | Modular Complexing System for Deployment of Shelters - Expandable shelters housing displaceable cassettes configured to provide an allocated resource are disclosed. Techniques of complexing the expandable shelters housing displaceable cassettes are also disclosed. The displaceable cassettes may deploy from a stowed position in an interior of the expandable shelter to a use position removeably coupled in an expanded interior portion of a displaceable side of the expandable shelter. In the use position, the cassettes are configured to provide an allocated resource, and provide a hallway between other interconnected expandable shelters. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278802 | PRODUCING AND PROVIDING DATA FOR RENDERING A TRAVEL COST HEATMAP - The disclosed subject matter relates to computer implemented methods for producing and providing data for rendering a travel cost heatmap. In one example, a method includes receiving an origin location. The method further includes receiving one or more cost-constraints. The cost-constraint(s) is a maximum acceptable cost. The method further includes calculating a travel cost associated with travel from the origin location to each of a plurality of destination locations. The method further includes associating the calculated travel costs respectively with each of the plurality of destination locations. The method further includes comparing the respective calculated travel cost with the cost-constraint(s). The method further includes associating, based on the comparison, a visual indicator with the each of the plurality of destination locations. The method further includes providing, for rendering a travel cost heatmap, the data produced as a result of the techniques described above. | 09-18-2014 |
20140289019 | INFORMATION SYSTEM TO OBTAIN AN EXPOSITION RATING OF A GEOGRAPHICAL AREA - An information system is provided to obtain an exposition rating of a certain geographical area. A computer-implemented method is provided to obtain the exposition rating of a certain geographical area. An electronic device is provided for the display of information based on the exposition rating. | 09-25-2014 |
20140304038 | Measuring Retail Visitation Amounts Based on Locations Sensed by Mobile Devices - 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. | 10-09-2014 |
20140310063 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOCATION-BASED COPAY CARD REDEMPTION MANAGEMENT - The present disclosure provides a system and a method for location-based copay card redemption management. In one example, the method includes receiving a redemption measure representing a rate of redeemed copay cards originating from each referral source of a plurality of referral sources, receiving location information of a user device, determining a geographic area of the user device in view of the location information, determining a set of referral sources from the plurality of referral sources based on respective redemption measures and based on the geographic area of the user device, wherein an address associated with each referral source in the set of referral sources is located within the geographic area of the user device, and transmitting, to the user device, the address associated with each referral source in the set of referral sources. | 10-16-2014 |
20140316857 | HOUSING PRICE ESTIMATOR - A method of valuing real estate properties includes the steps of calculating a premium or discount to rental parity for a historically stable time period and the current time period. Another method of timing a real estate market is also disclosed. Another method of searching for relevant property based on the personal income and/or expense of the buyer is also disclosed. | 10-23-2014 |
20140351019 | SUBMISSION VALIDATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - The present general inventive concept provides a system and method to analyze and validate data submission of real estate data related to property value, store the real estate data, and track any manipulation thereof, thereby providing secure real estate data with increased accuracy. | 11-27-2014 |
20140358640 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ASSOCIATING MEDIA DEVICES WITH A DEMOGRAPHIC COMPOSITION OF A GEOGRAPHIC AREA - Example methods and apparatus for associating media devices with a demographic composition of a geographic area are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes receiving a plurality of Internet Protocol addresses assigned to a media device associated with a panel member, determining a most used Internet Protocol address from the plurality of Internet Protocol addresses, accessing geographic information and determining a geographic location corresponding to the most used Internet Protocol address, accessing demographic information and determining a demographic profile associated with the geographic location, and associating at least one of the geographic location or the demographic profile with the media device. | 12-04-2014 |
20140372180 | MERCHANT DEMOGRAPHIC ESTIMATION METHODOLOGY - A system, a method, and a computer program product provide competitive data to a subscribing merchant regarding customers of the subscribing merchant and competing peer merchants. A computing device loads at least one microsegment hold table. The microsegment hold table is previously generated from demographic attributes regarding a plurality of individuals. The computing device identifies hashed recognition IDs associated with payment transactions completed at the subscribing merchant and competing peer merchants. The microsegment hold table and identified hashed recognition IDs are merged to generate a microsegment summary file. The microsegment summary file is transferred. The microsegment summary file and a microsegment definition file are merged to create a summary file indicating a number of identified recognition IDs associated with various statistics. The computing device is then utilized to summarize the various statistics according to microsegment demographic attributes and breaks to generate summarized demographics. | 12-18-2014 |
20140379430 | APPLICATION OF MOBILE DEVICES FOR EVENT DATA - Predicting a future behavior through extraction of data from a mobile device within a geo-coordinate boundary. A geo-coordinate boundary of a geographic locale is ascertained. The geo-coordinate boundary may be defined according to a detected or known event. Data associated with a mobile device is gathered within the ascertained geo-coordinate boundary, the data including demographic information associated with the mobile device. The data is gathered and analyzed such that at least one common trait among the data is identified. A future behavior is predicted based on the identified common trait(s), wherein the future behavior may include predicating traffic based on a mobile device user leaving the geo-coordinate boundary, or purchasing behavior of a mobile device user. | 12-25-2014 |
20140379431 | APPLICATION OF MOBILE DEVICES FOR EVENT DATA - Predicting a future behavior through extraction of data from a mobile device within a geo-coordinate boundary. A geo-coordinate boundary of a geographic locale is ascertained. The geo-coordinate boundary may be defined according to a detected or known event. Data associated with a mobile device is gathered within the ascertained geo-coordinate boundary, the data including demographic information associated with the mobile device. The data is gathered and analyzed such that at least one common trait among the data is identified. A future behavior is predicted based on the identified common trait(s), wherein the future behavior may include predicating traffic based on a mobile device user leaving the geo-coordinate boundary, or purchasing behavior of a mobile device user. | 12-25-2014 |
20150012337 | DATA INTEGRATION AND ANALYSIS - Uncorrelated data from a variety of sources, such as consumer panels or retailer points of sale, are combined with maximal coverage of a universal data set for a population in a manner that permits useful inferences about behavioral propensities for the population at an individual or household level. | 01-08-2015 |
20150019293 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRIVACY COMPLIANT GIS FILE FORMAT DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR PAYMENT DATA - A method for providing characteristic payments data includes: storing a plurality of transaction data entries, each data entry including transaction data, consumer information, merchant information, and a geographic location; receiving a request for characteristics, the request including a characteristic metric and specified geographic area; identifying a subset of data entries, where the geographic location is included in the specified geographic area; identifying the characteristic metric based on at least one of: the transaction data, consumer information, and merchant information of each data entry in the subset; generating a data file illustrating the identified characteristic metric as applied to the specified geographic area, wherein the data file is of a geographic information system (GIS) file format; and transmitting the generated data file in response to the received request for characteristics. | 01-15-2015 |
20150019294 | Projecting Lower-Geographic-Resolution Data onto Higher-Geographic-Resolution Areas - Provided is a process of augmenting a geographic information system by projecting lower-geographic-resolution data on to higher-geographic-resolution areas, the process including: obtaining aggregate values each describing an attribute of different coarser geographic areas; obtaining a geographic-information system (GIS) having records each describing attributes of a finer-grained geographic area; identifying, for each of the coarser geographic areas, corresponding finer-grained geographic areas of the GIS; projecting, for each of the coarser geographic areas, the aggregate value of the respective coarser geographic area unevenly onto the corresponding finer-grained geographic areas based on respective attribute values of the corresponding finer-grained geographic areas; and storing in memory of the GIS. | 01-15-2015 |
20150025937 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OBTAINING AND USING TARGETED INSIGHTS WITHIN A DIGITAL CONTENT AND INFORMATION SHARING SYSTEM - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for obtaining insight information for a plurality of user devices. In an embodiment, an identification of target location(s) are received from a client. For each of the target location(s), the target location is categorized, and insight algorithm is automatically selected for the target location from a plurality of different insight algorithms based on the categorization of the target location. The selected insight algorithm can be configured to, for each of a plurality of user devices, receive a location of the user device, and determine whether or not to store an event record for the user device based on the location of the user device. | 01-22-2015 |
20150032510 | EVALUATING THE INFLUENCE OF OFFLINE ASSETS USING SOCIAL NETWORKING RESOURCES - Techniques are disclosed for using social networking resources to evaluate the influence of offline marketing assets. In certain embodiments data posted to a social network is analyzed to identify references to a particular marketer and/or a particular brand. Where such reference is identified, geographic location data associated with the posted data is stored in a database. As this location data is aggregated over a period of time, it can be cross-referenced with location data corresponding to offline marketing assets that belong to the particular marketer and/or that are otherwise associated with the particular brand. Offline marketing assets that geographically correspond to a cluster of social networking activity can be understood as wielding influence within social networks and being capable of generating valuable word-of-mouth. | 01-29-2015 |
20150032511 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DEMOGRAPHIC, ENVIRONMENTAL, BUSINESS AND/OR OPERATIONAL INFORMATION COLLECTION AND PROCESSING - In some embodiments, a non-transitory processor-readable medium stores code representing instructions to be executed by a processor that can cause the processor to receive from mobile compute devices demographic information associated with users of such mobile compute devices and the indication of the locations of such mobile compute devices and the time. The code causes the processor to identify based on the indication of the location and the time, a collection of mobile compute devices that are within a geographic area during a time period. The code causes the processor to receive from a remote sensory device, environmental information associated with the geographical area during the time period. The code causes the processor to correlate the demographic information with the environmental information to define a trend associated with the geographic area and the time period and send a signal including an indicator associated with the trend. | 01-29-2015 |
20150051953 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GEOLOCATION MAPPING OF INDOOR LOCATIONS USING PAYMENT DATA - A method for mapping merchant boundaries includes: storing, in a transaction database, a plurality of transaction data entries, wherein each transaction data entry includes data related to a payment transaction including at least a merchant identifier, a consumer identifier, and a transaction time and/or date; identifying, in the transaction database, a subset of transaction data entries, wherein each transaction data entry in the subset of transaction data entries includes a common merchant identifier; receiving, for each transaction data entry in the identified subset of transaction data entries, a geographic location of a mobile communication device associated with the respective included consumer identifier temporally proximal to the respective included transaction time and/or date; and generating, by a processing device, a boundary map for a merchant associated with the common merchant identifier based on the geographic locations received for each transaction data entry in the identified subset of transaction data entries. | 02-19-2015 |
20150051954 | CUSTOMER SATISFACTION MONITORING SYSTEM - A monitoring system for monitoring user assessment information at a predetermined location in real time is disclosed. The system includes user input means positioned at the location to capture the user assessment information and data storage means to store the user assessment information where the user assessment information also includes time and location information identifying the time and location of the capturing of the user assessment information. The system further includes data processing means to process the user assessment information in combination with other related user assessment information captured at different times to generate summary information. | 02-19-2015 |
20150058087 | METHOD OF IDENTIFYING SIMILAR STORES - A computer-implemented method and computer program product for identifying similar stores and determining store parameters based on the similar stores. The one or more computer programs identify key items by selecting a subset of all items. The one or more computer programs assign store feature vectors each including values of a store behavior for the key items. The one or more computer programs determine a similarity distance between each pair of the vectors. The one or more computer programs identify similar stores of a given store based on the similarity distance. The one or more computer programs determine one or more parameters for the given stores, based on the similar stores. | 02-26-2015 |
20150058088 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USING TRANSACTION DATA TO ASSIGN A TRADE AREA TO A MERCHANT LOCATION - A method for identifying a merchant trade area, includes: receiving a trade area request, the request identifying a merchant; storing a plurality of consumer location data entries, each entry including data related to a consumer involved in one or more payment transactions with the merchant, including a geographic location associated with the related consumer; identifying a geographic location associated with the merchant; identifying at least one geographic deviation metric based on the geographic location associated with the related consumer included in each entry of the plurality of consumer location data entries; identifying a merchant trade area based on the geographic location associated with the merchant and the identified at least one geographic deviation metric; and transmitting the identified merchant trade area in response to the received trade area request. | 02-26-2015 |
20150081390 | CUSTOMER SELECTION FOR SERVICE OFFERINGS - An aspect of customer selection processes includes classifying, by a computer processor, customers of an entity into groups based on commonly shared, predefined characteristics among the customers. For each of the groups: services rendered for corresponding customers are identified; for each of the services rendered, a risk relationship and a reward relationship between each of the corresponding customers and the service is determined; and for each of the services rendered, a score that defines a combination of the risk relationship and the reward relationship is calculated. For each of the services rendered by the entity, the corresponding score is applied to a candidate customer having a set of characteristics matching the characteristics of one of the groups, and the service is offered to the candidate customer as a function of the score. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081391 | ANALYTICS-DRIVEN PRODUCT RECOMMENDATION FOR FINANCIAL SERVICES - An aspect of product recommendation processes includes classifying customers into groups based on commonly shared, predefined characteristics and common financial transaction activities conducted. For each service offered, the product recommendation processes include estimating a cost of recommendation of the service; and estimating, for each of the customers in a group, a transaction risk of providing the service. For each group, the product recommendation processes include: identifying services available that are not rendered; estimating, based on economic health data associated with the corresponding customers, a probability of an acceptance by the corresponding customers of an offer for available services; estimating a profit based on historical profit data acquired from results of rendering the service to the customers of the group; and selecting a subset of the available services to offer the customers as a function of the cost of recommendation, the transaction risk, the probability of acceptance, and estimated profit. | 03-19-2015 |
20150088610 | Equipping a Sales Force to Identify Customers - The disclosure generally describes computer-implemented methods, software, and systems for identifying a preferred next best customer for pharmaceutical sales representatives to contact to promote a pharmaceutical product. A customer can be defined as any health care practitioner, health care facility, health care hospital system, or health care plan. | 03-26-2015 |
20150088611 | Methods, Systems and Apparatus for Estimating the Number and Profile of Persons in a Defined Area Over Time - A passive measuring technique and system processes and analyzes imprecisely reported location estimates collected from a plurality of mobile devices. The number and socio-demographic composition of persons within defined areas of interest are estimated over time. Each mobile device is assigned to a group and identified by an anonymized identifier, and the identifiers of devices within each group are refreshed on a rolling basis to further enhance privacy. A statistical weighting approach is applied so that each device represents a fraction of the population and socio-demographic profile of one or more segmentation districts. Users requesting a defined area of interest via a communication network receive an estimate—derived by modeling respectively anonymized mobile devices within an area of interest over a selectable time period as corresponding, statistically weighted devices—of the number and socio-demographic profile of all persons within the area of interest over the selectable time period. | 03-26-2015 |
20150088612 | Method for Analyzing Website Visitors Using Anonymized Behavioral Prediction Models - A method for analyzing web visitors using anonymized behavior production models begins with a website visitor accessing a website. The website includes a web beacon, which redirects the website visitor's browser to the server of a marketing services provider (MSP). The MSP server reads a cookie previously set by the MSP that includes an anonymous link. The anonymous link may be used to match data related to the website visitor that is maintained by the MSP, and browsing activity for that visitor is stored in an activity database from which periodic reports may be constructed for the website owner. The anonymous link is not associated with any personally identifiable information (PII), and thus privacy for the visitor is maintained. | 03-26-2015 |
20150100383 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO MEASURE CUSTOMER TRAFFIC AT A MERCHANT LOCATION - A method for measuring consumer traffic at a merchant location includes: storing, in a database, a consumer profile, wherein the consumer profile includes data related to a consumer including at least a device identifier corresponding to a mobile communication device associated with the related consumer; receiving, by a receiving device, a plurality of location data entries, wherein each location data entry includes at least a time and/or date at which the associated mobile communication device is identified as being located at a specific geographic location associated with a merchant; calculating, by a processing device, at least one traffic metric for the consumer and the specific geographic location based on the time and/or date included in each of the received plurality of location data entries; and associating, in the database, the consumer profile with the received plurality of location data entries and the calculated at least one traffic metric. | 04-09-2015 |
20150112767 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING NETWORK MOBILITY EVENTS TO BUILD ADVERTISING DEMOGRAPHICS - An example method is provided in one example embodiment and includes receiving a mobility event message for a first user equipment; determining demographic information for a first subscriber associated with the first user equipment; determining a location of the first subscriber in relation to a first network domain; identifying one or more advertising domains in relation to the location of the first subscriber based on the first network domain; determining a modeling function based on the mobility event message and the location of the first subscriber in relation to the identified advertising domains; updating, based on the modeling function, one or more demographic models for each of the identified one or more advertising domains using the demographic information for the first subscriber; and following the updating, calculating demographic information for all subscribers for each of the updated one or more demographic models for the identified advertising domains. | 04-23-2015 |
20150120392 | Ranking of Store Locations Using Separable Features of Traffic Counts - A system may generate a matrix according to subscriber count data for a plurality of points of interest within a geographical area over a period of time identified from aggregate subscriber data, the matrix including counts per subset of the period of time arranged according to subset of the period of time and point of interest. The system may further perform a factorization of the matrix of subscriber counts to extract feature components of the subscriber count data, identify at least a primary feature component and a secondary feature component according to the factorization, and provide a ranking of at least a subset of the points of interest according to at least one of the primary feature component and the secondary feature component. The system may also receive a request for a report, generate the report according to the identified feature components, and provide the report responsive to a request. | 04-30-2015 |
20150127427 | METHODS, SYSTEMS AND APPARATUS TO GENERATE MARKET SEGMENTATION DATA WITH ANONYMOUS LOCATION DATA - Methods and apparatus are disclosed to determine a consumer classification segment. A disclosed example method involves generating, with a processor, a list of consumer classification segments based on geographic indicators associated with a mobile device, associating, with the processor, the mobile device with a first consumer classification segment of the list of consumer classification segments if the geographic indicators were retrieved while a first application was executed, and associating, with the processor, the mobile device with a second consumer classification segment of the list of consumer classification segments if the geographic indicators were retrieved while a second application was executed. | 05-07-2015 |
20150134418 | System and Method for Providing Real-time Location Previews - Method and system for providing real-time location previews. For example, a system and method for collecting data about activity levels, including persons waiting in queues and density of persons, as well as environmental conditions of a location from one or more client devices and/or user devices; processing the collected data to remove privacy concerns, calculate queue times, density levels and other activity levels within a defined location, and retrieve contextual and historical information, including scheduled events, relevant to determining anticipated level of activity and environmental conditions within and around a location; and making processed data available to users via communications network for purpose of previewing a location. | 05-14-2015 |
20150134419 | CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE MANAGEMENT (CEM) METRICS AND OPERATIONAL CORRELATION TECHNIQUES - A mechanism is provided for corresponding network collected metrics to user equipment collected metrics is provided. Customer experience management (CEM) data is retrieved for an event obtained directly from computing devices of customers in a geographical area. The CEM data was stored at the computing devices. The computing devices wirelessly operate on a wireless communication network. CEM data obtained from the computing devices is averaged to determine a CEM data average value. Network data is retrieved for the event obtained from a node in the geographical area on the wireless communication network, and the network data was stored at the node. Network data obtained from the node is averaged to determine a network data average value for the network data. The network data average value is correlated to CEM data average value to determine a relationship between the network data average value and CEM data average value for the event. | 05-14-2015 |
20150134420 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING MERCHANT RECOMMENDATION DATA USING TRANSACTION DATA - A computer-implemented method for providing merchant recommendation data based on candidate merchant input data is provided. The method is implemented using a computing device in communication with a memory. The method includes storing transaction data for a plurality of model merchants within the memory, storing model merchant data for each of the plurality of model merchants within the memory, wherein the model merchant data includes geographic attributes associated with each of the model merchants, generating a location model by comparing the transaction data for each model merchant and the model merchant data for each model merchant, receiving candidate merchant input data for a candidate merchant, and providing, based on the location model and the candidate merchant input data, merchant recommendation data for the candidate merchant, wherein the merchant recommendation data includes at least one of a recommended merchant location and a recommended merchant type. | 05-14-2015 |
20150134421 | OPTIMIZING CUSTOMER PROMOTIONS - Processes for managing customers that visit one or more locations, such as a nightclub, are described. One example process may include electronically obtaining customer information encoded on an identification document, such as a driver's license, and verifying that the customer satisfies a rule for being admitted to the location based on customer information. A visual indicator may be presented to the user indicating whether or not the customer is authorized to enter the location based on the rule. The process may further include generating a customer record and storing customer information therewith. The records may be used to track activity of the customer within the location and determine customer preferences. Rewards, promotions, notifications, advertisements, and the like, may be presented to the customer based on their preferences and spending habits. Customers may further make reservations and information associated with those reservations may be stored with the customer's record. | 05-14-2015 |
20150142523 | METHOD, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE DEVICE AND APPARATUS FOR TRACKING AGGREGATE SUBSCRIBER AFFLUENCE SCORES - A method, computer-readable storage device and apparatus for creating a map are disclosed. For example, the method receives location data for at least one subscriber of a communications network service provider, calculates an aggregate subscriber affluence score of the at least one subscriber, wherein the aggregate subscriber affluence score is based upon an affluence score weighted by an influence parameter, and creates the map representing a location that the at least one subscriber has visited with an indication of the aggregate subscriber affluence score of the at least one subscriber. | 05-21-2015 |
20150149254 | MERCHANT ACTION RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM - Systems and methods for recommending merchant actions include a physical merchant location having a plurality of beacon devices. A system provider device receives a plurality of first location information from the plurality of beacon devices that is collected from a customer beacon communication device that is associated with a customer. The system provider device also receives a plurality of second location information over the network from the plurality of beacon devices that is collected from a merchant beacon communication device that is associated with an asset of the merchant. The system provider device analyzes the plurality of first location information and the plurality of second location information to determine at least one merchant action recommendation related to the customer and the asset of the merchant and provides the at least one merchant action recommendation over the network for display on a display device. | 05-28-2015 |
20150294337 | CONTENT CREATION AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM THAT DYNAMICALLY PRICES ACCESS BASED ON USER BEHAVIOR - A computer system and method in which users remotely access a system to proffer content users can access from remote locations. The system automatically stores content together with parameters that pertain to the content and facilitate users' access, and automatically and dynamically prices access to the articles in a manner relating prices to user behavior. In one improvement, the system and method enrich the system by adding automated selection of potential providers of answers to questions that users post and an automatic selection of suitable recipients of answers to those questions, and also by adding dynamic pricing for access to the answers that may differ for different classes of access and for different times of access. | 10-15-2015 |
20150302431 | 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. | 10-22-2015 |
20150302438 | Systems and Methods for Generating Competitive Merchant Sets for Target Merchants - Exemplary systems and methods for generating competitive merchant sets for target merchants are disclosed. One exemplary method includes compiling a sample of merchants from a database of merchants, determining a ticket size score, determining a proximity score for each merchant in the sample of merchants, and determining a historic relation score for each merchant in the sample of merchants. The exemplary method further includes generating a competitive merchant set, based on a combination of the ticket size score, proximity score, and the historic relation score. | 10-22-2015 |
20150302439 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING MOBILE DEVICE ACTIVITY - A method and server for monitoring the physical activities of a mobile device is provided. The server receives descriptive data from a monitor, the descriptive data including a time, a monitor identifier and a device identifier. Additional descriptive data based on the monitor identifier is selected and a profile based on the descriptive data and the additional descriptive data is updated. The profile is further updated based on a time based activity. The additional descriptive data can include classifications and at least one keyword associated with each classification. Each keyword associated with each classification is selected based on a location of the monitor. The profile can be associated with at least one of the device identifier and the monitor identifier. The server can further maintain additional profiles and aggregate the maintained to form a macro profile. | 10-22-2015 |
20150310465 | BEHAVIORAL DEMAND RESPONSE RANKING - A behavioral demand response (BDR) system can be implemented to encourage reductions in resource consumption. To accomplish this, consumption reports detailing resource consumption can be generated and transmitted to consumers to encourage resource consumption. For example, a resource consumption report can be generated and transmitted to consumers prior to an identified peak resource consumption event or “peak event” to notify the consumers of the upcoming peak event and request that the consumer reduce resource consumption before/during the peak event. To encourage the consumer to reduce their resource consumption, the resource consumption report can include details regarding the consumer's resource consumption ranking relative to similarly situated consumers. | 10-29-2015 |
20150310466 | SALES ANALYZER SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Sales data and vehicle data may be collected by a vehicle data system embodying a special sales analyzer application. For each dealer affiliated or registered with the system and each vehicle transaction record received from the dealer, the system may run analytics to determine, compute, and/or impute supplemental data and internal vehicle pricing data such as trim-level vehicle configuration data, price ranges, exclusion reasons, dealer-specific recommendations, etc. that can later be used to generate a dealer-facing custom user interface. The results are collated into a comprehensive database and persisted in a data store. When requested by a dealer, the system may retrieve dealer-specific information, including sales prices, salespeople, average dealer margins, sales volumes, etc., and anonymized sales data from others in the same geographic region as the dealer and display a visual presentation of all transactions and also individual transactions for that dealer. | 10-29-2015 |
20150317654 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LINKING TRAFFIC DATA TO PURCHASE BEHAVIOR - A method for linking traffic data to transaction data includes: storing a plurality of transaction data entries, each entry including data related to a payment transaction including at least a geographic location associated with the related payment transaction, a transaction time and/or date, and transaction data; receiving traffic data, the traffic data being related to vehicle traffic and including at least a geographic traffic area, a period of time, and one or more traffic characteristics associated with the vehicle traffic; identifying a subset of transaction data entries where each entry in the subset includes a geographic location included in a geographic transaction area corresponding to the geographic traffic area and a transaction time and/or date included in the period of time; and identifying an economic impact of the vehicle traffic based on at least the transaction data included in each of the transaction data entries included in the identified subset. | 11-05-2015 |
20150317655 | CROWDSOURCED NEWS END-TO-END SYSTEM - Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for sourcing, processing, and distributing information in general, and more specifically, information that is generally news or news-related in nature. An embodiment operates by determining a geographic area and selecting stories associated with the geographic area. The embodiment further generates map display information for the geographic area including a plurality of selectable indicators, each corresponding to one of the one or more stories, and transmits the map display information to an interactive user device. | 11-05-2015 |
20150317656 | Systems and Methods for Aggregation of Online Advocacy Activity Data Based Upon Electoral District - Systems and methods for aggregating online advocacy activities based upon electoral district are described that can display information derived from aggregated advocacy activities via an interactive map. Online advocacy activities can also include the reporting of advocacy activities that were not conducted online. The availability of online data describing advocacy activities conducted both online and offline enables the mapping of the aggregated advocacy activities. In many embodiments, advocacy activities performed online via one or more social media services are automatically aggregated by an aggregation server based upon congressional district. Online advocacy activity can be aggregated across multiple social media services and several embodiments of the invention enable communication with identified constituents to further coordinate and/or respond to online advocacy activities. In a number of embodiments, a mobile software application can be utilized to enable online advocacy activity, report of online advocacy, and/or conduct crowd fundraising. | 11-05-2015 |
20150324822 | PREDICTING TRANSIENT POPULATION BASED ON PAYMENT CARD USAGE - A system and a method for predicting the transient population of a geographic location or region using point of sale transaction data are disclosed. Historical purchase data is used to develop logic for predicting a transient population at any given time, or predicting or determining the present transient population. The logic can be tested against transaction data to qualify its accuracy. Statistical techniques are used to develop the logic with a sample of payment cardholders during an analytical phase. The logic can be applied to a broader universe of cardholders to ascertain a higher level of confidence that can be assigned to the prediction. | 11-12-2015 |
20150324823 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING ASSOCIATED GEOLOCATIONS - A method and a system are provided for identifying associated geolocations. 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 including external information. The method further includes analyzing the first set of information and the second set of information to construct (i) one or more definitions of geography, (ii) one or more definitions of time, and (iii) one or more payment card holder lists by geography and by time period to identify payment card holder overlap, and creating one or more groupings of geographies and time periods based on the payment card holder overlap. 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. | 11-12-2015 |
20150324824 | FACILITATING DEMOGRAPHIC ASSESSMENT OF INFORMATION USING TARGETED LOCATION OVERSAMPLING - Demographic assessment of information is facilitated using targeted location oversampling. In one example, a device determines mobile devices communicatively coupled to a base station device associated with a first defined region, wherein the first defined region is relative to a defined location of interest. The device can transmit a set of instructions to the mobile devices that instruct the mobile devices to power on respective location information components configured to transmit location information. The respective location information can be configured to transmit respective global positioning system information for the mobile devices. The device can also determine which ones of the mobile devices are within a second defined region based on respective location information received from the mobile devices. | 11-12-2015 |
20150339685 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING INFLUENCERS IN NOMADIC SUBCULTURES - A method for identifying influencers in nomadic subcultures includes: storing a plurality of transaction data entries, each including data related to a payment transaction including a plurality of merchant data values, a consumer identifier, and a plurality of transaction data values; storing a plurality of consumer profiles, each including data related to a consumer including a consumer identifier and consumer data; identifying merchant data values and transaction data values associated with a nomadic subculture; identifying a subset of transaction data entries where the merchant data values and transaction data values includes at least one of the merchant data values and transaction data values associated with the nomadic subculture; identifying one or more consumer identifiers included in at least two transaction data entries in the subset; and identifying a consumer profile including a consumer identifier of the identified one or more consumer identifiers. | 11-26-2015 |
20150339686 | ENHANCED DATA COLLECTION, PROCESSING, AND ANALYSIS - A method and corresponding apparatus that is configured to receive data from a data producer (such as for example a telecommunications provider like a mobile operator); process (e.g., analyze, aggregate, etc.) the received data; and supply aspects of the results of the processing to a data consumer through for example an array of user interfaces. | 11-26-2015 |
20150339689 | SHOPPING TRAJECTORY - Methods and systems for providing business information to a user or merchant, without revealing sensitive consumer or merchant information are described. A user/consumer or merchant/retailer sends a request for business information to a service provider. Business information includes, for example, customer location, customer feedback, customer spending behavior, volume of purchases, and retailers visited. The service provider receives the request and accesses its database to aggregate the business information. A graph, chart, or list of the business information is then provided to the user and/or merchant. | 11-26-2015 |
20150348076 | Venue Data Enrichment - Techniques for enriching venue data are described. The venue data can include records describing physical features of a venue and records describing conceptual features of the venue. A data enrichment engine can enrich the venue data using probe data by automatically correcting inconsistencies in the venue data or adding additional information to the venue data. The probe data can include crowd-sourced data from multiple mobile devices. The probe data can include motion sensor data, application launch data, and site survey data. | 12-03-2015 |
20150348077 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CUSTOMIZING INFORMATION DISPLAYED ON TOUCH-SCREENS BASED ON LOCATION DATA - Systems and methods are disclosed for running a product trend application on a user device to obtain personalized product trend information from a service provider when making in-store purchase decisions. The user may use the product trend application to specify product trend information for products in a product category, for products purchased from a specific store, and/or for products purchased over a specified time period. The user device may obtain and transmit its current location to the service provider, which may provide a list of stores in the vicinity of the user device for which the product trend information is available. The user may also use the product trend application to select how the product trend information is filtered and displayed. Advantageously, the user may tailor the product trend information to the requirements of the user, such as to find the most popular product in a product category. | 12-03-2015 |
20150356582 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MANAGING AND CONDUCTING CLINICAL OR OTHER RESEARCH USING A DIGITAL CONTENT AND INFORMATION SHARING SYSTEM - A system and a method for conducting research including a plurality of participants includes receiving, from a first client application associated with a first research participant, a first type of content including a status of the first research participant with respect to a first target location; selecting a second type of content based at least in part on the first type of content received from the first client application; determining to transmit the second type of content to at least one of the first client application and a second client application associated with a research organizer based at least in part on the first type of content received from the first client application; and transmitting the second type of content to at least one of the first client application and the second client application. | 12-10-2015 |
20150356583 | Distributed GPS-Based Sales Efficiency Management System - The present invention relates generally to a system of managing contact information and the economic efficiency of a selling entity's evolving relationship with those contacts and particularly to a distributed system for storing and managing contact information and information relating to the activities undertaken in real-time on behalf of the contact while simultaneously and automatically collecting, computing, disseminating sales efficiency data associated with those contacts and the activities undertaken on behalf of them. | 12-10-2015 |
20150371248 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING SALES MIGRATION BETWEEN MERCHANT TYPES - A method and system for determining sales migration between merchant types using a payment card network are provided. The method includes storing in a memory device, financial transaction data records for a plurality of purchase transactions conducted between a plurality of merchants and a plurality of payment card cardholders over a predetermined period of time. Each of the financial transaction data records including a cardholder account number and a merchant identifier. The method further includes determining a geographic home purchasing location of at least some of the plurality of the payment card cardholders using a respective cardholder account number and determining a geographic location of at least some of the plurality of merchants using a respective merchant identifier. The method also includes determining a trend of purchases from selected geographic home purchasing locations in relation to selected merchant identifiers and outputting the determined trends. | 12-24-2015 |
20150379537 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING GEOGRAPHIC POLYGONS USING PURCHASE DATA - A method for generating a consumer polygon map includes: storing a plurality of consumer profiles, wherein each consumer profile includes data related to a consumer including a consumer identifier and a plurality of transaction data entries, each transaction data entry including data related to a payment transaction involving the related consumer including transaction data and a geographic location; receiving a request for a consumer polygon, wherein the request for a consumer polygon includes a specific consumer identifier; identifying a specific consumer profile where the included consumer identifier corresponds to the specific consumer identifier; and generating a polygon map for the consumer related to the specific consumer profile, wherein the polygon map includes a plurality of polygon vertices, each polygon vertex being at a geographic location corresponding to a geographic location included in a transaction data entry included in the specific consumer profile. | 12-31-2015 |
20150379538 | TECHNIQUES FOR OVERINDEXING INSIGHTS FOR SCHOOLS - A method can include receiving a request for content including an attribute for a school. The method can analyze a social graph to identify a first set of nodes representing members, which can connect to a first node representing a first school, the social graph can be represented by a graph data structure having nodes representing various entities and edges representing associations between entities. The method can analyze a social graph to identify a second set of nodes representing members, the second set of nodes representing members connecting to a second node representing a school. The method can generate a central tendency of a number of the first set of nodes representing members and a number of the second set of nodes representing members and using the central tendency and a number of the first set of nodes representing members, can determine an index number for the first school. | 12-31-2015 |
20150379539 | Dynamic Mobile Seller Routing - Methods, systems, and computer program products for dynamically routing a mobile sales operation are disclosed. A computer-implemented method may include receiving a request to provide a location recommendation to a mobile sales operation where the request comprises GPS coordinates from a GPS device associated with the mobile sales operation, determining the location recommendation based on analyzing data associated with a competitor of the mobile sales operation in view of the GPS coordinates, sending a first communication comprising the location recommendation to a computing device of the mobile sales operation, and sending a second communication comprising GPS coordinates of an updated location recommendation to the computing device of the mobile sales operation in view of a change in status for one or more competitors of the mobile sales operation. | 12-31-2015 |
20160005060 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING SPENDING ON TRAVEL - A system for analyzing spending data includes a database, a receiving device and a processing device. The database stores a geographic area associated with a primary purchase area of a consumer. The receiving device receives transaction data for payment transactions for a plurality of consumers, wherein the transaction data includes purchase data, a transaction location, and a transaction time and/or date associated with the payment transaction. The processing device identifies the transaction data of the plurality of payment transactions originating at a location outside the primary purchase geographic area; generates a filtered set of payment transactions based on the identified transaction data; analyzes spending behaviors of the plurality of consumers; generates an aggregated report of transaction data occurring within a predetermined period of time for the plurality of consumers; and categorizes, for each consumer, the consumer's relative placement within the aggregated report based on a plurality of purchase attributes included. | 01-07-2016 |
20160005061 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CATEGORIZING NEIGHBORHOODS BASED ON PAYMENT CARD TRANSACTIONS - A computer implemented method for categorizing neighborhoods based on cardholder transactions is provided. The method is implemented using a computing device having a processor communicatively coupled to a memory. The method includes receiving a plurality of payment transactions from a plurality of cardholders, generating a list of cardholders based on the plurality of payment transactions, determining one or more life stage segments for each cardholder based on the plurality of payment transactions, determining one or more geographic regions based in part on the plurality of payment transactions where each geographic region contains a plurality of cardholders, determining a lifestyle category for at least one geographic region of the one or more geographic regions based on the one or more life stage segments of each of the cardholders associated with the corresponding geographic region, and providing a lifestyle report for the at least one geographic region. | 01-07-2016 |
20160005062 | PRODUCT-DISTRIBUTION STATION OBSERVATION, REPORTING AND PROCESSING - A computer-readable medium on which are stored computer-executable executable instructions that, when executed in at least one electronic system coupled to a display device and a network, enable the at least one system to perform a method comprising at least the steps of determining the geo-location of the system, determining at least one on-sale retail product associated with the determined geo-location of the system, recording a data set indicating a current price of the determined on-sale retail product, and electronically transferring the data set and an indication of the determined geo-location over the network to a processing device. | 01-07-2016 |
20160012472 | Adaptable data collection and analytics platform for matching and monitoring commuter drivers with driven messaging campaigns | 01-14-2016 |
20160027029 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCT PLACEMENT OPTIMIZATION BY SENSING CUSTOMER TRAFFIC IN STORES - The disclosed embodiments generally relate to in-store customer traffic analysis systems and methods. The system includes at least one sensor positioned within a retail store, at least one display associated with the at least one sensor, one or more memory devices storing instructions and one or more hardware processors configured to execute the instructions to perform operations. The operations include receiving a sensor signal indicating that a user device is within a proximity to the at least one sensor in the retail store, extracting a user device identifier from the sensor signal, correlating the sensor signal to the at least one display, generating a foot traffic record associated with the user device identifier and the at least one display, based on the received sensor signal, and storing the generated foot traffic record. | 01-28-2016 |
20160034902 | INTELLIGENT CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE SYSTEM - An intelligent system for managing a customer experience may consist of at least of a controller resident in a server that is positioned at a physical address. The controller can log a customer action and subsequently match the customer action with a customer profile. The controller may predict a customer satisfaction value and prompt an employee to engage in a staff action with a graphical user interface that is connected to the controller. The staff action can be selected by the controller in response to the customer satisfaction value to increase the customer's satisfaction and optimize the customer's experience. | 02-04-2016 |
20160034931 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING A LOCATION SPECIFIC INDEX OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITY - The systems and methods described herein can index the economic activity in a trade area of a location by identifying a set of data concerning the economic activity of a plurality of locations and storing it with the associated geographic position of each of the locations. A geographic trade area is then determined for each of the locations, using either a pre-set area defined as a radius from the location or through input by a user. The database is queried to identify all of the locations within the trade area of the subject location. The economic activity associated with the locations is aggregated and compared across time periods to create the index of the economic activity within the subject location's trade area. The economic activity from these locations may also be weighted by any number of factors, including distance from the subject location, and type of retailer. | 02-04-2016 |
20160042375 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONSTRUCTING AN INTERNET-BASED IMAGING SYSTEM - A system and method is presented that uses software logic (executing in one or more servers) to inter-connect mobile devices and location-deriving signal generating devices to collectively act as an Imaging System that outputs a periodic succession of images containing information about the preferences and purchase and transaction history of consumers. The Imaging System so constructed is called a SoftCamera in a fashion analogous to a conventional light-based camera. Images output by the SoftCamera may be transmitted to third-party providers or used to send information and recommendations to consumers. The SoftCamera thus may be used as a Recommender System in certain embodiments. | 02-11-2016 |
20160048857 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF COLLECTING DATA TO DETERMINE INTEREST - System and methods directed to collection of data to determine interest is herein described. An area that is a pre-defined distance from a brick-and-mortar store is identified. An indication is received from a mobile device associated with a user, the indication being received based on geofence data that indicates a geofence that surrounds the identified area. In response to receipt of the indication, data from the mobile device is periodically collected. A determination that the data collected from the mobile device indicates interest in the brick-and-mortar store is performed. A notification to the mobile device is presented based on the determination. | 02-18-2016 |
20160048858 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMICALLY CREATING MICRONEIGHBORHOOD AUDIENCE SEGMENTS - A method for generating a micro-neighborhood of consumers includes: storing a plurality of account profiles, each profile including data related to a consumer including account data, a micro-neighborhood location identifier, and a plurality of transaction data entries, each entry being related to a payment transaction involving the related consumer and including transaction data; scoring each account profile stored in the account database by application of a scoring model to the transaction data included in one or more transaction data entries included in the respective account profile; and identifying a plurality of account profile groupings, each grouping including a subset of the plurality of account profiles identified based on the score for and micro-neighborhood location identifier included in each account profile included in the subset, wherein the subset of the plurality of account profiles included in each account profile grouping includes at least a predetermined number of account profiles. | 02-18-2016 |
20160048859 | VENUE BOUNDARY EVALUATION FOR INFERRING USER INTENT - One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for inferring user intent and/or for inferring a user location type of a user based upon venue boundary evaluation. For example, a user is located at a current user location, such as a downtown district of a city. One or more venue evaluation boundaries, corresponding to areas around the current user location, may be defined. Potential user intents, corresponding to venue types of venues within a venue evaluation boundary, may be identified (e.g., a buy coffee intent, a go to theatre intent, a meet a friend for lunch, intent, etc.) and may be assigned user intent values (e.g., the meet a friend for lunch intent may be assigned a lower value due to a current time being 9 am). Venue evaluation boundaries may be evaluated until an inferred user intent and/or inferred user location type (e.g., commercial, residential, etc.) is identified. | 02-18-2016 |
20160055501 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A COHORT - A system and method is provided for determining a cohort. In one implementation a method is provided that can include acquiring user inputs and identifying, based on the user inputs, a plurality of entities sharing one or more attributes with a first entity. The method can also include acquiring information including one or more interactions associated with the first entity and the plurality of entities and creating a cohort by processing the one or more interactions to select other entities associated with the first entity. Selecting the other entities can be based on a similarity between attributes of consuming entities that are associated with the first entity and the other entities; a similarity between location information associated with the first entity and the other entities; a market share of the first entity and the other entities; and a wallet share of the first entity and the other entities. | 02-25-2016 |
20160055502 | METHODS, SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR UTILIZING PAYMENT CARD TRANSACTION DATA TO CONDUCT PRODUCT PRICE COMPARISONS - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for utilizing payment card transaction data to conduct product price comparisons are disclosed. In one example, the method includes receiving product selection information associated with a designated product from a user selection device and receiving geographic location information associated with the user selection device. The method also utilizing the product selection information and the geographic location information to identify merchant entities that have conducted sales transactions of the designated product within an area specified by the geographic location information and providing, to the user selection device, merchant comparison data that includes the identified merchant entities and the sales transaction prices of the designated product. | 02-25-2016 |
20160055503 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTORLESS PRODUCT SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT - A new product introduction system is configured for (a) introducing new products into a target geographical without authorized or recognized distributors for such products; and (b) providing particular types of new product supply chain management services within the target geographical area. The system receives a target product verification request from a product seeker's computing device, and extracts a product image for determination of whether a product depicted therein is available in the target geographical area. The system maintains a cumulative count of target product verification requests corresponding to the product for estimating product popularity in the target geographical area. If no distributor exists, the system receives venture orders for the product from venture investors' computing devices, and places such orders with a product source outside the target geographical area. The system manages online product sales in the target geographical area, and automatically apportions online sales revenues among the venture investors. | 02-25-2016 |
20160055504 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF SIMULATING USER INTUITION OF BUSINESS RELATIONSHIPS USING BIOGRAPHICAL IMAGERY - The systems and methods of the present disclosure simulate the intuitive visualization of a host organization's experienced personnel by graphically portraying business relationships with external and internal business entities including clients, vendors, prospects, service resources, agents, and company personnel in universally recognizable caricatured scenes and images, including animations, based on transactional events that are passively accumulated from the accounting, phone, email, and management operations of a host system, delivering objectively-based graphical renditions of business relationships reflecting tenure, volume, frequency, demeanor, profitability, reliability, and many other relationship attributes thus enabling new, learning disabled, or unfamiliar personnel who possess varying degrees of first-person experience with the subject entities to respond instinctively and accurately to the current occurrence with the subject business entity while preserving invaluable relationship intuition that is otherwise lost when veteran personnel are absent or removed from their position or that takes new personnel weeks, months, or years to acquire. | 02-25-2016 |
20160055539 | CONTENT TARGETING TO PARTICULAR INDIVIDUALS BASED ON DEMOGRAPHIC AND PSYCHOGRAPHIC SEGMENTATIONS, UTILIZING THE COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND SPECIFICALLY PROGRAMMED COMPUTER SYSTEMS FOR PERFORMING THEREOF - In some embodiments, the present invention is directed to a computer-implemented method which includes at least the following steps of requesting a consent to obtain an individual social media profile data; based on the consent, electronically obtaining the individual social media profile data from a social media electronic data source; determining individual specific parameters based on the individual social media profile data; matching the individual specific parameters to at least one segment identifier generated based on a predetermined segmentation of a target population of individuals; based on the matching, associating the at least one segment identifier with the individual social media profile data; and outputting an advertisement to the individual based on the at least one segment identifier associated with the individual social media profile data of such individual. | 02-25-2016 |
20160055551 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING WEB-BASED USER FEEDBACK - The present invention generally relates to computer and web-based shopping services and real world comparison feedback services. Specifically, this invention relates to systems and methods for providing web-based social shopping services and real world comparison feedback services whereby users can create groups based on various criteria in order to get real-time or near real-time feedback and opinions regarding online and real world purchases, potential purchases and comparisons. | 02-25-2016 |
20160071136 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTEGRATING TRAVEL VISA DATA WITH TRANSACTION DATA - A method for linking travel visa data to transaction history includes: storing a plurality of consumer profiles, each profile including data related to one or more consumers including a plurality of consumer characteristics associated with each of the related one or more consumers and a plurality of transaction data entries each corresponding to a payment transaction involving one of the related one or more consumers; receiving a travel visa profile, the profile including travel visa data associated with one or more specific consumers and a plurality of demographic characteristics associated with each of the one or more specific consumers; identifying a 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 each identified consumer profiles with the travel visa data included in the received travel visa profile. | 03-10-2016 |
20160071137 | CROSS-BORDER TREND ALERTS AND VISUALIZATIONS - Systems and methods for cross-border trend alerts and visualizations are provided. In example embodiments, trade data corresponding to a plurality of transactions is accessed. Transaction attributes are extracted from the trade data. The plurality of transactions are filtered according to the extracted transaction attributes. A trend is inferred based on the extracted transaction attributes for the filtered plurality of transactions. A visualization representative of the filtered plurality of transactions is generated. The visualizations is displayed on a user interface of a user device. | 03-10-2016 |
20160078573 | AUTOMATED VALUATION MODEL WITH CUSTOMIZABLE NEIGHBORHOOD DETERMINATION - Automated valuation model with customizable neighborhood determination. A map image is displayed corresponding to a geographical area, and then user input accommodates definition of a particularly defined geographic area to provide custom identification of a neighborhood to be subject to automated valuation. Once the defined geographic area is established, the automated valuation model is applied to property data corresponding to properties within the defined geographic area. A subject property and corresponding properties within the defined geographic area are then displayed on a map image, preferably with articulation of the defined geographic area as the neighborhood of interest. The neighborhood may be defined by, among other criteria, inclusion within a user-defined shape, as well as exclusion of a user-defined shape from a displayed geographic area. | 03-17-2016 |
20160110744 | HYPERLOCAL RATING SERVICE - A method and system for acquiring ratings of local businesses accepts a rating submitted by an individual who is associated with a location near a physical presence of a rated business. Ratings are acquired by receiving from a rater a proposal to submit a rating of a business, identifying a location of the rater, verifying the location of the rater, defining a locality encompassing the location of the rater, determining that the business's local presence is contained in the locality, accepting the rating from the rater, and storing the rating to a database. Several techniques are disclosed for verifying the location of the rater. | 04-21-2016 |
20160110745 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING STRATEGIC INSTALLATION OF CHARGING PORTS FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLES - Methods and systems facilitate strategic installation of charging ports for charging electric vehicles. Transaction information associated with financial transactions executed using payment cards is analyzed to determine identification (ID) proxies for consumers, charging locations, and reference locations. Predictors are used to determine outputs that facilitate strategic installation of charging ports. | 04-21-2016 |
20160117687 | ENGAGING RETAIL CUSTOMERS OVER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - A historical-data module may retrieve historical prices and/or sales numbers for products at a presently-relevant, historical reference time and at other times in an interval encompassing the reference time. A comparison module may generate relative price values and/or sales-number values by comparing prices and/or sales numbers at the reference time to those at other times in the interval for various products. A selection module may select a subset of products with a favorable weighted combination of relative price values and/or sales-number values for a product report presented over a communication network, potentially with a graph of historical prices for the products. Information about a viewer of the product report may further tailor the report. Viewer information may include signals of product interest identified in social-networking posts by natural language processing, viewer search and/or purchase data, the viewer's relations in a social graph of a social networking platform, and/or geo-targeting. | 04-28-2016 |
20160117705 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING FUTURE MOVEMENT BASED ON PAST TRANSACTIONS - A method for generating consumer travel paths based on transaction history includes: storing transaction data for a plurality of payment transactions, the data including a geographic location, transaction time and/or date, and consumer identifier; receiving a specific geographic area for which movement is requested; identifying a payment transaction set that includes transaction data for a set of payment transactions that include a common consumer identifier, a geographic location corresponding to the received specific geographic area, and a transaction time and/or date included within a predetermined period of time; generating a travel path based on at least the geographic location and transaction time and/or date included in the transaction data for each payment transaction included in the payment transaction set; and predicting a future travel path based on at least the generated travel path. | 04-28-2016 |
20160125440 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO IDENTIFY PUBLISHER ADVERTISING BEHAVIOR - Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to identify publisher advertising behavior. An example disclosed method includes initiating a first probing effort of an Internet publisher of interest to establish a baseline advertising ratio for a plurality of advertisers, determining a first advertising deviation based on a difference between the baseline advertising and a local advertising associated with a first geography of interest, and establishing a first probing frequency for the first geography of interest based on the first advertising deviation. | 05-05-2016 |
20160125441 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRACKING CONSUMER CONFIDENCE BASED ON TRANSACTION DATA - A method of generating a more objective consumer confidence and more particularly to tracking consumer confidence objectively based on data regarding past transactions. | 05-05-2016 |
20160140589 | RETAIL CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT ZONES - A method and system that receives, as input data in a processor of a computer, an identification and location of a retail entity. Map data relevant for the retail entity is received and the retail entity is located on the map data. Data identifying at least one of a product, a product set, and a service or services is received as input data. A listing is received of one or more competitors that offer the product or one or more products of the product set or the service as a competitor of the retail entity for the product, product set or service. The one or more competitors are located on the map data. An affinity for consumers is calculated for the product, product set, or service for the retail entity and each of the one or more competitors. | 05-19-2016 |
20160162912 | 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. | 06-09-2016 |
20160162918 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING GEOGRAPHIC-BASED LIFESTYLE INFORMATION - A method for identifying geographic-based lifestyle groups includes: storing consumer profiles, each profile including data related to consumers including a geographic location and consumer characteristics and purchase behaviors; receiving a lifestyle group request, the request including a geographic indicator; identifying a plurality of geographic areas based on the geographic indicator; identifying a group of consumer profiles for each geographic area where the geographic location is included in the respective geographic area; identifying a consumer lifestyle for each geographic area based on a correspondence between consumer characteristics and/or purchase behaviors included in a lifestyle rule associated with the respective consumer lifestyle and the consumer characteristics and purchase behaviors included in each consumer profile in the area's group of consumer profiles; and transmitting data associated with the identified plurality of geographic areas and corresponding identified consumer lifestyle in response to the received lifestyle group request. | 06-09-2016 |
20160162919 | Lottery Communication System and Method - A lottery communication system and method employs multiple device types communicating across a plurality of networks. According to various embodiments, the system and method utilizes a plurality of data collection terminals wherein retail sales data may be collected. Such information may then be communicated to a central processing component along with terminal information data specific to each of the plurality of data collection terminals. This terminal information data and retail sales data is supplemented with additional retail information and/or consumer information. Algorithmic processes facilitate analysis and normalization of the data to yield market insights, patterns, and trends across geographic boundaries, store types, and other parameters. | 06-09-2016 |
20160171510 | Systems and Methods for Gathering, Merging, and Returning Data Describing a Person from Data Aggregated from Multiple Remote Data Sources | 06-16-2016 |
20160180353 | ANALYZING DATA OF CROSS BORDER TRANSACTIONS WITHIN A NETWORK TRADING PLATFORM | 06-23-2016 |
20160189185 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UNDERSTANDING SPEND BEHAVIOR OF FOREIGN PAYMENT CARD HOLDERS AT DOMESTIC MERCHANTS - A method and a system are provided for understanding spend behavior of foreign payment card holders at domestic merchants. In particular, the present disclosure provides a method and a system for assessing purchasing and payment behavior of a plurality of foreign payment card holders at one or more domestic merchants based on purchasing and payment activities of the plurality of foreign payment card holders, countries of origin of the plurality of foreign payment card holders, and one or more categories of domestic merchants associated with the purchasing and payment activities of the plurality of foreign payment card holders. Indices are generated based on the purchasing and payment activities of the plurality of foreign payment card holders, the countries of origin of the plurality of foreign payment card holders, and the one or more categories of domestic merchants. Predictive behavioral models are generated based on the one or more indices. | 06-30-2016 |
20160189186 | Analyzing Semantic Places and Related Data from a Plurality of Location Data Reports - Computer-implemented methods and systems of determining semantic place data include receiving a plurality of location data reports from a plurality of mobile devices, partitioning them into localized segments, and estimating a geographic region bucket for each segment. For clustering canopies of localized segments identified as satisfying a potential geographic overlap characterization, an overlap score is calculated that correlates the overlap among actual geographic regions covered by movement of the mobile devices generating the localized segments in that given clustering canopy. A data structure that provides a hierarchical clustering configuration of the localized segments in each geographic region bucket is generated from the determined overlap scores. Additional semantic data for nodes in the data structure can also be provided. | 06-30-2016 |
20160189187 | MARKETING SYSTEM AND MARKETING METHOD - The transmission part transmits communication information including the terminal ID of the user terminal, the unit ID of the wireless unit and radio wave intensity to a server, when the user terminal performs short-distance wireless communication to the wireless unit through the radio wave. The collection part collects a chronological change of the radio wave intensity in the terminal ID concerned with the unit ID. The calculation part calculates the flow line that the user moved in the area of the wireless unit and the flow time when the user stays on a part of the flow line. The estimation part estimates action information indicating that the user did actually on the area of the wireless unit. The analysis part analyzes the user's attribute information including the user's preference based on the user's action information and the installation attribute information. | 06-30-2016 |
20160189253 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INFERRED REVIEW - Systems and methods are provided for generating inferred reviews of service providers. Inferred reviews may be generated based on user behavior data for one or more users. The user behavior data may include information that represents how far a user travels to a service provider, how many similar service providers the user passes on the way to the service provider, a number of repeat visits to the service provider, a typical time for services at the service provider, or a length of time the user has been a customer or attendee of the service provider. A service provider may include a merchant, a hotel, a physician, a contractor, another service provider that provides goods or services for a cost or may include non-profit service providers, charity-based service providers or public locations such as parks, rest stops or other locations. | 06-30-2016 |
20160203502 | EVALUATING AND DISPLAYING FEEDBACK FOR AN ITEM DISTRIBUTED TO A GROUP OF USERS AT A COLLABORATIVE EVENT | 07-14-2016 |
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20160379236 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ESTIMATING RESIDENCE LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE WITH TRANSACTION DATA - A method for estimating a consumer geolocation using filtered transaction data includes: storing transaction data entries, each including an account identifier, merchant identifier, and merchant category code; storing filtering rules, each including one or more merchant category codes; receiving a location request including a specific account identifier and specific filtering rule; identifying a subset of transaction data entries including the specific account identifier; filtering the subset of transaction data entries to remove transaction data entries where the merchant category code does not correspond to one of the merchant category codes included in the specific filtering rule; identifying a geographic location for each transaction data entry in the subset based on the respective included merchant identifier; estimating a geographic location based on the geographic location identified for each transaction data entry in the filtered subset; and electronically transmitting the estimated geographic location in response to the location request. | 12-29-2016 |
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20190147469 | Methods, Systems, Networks, and Media for Generating Location Based Clusters of Merchants Based on Consumer Transaction Activity | 05-16-2019 |
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20220138731 | LEVERAGING BLOCKCHAIN BASED MACHINE LEARNING MODELING FOR EXPENSE CATEGORIZATION - Systems and methods disclosed herein provide automatic expense categorization of transactions or expenditures based on a machine learning (ML) model trained using anonymized transactional data for expenditures that are stored in a public blockchain. The anonymized transactional data for the expenditure and the expense category, may be distributed throughout the blockchain network and recorded in the blockchain. In some implementations, an expenditure may be submitted to the blockchain network for expense categorization. The transactional data for the expenditure may be anonymized to remove confidential and personal identifying information (PII) before it is distributed throughout the blockchain network. Each participating node of the blockchain network may utilize the ML model to identify an expense category for the expenditure. The participating nodes may provide a consensus mechanism in order to arrive at a shared understanding of how to categorize the expenditure. | 05-05-2022 |
20220138766 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR IMPLEMENTING DATA COLLECTION, ANALYSIS, AND A REWARD SYSTEM FOR ZERO PLASTIC POLLUTION - In accordance with embodiments disclosed herein, there are provided herein systems, methods, and apparatuses for implementing data collection, analysis, and a reward system for zero plastic pollution. For instance, an analysis model is provided to find key performance indices including over-saturation of plastic in a region. According to a particular embodiment, a specially configured system having: a memory to store instructions; a processor to execute instructions stored in the memory; and stored logic within the memory that, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to perform operations including: receiving data from a plurality of sources regarding geographic-based plastics usage, each source choosing a level of geographical region specificity regarding the geographic-based plastics usage, encrypting the received data, analyzing an inflow and outflow rate of plastics usage for a geographic region based on the encrypted received data, and ranking the plastics usage of each of the plurality of sources, by industry. Other related embodiments are disclosed. | 05-05-2022 |
20220138864 | INFERRING ITEM-LEVEL DATA WITH BACKWARD CHAINING RULE-BASED REASONING SYSTEMS - A rule-based reasoning system may receive first transaction-level data for a first transaction that indicates a first transaction amount of the first transaction and a first merchant associated with the first transaction. The system may determine first item-level data for the first transaction that indicates one or more line items associated with the first transaction. The system may infer second item-level data for a second transaction based on the first item-level data and based on: a determination that a second merchant, associated with the second transaction, matches the first merchant associated with the first transaction, and a determination that a second transaction amount, associated with the second transaction, matches the first transaction amount or satisfies a condition that is based on a calculation performed using the first transaction amount and the second transaction amount. The system may output an indication of the second item-level data associated with the second transaction. | 05-05-2022 |