13th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 60 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130080149 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING CATEGORIES OF DATA - Lines of data that are from a historical document, such as a digitized city directory, have information extracted and stored in searchable data fields. Words and phrases within the lines of data are identified and tagged. Rendering rules are applied to the tagged words and phrases to extract names, addresses, occupations, spouse information and other data, and store that data in the searchable fields. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080150 | Automatic Semantic Evaluation of Speech Recognition Results - A semantic error rate calculation may be provided. After receiving a spoken query from a user, the spoken query may be converted to text according to a first speech recognition hypothesis. A plurality of results associated with the converted query may be received and compared to a second plurality of results associated with the converted query. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080151 | Systems and Methods for Teaching Phonemic Awareness - A system to teach phonemic awareness uses a plurality of phonemes and a plurality of graphemes. Each phoneme is a unique sound and an indivisible unit of sound in a spoken language, and each grapheme is a written representation of one of the plurality of phonemes. A plurality of distinct graphical images and a plurality of unique names are provided where each unique name is associated with one of the graphical images and represents a grouping of graphemes selected from the plurality of graphemes. The system uses a plurality of sets of display pieces having a plurality of individual display pieces. Each individual display piece includes at least a portion of one of the graphical images and the graphemes from the grouping of graphemes constituting the associated unique name. A predefined instructional environment defines a predefined spatial context and predefined rules governing the acquisition and utilization of individual display pieces. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080152 | LINGUISTICALLY-ADAPTED STRUCTURAL QUERY ANNOTATION - A system and method for natural language processing of queries are provided. A lexicon includes text elements that are recognized as being a proper noun when capitalized. A natural language query includes a sequence of text elements including words. The query is processed. The processing includes a preprocessing step, in which part of speech features are assigned to the text elements in the query. This includes identifying, from a lexicon, a text element in the query which starts with a lowercase letter and assigning recapitalization information to the text element in the query, based on the lexicon. This information includes a part of speech feature of the capitalized form of the text element. Then parts of speech for the text elements in the query are disambiguated, which includes applying rules for recapitalizing text elements based on the recapitalization information. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080153 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives character sequences, a sorting unit that sorts the character sequences received by the receiving unit into known words and unknown words, and a detecting unit that detects character sequences sorted as unknown words by the sorting unit as incorrect words and detects a third character sequence between a first character sequence and a second character sequence, which have been sorted as unknown words by the sorting unit, as incorrect words when the third character sequence includes words sorted as known words by the sorting unit and the number of the known words is less than or equal to or less than a predetermined number. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080154 | NETWORK BASED RESTORATIVE JUSTICE - Systems and methods herein provide for resolution between at least two parties through a network. In one embodiment, a system includes an interface operable to communicatively couple to the network. The system also includes a processor operable to establish secure communications between at least two client terminals and a facilitator terminal through the network. The processor provides dialog interfaces to the client terminals and to the facilitator terminal, receives dialog of the parties from the client terminals via their respective dialog interfaces, and provides the dialog of the parties to the facilitator terminal. The processor receives dialog from the facilitator terminal via the facilitator's dialog interface to manage the dialog between the parties, generates a file detailing an agreement between the parties based on the dialog between the parties, transfers the file to the parties via their respective dialog interfaces, and stores the file for subsequent access by the parties. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080155 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CREATING DICTIONARY FOR SPEECH SYNTHESIS - Apparatus for creating a dictionary for speech synthesis includes a sentence storage unit configured to store N sentences, a sentence display unit configured to selectively display a first sentence which is one of the N sentences, a recording unit configured to record each user speech, a necessity determination unit configured to make a determination of whether to create the dictionary, a dictionary creation unit configured to create the dictionary by utilizing the user speech, and a speech synthesis unit configured to convert a second sentence to a synthesized speech with the dictionary. The determination unit makes the determination under a condition that the recording unit records the user speech of M first sentences (M is less than N) and the determination is based on at least one of an instruction from the user, M and an amount of the recorded user speech. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080156 | VOICE RECOGNITION APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - In an embodiment, a voice recognition apparatus includes: a program information storage unit; a dictionary storage unit; a calculating unit; an updating unit; a receiving unit; a recognizing unit; and an operation control unit. The program information storage unit stores metadata of a broadcast program with a user's viewing state. The dictionary storage unit stores a recognition dictionary including a recognition word and a priority of the recognition word. The calculating unit calculates a first score of a degree of the user's preference on a feature word based on the metadata and the viewing state. The updating unit updates the priority of the recognition word including the feature word according to the first score. The recognizing unit recognizes a voice using the recognition dictionary. The operation control unit controls an operation on the broadcast program based on a recognition result. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080157 | CODING APPARATUS AND METHOD USING RESIDUAL BITS - Disclosed is a coding apparatus and method using residual bits. Accordingly, performance (voice quality) is enhanced by quantizing a full-band gain of frequency coefficients existing in sub-bands to which bits are not assigned in an algebraic vector quantization (AVQ). Further, the performance (voice quality) is enhanced by sequentially quantizing a sub-band gain of sub-bands to which bits are not assigned until residual bits are removed. Furthermore, the performance (voice quality) is enhanced by demodulating AVQ coefficients, and correcting quantization noises starting with a coefficient having the greatest absolute coefficient among the AVQ coefficients, when residual bits additionally remain. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080158 | Speech Enhancement with Minimum Gating - A speech enhancement system enhances transitions between speech and non-speech segments. The system includes a background noise estimator that approximates the magnitude of a background noise of an input signal that includes a speech and a non-speech segment. A slave processor is programmed to perform the specialized task of modifying a spectral tilt of the input signal to match a plurality of expected spectral shapes selected by a Codec. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080159 | DETECTION OF CREATIVE WORKS ON BROADCAST MEDIA - This disclosure relates to systems and methods for proactively determining identification information for a plurality of audio segments within a plurality of broadcast media streams, and providing identification information associated with specific audio portions of a broadcast media stream automatically or upon request. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080160 | DOCUMENT READING-OUT SUPPORT APPARATUS AND METHOD - According to one embodiment, a document reading-out support apparatus is provided with first to third acquisition units, an extraction unit, a decision unit and a user verification unit. The first acquisition unit acquires a document having texts. The second acquisition unit acquires metadata having definitions each of which includes an applicable condition and a reading-out style. The extraction unit extracts features of the document. The third acquisition unit acquires execution environment information. The decision unit decides candidates of parameters of reading-out based on the features and the information. The user verification unit presents the candidates and accepts a verification instruction. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080161 | SPEECH RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND METHOD - According to one embodiment, a speech recognition apparatus includes following units. The service estimation unit estimates a service being performed by a user, by using non-speech information, and to generate service information. The speech recognition unit performs speech recognition on speech information in accordance with a speech recognition technique corresponding to the service information. The feature quantity extraction unit extracts a feature quantity related to the service of the user, from the speech recognition result. The service estimation unit re-estimates the service by using the feature quantity. The speech recognition unit performs speech recognition based on the re-estimation result. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080162 | User Query History Expansion for Improving Language Model Adaptation - Query history expansion may be provided. Upon receiving a spoken query from a user, an adapted language model may be applied to convert the spoken query to text. The adapted language model may comprise a plurality of queries interpolated from the user's previous queries and queries associated with other users. The spoken query may be executed and the results of the spoken query may be provided to the user. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080163 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a storage unit, a detector, an acquisition unit, and a search unit. The storage unit configured to store therein voice indices, each of which associates a character string included in voice text data obtained from a voice recognition process with voice positional information, the voice positional information indicating a temporal position in the voice data and corresponding to the character string. The acquisition unit acquires reading information being at least a part of a character string representing a reading of a phrase to be transcribed from the voice data played back. The search unit specifies, as search targets, character strings whose associated voice positional information is included in the played-back section information among the character strings included in the voice indices, and retrieves a character string including the reading represented by the reading information from among the specified character strings. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080164 | Selective Feedback For Text Recognition Systems - This specification describes technologies relating to recognition of text in various media. In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods that include receiving an input signal including data representing one or more words and passing the input signal to a text recognition system that generates a recognized text string based on the input signal. The methods may further include receiving the recognized text string from the text recognition system. The methods may further include presenting the recognized text string to a user and receiving a corrected text string based on input from the user. The methods may further include checking if an edit distance between the corrected text string and the recognized text string is below a threshold. If the edit distance is below the threshold, the corrected text string may be passed to the text recognition system for training purposes. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080165 | Model Based Online Normalization of Feature Distribution for Noise Robust Speech Recognition - Online histogram recognition may be provided. Upon receiving a spoken phrase from a user, a histogram/frequency distribution may be estimated on the spoken phrase according to a prior distribution. The histogram distribution may be equalized and then provided to a spoken language understanding application. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080166 | DIALOG-BASED VOICEPRINT SECURITY FOR BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS - A system for biometrically securing business transactions uses speech recognition and voiceprint authentication to biometrically secure a transaction from a variety of client devices in a variety of media. A voiceprint authentication server receives a request from a third party requestor to authenticate a previously enrolled end user of a client device. A signature collection applet presents the user a randomly generated signature string, prompting the user to speak the string, and recording the user's as he speaks. After transmittal to the authentication server, the signature string is recognized using voice recognition software, and compared with a stored voiceprint, using voiceprint authentication software. An authentication result is reported to both user and requestor. Voiceprints are stored in a repository along with the associated user data. Enrollment is by way of a separate enrollment applet, wherein the end user provides user information and records a voiceprint, which is subsequently stored. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080167 | Background Speech Recognition Assistant Using Speaker Verification - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an acoustic input signal at a speech recognizer. A user is identified that is speaking based on the acoustic input signal. The method then determines speaker-specific information previously stored for the user and a set of responses based on the recognized acoustic input signal and the speaker-specific information for the user. It is determined if the response should be output and the response is outputted if it is determined the response should be output. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080168 | AUDIO ANALYSIS APPARATUS - An audio analysis apparatus includes the following components. A strap has an end portion connected to a main body and is used to hang the main body from a user's neck. A first audio acquisition device is at the end portion or in the main body. Second and third audio acquisition devices are at positions separate from the end portion by substantially the same predetermined distances, on the respective sides of the strap extending from the user's neck. An analysis unit discriminates whether an acquired sound is an uttered voice of the user or another person by comparing audio signals of acquired by the first and second or third audio acquisition devices and detects an orientation of the user's face by comparing the audio signals acquired by the second and third audio acquisition devices. A transmission unit transmits the analysis result to an external apparatus. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080169 | AUDIO ANALYSIS SYSTEM, AUDIO ANALYSIS APPARATUS, AUDIO ANALYSIS TERMINAL - An audio analysis system includes a terminal apparatus and a host system. The terminal apparatus acquires an audio signal of a sound containing utterances of a user and another person, discriminates between portions of the audio signal corresponding to the utterances of the user and the other person, detects an utterance feature based on the portion corresponding to the utterance of the user or the other person, and transmits utterance information including the discrimination and detection results to the host system. The host system detects a part corresponding to a conversation from the received utterance information, detects portions of the part of the utterance information corresponding to the user and the other person, compares a combination of plural utterance features corresponding to the portions of the part of the utterance information of the user and the other person with relation information to estimate an emotion, and outputs estimation information. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080170 | AUDIO ANALYSIS APPARATUS AND AUDIO ANALYSIS SYSTEM - An audio analysis apparatus includes the following components. A main body includes a discrimination unit and a transmission unit. A strap is used for hanging the main body from a user's neck. A first audio acquisition device is provided to the strap or the main body. A second audio acquisition device is provided to the strap at a position where a distance between the second audio acquisition device and the user's mouth is smaller than the distance between the first audio acquisition device and the user's in a state where the strap is worn around the user's neck. The discrimination unit discriminates whether an acquired sound is an uttered voice of the user or of another person by comparing audio signals of the sound acquired by the first and second audio acquisition devices. The transmission unit transmits information including the discrimination result to an external apparatus. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080171 | BACKGROUND SPEECH RECOGNITION ASSISTANT - In one embodiment, a method receives an acoustic input signal at a speech recognizer configured to recognize the acoustic input signal in an always on mode. A set of responses based on the recognized acoustic input signal is determined and ranked based on criteria. A computing device determines if the response should be output based on a ranking of the response. The method determines an output method in a plurality of output methods based on the ranking of the response and outputs the response using the output method if it is determined the response should be output. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080172 | OBJECTIVE EVALUATION OF SYNTHESIZED SPEECH ATTRIBUTES - A method of evaluating attributes of synthesized speech. The method includes processing a text input into a synthesized speech utterance using a processor of a text-to-speech system, applying a human speech utterance to a speech model to obtain a reference wherein the human speech utterance corresponds to the text input, applying the synthesized speech utterance to at least one of the speech model or an other speech model to obtain a test, and calculating a difference between the test and the reference. The method also can be used in a speech synthesis method. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080173 | CORRECTING UNINTELLIGIBLE SYNTHESIZED SPEECH - A method and system of speech synthesis. A text input is received in a text-to-speech system and, using a processor of the system, the text input is processed into synthesized speech which is established as unintelligible. The text input is reprocessed into subsequent synthesized speech and output to a user via a loudspeaker to correct the unintelligible synthesized speech. In one embodiment, the synthesized speech can be established as unintelligible by predicting intelligibility of the synthesized speech, and determining that the predicted intelligibility is lower than a minimum threshold. In another embodiment, the synthesized speech can be established as unintelligible by outputting the synthesized speech to the user via the loudspeaker, and receiving an indication from the user that the synthesized speech is not intelligible. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080174 | RETRIEVING DEVICE, RETRIEVING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - In an embodiment, a retrieving device includes: a text input unit, a first extracting unit, a retrieving unit, a second extracting unit, an acquiring unit, and a selecting unit. The text input unit inputs a text including unknown word information representing a phrase that a user was unable to transcribe. The first extracting unit extracts related words representing a phrase related to the unknown word information among phrases other than the unknown word information included in the text. The retrieving unit retrieves a related document representing a document including the related words. The second extracting unit extracts candidate words representing candidates for the unknown word information from a plurality of phrases included in the related document. The acquiring unit acquires reading information representing estimated pronunciation of the unknown word information. The selecting unit selects at least one of candidate word of which pronunciation is similar to the reading information. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080175 | MARKUP ASSISTANCE APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - According to one embodiment, a markup assistance apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a first calculation unit, a detection unit and a presentation unit. The acquisition unit acquires feature amount for respective tags, each of the tags being used to control text-to-speech processing of a markup text. The first calculation unit calculates, for respective character strings, a variance of feature amounts of the tags which are assigned to the character string in a markup text. The detection unit detects first character string assigned first tag having the variance not less than a first threshold value as a first candidate including the tag to be corrected. The presentation unit presents the first candidate. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080176 | Methods and Apparatus for Rapid Acoustic Unit Selection From a Large Speech Corpus - A speech synthesis system can select recorded speech fragments, or acoustic units, from a very large database of acoustic units to produce artificial speech. The selected acoustic units are chosen to minimize a combination of target and concatenation costs for a given sentence. However, as concatenation costs, which are measures of the mismatch between sequential pairs of acoustic units, are expensive to compute, processing can be greatly reduced by pre-computing and caching the concatenation costs. The number of possible sequential pairs of acoustic units makes such caching prohibitive. Statistical experiments reveal that while about 85% of the acoustic units are typically used in common speech, less than 1% of the possible sequential pairs of acoustic units occur in practice. The system synthesizes a large body of speech, identifies the acoustic unit sequential pairs generated and their respective concatenation costs, and stores those concatenation costs likely to occur. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080177 | SPEECH RECOGNITION REPAIR USING CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION - A speech control system that can recognize a spoken command and associated words (such as “call mom at home”) and can cause a selected application (such as a telephone dialer) to execute the command to cause a data processing system, such as a smartphone, to perform an operation based on the command (such as look up mom's phone number at home and dial it to establish a telephone call). The speech control system can use a set of interpreters to repair recognized text from a speech recognition system, and results from the set can be merged into a final repaired transcription which is provided to the selected application. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080178 | USER INTERFACE METHOD AND DEVICE - A user interface method and corresponding device, where the user interface method includes waiting for detection of an event, which is a function of the user interface device, performing the event detection in the user interface device and notifying a user that the event has been detected, activating a voice input unit configured to allow the user to input his or her voice therethrough, receiving a voice command from the user with respect to the event through the voice input unit, and processing a function according to the received voice command from the user. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080179 | USING A PHYSICAL PHENOMENON DETECTOR TO CONTROL OPERATION OF A SPEECH RECOGNITION ENGINE - A device may include a physical phenomenon detector. The physical phenomenon detector may detect a physical phenomenon related to the device. In response to detecting the physical phenomenon, the device may record audio data that includes speech. The speech may be transcribed with a speech recognition engine. The speech recognition engine may be included in the device, or may be included with a remote computing device with which the device may communicate. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080180 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SENDER PAID DATA DELIVERY - A method and apparatus for providing an option for sender paid data delivery to an endpoint device in a communications network are disclosed. For example, the method sends a request for a content by a subscriber using the endpoint device, receives a plurality of delivery options, wherein one of the plurality of delivery options comprises an option to have a content provider pay for a delivery of the content, selects one delivery option from the plurality of delivery options, and receives the content based upon the one delivery option selected from the plurality of delivery options. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080181 | TELEHEALTH CARE VERIFICATION AND AUDIT LOGGING SYSTEM - A method for providing telehealth services includes conducting a telehealth session between a provider and a patient, generating metadata associated with the telehealth session, and providing the metadata associated with the telehealth session to an auditing system for validating the telehealth session. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080182 | Methods For Using DNA Testing To Screen For Genotypes Relevant To Athleticism, Health And Risk Of Injury - Genetic screening is described which allows for the identification of athletes predisposed to physical conditions that could affect their performance. This, in turn, allows for associated personnel such as trainers, strength/conditioning coaches, and physicians, to develop pre-habilitation strategies that are personalized for the athlete's genetic and corresponding physical makeup. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080183 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT - A method and system for managing inventory for an ancillary medical facility that can be integrated into existing electronic healthcare records systems or practice management systems. The invention enables clinician users to order medical supplies electronically and to track the entire supply chain of the inventory item from the vendor/manufacturer to the patient. In one embodiment, requisitions are automatically generated when an inventory supply falls to a critical volume or reorder point. The system of the invention provides reporting modules that allow clinician users to analyze cost, inventory usage and adjustment, and supply conflict. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080184 | MANAGING HEALTHCARE INFORMATION FOR MEMBERS OF A SOCIAL NETWORK - Embodiments are directed to a healthcare information system (HIS) for supplying patients, caregivers, and their families with the tools and data-driven intelligence needed to achieve greater visibility, management, and control over their loved ones' care. The HIS may enable members to exchange requests for healthcare information between other members. A requesting member may generate a request and forward to other members that may be in a social network. Members that receive the request may subsequently forward the request to still other members. Forwarding requests may improve the chance of finding resolutions. The HIS may track which members received the request and what actions they took. This tracked information is used to generate reports for visualizing how a request flowed through the member community. The tracked information may be analyzed to determine interactions between members and/or social networks. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080185 | CLINICAL ANALYSIS USING ELECTRODERMAL ACTIVITY - Computer-implemented techniques for clinical analysis using electrodermal activity are disclosed. Initially, an individual's electrodermal activity data is captured into a computer system. The electrodermal activity data is captured through a sensor. Then, this electrodermal activity data provides information on physiology of the individual. Analysis is received from a web service wherein the analysis is based on the electrodermal activity data captured on the individual. An output, related to physiology, is rendered based on the analysis which was received. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080186 | Method, System, And Apparatus For Clinical Trial Management Over A Communications Network - A centralized, online clinical study system configured to coordinate aspects of a clinical study can include a training module configured to evaluate whether users have completed training for selected workflows for the clinical study that are available from the clinical study system, and to provide training to registered users for the selected workflows. The system also can include a financial engine configured to determine when a participating site meets or exceeds a milestone of the clinical study and to initiate a payment to the participating site. Further, the system can include a module configured to receive and verify clinical research data and to designate the verified clinical research data as official source data for the clinical study. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080187 | SYSTEM AND TECHNIQUES FOR CLINICAL DOCUMENTATION AND EDITING - In one example, this disclosure describes a method of processing medical data via one or more computers. The method may comprise identifying a medical code within a medical record, and identifying whether the medical code is specified or unspecified. If the medical code is specified, editing may be avoided without generating any query for further input by a physician. If the medical code is unspecified, the method further includes determining whether a suppression code appears in the medical record. If a suppression code appears, editing may be avoided without generating any query for further input by the physician. However, if a suppression code does not appear, the method further includes searching for key terms in the medical record. If key terms are present in the medical record, a query may be generated for the physician for additional clarification. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080188 | PERSONALIZED PHARMACY MEDICATION AND CARE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A medical information system. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of issuing, by a clinician using a clinician computer, a prescription for a patient to a pharmacy computer; processing by the pharmacy computer at a pharmacy the prescription for the patient from the clinician; issuing a notice of prescription fulfillment by the pharmacy computer to a server, when the pharmacy issues a medication for the patient in response to the prescription received by the pharmacy computer; receiving the notice of prescription fulfillment by the server having a database; storing the prescription information in the database; and notifying the clinician computer if the medication has been picked up, delivered or abandoned by the patient or not renewed by the patient. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080189 | INTELLIGENT TOKENS FOR AUTOMATED HEALTH CARE INFORMATION SYSTEMS - Methods and systems for accessing information stored in an electronic patient record are disclosed. A memory stores a set of medical logic instructions which code for retrieval of multiple items of information stored in the electronic patient record for a given patient. Optionally, the instructions code for a rules-based interpretation of information stored in the electronic patient record, such as instructions that apply criteria in a quality scoring system and generate a score. The medical logic instructions are associated with an “intelligent token”, i.e., a character string such as |DIABETES|, |ASTHMA| or |PROGRESS|. The invoking of the intelligent token triggers execution of the medical logic instructions and retrieval of the information from the database. The intelligent tokens can be embedded into document templates, or selected or entered by the user as part of a document creation process. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080190 | ELECTRONIC PATIENT RECORD DOCUMENTATION WITH PUSH AND PULL OF DATA TO AND FROM DATABASE - A medical records software apparatus and method is described that allows a clinician, e.g., nurse or doctor, to combine entry of new patient orders, prescriptions, flowsheet observations, etc. into the documentation process or workflow. A documentation user interface is provided that pulls patient data from a database into the display. The user can select on the user interface a category of a patient record, e.g., Significant Events or Orders, view or edit prior entries in the database in these categories, and add additional documentation for that category. The documentation is written or pushed to two areas of the database, one devoted to patient documentation and a second area corresponding to the selected category, e.g., Orders. The method and apparatus improves workflow efficiency and promotes a smooth transition from the thought process of the clinician to the ordering or prescription process, without the need for changing venues or screen displays. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080191 | Method for Implementing a Controlled Medical Vocabulary - A method of implementing a controlled vocabulary may include the steps of generating the controlled vocabulary by forming a list of medical terms and associated descriptions; creating a list of codes internal to the controlled vocabulary; and storing the codes, the medical terms, and the descriptions in a format suitable for use in the patient longitudinal electronic medical record environment. In addition, a sound wave may be captured as an electronic file, translated into text, and stored as a patient medical record event. The patient medical record event may be parsed for context and may be tagged with one or more source vocabularies, and a code internal to the source vocabulary may be provided. Event context and source vocabulary findings may then be used as discrete elements to add to the longitudinal patient electronic medical record environment. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080192 | IDENTITY MATCHING OF PATIENT RECORDS - A system for matching a pair of patient records as belonging to the same individual or patient is disclosed. A set of matching rules ( | 2013-03-28 |
20130080193 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELLING INSURANCE USING RAPID DECISION TERM - An insurance company sells a life insurance policy having a coverage period. The policy provides a total benefit amount which includes an all-cause benefit amount and an accidental death only benefit amount. The policy is initially underwritten on a limited basis and the ratio of the all-cause benefit to the accidental death benefit is low. The insured has the option of providing material to enable comprehensive underwriting and to enable risk classification. If the risk classification improves the policy benefits, the mix of coverage is adjusted to include a higher ratio of the all-cause benefit amount to the accidental death only benefit amount. If the insured does not provide any additional information or materials, or if the materials provided do not result in an underwritten risk classification that enables the policy provisions to be improved, the mix of coverage remains unchanged. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080194 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A display device includes a communication unit for receiving user related data from a mobile device, a memory for storing metadata of content and an advertising message associated with the content, a matching unit for extracting at least one matching element from the user related data and comparing the extracted matching element and at least one matching element included in the metadata of the content to select a content item, a controller for detecting whether or not the mobile device is in a communicable state at intervals of a preset period and controlling the communication unit according to the detection, and controlling the matching unit using the user related data, a display unit for displaying the selected content item, and an advertising message transmitter for transmitting an advertising message associated with the selected content item to the mobile device. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080195 | Inventory System and Method Therefor - An inventory control method and system is disclosed. The system comprises: a processor, a receiver for receiving an availability request for a leg of a journey between an origin and destination, wherein the availability request comprises one or more attributes defining the leg; and a comparator for comparing the attribute or attributes of the received availability request with data defining a plurality of products. Each product defined by one or more attributes comprising a further attribute which allows a local or non-stop passenger to be distinguished from a connecting passenger. The processor is configured to determine the availability of one of the products in dependence upon the result of the comparison. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080196 | Computer-Aided Mobility Service - A process is provided for computer-aided operation of a mobility service by which a number of vehicles are made available by a mobility provider to registered users for temporary use. A respective user is registered once in a booking system as a provider and/or a buyer of a mobility service feature. A first user registered as a provider reserves the vehicle for a period of time in the booking system. The first user further clears the use of a mobility service feature for a second user connected with the vehicle booking whereby the mobility service feature for the second user is offered for selection. An accounting of costs for the vehicle booking takes place as a function of whether at least one second user was determined as a buyer of the provided mobility service feature. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080197 | EVALUATING A TRUST VALUE OF A DATA REPORT FROM A DATA PROCESSING TOOL - Various embodiments of systems and methods for evaluating a trust value for a report are disclosed herein. The method includes obtaining ( | 2013-03-28 |
20130080198 | TIMING SIGNOFF FOR MAXIMUM PROFIT - A method of estimating a profit margin for an IC chip includes providing design, manufacturing and financial input data for the IC chip and determining a ratio of performing to manufactured IC chips using chip yields apart from timing. The method of estimating a profit margin also includes characterizing IC chip performance corresponding to clock timing and on-chip-variation (OCV) margins and calculating price and costs corresponding to design, manufacturing and testing of the IC chip. Additionally, the method of estimating a profit margin includes generating a profit margin based on the price and costs. A method of maximizing a profit margin for an IC chip is also included. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080199 | Project Planner - A landscape directory of a software integration architecture can be queried to obtain a listing of software services available for inclusion in a configuration of the software integration architecture that is presented to a user via a user interface. A selection of a set of services to be included in the configuration is received. For each service in the set of services, at least one database can be accessed to obtain information about the configuration to be presented via the user interface. The information can include pricing and implementation scheduling. Upon receipt of a confirmation of a final set of services for the configuration, a project plan can be generated and promoted. Related methods, systems, and articles of manufacture are also described. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080200 | ANALYZING AND PRESENTING SUPPLY, FABRICATION, AND LOGISTICS DATA - Supply chain management that provides end-to-end supply chain visibility to a supply chain manager. The supply chain management may include aggregation of supply chain snapshot data and supply chain flow data to provide improved end-to-end supply chain visibility to a supply chain manager. In turn, supply chain managers may have improved ability to capitalize on opportunities and mitigate deficiencies in the supply chain to improve revenue and provide increased customer satisfaction and more efficient logistics in the supply chain. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080201 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRACKING TASK DATA - The present invention is directed to system and process for inputting, tracking, monitoring, and displaying the progress and status of the tasks within a project. The system is comprised of an application server, having a team directory and a project database, in communication with a member client and a manager client over a network. A manager client is configured with a plurality of interfaces to input users, create an adaptive, group based permission structure, select team members, and input tasks. The permissions structure allows a team member to be assigned to multiple groups with differing permission for different project functions. The system determines an effective permission based on the multiple group membership. The member client is configured with a plurality of interfaces to create and update task information. The manager client is further configured with a plurality of interfaces to monitor and input project information in response to project events and information. Specifically, the system allows a client to input a dependency hold status, which is visible to the project manager, the person creating the dependency, and other team members, reducing interference with task performance for redundant communication. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080202 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF AUTOMATICALLY SCHEDULING A WORKFORCE - Systems and methods of workforce scheduling are disclosed. One example embodiment, among others, comprises a computer-implemented method of scheduling workers. Each worker is associated with one of a set of flexibility classifications, which include non-flex-time and at least one flex-time. The method includes generating a set of shift instances to cover forecasted demand over a planning period, and assigning the shift instances to the set of workers by iterating through the each of the workers to assign at least a portion of the shift instances to a selected one of the workers. The assigning is such that total hours assigned to the selected worker depends on a number associated with the classification of the selected worker. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080203 | System and method for time sensitive scheduling data grid flow management - Controlling the flow of content and receipt of time sensitive scheduling data via a time sensitive scheduling data delivery network is described. This may involve accommodating the management of the display of potentially voluminous time sensitive scheduling data. This may also involve making all of the relevant time sensitive scheduling data information available from high capacity remote data stores accessible to all of a user's time sensitive scheduling data receiving devices via a time sensitive scheduling data network, and on demand by time sensitive scheduling data display zone category to the user's time sensitive scheduling data receiving devices. The user may dynamically manage which display zone classes and subclasses of time sensitive scheduling data appear, what time frame appears and how much time sensitive scheduling data appears on the user's time sensitive scheduling data receiving device display screens. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080204 | DYNAMIC MEETING LOCATION DETERMINATION - A method for dynamically selecting a meeting location for a plurality of meeting participants includes receiving a position of each meeting participant. The method also includes identifying one or more potential meeting location(s) based on the positions. The method further includes informing the meeting participants of the one or more potential meeting location(s). Furthermore, the method includes determining the meeting location, from the one or more potential meeting location(s), based on input from the meeting participants. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080205 | CAPITAL ASSET PLANNING SYSTEM - A capital asset planning system for selecting assets for improvement within an infrastructure that includes one or more data sources descriptive of the infrastructure, one or more databases, coupled to the one or more data sources, to compile the one or more data sources, one or more processors, each coupled to and having respective communication interfaces to receive data from the one or more databases. The processor includes a predictor to generate a first metric of estimated infrastructure effectiveness based, at least in part, on a current status of the infrastructure, a second metric of estimated infrastructure effectiveness based, at least in part, on a user-selected, proposed changed configuration of the infrastructure, and a net metric of infrastructure effectiveness based, at least in part, on said first metric and said second metric. The system also includes a display, coupled to have the one or more processors, for visually presenting the net metric of infrastructure effectiveness, in which the assets for improvement are selected based, at least in part, on the net metric of infrastructure effectiveness. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080206 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOGISTICS OPTIMIZATION CONSTRAINED BY INVENTORY REQUIREMENTS - A system and method is provided that optimizes order and routing patterns that considers inventory constraints, including days on hand and shelf life. The results of the optimization of order and routing patterns includes an impact on inventory carried and frequency of inventory turns, to enable Purchasing personnel to gauge the viability of the solutions with respect to capacity, carrying costs, and continuity of supply. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080207 | System and Method for Identifying Relevant Information for an Enterprise - A system and method are provided for finding and retrieving information within an enterprise that is relevant to enterprise problems, enterprise opportunities, and unexpected or interesting events. The method includes scanning content related to a process conducted by an enterprise, where the process includes one or more process steps; identifying a problem, opportunity or event associated with a process step (an enterprise stress point); indexing the scanned content with respect to the enterprise stress point; determining whether the scanned content is information relevant to the problem, opportunity or event; and providing relevant information to a user. The relevant information includes a description or discussion of a contemporaneous or previous experience of the enterprise regarding the problem, opportunity or event. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080208 | User-Centric Opinion Analysis for Customer Relationship Management - In one embodiment, for each of one or more users, the user having provided one or more opinions concerning one or more products, deriving one or more opinion records from the one or more opinions, wherein each opinion record is derived from a specific opinion provided by the user concerning a specific product; generating a user-preference profile based on the one or more opinion records, wherein: the user-preference profile comprises one or more user-preference vectors corresponding to the one or more products; and each user-preference vector comprises one or more features of the corresponding product and one or more feature scores respectively corresponding to the one or more features. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080209 | Comprehensive Information Market Exchange - Systems and techniques for collecting information as authorized by information providers and sharing the information with information recipients according to criteria specified by the information providers. Information is collected from one or more of a variety of sources and stored in a provider profile, with the provider profile also specifying criteria for sharing the information, including payment required for sharing the information with particular categories of recipients. An exchange system is maintained allowing recipients to request or to otherwise specify needs for particular categories of information and payments to be provided by the information, and needs or requests of recipients for information are matched with criteria specified by providers, with information being transferred or used to provide results for a recipient and payment being transferred from the recipient to a provider or providers when a match between information needs and criteria for sharing information is identified. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080210 | ENERGY BENCHMARKING ANALYTICS - A benchmarking computing application is configured to create a benchmark run for a segment of customer profiles. Customer profiles from the segment include a parameter, termed an adjustment parameter, that may affect energy consumption by the associated customer. The results of the benchmark run include energy consumption values for individual customer profiles in the segment, an average energy consumption value for the entire segment of customer profiles, and also adjustment energy consumption value. The adjustment energy consumption value reflects the portion of energy consumption by a particular customer attributed to the difference between the average value of the adjustment parameter for the segment and the value of the adjustment parameter for the particular customer profile. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080211 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD BETWEEN A HOME BUYER, SELLER, STRATEGIC BUSINESS SOURCE, AND LENDER - A computerized system and method are presented for exchanging information between a buyer, a seller, a lender, and a strategic business source. The system permits sellers, lenders and strategic business sources to input buyers that are then submitted for activation. The buyers use the system to obtain information about items, while the sellers, lenders, and strategic business sources make consistent contact with the buyer in order to work with the buyer. Information about the buyers is shared with the sellers, lenders, and strategic business sources. A business plan is input into the system for the financial institution employing the lender while another business plan is input for the seller institution employing the seller. Activity on the computerized system is calculated for compliance with the business plan. Feedback is provided to management relating to whether the business plan is being met. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080212 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MEASURING ENGAGEMENT EFFECTIVENESS IN ELECTRONIC SOCIAL MEDIA - A system and method for measuring engagement effectiveness with respect to a service agent by analyzing a conversation between the agent and a customer in a social media environment. A conversation history between the agent and the customer can be mapped into a multi-resolution space based on different time frames via a mapping module. A polarized topical and sentimental distance between the continuous conversations can be calculated by applying a topic-sentiment mixture model and a divergence theorem onto the conversation history with respect to the time frame. Finally, the polarized topical distances can be aggregated in a time-sensitive way based on a time function and an effectiveness score can be calculated and represented as a weighted pyramid kernel of multiple levels. Such a time-sensitive pyramid kernel function based on the implicit topical and sentimental correspondences between daily conversations enables discriminative evaluation for the agent engagement in a customer care. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080213 | Fungicidal Mixtures And Their Use - A computer device is provided for implementing a system configured to provide greenhouse gas footprint information used in evaluating an environmental impact of one of a commercial and municipal facility. The computer device receives a query from a user, the query being associated with a plurality of facility parameters associated with the facility. The computer device determines from the facility parameters at least one of a greenhouse gas emission estimate indicative of an amount of emitted greenhouse gas associated with the facility and a greenhouse gas reduction estimate indicative of an amount of greenhouse gas sequestered by the facility. The computer device further provides an indicia of at least one of the greenhouse gas emission estimate and the greenhouse gas reduction estimate via a display device in direct response to the query. Associated systems and methods are also provided. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080214 | Systems and methods for benchmarking diverse spend opportunities - Apparatus, methods and media for benchmarking diverse spend opportunities are provided. A method according to the invention preferably includes receiving financial data corresponding to entity diverse spend and financial data corresponding to total entity spend. The method may further include sorting the data corresponding to NAICS, UNSPSC or SIC code, The method may further include allocating an NAICS. UNSPSC or SIC code in the first column of a spreadsheet, allocating the data corresponding to entity diverse spend (“ds spend”) in the second column, allocating the data corresponding to entity total spend (“t spend”) in the third column; and place the following equation in each of the cells of the fourth column:=(ds spendit spend)*100. The method may further include displaying a list of the percentages of entity diverse spend (“ped(s)”) for each NAICS, UNSPSC or SIC code based on the information in the fourth column, | 2013-03-28 |
20130080215 | INTELLECTUAL PRODUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT DEVICE, INTELLECTUAL PRODUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Activity information obtainer ( | 2013-03-28 |
20130080216 | RFID VEHICLE TAG WITH MANUALLY ADJUSTABLE DATA FIELDS - An RFID tag for use in a vehicle for use in an electronic toll collecting system. The tag is capable of transmitting data to a tag interrogator indicating the occupancy status of the vehicle. In an embodiment, the tag has a user input and a visual and audible tag status indicator. The user input is used to change the occupancy status of the tag, wherein the occupancy status is a portion of a message sent by radio frequency to the interrogator when the vehicle passes through a toll area. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080217 | GEOSPATIALLY CONSTRAINED GASTRONOMIC BIDDING - A method includes determining, through one or more central server(s), that a bidding platform provided by a gastronomic bidding service provider has a number of requests for gastronomical offers within a residential location zip code and/or a daytime location zip code associated with a user thereof. The method also includes permitting the user to access the number of requests for gastronomical offers within the residential location zip code and/or the daytime location zip code, and denying the user access to a request within a zip code outside a geospatially constrained region around the residential location zip code and/or the daytime location zip code thereof. Further, the method includes permitting the user to create a series of standing bid amounts spread across a spectrum of time and crediting an account associated with the gastronomic bidding service provider on the one or more central server(s) with an appropriate amount. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080218 | CUSTOMIZED CONTENT DELIVERY SYSTEM - A method includes receiving an access code at one or more server computers from a user device that is associated with a user. In response to receiving the access code at the one or more server computers, the method includes accessing, at the one or more server computers, user preference information that is associated with the user of the user device, selecting a set of content items based at least in part on the access code, selecting at least one content item from the set of content items based at least in part on the user preference information, and transmitting information corresponding to the at least one content item from the one or more server computers to the user device. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080219 | Systems and Methods for Providing Value Added Services in Association with Payment Transactions - Embodiments of the disclosure can relate to systems and methods for providing value added services in association with the processing of payment transactions. Certain embodiments of the disclosure can relate to provision of value added services in association with the processing of payment transactions. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method for processing proposed transactions can be provided. The method can include receiving, from a merchant device by a service provider system comprising one or more computers, information associated with a purchase transaction; identifying, by the service provider system, one or more value added services applicable to the purchase transaction; and implementing, by the service provider system, the one or more applicable value added services. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080220 | Electronic System for Marketing Beverages - An electronic system for marketing beverages uses an information storage device for electronically storing product information about beverages for sale by beverage suppliers; a module for a prospective buyer to view beverage product information over a data network; and a module for registering a prospective buyer request of a beverage supplier for a sample of a beverage recorded in the information storage device and sending the sample request to the beverage supplier over a data network. The electronic system has a bargaining module enabling the prospective buyer and a beverage supplier to bargain, through communications sent through the data network, a purchase price for a quantity of the beverage following buyer sampling; and a contracting module enabling the beverage supplier to contract with the buyer for purchase of a quantity of sampled beverage at an agreed purchase price. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080221 | DIGITAL SIGNAGE SYSTEM AND INTERACTIVE METHOD PERFORMED THEREBY - An interactive method to be performed by a digital signage for interaction with a portable electronic device includes configuring the digital signage to establish a wireless communication link with the portable electronic device, to generate playback signals associated with advertisement contents stored in the digital signage, to transmit the playback signals to the portable electronic device, wherein the playback signals enable the portable electronic device to display the advertisement contents and to enable transmission of a corresponding select signal to the digital signage in response to user operation associated with a selected displayed one of the advertisement contents, and to process the select signal. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080222 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DELIVERING TARGETED ADVERTISEMENTS BASED ON DEMOGRAPHIC AND SITUATIONAL AWARENESS ATTRIBUTES OF A DIGITAL MEDIA FILE - The present disclosure provides a system and method of distributing a targeted advertisement based on demographic and situational awareness attributes. A digital media file can be analyzed for demographic and situational awareness attributes. A targeted advertisement can be selected based on the demographic and situational awareness attributes identified. The advertisement and a representation of the digital media file can be distributed to provided contact information. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080223 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGEMENT OF CREDIT SUBSCRIPTIONS - A system and method of managing credit subscriptions corresponding to a customer are disclosed. The credit subscriptions may include quantities of one or more credits with predetermined validity durations. The credit subscriptions may be active for a subscription lifetime, and the credits may be redeemable in a variable value transaction involving a piece of media content. Managing a credit subscription may include receiving a subscription management message, translating a subscription package code to a quantity of credits, creating or renewing the credit subscription with the quantity of credits, modifying the credit subscription, or deleting the credit subscription. The subscription management message may include a customer number, a subscription package code, and a subscription lifetime specification. Credits and credit subscriptions may be created as a one-time issuance or may be automatically renewed on a periodic basis. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080224 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AN ONLINE STORY SHARING SERVICE - An online story sharing service is described. The online story sharing service includes a server that includes a submit story application component that is configured to allow users of the story sharing service to submit stories, each story including one or more of a written component, an audio component, an image component, and a video component. The server further includes a view story application component that is configured to allow users to view stories that have been submitted. The server further includes an external destination share application component that is configured to allow users of the online story sharing service to share links of stories with one or more external destinations. The server further includes a story contest module to conduct story contest. Each story contest is for a predetermined duration of time and includes multiple entries. For the story contest, the story contest module tracks a set of attributes for each story entered into the contest that indicate an interest level of that story relative to the interest level of the other stories; determines winning story(ies) based on the tracked attributes; and provides a reward to the users that submitted the winning story(ies). | 2013-03-28 |
20130080225 | Referral Program for Businessess - In particular embodiments, a user enters a code received at a point of sale identifying a node on a social network representing the point of sale. Upon entering the code into a mobile application, the application requests the user to identify other users that referred the user to the point of sale. Upon selecting one or more referrers, the social networking system applies one or more policies to the selected referrers. In particular embodiments, the social networking system integrates with online merchants, and prompts a user to select users or nodes that referred the user to the site or the specific product. In particular embodiments, the social networking system tracks the value of every single transaction, and may generate a list of the top ten value generators for a given node. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080226 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING REWARDS AND ONLINE ADVERTISING IN AN ONLINE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT - Embodiments of the invention are directed to creating an online social environment that allows users to obtain, own, and use one or more tokens whose value is derived from their presence within an online social environment. A user is given a single deal reward token based on the mapping of that token to a deal reward provided to a user. A user must own at least one deal reward tokens linked to a primary prize in order to obtain that prize. A user owning at least one deal reward token linked to a primary prize is given that prize. A user is proved a system for conducting transactions with other users related to their owned deal reward tokens. A single advertising source is associated with each of a user's deal reward tokens. An advertising source is provided the online technical means of sending continuous targeted advertisement material to the user associated with each deal reward token linked to that advertising source. A user is provided a system for displaying the continuous targeted advertisement material provided by the advertising source associated with that user's deal reward token. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080227 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTIVE ACCRUAL OF CREDITS IN A VARIABLE VALUE TRANSACTION - A system and method of predicatively accruing a credit in a variable value transaction are provided. The variable value transaction may involve a piece of media content and include an initial balance and a remaining balance. The initial balance and the remaining balance may be dependent on the piece of media content and when the variable value transaction is completed. Credits may be accrued for a predicted redemption of the credit for the remaining balance, depending on the availability and applicability of the credits. A payment card may also be processed for some or all of the remaining balance. The remaining balance may not be known until the variable value transaction is completed. A pending revenue amount may be determined based on the accrual of the credits. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080228 | SINGLE TAP USING A USER SELECTED CARD - The invention describes how a consumer can hold their NFC enabled device in proximity to an NFC enabled point-of-sale terminal and with a single “wave” or “tap” to automatically redeem coupons, pay for a purchase using a default payment card or a selected card, view receipts view reward point balances, and receive relevant coupons and other digital artifacts both before and after the purchase. The NFC enabled device includes a secure element with a payment application, payment credentials, and other digital artifacts such as coupons. The secure element can be internal to the mobile device, externally affixed to the mobile device, or inserted into a slot within the body of the mobile device. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080229 | SINGLE TAP USING USER SELECTED COUPONS - The invention describes how a consumer can hold their NFC enabled device in proximity to an NFC enabled point-of-sale terminal and with a single “wave” or “tap” to automatically redeem coupons, pay for a purchase using a default payment card or a selected card, view receipts view reward point balances, and receive relevant coupons and other digital artifacts both before and after the purchase. The NFC enabled device includes a secure element with a payment application, payment credentials, and other digital artifacts such as coupons. The secure element can be internal to the mobile device, externally affixed to the mobile device, or inserted into a slot within the body of the mobile device. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080230 | SINGLE TAP USING BOTH USER SELECTED PAYMENT METHOD AND USER SELECTED COUPONS - The invention describes how a consumer can hold their NFC enabled device in proximity to an NFC enabled point-of-sale terminal and with a single “wave” or “tap” to automatically redeem coupons, pay for a purchase using a default payment card or a selected card, view receipts view reward point balances, and receive relevant coupons and other digital artifacts both before and after the purchase. The NFC enabled device includes a secure element with a payment application, payment credentials, and other digital artifacts such as coupons. The secure element can be internal to the mobile device, externally affixed to the mobile device, or inserted into a slot within the body of the mobile device. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080231 | SINGLE TAP TRANSACTIONS USING A MOBILE APPLICATION - The invention describes how a consumer can hold their NFC enabled device in proximity to an NFC enabled point-of-sale terminal and with a single “wave” or “tap” to automatically redeem coupons, pay for a purchase using a default payment card or a selected card, view receipts view reward point balances, and receive relevant coupons and other digital artifacts both before and after the purchase. The NFC enabled device includes a secure element with a payment application, payment credentials, and other digital artifacts such as coupons. The secure element can be internal to the mobile device, externally affixed to the mobile device, or inserted into a slot within the body of the mobile device. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080232 | SINGLE TAP TRANSACTIONS USING A MOBILE DEVICE - The invention describes how a consumer can hold their NFC enabled device in proximity to an NFC enabled point-of-sale terminal and with a single “wave” or “tap” to automatically redeem coupons, pay for a purchase using a default payment card or a selected card, view receipts view reward point balances, and receive relevant coupons and other digital artifacts both before and after the purchase. The NFC enabled device includes a secure element with a payment application, payment credentials, and other digital artifacts such as coupons. The secure element can be internal to the mobile device, externally affixed to the mobile device, or inserted into a slot within the body of the mobile device. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080233 | SINGLE TAP TRANSACTIONS USING A SECURE ELEMENT - The invention describes how a consumer can hold their NFC enabled device in proximity to an NFC enabled point-of-sale terminal and with a single “wave” or “tap” to automatically redeem coupons, pay for a purchase using a default payment card or a selected card, view receipts view reward point balances, and receive relevant coupons and other digital artifacts both before and after the purchase. The NFC enabled device includes a secure element with a payment application, payment credentials, and other digital artifacts such as coupons. The secure element can be internal to the mobile device, externally affixed to the mobile device, or inserted into a slot within the body of the mobile device. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080234 | METHOD OF TARGETING CONSUMERS FOR UP-SELLING BASED ON PURCHASING HISTORY - One aspect is a method of offering discounted goods or services including processing a requested financial transaction from a user at a point-of-sale location via a transaction processor system. Data from the requested financial transaction is compared to an existing database reflective of data from previously requested financial transactions of the user. A discount offer based upon data from previously requested financial transactions of the user is generated. The discount offer is communicated to the user at the point-of-sale location in conjunction with the completion of the requested financial transaction. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080235 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR JOINT USE OF GIFT CODES AND COUPON CODES - Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for joint use of gift codes and coupon codes. This technology can provide a way to use both a gift code and a coupon code in a same transaction, to discover corresponding codes for a given code, and to easily complete purchases using a gift code and a coupon code. The system identifies a companion code associated with a first value, wherein the companion code is at least one of a deal code, a discount code, and a coupon code. The system identifies a gift code associated with a second value, wherein the companion code, when used to make a purchase in combination with the gift code, provides a discount. The system offers the gift code for sale, and, upon a user purchasing the gift code, transmits the gift code to the user for combined use with the companion code. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080236 | Systems and Methods for Enrolling Consumers in Loyalty Programs - Embodiments of the disclosure can relate to systems and methods for enrolling consumers in loyalty programs. Certain embodiments of the disclosure can relate to automatic enrollment of consumers in loyalty programs. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method for enrolling a consumer in a loyalty program can be provided. The method can include establishing, by a merchant device, communication with a consumer device; determining, by the merchant device, that loyalty information is not stored on the consumer device; and providing, by the merchant device to the consumer device, loyalty information. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080237 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REWARDS PROGRAM FOR CREDIT CARD ISSUER - The exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method for administering a rewards program. The system includes a computer system in communication with a network. The computer system includes a creation module that creates a reward account upon issuing a credit card from a credit card issuer, a reward adjusting module that adjusts the reward account when the credit card is used in a transaction, and a reward module that grants at least one reward transaction for the credit card issuer. The method includes creating a reward account upon issuing a credit card from a credit card issuer, adjusting the reward account when the credit card is used in at least one transaction, and coordinating at least one rewards transaction for the credit card issuer. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080238 | Method and System for Operating a Customer or Player Loyalty System Including a Portable Device Such as a Smartcard - A method and system are set forth which include one or more terminals providing near field communication with an electronic device held by the user such as a smart card. The device includes a display panel configured to persistently display a visual condition associated with the user's account, promotional status or as selected by the user. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080239 | System and Method for Incentives - The invention relates generally to systems and methods for the non-public creation, distribution and redemption of incentive offers. More particularly, the system and method generates incentives based on parameters selectable by merchants. The system and method constructs non-public incentive offers that are delivered to one or more program registrants satisfying a designated targeting profile and associated with one or more electronic payment instruments. Incentive offers may be redeemed confidentiality by the program registrant tendering an electronic payment instrument satisfying the parameters of the incentive offer. The invention further relates to systems and methods for participants to exert control over the volume and kind of incentives received through the system and by third party entities. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080240 | SINGLE TAP TRANSACTIONS USING A SERVER - The invention describes how a consumer can hold their NFC enabled device in proximity to an NFC enabled point-of-sale terminal and with a single “wave” or “tap” to automatically redeem coupons, pay for a purchase using a default payment card or a selected card, view receipts view reward point balances, and receive relevant coupons and other digital artifacts both before and after the purchase. The NFC enabled device includes a secure element with a payment application, payment credentials, and other digital artifacts such as coupons. The secure element can be internal to the mobile device, externally affixed to the mobile device, or inserted into a slot within the body of the mobile device. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080241 | REDEEMING COUPONS USING NFC - The invention describes how a consumer can hold their NFC enabled device in proximity to an NFC enabled point-of-sale terminal and with a single “wave” or “tap” to automatically redeem coupons, pay for a purchase using a default payment card or a selected card, view receipts view reward point balances, and receive relevant coupons and other digital artifacts both before and after the purchase. The NFC enabled device includes a secure element with a payment application, payment credentials, and other digital artifacts such as coupons. The secure element can be internal to the mobile device, externally affixed to the mobile device, or inserted into a slot within the body of the mobile device. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080242 | Networked Profiling And Multimedia Content Targeting System - A computer implemented method and system for dynamically profiling users for incentivized targeting of multimedia content to the users in a networked environment is provided. A server creates an advertiser network comprising advertisers and member websites, and creates a user network of users. The advertisers submit the multimedia content, advertising information, and targeting criteria to the server. The server and one or more publisher websites acquire marketing data from the users for creating dynamic user profiles for the users. The server and/or the publisher websites target the multimedia content to the users based on the created dynamic user profiles. The server and/or a client device of each of the users confirm viewing of the multimedia content using a challenge, random in content. The server and/or the publisher websites compensate the users by crediting the users with items of value based on confirmation of the viewing of the multimedia content. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080243 | PAY PER INSERT SYSTEM - Method of searching and inserting sales campaigns records into a consumer diary associated with a consumer. The steps include a computer searching a repository for active sales campaign records satisfying search criteria received from a consumer through a browser executing on a device; the computer displaying a list of sales campaign records which satisfies the search criteria; the computer receiving a click indication from the consumer using the browser executing on the device, selecting a sales campaign record from the list; the computer inserting the sales campaign record into the consumer diary; and the computer recording an identification of the consumer from which the click indication originated, a time, and the sales campaign record selected. If the sales campaign record inserted into the consumer diary is not eligible for free inserts into the consumer diary, the computer deducting an amount from a merchant budget coupled to the sales campaign record. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080244 | METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR MANAGING ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - In a method and a system for managing advertising campaigns, a plurality of advertising campaigns is launched, and a plurality of visitors is allowed to visit a website. The behavior of the visitors is monitored, a value point score is obtained for each visit, and each visit is designated to an advertising campaign. For each advertising campaign an accumulated value point score and the number of visits designated to the advertising campaign are calculated. The advertising campaigns are compared, including comparing the accumulated value point scores and the number of visits. The comparison may include comparing attributes, elements or themes of the advertising campaigns. Based on the comparison a new advertising campaign is planned. Since the new advertising campaign is designed with consideration to the actual impact of previous advertising campaigns on the generated value, the new advertising campaign is very likely to fulfill specific marketing goals or strategies. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080245 | ADVERTISING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - An advertising management system ( | 2013-03-28 |
20130080246 | E-COMMERCE MARKETPLACE OPTIMIZATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Systems, methods, and computer program products for: facilitating a business-to-business (“B2B”) consumer acquisition marketplace among several online and offline advertisers to acquire customers in either a spot or futures market in any addressable media; optimizing use of real-time bidding to retain and acquire opportunities to access customers via any addressable media; optimizing the attribution of credit and payment to advertisers (or their service providers on their behalf) serving advertisements in any addressable media; and facilitating a business-to-consumer (“B2C”) marketplace that leverages consumer valuations to enable to enable consumers to optimize buying decisions as they engage with advertisers in the B2C marketplace are disclosed. In an aspect, such consumer acquisition marketplace analyzes consumer behavior data and advertiser data in order to generate a valuation score indicative of the value of a consumer to one of a plurality of advertisers. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080247 | Ad Placement - Various embodiments pertain to efficiently balancing user experience with advertiser budget and potential publisher revenue in view of considerations that include a number of sponsored or paid results displayed above non-paid search results, a number of sponsored results displayed to the side of non-paid search results, and a defined micromarket for one or more search keywords. In at least some embodiments, a return on investment in the micromarket is also considered. In some embodiments, an explore/exploit technique is utilized to control impact while investigating potential additional micromarkets for an advertiser. | 2013-03-28 |
20130080248 | METHOD FOR PERFORMING REAL-TIME CLICK FRAUD DETECTION, PREVENTION AND REPORTING FOR ONLINE ADVERTISING - The present invention provides a method of detecting fraudulent clicks in an online environment to reduce fraudulent paid clicks for online advertisers. The method includes server side and client side code which combined enables a click verification web site to identify valid and invalid clicks and in real-time prevents advertisers from getting billed for fraudulent activity. | 2013-03-28 |