17th week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 59 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150112805 | PUSH-BASED RECOMMENDATIONS - Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are provided for pushing a recommendation to a user. That is, a recommendation may be pushed to a device of the user based upon a triggering event associated with the user. The recommendation may be provided, for example, without user solicitation for the recommendation. In one example, a recommendation component may observe that the user frequently stops for ice cream on Fridays after work (e.g., based upon prior social network check-ins). Accordingly, on the following Friday, the recommendation component may push a recommendation to the user's device to visit a particular grocery store on the way home from work that is within 10 minutes of the user's home so that the user can avoid melting ice cream (e.g., a location constraint may be applied to choose a grocery store that is relatively close to the user's home). | 2015-04-23 |
20150112806 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING BRAND INTEGRATION WITHIN ONLINE CONTENT AND PROMOTING THAT ONLINE CONTENT - Brand integration within online content and promoting that online content may be facilitated. A user may define search queries specifying parameter values of one or more parameters. In response to the user defined search queries, the system may identify sets of content producers having parameter values that satisfy the user defined search queries. The user may specify tasks for the identified sets of content producers. A first task may be related to creating online content and/or integrating an advertisement into online content. A second task may be related to promoting and/or endorsing the online content from the first task. The system may effectuate presentation of the user specified tasks to sets of content producers. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112807 | Intelligent Content and Navigation - The disclosure includes technology for providing custom content for display. In an example embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes storing unique customer types in a non-transitory computer storage device; storing in the computer storage device custom contents in association with one or more of the different customer types; receiving at a user device or a server coupled to the user device interaction data from the user device of a user describing an interaction by the user with a site presented for display to the user on the user device; determining by the user device or the server a customer type for the user; querying by the user device or the server the custom contents stored on the computer storage device for a custom content matching the customer type and associated with the interaction data; and presenting the custom content to the user via the display of the user device. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112808 | DETERMINING RELEVANT BUSINESS LOCATIONS BASED ON TRAVEL DISTANCES - Methods, systems, and apparatus include computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, including a method for providing content. A request for content is received from a user device. A content item is identified for delivery to the user device responsive to the request. A location of the user device is determined. A threshold distance is determined that a user is likely willing to travel when visiting a physical location associated with the content item or content sponsor. A bounding region associated with the location of the user device is identified. Location extensions are identified that are associated with the content item. A determination is made when one of the location extensions is included in the bounding region and when a distance between the location extension and a current location of the user is less than the determined threshold distance. The content item is augmented with the one location extension. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112809 | Confirmation of a Device at a Geographic Location - Technology is described for confirming that a device is at a geographic location. An identifier is associating with a geographic location. An audio signal is received containing the identifier at a mobile computing device in the geographic location. The identifier is validated via the mobile computing device to verify that the mobile computing device is at the geographic location. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112810 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING INTERACTIVE SERVICE IN DIGITAL SIGNAGE SYSTEM - A method and digital signage terminal for processing an interactive service using a digital signage system are disclosed. The digital signage terminal includes a device controller, a configuration manager, a device event receiver, an event data analyzer, and a registered event dispatcher. The device controller performs control so that the auxiliary device receives at least one event. The configuration manager receives a client configuration message, and extracts first event request information. The device event receiver receives raw data related to a first event. The event data analyzer converts the raw data into information related to the first event. The registered event dispatcher registers a second event based on the extracted first event request information, receives the information related to the first event, determines whether the first event corresponds to the registered second event, and generates determination information indicating that the first event corresponds to the second event. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112811 | Method for Tailoring a Web Advertisement to a Specific User Adapting for Display on a Mobile Device - A method for tailoring an advertisement to a specific user based upon that user's available information, then adapting a suitable advertisement for display on a mobile device, and then delivering that advertisement on the user's mobile device. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112812 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INFERRING USER DEMOGRAPHICS - A method to determine demographic information of a new user utilizing only ratings includes training an inference engine informed with a training data set which includes ratings and demographic information from a plurality of other users. The new user inputs ratings, such as movie ratings, and an inference engine determines demographic information of the new user. The demographic information of the new user can then be used to provide recommendations or to provide targeted advertisements to the new user. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112813 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A PRODUCT INVENTORY INFORMATION PLATFORM WITH STANDARDS VALIDATION - A system and method for providing a product inventory information platform with standards validation are disclosed. A particular embodiment is configured to: receive a first set of information from a plurality of product sources, the first set of information indicative of product availability from the plurality of product sources; receive a second set of information from a plurality of product consumers, the second set of information indicative of products obtained or needed by the plurality of product consumers; generate a plurality of profiles based on the first and second sets of information, the plurality of profiles including product source profiles and consumer profiles; perform at least one analysis operation on the plurality of profiles, the at least one analysis operation including comparing the product source profiles and consumer profiles to an applicable standard to identify gaps or conflicts between the product source profiles and consumer profiles relative to the applicable standard; and present results of the at least one analysis operation to a user. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112814 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AN INTEGRATED CONTENT PUBLISHING SYSTEM - Systems and techniques are disclosed for searching content on a social network computer system for a data item of interest and determining when the content on the social network computer system related to the data item of interest exceeds a relevancy threshold. An electronic media item object (e.g., a video, image, text) associated with the data item of interest may be obtained based on the determination. The electronic media item object may be modified to generate a modified electronic media item object. The modified electronic media item object may be approved and be provided to one or more targeted recipients. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112815 | DEVICE, METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR DETERMINING A MATCH BETWEEN PROFILES - Controlling an electronic device to acquire a personal profile for a person. The electronic device acquires a personal profile for a person identified by a unique identifier. The personal profile is a profile generated by applying big data analytics to personal data collected for the person identified by the unique identifier. Responsive to reception of at least one candidate profile, the electronic device is controlled to perform a match between the personal profile and the at least one candidate personal profile. The electronic device is controlled to provide at least one user-perceivable indicator that indicates a result of the match. The unique identifier of the person is a fingerprint received via a fingerprint scanner. The personal profile is generated and stored by a data processing system prior to receipt of the unique identifier. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112816 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR PROVIDING BRAND INTEGRATION WITHIN ONLINE CONTENT, MANAGING BRAND INTEGRATION WITHIN ONLINE CONTENT, AND/OR MANAGING COMPENSATION ASSOCIATED WITH ONLINE CONTENT - A system configured to provide a graphical user interface for providing brand integration within online content, managing brand integration within online content, and/or managing compensation associated with online content. The system may be configured to effectuate presentation of a graphical user interface. The graphical user interface may include a graphical user interface available and/or presented to one or more producers of online content. The graphical user interface may be configured to convey information associated with one or more of managing brand integration within online content, promoting the online content, and/or managing compensation associated with the online content. In some implementations, the system may be configured to facilitate integration of one or more third-party applications into the graphical user interface. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112817 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SHARING DATA TO ENHANCE A CONSUMER EXPERIENCE - Systems and methods for enhancing a consumer experience using shared data is provided. The system includes a shared data server in communication with one or more merchant sites and a remote server that may include a payment processing server. The shared data server receives, stores, and analyzes information provided from the merchant sites and the remote server to provide recommendations, offers, and the like to the consumer to enhance their experience. The shared data server may also provide upselling opportunities for the merchant site based on its analysis as well as opportunities to extend credit to consumers for the remote server based on its analysis of the received information. The shared data server may allow merchant sites and remote servers to make indirect use of the information that each has individually about products and customers without providing direct access to the information. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112818 | CONTENT ITEM SELECTION CRITERIA GENERATION - Selection of content selection criteria based on entities related by relationship dimensions. In one aspect, a method receives a selection of a seed entity described in entity relation data, the entity relation data defining instances of entities, and for each entity one or more relationship dimensions; generating a set of selected entities; iteratively updating the set of selected entities, each iteration comprising: determining a set of relationship dimensions from the entities in the set of selected entities, each relationship dimension in the set being selected from the one or more relationship dimensions of the entities in the set of selected entities, receiving a selection of one of the relationship dimensions and in response: determining a set of candidate entities from the relationship dimensions and in response to receiving a selection of one or more candidate entities, updating the set of selected entities to include the one or more candidate entities. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112819 | LOCAL AREA SOCIAL NETWORK - A local area social network is configured to enable a plurality of computer peripheral devices to show display data on a single shared screen. The local area social network has a proprietary network configured within a local venue. The single shared screen communicatively coupled to the proprietary network. A first computer peripheral device is communicatively coupled to the proprietary network such that the display data sent from the first computer peripheral device is displayed on the single shared screen. A second computer peripheral device is communicatively coupled to the proprietary network such that communication data from the second computer peripheral device is displayed on the first computer peripheral device. A web server is communicatively coupled to the proprietary network wherein the web server pushes data to the single shared screen and pulls user data sent from the first computer peripheral device and the second computer peripheral device. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112820 | PLATFORM FOR SERVING ONLINE CONTENT - A computer implemented method for creating a page including content includes the steps of inserting, with a computing device, one or more placeholders in the page, requesting, with a computing device, parameters, receiving, with a computing device, meta data in response to the step of requesting parameters, creating, with a computing device, frames in the page based on the meta data at positions corresponding to the placeholders, requesting, with a computing device, content, receiving, with a computing device, content in response to the request for content, and placing the content in the frames for display on a display device. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112821 | Budgeting Support at a Transaction Device - Systems, methods, and devices are provided for providing budgeting support at a transaction device. A user may initiate a transaction at the transaction device, and budget categories associated with an account involved in the transaction may be received at the transaction device. The budget categories may be presented to the user at the transaction device during the transaction. Input may be received from the user at the transaction device that identifies one of the budget categories as a selected budget category. The selected budget category may be associated with a transaction record created for the transaction. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112822 | PROXY FOR MULTIPLE PAYMENT MECHANISMS - Various embodiments are related to apparatuses and methods for paying for a financial transaction using a proxy object. The proxy object can be associated with multiple payment accounts, for example accounts associated with credit cards and debit cards. A consumer can present the object to a payee to make a payment, and the payee can use a device to obtain information from the object. For example, when the proxy object is a proxy card similar to a credit card, the payee can use a card reader to read information from the magnetic stripe of the proxy card. The information can be transmitted to a financial system, and the financial system can communicate with a computer system that can select a payment account associated with the proxy card to use for the payment. The financial system can process the payment using the selected payment account. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112823 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, PORTABLE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, AND CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL PROGRAM THEREOF - An information processing apparatus includes an acquirer that, when a sales assistant device is connected to a portable communication terminal, acquires, via the portable communication terminal, specifying information for specifying the sales assistant device, a driver executor that executes a driver program corresponding to the specifying information and controls the sales assistant device, an application executor that executes a sales management application program corresponding to the specifying information and transmits sales processing screen information to the portable communication terminal, and a specifier that specifies, based on the specifying information, a sales management database in which sales-related information acquired under control of the sales assistant device should be accumulated. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112824 | RECEIPT ISSUING DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD FOR A RECEIPT ISSUING DEVICE, PRINTING DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR A PRINTING DEVICE - A receipt issuing device, control method for a receipt issuing device, printing device, and a control method for a printing device can eliminate issuing unnecessary receipts without requiring changing the application of the host device. A transaction information reception unit | 2015-04-23 |
20150112825 | CHECKOUT TERMINAL - A checkout station includes a checkout terminal having a detecting unit at a front surface thereof, and first and second shopping cart parking regions on opposite lateral sides of the checkout terminal. The detecting unit is configured to detect an item to be purchased by a customer as the item is transferred from a shopping cart parked in the first shopping cart parking region to a shopping cart parked in the second shopping cart parking region. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112826 | TECHNIQUES FOR PROVIDING RETAIL CUSTOMERS A SEAMLESS, INDIVIDUALIZED DISCOVERY AND SHOPPING EXPERIENCE - The present invention is directed to techniques for providing retail customers a seamless, individualized discovery and shopping experience. With an improved shopper/customer accounting system, along with other technologies such as intelligent fixtures, mobile devices, and product simulations, a shopper's product discovery, purchase, and post-sale experience can be highly integrated and personalized. For example, the shopper's out-of-store (online) and in-store product discovery sessions may be seamlessly linked and analyzed to provide the shopper with customized recommendations and assistance. Other variations and enhancements are disclosed. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112827 | Devices, Methods, and Computer Readable Storage Devices for Providing Offers Based onAqqreqate Need - Offers are provided based on an aggregate need. Data is collected data from a plurality of different communication devices. The data collected from each respective communication device indicates a need for a product associated with the respective communication device. An aggregate need for the product is determined based on the collected data. A determination is also made whether the aggregate need for the product meets a threshold. Responsive to determining that the aggregate need for the product meets the threshold, an offer for fulfilling the need for the product is sent to each respective communication device from which the data was collected that indicated the need for the product. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112828 | System and Method for Facilitating Service Transactions Online - Systems and methods for facilitating a service transaction bidding process online which involves filtering all quotes received and displaying only a dynamic subset of all quotes received for a requested service, wherein inclusion in the subset is based on the financial appeal of at least one common feature of the quotes received and providers submitting quotes that are filtered out and not included in the dynamic subset are notified and queried to submit more competitive quotes. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112829 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEPLOYING AND MAINTAINING SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS - A method and system for software deployment or maintenance where procedures for software installation or maintenance are defined by a skilled individual; site-specific or confidential information is separated from operating system native commands; parameterized commands referencing a hierarchy of variables are acquired by another individual; site-specific or confidential information of the other individual is combined with parameterized commands; new operating system native commands are generated; and, the new operating system native commands are execute on a computing system to reproduce the procedures for software installation or maintenance originally defined by the skilled individual. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112830 | INTERNET RADIO AND BROADCAST METHOD WITH MUSIC PURCHASING - Data streams are generally selected according to user preferences and transmitted to the user in general alignment with expressed preferences of the user. Such data streams may be music, including music videos. Users may indicate their general or specific preferences with regards to song, artists, or albums. Any other aspects or factors that might affect the user's preferences can be taken into account. A playlist is created that combines all of these factors. The playlist then serves as the basis for feeding the data streams to the user. Each user is able to express his or her own preferences and receive music corresponding to those preferences on an on-going basis. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112831 | RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON USAGE AND RESOURCE CONSUMPTION DATA - An electronic device may generate use related information and resource consumption related information corresponding to each of used applications used in the electronic device. The use related information and the resource consumption related information may then be transmitted to a remote applications manager, which may analyze the information to generate, based on the analysis, specially tailored application recommendations. The application recommendations may list one or more other applications, newly available or offered, which may be recommended for download to and/or use in the electronic device. The analysis of the use and the resource consumption information may comprise ranking the used applications, such as based on use patterns and/or resource consumption, and/or classification of the used applications, such as based on application type. Generating the application recommendations may comprise correlating used applications, based on classification and/or ranking, with similar applications that may be recommended. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112832 | EMPLOYING A PORTABLE COMPUTERIZED DEVICE TO ESTIMATE A TOTAL EXPENDITURE IN A RETAIL ENVIRONMENT - A computer-implemented process for determining a probable total expenditure for selected goods is described, and includes employing a portable computerized device to capture an image of a plurality of selected goods. An itemized list of probable selected products is generated based upon the image. A price is determined for each of the probable selected products, and a total probable expenditure for the itemized list of probable selected products is determined based upon the price for each of the probable selected products. The total probable expenditure is displayed on the portable computerized device. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112833 | SHOPPING SUPPORT SYSTEM - According to an embodiment, a shopping support system has a plurality of customer terminals and a center server. The customer terminal has an input acceptance unit and a customer terminal controller. The input acceptance unit accepts an input of a candidate commodity to become a purchase candidate. The customer terminal controller transmits purchase schedule information including the candidate commodity to the center server. The center server has a center server controller. The center server controller receives the purchase schedule information transmitted from the customer terminal controller, and notifies a store to sell the candidate commodity included in the received purchase schedule information, of the candidate commodity. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112834 | SHOPPING SUPPORT DEVICE AND SHOPPING SUPPORT METHOD - According to an embodiment, a shopping support device is configured to accept an input of a periodic purchase commodity to be periodically purchased by a customer. The shopping support device is configured to control a display so that the display displays the periodic purchase commodity as a candidate commodity, along with the candidate commodity. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112835 | 3D IMAGING - The 3D models includes parametric data and metadata. A software enables a user to specify search criteria for a selected product among a plurality of products whose 3D models are stored on the data storage device. The search software returns a list of product(s) matching the search criteria. The user selects a product and the 3D model of the selected product is streamed to the user software. The 3D model is then displayed to the user, who now can interact with the 3D model by selecting, hovering over, or decomposing the 3D model to reveal parts or subassemblies of the product in one or more stages of decomposition. Finally, e-commerce software communicates with the user software allowing the user to initiate an ecommerce transaction with respect to the parts or subassemblies depicted in the 3D model of the selected product. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112836 | SHOPPING ASSISTANT - Systems and methods of assisting in an electronic shopping experience are disclosed. A request may be received, from a user on a device having a user interface, to search for an item listed for sale in a marketplace. A balance amount of an account associated with or available to the user at the marketplace is displayed in the user interface. The search results are limited to at least one item having a sales price less than the displayed balance amount and the at least one item is displayed in the user interface. The account may be a user account at a payment service provider. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112837 | Systems and Methods for Retail Networking - Computing systems, methods, and program products can support a closed retail network. A computing system can receive an inquiry from a first member entity of a retail network and identifying a product of interest. The system can use a datastore to determine if the product of interest is available for sale by a first member by determining if the product is available from a second member. If the product of interest is available for sale, the computing system can indicate that the product is available, receive data from the first member entity indicating that the product has been sold to a customer and including payment information, use the payment information to transfer funds from the customer, and initiate a distribution of the transferred funds to the first and second member entities. The system may consider distribution rules in determining if the product is available for sale by the first member. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112838 | SMART DEVICE ASSISTED COMMERCE - Systems, devices, and methods used to provide real-time product information for retail products and services are generally disclosed herein. One example embodiment includes a referral application operating on a smartphone, configured to correlate data from multiple sources and provide context-aware recommendations and information relevant to a product or service being evaluated by a consumer in the physical shopping environment (such as a retail store). For example, the data may be obtained from a retailer's product information database, a retailer's competitor information database, an advertiser information database, an Internet-hosted service, a social network, or similar internal or external information sources. The real-time product information may be correlated, aggregated, and displayed to the user to either facilitate the retail purchase in the store, or encourage another online or retail purchase. Techniques for providing location-based advertisements and tailored product offerings based on the user's shopping activity are also described herein. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112839 | ONLINE SHOPPING SYSTEM AND METHOD - An online shopping platform ( | 2015-04-23 |
20150112840 | SHOPPING SUPPORT DEVICE AND SHOPPING SUPPORT METHOD - According to an embodiment, a shopping support device accepts an input of a candidate commodity to become a purchase candidate of a customer. The shopping support device acquires additional information relating to the candidate commodity. Furthermore, the shopping support device controls a display so that the display displays the additional information, along with the candidate commodity. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112841 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING MATCHING GOODS AND SERVICES - A method and system for matching a consumer to a desired product is disclosed. Each of the products is initially described using a defined list of characteristics. Each of the characteristics is defined on a scale, and the consumer provides a value on the scale when describing the desired product. The consumer creates a search by entering values for the characteristics describing the product that are important to that consumer. Each of the entered values in the search is compared against the list defining a particular product. The matching routine ranks each of the products that most closely match the search by the consumer. The search results are further filtered according to the present location of the consumer. The filtered results are presented to the consumer to provide a list of products that best match the desired product and that are located proximate to the consumer. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112842 | PARTS EXCHANGE METHOD AND APPARATUS - A method and apparatus is provided for identifying parts of a vehicle. A method and apparatus is also provided for generating keywords and logic structures to access a part number database. A method and apparatus is further provided for use of the keywords and logic structure to access the part number database. Vehicle identifiers such as VIN numbers are utilized to determine vehicle parts so that vehicle parts for a vehicle may be determined from the vehicle identifier of that vehicle. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112843 | SUBSTITUTION OF WORK PRODUCTS - A method comprises the steps of analyzing a given work product to determine one or more constituents used in the given work product, determining a given work product profile associated with the given work product based at least in part on the one or more constituents used in the given work product, comparing the given work product profile with one or more other work product profiles to determine a subset of the one or more other work product profiles similar to the given work product profile, and selecting one or more substitute work products having respective work profiles in the subset as substitutes for the given work product. The analyzing, determining, comparing and selecting steps are performed by at least one processor device. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112844 | Futures Contracts with Divergent Trading and Delivery Units - Systems and methods are provided for processing derivative financial instrument positions. Contracts are structured to include minimum position limits or thresholds as final settlement dates approach. The minimum position limits or thresholds exceed the trading units. Traders who initially hold relatively small positions are required to increase their positions as the settlement date approaches so that the position at settlement corresponds to quantities used in commercial institutional markets. Limits or thresholds are enforced by imposing a fee for non-compliance, forcing cash settlement or requiring a mandatory roll forward of at least some of the positions. The roll forward may include a spread product that includes a first derivative financial instrument having a first settlement date and a second derivative financial instrument having a second settlement date that is different from the first settlement date. The price of the spread product is based on daily settlement values associated with the first and second derivative financial instruments. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112845 | Futures Contracts with Minimum Position Limit Approaching Delivery Period - Systems and methods are provided for processing derivative financial instrument positions. Contracts are structured to include minimum position limits or thresholds as final settlement dates approach. The minimum position limits or thresholds exceed the trading units. Traders who initially hold relatively small positions are required to increase their positions as the settlement date approaches so that the position at settlement corresponds to quantities used in commercial institutional markets. Limits or thresholds are enforced by imposing a fee for non-compliance, forcing cash settlement or requiring a mandatory roll forward of at least some of the positions. The roll forward may include a spread product that includes a first derivative financial instrument having a first settlement date and a second derivative financial instrument having a second settlement date that is different from the first settlement date. The price of the spread product is based on daily settlement values associated with the first and second derivative financial instruments. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112846 | Futures Contracts Settlement Method with Option to Roll Forward - Systems and methods are provided for processing derivative financial instrument positions. Contracts are structured to include minimum position limits or thresholds as final settlement dates approach. The minimum position limits or thresholds exceed the trading units. Traders who initially hold relatively small positions are required to increase their positions as the settlement date approaches so that the position at settlement corresponds to quantities used in commercial institutional markets. Limits or thresholds are enforced by imposing a fee for non-compliance, forcing cash settlement or requiring a mandatory roll forward of at least some of the positions. The roll forward may include a spread product that includes a first derivative financial instrument having a first settlement date and a second derivative financial instrument having a second settlement date that is different from the first settlement date. The price of the spread product is based on daily settlement values associated with the first and second derivative financial instruments. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112847 | TRADE EXECUTION METHODS AND SYSTEMS - A computer system for electronic trading system is disclosed. The computer system allows the user to predefine various parameters that dictate trade entry as well as exits of a trade based on risk sizing and/or a risk versus reward schedule. By entering and exiting trades based on predefined parameters, the emotion of trading is reduced and the user is allowed to spend more time looking for other profitable trades than monitoring live open trades. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112848 | DISSEMINATING FLOOR QUOTES FROM OPEN OUTCRY MARKETS - One or more methods may be used to disseminate floor quotes from an open outcry financial market, such as via messages posted on a social network. These messages may include additional information for providing “color” to the price quotation. In some cases, a method of disseminating the floor quotes may include receiving, at a computer device, a request from a trader to receive an authenticated user name associated with a financial exchange. The financial exchange may then permit the trader to post one or more messages to a social network using the authenticated user name, where the message includes information about a trade on the financial exchange. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112849 | Creating or Redeeming Shares Of An Exchange Traded Fund - Selling exchange-traded fund (“ETF”) shares by an investment company receiving a pre-determined group of financial assets from an authorized participant in exchange for a number of ETF shares, the number of ETF shares corresponding to the group of financial assets, and the investment company purchasing a number of shares of an underlying fund, the number of shares corresponding to the group of financial assets. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112850 | AUTOMATIC FINANCIAL PRODUCT TRADING SYSTEM AND METHOD - Provided are an automatic financial product trading system and method for automatically trading a financial product when the financial product satisfies a preset trading condition. Through an automatic ordering accelerator using separate hardware or an automatic ordering accelerator installed in a network card, rather than a main processor of a computer system, information input and output through a network card is collected and a financial product is quickly automatically traded. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112851 | LIMITED MOVEMENT COLLAR ON MARKETABLE ORDER EXECUTION PRICE - An electronic trading system implements collar protection for received marketable orders. A collar price is determined based on best bid and offers prices or the price of a recently executed trade. Orders matched at prices worse than the collar price (from the perspective of the marketable order) are not allowed to execute. When execution of orders is halted, a collar timer runs. When the collar timer exceeds a time threshold, the collar price is modified based on a collar move parameter. The collar move parameter may be modified when the reset collar timer subsequently exceeds the time threshold. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112852 | MONETIZING FINANCIAL BROKERAGE DATA - Method and systems for monetizing financial brokerage accounts are disclosed. One aspect for certain embodiments includes mining data from financial brokerage accounts and monetizing the mined data and providing to the customer an unlimited number of free trades for an unlimited period of time. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112853 | ONLINE LOAN APPLICATION USING IMAGE CAPTURE AT A CLIENT DEVICE - A user device, for example a smart phone, is used to apply for an online loan. The user device includes a camera which allows the user to capture an image of a document in the possession of the user. The image is transmitted to a remote computer system which carries out an automated loan decision making process to determine whether to provide an online loan to the user as a function of, inter alia, the image of the document. The automated loan decision making process can use the image to determine information about the user of the device who is requesting an online loan. The user device determines when to capture an image of the document when it is properly positioned within the frame of the camera and/or as a function of when it is properly focused in the frame of the camera. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112854 | Method of Automating a Business Loan Life Cycle - A method and computer-implemented method for loan consideration including the steps of: (a) obtaining financial data regarding a loan requester from a plurality of digital media sources, the financial data including tax data; (b) analyzing the financial data to make an affordability and risk assessment (AARA) for granting a loan to the loan requester, the AARA including calculating, at least from the tax data, a forecasted amount of unencumbered capital to be available over at least a portion of a term of said loan (i.e. by calculating an amount of historical unencumbered cash flow, which is then forecasted by the system into the future) after capital expenditure is estimated and current outstanding loan/debt repayments are deducted from the estimate; and (c) deciding whether to grant the loan based on the AARA. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112855 | Parent and Child Account Relationship - The present disclosure involves enabling a parent and child account relationship. One example method includes identifying a child account associated with a parent account, the parent account including a monetary amount, the child account being different than the parent account; identifying a communication associated with the child account; transferring at least a portion of the monetary amount from the parent account to the child account after identifying the communication associated with the child account; and debiting the portion of the monetary amount in the child account for charges associated with the communication. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112856 | System and Method for Facilitating International Money Transfers - A system for and method for facilitating international money transfers is disclosed. The system includes a database coupled to a web portal wherein potential parties can bid on a monetary exchange between a first and second currency. The system includes a first bank account and a second bank account and a means for transferring the control of funds between parties making deposits in the first and second bank accounts upon the parties agreeing to a transaction. The first and second bank accounts may be in different countries, thereby facilitating an international monetary transaction without the need to move funds between countries. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112857 | ONLINE TRANSACTION SYSTEM WITH PERSONAL MATCHING - Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for an online transaction system with personal matching are presented. In some embodiments, a method includes determining a location of a first user and a second user. The method further includes receiving supplemental data associated the first user and supplemental data associated with the second user. The method additionally includes determining a match between a first user and a second user based at least in part on the determined location and the supplemental data. The method further includes presenting a transaction to at least one of the first user or the second user based at least in part on the determined location and the supplemental data. The method also includes facilitating a payment from at least one of the first user or the second user for the transaction. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112858 | Logistics Methods for Processing Lottery and Contest Tickets with Generic Hardware - A lottery data transfer method for processing lottery ticket data piggybacks on a merchant's existing debit or credit card interchange system. A BIN is assigned to lottery tickets that is unique in the merchant's credit or debit card interchange, the BIN associated with a lottery data blob also provided on the lottery ticket. The lottery BIN and data blob are into the merchant's existing credit or debit card activation barcode protocol to initiate transfer of the lottery data to a central lottery site via the interchange. At a processor within the interchange, the unique lottery BIN is flagged to initiate special routing to and further processing of the lottery data blob at the lottery central site, wherein the lottery data blob is processed outside of the interchange's debit or credit card data transfer and processing procedures. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112859 | WIRELESS MOBILE COMMUNICATOR FOR CONTACTLESS PAYMENT ON ACCOUNT READ FROM REMOVABLE CARD - A wireless mobile communications apparatus reads removable cards and can communicate an account corresponding to the removable card in order to conduct a wireless transaction with a merchant on the account with the wireless mobile communications apparatus. A total currency amount for the transaction, and remaining balance in the account after the transaction, can be displayed on a display screen of the wireless mobile communications apparatus. The removable card can be a gift card bearing a magnetic strip having an identifier for the account encoded thereto that will be read when inserted into the wireless mobile communications apparatus which can be a cellular telephone or Web enabled portable device. The magnetic strip gift card can be substantially composed of paper so as to be intended for disposable after use. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112860 | Contactless Payment Method, Device, and System - The present invention provides a contactless payment method, device, and system. After a mobile terminal having an NFC function receives, from a reading terminal, a selection command including a financial document application identifier, the mobile terminal returns, if it is determined that a supplementary payment application needs to be executed, a PPSE corresponding to the financial document application identifier to the reading terminal, where the PPSE includes a first application identifier that indicates a bank payment application and a second application identifier that indicates a supplementary payment application, and a priority of the second application identifier is higher than a priority of the first application identifier, so that the reading terminal acquires, according to priorities of payment applications in the PPSE, payment information corresponding to the payment applications from the mobile terminal in sequence to complete payment, thereby improving efficiency of contactless payment. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112861 | METHOD FOR COMPUTERIZING A RECEIPT - A method for computerizing a receipt is applied to an electronic device with a touch screen, and the method includes retrieving a plurality of trading data of a trade, computing a characteristic code according to the trading data, and displaying a signature-field pattern with the computed characteristic code on the touch screen. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112862 | PEER-TO-PEER PAYMENT REGISTRATION AND ACTIVATION - A user is registered for an electronic peer-to-peer payment system by authenticating the user at an automated teller machine (ATM), receiving the user's mobile number and addressing a verification code to the user's mobile number, which the user must enter in order to be registered. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112863 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONDUCTING A MONEY TRANSFER AND/OR PAYMENT TRANSACTION - The invention provides a method of conducting a money transfer transaction. The method comprises obtaining identification data from a customer at a point-of-sale terminal; verifying the obtained identification data by matching the identification data with customer data maintained in computer memory; obtaining transaction details from the customer, the transaction details including a transaction value and a recipient international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) associated with a mobile device; displaying a summary of the proposed money transfer transaction on a display device in communication with the point-of-sale terminal; obtaining confirmation of the money transfer transaction from the customer; obtaining payment from the customer representing the transaction value; and associating the transaction value with the recipient IMSI. Also provided are methods of conducting a payment transaction and related money transfer and payment transaction systems. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112864 | TRANSACTION COMPLETION USING IDENTITY AGGREGATOR - A transaction processing server acts as an identity aggregator and enables transactions between a user computing device and plurality of merchant servers. The transaction processing server receives a request from the user computing device to conduct the financial transaction with a merchant server. The transaction processing server determines a plurality of user identifiers identifying a user account associated with the user computing device at each of a plurality of online systems, where a first identifier is a transaction processing server identifier identifying a user account at the transaction processing server and a second identifier is a merchant identifier identifying a user account at the merchant server. Financial information is retrieved using the plurality of user identifiers. The transaction processing server transmits the merchant identifier and the financial information of the user to the merchant server, which conducts the transaction with the user computing device using the financial information. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112865 | QUICK RESPONSE (QR) SECURE SHAKE - In one embodiment, a computing device of a social-networking system may receive from a computing device of a first user of the social-networking system information acquired by the computing device of the first user from a tag associated with a second user of the social-networking system. The tag may encode a time stamp, a signature, and a social action on the social-networking system. The computing device of the social-networking system may verify the signature and, if the signature is verified, then initiate the social action. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112866 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING FUNDS - A method for facilitating real time transfer of funds from a sender to a recipient includes receiving an expedited funds transfer request from the sender having a first account at a first financial institution, the recipient having a second account at a second financial institution, the first and second financial institutions being members of a computer-implemented payment network including a plurality of member financial institutions; and sending a message to the second financial institution to deposit funds into the second account, wherein the second financial institution deposits funds into the second account, and wherein the first financial institution settles with the second financial institution after the second financial institution deposits funds into the second account. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112867 | Protecting Privacy Of Personally Identifying Information When Delivering Targeted Assets - Techniques are disclosed herein for protecting personally identifying information (PII) and behavioral data while delivering targeted assets. In one aspect, a profile is created based on a template and desired characteristics of users to receive one or more targeted assets. The template provides a framework for the user characteristics. One or more clients are provided the template. A manifest that identifies the targeted assets is encrypted based on the profile. The encrypted manifest is sent to the one or more clients. A user profile is generated at a client based on a template. The client attempts to decrypt the encrypted manifest based on the profile created at the client. The client sends a request for any targeted assets that were identified through the attempt to decrypt the encrypted manifest. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112868 | DONGLE DEVICE WITH COMMUNICATION MODULE FOR A SECURE ELECTRONIC TRANSACTION - The various embodiments herein provide a dongle device with a communication module for a secure electronic transaction. The dongle device comprises housing provided with a slot for inserting a magnetic stripe card, a slot for inserting a contact type card, a communication module such as a Wireless module or a Bluetooth module or a mobile communication module or a zigbee module, a key pad, a connector, a cover for safeguarding the connector, a stylus, a universal serial bus (USB) port, a processor and a display. The communication module is a pluggable module to the dongle device. The card is read and the card data are transmitted through the supersonic frequencies or spread spectrum signals to a payment gateway server. The communication module links a transaction originated in a cloud computing server with a payment gateway server through a mobile device to complete a financial transaction. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112869 | Methods and Systems for Use in Online Transactions - A method of enabling the creation of a wallet entry in a digital wallet, wherein the wallet entry is for use in completing online transactions. The method comprises associating a local device with a network portal, using the local device to obtain card data relating to a card, encrypting the card data on the local device, and transmitting the encrypted card data from the local device to a remote server by means of the network portal. The remote server is arranged to decrypt the card data and use the card data to create the wallet entry. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112870 | CONTEXTUAL TRANSACTION TOKEN METHODS AND SYSTEMS - Embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer-readable mediums for generating and providing a transaction token that may provide contextual information associated with the token. Accordingly, the transaction token may provide any entities within a transaction processing system immediate information about the context in which the token was generated, how the token may be used, and any other information that may be pertinent to processing the token. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112871 | MULTI-NETWORK TOKEN BIN ROUTING WITH DEFINED VERIFICATION PARAMETERS - Techniques described herein relate to using tokenization with BIN table routing by configuring a computer system, such as an acquirer computer, to utilize a token BIN translation table to determine which payment processing network(s) are eligible to route a transaction based upon a utilized token. In an embodiment, each token BIN translation table entry associates a token BIN with one or more payment processing networks that are eligible to route transactions. An acquirer computer, upon receiving a token for a transaction, thus may flexibly route the transaction to an eligible network from the set of payment processing networks identified by the entry corresponding to the token's BIN value. The entry may further identify verification methods for the eligible payment processing networks, and may identify product type attributes of the account associated with the token, either of which may be used in determining which payment processing network to select. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112872 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GUIDED PASSCODE ENTRY - Systems and methods are provided for facilitating guided entry of a passcode. The exemplary guided passcode entry system provides additional security to traditional secret PIN or passcode entry systems by generating a randomized input sequence (order of entry) and prompting the user to input the passcode according to the randomized input sequence. The system also causes a test of the user's input data against a database of passcodes associated with the particular user for an exact match. The testing step can include comparing the characters of the input data to a particular passcode associated with the user which is stored in a database in accordance with the randomized input sequence in regard to the order that the input data was received. Based on the comparison of the received pin to the stored pin, the system can advance the transaction with the user. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112873 | MANAGEMENT OF BUSINESS - First business process data obtained from a first trading participant includes a set of transaction messages having a first data format in accordance with a first protocol for conducting business transactions used by the first trading participant. A virtual trading participant receives fictitious business process data from the first trading participant and acknowledging the fictitious business process data and replying to the first trading participant that the fictitious business process data has been acknowledged. Operational characteristics and a connectivity of a currently trading participant connected to a process management platform accessible via an interconnection fabric are tested, by utilizing the virtual trading participant to determine if the data defining individual business processes is in a uniform format understood by a process management platform. The virtual trading participant is utilized to ensure compatibility with an identified version of the uniform format. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112874 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING OWNER ASSOCIATION ANALYTICS - Computer-based processes are disclosed for mining and analyzing owner association (OA) data associated with a plurality of real estate properties and generating an OA amount model that can be used to estimate OA amounts for a subject property. The OA data may also be analyzed to identify OA ratings, OA recommendations, OA delinquency actions, OA contacts information, OA services information, etc. The disclosed processes can also use the generated OA amount model to identify OA amount trends, and determine valuations and investment metrics for real estate properties. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112875 | System and Method for Recording Lease Information in an Attribute Database - A system and method for recording lease information in an attribute database is herein disclosed. In this embodiment, the method can comprise the steps storing in a data store a shape within a geographic region, and providing a database management console to a user. The shape is linked with one or more attributes. The database management console can comprise an ownership tab. The ownership tab can comprise one or more ownership listings associated with the shape. Further, the ownership tab can comprise one or more lease creation buttons. Each of the lease creation buttons next to one of the ownership listings. Additionally, the method can comprise the steps opening a lease creation form upon a user clicking one of the lease creation buttons. The lease creation form comprising a plurality of form inputs. Furthermore, the method can comprise the step of inputting into one of the inputs the ownership listing. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112876 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRESENTING WASTE SORTING INFORMATION - According to an embodiment, a method for providing information related to a product comprises receiving an input including information regarding a product purchased by a customer, and detecting a type of the product purchased by the customer. The method further comprises acquiring information related to how to dispose of the product in accordance with the detected type, and outputting the information. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112877 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND SOFTWARE FOR QUESTIONBASED SENTIMENT ANALYSIS AND SUMMARIZATION - Exemplary systems for processing a corpus of documents, such as legal contracts or agreements, are disclosed. The systems include a phrase discovery engine which derives statistics and phrase equivalence classes, groups of phrase equivalence classes, and uberphrases (clauses) bounded by phrases. These can be used to determine origins of phrases or clauses within given legal contract or to suggest alternative phrases and clauses. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112878 | System and Method for Assigning Attributes to a Shape on a Map - A system and method for assigning attributes to a shape on a map is herein disclosed. In this embodiment, the method for assigning rights and obligations within a map can comprise the step storing in a data store a shape within a geographic region. The shape linked with a first attribute and a unique track code. The first attribute comprising current ownership information. Additionally, the method further comprising the steps receiving a contract that references the track code, and comparing party information of the contract to the current ownership information. The contract comprising a second attribute. Furthermore the method can comprise the step of linking the second attribute to the shape file if the party information does not conflict with the current ownership information. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112879 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVALUATING PRICING OF REAL ESTATE - A computer-implemented method for evaluating pricing of real estate is implemented by a computing device coupled to a memory. The method includes storing within the memory a plurality of rental data sets wherein each rental data set is associated with a geographic region and wherein each rental data set includes actual rental payment amounts made by tenants using a payment card, receiving a rental data request associated with at least one real estate asset having a physical location, from a requestor, retrieving at least one of the rental data sets associated with a geographic region containing the physical location of the at least one real estate asset, processing the rental data set into a financial assessment associated with the at least one real estate asset, and transmitting the financial assessment to the requestor. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112880 | Systems and Methods for Facilitating User Interactions - A computer-implemented method for facilitating user interactions comprises receiving, with the aid of a system having a computer processor, a request from a requester for making an introduction to a target. The target is directly linked to a facilitator, which can be a user in the requester's company or user group. The system requests authorization from the facilitator to introduce the requester to the target. Upon receiving authorization from the facilitator, the system introduces the requester to the target. In some cases, the system does not reveal the identity of the facilitator to the requester. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112881 | Automated Recruiting Application - An automated recruiting process, which utilizes behavior pattern analysis of a recruiter account, determines the best search criteria and finding potential employees for a job opening. By analyzing the search patterns of the recruiter account, the recruiting process creates a behavioral recruiting pattern description within a plurality of job-filling records so that the recruiting process can utilize the plurality of job-filling records for future job openings. When the recruiting process receives a new job posting, the recruiting process sequentially mimics the behavioral recruiting pattern description to identify preferred candidates for that respective new job posting. Once the preferred candidates are identified through the behavioral recruiting pattern description, the recruiting process forwards the preferred candidates to a hiring manager of the new job posting. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112882 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SCREENING AND PROCESSING APPLICANTS - Disclosed are systems and methods for performing efficient job applicant screening In particular, a network-based system is established for gathering applicant information from an applicant remotely. Analysis of the received information is performed and evaluated pursuant to a first level of screening that can be done without excessive use of resources. Upon passing the first level screening, background checks and/or interviews, which require substantial resources, are further conducted. Applicants who pass the first level of screening are scheduled for interviews, including the optional initiation of personal interviews via video chat. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112883 | PORTABLE SYSTEM FOR MANAGING EVENTS - A system for interacting with a portable device is provided. The system is configured to process both personal and premises events, and includes at least one processor configured to generate device data for determining the location of the portable device and process sensor data in response to an event. The processor is further configured to generate situational data for the processed event. The situational data is based on the sensor data and the device data. The situational data includes information indicative of whether the event is an alarm event and if the event is the alarm event, whether the alarm event is one of a personal event and premises event. The processor is further configured to provide at least a portion of the situational data to the remote service site if the event is the alarm event and determine that confirmation has been received. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112884 | Identifying Genetic Relatives Without Compromising Privacy - Aspects of the invention include determining relatedness between genomes without compromising privacy. In one aspect, secure genome sketches of genomes can be made publicly available without compromising privacy. These are compared to privately held (unsecured) genome sketches to determine relatedness. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112885 | LIMITED ACCESS INVITATION HANDLING AT A SMART-HOME - This patent specification relates to apparatus, systems, methods, and related computer program products for providing home security/smart home objectives. More particularly, this patent specification relates to a plurality of devices, including intelligent, multi-sensing, network-connected devices, that communicate with each other and/or with a central server or a cloud-computing system to provide any of a variety of useful home security/smart home objectives. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112886 | Information Processing Method, Server, and Logistics Terminal - An information processing method, a server, and a logistics terminal are provided. The information processing method includes receiving a query request sent by a logistics terminal; determining, in at least one prestored order, target order information that corresponds to an authentication identifier and includes a delivery address within a delivery distance threshold range that uses a current location of the logistics terminal as a center; feeding back the determined target order information to the logistics terminal; and pushing online prompt information to a corresponding ordering user terminal according to the ordering user account in the target order after an arrival notice instruction sent by the logistics terminal is received. It can be seen that, in this solution, the objectives are achieved of improving goods delivery efficiency and reducing a delivery cost. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112887 | LOCKER DROP OFF - A system and method for dropping off an item at a locker are described. A locker is identified based on a size of an item and a geographic location of a seller of the item listed in an online marketplace. A lock code and an unlock code for the locker are generated. The locker is locked closed in response to receiving the lock code at the locker and is opened in response to receiving the unlock code at the locker. The lock code is communicated along with a location of the locker to the seller of the item. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112888 | VIDEO REVIEW AND RANKING PROCESS USING MEDIA FILES - The present invention manages video reviews and rankings, from a consumer utilizing company electronic media files delivered online by: verifying that the consumer is a customer of the company; if the consumer is verified, company obtains video review and ranking; company determines whether or not to offer a charitable donation in return for the video review and ranking; and if charitable donation has been made, notifying the verified consumer of the donation. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112889 | ACHIEVING MARGIN CAPITAL EFFICIENCIES USING LINEAR PROGRAMMING - A minimum margin requirement associated with an account may be determined by calculating, by a computer system, a first margin requirement for each of a plurality of derivatives positions associated with an account, calculating, by the computer system, a second spread margin requirement for each of one or more spread positions corresponding to the plurality of derivatives positions associated with the account, and determining, by the computer system, a minimum account margin requirement for the account using a linear programming technique and based on the first margin requirement for each of the plurality of derivatives positions and the second spread margin requirement for each of the one or more spread positions. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112890 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING A SERVICE PROVIDER OF A RETIREMENT PLAN - A system and method for analyzing a service provider of a retirement plan and comparing the service provider against the service providers associated with a group of similar plans is disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer system for evaluating a service provider of a retirement plan comprises a computer server having a database comprising a plurality of data defining a plurality of characteristics of each of a plurality of retirement plans, software configured to identify a subset of the plurality of retirement plans having characteristics comparable to characteristics of the selected retirement plan in view of the type and characteristics of the service provider, software configured to permit the selection of at least one report providing the comparison of the service provider, and software configured to automatically generate the selected at least one report. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112891 | INFORMATION PROCESSOR, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present technique relates to an information processor, an information processing method, and a program by which an objective variable value is efficiently and highly precisely estimated. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112892 | System and method for detecting classes of automated browser agents - A method for determining if a web browser is being operated by a human or a non-human agent, based on analysis of certain aspects of how a user interacts with a webpage. By placing a code snippet into the code of a webpage prior to a given user accessing that webpage, one is able to evaluate the user's actions in order to predict the type of user. The predictions are made by acquiring information on how the user loads, navigates, and interacts with the webpage and comparing that information with statistics taken from a control group. Performance metrics from all webpages containing similar code elements are compiled by analysis servers and made available to the operator of a webpage through a variety of reporting mediums. By compiling such performance metrics, the method helps combat and prevent malicious automated traffic directed at advertisements and other aspects of a given webpage. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112893 | Predicting Levels of Influence - Systems and method for identifying individuals who may be potentially influential on a particular identified contact for a particular sales opportunity are disclosed. The individuals identified as potential influencers are then ranked according to a predicted level of influence and displayed in a graphic representation. In one embodiment, the ranked potential influencers are displayed as icons in a spiral formation relative to an icon representing the identified contact. The closer an icon representing a particular potential influencer is to the icon representing the identified contact, the greater the level influence is that that influencer might have on the identified contact. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112894 | PERSPECTIVES FOR PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS - A perspective selection may be used to identify one or more algorithms that may be of interest to an end user and that are associated with the selected perspective. The perspective selection may be used to determine an algorithm for the predicted data of interest and to determine the relevant data for the determined algorithm to generate the predicted data. The relevant data may be retrieved from a backend system and used with the determined algorithm to generate the predicted data. The predicted data may be output to a client device to display a visualization of the predicted data for easy consumption by an end user. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112895 | APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR A DIGITAL CONVERSATION MANAGEMENT PLATFORM - The APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR A DIGITAL CONVERSATION MANAGEMENT PLATFORM (“DCM-Platform”) transforms digital dialogue from consumers, client demands and, Internet search inputs via DCM-Platform components into tradable digital assets, and client needs based artificial intelligence campaign plan outputs. In one implementation, The DCM-Platform may capture and examine conversations between individuals and artificial intelligence conversation agents. These agents may be viewed as assets. One can measure the value and performance of these agents by assessing their performance and ability to generate revenue from prolonging conversations and/or ability to effect sales through conversations with individuals. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112896 | Cross-Channel Content Translation Engine - An embodiment according to the present invention addresses reusability and alignment of content across channels in a multi-channel virtual assistant, by allowing users to define content on one channel and then have the content fully or partially translated for the other channels using a mix of pre-defined static rules, dynamic rules or machine learning. Content translation is provided based on communications channels, and content translation is performed from one to many formats, optionally in real time. Performing content translation using machine learning provides an advantage that as users work, content translation becomes more precise and covers more elements. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112897 | Method for Estimating Parameters of a Graph Spectral Filter Using Training Data - A method processes a signal represented as a graph by first determining a graph spectral transform based on the graph. In a spectral domain, parameters of a graph filter are estimated using a training data set of unenhanced and corresponding enhanced signals. The graph filter is derived based on the graph spectral transform and the estimated graph filter parameters. Then, the signal is processed using the graph filter to produce an output signal. The processing can enhance signals such as images b denoising or interpolating missing samples. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112898 | SITE FLOW OPTIMIZATION - A method and system to present an optimum action in response to a flow of actions in a computer network from a user are provided. For each of a plurality of possible presented actions corresponding to a particular flow of actions in a computer network, and for each of one or more possible performed actions for each possible presented action, a likelihood that a user will perform the possible performed action is determined. Then each of the determined likelihoods is weighted by applying a weight assigned to a corresponding possible presented action. An optimum presented action is identified determining a presented action having a weighted maximum determined likelihood, based on the weighted determined likelihood. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112899 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSESSMENT OF COGNITIVE FUNCTION BASED ON ELECTRONIC DEVICE USAGE - A system and method that enables a person to unobtrusively quantify the effect of mobility, physical activity, learning, social interaction and diet on cognitive function. The method records on the electronic device one of global positioning system longitude and latitude coordinates, accelerometer coordinates, and gyroscope coordinates, one of outgoing and incoming phone calls, outgoing and incoming emails, and outgoing and incoming text messages, one of URLs visited on an internet browser application, books read on an e-reader application, games played on game applications, and the nutritional content of food consumed, performs the step of learning a function mapping from those recordings to measurements of cognitive function using a loss function to identify a set of optimal weights that produce a minimum for the loss function, uses those optimal weights to create the function mapping, and performs the step of computing the variance of the cognitive function measurements that is explained by the function mapping to assign an attribution to the effect of physical activity on measured changes in cognitive function. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112900 | TIME-SERIES DATA PREDICTION DEVICE, TIME-SERIES DATA PREDICTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A time-series data prediction device includes an acquisition unit, a prediction model generation unit, and a prediction unit. The acquisition unit acquires a plurality of observation values that continue at predetermined time intervals, as a prediction data, from time-series data of an observation value of a predetermined observation target, and acquires a training data. The prediction model generation unit generates a prediction model to calculate time-series data, which is an observation value predicted based on given time-series data, using the training data. The prediction unit calculates a predicted value of an observation value using the generated prediction model and the prediction data. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112901 | MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEM FOR ASSESSING HEART VALVES AND SURROUNDING CARDIOVASCULAR TRACTS - A machine learning system for evaluating at least one characteristic of a heart valve, an inflow tract, an outflow tract or a combination thereof may include a training mode and a production mode. The training mode may be configured to train a computer and construct a transformation function to predict an unknown anatomical characteristic and/or an unknown physiological characteristic of a heart valve, inflow tract and/or outflow tract, using a known anatomical characteristic and/or a known physiological characteristic the heart valve, inflow tract and/or outflow tract. The production mode may be configured to use the transformation function to predict the unknown anatomical characteristic and/or the unknown physiological characteristic of the heart valve, inflow tract and/or outflow tract, based on the known anatomical characteristic and/or the known physiological characteristic of the heart valve, inflow tract and/or outflow tract. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112902 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - The information processing device according to one embodiment comprises a storage device for storing model information generated through execution of machine learning while employing learning data, the model information including feature information and weighting information associated with the feature information, for each of a plurality of labels; and a display control device for displaying the feature information included in the model information for at least one label among the plurality of labels on a display device, on the basis of the weighting information associated with the feature information. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112903 | DEFECT PREDICTION METHOD AND APPARATUS - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a defect prediction method and apparatus, which relate to the data processing field, and implement accurate and quick locating of a defect in a faulty product. A specific solution is as follows: selecting a training attribute set from a pre-stored product fault record according to a target attribute, and combining the target attribute and the training attribute set into a training set, where the target attribute is a defect attribute of a historical faulty product; generating a classifier set according to the training set, where the classifier set includes at least two tree classifiers; and predicting a defect of a faulty product by using the classifier set as a prediction model. The present invention is used in a process of predicting a defect of a faulty product. | 2015-04-23 |
20150112904 | METHODS, SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR QUANTIFYING RELATIVE SYSTEM ADAPTABILITY - Methods, systems and computer program products to measure the adaptability of complex systems, including systems of systems, are disclosed. The methods, systems and computer program products provide rigor and defensibility to the analysis and assessment of adaptability. As a result, systems can be designed or acquired that are intrinsically more adaptable and better able to respond to changing environments. | 2015-04-23 |