21st week of 2016 patent applcation highlights part 51 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160148217 | APPLICATION SHARING SERVICE METHOD AND APPARATUS APPLIED THERETO - The present invention discloses an application sharing service method and a device applied to the service method. That is, a company service device can be enabled to provide service content by sharing an application by selecting, among the applications which are installed on a terminal device, a target application to be shared which can be shared with the company service device, and enabling the terminal device to access the service content which is provided by the company service device through the selected target application to be shared. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148218 | Customer Service Based Upon In-Store Field-of-View and Analytics - Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to aspects of customer service based upon in-store field-of-view and analytics. According to one aspect disclosed herein, a store analytics system can collect user information associated with a plurality of users located within an environment. The store analytics system also can collect user device information associated with a plurality of user devices associated with the plurality of users. The store analytics system also can collect estimated fields-of-view associated with the plurality of users. The store analytics system can analyze the user information, the user device information, and the estimated fields-of-view to identify at least one commonality shared among at least two of the plurality of users. The store analytics system can create a logical group. The logical group can include the at least two users of the plurality of users that share the commonality. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148219 | Systems and Methods for Providing Consumer Networks Based on Transaction Data for Consumers - Systems and methods are directed toward providing a consumer network, and links between consumers in the network, based on transaction data for consumers. The system generally includes a memory having a data structure of consumers and transaction data associated with the consumers, and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to execute instructions, stored in the memory, to cause the processor to access transaction data from the data structure for a group of consumers, link consumers in the group based on the transaction data for the consumers, and associate the linked consumers within a consumer network. Each linked consumer in the consumer network is able to view one or more products purchased by at least another linked consumer in the consumer network. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148220 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPACT MODELING OF BRAND REPULSION - A method for identifying repulsive brands includes: storing a plurality of brand profiles, each brand profile including data related to a brand including a brand identifier and a plurality of competitor brand identifiers associated with competitors to the related brand; storing a plurality of transaction data entries, each transaction data entry including data related to a payment transaction involving a consumer including a specific brand identifier associated with a brand involved in the related payment transaction; identifying an associated brand profile for each transaction data entry where the included brand identifier corresponds to the specific brand identifier included in the respective transaction; and identifying repulsive brands based on inclusion of an associated competitor brand identifier in the competitor brand identifiers included in each associated brand profile identified for each transaction data entry in the transaction database. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148221 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus obtains selection object identification information identifying a selection object to be added to a list and user identification information identifying a user who has performed an addition operation to the list. The information processing apparatus stores the selection object identification information and the user identification information in association with each other in storage means. The information processing apparatus retrieves specific information indicating a range including a selection object identified by the selection object identification information associated with the user identification information. The information processing apparatus controls modification of at least one of an excess and a deficiency of selection objects in the list, when the range of selection objects added to the list is determined to have converged based on the specific information. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148222 | Social Proof of Organizations - A computer method and system provide means for inputting and outputting business relationship data to a user. The system comprises a database of business relationships between organizations, which is connectable to a social network. A user may search for an organization according to search criteria and the system will select a set of organizations that match the criteria along with a set of social contacts of the user. The relevancy of the social contacts to the organization is calculated and web content is displayed showing the organizations and social contacts. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148223 | FORECASTING WEB METRICS USING STATISTICAL CAUSALITY BASED FEATURE SELECTION - Embodiments of the present invention relate to forecasting metrics, such as web metrics, using causality-based feature selection. In embodiments, a set of potential features from which to generate a forecasting model is referenced. The set of potential features includes lags of observed features. A subset of features is selected, from among the potential features, that causally relate to a target web metric for which a forecast is desired. The selected subset of features causally related to the target web metric is used to generate the forecasting model. Such a forecasting model can be used to forecast an outcome associated with the target web metric. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148224 | Prediction of Consumer Spending - A computer-implemented method for prediction of consumer spending in a specific merchant category, the method comprising: identifying a correlation between the specific merchant category and two or more merchant categories, the two or more merchant categories different from the specific merchant category; selecting one or more merchant categories based on a degree of the correlation; fitting data of the selected one or more merchant categories to a time-series model; and predicting consumer spending in the specific merchant category using the output of the time-series model. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148225 | PRODUCT SALES FORECASTING SYSTEM, METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM THEREOF - A product sales forecasting system and a product sales forecasting method are provided herein. The product sales forecasting method includes: querying for a first relevant product corresponding to a first product in a relevant product database according to the first product, in which the relevant product database stores products and relevant products corresponding to the products respectively; searching for trading record data and comment data corresponding to the first relevant product in an e-commerce platform according to the first relevant product and a price range corresponding to the first relevant product; generating a forecasted consumer volume corresponding to the first product according to the trading record data and the comment data; and generating a forecasted sales volume corresponding to the first product according to the forecasted consumer volume. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148226 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FORECASTING AND MANAGING RETURNED MERCHANIDSE IN RETAIL - Systems, methods, and other embodiments that are associated with a computer application configured to execute on a computing device, for providing forecasting and management of returned retail items, are described. In one embodiment, historical retail data associated with a retail item sold at a retail location is read from a data structure associated with the computer application. The historical retail data includes sales data and returns data for the retail item over a plurality of retail periods. Based on the historical retail data, a probability is determined and generated for which a percentage of the retail item sold in one retail period will be returned in at least one subsequent retail period. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148227 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR DEMAND-DRIVEN TRANSACTIONS - Systems, methods, and apparatus for automatically generating offers for expressions of interest are disclosed. In one aspect, a computer system comprising a network interface, computer memory, a computer processor, and a computer readable storage medium that stores program instructions configured for execution by the computer processor receives an expression of interest from a user device operated by a user. The computer system further analyzes the expression of interest to extract one or more expression characteristics. The computer system further retrieves, from memory, consumer data associated with the user, external data associated with the expression of interest, and internal data associated with one or more past offers previously generated by the computer system. The computer further generates a suggested offered based on the one or more expression characteristics and the retrieved consumer data, external data, and internal data. The computer further transmits the suggested offer to the user device. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148228 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO PREDICT TIME-SHIFTED EXPOSURE TO MEDIA - Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to predict time-shifted exposure to media. An example method includes normalizing, with a processor, audience measurement data corresponding to media exposure data and social media activity data. The example method also includes building an estimation model based on a relationship between a first subset of the normalized audience measurement data associated with a characteristic of the media asset and historical rating lift measurements associated with the media asset. The example method also includes estimating, with the processor, current ratings for the media asset based on time-period based ratings and broadcast time-periods. The example method also includes applying data related to the media asset and the estimated current ratings to the estimation model to estimate, with the processor, the ratings lift for the media asset. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148229 | WEATHER-BASED INDUSTRY ANALYSIS SYSTEM - A weather-based industry analysis system that determines one or more correlations between historical industry performance data and historical meteorological data, determines one or more predicted weather conditions, generates an industry forecast based on the one or more predicted weather conditions and the correlation between the historical industry performance data and the predicted weather conditions, and outputs the industry forecast for transmittal to a remote computer system. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148230 | FUEL DISPENSER WITH SURVEY SYSTEM - A fuel dispenser includes a delivery device for delivering fuel to a vehicle. A controller has a memory circuit storing a plurality of survey questions. The controller also has a processing circuit. A display is operated by the processing circuit and is constructed and arranged to display certain of the survey questions to a user of the fuel dispenser. An input, associated with the display, is constructed and arranged to permit the user to reply with answers to the survey questions displayed, with the memory circuit storing the user's answers. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148231 | Automated Social Network Messaging Using Network Extracted Content - The present disclosure is generally related to systems and methods that automatically created trusted social media reviews based on consumer feedback extracted from information sources. A method includes extracting at least a portion of responses from a survey questionnaire, populating a web form with the extracted the at least a portion of responses to create a social network message. The web form can have selectable links to social networks. The method also includes receiving selections of the social networks and providing the social network message to the selected social networks. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148232 | USING HASHED MEDIA IDENTIFIERS TO DETERMINE AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT DATA INCLUDING DEMOGRAPHIC DATA FROM THIRD PARTY PROVIDERS - Example methods to perform audience measurement disclosed herein include performing a hashing operation on a first media identifier and a plurality of data values to determine a plurality of hashed media identifiers to identify first media, a first one of the hashed media identifiers being different from a second one of the hashed media identifiers. Disclosed example methods also include sending the first one of the hashed media identifiers to a media provider to identify the first media during a first monitoring interval. Disclosed example methods further include determining audience measurement data associated with the first media and the first monitoring interval based on reporting data received from a service provider different from the media provider, the reporting data including the first one of the hashed media identifiers and demographic data corresponding to a subscriber associated with a media device that received the first media from the media provider. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148233 | Dynamic Discount Optimization Model - Technology for determining an optimal discounted price for a customer for a particular product is described. In an example embodiment, a method comprises determining a number of visits to a product page of a particular product by customers, calculating a purchase probability of a customer to purchase the particular product associated with the product page as a function of a price discount, determining a discount-corrected margin specific to the customer for the particular product based on the purchase probability of the customer, and calculating a predicted profit or a predicted revenue for the particular product resulting from the number of visits to the product page and based on the purchase probability and the discount-corrected margin of the particular product. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148234 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ESTIMATING A PRICE OF A TRIP BASED ON TRANSACTION DATA - A computer-implemented method for estimating a price of a candidate trip based on transaction data is provided. The method includes generating a profile associated with a first cardholder, based at least in part on stored first transaction data associated with one or more purchases made by the first cardholder through a payment network. The profile indicates a spending trend of the first cardholder. The method additionally includes determining a price paid by at least a second cardholder for a reference trip, based at least in part on second transaction data stored in one or more memory devices. The second transaction data is associated with purchases made by the second cardholder through the payment network during the reference trip. Additionally, the method includes determining an estimated price for the candidate trip for the first cardholder by adjusting the price paid based at least in part on the spending trend of the first cardholder. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148235 | PRICE DECISION DEVICE, PRICE DECISION SYSTEM, AND PRICE DECISION METHOD - A price decision device includes: a user information acquisition unit which acquires user information about a user; a desired product acquisition unit which acquires desired product information about a desired product of the user; a price decision unit which decides a suggested price that is a price of the desired product suggested to the user according to a state of the user based on the acquired user information; and an output unit (information transmission unit) which outputs the decided suggested price. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148236 | WEB-BASED SEARCH AND BIDDING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method of accepting a bid for an item offered for sale through an internet web portal comprising the following steps: listing with an internet web portal bid program by an item being sold by a merchant; accessing the internet web portal bid program by a user to obtain of bid information of the item; placing with the internet web portal bid program by the registered user of a bid for the item, the bid containing a price that the registered user will pay for the item; presenting by the internet web portal bid program to the registered merchant of one or more economic factors to assist the registered merchant in selecting at least one bid from the one or more bids as a winning bid, one or more economic factors being based on item information and being other than the bid price. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148237 | Demand Prediction for Time-Expiring Inventory - This disclosure includes methods for predicting demand based on the price of a time-expiring inventory. An online system provides a connection between a manager of a time-expiring inventory and a plurality of clients. The online system provides a listing for the manager's time-expiring inventory to clients on the online system. The manager specifies the price of the time-expiring inventory in the listing. A demand function predicts the demand for the time-expiring inventory based on features of the listing and the time-expiring inventory. The online system determines a likelihood of receiving a request for the time-expiring inventory from a client on the online system based on the predicted demand. The online system may use the determined likelihoods to provide to the manager information about how changes in the price of the listing are likely to affect the demand for the time-expiring inventory. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148238 | LINE MANAGEMENT BASED ON USER TOLERANCE - A system or method is provided to detect the positions of various users in line and determine the users' tolerance for waiting in line. Based on the tolerance of the users for waiting in line, the system may rearrange the line positions of the users accordingly. The user's tolerance may be detected by their current position, their current movements and activities, the user's purchase or transaction history, interests and hobbies, past line waiting experience, and the like. In an embodiment, the system may determine incentives or rewards and may offer them to the users who are waiting in line to incentivize them to stay in line. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148239 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND ITEM INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD THEREOF - An electronic device and item information providing are provided. The electronic device includes a communication module configured to receive item information of at least one item from a management server, a display configured to display a user interface including the item information, an input module configured to receive a user input selecting an item from among the displayed item information, a sensor module configured to collect motion data of the electronic device, and a control module configured to check a mission corresponding to the selected item and to transmit mission performance information, obtained based on the motion data, to the management server through the communication module. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148240 | System and Method that Rewards Vendors for Offering Nonpublished Coupons - A system and method that rewards vendors for offering nonpublished coupons. The vendor can market and distribute a unique coupon through a gateway for substantially free and is subsequently rewarded when a consumer performs a transaction involving the unique coupon. The unique coupon must be unique, in that it offers exclusivity to the vendor and a time limitation for use of the coupon. Also, the coupon is sold to a consumer for a predetermined coupon fee, rather than given to the consumer gratuitously. To access the coupon, the consumer either searches for the coupon on the internet, or receives a text alert upon approaching a predetermined range of the vendor. The consumer purchases the coupon for a coupon fee, and utilizes the coupon in a transaction with the vendor identified on the coupon. After the coupon has been used, the vendor receives part of the coupon fee. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148241 | Digital Coupon Offer Redemption - A coupon clearinghouse server receives a request for a coupon offer from a client device. The server transmits only a first subset of coupon offer data for the coupon offer to the client device, and stores, in memory, a first code for a first merchant at which the coupon offer is redeemable. The code is not revealed to the client device. Subsequently, the server receives, from the client device, a second code that the client device has obtained at a point of sale system. The server determines if there is a match between the first code and the second code, and if so, transmits the second subset of coupon offer data including coupon offer redemption instructions to the client device. The client device presents the now complete coupon offer to the point of sale system to redeem the coupon offer. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148242 | AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF PERSONALIZED REWARD POINTS - A set of current and historical electronic activity data are received from a customer. The activity data corresponds to the customer's interaction with an electronic product entry within a store. One or more electronic activities can be associated with one or more predetermined seller objectives. The seller's objectives are based on maximizing financial profit and minimizing cost of reward distribution. A reward score value is assigned to a customer based on an association between one or more of the customer's electronic activities and one or more of the predetermined seller objectives. A reward is selected based on the reward score wherein the rewards are also associated with one or more of the predetermined seller objectives, also based on the reward score value. The selected reward associated with the calculated reward score is communicated to the customer. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148243 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INCENTIVIZING TRUTHFUL DATA REPORTING - A method and an apparatus for generating a privacy-preserving behavior predictor with incentive are provided, derived from verifiable and non-verifiable attributes from a plurality of agents. The privacy-preserving behavior predictor is based on regression (e.g., ridge-regression), is ε-differentially private and the incentive in the form of payments to each agent are ε-jointly differentially private. A method and an apparatus for generating a recommendation are also provided, derived from verifiable attributes from an agent and the ε-differentially private behavior predictor with incentive. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148244 | DUAL REDEMPTION PATH WITH SHARED BENEFITS SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method is presented for product substantiation and promotion redemption. A purchased product list is transmitted from a retail store system to a promotion analysis server along with a user identifier. The promotion analysis server identifies promotions available to the user, and then considers whether the benefits under the promotions are still available to the user. Discounts for available promotions related to the purchased product list are calculated and transmitted to the retail store system for deduction from the transactions. A promotion product filter can be provided that filters the purchased product list before transmittal. The promotion product filter can include promotions from a plurality of programs. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148245 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CROWDSOURCING TASKS - The disclosed embodiments illustrate methods and systems for crowdsourcing a task. The method includes presenting one or more advertisements to a worker along with said task. The one or more advertisements are determined based on at least a type of said task being attempted by said worker, one or more tasks previously attempted by said worker, and a profile of said worker. Thereafter, an incentive to said worker is provided based on said presentation of said one or more advertisements, in addition to providing a remuneration for attempting said task. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148246 | Automated System for Safe Policy Improvement - Risk quantification, policy search, and automated safe policy deployment techniques are described. In one or more implementations, techniques are utilized to determine safety of a policy, such as to express a level of confidence that a new policy will exhibit an increased measure of performance (e.g., interactions or conversions) over a currently deployed policy. In order to make this determination, reinforcement learning and concentration inequalities are utilized, which generate and bound confidence values regarding the measurement of performance of the policy and thus provide a statistical guarantee of this performance. These techniques are usable to quantify risk in deployment of a policy, select a policy for deployment based on estimated performance and a confidence level in this estimate (e.g., which may include use of a policy space to reduce an amount of data processed), used to create a new policy through iteration in which parameters of a policy are iteratively adjusted and an effect of those adjustments are evaluated, and so forth. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148247 | PERSONALIZED ADVERTISEMENT SELECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method for selecting an advertisement to present to a consumer includes detecting facial regions in the image, identifying one or more consumer characteristics (mood, gender, age, etc.) of said consumer in the image, identifying one or more advertisements to present to the consumer based on a comparison of the consumer characteristics with an advertisement database including a plurality of advertisement profiles, and presenting a selected one of the identified advertisement to the consumer on a media device. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148248 | Multi-Channel Marketing Campaigns - Techniques for multi-channel marketing campaigns are described herein. The techniques enable marketers to determine sequences of chronologically ordered communication channels by which to perform a multi-channel marketing campaign. In some cases, the techniques determine a sequence likely to have a positive result based on historic marketing sequence data and a desired category of the marketer's campaign. The techniques may also determine some number of trial sequences for a trial marketing campaign and then determine a best sequence for a full-scale marketing campaign based on the success of the trial sequences during the trial marketing campaign. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148249 | Content Creation, Deployment Collaboration, and Tracking Exposure - Content creation and deployment collaboration techniques are described. In one or more implementations, metadata that describes the creation of the content may be associated with the content. The content may then be provided from a content creation service to a content deployment service for deployment as part of a marketing activity. Deployment data obtained from this tracking may be utilized to support a variety of functionality, such as by content creators to determine which of their content has been successfully employed as part of marketing activities, marketers may also use knowledge of the deployment of the content to choose content to be included in a marketing activity as well as select content creators that are best suited to provide this content, used to configure badges, by retailers and manufacturers, and so forth. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148250 | Searching for Safe Policies to Deploy - Risk quantification, policy search, and automated safe policy deployment techniques are described. In one or more implementations, techniques are utilized to determine safety of a policy, such as to express a level of confidence that a new policy will exhibit an increased measure of performance (e.g., interactions or conversions) over a currently deployed policy. In order to make this determination, reinforcement learning and concentration inequalities are utilized, which generate and bound confidence values regarding the measurement of performance of the policy and thus provide a statistical guarantee of this performance. These techniques are usable to quantify risk in deployment of a policy, select a policy for deployment based on estimated performance and a confidence level in this estimate (e.g., which may include use of a policy space to reduce an amount of data processed), used to create a new policy through iteration in which parameters of a policy are iteratively adjusted and an effect of those adjustments are evaluated, and so forth. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148251 | Risk Quantification for Policy Deployment - Risk quantification, policy search, and automated safe policy deployment techniques are described. In one or more implementations, techniques are utilized to determine safety of a policy, such as to express a level of confidence that a new policy will exhibit an increased measure of performance (e.g., interactions or conversions) over a currently deployed policy. In order to make this determination, reinforcement learning and concentration inequalities are utilized, which generate and bound confidence values regarding the measurement of performance of the policy and thus provide a statistical guarantee of this performance. These techniques are usable to quantify risk in deployment of a policy, select a policy for deployment based on estimated performance and a confidence level in this estimate (e.g., which may include use of a policy space to reduce an amount of data processed), used to create a new policy through iteration in which parameters of a policy are iteratively adjusted and an effect of those adjustments are evaluated, and so forth. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148252 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ATTRIBUTING PURCHASE EVENTS TO PREVIOUS ONLINE ACTIVITY - Technologies for attributing payment vehicle purchase events to online activity include a profiler computing system for receiving purchase information associated with a purchase event by a purchaser. The profiler computing system compares the received purchase information to a profile data store to identify a purchaser profile associated with the purchaser. Payment vehicle data and a tracking element are associated with the identified purchaser profile. The purchaser profile can be generated based on purchase information associated with an initial purchase event by the purchaser. The profiler computing system determines whether to attribute the purchase event to online activity of the purchaser based on previous online exposure data associated with the tracking element. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148253 | Temporal Dynamics in Display Advertising Prediction - A temporal prediction model is described that is usable to predict user purchase behavior for an online advertising instance. The temporal prediction model may be formed by processing time windows for click data, conversion data, and side information. In one or more implementations, temporal dynamics are applied to the click data, the conversion data, and/or the side information via the processed time windows. Various processing techniques of the temporal prediction model may utilize the applied temporal dynamics to predict user purchase behavior and/or effectiveness of an online advertising instance. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148254 | DYNAMIC CONTENT INSERTION METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method and computer program product for initializing an event timer. A first portion of a computer application is executed. After completion of the execution of the first portion of the computer application, it is determined if the event timer has reached a predetermined amount. If the event timer has reached the predetermined amount, a first advertisement is rendered. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148255 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING A COOKIE-LESS USER - Methods and apparatus for identifying on-line users for advertisement or content targeting are disclosed. Historical user data is obtained in association with user identifiers, which have been unambiguously determined. The historical user data includes event data for one or more on-line user events that have occurred for each user identifier. The historical user data also specify fingerprint vectors of characteristic values that are each associated with specific ones of the user identifiers. A current one of the fingerprint vectors that is ambiguously associated with two or more user identifiers is received. A first user identifier is selected from the associated two or more user identifiers of the current fingerprint vector based on the event data of the historical user data. The selected first user identifier is provided to a server configured to provide advertisement or content based on user profile data that is obtainable for such selected first user identifier. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148256 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECOMMENDING VACATION OPTIONS BASED ON HISTORICAL TRANSACTION DATA - A computer-implemented method for recommending vacation options based on transaction data is implemented by a vacation recommendation computer device in communication with a memory. The method includes receiving a plurality of transaction data associated with a cardholder, processing the plurality of transaction data to determine a plurality of cardholder vacation characteristics, receiving a plurality of vacation options including at least one vacation attribute, identifying at least one vacation option responsive to the cardholder by comparing the plurality of cardholder vacation characteristics to the at least one vacation attribute, and recommending the at least one identified vacation option to the cardholder. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148257 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECOMMENDING VACATION OPTIONS BASED ON HISTORICAL VACATION DATA - A computer-implemented method for recommending vacation options based on historical vacation data is implemented by a vacation recommendation computer device. The method includes receiving a plurality of transaction data associated with a cardholder, identifying vacation transaction data from the plurality of transaction data, processing the vacation transaction data to determine a plurality of cardholder vacation characteristics, determining a vacation profile based on the plurality of cardholder vacation characteristics, identifying a plurality of cardholders with associated vacation profiles that match the vacation profile, receiving a plurality of vacation options including at least one vacation attribute, retrieving a vacation history associated with each of the identified plurality of cardholders, identifying at least one vacation option responsive to the cardholder by comparing the plurality of cardholder vacation characteristics to the at least one vacation attribute, and recommending the at least one identified vacation option to the cardholder. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148258 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECOMMENDING A MERCHANT BASED ON TRANSACTION DATA - A computer-implemented method for recommending a merchant based on transaction data is provided. The method is implemented using an analyzer computing device in communication with one or more memory devices. The method includes generating a profile indicating a stage of life of a cardholder, based at least in part on first transaction data stored in the one or more memory devices. The first transaction data is associated with one or more purchases made by the cardholder through a payment network. The method additionally includes retrieving, from the one or more memory devices, second transaction data associated with a plurality of sales from a first merchant, determining a transaction volume associated with the first merchant, and generating a recommendation for the cardholder to purchase goods from the first merchant, based at least in part on the determined transaction volume and the profile. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148259 | METHOD OF MANAGING COOKIE INFORMATION FOR TARGET ADVERTISEMENT AND APPLICATION FOR MANAGING COOKIE INFORMATION - The present invention relates to a method of managing cookie information in a user terminal and an application thereof. Specifically, the present invention relates to a cookie information management method and an application thereof, which can provide information needed for target advertisement to a service server in the future by matching a subject using an application and a subject using a web in the user terminal as one user using cookies and, furthermore, allowing the user terminal to integratedly manage the cookie information according to using an application and a web. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148260 | ADVERTISEMENT PROVIDING SYSTEM AND METHOD - Provided are an advertisement providing system and method. The advertisement providing method acquires information on a user interaction, acquires a second advertisement schedule which is generated by rescheduling a first advertisement schedule on the basis of the information on the user interaction, and provides an advertisement according to the second advertisement schedule. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148261 | SYSTEM FOR CONTEXTUALIZING GEOCODABLE QUERIES - A system for contextualizing geocodable queries may include one or more processors and a memory. The one or more processors may receive a search term associated with a user. The one or more processors may determine whether the search term is geocodable. If the search term is geocodable, the one or more processors may determine a previous query associated with the user, and retrieve an advertisement based at least in part on the search term and the previous query. If the search term is not geocodable, the one or more processors may retrieve an advertisement based at least in part on the search term and exclusive of the previous query. In one or more implementations, at least partially contemporaneous to retrieving the advertisement, the one or more processors may retrieve a search result. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148262 | Providing Additional Functionality as Advertisements with Search Results - A method includes receiving advertisement data from a plurality of advertiser devices and generating advertisement records in a data store based on the advertisement data. Each of the advertisement records includes an entity name associated with an advertisement, an action associated with the advertisement, and a bid price. The method further includes receiving an advertisement request from a search system, the advertisement request including an entity name and an action associated with an application state included in a set of search results generated by the search system. Additionally, the method includes selecting an advertisement record having the entity name indicated in the advertisement request and having a different action than the action indicated in the advertisement request, generating an advertisement result based on the selected advertisement record, and transmitting the advertisement result to the search system. The advertisement result is configured to be included in a search result. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148263 | INFORMATION PROVISION SYSTEM, SPECIFIC-INFORMATION GENERATION DEVICE, AND SPECIFIC-INFORMATION GENERATION METHOD - An information provision system includes a first history collection device, a second history collection device, and a specific-information generation device. The specific-information generation device includes a history collector that acquires first history information and second history information, and a specific-information generator that generates specific information regarding an attribute and a preference of a user, based on the first history information and the second history information. The specific-information generator disposes, on a map of a thesaurus prepared in advance, a first keyword obtained from an access history of a Web terminal, and a second keyword obtained from a manipulation history of a household electric appliance terminal, and generates first specific information, based on the second keyword having a distance smaller than a predetermined distance from a disposed position of the first keyword disposed on the map. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148264 | Searching for Offers and Advertisements on Online Social Networks - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a query form a client system of the first user. The method includes identifying one or more objects matching the query. At least one of the identified objects is an advertisement. The method includes calculating, for each identified advertisement, a score based at least in part on an affinity coefficient for the first node with respect to the second node corresponding to the identified advertisement. The method includes generating one or more search results corresponding to one or more of the identified objects matching the query, respectively. Each search result includes a reference to the corresponding identified object. At least one of the search results corresponds to an identified advertisement having a score greater than a threshold score. The method includes sending a search-results page including one or more of the generated search results to the client system for display. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148265 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING ADVERTISEMENT, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND SERVER - A method and apparatus for providing advertisements are described herein A method includes outputting a banner for a first advertisement, receiving a first voice input that requests the first advertisement, identifying first user information that corresponds to the first voice input, from among user information of a plurality of users, and outputting a first type of advertisement that is selected based on first usage history information that corresponds to the first user information, from among a plurality of types of advertisements that correspond to the first advertisement. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148266 | CONSUMER INTERACTION FRAMEWORK FOR DIGITAL SIGNAGE - Ways to provide media content are described. Advertising displays ( | 2016-05-26 |
20160148267 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRAFFIC MONITORING AND ANALYSIS - A method of travel analytics can include: detecting a signal of a first mobile computing device (MCD) at a first location with a first signal tracker; obtaining real time travel data about the first MCD from the signal received by the first signal tracker; accessing a database having historical travel data for the first MCD; and comparing the historical travel data with the real time travel data for the first MCD to determine travel data for the first MCD. The method can include determining a mode of travel of the first MCD based on the travel data for the first MCD. The method can include predicting a travel route for the first MCD; and predicting a time of travel for the first MCD on the predicted travel route to a second signal tracker. The method can include providing a targeted advertisement on the travel route based on the travel data. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148268 | Exclusive Delivery of Content Within Geographic Areas - Application developers can request to have their applications registered for use with a content delivery platform. The operator of the content delivery platform establishes perimeters defining geographic areas, and maintains records reserving particular areas for delivery of content associated with particular sponsors. Registered applications running on mobile devices can request content from the content delivery platform. Based at least in part on the request, the content delivery platform can identify a target location, which may be the location of the mobile device, or some other location indicated in the request. A mobile device can be provided content based on the relationship of the target location to the geographic areas, so that a registered application running on a mobile device with a target location contained within a geographic area assigned to a particular sponsor will receive content related to that sponsor. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148269 | METHODS, DEVICES AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING MOBILE ADVERTISING AND ON-DEMAND INFORMATION TO USER COMMUNICATION DEVICES - Methods, systems, software, computer-readable media, and the like relate to providing and receiving relevant data from one or more entities. Data is received by a wireless user device directly from a wireless transmitter. The data may be provided to a stationary or moving user. A consumer in a vehicle, for instance, may have a smartphone, mobile phone, tablet PC, navigation system, or other similar mobile device, and can use such device to interact with a geographically proximate advertising module having a wireless transmitter. The wireless transmitter may also be stationary or moving, and can be incorporated into structures such as a vehicle, a billboard, a building, a road sign, a traffic light, or the like. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148270 | Campaign Management Systems for Creating and Managing Beacon Based Campaigns - Techniques and systems for beacon based campaign creation and management are disclosed. A disclosed technique includes providing a graphical user interface to create a campaign zone for a location, create campaign messages for the campaign zone, prioritize the campaign messages, and produce campaign message priority information; generating campaign information based on the campaign messages and the campaign message priority information; and providing the campaign information to mobile devices. The graphical user interface can be configured to specify for a campaign message a beacon identifier associated with a beacon device that is within a vicinity of the location, and to specify for the campaign message an action for a mobile device to perform in response to receiving a beacon message containing the beacon identifier from the beacon device. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148271 | Personalized Marketing Based on Sequence Mining - Techniques to personalize a sequence of marketing actions and/or marketing channels used to contact individuals are described herein. Marketing data may be analyzed to select a sequence of marketing actions to employ for targeted marketing to an individual user. The analysis involves a comparison of sequence data obtained from collected marketing data that describes sequencing for the marketing offers provided to consumers to one or more potential sequences for the individual user. The potential sequences may be ranked based on similarities in characteristics of consumers associated with sequences that achieved a designated objective and the individual user's marketing sequence. Characteristics used for the ranking may further include demographic details and behavioral information regarding the consumers and individual user. One or more top ranking sequences are identified and employed to determine one or more marketing actions to perform next to provide targeted marketing offers to the individual user. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148272 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTING SPONSORED IMAGES TO ACCOMPANY TEXT - A system for selecting an image to accompany text from a user in connection with a social media post. The system includes receiving text from the user; identifying one or more search terms based on the text; identifying candidate images from images in one or more image databases using the search terms, where the candidate images comprise a sponsored image; presenting one or more candidate images to the user, where the sponsored image is presented preferentially compared to other candidate images; receiving from the user a selected image from the one or more candidate images; generating the social media post comprising the selected image and the user-submitted text; and transmitting the social media post for display. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148273 | OBTAINING DATA FROM ABANDONED ELECTRONIC FORMS - Visitors that abandon electronic or computer-generated forms before completing and submitting the form are lost to business entities. Data obtained from abandoned electronic or computer-generated forms is used to identify these lost visitors. Sometimes a unique script embedded on the webpages scrapes the data from the forms. The obtained data is further utilized to market or remarket to the lost consumers by sending personalized messages via a preferred communication medium. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148274 | IMAGE DISPLAY CASTING - A method of controlling a collaborative display is provided. A first item of content is received from a first client device. A time-to-live is assigned to the first item of content. Then, the first item of content is placed in a queue of items of content. Then a collaborative display is controlled to display an item of content at the head of the queue for a time period no less than a time-to-live assigned to the item of content at the head of the queue. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148275 | CONTENTS DISTRIBUTING SYSTEM, DEVICE FOR PROCESSING CHARGE FOR ADVERTISEMENT INFORMATION, CONTENTS DISTRIBUTING SERVER, THEIR PROGRAM, AND PROGRAM RECORDING MEDIUM - A content distributing system distributes advertisement information concurrent with distribution of content. A content distributing server, connected to a communication network, supplies content and advertisement information to a member device in response to a request, transmits introducing information to the member devices, receives information on whether a user has performed an action in response thereto, receives information provided by the user in accordance with the introducing information, records the received user action information and user-provided information, calculates an advertisement charge based on the recorded information, and outputs the calculated advertisement charge. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148276 | Selecting Bids for Online Advertising Space Auction - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying an auction element comprising one or more placement groups, ranking a plurality of advertising elements that each advertising element comprises an advertiser, one or more user target areas, one or more campaigns, and one or more creative elements, submitting top-ranked advertising elements for selection in auctions for the auction element, selecting, from the submitted top-ranked advertising elements, one or more advertising elements each having at least one success event for a specified number of impressions from the auctions for the auction element, and generating delivery allocation for the creative elements of the selected advertising elements. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148277 | Content Creation, Deployment Collaboration, and Subsequent Marketing Activities - Content creation and deployment collaboration techniques are described. In one or more implementations, metadata that describes the creation of the content may be associated with the content. The content may then be provided from a content creation service to a content deployment service for deployment as part of a marketing activity. Deployment data obtained from this tracking may be utilized to support a variety of functionality, such as by content creators to determine which of their content has been successfully employed as part of marketing activities, marketers may also use knowledge of the deployment of the content to choose content to be included in a marketing activity as well as select content creators that are best suited to provide this content, used to configure badges, by retailers and manufacturers, and so forth. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148278 | Content Creation, Deployment Collaboration, and Subsequent Marketing Activities - Content creation and deployment collaboration techniques are described. In one or more implementations, metadata that describes the creation of the content may be associated with the content. The content may then be provided from a content creation service to a content deployment service for deployment as part of a marketing activity. Deployment data obtained from this tracking may be utilized to support a variety of functionality, such as by content creators to determine which of their content has been successfully employed as part of marketing activities, marketers may also use knowledge of the deployment of the content to choose content to be included in a marketing activity as well as select content creators that are best suited to provide this content, used to configure badges, by retailers and manufacturers, and so forth. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148279 | Content Creation, Deployment Collaboration, and Badges - Content creation and deployment collaboration techniques are described. In one or more implementations, metadata that describes the creation of the content may be associated with the content. The content may then be provided from a content creation service to a content deployment service for deployment as part of a marketing activity. Deployment data obtained from this tracking may be utilized to support a variety of functionality, such as by content creators to determine which of their content has been successfully employed as part of marketing activities, marketers may also use knowledge of the deployment of the content to choose content to be included in a marketing activity as well as select content creators that are best suited to provide this content, used to configure badges, by retailers and manufacturers, and so forth. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148280 | Content Creation, Deployment Collaboration, and Channel Dependent Content Selection - Content creation and deployment collaboration techniques are described. In one or more implementations, metadata that describes the creation of the content may be associated with the content. The content may then be provided from a content creation service to a content deployment service for deployment as part of a marketing activity. Deployment data obtained from this tracking may be utilized to support a variety of functionality, such as by content creators to determine which of their content has been successfully employed as part of marketing activities, marketers may also use knowledge of the deployment of the content to choose content to be included in a marketing activity as well as select content creators that are best suited to provide this content, used to configure badges, by retailers and manufacturers, and so forth. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148281 | A METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING INTERACTIVE DIGITAL ADVERTISING - The present invention relates to a method for providing interactive digital advertising. The method includes the display of a digital advertisement and several possible responses to an instruction relating to the advertisement to a user on a device. When a correct response is selected by the user, content is made accessible to the user. Several of the possible responses maybe correct and/or the user may be given an opportunity to reselect one of the possible responses if their response is incorrect. A system is also disclosed. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148282 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING ONLINE ADVERTISEMENTS - A system and method for increasing displaying time of online advertisements. Upon receiving a search request, a search engine identifies a list of search results and displays them on one side of a result page. The search engine also obtains a list of advertisements and displays them on the other side of the result page. When a user scrolls down to look at search results at a lower portion of the result page, the list of advertisements are moved down, following the movement of the screen. Thus, at least a part of the list of advertisements continue to be displayed on the current screen. Since online advertisements are visible to the user for a longer time, there are more opportunities for the online advertisements to get the user's attention, and consequently more opportunities for the user to click on an advertisement. Thus, the efficiency of online advertising may be improved. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148283 | System and Method for Accessing Comic Book Grading Notes via a Quick Scan Code - A system and method for grading a document are disclosed, the method including but not limited to generating on a comic grading processor, a grade for a first comic book using grading notes for the first comic book from a first comic book grader; generating a quick scan code for the grading notes; accepting at the comic grading processor, a Quick Scan code from a mobile device; and sending from the comic book grading processor to the mobile device a grading report comprising the grade and grading notes indicated by the quick response code. A system is disclosed for practicing the method. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148284 | System and Method for Authenticating a Signature on a Comic Book for Grading and Encapsulation - A system and method for grading a document are disclosed, the method including but not limited to generating on a comic grading processor, a grade for a first comic book using grading notes for the first comic book from a first comic book grader; generating a quick scan code for the grading notes; accepting at the comic grading processor, a Quick Scan code from a mobile device; and sending from the comic book grading processor to the mobile device a grading report comprising the grade and grading notes indicated by the quick response code. A system is disclosed for practicing the method. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148285 | Universal Real Property Grading System - An embodiment of the invention relates to grading real property, and more particularly, relates to the method and information product of a real property grading system. In one form, the invention relates to the grading of real property on a local and global level. In another form, the present invention relates to the certification of a local grade and global grade to a property based upon an unbiased team physically surveying the property and inputting the survey results into the method and system of the present invention. The grading is presented in a universally recognized symbol and/or alphabetic letter format. The real property grade is presented in a two part sequence, one part being a local grade and the other part being a global grade. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148286 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ALLOCATING CONTRIBUTIONS TO RECIPIENTS AFFILIATED WITH A CAUSE - A method for allocating standardized gifts to recipients. The method includes converting monetary gifts to a plurality of standardized gifts, distributing those gifts to a set of recipients, and providing a communication link between the donors of the standardized gifts and the recipients of the standardized gifts if the gift is accepted by the recipient. The distribution of the gifts may be determined based on a ranking of the gifts based on the initial gift size and date. The recipient pool may be determined based on a ranking of length of time since last gift received and the number of gifts received over a given period by the recipient. The communication link may be formed based on identification information of the donor associated with a gift and the identification information for the matched recipient. Unaccepted gifts may be recirculated and matched with other recipients. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148287 | LUNCH ORDER COMMUNICATION - Systems and related methods for providing ordering and delivery of goods and services from a merchant are discussed herein. A determination that a user is no longer eligible for an offer of an item may be performed in response to receiving input from the user about the offer. The determination may be based at least in part on information that identifies a first time period when the input was provided by the user and a second time period associated with the offer. In embodiments, information indicating a state for the offer may be updated based on the determination that the user is no longer eligible for the offer. A new offer may be identified for a different item provided by the third party based on the updated information indicating the state for the offer and transmitted to the user. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148288 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM FOR OPTIMAL PRICING OF INTERNATIONAL TICKETS OF A TRAVEL ITINERARY - An optimal pricing system for calculating the price of travel itinerary tickets in two or more markets is provided. The optimal pricing system may include a computer and a program product comprising machine-readable program code for causing, when executed, the computer to perform the following process steps: prompting a user to transmit a plurality of itinerary information and a plurality of traveler information; receiving the plurality of itinerary information and a plurality of traveler information, wherein plurality of itinerary information comprises departure location criteria, destination location criteria, and travel criteria of the travel itinerary, and wherein the plurality of traveler information comprises a home country market location and a current market location of the traveler; identifying a international component from the departure location criteria and the destination location criteria; and calculating the least expensive price of tickets for the travel itinerary substantially satisfying the plurality of itinerary information based the departure location criteria, the home country market location and the current market location. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148289 | MANAGING BUY/SELL TRANSACTIONS - A system and method to facilitate a buy/sell transaction between the buyers in an electronic marketplace. The system processes the buy/sell transaction of the time between the first purchaser and the second purchaser during or prior to completion of the buy/sell transaction of the item between the first purchaser and the seller if the offer to buy the item from the second purchaser is accepted by the first purchaser. The system supports option trading of items by enabling buy/sell transactions among the purchasers. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148290 | AUTOMOBILE TRANSACTION FACILITATION USING A MANUFACTURER RESPONSE - A system, methods, and apparatus for performing automobile transactions are disclosed. In an example embodiment, automobile market data representative of current automobile market characteristics is stored. The automobile market data may include pricing, inventory, and consumer interest information received from manufacturers, dealers, and consumers. A consumer may provide a request for a manufacturer response indicating whether a specific automobile can be provided. Automobile market data may be provided to a manufacturer based on the request and a manufacturer response provides a verification, confirmation, or offer indicating that the specific automobile can be provided for the consumer. Bids to sell the specific automobile may be requested from dealers based on the manufacturer response. Dealer bids may be provided to the consumer with prices and a delivery options. The consumer may select a bid which specifies a pickup location at a first dealer. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148291 | Infeasibility Management in E-Sourcing Systems - Systems, apparatuses, and methods for providing feedback in an electronic sourcing system. A system is configured to receive a first optimization model whose solution represents an allocation or award of items being bid upon. The first optimization model comprises a plurality of bids and one or more allocation rules representing one or more constraints on the allocation. Subsequent to determining the optimization model is not feasible, the system is configured to compare the one or more allocation rules to a reference allocation. Subsequent to determining an allocation rule of the one or more allocation rules is in conflict with the reference allocation, system is configured to relax the allocation rule in the first optimization model to create a second optimization model, and solve the second optimization model to generate an allocation compatible with the second optimization model. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148292 | COMPUTER VISION PRODUCT RECOGNITION - A system for computer-aided visual recognition of products may be used by a customer operating a mobile computing device having a camera. A customer can direct the camera at a targeted product for which the customer desires to purchase or learn information. Image recognition operations can be carried out to compare the captured image against images from a prepopulated product image store of known products. Upon a positive match, information regarding the identified product may be gathered and transmitted to the customer and displayed on the mobile computing device. The customer may be presented with various options regarding the identified product, including adding the product to a shopping list, a to-do list, a wish list, or other types of lists. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148293 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR PERFORMING A PRODUCT SEARCH USING USER-GENERATED AND CROWD-SOURCED CONTENT - A non-transitory computer-readable medium, method and system for providing results associated with a ranking of a plurality of items of a particular item type can be provided. For example, for each respective item of a plurality of items having an associated cost, it is possible to (i) determining an item utility value for the respective item of the items based on aggregate data associated with a plurality of users without requiring utilization of information particular to each of the users, and (ii) determine a surplus value for the respective item as the item utility value less a cost utility value associated with the cost of the respective item. Further, it is possible to provide the results, based on the respective surplus values, to a particular user of the users. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148294 | USER INTERFACE FOR COMPARING ITEMS USING GESTURES - In an example embodiment, a method of presenting marketplace listings is provided. Search parameters are received from a user interface on an electronic device. A search on marketplace listings is then performed using the search parameters, returning marketplace results. The marketplace results are then organized into a plurality of web pages, each web page corresponding to a different marketplace result, with each page organized so that a row on any one of the web pages corresponds to the same type of product attribute as that row on any of the other of the plurality of web pages. Then one of the plurality of web pages is displayed on the electronic device. When a swipe left or swipe right gesture is received, another of the plurality of web pages is displayed. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148295 | IDENTIFYING MISSING SEARCH PHRASES - In various embodiments, approaches for identifying missing search phrases are described. Search terms are behaviorally associated with an item in the electronic repository. If a search of the electronic repository fails to surface the item, the at least one search term can be identified as a missing search phrase for the item. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148296 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A PROFILE ASSOCIATED WITH A CARDHOLDER - A computer-implemented method for providing a profile associated with a cardholder to a suggestion computing device is provided. The method is implemented using a computing device in communication with one or more memory devices. The method includes retrieving, from the one or more memory devices, stored transaction data associated with a plurality of purchases made by a cardholder using a payment card and processed over a payment network. The method additionally includes determining at least one interest of the cardholder based on the stored transaction data, storing the at least one determined interest in a profile associated with the cardholder, and transmitting the cardholder profile to the suggestion computing device for use in suggesting one or more goods to the cardholder. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148297 | METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR RECOMMENDING LIMITED CHOICES WHICH ARE PERSONALIZED AND RELEVANT TO A CUSTOMER - A method of recommending limited choices which are personalized and relevant to a customer in real-time, in which steps thereof are implemented by a computer, the method comprising: receiving data across different categories of products; configuring a taste graph based on the received data; calculating a net affinity between any two products in the taste graph and exporting them as taste scores to a taste table; understanding the customer based on context and behavior from different customer information sets; generating scores for the different customer information sets; determining different weightages for each score to calculate a net score associated with each product for the customer; and recommending limited choices which are personalized and relevant to the customer in real-time based on the descending order of the value of the net score associated with the product. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148298 | PHOTO BASED USER RECOMMENDATIONS - Photos taken by a user over a period of time are accessed to obtain a location history and visual features of the photos. A user profile is generated from the location history and the visual features. Recommendations are provided to the user based on at least one of the location history and the user profile. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148299 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING LOCATION-BASED GROUP RECOMMENDATIONS - Methods and systems for generating location-aware group recommendations are discussed. For example, a method can include operations for receiving a group recommendation request, accessing user profile data associated with members of the group, and generating a group recommendation. The group recommendation request can be received at a network-based system and include identification of a first and second user as well as information identifying a current location associated with the first and second users. Accessing the user profile information can include accessing user profile information for both the first and second users. The group recommendation can be generated based on the current location data and a combination of at least a portion of the user profile data from the first and second users. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148300 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIA FOR ALLOWING A CUSTOMER TO PLACE ORDERS REMOTELY AND TO PICK-UP THE ORDER AT A STORE - Techniques for allowing customer to order goods on-line or remotely and to pick-up the goods at a desired location or store are disclosed. The techniques include receiving a customer order. The location for delivery of the item with a customer order. The customer order includes at least one good and an associated customer identification number, e.g., a customer motor vehicle license plate number. The techniques further includes capturing images of the license plates of motor vehicles as the motor vehicles enter an order pick-up area located at the store, and if the associated customer motor vehicle license plate number matches one of the received motor vehicle license plate numbers from the optical character recognition unit, delivering the customer order to the motor vehicle associated with the customer. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148301 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STRONG AND PROVIDING CONTENT TO CLIENT DEVICES - A system and method for content management and delivery. Embodiments of the invention may include receiving a plurality of content items from a plurality of content providers, organizing the plurality of content items in a hierarchy, receiving a request for at least one content item among the plurality of content items; and providing the at least one content item subsequent to receiving the request. The content items may be organized on a server. An end user on a client device that communicates, directly or indirectly, with the server, such as a mobile device, for example, may browse the content, preview it, and purchase it, all in a consistent manner from content item to content item. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148302 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIA FOR ALLOWING A CUSTOMER TO PLACE ORDERS REMOTELY AND FOR THE ORDER ASSEMBLER TO COMMUNICATE DIRECTLY WITH THE CUSTOMER - Techniques for allowing a customer to order goods on-line or remotely and to pick-up the goods at a desired location or store are disclosed. The techniques include receiving a customer order. The customer order includes at least one good. The techniques further include establishing a list of alternative goods if one or more of the goods in the customer order are unavailable and allowing the customer to choose one of the alternative goods as a substitute good and establishing a revised customer order. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148303 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIA FOR ALLOWING A CUSTOMER TO PLACE ORDERS REMOTELY AND FOR AUTOMATICALLY ADDING GOODS TO AN ORDER BASED ON HISTORICAL DATA - Techniques for allowing a customer to order goods on-line or remotely and to pick-up the goods at a desired location or store are disclosed. The techniques include receiving a customer order. The customer order includes at least one good. The techniques further include populating a virtual basket with a preset list of goods as a function of reference time data and time data associated with the preset list of goods. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148304 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTENT INTEGRATED PRODUCT PURCHASING - In a system and method for providing augmented content, embodiments disclose a communication module that receives a product identifier for a product and content including an object. The embodiments also disclose an overlay creation module that creates a user interface with a first actuatable element, the first actuatable element being configured to send product purchase instructions to a merchant server when actuated. The embodiments also disclose a product matching module that matches the object to the product identifier and an augmentation module that, in response to the product matching module matching the object to the product identifier, creates an augmented content which includes the content and a second actuatable element, the second actuatable element being configured to display the user interface as an overlay over the content on a user device when actuated. The embodiments also disclose a displaying module that instructs a user device to display the augmented content. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148305 | MOVEMENT BASED SHOPPING - Systems and methods are disclosed herein include a method for inferring the state of a user of a mobile device based on the movement of the mobile device. A method is provided that includes receiving, at a computer system, movement data from a mobile device through a network interface, the movement data comprising data specifying the movement of the mobile device over a period of time; determining, at the computer system, a shopping state of a user of the mobile device based on the movement data; selecting a plurality of products from a database of available products to present to the user based on the shopping state of the user, and providing, through the network interface, a listing of the plurality of products to the mobile device. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148306 | LUNCH ORDER MANAGEMENT - Systems and related methods for providing ordering and delivery of goods and services from a merchant are discussed herein. Circuitry may be configured to generate an product offering for a potential customer in a group of customers based on factors related to the merchant as well as factors related to the potential customer. The product offering may be provided to a consumer device to which the consumer is able to respond, creating an order from the consumer device. The circuitry may be configured to process the order, such as by facilitating payment, delivery, and interactions between the customer and the merchant. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148307 | Method of buying or selling items and a user interface to facilitate the same - A method of buying or selling items having at least one market and its associated processes are disclosed. The method includes the steps of, under control of a client system, displaying information identifying at least one item and a bid and/or ask price for the item in the market; and specifying transaction conditions based on a user directed position of a moveable icon, where the transaction conditions are related to the buying or selling of the identified item in the active market. Then, in response to an action of the user sending a user transaction request at the transaction conditions displayed at the time of said action, facilitating financial transactions for the user in accordance with the transaction conditions to complete the transaction. In this manner, the item may be bought or sold by the user at the transaction conditions specified. A user interface to facilitate this method is also disclosed. A quantity recommendation system to facilitate the quantity decision of a financial transaction is further disclosed. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148308 | REAL-TIME SELF-SERVICE TERMINAL (SST) NETWORK AWARENESS - Operational data and metrics from a Self-Service Terminal (SST) network are continuously acquired in a first format at a server. The first format is normalized and delivered to a configured mobile application on a mobile device. The mobile application selectively renders the operational awareness data/metrics for the SST network within one or more screens of a display on the mobile device. The operator of the mobile application can define views of the data/metrics, define alerts or notifications to propagate, and interact with the data/metrics to obtain more or less detail for that data/metrics. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148309 | Systems and Methods for Onsite or Remote Dispensing of Credit Instruments - Systems and methods for instantly granting, issuing and dispensing a credit instrument to an applicant, by a credit instrument issuer, responsive to a credit instrument application, comprising creating a credit instrument application, on behalf of an applicant, using an application creation computing device, sending the credit instrument application to a data collection server, verifying the applicant Vs identity and obtaining a credit instrument application decision, and if the credit instrument application decision is a decline notifying the applicant, otherwise notifying the applicant and dispensing a credit instrument including the credit instrument parameters. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148310 | COMPUTER-BASED DATA COLLECTION USING A PREDICTION MARKET WITH A LIQUIDITY REDUCING COST FUNCTION - A computer system implements an automated multi-user, multi-event real-time online prediction market, thus providing a more efficient and accurate mechanism to collect opinion information in digital form. The amount of liquidity in the market can be changed as a function of time to reflect how valuable information is at any given time. A computer that implements a prediction market, which offers securities for a plurality of events, is programmed to allocate a data structure for storing a transaction history, access current time information and define a cost function for the market. In one implementation, the cost function switches from a first function to a second function at a point in time prior to occurrence of an event. In another implementation, the cost function can be time dependent so as to gradually change over time. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148311 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION ON LOAN TRANSACTION, SHORT SELL TRANSACTION OR EQUITY SWAP TRANSACTION, AND NONTEMPORARY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - According to one aspect of the present invention, provided is a method for proving information on a loan transaction, a short sell transaction or an equity swap transaction, and the method generates information related to at least one among a true outstanding loan, a true borrow cost, true utilization, true short interests, true days to cover, and true availability with respect to securities. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148312 | ELECTRONIC RETAIL SYSTEM - An Internet based system for executing transactions is described. The system may include transaction data, a database, a business logic manager and user profiles. A rules may also be included, and store information about system responses to modifications of the data. The user profiles may be configured to store information concerning the availability of information and displays depending upon the user. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148313 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING MARKET DATA IN AN ELECTRONIC TRADING ENVIRONMENT - A trading interface is provided for displaying market data related to a tradeable object being traded at an electronic exchange. According to one example embodiment, market data related to a tradeable object is displayed in relation to a value axis, such as a price axis. As new market data is received, the displayed market data is updated and may be repositioned so that a trader can view current market conditions in a viewable portion of the interface. The interface also includes a number of market movement indicators that assist a trader in tracking market movement. These viewable references allow a trader to navigate and immediately understand the “real” direction of the market activity despite any underlying adjustment of the viewable area of the trading interface. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148314 | Systems and Methods to Enhance Capital Formation by Small and Medium Enterprises - The present disclosure provides, in an embodiment, a method for managing securities. The method may include creating a first entity for holding a first series of securities and creating a subsidiary entity associated with the first entity, where the subsidiary entity may be designed to hold a second series of securities. The method may further include offering publicly the first and second series of securities, wherein the first entity may holds rights to acquire part of the second series of securities. In addition, the method can also include performing business transactions through the first entity using the second series of securities held by the first entity. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148315 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SHARED OWNERSHIP TRANSACTIONAL ASSET BACKED SECURITY - The present invention provides apparatus and methods for providing investment in a legal entity by a customer of the legal entity. Investment is correlated with one or both of assets managed by the legal entity and assets transferred to the customer based upon investment in the legal entity. In addition, one or more services may be provided to the customer based upon investment in the legal entity. | 2016-05-26 |
20160148316 | Adaptive and Customizable Account Interface System and Method - The invention is directed to a method and system for providing an interface including modular customizable elements for implementation by a system user. The method and system have particular application for financial accounts, such as credit card accounts. The interface may adapt in response to user behaviors. However, the user may also customize features of the interface. Thus, a behavioral monitoring and analysis system is provided for monitoring account holder spending behaviors and analyzing the spending behaviors. Account holder customization tools may be presented to the account holders through a user interface, the account holder customization tools allowing account holders to modify a user interface display of account related parameters by inputting parameters into a computing system. An experience customization engine may be implemented by a processor for receiving input from both the behavioral monitoring and analysis system and the account holder customization tools. | 2016-05-26 |