22nd week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 57 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150149213 | MEDICAL CARE INFORMATION DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, METHOD, AND MEDIUM - A medical care information display control apparatus, including a medical care item selection receiving unit that receives a selection of any of a plurality of medical care items, a medical care item sorting unit that sorts out a medical care item having medical care data with values that satisfy a similarity condition preset based on medical care data values of the selected medical care item from the plurality of medical care items, and a display control unit that graph displays only the medical care data of the selected medical care item and the medical care data of the sorted out medical care item, among medical care data of the plurality of medical care items, in the same display area using axes of the same scale. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149214 | CLINICAL INFORMATION DISPLAY APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - When plural clinical-items are classified as a major clinical-item or as a related clinical-item and clinical-data of the major clinical-item or items are mainly displayed in initial display, whether each of related clinical-items includes clinical-data judged as data that need to be displayed is decided by judging whether each of at least one set of clinical-data belonging to each of the related clinical-items needs to be displayed by using a whether-to-display judgment criterion for judging whether to display that has been set in advance. In initial display, clinical-data of the related clinical-item that has been decided as a related clinical-item including the clinical-data that need to be displayed are displayed in addition to clinical-data of the major clinical-item or items, but no clinical-data of the related clinical-item that has been decided as a related clinical-item including no clinical-data that need to be displayed are displayed. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149215 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO DETECT AND VISUALIZE FINDING-SPECIFIC SUGGESTIONS AND PERTINENT PATIENT INFORMATION IN RADIOLOGY WORKFLOW - A system for detecting and visualizing finding-specific suggestion and information includes a clinical database storing one or more clinical documents including clinical data. A natural language processing engine processes the clinical documents to detect clinical data pertinent to a patient. A context extraction and classification engine extracts clinical findings from the clinical data and detects finding-specific suggestions from the clinical findings. A clinical interface engine generates a user interface which enables the user to view the detected clinical data and finding-specific suggestions. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149216 | BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION MEASURING APPARATUS, BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION MEASURING SYSTEM, INDIVIDUAL REGISTRATION INFORMATION REGISTERING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A biological information measuring apparatus includes: an individual information storage unit configured to store individual information for a plurality of persons in which individual registration information and biological information are associated; a transmission request reception unit configured to receive a transmission request of the individual registration information; an individual registration information transmission unit configured to transmit the individual registration information for a plurality of persons stored in the individual information storage unit based on the transmission request; a registration request reception unit configured to receive a registration request in which designation of any of the individual registration information for a plurality of persons and a registration content are associated; and a registration unit configured to register the registration content on the individual registration information designated in the registration request of the individual registration information stored in the individual information storage unit. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149217 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REAL TIME VISUALIZATION OF INDIVIDUAL HEALTH CONDITION ON A MOBILE DEVICE - A method and technology to display 3D graphical output for a user using body sensor data, personal medical data in real time is disclosed. A consolidated methodology to bring user meaningful life information based on real-time sensor results, analysis, expert Q&As, “What if” scenarios and future emulation all in one artificial intelligence expert system is described. A unique rendering of 3D image of ones organ, cell or subcellular level display related to one's health condition can be visualized on a graphical user interface of a devices or devices. The change of the display from one level such as from organ to cell or cell to subcellular level or vice versa is enabled is disclosed. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149218 | Detection System for Analyzing Crash Events and Methods of the Same - Method for analyzing a crash event. The method may comprise receiving an acceleration of a vehicle over a predetermined length of time, the vehicle involved in the crash event, determining a change in velocity of the vehicle based on the acceleration, determining vehicle information relating to the vehicle involved in the crash event, and estimating a damage cost for the vehicle involved in the crash event, and/or estimating injuries to occupant(s) of the vehicle involved in the crash event. Estimating damage cost(s) may include determining crash force information for the vehicle, determining physical-damage characteristics of the vehicle subsequent to the crash event, and calculating the estimated damage cost to the vehicle. Estimating injuries to the occupant(s) may include determining occupant information relating to the occupant of the vehicle, calculating estimated forces exerted on the occupant, and calculating an injury probability for various body portions for the occupant. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149219 | Methods Using a Mobile Device to Provide Data for Insurance Premiums to a Remote Computer - A method for providing vehicle operation data to a remote computer or server for calculation of a vehicle insurance premium for a period of time based at least in part on collected vehicle operation data, wherein the method includes steps of: collecting vehicle operation data via a mobile device while the mobile device is associated with an operating vehicle, wherein the vehicle operation data has insurance risk predictive power; and transmitting the collected vehicle operation data from the mobile device to a remote computer. The remote computer or server receives collected vehicle operation data, stores the collected vehicle operation data in a database, a determines a vehicle insurance premium via a rating engine based at least in part on collected vehicle operation data. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149220 | Methods and Procedures for a Travel Assistance Platform - A system and method for providing travel assistance and travel event processing. Travel events may include, for example, a cancellation associated with a travel reservation, a delay associated with a travel reservation, a timing change associated with a travel reservation, a travel reservation transaction, an environmental change potentially affecting travel, a location tracking event, and a service offer. By way of example, a travel reservation may include a reservation for an airline, railway, bus company, watercraft company, hotel or other-types of room accommodations, business events, such as, for example, a seminar, a conference, and/or a dining reservation, and/or recreational events, such as, for example, a tour, a concert, a show, a sporting event, an exploration outing, dining reservations, and/or other type of reserved recreational event. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149221 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CHARGING ELECTRIC VEHICLES - A charging service for electric vehicles is provided. The charging service may allow electric vehicles to be charged when certain conditions are met (e.g., at certain times, when certain battery charge levels are reached, when located at certain sites, etc.), without users of these electric vehicles having to charge the vehicles themselves. Other features pertaining to charging of electric vehicles are also provided, such as an application for estimating a driving range (e.g., distance and/or time) available with a current battery charge level of an electric vehicle. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149222 | BOOKING METHOD AND SYSTEM - The invention relates to a method and system for booking reservations in a booking system and synchronizing bookings among several booking systems. The system comprises at least one booking system; at least one service provider; a mediator service; a client, and at least one client terminal device that can be a mobile device and that includes a dialogue. The client uses the dialogue to enter information into the system and the mediator receives inquiries and answers from the at least one booking system, the at least one service provider, and the at least one client. The mediator transfers and adapts information between them. The method and system are particularly suited for use with mobile phone users by Small Message Service messages. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149223 | MOTIVATION MANAGEMENT DEVICE, MOTIVATION MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A motivation management device | 2015-05-28 |
20150149224 | ITERATIVE METHOD, SYSTEM, AND USER INTERFACE FOR ANALYSIS, PATTERN DETECTION, PREDICTIVE MODELING, AND CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT OF QUALITY, HEALTH, SAFETY, AND ENVIRONMENTAL (QHSE) OPERATIONS - Disclosed is an iterative method, system, and user interface for analysis, pattern detection, and predictive modeling of quality, health, safety, and environmental (QHSE) from multiple, disparate sources. This iterative method, system, and user interface makes use of user generated qualitative and quantitative data from multiple quality, health, safety, and environmental sources. Sources include; monitoring systems, witness accounts, benchmarks, and other measurement apparatuses from single or multiple geographic locations. Data is acquired, categorized, aggregated, formatted, and isolated through pre-analysis algorithms. The isolated data of significance is then analyzed through an iterative methodology of user selected algorithms. The results go through a series of post-analysis testing to determine the effectiveness of the analysis. Once the post-analysis testing is completed, it is entered into a continuous improvement matrix to determine methodologies and solutions to improve upon existing QHSE processes. These results are processed through integrated or stand-alone computer modules and output to a user interface. The user interface provides the user options for selecting, isolating, and formatting combinations of algorithms and data analysis techniques to detect underlying patterns and predictive models in current QHSE processes and to provide innovative, dynamic, and predictive continuous improvement models for improving QHSE processes. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149225 | Automatically Determining Targeted Investigations on Service Delivery Incidents - Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for automatically determining targeted investigations on service delivery incidents are provided herein. A method includes creating an incident profile for a given set of incidents, wherein the incident profile comprises one or more details associated with the given set of incidents; matching the created incident profile with one or more existing class profiles associated with one or more incident investigation classes based on a comparison of the one or more details associated with the given set of incidents to the one or more existing class profiles; identifying one incident investigation within the one or more existing class profiles matching the created incident profile that most closely matches the created incident profile; and generating a recommendation to create an investigation for the given set of incidents based on the one incident investigation within the one or more existing class profiles. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149226 | Automated Notification Systems and Methods That Communicate Advertisement Related Information Based Upon Personal Profiles - Systems and methods are disclosed for automated computer based notification systems. A representative method, among others that are disclosed herein, can be broadly summarized by the following steps: monitoring travel or location information of a mobile thing (MT) that is destined to pickup or deliver a good or service at a stop location; engaging in a notification communication session between a personal communication device (PCD) associated with a party and the automated notification system when the MT is a predetermined proximity with respect to the stop location associated with the pickup or delivery of the good or service; selecting advertisement related information based at least in part upon personal profile information associated with the party; and causing the advertisement related information to be communicated to the PCD. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149227 | Providing a Task Notification Based on a Dynamic Attribute of an Entity - Methods and apparatus related to providing an indication to a user that a task may be completed based on the values of one or more dynamic attributes of an entity related to the task. An entity is determined based on information that is associated with the task. An indication related to completion of the task is provided to the user when the value of one or more dynamic attributes of the entity is one or more states. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149228 | Personal data lending system and method - A personal data lending system and method. Data may be generated by a communication device for transmission to another communication device. The data may be contact or scheduling data. The owner can selectively choose to share portions of the data. The data remains in control of the owner even after the data is lent. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149229 | TRAVEL PLAN APPARATUS, METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIA - A travel plan apparatus, method, and a storage media are provided. The travel plan method includes: providing tourist attractions, travel days and travel configurations; determining at least one candidate hotel according to hotel configuration of the travel configurations; determining groups according to at least one candidate hotel and the travel days; distributing each one of the tourist attractions to a corresponsive group of the groups by using a relation-clustering method; when a quantity of first groups including at least one tourist attraction of the groups is larger than a quantity of the travel days, distributing tourist attractions of a second group including the tourist attractions with the shortest traveling time to other groups of the first groups by using the relation-clustering method. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149230 | PLAYDATE SCHEDULING SYSTEM - A social scheduling system includes member profile information. Each member profile includes information about a member and one or more of the member's associated entities. For example, a member/associated entity pair may be parent/child. In some embodiments, the system may allow a host to create an event invitation that includes a number of spaces, send the invitation to a number of invitees, and retrieve acceptances until the number of spaces has been filled. After the spaces have been filled, the system may notify the host and/or the remaining invitees. In some embodiments, the system may enable users to identify associated entities who have special needs that may conflict with a characteristic of the event. For example, if an invited entity has a food allergy and the event will include food, the system may alert the host and/or the invited entity's associated member of the potential conflict. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149231 | System and Method for Auto Detecting and Informing Missing Meeting Attendees to Join a Meeting - Embodiments are provided for detecting and handling missing meeting attendees. The embodiments include mechanisms to detect and notify missing attendees to join a meeting, and inform a meeting organizer of the status of missing attendees. The missing attendees are detected using user equipment (UE) and location determining technology. Additionally, UE sensor technology is used to estimate arrival time of expected attendees. A UE of the organizer detects present attendees in a meeting location using a near range wireless connection with UEs of the present attendees. The organizer's UE then detects a missing attendee from the meeting in accordance with a pre-established list of invitees and the detected present attendees, and sends a notification message including a reminder of the meeting to a UE of the missing attendee. The UE of the missing attendee also receives a message to activate a wireless positioning service capability. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149232 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SCHEDULING AN EVENT AT A COMPUTING DEVICE - A method and system for scheduling an event at a computing device is described herein. The method includes the steps of receiving an event request at the computing device and—in response to the reception of the event request—presenting at least one event parameter. The method also includes the steps of receiving input related to the event parameter and automatically comparing the received input to schedule data. The method further includes the step of—based on the comparison of the received input to the schedule data—presenting one or more candidate time periods for the event that are in compliance with the received input. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149233 | SUPPLY CHAIN NETWORK STRATEGIC DESIGN SYSTEM - A system is provided that designs a supply chain network. The system identifies a service level agreement metric definition. The system further generates a grid including cells, where the grid is located over a representation of a geographical region. The system further computes a service level agreement metric for each cell of the grid using the service level agreement metric definition. The system further selects cells that have the largest service level agreement metrics and that have not been previously selected. The system further positions a supply chain network resource at a center of the selected cells. The system further computes a service level agreement based on the service level agreement metric of the selected cells. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149234 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AIRLINE FLEET RETIREMENT PREDICTION - Systems and methods for airline fleet retirement prediction are provided. One methods includes obtaining market information for the airline that defines at least one market for the airline, determining a plurality of aircraft types (priority groupings) for the airline within the at least one market to define an airline fleet model, and determining deployment priorities for the plurality of aircraft types within the at least market. The method further includes developing one or more operational models using at least one of airline operational data or airline fleet data for the plurality of aircraft types and determining aircraft retirement prediction data for the airline using the airline fleet model and the one or more operational models developed for the airline. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149235 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO IMPROVE A QUALITY OF DATA EMPLOYED BY A HEALTHCARE ANALYTICS SYSTEM - An example method disclosed herein includes receiving a data submission in a healthcare analytics system. The healthcare analytics system is to generate an analytic solution based on the data submission. The example method also includes determining, by the healthcare analytics system, an opportunity to improve a quality of data to be employed by the healthcare analytics system to generate the analytic solution based on a trend of previously received data submissions and the data submission. The example method further includes generating an alert including a recommended change to at least one of a characteristic of the data submission or a portion of a workflow of the healthcare analytics system based on the opportunity. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149236 | MERCHANT ACTION RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM - Systems and methods for recommending merchant actions include a physical merchant location having a plurality of beacon devices. A system provider device receives a plurality of first location information from the plurality of beacon devices that is collected from a customer beacon communication device that is associated with a customer. The system provider device also receives a plurality of second location information over the network from the plurality of beacon devices that is collected from a merchant beacon communication device that is associated with an asset of the merchant. The system provider device analyzes the plurality of first location information and the plurality of second location information to determine at least one merchant action recommendation related to the customer and the asset of the merchant and provides the at least one merchant action recommendation over the network for display on a display device. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149237 | Systems and methods to improve sales effectiveness utilizing a moving, contextually relevant navigator to guide sales representatives in prospect communications based on prospect's digital and conversational behavior and organization's best sales practices - Systems and methods to optimize sales performance operating in the manner a sales rep works: capturing prospect interactions real-time, providing a navigation tool and talking points to facilitate timely and relevant communications, and automatically updating Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and other systems—enabling users to effectively execute sales strategies. Prospect interactions are time-stamped and tracked to create a story-so-far record for each prospect. A customized, key-word searchable database of talking points provides intelligent, consistent knowledge to the user during prospect communications. Unlimited, unique moving navigators categorize talking points according to the organization's database of information and are customized to optimize data retrieval. Drag-and-drop emails are created by selecting pre-defined, best practice talking points or can be personalized in one-to-one campaigns, and include automated embedded tracking of prospect's email opens and clicks. All activities are timed and tracked from beginning to close of sale providing sales process analyses. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149238 | JOB SITE MATERIAL TRACKING AND DISCREPANCY RECONCILIATION - Utilities designed to track and report on numerous aspects of the movement of assets from an organization and/or customer's location to one or more job sites of a project and vice versa to allow the organization and/or customer(s) to monitor such asset movements. Broadly, the utilities employ a number of timing modules that are each configured to monitor for the occurrence of one or more events (e.g., organization acquires customer's assets, assets picked up from organization's warehouse by general contractor, assets checked into job site by general contractor, etc.) and collect or generate metrics related to the performance of the events. The disclosed utilities provide for increased visibility (e.g., transparency) into various types of performance metrics (e.g., in relation to accuracy, completeness, delays, etc.) related to the movement of the assets and thus allow organizations, their customers, and the like to more readily identify asset misplacement, mismanagement, etc. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149239 | Technology Element Risk Analysis - A quantitative approach to analytically assess technical elements within a system design. Numerical analysis and sorting is performed across the technical elements. Risk analysis is performed by evaluating criteria and ranking the evaluated criteria. The ranking criteria are placed into groups, with the groups identifying area that will be mitigated against risk. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149240 | IDENTIFYING CONTROL IMPROVEMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR KEY PROCESSES - Embodiments of the invention are directed to apparatus, methods, and computer program products for identifying process control gaps and process control improvement opportunities in a financial institution. The present invention leverages both Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), specifically implementation of a risk priority number/score and Federal Financial Institution Examination Council (FFIEC) examination guidelines, specifically completion of a process control guidance checklist to result in a process control status score. As a result of the integration of FMEA and FFIEC examination guidelines, a resulting risk-based process health score is implemented to identify the risk of lack of process controls or gaps in existing process controls. As a result, actions may be taken to mitigate the risk and/or provide the requisite process controls. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149241 | SCENARIO STATE PROCESSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPERATION WITHIN A GRID COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - Systems and methods are provided for generating multiple system state projections for one or more scenarios using a grid computing environment. A central coordinator software component executes on a root data processor and provides commands and data to a plurality of node coordinator software components. A node coordinator software component manages threads which execute on its associated node data processor and which perform a set of matrix operations. Stochastic simulations use results of the matrix operations to generate multiple state projections. Additional processing can be performed by the grid computing environment based upon the generated state projections, such as to develop risk information for users. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149242 | METHODS, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEMS FOR ACQUIRING AN ENHANCED POSITIVE RESPONSE FOR UNDERGROUND FACILITY LOCATE AND MARKING OPERATIONS BASED ON AN ELECTRONIC MANIFEST DOCUMENTING PHYSICAL LOCATE MARKS ON GROUND, PAVEMENT, OR OTHER SURFACE - A positive response notification to provide information regarding locate and/or marking operations for underground facilities may include time-stamp information to provide proof of a time at which the locate and/or marking operation was completed by a locate technician, and/or place-stamp information to provide proof of a presence of the locate technician at or near a work site. An electronic manifest image and/or a virtual white line image similarly may be included in a positive response notification. In one example, such images may be bundled together based on respective descriptor files (or descriptor metadata) that associates the corresponding images with a locate request ticket for the operation. In another example, a positive response notification may include environmental information regarding one or more environmental conditions present at or near the work site during the locate and/or marking operation. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149243 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTING CONSUMER ANALYTICS TO A POINT OF SALE DEVICE - A method for distributing consumer analytics to a point-of-sale device includes: storing a plurality of consumer profiles, each profile including data related to a consumer including a consumer identifier associated with the related consumer, a plurality of consumer characteristics, and a plurality of transaction data entries, each entry corresponding to a payment transaction involving the related consumer and including transaction data; receiving a consumer profile request, the request including a specific consumer identifier and one or more requested consumer metrics; identifying a specific consumer profile where the included consumer identifier corresponds to the specific consumer identifier; calculating the requested consumer metrics for the consumer related to the specific consumer profile based on the transaction data included in the plurality of transaction data entries included in the specific consumer profile; and transmitting the consumer characteristics included in the specific consumer profile and the calculated consumer metrics in response to the request. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149244 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTEGRATING BIOMETRIC DATA WITH TRANSACTION DATA - A method for linking biometric data to transaction history includes: storing, in a database, a plurality of consumer profiles, wherein each consumer profile includes data related to a consumer including at least a plurality of consumer characteristics and a plurality of transaction data entries, each transaction data entry corresponding to a payment transaction involving the related consumer; receiving, by a receiving device, a biometric profile, wherein the biometric profile includes biometric data associated with a specific consumer and a plurality of demographic characteristics associated with the specific consumer; identifying, by a processing device, at least one consumer profile of the plurality of consumer profiles where at least a predefined number of the included plurality of consumer characteristics correspond to the plurality of demographic characteristics; and associating, in the database, each of the identified at least one consumer profile with the biometric data included in the received biometric profile. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149245 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING PRESENCE - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, determining a first linear model and a first log-linear model according to first explanatory variables and a first plurality of occupancy estimates, determining a second linear model and a second log-linear model according to second explanatory variables and a second plurality of occupancy estimates, evaluating, according to a location of a building, the first linear model, the first log-linear model, the second linear model, and the second log-linear model according to first values of the first explanatory variables and second values of the second explanatory variables, and combining results from the evaluating to generate a mixed occupancy estimate. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149246 | PROJECTED MAINTENANCE REVENUE FOR FUTURE TIME PERIODS - A computing device receives a first user input requesting an estimated revenue for a projected time period. The computing device receives a second user input. The computing device determines an expected revenue for the projected time period from new maintenance contracts and renewed maintenance contracts and an expected revenue for the projected time period from warranty upgrades on units based on at least the current number of installed units as of the base time period, the expected number of unit installations for the projected time period, the attrition rate and the warranty option upgrade rate. The computing device determines a total expected revenue for the projected time period based on at least the computing device determining the expected revenue for the projected time period from new maintenance contracts and renewed maintenance contracts and the expected revenue for the projected time period from warranty upgrades on installed units. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149247 | SYSTEM AND METHOD USING MULTI-DIMENSIONAL RATING TO DETERMINE AN ENTITY'S FUTURE COMMERCICAL VIABILITY - A method and system for determining an entity's future commercial viability which comprises: (a) using a first predictive modeling, determining a future commercial viability of the entity, the first predictive modeling is derived by identifying patterns in data and relating to predictive attributes, thereby generating a viability score; (b) using predictive modeling to generate a relative ranking of the entity against its peer group, thereby generating a comparative viability score (i.e., portfolio comparison); (c) measuring data depth to quantify how much is known about the entity and, thus, how much confidence we have in the viability score and comparative viability score, thereby generating a data depth indicator; (d) assigning a company profile by segmentation to define and group the entity with other similar entities in terms of size, years in business, availability of complete financial statement and commercial trade history; and (e) outputting a multi-dimensional viability rating comprising the viability score, comparative viability score, data depth indicator, and company profile. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149248 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing device which selects a set of items to be recommended for a user out of a set of items. The information processing device includes: (a) a selection unit which: (i) calculates priority which is high in the case of a high score of an item itself and low in the case of a high degree of similarity to another selected item with respect to each of the plurality of items, and (ii) selects a set of items out of the plurality of items on the basis of the priority; and (ii) an output unit which outputs each item included in the selected set of items as an item to be presented to the user. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149249 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ENERGY ARBITRAGE - A system and method are provided for performing energy arbitrage among different pre-defined regions. The system includes a plurality of power management devices within the different pre-defined regions to obtain power consumption data from corresponding customer facilities. An arbitrage server communicates with the plurality of power management devices and aggregates the power consumption data for the plurality of power management devices to determine a total power consumed within a same pre-defined region and obtains energy supply data to determine a total power supplied to the same pre-defined region. The arbitrage server further compares the total power consumed and the total power supplied within the same pre-defined region and performs one of offering to sell energy to a different pre-defined region when the total power supplied exceeds the total power consumed or offering to purchase energy from the different pre-defined region when the total power consumed exceeds the total power supplied. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149250 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT TO ASCERTAIN SUPPLY AND DEMAND ANALYTICS AND OUTPUTTING EVENTS BASED ON REAL-TIME DATA FOR PROXIMITY AND MOVEMENT OF INDIVIDUALS AND OBJECTS - A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided herein for ascertaining supply and demand analytics and outputting event. An example method comprises receiving blink data comprising at least a tag unique identifier from a tag, calculating, using a processor, tag location data, wherein the tag location data is based on the blink data, and correlating the tag location data to provider location data. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149251 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTEGRATING PHONE NUMBERS WITH TRANSACTION DATA - A method for linking phone data to transaction history includes: storing, in a database, a plurality of consumer profiles, wherein each consumer profile includes data related to a consumer including at least a plurality of consumer characteristics and plurality of transaction data entries, each transaction data entry corresponding to a payment transaction involving the related consumer; receiving, by a receiving device, a phone profile, wherein the phone profile includes at least a phone number associated with a specific consumer and a plurality of demographic characteristics associated with the specific consumer; identifying, by a processing device, at least one consumer profile of the plurality of consumer profiles where at least a predefined number of the included plurality of consumer characteristics correspond to the plurality of demographic characteristics; and associating, in the database, each of the identified at least one consumer profile with the phone number included in the received phone profile. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149252 | Psychographic Analysis and Classification System - A method for psychographically classifying a respondent based upon the respondents' health values. The method includes receiving a respondent's answers to a series of queries relating to health and analyzing the answers to determine a psychographic characteristic of the respondent. The method further includes providing information to the respondent based upon the results of the analyzing step. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149253 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTEGRATING DEVICE DATA WITH TRANSACTION DATA - A method for linking device data to transaction history includes: storing a plurality of consumer profiles, wherein each consumer profile includes data related to a consumer including at least a plurality of consumer characteristics and a plurality of transaction data entries, each transaction data entry corresponding to a payment transaction involving the related consumer; receiving, by a receiving device, a device profile, wherein the device profile includes device data corresponding to a consumer device and a plurality of demographic characteristics associated with a consumer associated with the corresponding consumer device; identifying, by a processing device, at least one consumer profile of the plurality of consumer profiles where at least a predefined number of the included plurality of consumer characteristics correspond to the plurality of demographic characteristics; and associating each of the identified at least one consumer profile with the device data included in the received device profile. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149254 | MERCHANT ACTION RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM - Systems and methods for recommending merchant actions include a physical merchant location having a plurality of beacon devices. A system provider device receives a plurality of first location information from the plurality of beacon devices that is collected from a customer beacon communication device that is associated with a customer. The system provider device also receives a plurality of second location information over the network from the plurality of beacon devices that is collected from a merchant beacon communication device that is associated with an asset of the merchant. The system provider device analyzes the plurality of first location information and the plurality of second location information to determine at least one merchant action recommendation related to the customer and the asset of the merchant and provides the at least one merchant action recommendation over the network for display on a display device. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149255 | ROBUST PRICING SOLUTION FOR PRODUCTS AND SERVICES - In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes identifying a plurality of origin-destination (OD) pairs within a transportation network. A plurality of ranges for price elasticities may be calculated, where the ranges include at least one price elasticity range for each of the OD pairs, and where, for each OD pair, the associated range of the price elasticity spans multiple values. A robustness parameter may be received. A pricing scheme may be calculated, by a computer processor, based at least in part on the robustness parameter, where the pricing scheme includes a price for each of the OD pairs in the network and is at least partially based on the robustness parameter and the plurality of ranges for the price elasticities. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149256 | System, method, and apparatus for settlement for participation in an electric power grid - Systems, methods, and apparatus embodiments for electric power grid and network registration and management of physical and financial settlement for participation of active grid elements in supply and/or curtailment of power. Settlement is provided for grid elements that participate in the electric power grid following initial registration of each grid element with the system, preferably through network-based communication between the grid elements and a coordinator, either in coordination with or outside of an IP-based communications network router. A multiplicity of active grid elements function in the grid for supply capacity, supply and/or load curtailment as supply or capacity, and are compensated through settlement for their functional participation in the electric power grid. Also, messaging related to settlement is managed through a network by a Coordinator using IP messaging for communication with the grid elements, with the energy management system (EMS), and with the utilities, market participants, and/or grid operators. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149257 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENTERPRISE PROFIT OPTIMIZATION - Systems and methods that provide profit optimization and give manufacturers adequate information and object data for making capital and strategic sales, operational, and procurement decisions. Disclosed are embodiments for comprehensive machine-executable decision-making systems that provide executives with tools that identify the best possible plan to optimize profits. The systems and related components eliminate subjectivity, controversy, and confusion while supporting the natural workflow of the leadership team in the creation and execution of a single optimal plan. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149258 | ENTERPRISE PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT PLANNING OPERATIONS AT AN ENTERPRISE DATABASE - According to some embodiments, input data may be received from a data source in an enterprise database in accordance with an enterprise performance management planning model, stored by a processor at the enterprise database. An operation may then be performed on the input data to produce a result. The result may then be stored in a data target, wherein the data target points to a data holding entity in an instantiation of a plan data container at the enterprise database. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149259 | ENTERPRISE PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT PLANNING MODEL FOR AN ENTERPRISE DATABASE - According to some embodiments, actual business data in an enterprise database may be used in accordance with an enterprise performance management planning model, stored and executed by a processor at the enterprise database, to automatically generate predicted business data. The predicted business data may then be stored in an instantiation of a plan data container at the enterprise database. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149260 | CUSTOMER SATISFACTION PREDICTION TOOL - A customer satisfaction prediction tool is usable to determine a point value for each of a plurality of leading and lagging service indicators associated with a plurality of service cases. The leading indicators may be based on currently open service cases and the lagging indicators may be based on closed service cases. The tool also is usable to add together the point values to produce a total point value, compute an index score based on the total point value, and display the computed index scores. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149261 | MEASURING QUALITY OF CONTENT ITEMS PRESENTED BY A DIGITAL MAGAZINE SERVER - A digital magazine server determines a quality score for content items receiving less than a threshold amount of interactions from digital magazine server users. A distribution of quality scores for a content item is determined from quality scores of content items having one or more characteristics matching characteristics of the content item. As users interact with a content item, the distribution of quality scores is modified to reflect the received interaction. The digital magazine server may use the distribution for a content item to determine a quality score for the content item having a specified confidence or the confidence of the content item having a specified quality score. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149262 | A SYSTEM FOR SETTING A DELIVERY COUNT RANK - A system is provided for setting an appropriate delivery count rank expressing the delivery capability of a deliveryman. There is provided: a storage device that stores a delivery count rank for each deliveryman, a progress flag indicating whether or not each deliveryman is subject to a progress check, and a performance of each deliveryman in a designated period; and rank setting unit that calculates a total undelivered task count and an undelivered task rate on the basis of a total transmitted count and a total actual count included in the storage device, calculates a work attendance rate on the basis of a stipulated number of attendances and an actual number of attendances included in the storage device, and sets a delivery count rank for each deliveryman on the basis of the calculated total undelivered task count, undelivered task rate, work attendance rate, and a progress flag. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149263 | Automated Parking Payment - A code for a parking location for a vehicle is identified. The code may be encoded in a scannable image. A processor analyzes the code for metadata for the parking location. The metadata is sent from a mobile device to a parking server along with data indicative of a beginning of a parking duration and/or data indicative of an ending of the parking duration. A parking payment may be calculated based on the parking duration by the mobile device or the parking server. An account for the vehicle may be automatically charged according to the parking payment. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149264 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING PARKING METER ALERT NOTIFICATIONS - A method for providing parking meter alert notifications includes: storing a plurality of parking rate data entries, each entry including data related to a parking meter including at least a point of sale identifier associated with the related parking meter and a timing rate; receiving transaction data for a payment transaction associated with a specific parking meter, wherein the transaction data includes at least a specific consumer identifier, a transaction amount, a specific point of sale identifier associated with the specific parking meter, and a transaction time; identifying a specific parking rate data entry where the included point of sale identifier corresponds to the specific point of sale identifier; identifying an expiration time based on the transaction time, the transaction amount, and the timing rate included in the identified specific parking rate data entry; and transmitting an alert notification to a consumer based on the specific consumer identifier. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149265 | CONTROLLED PARKING OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES - Systems and methods for controlled parking of autonomous vehicles are provided. In one embodiment, a method includes sending a request from a vehicle to park within a parking area controlled by a parking control system using a bi-directional trust system employing a digital authentication certificate, receiving at the vehicle a parking space assignment from the parking control system indicating an assigned parking space within the parking area using the bi-directional trust system, and autonomously controlling the vehicle to drive the vehicle to the assigned parking space within the parking area. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149266 | REWARD GRANTING SYSTEM, REWARD GRANTING METHOD, REWARD GRANTING DEVICE, REWARD GRANTING PROGRAM, REWARD-RELATED INFORMATION DISPLAY PROGRAM, AND REWARD-RELATED INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD - A reward granting device includes a determination unit that determines whether address information from a user terminal corresponds to reward address information, a reward-related information generation unit that generates reward-related information indicating that a website indicated by the address information is a website related to reward granting when it is determined that the address information corresponds to the reward address information, and a transmitting unit that transmits the reward-related information to the user terminal. A user of the user terminal can thereby recognize that the address information in an access request is relevant to reward granting, and therefore an access to the website by the user is encouraged, motivated by reward granting. Accordingly, the opportunities to view a specific website are increased. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149267 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTHENTICATING, TRACKING, AND REWARDING WORD OF MOUTH PROPAGATION - According to this invention, there is provided a system and method for authenticating, tracking, and rewarding word of mouth propagation, said system and method comprising a system/module for accessing social graph index; a system/module for accumulating points and incentivizing word of mouth propaganda; a system/module for WOM membership platform (coalition Social Loyalty Platform); a system/module for WOM counts equity program; a system/module for brand assurance; and a system/module for creating certified and ranked registry of users. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149268 | MOBILE COUPONING SYSTEM AND METHOD - There is provided a method and a system for enabling a transaction using electronic coupons. The method comprises assigning an electronic coupon to a given customer and transmitting information related to the electronic coupon to a mobile device of the given customer. In the course of the transaction, a predetermined issuer identification number (IIN) is provided in a payment terminal of a merchant and the predetermined IIN is detected by a payment gateway of a payment processing entity operatively connected to the payment terminal. An indication of a financial benefit associated with the use of the electronic coupon is retrieved from a database and is provided to the merchant such that the given customer is provided with the financial benefit upon completion of the transaction. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149269 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSACTION VERIFICATION - Methods, systems and device for verifying a transaction in a loyalty or advertising system are described. One such method includes: receiving, at least one processor, transaction data associated with a transaction between a customer and a merchant; determining, at the at least one processor, from the transaction data whether the customer and the merchant are associated with the loyalty or advertising system; and upon determining from the transaction data whether the transaction corresponds to a reward or advertisement, triggering the redemption of the reward or advertisement. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149270 | Trusted Internal Interface - An interface and device architecture for a payment device. An interface between a payment application installed in a payment device and one or more value-add applications (such as loyalty programs, transit applications, etc.) that are also installed in the payment device. The API or interface design permits communications and data transfer between the payment application and one or more value-add applications. This reduces (and in some cases may prevent) the need for back-end server processing of data that may be relevant to both a payment transaction and to a function of the value-add application. Similarly, the same or another API or interface may enable communications and data transfer between a value-add application and the payment application. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149271 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF REDEEMING LOYALTY POINTS AT A POINT OF SALE - The systems and methods for redemption of loyalty points to satisfy a transaction are provided. The systems and methods may include APIs that are capable of determining a balance of loyalty points in response to initiation of a payment transaction at the POS. The system may also include APIs that are configured to authorize the transaction. In this regard, the APIs may initiate their requests such that, the results of the requests (e.g., the loyalty point balance and the authorization) are received at substantially the same time. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149272 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO COMMUNICATE LOYALTY REWARD INFORMATION DURING PAYMENT TRANSACTIONS - A system and method configured to use an authorization messaging system for payment processing to communicate, in real time during authorization of a payment transaction, loyalty reward information, such as reward balance and conversion rate between a loyalty currency and a payment currency. For example, loyalty currency conversion rate is provided in real time via the authorization response that also provides the loyalty currency balance that is redeemable for the payment transaction. The system and method allows the conversion rate to be customized and/or personalized based on the identities of the user, the merchant and the loyalty program. Merchant may provide add-on offers for certain users. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149273 | METHOD, SERVER AND COMPUTER PROGRAM TO OPTIMIZE ONLINE ADVERTISING - A method, a server, and a computer program for optimizing online advertisement that is booked via a communication network in a system for realtime booking of online advertisement in the communication network on a particular network page, at a particular time, in association with a particular search term, and/or as a particular type of online advertisement. In order to increase the relevance of the online advertisement to a user of a client of the communication network, a server that is connected to the communication network automatically scans a broadcast radio program running on at least one station, the server automatically evaluates the broadcast radio program for the purpose of recognizing the content, and the server optimizes the online advertisement according to a particular algorithm on the basis of the result of the evaluation of the broadcast radio program. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149274 | INTERNET MARKETING-ADVERTISING SYSTEM - This present patent builds on 61/494,133 by providing specifics on the advertiser/marketer interface, advertisement feedback and reports on the advertising campaign effectiveness. The marketer interface allows the advertiser/marketer to set up an advertising campaign, link data to their 4P key words/phrases and generate reports to show the effectiveness of their advertising efforts. This interface includes a new account setup page, a new advertisement setup page, a product/service entry page, a price entry page, rules generation page, a place entry page, a promotion entry page, an advertisement preview page, 4P contextual setup page, external 4P contextual setup page, 4P banner (display) setup page, regular banner (display) setup page, 4P mobile contextual setup page, 4P Mobile banner (display) setup page, 4P game contextual setup page, game banner (display) setup page, 4P game banner (display) setup page, 4P application contextual setup page, application banner (display) setup page, 4P application banner (display), 4P media player contextual setup page, media player banner (display) setup page or 4P media player banner (display) setup page, a marketer alert setup page and a campaign management center. Also included is an advertisement feedback system where an internet web user may leave feedback on the effectiveness of an advertisement they are viewing. Also included is a set of reports that are broken down by Account Performance, Campaign Performance, Advertisement Group Performance, Individual Advertisement Performance, Keyword Performance, Game Performance, Application Performance, URL Performance, Demographic Performance, Geographic Performance, Search Query Performance, Placement Performance, Reach and Frequency Performance, Click Fraud, Direct Feedback Analysis and a complete set of reports. Together, these reports give the advertiser/marketer a complete picture of their advertising campaign and help the marketer optimize their marketing performance. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149275 | QUASI-PROPORTIONAL ALLOCATION OF COMBINATION ITEMS FOR SERVING IN AN ONLINE AUCTION-BASED MARKETPLACE - Methods and systems are provided that can include value-based quasi-proportional allocation of combinations of online content items, such as online advertisements, for potential serving on Web pages. Combinations may be assembled and valued. A highest valued or otherwise qualified subset of combinations may be identified for serving. Combinations of the highest valued subset may be allocated for serving, and served, in accordance with a value-based quasi-proportional allocation scheme. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149276 | DYNAMIC MACHINE-READABLE CODES - A method for determining a condition under which a sign has been viewed includes receiving a uniform resource locator from a user endpoint device, where the uniform resource locator is embedded in a machine-readable code displayed on the sign, and extracting information from the uniform resource locator, where the information describes the condition under which the sign was viewed by a user of the user endpoint device. A method for transmitting information describing a condition under which a sign is currently viewable includes generating the information describing the condition under which the sign is currently viewable and inserting the information in a uniform resource locator, where the uniform resource locator is embedded in a machine-readable code displayed on the sign. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149277 | Systems and Methods for Tracking Advertisement Efficacy Under Consumer Transactions - A technique for tracking advertisement efficacy using consumer transactions is disclosed. An information tracking agent maintains and stores information related to users identified by a unique identifier. A user is presented with an online/offline advertisement. An information tracking agent records and stores the advertisement transaction. When a user performs a transaction for purchase of goods or service that are the subject of the advertisement, the information tracking agent identifies the user with the unique identifier and the matching agent matches the user transaction with the displayed advertisement. The system automatically tracks the effectiveness of the advertisements displayed to users without requiring consumer action, beyond the purchase/transaction, in response to the displayed advertisement. In another embodiment, the system automatically tracks user location with a GPS and dynamically displays advertisements on billboards connected to the information tracking agent. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149278 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING CONTENT RECOMMENDATION TIME USING CONTEXT AWARENESS - Disclosed is an apparatus for recommending content using user context awareness. A content recommendation method performed by the content recommendation apparatus includes monitoring content use information of a user, calculating a profit of the user for content recommendation and an annoyance of the user with the content recommendation based on a result of the monitoring, and comparing the calculated profit and annoyance to determine a time to recommend content to the user. Accordingly, the content recommendation can be provided without interfering with use of content by the user by recommending content using awareness of the user's context. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149279 | TARGETED ADVERTISING FOR BROADCASTED CONTENT - A server device may broadcast programming content; identify a received indication that a particular user device has received the programming content; determine device analytics information regarding the particular user device; identify, based on the device analytics information, targeted advertising for the particular user device; and output, to the particular user device, the identified targeted advertising. A user device may receive broadcasted programming content; present the broadcasted programming content; output an indication that the broadcasted programming content is being presented; receive targeted advertising that was generated based on the outputted indication; and present the targeted advertising in conjunction with the broadcasted programming content. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149280 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AN OFFER FOR AN ITEM - A method, computer-readable storage device and apparatus for transmitting an offer for an item are disclosed. For example, a method receives from a social network an indication of a desire of a user for an item and receives from a device of a retailer an indication of an offer for the item. The method then determines a location of a device of the user, detects a proximity of the device of the user to a location of the retailer and transmits the offer for the item to the device of the user when the proximity of the device of the user to the location of the retailer is detected. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149281 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZING ADVERTISEMENTS - An apparatus and method for synchronising advertisements published on a group communications network with advertisements in a broadcast, the apparatus comprising: a receiver for receiving broadcast data; a communications interface in communication with a group communications network; a broadcast data content extractor adapted to derive search terms and advert data from the received broadcast data, the advert data relating to an advert received in the broadcast data, wherein on receipt of a query by a user of the group communications network, the query comprising one or more of the search terms, the communications interface publishes a group communication comprising at least a portion of the advert data on the group communications network. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149282 | SOCIAL PLATFORM WITH ENHANCED PRIVACY AND INTEGRATED CUSTOMIZATION FEATURES - A social networking platform offering various services, such as, facilitating aggregation and management of a user's interaction on one or more social networking platforms, offering enhanced control over the level of privacy associated with the flow of user data, offering tools to customize the user's exposure to advertisement-related content on the social networking platform(s), integrating features to control aspects of how data/content is presented to and visualized by the user, empowering the user to multicast direct messages to other users without the other users having to meet certain constraints, empowering the user to create and/or join a group based on messaging threads, and the like. One or more of these enhanced services/features are associated with a powerful framework of authentication/permission model for access control. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149283 | Notification Systems and Methods that Communicate Advertisements Based Upon Location and/or Personal Profiles - Systems and methods are disclosed for automated computer based notification systems. A representative method, among others that are disclosed herein, can be broadly summarized by the following steps: engaging in a first communication session with a personal communication device (PCD) that involves one or more data transfers; during the first communication session, receiving an indication from a party associated with the PCD that the party would like to receive advertisement information associated with a sale of a good or service at a stop location; monitoring (directly or indirectly) travel or location information associated with a mobile thing (MT), the MT capable of delivering or picking up the good or service at the stop location; when the MT travels within a predefined geographical region in close proximity to the stop location, engaging in a second communication session with the PCD that involves one or more data transfers; and causing advertisement information relating to sale of the good or service to be communicated to the PCD, during the second communication session, in order to enable the MT to deliver or pick up the good or service at the stop location in accordance with the advertisement information. In some embodiments, the advertisement information can be selected based at least in part upon a personal profile associated with the party associated with the PCD. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149284 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING LOYALTY ENHANCED USER INTERFACE IN A FUEL DISPENSING ENVIRONMENT - Systems and methods for managing loyalty applications in fuel dispensing environments are provided. At least one processor can execute a master mobile application comprising an interface for rendering content and/or accepting input. The master mobile application can be configured to communicate with one or more dispensing components to obtain parameters regarding product dispensing, display the parameters on a portion of the interface, and invoke a loyalty application for executing on another portion of the interface. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149285 | TARGETING MEDIA DELIVERY TO A MOBILE AUDIENCE - A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may perform, for example, operations including determining a representative trajectory of a number of mobile devices relative to a media presentation device, such as a digital billboard. An audience of the number of mobile devices is identified and user characteristics are obtained of the audience. A representative interest of the audience is determined from the user characteristics of the audience, and a media content item is selected according to the representative interest and the representative trajectory. The media content item is presented at the media presentation device to expose the audience to the media content item. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149286 | MOBILE PROVIDER ADVERTISING AND SCHEDULING PLATFORM - Systems and methods for matching consumers with providers are provided. A method includes obtaining scheduling information and provider information associated with providers, the scheduling information comprising availability information and location information associated with each of the providers for different time blocks, and the provider information including goods or services information associated with each of the providers. The method also includes receiving a query associated with a consumer specifying a good or service to be provided to the consumer and a requested location for the providing. The method also includes generating, based on the scheduling information, a response to the query. The response can include an identification of providers available to provide the good or the service at the location and times each of the identified providers is available to provide the good or the service at the location. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149287 | RESPONDING TO AN ADVERTISEMENT USING A MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE - A technique for selecting and presenting advertisement information is disclosed. The technique includes, in part, receiving a first set of data from a portable computing device. The first set of data corresponding to measurements performed by one or more sensors. The technique further includes, in part, determining a location of a portable computing device based at least on the first set of data, selecting a first set of output elements from a second set of data in accordance with the determined location and a third set of data of interest to a user, and sending at least one of the one or more elements to the portable computing device. The technique further includes presenting at least one of the one or more elements to a user of the portable computing device. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149288 | CONTEXTUAL BASED INFORMATION AGGREGATION SYSTEM - A system automatically and continuously finds and aggregates the most relevant and current information about the people and things that a user cares about. The information gathering is based on current context (e.g., where the user is, what the user is doing, what the user is saying/typing, etc.). The result of the context based information gathering is presented ubiquitously on user interfaces of any of the various physical devices operated by the user. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149289 | PROVIDING CONTENT IN A TIMESLOT ON A CLIENT COMPUTING DEVICE - In particular embodiments, a client computing device identifies an available timeslot for displaying content on a screen. The client computing device notifies one or more applications of the available timeslot and receives from each of one or more applications a bid to fill the available timeslot with content associated with the application. Each bid indicates the application, indicates a format of the content associated with the application, and provides at least a portion of the content associated with the application. The client computing device selects one of the bids and displays in the available timeslot on the screen the content associated with the selected bid with the format indicated by the selected bid. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149290 | DIGITAL COUPON SYSTEM FOR SMART PHONES - A phone is adapted to receive a digital coupon for a business after the business is called with the phone. The digital coupon is displayed in one of a call log, call screen or contacts at a position associated with the business. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149291 | MAGNETIC CARD TRANSACTION SYSTEM BASED IN CLOUD COMPUTING AND SIMULATED MAGNETIC CARDS - A system based in cloud computing able to manage financial transactions related to debit and credit cards provided by financial institutions or service providers, using software applications or web application accessed by mobile devices or computer units and magnetic card simulators able to excite coils to simulate up to three credit and debit cards tracks avoiding the storage of magnetic card data. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149292 | LEVERAGING SENSORS ON SMART MOBILE PHONES AND TABLETS TO CREATE ADVERTISEMENTS TO REPLICATE A REAL WORLD EXPERIENCE - Systems, methods, and apparatus are described herein for replicating a real world experience consuming a product or service to advertise products or services. Data from sensors on mobile devices, tablets, computers, etc. may be read and translated into data corresponding to an action. A user of the computing device (e.g., mobile phone, tablet, computer, etc.) performs a required action by activating the appropriate sensors, which may provide the user with a benefit, reward, or incentive. The action taken by the user represents a real world activity that a user would normally perform when consuming a product or service. Advertisers are charged once the actions associated with consuming the product or service have been performed. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149293 | ADVERTISEMENT STORAGE METHOD AND ADVERTISEMENT INSERTION METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM - Embodiments of the present invention relate to the field of mobile communications and provide an advertisement storage method and advertisement insertion method, device, and system; the advertisement insertion system includes an advertisement providing device, an advertisement policy and charging control function, an advertisement storage, an advertisement insertion device, and a terminal, where the components are connected through a wireless network or a wired network. In the present invention, processes of automatically receiving, storing, and inserting an advertisement can be achieved by the advertisement insertion system including the advertisement policy and charging control function, the advertisement storage, the advertisement insertion device, and the terminal without any manual intervention by a service provider. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149294 | PRESENCE-BASED CONTENT RECOMMENDATIONS AND ADVERTISING - Systems and methods for providing content recommendations or advertisements based at least in part on the identity of users that are within an experiential range of a primary device for rendering the content recommendation or advertisement are disclosed. A home service gateway may be configured to identify users within the experiential range of the primary device and generate a content recommendation request and/or an advertisement request identifying the users within the experiential range. A content delivery system may receive the recommendation request and/or ad request and provide content recommendations and/or advertisements to the home service gateway based at least in part on the identity of the users that are within the experiential range of the primary device. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149295 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON MEDIA USAGE AND PURCHASE BEHAVIOR - A server generates item recommendation lists for users, whose behaviors are registered related to user library items and assigned relevance in relation to available inventory items. First, similarity computed between any pair of inventory items based on user-specific relevance factors. Second, similarity is measured between inventory items by over content and/or metadata corresponding to the inventory items. Overall similarity is computed between the library and the available inventory items based on a sum of the first and second measured similarities. Available inventory items are recommended based on the computed overall similarity score. Relevance, which may diminish over a time, may be assigned based on behavior type and duration. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149296 | TARGETED CONTENT FOR ULTIMATE FANS - Methods and systems for providing targeted content to a user, such as an ultimate fan, are described. A user is able to attend a current event and have behavior information associated with the current event collected. Based on the behavior information, the user can be identified as an ultimate fan. Once the user is identified as an ultimate fan, targeted content can be delivered to the user. Targeted content includes discounts, promotions, marketing offers, and advertisements. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149297 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SCALABLE DATA BROADCASTING - A data-publishing system facilitates broadcasting a data stream so that each client device obtains a personalized data stream. During operation, a publisher can generate an encoded data stream that does not include a reproducible version of the data stream's contents, and generates an encoding sauce to provide to at least one data-brokering system. When a broker receives a request from a client device for access to the data stream, the broker validates the client device's access to the data stream, and uses the encoding sauce to generate a secret sauce for the client device. The client device can process the encoded data stream using instructions in the secret sauce to produce a personalized data stream that includes a reproducible version of the data stream's contents. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149298 | DYNAMIC LIST CREATION - In various example embodiments, a system and method for dynamically creating an aggregate list are presented. For one embodiment, sensor data associated with a first data source type is received from a network. The sensor data represents at least one item to be added to the aggregate list from the first data source type representing a connected appliance. The aggregate list is associated with at least one user. The sensor data is processed based on predictive modeling associated with consumption of the at least one time to be added to the list to automatically generate learning data. The learning data is associated with a second data source type and representing at least one item to be added to the aggregate list from the second data source type. The non-sensor data associated with a third data source type is received from a network. The non-sensor data represents at least one item to be added to the aggregate list from the third data source type. An aggregate list is generated including a list of items from each of the first data source type, the second data source type and the third data source type. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149299 | System and Method for Providing Relevant Advocate Endorsements in Digital Media - A system and method are disclosed for displaying relevant advocate endorsements in paid or other digital media. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149300 | IMAGE CONTENT AND ADVERTISEMENT DATA PROVIDING METHOD, SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS - To provide an image contest providing method capable promoting advertisement effect by dynamically inserting an advertisement image to a distributed image content, an image content reproducing apparatus requests an image content providing apparatus to distribute the image content. Then, the image content is distributed to the image content reproducing apparatus and a viewer can utilize the image content. At this occasion, the image content providing apparatus distributes the image content, detects an advertisement inserting position and requests an advertisement image providing apparatus to distribute an advertisement image. Then, the advertisement image providing apparatus selects the advertisement a image to be inserted to the image content and transmits thereof to the image content providing apparatus. Thereafter, the image content providing apparatus inserts the advertisement image to a position of the image content for inserting the advertisement and distribute thereof the image content reproducing apparatus. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149301 | Coordinated Virtual Presences - Various embodiments that may generally relate to presentation of information in a coordinated manner. One or more output devices may make an advertising offering. One or more commercial offerings may be offered in coordination with the advertising presentation made through the output devices. The offerings may be limited in time and/or geographic area. Customers in an area at a specified time may be presented with an advertising campaign enabling them to access a virtual store at the time and in the area. Various methods are described. Various apparatus are described. Further embodiments are described. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149302 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UNIFYING WORKFLOW PROCESSES FOR PRODUCING ADVERTISEMENT CONTENT - Methods and systems for generating device-optimized content from source data. The method and system include computing hardware which is operable to execute one or more software products for providing a graphical user interface for enabling user-manipulation of the source data to generate intermediate content. In addition, the method and system include a translation arrangement for translating the intermediate content to the device-optimized content. The translation arrangement takes into account rendering characteristics of one or more wireless-enabled portable rendering devices on which the device-optimized content is to be rendered. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149303 | PHOTOGRAPHIC STAGE - A photographic stage is provided that includes at least one camera, a scanner, and a computer configured to capture a plurality of images from the at least one camera. The computer is also configured to detect a tagged item based on data from the scanner and to identify the tagged item in at least one of the images. A method of using the photographic stage and an apparatus is also provided. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149304 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLIENT-SIDE ADVERTISEMENT RETRIEVAL - Techniques are described for retrieving advertisements for insertion into a document. Embodiments receive a document comprising a request to retrieve a plurality of advertisement creatives. In response to transmitting the request specified within the received document to the advertisement management system, a single software object defining all of the plurality of advertisement creatives is received. Embodiments insert each of the plurality of advertisement creatives into the document, prior to rendering the document, and then render the document together with the advertisement creatives. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149305 | TRIGGERED PRESENTATION OF THIRD-PARTY INTERACTIVE CONTENT CHANNELS ON ELECTRONIC DEVICES - Techniques for transmitting and presenting content may be provided. In particular, systems and methods are provided for allowing third parties (e.g., “publishers”) to specify content items to be transmitted, via channels, to a plurality of devices (e.g., subscriber devices). Content items can include, e.g., product information, promotion details or institution-level notifications and can dynamically change in time. In one instance, a publisher can periodically update content (e.g., images, videos or text) based on, e.g., current or future promotions, new product launches or recent events. One or more content items can then be transmitted via a channel to devices of subscribers of the channel (e.g., simultaneously or asynchronously). When inactivity is detected at a particular subscriber's device, the device can present one or more content items from the channel. In some instances, the channel's content item(s) is sequential to or interleaved with content items from another channel. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149306 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING MULTIMEDIA CONTENT - The invention includes a system, apparatus, and method for storing media content within a service provider network. The system includes multi-service servers associated with access points adapted to allow end-user devices to access the service provider network. Each multi-service server includes a common storage partition adapted for storing media content and a plurality of end-user storage partitions adapted for maintaining associations to media content. The system includes media servers that communicate with the multi-service servers for providing media content to the multi-service servers. In response to a request for media content received from one of a plurality of end-user devices, the requested media content stored in the common storage partition is associated with a selected one of the end-user storage partitions associated with the end-user. The request for media content is received in response to end-user directed advertisements received at any of the plurality of end-user devices. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149307 | LOCATION-BASED ORDERING - Some embodiments provide a novel process for ordering items available in a menu or specials at a particular location. In some embodiments, the location can be any one of a table in a restaurant, a lounge, a bar, a hotel room with room service, a seat in a sports arena, and any other location which is served by a business. In some embodiments, the process operates by scanning one of a QR code, a bar code, and an NFC tag available on a designated order scan location. In some embodiments, the designed order scan location is one of a seat, a table, and a hotel room placard or sticker. In some embodiments, the process is implemented as a software application that runs on a mobile computing device. In some embodiments, the software application is downloaded if not previously available on the mobile computing device and that locations menu is opened by identifying the location from the scanned code and is tailored based on time of day or further customized to users language preference or their dietary requirements. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149308 | Method and System for Credit Card Selection at a Point of Sale - Embodiments herein provide systems and methods for selecting a credit card for a user at a point of sale. One method generally includes determining an identity of a business establishment corresponding to the point of sale where the user intends to complete a purchase transaction with one of a plurality of payment cards held by the user, providing the identity of the business establishment to at least a subset of issuers of the plurality of payment cards in order to receive details regarding rewards provided by each issuer in the subset to the user if the user uses a corresponding payment card for the purchase transaction at the business establishment, and presenting to the user a recommendation to use at least one of the payment cards for the purchase transaction based on received details regarding rewards from the issuers. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149309 | CARD READER EMULATION FOR CARDLESS TRANSACTIONS - Disclosed are method and apparatus that enable a cardless payment transaction to be executed from a merchant point-of-sale (POS) system. A user is enabled to check in at a merchant by using a mobile device of the user and then to pay by simply appearing at the merchant and mentioning his name. By emulating card read events and intercepting receipt printer outputs, the technique cleanly integrates into a conventional merchant POS system, without the need for customized software or hardware to accommodate individual POS vendor-proprietary application programming interfaces (APIs). | 2015-05-28 |
20150149310 | WEARABLE COMMUNICATION DEVICES FOR SECURED TRANSACTION AND COMMUNICATION - A wearable device for capacitive coupled communications is described. The wearable device includes capacitive sensor transceiver circuitry configured to receive a capacitive coupled signal from a host device. The capacitive coupled signal is received through a body of a user of the wearable device and is modulated to include a request for authentication data to authenticate the wearable device with the host device. The wearable device includes processing circuitry in communication with the capacitive sensor transceiver circuitry to process the received capacitive coupled signal and transmit authentication data modulated on a capacitive coupled reply signal to the host device. The capacitive coupled reply signal modulated with the authentication data is transmitted through the body of the user of the wearable device. The capacitive sensor transceiver circuitry receives another capacitive coupled signal from the host device modulated with information indicating a successful authentication of the wearable device with the host device. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149311 | COMPACT POINT-OF-SALE SYSTEM - Various systems, methods, and apparatuses are described for facilitating a customer transaction via a point-of-sale terminal. One example system may comprise a point-of-sale terminal for facilitating a customer transaction. The system may further comprise a receipt printer for printing a receipt associated with the customer transaction. The printer may be built into the point-of-sale terminal. The point-of-sale terminal may be configured to be positioned on a substantially horizontal surface elevated above the ground. Similar and related methods, apparatuses, systems, and computer program products are also provided. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149312 | DISPLAY AN ITEM DETAIL WITH A RECEIPT SNIPPET - The present disclosure extends to displaying a portion of an image representation of a paper receipt, the image portion corresponding to a selected item from a completed transaction. In embodiments, an “eReceipt,” a digital representation of a paper receipt, is transmitted to and displayed on a customer computing device, such as an app installed on a smartphone. The eReceipt may include a list of items purchased at the transaction and additional information related to the transaction and/or items purchased. In response to the customer selecting one of the items listed on the eReceipt, a snippet of the image of the paper receipt is displayed, the snippet depicting the line item from the paper receipt that represents the selected item. | 2015-05-28 |