32nd week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 48 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150220811 | ASSISTED PRODUCT IDENTIFICATION - A system and related methods for assisting in the identification of an unidentified object by comparing a visual representation of an unidentified object with a visual mask corresponding to a known product. The mask can include at least one distinctive feature that can be compared to the visual features of the visual representation. Identified correspondence between the mask and the visual presentation can then be used to identify the unidentified object. The visual representation of the unidentified object can be compared against a library of masks to identify the unidentified object, where each mask corresponds to a different known product. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220812 | POINT CLOUD SIMPLIFICATION - There is provided a method for simplification of a point cloud comprising a set of points. The method comprises implementing recursive spatial partitioning of the set of points into a hierarchy of clusters and, for each cluster, calculating a tangent plane estimate for the points in the cluster and deriving a confidence factor for the calculated tangent plane estimate. The method further comprises identifying representative points within each cluster in the hierarchy and, for each representative point, defining a point-pair that consists of the representative point and a representative point of an immediate parent cluster; calculating a contraction error metric for each point-pair that is weighted by the inverse of the confidence factors calculated for the clusters associated with each representative point; and iteratively contracting the point-pair with the lowest contraction error metric, updating remaining point-pairs as a result of the contraction, and revising the contraction error metric of the updated point-pairs accordingly. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220813 | Method and Apparatus for Image Filter Tuning - Disclosed herein is a method. A set of pre-adjusted images including source images of the pre-adjusted images is provided. The pre-adjusted images include image filter parameters. Histogram information for each of the source images is computed. A learning algorithm is applied to the set. The learning algorithm is configured to map the histogram information to the image filter parameters. A real-time image is processed based on the mapping of the histogram information to the image filter parameters. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220814 | BEHAVIORAL EVENT MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND RELATED METHOD - Electronic system for obtaining data, via one or more digital devices, on user behavior, digital transactions, and exposure relative to digital content and services, or external exposure and associated events between the user and the environment via sensors attached to digital devices, the system being configured to collect data reflecting the content and objects that the user at least potentially perceives as rendered on one or more digital screens attached to smart devices, reconstruct the at least potentially perceived visual landscape based on the collected data, and determine the target and/or level of user attention in view of the reconstruction and associated exposure events detected therein, and to apply locally stored information about rules or fingerprints in the digital object recognition process involving the collected data and validation of the type or identity of user actions, digital content, or external objects, as reflected by the reconstruction recapturing the visual landscape. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220815 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus comprises: an acquiring unit that acquires a target value of an achievement objective to contribute to at least one of environment and reduction in total cost of ownership; an extracting unit that extracts one or more print settings, in each of which an achievement expected value meets the target value, based on correspondence information indicating a correspondence relation between a plurality of different print settings and achievement expected values of the achievement objective expected when the respective print settings are applied to printing; and a displaying unit that displays setting information indicating the one or more print settings extracted by the extracting unit. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220816 | CELLULAR RESTAURANT TICKET PRINTER SYSTEM - A thermal ticket printer operable to receive restaurant orders via an API from a server communicating through a cellular network. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, an API existing on a networked server enables the server communicate with external clients, store print jobs according to requests by external clients, and respond to status requests. The API may authenticate requests from all clients; receive and store orders; listen to polling requests from the thermal ticket printer; communicate orders to the thermal ticket printer when present; store status of print jobs for clients; and, monitor the availability of the thermal ticket printer. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220817 | JOB MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus of a job management system associates a paper brand identifier with a paper name to record a number of sheets of paper used in an executed job for each paper brand identifier as a job history, and notifies the management system about identifying information for identifying the latest job history and the updated paper brand and the paper brand identifier. The management system manages an association between the paper brand identifier and the paper name of the image forming apparatus to count the number of sheets of paper used for each paper name before the update by using the job history information and the identifying information. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220818 | PRINT CONTROLLING APPARATUS, PRINT CONTROLLING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A paper attribute designated by a suspended job which has been stored in a print job queue and printing of which has not been executed is acquired. When executing replacement of paper supplied to the printing apparatus is executed, a screen in which a user can designate a paper attribute candidate after paper replacement is displayed so that the acquired paper attribute is preferentially displayed out of candidates which the user can select as the paper attribute candidate. An image is printed on printing paper after the replacement, based on a paper attribute designated by the user in the screen. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220819 | METHOD OF CREATING SAMPLE PAGE, PROGRAM, AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A method of creating a sample page in an image system, the method includes: a step of holding a color measurement result of a colorimeter, with respect to an output image of a special color, as a history color measurement result; a step of determining whether a creation condition of the sample page is satisfied; and a step of creating the sample page having a first color sample image and a second color sample image formed on a recording medium, the first color sample image being according to printer device values calculated based on the history color measurement result of the special color, and the second color sample image being according to printer device values of the special color determined from a special color table, when the creation condition of the sample page is determined to be satisfied. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220820 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus analyzes image data corresponding to a received job, and when as a result of the analysis is that the image data has a resolution that exceeds a predetermined value, determines a size of a sheet to be printed, and when a result of the determination is that the size of the sheet is a predetermined size, if a size of the image data is less than or equal to a threshold, stores image data to which halftoning processing is not performed in a memory, and if the size of the image data exceeds the threshold, stores image data to which the halftoning processing is performed in the memory, and based on a direction of the sheet, performs image forming on the sheet after performing rotation processing for the stored image data. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220821 | GHOSTING COMPENSATION IN RELIEF IMAGES FOR DIRECTIONAL PRINTS - A method is provided for combining two source images in a relief image with structural elements having at least two principle surface orientations, such that a first image is observed in a first viewing direction and a second image is observed in a second viewing direction. The method reduces a ghosting effect and comprises the steps of: a) printing a test relief image comprising patches with structural elements having a first basic color on a surface with a first principle orientation and a second basic color on a surface with a second principle orientation, a basic color being a color having a predefined amount of colorant; b) measuring for each patch a first observed color in a first viewing direction and a second observed color in a second viewing direction; c) scaling a first source image and a second source image such that each image element has a size corresponding to a structural element in the relief image; d) selecting for each position in the relief image a structural element from a patch in the test relief image, wherefor a sum of a color difference between an image element of the scaled first source image and a first observed color and a color difference between an image element of the scaled second source image and a second observed color becomes minimal, and e) composing a relief image from the selected structural elements. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220822 | PRINT CONTROLLING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A print controlling apparatus includes: a receiving unit that receives input data including: gloss control plane data indicating a surface effect type to be achieved on the recording medium with certain density information; and table identifying information for identifying a surface effect selection table indicating a corresponding relation between the surface effect type and the density information used to generate the gloss control plane data; an acquiring unit that acquires an independent data portion indicating a portion corresponding to the surface effect type capable of being achieved independent from competence of the printing apparatus, out of the surface effect selection table identified by the table identifying information included in the input data from an external device; and a generating unit that generates the clear toner plane data using the independent data portion acquired by the acquiring unit. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220823 | DOCUMENT COPY WITH DATA-BEARING HALFTONE IMAGE - Document copying systems and methods include initiating a copy job ( | 2015-08-06 |
20150220824 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus that generates image data for forming an image by performing printing a plurality of times on the same area of a printing medium. The image processing apparatus includes: a division unit configured to divide the image data into first image data and second image data by comparing a pixel value indicating a density of a pixel with a predetermined threshold value for each pixel constituting the image data so that the first image data includes pixels whose pixel value is equal to or greater than the predetermined threshold value and the second image data includes pixels whose pixel value is less than the threshold value; a first halftone processing unit configured to perform dither processing on the first image data; and a second halftone processing unit configured to perform error diffusion processing on the second image data. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220825 | INFORMATION DEVICE, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND METHOD FOR SHARING MEMORY - A device includes a first processing portion configured to keep a memory region to perform a first process; a second processing portion configured to perform any one of a plurality of second processes by using a memory region provided by the first processing portion; and a predicting portion configured to predict a first size of a first memory region to be required next to a second memory region which is required at present by the second processing portion. The second processing portion requests, from the first processing portion, a memory region having at least a larger size of the first size and a second size of the second memory region. In response to the request, the first processing portion provides the second processing portion with a memory region which is a part of the memory region kept and is of a size requested by the second processing portion. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220826 | PRINTER AND PRINTING SYSTEM - A printing system | 2015-08-06 |
20150220827 | READABLE MATRIX CODE - A method of generating a readable matrix code image encoding a message based on an input image and a readable matrix coding specification, comprising: calculating function areas readable to comply with a function patterns specification; determining an extent of free cells and derived cells according to a code word specification; calculating decode input values for free cells such that the appearance of the free cells compared to respective areas of the input image complies with a visual perceptual similarity criterion and with the code word specification; and calculating decode input values for derived cells based on the free cells decode input values and in compliance with the code word specification. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220828 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A RFID ENABLED METAL LICENSE PLATE - In the embodiments described herein, a RFID enabled license plate is constructed by using the license plate, or a retro-reflective layer formed thereon as part of the resonator configured to transmit signals generated by and RFID chip integrated with the license plate. Such an RFID enabled license plate can include a metal license plate with a slot formed in the metal license plate, and a RFID tag module positioned in the slot. The RFID tag module can include a chip and a loop, and the loop can be coupled with the metal license plate, e.g., via inductive or conductive coupling. In this manner, the metal license plate can be configured to act as a resonator providing increased performance. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220829 | EQUIVALENT DELAY BY SHAPING POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS - A method of approximating delay for postsynaptic potentials includes receiving a postsynaptic potential. The method further includes filtering the postsynaptic potential to approximate a delayed delivery of the postsynaptic potential. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220830 | Routing Policies for Biological Hosts - Methods, systems, and products provide interfaces between intrahost networks and interhost networks within biological hosts. Neuroregional translations are performed to route communications to and from the biological hosts. Bioregional translations may also be performed to route communications to and from the biological hosts. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220831 | SHORT-TERM SYNAPTIC MEMORY BASED ON A PRESYNAPTIC SPIKE - A method for creating and maintaining short term memory using short term plasticity, includes changing a gain of a synapse based on presynaptic spike activity without regard to postsynaptic spike activity. The method also includes calculating the gain based on a continuously updated synaptic state variable associated with the short term plasticity. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220832 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFICATION OF SPIKE-PROCESSING CIRCUITS - Techniques for the identification of a spike-processing circuit are provided. An exemplary method includes receiving spike trains corresponding to a circuit input over a time period, and selecting a number of spikes for each of input spike trains over a predetermined time window. Each of the selected spikes can be replaced with a sampled reproducing kernel to obtain a plurality of signals, and each obtained signal can correspond to one of the input spike trains. Each of the obtained signals can be passed through a plurality of receptive fields or filters to obtain an aggregate filter output signal. The filter output signal can be encoded into an output spike train, and the output spike train can correspond to a response of the circuit to the plurality of input spike trains. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220833 | GENERATING VECTOR REPRESENTATIONS OF DOCUMENTS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating document vector representations. One of the methods includes obtaining a new document; and determining a vector representation for the new document using a trained neural network system, wherein the trained neural network system has been trained to receive an input document and a sequence of words from the input document and to generate a respective word score for each word in a set of words, wherein each of the respective word scores represents a predicted likelihood that the corresponding word follows a last word in the sequence in the input document, and wherein determining the vector representation for the new document using the trained neural network system comprises iteratively providing each of the plurality of sequences of words to the trained neural network system to determine the vector representation for the new document using gradient descent. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220834 | CAPTURING AND MANAGING KNOWLEDGE FROM SOCIAL NETWORKING INTERACTIONS - Presenting a marking element in a social networking interaction where the marking element includes a question specifier and an answer specifier, creating a knowledge element in response to a user activating the marking element on the social networking interaction or a portion thereof, and presenting a knowledge element indicator in the social networking interaction. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220835 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON COLLABORATIVE AND/OR CONTENT-BASED NODAL INTERRELATIONSHIPS - In selected embodiments a recommendation generator builds a network of interrelationships between venues, reviewers and users based on their attributes and reviewer and user reviews of the venues. Each interrelationship or link may be positive or negative and may accumulate with other links (or anti-links) to provide nodal links the strength of which are based on commonality of attributes among the linked nodes and/or common preferences that one node, such as a reviewer, expresses for other nodes, such as venues. The links may be first order (based on a direct relationship between, for instance, a reviewer and a venue) or higher order (based on, for instance, the fact that two venue are both liked by a given reviewer). The recommendation engine in certain embodiments determines recommended venues based on user attributes and venue preferences by aggregating the link matrices and determining the venues which are most strongly coupled to the user. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220836 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON COLLABORATIVE AND/OR CONTENT-BASED NODAL INTERRELATIONSHIPS - In selected embodiments a recommendation generator builds a network of interrelationships between venues, reviewers and users based on their attributes and reviewer and user reviews of the venues. Each interrelationship or link may be positive or negative and may accumulate with other links (or anti-links) to provide nodal links the strength of which are based on commonality of attributes among the linked nodes and/or common preferences that one node, such as a reviewer, expresses for other nodes, such as venues. The links may be first order (based on a direct relationship between, for instance, a reviewer and a venue) or higher order (based on, for instance, the fact that two venue are both liked by a given reviewer). The recommendation engine in certain embodiments determines recommended venues based on user attributes and venue preferences by aggregating the link matrices and determining the venues which are most strongly coupled to the user. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220837 | RULE-BASED NETWORK DIAGNOSTICS TOOL - A system may be configured to receive performance information regarding a set of network devices; compare the performance information to a set of rule objects; and detect an occurrence of a particular network event. The detecting may include determining that the performance information, associated with a particular network device, of the set of network devices, meets the set of conditions associated with a particular rule object with which the particular network event is associated. The system may further present information regarding the particular rule object, such as information regarding the particular network event, and information regarding a recommendation regarding the particular network event. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220838 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS RELATING TO NETWORK-BASED BIOMARKER SIGNATURES - Systems and methods are provided herein for generating a classifier for phenotypic prediction. A computational causal network model representing a biological system includes a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges connecting pairs of nodes. A first set of data corresponding to activities of a first subset of biological entities obtained under a first set of conditions is received, and a second set of data corresponding to activities of the first subset of biological entities obtained under a second set of conditions is received. A set of activity measures representing a difference between the first and second sets of data for a first subset of nodes is calculated. A set of activity values for a second subset of nodes, which are unmeasured, is generated. A classifier is generated for the phenotypes based on the set of activity measures, the set of activity values, or both. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220839 | COMPARISON OF USER EXPERIENCE WITH EXPERIENCE OF LARGER GROUP - Systems and methods for determining if a user's experience is in common with the experience of a larger number of individuals. A user's data relating to the user's lifestyle and wellness is received at a database. Candidate data, again relating to a candidate's lifestyle and wellness, is then selected from the database based on a comparison profile. The selected candidate data is analyzed in real time in conjunction with the user data. The results are then sent to the user on his or her data computing device or to someone working with the user on his of her health, wellness and lifestyle. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220840 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL PROGRAM THEREOF - An apparatus of this invention is directed to an information processing apparatus that proposes an action to reduce an energy consumption amount by users of a system when an acceptance user proposes a place for accepting users. The information processing apparatus includes an acceptance information acquiring unit that acquires a proposal of an acceptance place accepting a plurality of users, a user position collector that collects the current positions of the plurality of users from communication terminals of the plurality of users, and a guidance information notification unit that selects the acceptance place as a place for gathering the plurality of users, and notifies the communication terminal of a user absent in the selected place of guidance information to the selected place. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220841 | Utilizing eye-tracking to estimate affective response to a token instance of interest - A user may be exposed to multiple token instances representing stimuli that may influence the affective state of the user. Described herein are embodiments of systems, method, and computer programs for estimating affective response to a token instance of interest, selected from among the token instances. The token instance of interest is selected based on attention levels derived from eye-tracking data. In one example embodiment, the token instance of interest is a token instance for which attention level of the user is higher than at least one other token instance. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220842 | Estimating affective response to a token instance of interest utilizing a model for predicting interest in token instances - A user may be exposed to multiple token instances representing stimuli that may influence the affective state of the user. Described herein are embodiments of systems, method, and computer programs for estimating affective response to a token instance of interest, selected from among the token instances. The token instance of interest is selected based on attention levels computed utilizing a model for predicting interest in token instances. In one example embodiment, the token instance of interest is a token instance for which attention level of the user is higher than at least one other token instance. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220843 | Estimating affective response to a token instance utilizing a window from which the token instance was removed - Described herein are embodiments of systems, method, and computer programs for estimating affective response to a token instance of interest. A measurement of affective response of the user to a temporal window of token instances is taken. A token instance belonging to the window is selected as a token instance of interest based on an attention level of the user, and is removed from the temporal window of token instances. A predicted affective response to the temporal window of token instances from which the token instance of interest is removed is computed. The affective response to the token instance of interest is computed based on the difference between the measured affective response of the user and the predicted affective response. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220844 | Estimating affective response to a token instance of interest utilizing attention levels received from an external source - A user may be exposed to multiple token instances representing stimuli that may influence the affective state of the user. Described herein are embodiments of systems, method, and computer programs for estimating affective response to a token instance of interest, selected from among the token instances. The token instance of interest is selected based on attention levels received from an external source such as, information received from other users, information received from analysis of communications of the users, and/or information received from an external site such as an online retailer or a social network. In one example embodiment, the token instance of interest is a token instance for which attention level of the user is higher than at least one other token instance. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220845 | Method And Apparatus For Optimizing Finite Automata Processing - A method, and corresponding apparatus and system are provided for optimizing matching at least one regular expression pattern in an input stream by walking at least one finite automaton in a speculative manner. The speculative manner may include iteratively walking at least two nodes of a given finite automaton, of the at least one finite automaton, in parallel, with a segment, at a current offset within a payload, of a packet in the input stream, based on positively matching the segment at a given node of the at least two nodes walked in parallel, the current offset being updated to a next offset per iteration. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220846 | PROCESS CONVERSION DIFFERENCE PREDICTION DEVICE, PROCESS CONVERSION DIFFERENCE PREDICTION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM CONTAINING A PROCESS CONVERSION DIFFERENCE PREDICTION PROGRAM - According to one embodiment, a process conversion difference in a processed pattern having undergone a process via the resist pattern can be predicted, based on results of simulation of a cross-sectional shape of the resist pattern by which predicted values of resist dimensions adapted to a relationship between a parameter for lithography and actual measurement values of the resist dimensions. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220847 | Information Processing Apparatus, Diagnosis Method, and Program - A phenomenon pattern extraction unit extracts a phenomenon pattern of a past sensor signal of a facility. A related information correlation unit correlates the sensor signal based on maintenance history information. A phenomenon pattern classification reference creation unit creates a classification reference for classifying a phenomenon pattern based on the extracted phenomenon pattern and a work keyword included in the maintenance history information correlated with the sensor signal as the source of the phenomenon pattern. A phenomenon pattern classification unit classifies the phenomenon pattern based on the classification reference. A diagnosis model creation unit creates a diagnosis model for estimating a work keyword suggested to a maintenance worker based on the classified phenomenon pattern and the work keyword. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220848 | Method and apparatus for determining a value of a movement-dependent variable - In a method for determining a value of a movement-dependent variable, a first measured value representing the movement-dependent variable is provided, and at least one second independent measured value representing the movement-dependent variable is provided. Each measured value is assigned a confidence value representative of a likelihood of the particular measured value being manipulated. The value of the movement-dependent variable is determined on the basis of the first measured value and at least the second measured value and the particular confidence value thereof. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220849 | MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS - Embodiments of the present disclosure set forth methods for selecting a preferred data set. The methods include generating a joined relation based on a first relation having a first join attribute and a first existence probability attribute, and a second relation having a second join attribute compatible with the first join attribute and a second existence probability attribute, wherein the joined relation comprises a skyline probability attribute based at least in part on the product of a second value of the first existence probability attribute and a third value of the second existence probability attribute; and selecting, by one or more processors, the preferred data set from the joined relation based on a comparison of the first value of the skyline probability attribute and a predetermined threshold. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220850 | System and Method for Generation of a Heuristic - A system and method for generating a heuristic is provided. A heuristic is capable of identifying data patterns. The method includes: extracting a data set from multiple input sources; creating a set of unique elements used across the data set; organizing the data set into a geometric structure; grouping portions of the data in the geometric structure into a plurality sub geometric structures; determining base attributes for each sub geometric structure using the set of unique elements; identifying trends in the base attributes among the sub geometric structures; and outputting the heuristic as a combination of the base attributes and the trends. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220851 | ELIMINATING TEMPERATURE VARIATION EFFECTS TO IMPROVE ACCURACY OF ELECTROPLATING BATH MONITORING - A process for creating a predictive data set predicting the amount of target constituents are in an electrolyte solution at varying temperatures is provided. The process includes (a) obtaining a sample set in which each sample comprises an electrolyte solution of known composition; (b) obtaining an electroanalytical response for each sample in the sample set to produce a electroanalytical response data set at a pre-determined, chosen target temperature; (c) obtaining a plurality of training sets, each training set being measured at a different pre-selected temperature in a range of low to high temperatures that comprises the sample set and corresponds to the electroanalytical response data set; (d) analyzing each of the training sets individually using decomposition and multivariate regression methods to produce a plurality of regression data sets, each at different temperature; and (e) validating the plurality of training data sets to produce a predictive data set for predictive calibration models, each at different temperatures in the pre-selected range of low to high temperatures. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220852 | Assisted Knowledge discovery and publication system and method - A system and method is presented for knowledge discovery that incorporate both human and computers to index, process, and communicate and share the knowledge and electronic contents. It also provides a platform for launching unlimited number of qualified and content reviewed publishing/broadcasting ventures or artificial beings. The system assists individuals for faster and more efficient discovery/creation of new and useful knowledge, and valuable artistic content. It also provides incentives to the owners of the ventures and a method for rewarding or compensating all contributors. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220853 | TECHNIQUES FOR EVALUATION, BUILDING AND/OR RETRAINING OF A CLASSIFICATION MODEL - Techniques for evaluation and/or retraining of a classification model built using labeled training data. In some aspects, a classification model having a first set of weights is retrained by using unlabeled input to reweight the labeled training data to have a second set of weights, and by retraining the classification model using the labeled training data weighted according to the second set of weights. In some aspects, a classification model is evaluated by building a similarity model that represents similarities between unlabeled input and the labeled training data and using the similarity model to evaluate the labeled training data to identify a subset of the plurality of items of labeled training data that is more similar to the unlabeled input than a remainder of the labeled training data. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220854 | CREATION, USE AND TRAINING OF COMPUTER-BASED DISCOVERY AVATARS - In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for developing, training, validating and deploying discovery avatars embodying mathematical models that may be used for document and data discovery and deployed within large data repositories. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220855 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus judges, based on a reservation history, a user who is shy to make a reservation of a reservation frame which has not been reserved by any person. The information processing apparatus acquires a browsing history of the reservation frame which has not been reserved by any person and is specified based on a request for the reservation frame information from the first user who is shy to make the reservation of the reservation frame which has not been reserved by any person. The information processing apparatus extracts, based on the browsing history, a second user who has browsed the reservation frame information. The information processing apparatus causes a profile of the second user to be presented to the first user in association with the reservation frame whose reservation frame information has been browsed. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220856 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTION AND ANALYSIS OF COST OUTLIERS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY COST MODELS - Computational methods and systems for detecting cost outliers in various information technology (“IT”) services provided an IT service provider are described. In one implementation, bills of IT generated for each billing period are converted into corresponding cost-flow models with expense nodes. Each expense node represents a cost for a particular IT services purchased during a billing period. The method searches the expense nodes over the billing periods for cost outliers, and rank orders the cost outliers. The method then analyzes the cost outliers in order to identify a possible root cause for each cost outlier. The rank order and possible cost outliers are stored in a data-storage device. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220857 | STORE SERVICE WORKBENCH - A computerized system for use with business entities having multiple locations. The computer system is programmed with one or more of the following non-exhaustive list of modules: a dashboard module, a task management module, an audit management module, a training module, and a collaboration module. The dashboard module is configured to allow users to view key performance indicators based on the role of the user requesting the report. The task management module allows management of tasks among users and geographic locations. The audit management module is configured to allow users to create a checklist of business activities and a manner by which stores can be scored based on completion of the checklist. The training module provides the ability to train users, such as using web-based content. The collaboration module is configured to allow communication and collaboration among users. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220858 | HIGH PERFORMANCE MAP EDITOR FOR BUSINESS ANALYSTS - At least one model synchronization map table is built that facilitates navigation between elements of business objects of a business object model and corresponding elements of an extensible markup language (XML) schema definition-based (XSD-based) model. The XSD-based model includes at least one XML schema and is generated from the business object model. The business object model and the XSD-based model are displayed in a dual-view editor. The dual-view editor enables a user to toggle between and independently edit the business object model and the XSD-based model. In response to independent edits made to one of the XSD-based model and the business object model within the dual-view editor, the elements of the business object model are automatically synchronized with the corresponding elements of the XSD-based model using the at least one model synchronization map table. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220859 | CONTEXT SPECIFIC RESOURCE EDITORS - A computerized method implemented in at least one processor for at least one of viewing, editing, and handling Business Process Management artifacts, the method including storing in a database repository coupled to the at least one processor, a plurality of computerized editor representations, receiving, by the at least one processor, a computerized request from a client computer for a database artifact stored in the database repository, accessing, by the at least one processor, the requested database artifact within the database repository, selecting, by the at least one processor, a specific computerized editor representation from the plurality of computerized editor representations, the specific computerized editor representation corresponding to the requested database artifact, and causing, by the at least one processor, the specific computerized editor to be provided to the client computer along with the requested database artifact. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220860 | METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR OPTIMAL DEBT COLLECTION - Disclosed herein are a method and a system for optimizing the process of debt collection. The method comprises: identifying a customer with a debt; classifying the customer with the debt into one of a plurality of predefined categories based on a profile of the customer; retrieving one or more category specific collection actions capable of being taken against the customer based on the category associated with the customer; determining a historic probability of success and/or failure for the one or more category specific collection actions; generating, by a processor, a decision tree having a source node, one or more intermediate nodes, and one or more destination nodes, the source node, the one or more intermediate nodes, and the one or more destination nodes representing the one or more category specific collection actions, and the source node, the one or more intermediate nodes and the one or more destination nodes constituting one or more workflows; determining an optimal workflow from the one or more workflows on basis of maximum expected value at the source node, the maximum expected value based on cost associated with the one or more category specific collection actions and probability of success and/or failure of the one or more category specific collection actions. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220861 | WELL PLANNING WORKFLOW SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER-PROGRAM PRODUCT - A workflow management system that integrates well planning workflows with technical applications, audits change events, provides personnel authorizations, tracks and manages change events, and integrates best practice documentation and data at any point along the workflow. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220862 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED EVALUATION OF CUSTOMER ACTIVITY - Disclosed is a system and method for monitoring and evaluating customer behavior, as evidenced by a customer's postings in their social media profile(s), in order to detect, collect, and report the existence of evidence that representations made by the customer of a service provider were potentially fraudulent. The monitoring and evaluation is carried out on an automated, continuous basis in real time, thus capturing all activity of the customer (as evidenced in their social media profile) and providing a better view of the customer's activities than has been available from the manual, sporadic monitoring that has been practiced in the prior art. Further, as the monitoring and evaluation is conducted of only the postings in a designated, individual customer's social media profile(s), the volume of data that undergoes such analysis is limited, making the method and system far more manageable and more easily implemented than “big data” solutions that scour full websites, or even the Internet as a whole, in an effort to find less relevant information than that which is investigated by the instant invention. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220863 | Overall Equipment Effectiveness Of A Robot Cell - A method, arrangement and computer program product for determining overall equipment effectiveness of a robot cell including at least one industrial robot involved in producing products. The arrangement includes an effectiveness determination device, which in turn includes an overall equipment effectiveness determining unit that obtains ideal robot operations data of the robot cell, obtains actual robot operations data of the robot cell, and determines the overall equipment effectiveness based on the ideal robot operations data and the actual robot operations data. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220864 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CROWD SOURCING PLATFORM FOR TASK ALLOCATION - The present subject matter discloses a system and a method for allocating task on crowdsourcing platform. A task may be received from a first user on the platform. Further, a protocol may be configured by the first user indicating one or more task actions to be performed for completing the task. Further, a hierarchy comprising a plurality of micro-tasks associated with the task may be created. Based on the protocol configured, the system may assign a task action to each of the plurality of micro-tasks. Further, the system may allocate each of the plurality of micro-tasks to a second user based on the task action assigned and a set of parameters. The set of parameters may comprise second user's metadata, completion time associated with each micro-task, size of each micro-task, and form factor of an interface accessed by the second user. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220865 | VEHICLE STAND ALLOCATION - Methods, systems, and program products for assigning scheduled vehicles to stands. First and second vehicles each have a scheduled arrival time and a scheduled departure time. A minimum buffer time between a departure of the first vehicle and an arrival of the second vehicle is calculated based on a distribution of a deviation from the scheduled departure time of the first vehicle and/or on a distribution of a deviation from the scheduled arrival time of the second vehicle. The first vehicle and the second vehicle are assigned to different ones of the stands in response to the time interval between the scheduled departure time of the first vehicle and the scheduled arrival time of the second vehicle being less than the minimum buffer time. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220866 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD - A data processing apparatus includes a first storage unit that stores information indicating an execution order of process flows each starting by inputting data and ending by outputting data in a form usable by a user, a receiving unit that receives input data for one of the process flows, an extracting unit that extracts from the input data identification information of an execution unit for executing a combination of the process flows, and an executing unit that executes one of the process flows with respect to the input data received by the receiving unit and stores information indicating the executed process flow in association with the identification information extracted by the extracting unit in a second storage unit. The executing unit identifies the process flow to be executed with respect to the input data based on the first storage unit, the second storage unit, and the identification information. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220867 | CLEANLINESS MONITORING METHOD AND SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a cleanliness monitoring method for enhancing hygiene in a room or area of a facility, especially a hospital. After cleaning, the level of cleanliness is verified via real time biological and/or microbiological measurements using a hand held device such as an ATP luminometer. Until the desired level of cleanliness has been achieved, cleaning is repeated. Motion sensors determine the activity level of a room (such as a bathroom) and communicate enhanced cleaning needs centrally or to the hand-held device. The hand-held device can be a smartphone or tablet provided with an add-on module. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220868 | Evaluating Data Quality of Clinical Trials - An analysis server obtains data associated with patients as part of a clinical trial. The analysis server derives models from the patient data, the models specifying how likely it is that a given value of a variable (or values of a pair of variables) are erroneous. The models can be applied to the patient data to identify variable values more likely to be erroneous, and in turn to assess the data quality of patients, sites, and the clinical trial itself. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220869 | EVALUATION OF OUTPUT-PRODUCING ASSET PRODUCTIVITY - Evaluation of output-producing-asset production may be performed at least by incorporating knowledge of operators of the output-producing asset into the generation of values of performance-based metrics for the output-producing asset. Since such knowledge may be only known by the respective operators, mechanisms, such as a graphical user interface (“GUI”), may be provided by which an operator inputs such knowledge and by which such knowledge is incorporated into the generation of values of performance-based metrics for an output-producing asset. A results screen may be generated to display values of performance-based metrics in a configuration that facilitates quick and simple understanding by a decision-maker or other user on how to improve return on the investment (“ROI”) in an output-producing asset. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220870 | AUTOMATIC DISCLOSURE DETECTION - A method of detecting pre-determined phrases to determine compliance quality includes determining whether a precursor event has occurred based on a comparison between stored pre-determined phrases and a received communication, and determining a compliance rating based on a presence of a pre-determined phrase associated with the precursor event in the communication. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220871 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SCHEDULING A BATCH OF TASKS - The disclosed embodiments illustrate methods and systems for scheduling a batch of tasks on one or more crowdsourcing platforms. The method includes generating one or more forecast models for each of the one or more crowdsourcing platforms based on historical data associated with each of the one or more crowdsourcing platforms and a robustness parameter. Thereafter, for a forecast model, from the one or more forecast models, associated with each of the one or more crowdsourcing platforms, a schedule is generated based on the forecast model and one or more parameters associated with the batch of tasks. Further, the schedule is executed on each of the one or more forecasts models associated with the one or more crowdsourcing platforms to determine a performance score of the schedule on each of the one or more forecast models. Finally, the schedule is recommended to a requestor based on the performance score. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220872 | METHOD AND AN APPARATUS FOR WORK PACKET QUEUING, SCHEDULING, AND ORDERING WITH CONFLICT QUEUING - A method and a system embodying the method for processing conflicting work, comprising: receiving a work request, the work request indicating one or more groups from a plurality of groups; finding work by arbitrating among a plurality of queues of the one or more groups; determining whether the found work conflicts with another work; returning the found work when the determination is negative; and adding the found work into a tag-chain when the determination is affirmative is disclosed. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220873 | EXPEDITED SERVICE PROVISIONING ARCHITECTURE - A device may receive a provisioning order associated with providing a service to a customer premises. The provisioning order may be based on order information, provided by a technician located on the customer premises, associated with initiating provisioning of the service to the customer premises. The device may identify the provisioning order as a prioritized order. The provisioning order being identified as a prioritized order indicating that the provisioning order is to be processed before a non-prioritized provisioning order. The device may provide an acknowledgement of receipt of the provisioning order based on identifying the provisioning order as a prioritized order. The device may determine provisioning information based on the provisioning order. The provisioning information may include equipment installation or configuration instructions associated with initiating provisioning of the service to the customer premises. The device may provide the provisioning information while the technician is located on the customer premises. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220874 | Systems, Devices, and Methods for Determining an Optimal Inventory Level for an Item with Disproportionately Dispersed Sales - This disclosure includes various methods, devices, and systems for automatically identifying products for which sales were disproportionately dispersed and optimizing the inventory levels of such products. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220875 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF MANAGING REPLACEMENT TIMING INTERVAL OF MAINTENANCE PART - In a maintenance-part replacement timing interval management system | 2015-08-06 |
20150220876 | PREDICTIVE CONVERSION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - In one embodiment, a system and method of predicting sale transaction conversion rate of an item operates through a search of information in response to a query over a network. The item can be included in a category of items. Information for other relevant items of the category is available through network query and historical data, among others. Respective information for the other items of the category is available to the method. The system and method includes discovering available information of the item of interest, extracting certain of the available information of the item, analyzing the certain information for the item by comparing the information to other item information for the category of items, weighting the information for the commercial item in comparison to other items of the category, calculating a predictive score for the commercial item of interest, and presenting the information of the commercial item of interest ranked according to the predictive score as compared to other items of the category. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220877 | System And Method For Quality Management Utilizing Barcode Indicators - A quality management system for products including a multiplicity of barcode indicators, each operative to provide a machine-readable indication of exceedance of at least one threshold by at least one product quality determining parameter, the at least one threshold being at least one of a time duration threshold and a combined temperature and time threshold, a barcode indicator reader operative to read the barcode indicators and to provide output indications and an indication interpreter operative to receive the output indications and to provide human sensible, product unit specific, product quality status outputs. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220878 | TECHNIQUES FOR DETECTING DEPLETED STOCK - A computer-implemented method is disclosed herein. The method includes the step of receiving, at a processing device of a commerce server, at least a video signal from a head mountable unit worn by a consumer in a retail store. The method also includes the step of identifying, with the processing device, an indication of depleted stock in the retail store in response to the video signal received from the head mountable unit. The method also includes the step of transmitting, with the processing device, a restock signal in response to the identifying step. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220879 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING REAL-TIME TRACKING OF ITEMS IN A DISTRIBUTION NETWORK - Systems and methods of processing items. Items in a distribution network or process may be scanned at every handling point in the distribution network, and each scan is recorded in a central repository. The scan information can be used to generate real-time access to data, analytical tools, predictive tools, and tracking reports. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220880 | SUGGESTING A CANDIDATE ENROLLMENT ITEM FOR A CANDIDATE STUDENT - Methods, stored instructions, and machines are provided herein for suggesting a candidate enrollment item for a candidate student. One or more computing devices, such as one or more recommendation servers, operate a recommendation service that suggests candidate enrollment items. The recommendation service collects, receives, or otherwise accesses information relevant to student interests or goals and information relevant to the quality and characteristics of enrollment items. This information is aggregated, analyzed, and used to suggest individual enrollment item(s) or an academic program of enrollment items that match individual student interest(s) or a set of student interests. The recommendation service may also monitor student actions that are taken based on or in light of the suggestion, and the recommendation service may adjust future suggestions based on these actions. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220881 | Systems, Methods and Architectures for Dynamic Re-Evaluation of Rights Management Rules for Policy Enforcement on Downloaded Content - A control logic component at the server side may, responsive to a request to access protected content residing on a client machine, dynamically evaluate one or more rules. The request may be received from a client application running on the client machine by a rights management services server or by an agent running on the client machine. In some embodiments, the control logic component can be hosted in a cloud computing environment, on an enterprise server, or provided as a service. Each rule may reference a policy such as a digital rights management policy. The control logic component may determine, based on condition(s) set forth in the rule, if any policy is current and applicable to the protected content and communicate its findings to the requesting server or agent such that they can take appropriate action to protect the downloaded content. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220882 | ASSET CREATION AND UTILIZATION USING AN ASSET CREATION TOOL - An embodiment of the present invention is a method of configuring an existing document creation program. The method comprises configuring an existing document creation program to format an asset with one or more portions of the asset such as a section, a subset or a group for entry into an asset system. The method also includes configuring the existing document creation program to identify to the asset system, a list of collaborators for each of the one or more portions of the asset and furthermore, configuring, the existing document creation program to identify, to the asset system, when a change in one or more of the portions of the asset may be determined for collaborator notification. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220883 | EMPLOYEE WELLNESS TRACKING AND RECOMMENDATIONS USING WEARABLE DEVICES AND HUMAN RESOURCE (HR) DATA - Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for wellness tracking and recommendations. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention provide wellness applications that integrate wearable devices with Human Resource (HR) and other enterprise application data. According to one embodiment, providing integrated wellness information can comprise retrieving enterprise application data from one or more data sources, retrieving data from one or more wearable devices of one or more employees, and applying analytics to the retrieved enterprise application data and the data retrieved from the wearable devices. The integrated wellness information can be generated based on the applied analytics and can be provided to the one or more employees through a user interface. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220884 | CANDIDATE OUTREACH FOR EVENT USING MATCHING ALGORITHM - Methods and systems of candidate outreach for a recruitment event using a matching algorithm are described. According to various embodiments, a plurality of recruiters can be registered for a recruiting event, and each recruiter can be registered in association with at least one set of profile characteristic preferences. A plurality of candidates can be registered for the recruiting event, and each candidate can have profile characteristics. One of the candidates can be matched with one of the recruiters based on a comparison of the profile characteristics of the matched candidate with the profile characteristic preferences of the matched recruiter. An indication that the matched recruiter is interested in meeting the matched candidate at the recruiting event can be provided to the matched candidate on a computing device of the matched candidate. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220885 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REVIEWING JOB APPLICANTS - A tool for assisting a job recruiter or other person in reviewing candidates for a job position receives data relating to a job candidate. The data relating to the job candidate is displayed on a computer display device having a touch sensitive screen. Input is received from the job recruiter via the touch sensitive screen. The input relates to a decision on the job candidate for the employment position. The decision and data relating to the job candidate are stored, discarded, or forwarded to another memory device based on the input from the user. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220886 | DOCKETING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SCHEDULING A COURT HEARING - A docketing system is disclosed herein. The system includes a web server hosting a web based application program and coupled to a database server in which hearing schedule data is stored. The web based application is configured to receive a search request and process the hearing schedule data stored on the database server to return a search result. The search request is characterized by search criteria submitted from a client device in communication with the web server and the search result is supplied to the client device and indicates one or more available time slots in which to schedule a hearing. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220887 | MOBILE SCHEDULING APPLICATION AND SYSTEM - A computer system, computer readable medium and computer-implemented method includes connecting to a database on a server that maintains schedule data of third parties; monitoring desired appointments of at least one subscriber account against the availability profiles of the at least one third party entry of the schedule data in the database; receiving a cancellation of an appointment; updating the availability profile of the third party entry in the database that corresponds to the canceled appointment; creating a cancellation notification based on existing desired appointments for the third party entry; sending a cancellation notification to at least one of the at least one subscriber; accepting input related to the cancellation notification from subscribers to whom a cancellation notification was sent; updating the database to add the canceled appointment and associated subscriber information from a subscriber based on the input from the subscribers; and notifying about the updated canceled appointment. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220888 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SCHEDULING MEETINGS, APPOINTMENTS AND EVENTS USING MULTIPLE IDENTITIES - The disclosed embodiment relates to a method and apparatus for organizing an event with an ability to invite participants using one or more identifiers that uniquely identify one or more participants, with said participant's one or more unique identifiers is mapped to unique device IDs of one or more devices associated with the said participant. The method preferably comprises processing event information associated with an event, storing the event information, and transmitting participant information related to the event to a participant computing device associated with a participating user. The participant computing device is preferably a mobile computing device corresponding to a phone number or another unique ID associated with the participating user, and the participant information is preferably transmitted to the mobile computing device using the phone number or another unique ID associated with the participating user. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220889 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF DIRECT ACCOUNT TRANSFER - A financial institution and a payment initiator may exchange public keys to enable the secure exchange of data. A business wishing to collect payment can provide its account information to the payment initiator. A customer wishing to pay can instruct the payment initiator to encrypt the business's account information along with details for a particular invoice and transmit the information to the financial institution. The financial institution can decrypt the information and initiate a transfer of money from the customer to the business. The financial institution may present the information about the transaction to the customer for modification or confirmation before initiating the transfer. The information may be sent from the payment initiator to the financial institution via the customer. After the payment has been initiated by the financial institution, a confirmation may be sent to the customer, the payment initiator, the business, or any suitable combination thereof. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220890 | METHOD AND CORRESPONDING PROXY SERVER, SYSTEM, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A method is provided. The method includes receiving a request message, the request message relating to a transaction between a first client and a second client, the request message including first client data and second client data, the first client data identifying an account to be used by the first client in the transaction, the second client data indicating if the second client is subscribed to a service. The method further includes determining if the second client is subscribed to the service, and generating an authentication request message if the second client is not subscribed to the service, the authentication request message requesting confirmation that a holder of the account is the first client. The method further includes sending the authentication request message, and receiving an authentication response message from the external server in response, the authentication response message including an indication whether the holder is the first client. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220891 | Method and Apparatus for Securely Distributing Digital Vouchers - A disclosed method is implemented by a voucher server for distributing digital vouchers. The voucher server stores a plurality of encrypted digital vouchers, each being encrypted with a respective one of a plurality of encryption keys and each having an associated identifier. The voucher server receives, from a computing device, a request for a digital voucher, the request including an identifier. The voucher server determines if the received identifier matches an identifier of any of the plurality of encrypted digital vouchers. If the received identifier matches an identifier for a given one of the encrypted digital vouchers, the voucher server transmits the given encrypted digital voucher to the computing device. The voucher server does not have access to the encryption key used to encrypt the given encrypted digital voucher. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220892 | PLATFORM FOR THE PURCHASE AND SALE OF DIGITAL CURRENCY - A platform for buyers and sellers of digital currency is disclosed. The platform comprises different modules which can be used alone or in combination. When used together, they provide for a fully automated experience for a user, from account sign-up through to funds settlement. Using the platform, a buyer or seller can participate in virtually instantaneous transactions of digital currency. The platform can be expanded to buy and sell other commodities in addition to digital currency. The platform can permit users to fund or settle accounts using commodities such as gold rather than a globally traded currency. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220893 | SOFTWARE MARKETING AND TRADE - The disclosure extends to systems and methods for trading software over a computer network while compensating a selling trader and software publisher for the trades. The disclosure also extends to use of systems and methods that comprise a computer network of users and publishers of software who want to benefit from the trade and sales of new and used software products. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220894 | SOFTWARE MARKETING AND TRADE - The disclosure extends to systems and methods for trading software over a computer network while compensating a selling trader and software publisher for the trades. The disclosure also extends to use of systems and methods that comprise a computer network of users and publishers of software who want to benefit from the trade and sales of new and used software products. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220895 | DISTRIBUTOR BUSINESS TO RETAILER BUSINESS PAYMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD USING MOBILE PHONES - A method and system for processing invoice transactions between vendors (distributors) and retailers via mobile phone is disclosed. Each distributor has a unique vendor identifier. Each retailer has a unique identifier, typically his/her mobile phone number. An intermediary system processes payments and upon verification of account balance at retailer's bank, the intermediary system notifies the vendor bank, debits the funding account at the retailer's bank, processes a credit to the vendor's bank, and sends an approval message to the retailer's mobile phone. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220896 | KIOSK TRANSACTIONS - The current disclosure extends to facilitation of a transaction for one or more items with a customer via a kiosk. In embodiments, the kiosk is located at or proximate to a retail store. In embodiments, a customer can order products or services via an ordering platform such as a merchant website. The customer may receive an order confirmation and a unique transaction identifier. The customer may then travel to a kiosk at the store and enter the transaction identifier to recall the order. While the order is open at the kiosk, the customer may add or substitute items, order specialty items such as prescriptions or fuel, make payment, and confirm the transaction. Purchased items may then be carried out to the customer at the kiosk. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220897 | INTELLIGENT DEVICE CHARGING STATION - Systems and methods for securely and intelligently charging mobile devices are provided. In one embodiment, the charging system obtains data associated with a payment method, makes a determination as to whether there are any available charging bays, attempts to charge the account associated with the payment data, and, responsive to a determination that the payment was successful, opens the door of the available charging bay and presents a user interface comprising information regarding connection of the mobile device. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220898 | DYNAMIC INGESTION AND PROCESSING OF TRANSACTIONAL DATA AT THE POINT OF SALE - A point-of-sale terminal differentiates dynamically among different data streams by processing data encoded with “sentinels” that bracket the beginning and end of the data and identify the type of data. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220899 | COMMODITY DATA REGISTRATION APPARATUS AND CHECKOUT DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD - A commodity data registration apparatus, connected with a checkout apparatus which executes settlement processing of one transaction of the commodity by operations of a customer through network, comprises a specification information determination module for determining specification information for specifying an input commodity; a calculation module for calculating a total amount of one transaction according to sales data based on the specified information; a cash voucher amount input module for inputting a cash voucher amount of one or multiple cash vouchers; a determination module for determining whether or not the input cash voucher amount is greater than the total amount; a change amount calculation module for calculating change amount according to the cash voucher amount and the total amount if the cash voucher amount is greater than the total amount; and a sending module for sending transaction data containing the change amount, the sales data and the total amount to the checkout apparatus. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220900 | Maintaining Secure Access to a Self-Service Terminal (SST) - A memory device is interfaced to a SST; an identifier and, optionally, an invalid identifier list are received from the device. The invalid identifier list is updated to the SST when the invalid identifier list is a more recent version of a SST invalid identifier list. The identifier is invalidated when the identifier is matched in the invalid identifier list or when an expiration date associated with the identifier has expired. When the identifier is invalid, access to administrative features of the SST is denied; and when the identifier is valid access to the administrative features is granted. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220901 | TERMINAL INCLUDING IMAGING ASSEMBLY - A terminal includes a housing, a touch screen, and an imaging assembly. The imaging assembly in one embodiment is disposed in the housing so that an imaging axis extends externally from the housing. The imaging assembly can be utilized for capture of images disposed externally to the housing. In one embodiment a frame of image data captured utilizing an imaging assembly can be processed for attempting to decode a decodable indicia. In one embodiment a frame of image data captured utilizing an imaging assembly can be stored. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220902 | STORED VALUE CARD KIOSK SYSTEM AND METHOD - A stored value card activation system includes a server in communication with one or more computing devices configured in kiosks. The server receives stored value card type information associated with one of multiple non-activated stored value cards from the computing device. The server also receives monetary amount information to be associated with the selected stored value card from the kiosk, and payment information from a user of the kiosk. From this information, the server conducts a financial transaction with a financial account server associated with an account of the user, and activates the selected stored value card in accordance with the financial transaction. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220903 | FUNCTION EXPANSION METHOD USING PRINT DATA, FUNCTION EXPANSION DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Various functions can be easily added using print data output from an exist lag application without modifying the existing application program. A function expansion method for executing a process that expands the functions of an application runs on a computer that operates according to an operating system on the operating system kernel layer, executes a specific process according to an application on an application layer, and has one or more communication ports, includes a step of acquiring print data output from the application on the operating system kernel layer, and a step of performing at the application layer a process expanding the function of the acquired print data, and outputs the print data after processing to a suitable communication port. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220904 | Account Management and Transfer System and Method of Use - A method for billing community members comprising: receiving a first bill from a first provider, wherein the first bill is associated with a first community debt of a community, further wherein the community comprises a one or more community members; separating the first bill into a plurality of first bill portions; transmitting each of the first bill portions to the one or more community members associated with each of the first bill portions, in community member invoices; and handling a hand off between said one or more community members and a landlord by: keeping utilities in the name of a third party when said one or more community members ends a lease period with said landlord, and said third party manages a one or more bills (including said first bill) for said one or more community members. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220905 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING PAYMENT IN TRANSACTIONS WITH A PCD - A system and method for managing payment in a transaction using a portable computing device (“PCD”) includes a mobile wallet token being received from an account issuing entity. Next, the mobile wallet token is stored in memory within a PCD payment platform (i.e., a cloud payment solution). A PCD token that corresponds with the mobile wallet token is generated by the PCD payment platform. The PCD token is transmitted over a communications network to a PCD. The mobile wallet token corresponds to at least one of: a credit card account, an alternative or non-traditional payment account, a stored value account, an account from a financial institution, and a merchant based card account. A mobile wallet token may be generated in response to receiving input from an on-line portal that future use of a payment account with a PCD is desired or in response to input received from a point-of-sale terminal. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220906 | DETERMINING MOBILE THING (MT) IDENTIFICATION AND/OR ACTIVITY USING SENSOR DATA OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE (WCD) - Systems, apparatus, and methods are disclosed for accurately identifying a mobile thing (MT), an activity associated with the MT, or both, using sensor data from one or more sensors, such as an accelerometer, gyroscope, etc., associated with a wireless communication device (WCD) transported by the MT, so as to enable or initiate a further one or more intelligent MT-identity-based and/or activity-based actions. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220907 | Authorization of Transactions - When an authentication system receives a request to determine whether to authorize a transaction, the authentication identifies one or more rules applicable to the transaction. The authentication system determines whether conditions of the applicable rules are satisfied based on historical authentication information received from a mobile device of a user involved in the transaction. The historical information is generated by the mobile device prior to receiving the request and based on a limited-range connection between the mobile device and authentication system. The authentication system authorizes or denies the transaction based on whether the conditions of the applicable rules are satisfied. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220908 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING APPROPRIATE REDEMPTION PRESENTATIONS FOR A VIRTUAL TOKEN ASSOCIATED WITH A STORED VALUE ACCOUNT - A method for determining an appropriate redemption presentation for a virtual token associated with a stored value account is disclosed. The method may include receiving a request for presenting a redemption presentation of a virtual token and obtaining a merchant identifier associated with the request. The method may further include determining if the request is for one of an on-line transaction and a transaction with a point-of-sale terminal, and if the request is for a transaction with a point-of-sale terminal, then searching a database using the merchant identifier to find one or more redemption presentations of virtual token preferred by a merchant. Subsequently, the one or more redemption presentations of the virtual token may be transmitted over a computer network to a client device. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220909 | Transaction Card with Security Code Generator and the Method of the Same - A transaction card comprises a substrate having an IC. An interface is coupled to the IC for signal transmission; a security code generator is coupled with the IC to generate a security code for banking transaction; an electricity generating button is coupled to the security code generator to generate the security code, a display is on the substrate and is coupled to the IC for displaying the security code. The electricity generating button includes piezoelectric material to generate electricity by piezoelectricity. The interface is contactless or contact type. The display is electronic paper, OLED, FED. | 2015-08-06 |
20150220910 | AUTHORIZING RADIO FREQUENCY TRANSACTIONS USING A VASCULAR SCAN - A method for registering biometric information for use in a transponder-reader system is disclosed. The method includes steps of detecting, verifying and storing a proferred biometric sample. During detecting, a sensor detects a proffered biometric to obtain a biometric sample. During the verifying step, the biometric sample is compared with other stored samples and/or other information. During the storing step, the biometric sample is stored on a database, for use by the transponder-reader system in authorizing transactions. | 2015-08-06 |