38th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 199 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140279105 | Method for Vehicle Sale or Lease - Disclosed herein is a method for a sale or lease of a vehicle. The method is performed by a software application, and the software application's primary focus is facilitating the negotiation. The method includes various steps. One step is receiving confirmation that an in-person meeting between a merchant representative and a buyer has occurred. Another step is receiving inputs from the merchant representative who is initiating a transaction. These inputs being received are from a device used by the merchant representative, and the transaction is for the sale or the lease of the vehicle. Yet another step is receiving inputs for processing the transaction from both the merchant representative and the buyer. These inputs for processing the transaction facilitate a negotiation on sale or lease terms between the merchant representative and the buyer. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279106 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ORGANIZING ELECTRONIC MOBILE PAYMENT TRANSACTIONS - A system for organizing electronic mobile payment transactions using a mobile device that uses electronic payment systems utilizing a digital wallet to make payments to a vendor is provided. The vendor's POS system the payment network and the digital wallet have a plurality of components for generating a digital receipt for use by the mobile device. The system includes an apparatus for hosting the digital wallet; a first communication channel for communication of the location of the payer's digital wallet as the destination where the receipt shall be sent; a second communication channel for transmitting data concerning the purchase to the apparatus in a form useful to the apparatus so that the merchant generates the contents of a digital receipt that has data fields such that data can be stored for retrieval. The system also includes at least one application available to the mobile device that permits the data in the data fields to undergo data processing to be manipulated by a user of the mobile device for presentation on the mobile device. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279107 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATED, SECURE POINT-OF-SALE TRANSACTIONS - A system having a base station having a Wi-Fi communication module, a first Wi-Fi transportation application that controls the Wi-Fi communication module; and a mobile device having a Point of Sale (POS) module configured to perform Point of Sale operations, a Wi-Fi Communication module, a second Wi-Fi transportation authority that controls the POS module, and the Wi-Fi communications module; wherein the first Wi-Fi transportation application prevents the base station from communicating with the mobile device unless the second Wi-Fi transportation application has been authenticated by the first Wi-Fi transportation application; and wherein the second Wi-Fi transportation application prevents the mobile device from communicating with base station unless the first Wi-Fi transportation application has been authenticated by the second Wi-Fi transportation application. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279108 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATED, SECURE POINT-OF-SALE TRANSACTIONS HAVING A TERMINAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A system for processing transactions, having a base station having a processor, a storage device configured to store a payment module, downloaded from a module provider, a Wi-Fi communication module, and a terminal management system configured to control the processor, storage device and the Wi-Fi communication module; and at least one mobile device having a processor, a payment user interface configured to allow a user to perform payment transactions with the payment module, a Point of Sale (POS) module configured to perform Point of Sale operations, and a Wi-Fi Communication module, wherein the terminal management system is configured to authenticate a payment module being downloaded and to cause the processor of the base station to prevent the payment module from being installed on the storage device if the payment module is not authenticated by the terminal management system. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279109 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATED, SECURE POINT-OF-SALE TRANSACTIONS HAVING A PERIPHERAL AUTHENTICATION PROTOCOL - A system having a base station having a first Wi-Fi transportation, and a mobile device having a second Wi-Fi transportation Application, a peripheral device configured to communicate with the base station and the mobile device, the peripheral device having a third Wi-Fi transportation application, wherein the first Wi-Fi transportation application prevents the base station from communicating with the peripheral device and the second Wi-Fi transportation application prevents the mobile device from communicating with the peripheral device unless the third Wi-Fi transportation application has been authenticated by the first and second Wi-Fi transportation applications, and wherein the third Wi-Fi transportation application prevents the peripheral device from communicating with the base station and the mobile device unless the first and second Wi-Fi transportation applications have been authenticated by the third Wi-Fi transportation application. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279110 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATED, SECURE POINT-OF-SALE TRANSACTIONS HAVING AN ADJUSTABLE BASE STATION - A system for processing transactions, having at least one mobile device having a housing having a processor, and a Wi-Fi Communication module disposed therein; a base station having a base station housing, wherein the base station housing houses an embedded system including a processor; and a Wi-Fi communication module configured to communicate with the Wi-Fi communication module of the at least one mobile device; a support stand configured to support the at least one mobile device, wherein the support stand comprises at least one arm having an adjustable position and configured to move to adjust the size of the support stand based on a size of the at least one mobile device; and at least one peripheral device connected to the base station. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279111 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTHORIZING A MOBILE PAYMENT TRANSACTION - A method for authorizing a mobile payment transaction is provided. The method includes receiving, by a server, a request to authorize a payment transaction which originates from a mobile payment point of sale (POS) module. In an embodiment, the request includes payment information of the payment transaction and location information of the POS module. When the request is received, an authorizing client device for the payment transaction is identified based on the payment information and a disposition of the request to authorize the payment transaction is determined based on whether the authorizing client device is located within a predetermined proximity to the POS module. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279112 | CONDUCTING A TRANSACTION AT A MOBILE POS TERMINAL USING A DEFINED STRUCTURE - A system and method configured for conducting a transaction between two parties using a mobile device, or a plurality of mobile devices. In various embodiments, a system for conducting a transaction can comprise an accessory device having an accessory device module and a hardware component, where the accessory device can have various accessory device capabilities. The system can further comprise a mobile device SDK incorporated into the client application and in communication with the accessory device, where the mobile device SDK includes an accessory conversion module in communication with the accessory device module and where the mobile device SDK provides data to the client application. The client application can request accessory device information and receive accessory device capabilities, and the transaction data for the transaction can be provided in a defined structure between the accessory device and the client application via the mobile device SDK. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279113 | System and Method to Reduce Misuse of a Financial Instrument at a Point-of-Sale Location - Disclosed are systems and methods of utilizing an initial, automatic authentication of a financial instrument user's identity when the user attempts to make a purchase with a financial instrument at a point-of-sale. Many financial instrument users have cell phones which are able to be located, and users often carry their phones with them when making purchases. An initial authentication of the identity of a credit card user could be made by comparing the location of the point-of-sale with the location of the card user's registered cell phone. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279114 | Systems and Methods for Single Swipe Cross-Channel Sales - This disclosure relates to methods and systems for selling products across sales channels in a single swipe transaction. In one aspect a method for purchasing products is disclosed. The method includes identifying a first product to be purchased from a first sales channel, determining whether the first product is available from the first sales channel, in response to determining that the first product is not available from the first sales channel, determining whether the first product is available from a second sales channel, in response to determining that the first product is available from the second sales channel, adding the first product from the second sales channel to the transaction, and selling the first product from the second sales channel, wherein the transaction is completed with a single tender. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279115 | MOBILE PAYMENT USING CLOUD COMPUTING - A method for mobile payment selecting a payment method for a purchase request using an application, sending a request including identification information for the selected payment method to a financial entity server in a cloud computing environment, responding to an attestation request sent from the financial entity server to the application, providing mobile subscriber information to the financial entity server from a network operator, receiving a signed digital certificate for the selected payment method from the financial entity server, sending the digital certificate for payment processing from the electronic device to a payment method reader, and completing the purchase request upon verification of the digital certificate. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279116 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATED, SECURE POINT-OF-SALE TRANSACTIONS - A system having a base station having a Wi-Fi communication module, a first Wi-Fi transportation application that controls the Wi-Fi communication module; and a mobile device having a Point of Sale (POS) module configured to perform Point of Sale operations, a Wi-Fi Communication module, a second Wi-Fi transportation authority that controls the POS module, and the Wi-Fi communications module; wherein the first Wi-Fi transportation application prevents the base station from communicating with the mobile device unless the second Wi-Fi transportation application has been authenticated by the first Wi-Fi transportation application; and wherein the second Wi-Fi transportation application prevents the mobile device from communicating with base station unless the first Wi-Fi transportation application has been authenticated by the second Wi-Fi transportation application. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279117 | SUBSCRIPTION AND MEMBERSHIP BASED CREDIT CARD PROCESSING SYSTEM - A method for implementing a flat fee structure for credit card processing, which simplifies the fees charged to a merchant from an ISO. The flat rate processing fee may cover processing for a particular merchant for a specified period of time. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279118 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OFFERING A CREDIT PRODUCT BY A CREDIT ISSUER TO A CONSUMER AT A POINT-OF-SALE - A method for offering at least one credit product by at least one credit issuer to a consumer at a point-of-sale between a merchant and the consumer. The method includes the steps of: providing a credit issuer data set including a plurality of data fields to a central database; initiating a transaction between the consumer and the merchant at the point-of-sale; offering, to the consumer at the point-of-sale, the at least one credit product; and presenting, to the consumer at the point-of-sale, at least one data field in the credit issuer data set. The at least one data field presented to the consumer is populated with data directed to the credit product, the credit issuer, or any combination thereof. An apparatus and system are also disclosed. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279119 | MOBILE POINT-OF-SALE - A mobile point-of-sale system includes a cart frame and a battery housed in the cart frame. The cart frame includes a front having a bottom, a back having a bottom edge and a bottom. The bottom includes a pair of upper flanges and a lower housing. The pair of upper flanges have components for receiving wheels for supporting the cart frame and the lower housing includes at least one aperture for venting heat from the battery that is supported by the lower housing. At least a portion of the lower housing and the battery are located below the pair of upper flanges and are located below the bottom edges of the front and the back. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279120 | Purchase Triggering - Methods and systems are provided for determining what follow on products should be purchased after the purchase of an initial product, when the follow on products should be purchased, and approximately how much the follow on products will likely cost. Money can be budgeted to purchase the follow on products. Money can automatically be saved for such purchases. Thus, the user can be spared the trouble and inconvenience of having to plan for and save money for the purchase of follow on products. The user can also be spared the problems associated with not having the follow on products when they are needed. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279121 | CUSTOMIZABLE AND ADJUSTABLE PRICING OF GAMES - One or more games may be accessed by a plurality of user devices. A current geographic location of a user device or a geographic location associated with the user device may be detected. A language associated with the one or more games and/or a type of currency of a rate associated with the one or more games may be customized based at least in part on the current geographic location and/or the geographic location. An identity of a user associated with the user device may also determined. Based at least in part on the identity of the user, the rate associated with the one or more games may be dynamically adjusted. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279122 | CLOUD-BASED MEDIA DEVICE CONFIGURATION AND ECOSYSTEM SETUP - Embodiments relate generally to electrical and electronic hardware, computer software, wired and wireless network communications, and portable and wearable media devices. Media devices may include a plurality of RF transceivers and an audio system. The RF transceivers and/or audio system may be used to wirelessly communicate between media devices and allow configuration and other data to be wirelessly transmitted from one media device to another media device. A user device may be used to Bluetooth® (BT) pair with a media device and to install a configuration on the media device. Other media devices may be configured using the configuration without breaking the BT pairing and without the other media device having to BT pair with the user device. Each media device may include at least one antenna and may include an antenna that is de-tunable. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279123 | GEOLOCATION CHECK-IN SYSTEM - Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods and computer program products for providing a geolocation check-in system. An exemplary apparatus is configured to collect positioning data related to a user. After collecting position data the apparatus may be configure to determine, based at least partially on the positioning data that the user has crossed a threshold of a geofence associated with a merchant's location. Based at least partially on this determination the apparatus may be configured to initiate a merchant check-in associated with the user and transmit user information to the merchant. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279124 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ACCESS TO USER GENERATED CONTENT - The present invention provides systems and methods for providing users with access to content generated by other users, while limiting access based on which constituent virtual items the user has purchased. In an exemplary embodiment, a system according to the present invention provides mechanisms for determining constituent virtual items contained within content stored in a central repository, determining virtual items which have been purchased by a user, and enabling a user to download content which had been previously uploaded to a central repository only if the user has purchased all of the one or more purchasable virtual items contained within the content. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279125 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR CONNECTIVITY CORRECTION - A system, computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and computer-implemented method for correcting an interruption to an electronic commerce session. The electronic commerce session of a user is monitored and a change in connectivity occurring during the electronic commerce session of a user is detected. The change in connectivity may introduce a delay to the electronic commerce session. In response to detecting the change in connectivity, an alternate communication mode to continue the electronic commerce session is selected. Completion of the electronic commerce session is facilitated using the selected alternate communication mode. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279126 | PRODUCT MANAGEMENT USING ELECTRONIC PRICE LABELS - A method is provided for managing item placement in a store. A count of electronic price labels (EPLs) is sent, by a processor, to a handheld device indicating a quantity of EPLs needed in a select portion of a planogram. An EPL identifier is received, by the processor, from the handheld device for each of the quantity of EPLs equal to the count. An item in the portion of the planogram is linked, by the processor, to each EPL. Placement information is sent, by the processor, to each electronic price label. The placement information corresponds with the linked item and is configured to be rendered on a display of each EPL. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279127 | TRANSMITTING CONTENT IN ACCORDANCE WITH A PARTICULAR LEVEL OF REQUESTED ACCESS ASSOCIATED WITH A PARTICULAR AMOUNT OF CONTENT ACCESS LATENCY - Computationally implemented methods and systems include transmitting a bidding tag that is designed to elicit one or more bids for accessing a content that is being offered for consumption at different levels of access for accessing the content, the different levels of access for accessing the content being associated with different amounts of content access latencies and different amounts of associated fees, and the bidding tag to be transmitted at least partially identifying the content to be offered for consumption, receiving a bid as a result, at least in part, to transmitting of the bidding tag, the bid to be received being a request for accessing the content at a particular level of access, the particular level of access being for accessing the content with a particular amount of content access latency and for a particular amount of associated fee, the particular level of access having been selected from the different levels of access for accessing the content; and transmitting the content in accordance with the particular level of access that was requested through the received bid. In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279128 | ACCESSING MEDIA CONTENT IN A MEDIA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A method for accessing media content may include converting an artistic item on a hard-copy media implementation to a digital media file. The method may also include receiving a first request to access the digital media file from a client device. The method may include determining that the digital media file is available for the client device to access. The method may include approving the first request by providing a presentation of the digital media file to the client device. The method may further include receiving a second request from the client device to add one or more features to the presentation of the digital media file. The method may include adding the one or more features to the presentation of the digital media file. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279129 | REAL-TIME PRICED (RTP) CELLULAR SERVICE MARKETPLACE - A computer-implemented method and system for buying and selling cellular service in a market allowing real-time pricing is disclosed. The computer-implemented method and system comprise storing at least one offer to sell a specified quantity of cellular service (which may be voice minutes, messages, data or other available service parameters) initiated by a seller, and processing one or more requests to purchase cellular service initiated by one or more buyers. The processing of the requests to purchase cellular service further comprises implementing a method for matching one or more requests to purchase cellular service with any stored offers; wherein when a match occurs the buyer is able to purchase the desired quantity of cellular service. The computer-implemented method and system includes deducting the purchased quantity of cellular service from a service profile of the seller and adding the purchased quantity of cellular service to a service profile of the buyer. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279130 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AN AFFINITY CAPTURE, USER FEEDBACK AND AFFINITY ANALYSIS - Various affinity systems and methods are provided to enable the capture of unique end-to-end purchase information. In some embodiments, the data collected through affinity systems and methods can be used to develop insights into the purchase making decision processes of users at any point of a shopping experience. The systems can host interaction platforms to facilitate the exchange of information, opinion, and/or suggestions on products, recommendations, and/or opinions. Further embodiments provide analysis of the captured data to derive insights regarding the appeal of products/services and the qualitative opinions of the users about the products/services. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279131 | ON-LINE MARKETPLACE SERVICE - Techniques for operating a marketplace service to manage on-line marketplaces so as to limit access to information regarding distribution of items (e.g., sales of goods/services). The marketplace service may manage multiple on-line marketplaces, with each on-line marketplace enabling a user to distribute to other users of that on-line marketplace information regarding items that the user has made available for distribution to the other users with access to that marketplace. In some embodiments, an on-line marketplace may be associated with a relationship external to the marketplace service, and the marketplace service may limit access to the on-line marketplace only to users who share that relationship. These embodiments may therefore enable users to exclusively distribute, via the service, information regarding a sale of goods or services to users who have a relationship external to the marketplace service, thereby limiting how widely information regarding the sale is distributed. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279132 | BUYER ASSIGNMENT FOR REQUISITIONS LINES - A rules engine uses a set of sequenced rules in determining which rule to apply when assigning buyers in a procurement organization to requisitions submitted to the procurement organization. The rules are user-configurable to provide flexible reconfiguration of how the rules engine determines buyer assignments. Attributes of the requisitions may be utilized to determine the appropriate buyers by comparing the attributes with the rules. Sequencing of the rules allows for prioritization of the rules in instances where multiple rules may be applicable to a received requisition. Updates to a rule set can be tested on sample requisitions to allow users to see the results of the updates. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279133 | FAULT TOLERANT COMBINATORIAL AUCTIONS FOR TASKS HAVING TIME AND PRECEDENCE CONSTRAINTS WITH BONUSES AND PENALTIES - There is disclosed a method of conducting an auction under execution uncertainty to satisfy incentive compatibility, individual rationality, and efficiency by leveraging bonuses and penalties. A buyer posts a task including multiple sub-tasks. The buyer specifies temporal and precedence relationships among the sub-tasks. The buyer also specifies the time interval for the sub-tasks. Suppliers submit bids including their interested sub-tasks, prices, and proposed schedules. A winner determination problem is formulated based on bid prices, suppliers' success probabilities in delivering the sub-tasks, and the suppliers' schedules of undertaking sub-tasks. Having decided the winners, suppliers who delivered with success will be granted bonuses and those who were not able to deliver will be imposed penalties. The bonuses and penalties are formulated under a verification assumption. The combinatorial mechanism using the formulated winner determination rule and payment rule including bonuses and penalties satisfy economic properties such as incentive compatibility, individual rationality, and efficiency. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279134 | Method and system for extending participation in an online auction to a winning bidder - The invention is a secondary exchange system attached to an online auction system which provides winners with the ability to extend their play. The online auction system facilitates the sale of goods and services through an auction which offers bidders the potential for purchasing goods and services at huge discounts from retail pricing. The invention enables winning bidders to optionally exchange their purchase for alternative items or credits towards future auctions. This provides the participant a validation for the purchase of the initial item, the option of exchanging for an item of greater perceived personal value, or the means to extend their play and enjoy the excitement of the experience without additional cost. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279135 | REPLACEMENT OF CONTENT ITEMS - Example systems may include: receiving an auction announcement message for a content inventory unit from an auction platform, where the auction announcement message includes an identifier that is associated with a user device; determining a bid for the content inventory unit based on data in a record associated with the identifier; transmitting the bid to the auction platform in response to the auction announcement message; transmitting a content item associated with the identifier in response to the auction announcement message; receiving a message indicating that the content item is presented on the user device; and updating a stored account value associated with the identifier based on an auction price for the content inventory unit. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279136 | BANDWIDTH AUCTIONING - A method, performed by a computer device, may include obtaining bandwidth use data associated with a network device and predicting a trough period in bandwidth use for the network device based on the obtained bandwidth use data. The method may further include providing an auction associated with a time period during the predicted trough period, wherein the auction offers use of the network device during the time period at a discounted price; receiving a bid, from a customer, for use of the network device during the time period via the auction; and provisioning one or more services on the network device for the customer based on the received bid, wherein the one or more services are provided for a duration of the auctioned time period. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279137 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMIC BID RESOLUTION - Methods, systems, and apparatus to resolve offers to provide an item to a consumer are described. An item may be one or more of a product and a service. A request for an item may be provided to one or more providers of the product and/or service. One or more bids to provide an offer for the requested item may be received and the received bids may be compared. The one or more providers may be informed of the one or more most competitive bids, and may provide revised bids until the bidding period ends. A consumer may be informed of the one or more most competitive offers. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279138 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING VALUATION OF ITEMS USING PRICE ELASTICITY INFORMATION - A valuation of a subject item includes determining a transaction price for one or more comparable items. For each comparable transaction, one or more unsuccessful offers is determined. The valuation of the subject item may be based on a valuation of each of the one or more comparable items, and the valuation of each of the one or more comparable items may be based at least in part on the one or more unsuccessful offers for that item. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279139 | USING PLAIN TEXT TO LIST AN ITEM ON A PUBLICATION SYSTEM - Listing an item on a publication system involves sending the publication system an email or other communication that includes title, description and a picture of the item. The email may be in plain text, with the publication system using the email for listing the item with minimal complexity for the user. The publication system may receive the email, parse the email to extract title, description, price, classification, attributes and perhaps other information with respect to the item, and compose a view item page (“VIP”) for the item listing. The extracting may also be by decoding a product identifier in the communication. The VIP may be privately viewable and editable by the user. The user may then modify or otherwise confirm the VIP. When the user confirms the VIP, the VIP goes live as the listing on the publication system. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279140 | METHODS FOR FACILITATING CONSIGNMENT AND SALES OF INVENTORY OR SERVICES, AND FOR TRIGGERING CONTENT - Methods of facilitating the sale of wares offered from vendors to buyers and for triggering content to the buyers through an intermediary platform in communication with the vendors and the buyers over an Internet include the intermediary platform and the buyer bargaining via a haggling process for a final sale price of a ware. During the haggling process, or if no bargain is reached for the ware in the haggling process or the haggling process for the item times-out after a transaction duration of time from the beginning of the haggling process elapses, the method includes the intermediary platform presenting content to the buyer. In response to the buyer interacting with the content, the method further includes the intermediary platform reinitiating the haggling process between the intermediary platform and the buyer for the ware. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279141 | RECEIVING CONTENT IN ACCORDANCE WITH A PARTICULAR LEVEL OF ACCESS ASSOCIATED WITH A PARTICULAR AMOUNT OF CONTENT ACCESS LATENCY - Computationally implemented methods and systems include receiving a bidding tag for a content that is to be offered for consumption at different levels of access for accessing the content, the different levels of access for accessing the content to be offered being associated with different amounts of content access latencies and different amounts of associated fees, and the bidding tag to be received at least identifying a content type to be offered for consumption and designed for eliciting one or more bids for the content, transmitting a bid in response, at least in part, to receiving the bidding tag, the bid to be transmitted being a request for accessing the content at a particular level of access, the particular level of access being for accessing the content with a particular amount of content access latency and for a particular amount of associated fee, the particular level of access having been selected from the different levels of access for accessing the content; and receiving the content in accordance with the particular level of access. In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279142 | RECEIVING CONTENT IN ACCORDANCE WITH A PARTICULAR LEVEL OF ACCESS ASSOCIATED WITH A PARTICULAR AMOUNT OF CONTENT ACCESS LATENCY - Computationally implemented methods and systems include receiving a bidding tag for a content that is to be offered for consumption at different levels of access for accessing the content, the different levels of access for accessing the content to be offered being associated with different amounts of content access latencies and different amounts of associated fees, and the bidding tag to be received at least identifying a content type to be offered for consumption and designed for eliciting one or more bids for the content, transmitting a bid in response, at least in part, to receiving the bidding tag, the bid to be transmitted being a request for accessing the content at a particular level of access, the particular level of access being for accessing the content with a particular amount of content access latency and for a particular amount of associated fee, the particular level of access having been selected from the different levels of access for accessing the content; and receiving the content in accordance with the particular level of access. In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279143 | TRANSMITTING CONTENT IN ACCORDANCE WITH A PARTICULAR LEVEL OF REQUESTED ACCESS ASSOCIATED WITH A PARTICULAR AMOUNT OF CONTENT ACCESS LATENCY - Computationally implemented methods and systems include transmitting a bidding tag that is designed to elicit one or more bids for accessing a content that is being offered for consumption at different levels of access for accessing the content, the different levels of access for accessing the content being associated with different amounts of content access latencies and different amounts of associated fees, and the bidding tag to be transmitted at least partially identifying the content to be offered for consumption, receiving a bid as a result, at least in part, to transmitting of the bidding tag, the bid to be received being a request for accessing the content at a particular level of access, the particular level of access being for accessing the content with a particular amount of content access latency and for a particular amount of associated fee, the particular level of access having been selected from the different levels of access for accessing the content; and transmitting the content in accordance with the particular level of access that was requested through the received bid. In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279144 | ELICITING ONE MORE MORE BIDS FOR ACCESSING CONTENT AT ONE OR MORE LEVELS OF CONTENT ACCESS FROM TWO OR MORE CLIENT COMPUTING DEVICES - Computationally implemented methods and systems include communicating to two or more client computing devices at least one bidding tag that is designed to elicit one or more bids for accessing a content that is being offered for consumption at different levels of access for accessing the content, each of the different levels of access for accessing the content that is being offered for consumption being associated with a different content access latency and associated fee pair, and the at least one bidding tag to be communicated at least partially identifying the content to be offered for consumption, obtaining one or more bids as a result, at least in part, of communicating the at least one bidding tag to the two or more client computing devices, the one or more bids to be obtained being at least one or more requests for accessing the content at one or more levels of the different levels of access for accessing the content that is being offered for consumption; and releasing the content in accordance with the one or more obtained bids. In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279145 | ELICITING ONE MORE MORE BIDS FOR ACCESSING CONTENT AT ONE OR MORE LEVELS OF CONTENT ACCESS FROM TWO OR MORE CLIENT COMPUTING DEVICES - Computationally implemented methods and systems include communicating to two or more client computing devices at least one bidding tag that is designed to elicit one or more bids for accessing a content that is being offered for consumption at different levels of access for accessing the content, each of the different levels of access for accessing the content that is being offered for consumption being associated with a different content access latency and associated fee pair, and the at least one bidding tag to be communicated at least partially identifying the content to be offered for consumption, obtaining one or more bids as a result, at least in part, of communicating the at least one bidding tag to the two or more client computing devices, the one or more bids to be obtained being at least one or more requests for accessing the content at one or more levels of the different levels of access for accessing the content that is being offered for consumption; and releasing the content in accordance with the one or more obtained bids. In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279146 | PRESENTING CONTENT AS A RESULT, AT LEAST IN PART, TO RELAYING OF A BID AND FOLLOWING LAPSE OF A SPECIFIC AMOUNT OF CONTENT ACCESS LATENCY - Computationally implemented methods and systems include presenting an interface for soliciting a bid for accessing a content following lapse of a specific amount of content access latency, the bid to be solicited including at least one user elected fee amount elected from a plurality of fee amounts available for election for the specific amount of content access latency, the user elected fee amount being an amount of fee being offered through the bid in exchange for accessing the content following lapse of the specific amount of content access latency: relaying the bid in response, at least in part, to obtaining the bid as a result of the soliciting, the bid to be relayed indicating at least the user elected fee amount; acquiring at least access to the content as a result, at least in part, of the relaying; and presenting at least the access to the content following lapse of the specific amount of content access latency. In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279147 | PRESENTING CONTENT AS A RESULT, AT LEAST IN PART, TO RELAYING OF A BID AND FOLLOWING LAPSE OF A SPECIFIC AMOUNT OF CONTENT ACCESS LATENCY - Computationally implemented methods and systems include presenting an interface for soliciting a bid for accessing a content following lapse of a specific amount of content access latency, the bid to be solicited including at least one user elected fee amount elected from a plurality of fee amounts available for election for the specific amount of content access latency, the user elected fee amount being an amount of fee being offered through the bid in exchange for accessing the content following lapse of the specific amount of content access latency: relaying the bid in response, at least in part, to obtaining the bid as a result of the soliciting, the bid to be relayed indicating at least the user elected fee amount; acquiring at least access to the content as a result, at least in part, of the relaying; and presenting at least the access to the content following lapse of the specific amount of content access latency. In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279148 | ACQUIRING OPEN BIDS FOR ONE OR MORE CONTENT ACCESS LATENCIES AND PROVIDING CONTENT ACCORDINGLY - Computationally implemented methods and systems include acquiring from a plurality of users a plurality of open bids for one or more content access latencies, each of the plurality of open bids to be received indicating one or more offer amounts submitted by the plurality of users that the plurality of users are offering in exchange for being provided at least access to a specific content with the one or more content access latencies; determining which one or more of the plurality of open bids indicate at least the highest offer amount amongst the plurality of open bids; and providing at least access to the specific content to one or more of the plurality of users in accordance, at least in part, with the determining. In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279149 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR REVERSE AUCTIONS TO FACILITATE REQUESTING AND OFFERING OF SERVICES - A system and method to secure the best bid for a service requester and contract price for a service provider is provided in an Internet or Intranet based reverse auction. Service requesters, or customers, provide details of the work that needs to be completed and service providers give their best bid and the lowest price that they can do the work for as auction bids. The reverse auction is given a certain time period in which to run and bids can be updated in real time, or through prepared reserve bids, so that the Service Provider with the lowest bid secures the contact information of the Service Requestor in exchange the Service Requestor receives a competitive quote for the work. The auctions can be publically open to all qualified contractors or can be private, by invitation, to certain Service Providers. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279150 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTING PERSONALITIES TO FACILITATE THE COMPLETION OF AN ONLINE AUCTION - A method and system for progressing an auction is provided. Examples include an auction analysis component configured to analyze an auction forum for auctions that are likely to complete without a reserve price being met (i.e., triggered auctions), and a personality selection component configured to select a personality capable of facilitating the progression of a triggered auction. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279151 | VALUATION TOOL FOR AN ONLINE AUCTION OF A REAL PROPERTY ASSET - A computer-implemented method for generating an indicator of value relating to a real property asset is provided. The method includes providing a user interface that includes one or more prompts for soliciting information associated with the real property asset. Data associated with the real property asset is received. Based on the data associated with the real property asset, comparable data associated with one or more comparable assets is determined. An auction reserve price for the real property asset is generated based on the data associated with the real property asset and the comparable data. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279152 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING AUTOMATIC BIDDING TO PROMOTE LOWER RESERVE PRICE IN ACTIVE AUCTIONS - A method and system for using automatic bidding to promote lower reserve prices in active auctions are described. While an auction is ongoing, the system prompts the seller to reduce the reserve price without notice to prospective bidders and enters new bids generated by the seller or the system to promote the auction and attempt to bring it to a successful sale. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279153 | SELLER DASHBOARD AND RESERVE PRICE LOWERING - A method and system for a seller auction dashboard and reserve price lowering are described. The system generates a dashboard presentation that displays real-time information about each of a seller's auctions including a current price, reserve price, and an indicator of whether the latest bid was set by a prospective buyer or the seller masquerading as a buyer. The dashboard also indicates which auctions are below their reserve prices and displays reserve price suggestions and success probabilities based on qualitative and quantitative metrics. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279154 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AND SUBMITTING A BID REPORT FOR A SHORT SALE AUCTION - A method and system for triggering a short sale auction upon the event of the short sale offer for an item and generating a bid report corresponding to the auction. Examples may include a report generator configured to analyze auction data and generate a bid report accordingly. The report generator may further be configured to submit the bid report to a lienholder of the item. Further variations may include an extension component configured to extend the auction period upon the occurrence of an event. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279155 | ONLINE CREATION AND MANAGEMENT OF A SHORT SALE TRANSACTION OF REAL PROPERTY - A computer-implemented method for creating a short sale for a real property asset is provided. The method includes providing a seller interface for network communication with a seller and prompting the seller for information associated with the real property asset. The information includes media content relating to different points-of-interest of the asset. The information associated with the asset is aggregated to generate a short sale listing. The seller is also prompted for financial hardship information, and market information regarding the real property asset. The financial hardship information and the market information are assembled into a short sale package for submission to a lending institution that holds a note on the real property asset. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279156 | Method and Computer Medium for Facilitating a Buyer-initiated Transaction in Commerce - A buyer-initiated method, system and business model for matching parties interested in conducting an internet initiated transaction is described. Through the use of this method, a request is placed by buyer at a client server system. Sellers can receive a response to a purchaser's request via the client server system by one or more methods such as: 1) Entering a search term of at least one word, or; 2) if a seller has buyer's request, seller automatically receives notification by one or more electronic methods such as an internet communication or a telecommunication text message. Sellers may search client server's database for a buyer's request for a product or service the seller controls or owns. An escrow service is provided by the business model should clients prefer a secure transaction. The system and model of the present invention can generate revenue streams from buyers and sellers for the service provided. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279157 | USER PUBLISHED AUCTIONS IN ONLINE MEDIUMS - A method and system is disclosed for user-published interactive widgets for auctions hosted by an auction forum resource. Examples include an auction forum configured to generate a script associated with an auction upon a publisher-request, and to provide the script to be published on the publisher's resource, resulting in an external interactive component displayed on the publisher's resource. Example features may be configured to respond to user inputs submitted from the interactive component. Furthermore, reward logic can be included to issue a reward to the publisher associated with the script request. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279158 | ARRANGING RELEVANT SERVICES FOR AN ONLINE ASSET TRANSACTION - A method and system for arranging relevant services for an online asset transaction are described. Upon detecting an event while monitoring an auction, the system identifies services and third-party service providers within the same geographic region as the asset being auctioned that are relevant to the asset. Buyers and the seller of the asset are notified of these services and can choose to let the system manage the completion of the service by initiating and monitoring the provider's performance in carrying out a defined workflow specific to the asset. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279159 | PROGRESSIVE LOT BIDDING FOR ONLINE AUCTIONS - A bidding process is initiated for a lot of multiple items. Upon the bidding process being complete, a highest bid is determined for the lot of multiple items. A highest bidder is prompted to select a number of items from the lot of multiple items for transaction based on the highest bid. A number of remaining items are determined after the selected number of items are removed from the lot. For a duration of time, one or more other auction participants are prompted to select any one or more of the remaining items for transaction based on the highest bid. After the duration, a second bidding process is initiated for a lot of multiple remaining items that were not selected for transaction by the one or more other participants. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279160 | AUCTION REPORT GENERATOR - A method and system for generating an auction report script are described. An inventory of possible assets to be auctioned is monitored during an auction event for changes in the assets' availability statuses. Script content is generated for an auctioneer based on the assets which have a status of available for auction, and the content of this script is repeatedly updated during the auction event. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279161 | ONLINE TRANSACTION TOOL - A system for enabling and conducting an alternative transaction process for communicating price offers while conducting an online transaction in a networked environment is described. A transaction involving an item being offered for sale at a list price on an online medium is identified. Offers below the list price are received from potential buyers, but while the offers are below a minimum designated price, the seller is prompted to reduce the minimum designated price and is provided an interface for placing offers under an alias that pretend to outbid the previous bidders. When an offer is received that meets the minimum designated price, the alternate transaction process and the original transaction on the online medium are designated as complete based on the highest offer for the item. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279162 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING ASSET PROFILE INFORMATION IN CONNECTION WITH AN ONLINE AUCTION IN ORDER TO DETERMINE AUCTION OUTCOME AND/OR PRICING - An auction is conducted for an online auction environment. A set of characteristics are determined for a given asset of the auction, and asset profile information is determined for the given asset based on the set of characteristics. In particular, the asset profile information can be determined from one or more prior auctions provided at the online auction environment. The asset profile information can be based on one or more corresponding assets, each of which are deemed to be comparable to the given asset based on the one or more corresponding assets each having a set of characteristics that are similar to the set of characteristics of the given asset of the auction. A prediction is made as to whether the auction of the given asset will be successful based at least in part on the asset profile information. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279163 | PROFILING AUCTION ASSETS AND/OR PARTICIPANTS TO PREDICT AUCTION OUTCOME - A profile of one or more users of the online auction environment is developed. The profile of each user can be based at least in part on historical auction activity of that user. An auction of the online auction environment that is in progress is monitored. A prediction is determined as to whether the auction will be successful based at least in part on the profile of the one or more users that are participating in the auction. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279164 | VIRTUAL ONLINE AUCTION FORUM - A method and system for auctioning an item over a network inside a virtual auction forum populated by graphical representations of users is described. Virtual profiles containing graphical representations are associated with each of the users of an auction forum, and the auction for the item is virtualized. The users of the auction forum participate as bidders in the virtual auction with their graphical representations, and some events in the virtual auction are represented through the users' graphical representations. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279165 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ALLOCATING UNITS TO USERS IN AN ONLINE ENVIRONMENT - Described herein are systems and methods for allocating units to users, for example in the context of an online auction environment. In overview, the technology described herein provides for an auction process whereby a decrementing price is combined with a competitive hidden-bid process. Users participate in the auction for the purpose of obtaining a desired number of units from a stockpile of like units, such as bottles of a particular batch of wine. The users effectively have two modes of participation. The first is to purchase units at a system-defined price, which decrements at predetermined intervals. The second is to place a bid at a user-defined price, this bid being deemed as successful when the system-defined price decrements to a value of equal to or less than the user-defined price. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279166 | Method and System for Brokering Shipping Contracts Between Solicitors and Service Providers - Method and system for brokering shipping contracts between solicitors and service providers is disclosed. The system comprises a central processing computer distributing requests for shipping service quote from solicitors to solicitors-predefined list of service providers and an interface used to input parameters of the required shipping service, input quote for such service, review all inputted quotes, select the desired quote, register shipping contract based on selected quote, and send and receive contract related communications. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279167 | PRICE ESTIMATION SYSTEM - A method of operating a price estimation system includes obtaining service requests from consumers, and obtaining bids from service professionals based on the service requests obtained from the consumers. The method additionally includes generating a training set based on the bids and the service requests, and generating a model for generating price estimates based on the training set. The method also includes employing the model to generate the price estimates based on additional service requests provided by additional consumers. In some aspects, the method further includes communicating the price estimates to the additional consumers during performance of a process for obtaining the additional service requests from the additional consumers. In other aspects, the method further includes communicating the price estimates to additional service professionals during performance of a process for obtaining additional bids from the additional service professionals based on the additional service requests. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279168 | AUTOMATED DISCOUNTING AND NEGOTIATION - Embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method for automated negotiation and discounts for consumers and merchants. In an embodiment, an automated system negotiates discounts with each individual consumer, on a one-on-one basis, on behalf of a merchant while continually finding the optimum equilibrium between live supply and demand data. This may be achieved via a discount system utilizing an algorithm that may seek an ideal balance between supply & demand, and may simulate the merchant's price flexibility or urgency to sell merchandise based on one or more campaign criteria and current market conditions. In another embodiment, the system may also automatically negotiate with merchants, on behalf of the consumers, based on live supply and demand data and the consumers' negotiation preferences. In this manner, the entire negotiations process may be automated using incomplete or complete information to benefit both consumers and merchants alike. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279169 | METHOD FOR GENERATING VEHICLE REPAIR ESTIMATE REPORTS BASED ON PREDICTIVE ESTIMATING - Consumer safety of repaired vehicles can be improved by providing systems and methods for generating vehicle repair estimate reports based on predictive estimating and transmitting these reports to clients. A master server serviced by a vehicle manufacturer generates a vehicle repair estimate report based on predictive estimating and transmits this report to a client via a web-based graphical user interface. Also, a master server serviced by a vehicle manufacturer generates a vehicle repair estimate report based on predictive estimating and transmits this report to a client via a vehicle repair claims management user interface. The vehicle repair estimate report based on predictive estimating may comprise repair packages and repair information relating to recommended replacement parts and quantities thereof, the part numbers for the suggested replacement parts, the price estimate for the suggested replacement parts, manufacturer-recommended repair instructions, and other relevant information. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279170 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AN ONLINE FASHION DESIGN MARKETPLACE - In one instance, a system provides an electronic marketplace that matches designers, who can be geographically dispersed and who submit fashion designs into the system, with retailers and fashion companies, who are looking for designs to make finished garments and sale. The system can optionally include factories so that the designer, retailer can have the factories immediately fabricate the selected designs. Optionally, it may also include boutiques that are specialized version of the retailers looking for a particular product for a niche group or market. Other systems and methods are presented. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279171 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING VEHICLE TRANSACTION NEGOTIATION - The present disclosure relates to computer-implemented systems and methods for searching vehicle listings. An example method may include receiving, from a user of a user device, by a service provider computer comprising one or more processors, a selection of a vehicle identifier associated with a vehicle. The method may also include receiving, from the user device, by the service provider computer, a communication directed to a dealer associated with the vehicle. The method may further include generating an anonymous identifier associated with the user and transmitting, to a dealer device associated with the dealer, the communication and the anonymous identifier. The method may also include transmitting, to the dealer device upon determination of the acceptance of a proposed transaction between the dealer and the user, personal identifying information associated with the user. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279172 | Conditional Purchase Offer Management System - A conditional purchase offer (CPO) management system is disclosed for receiving CPOs from one or more customers, such as airline passengers, and for evaluating the received CPOs against a number of CPO rules defined by a plurality of sellers, such as airlines, to determine whether any seller is willing to accept a given CPO. A CPO is a binding offer containing one or more conditions submitted by a customer for purchase of an item, such as airline travel, at a customer-defined price. A CPO rule is a set of restrictions defined by a given seller, such as an airline, to define a combination of restrictions for which the seller is willing to accept a predefined price. The CPO rules may be securely stored by one or more servers. The CPO management system permits a seller to correct for forecasting errors, if necessary, or other competitive forces which have produced excess capacity, by providing inventory for sale to CPO customers. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279173 | ONLINE REAL ESTATE RENTAL OFFER SYSTEM AND METHOD - An online real estate rental offer system provides prospective tenants with transparent pricing and other information for a particular rental unit. The system allows prospective tenants to adjust their rent offers in response to offers made by other prospective tenants. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279174 | BUILDING DATA EXCHANGE SYSTEM AND METHOD - Building data exchange system including a web-enabled electronic marketplace that can accumulate structured building system efficiency data through software enabled energy and water audits. The system can include a building energy simulation engine, and database of energy/water efficiency measures. This data can be made anonymous and can populate a confidential electronic database accessible to vendors of energy efficiency products and services, resulting in a more efficient marketplace to the benefit of vendors and building owners. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279175 | Quibl Order Process System - There is disclosed a system and method including to provide consumer products and services for sale. The system includes a computer readable database and a computer processor coupled to the computer readable database. The computer readable database is configured to store account data. The account data can be, for example customer needs, types of product preferences or service preferences of the customer, addresses, phone numbers, consumer product specifications, etc. The computer processor is coupled to the computer readable database. The computer processor is configured to receive an order from a customer, input the order into an item catalog, and market the order. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279176 | PROVISION OF REAL-ESTATE MARKET INFORMATION - A computer-implemented method to provide information characterizing real-estate market conditions within a geographic sub-region included within a larger geographic region is described herein. An indication of the geographic sub-region is received from a user. A memory device on which is stored information characterizing a set of parcels of real property that have been listed for sale is accessed. A parcel of real property located in the sub-region and for which a purchase offer has been made is identified from the stored information. If a purchase transaction for the parcel of real property has not closed, a range of a plurality of values characterizing the purchase offer is provided in at least one graphical user interface. If a purchase transaction for the parcel of real property has closed, a specific value of the plurality of values characterizing the purchase offer is provided in at least one graphical user interface. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279177 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING PRICE QUOTES FOR 3D OBJECTS - Systems and methods for providing price quotes for 3D objects are described herein. In one embodiment, costs related to generating a 3D object molded from a 3D printer mold may be based on various parameters. The process for generating a price quote may include uploading an initial file to a server and converting that file into a 3D CAD file. The method may also include selecting units, materials, a finish, and/or a quantity of objects to be made. Based on the selections, the server may generate a price quote to produce the one or more objects, and a checkout option may be provided allowing the user to purchase the one or more objects. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279178 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND MEDIA FOR CONNECTING VENDORS WITH CUSTOMERS THROUGH A VIRTUAL INTERFACE - The disclosed embodiment relates to connecting real-world vendors with customers through a virtual game environment using a computer-implemented method, an apparatus comprising one or more processors and one or more memories operatively coupled to at least one of the one or more processors, and at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-readable instructions. An exemplary method includes receiving information from a user regarding a desired product or service, presenting a virtual game environment based at least in part on the desired product or service, monitoring the user's activity in the virtual game environment, providing an offer to the user corresponding to the desired product or service, the offer being based at least in part on the user's activity in the virtual game environment, and providing information identifying a real-world vendor corresponding to the offer, thereby enabling interactions between the user and the real-world vendor. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279179 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOTELY SUPPLYING PRESCRIPTION EYEGLASSES - Disclosed, in one general aspect, is a sample eyeglass frame that includes a frame having a shape designed for everyday use. The frame includes a left temple having an left earpiece on one end and a left lens interface portion on the other, a right temple having a right earpiece on one end and a right lens interface portion on the other, and a bridge having left and right sides. A left lens interfaces with the left lens interface portion of the left temple and the left side of the bridge, and has a left set of optical measurement markings spanning at least part of the left lens. A right lens interfaces with the right lens interface portion of the right temple and the right side of the bridge, and has a right set of optical measurement markings spanning at least part of the right lens. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279180 | SPECIFICATION AND DISPLAY OF PRODUCT CUSTOMIZATION OPTIONS - In an embodiment, a method includes receiving one or more attribute location inputs. Each attribute location input identifies a location within a product image depicting a customizable product. The method includes receiving an attribute definition for each of the one or more attribute location inputs. The method also includes storing customization information that associates the locations specified in the location inputs with attribute definition information included in the respective attribute definition. In another embodiment, a method includes causing the display of a product image depicting a customizable product. One or more locations within the product image are each associated with a respective customizable attribute. The method includes causing the display of an attribute image representing a particular customizable attribute associated with the particular location in association with a particular location of the one or more locations within the product selection image. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279181 | BLOOMCUBE - A system and method for designing and implementing a garden layout in an online environment is provided. The system comprises an interactive online website, an online application webpage having a graphical workspace for designing the garden layout online and an online merchandising application to purchase a dynamically generated garden layout kit to replicate the virtual design in the real world. Users can obtain free or paid memberships; paid members can receive additional services including a real-time customer service mechanism for providing professional guidance to the plurality of members, access for larger/multiple layouts and additional features. An online community forum associated with the interactive online website allows a plurality of registered users to receive suggestions and feedbacks from other users and experts based on digitally uploaded data. The system can track, share, and manage the content of the containers remotely. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279182 | Digital Product Binder Library System and Method Thereof - A method of creating a library of custom digital product binders is presented. The method comprises the computer-implemented steps of creating a plurality of digital product binders to form a digital product library. Each digital product binder contains content corresponding to a physical product binder. The method further comprises receiving a selection of digital product binders from the digital product library, receiving branding information, creating a custom digital product library, associating each digital product binder with the custom digital product library, and adding the branding information to each digital product binder. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279183 | Method and System for Appearance-Related Commerce - Methods and systems of optimization are provided for a products subscription service in appearance-related commerce for a plurality of users that considers the relevant set of attributes of a customer against the available products in order to personalize the products contained in the customer recommended packages. A customer's physical characteristics, actions and preferences are matched with different products available during the subscription period. The process maximizes the chances the customer will receive products that are preferable and in turn increase probability of the provider retaining subscribers. Optimization is achieved by a two phase approach involving 1) determination of the beauty product combinations, i.e. determination of what items go into a set number of variety of bags/packages; and 2) assigning one of those bag types to each customer; thereby obtaining the maximum utility for the customer with the constraints of limited amount of product and product combination types. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279184 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF INTELLIGENTLY RECOMMENDING BASED ON SOCIAL MEDIA - A system and method of intelligently recommending items based on social media communications are provided. A communication in a first format is intercepted from a first service. An intent to transact is then detected within the communication. A recommendation engine can then be used to identify one or more items available at an ecommerce service, the one or more items related to the intent to transact within the communication. Then a reply communication can be posted to the first service in the first format, with the reply communication including the one or more identified items. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279185 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECOMMENDING MERCHANTS - A computer system for recommending merchants to a candidate cardholder is provided. The computer system includes a memory device in communication with a processor. The processor is programmed to receive transaction information for a plurality of cardholders from a payment network. The transaction information includes data relating to purchases made by the cardholders at a plurality of merchants, the purchases satisfying a first criteria. The processor receives candidate cardholder preference information for at least one of the merchants input by the candidate cardholder. The computer system determines a merchant rank for each merchant based on the received transaction information and the candidate cardholder preference information, and determines a neutral merchant rank for each merchant based on the received transaction information and neutral cardholder preferences of the plurality of cardholders. The computer system also determines a merchant score for each of the plurality of merchants by comparing the merchant rank to the neutral merchant rank. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279186 | DIGITAL WARDROBE WITH RECOMMENDER SYSTEM - Wearable objects purchased by a user are added to a digital wardrobe associated with the user. The user can create and store various outfits from the contents of the digital wardrobe. A recommender system also accesses the digital wardrobe and provides recommendations of wearable items personalized to the user's tastes. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279187 | GIFTING ENABLED BY INTEGRATION OF COMMERCE AND SOCIAL NETWORKS - An approach to generate and execute an e-commerce gift offer for a social network contact as a function of integrating social network data into a web site offering goods or services for sale within a network computing environment is provided. In response to the user selecting an item offered for sale by the web site, aspects search personal data associated with the user that is acquired from a different, social network web site to determine an indication that another user listed within the acquired personal data has an interest in also acquiring the selected item, and present an offer to the user to select the item for an additional gift purchase for such other user as a recipient. Further aspects use the acquired personal data to narrow down retailers to those that provide delivery service to a current residence of the other user for execution of the gift purchase. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279188 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING QUANTITIES OF PREVIOUSLY ORDERED PRODUCT TO REPEAT USERS OF A WEBSITE - A system can store a wide variety of information regarding a user's interactions with a website in a first web browsing session. In particular, the information may include a quantity of a product that the user ordered in the first web browsing session. When the user returns to the website to reorder the product in a second web browsing session, the system may display the quantity of the product that the user previously ordered without requiring the user to navigate to and review an order history webpage. The system may display such information regarding the quantity of previously ordered product in a user interface element that appears next to a quantity input box associated with the product. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279189 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING AND RECOMMENDING RELEVANT PRODUCTS - Techniques for recommending similar products are disclosed herein. The method of recommending similar products includes receiving a positive input from a user, the positive input indicating that the user accepts that a first product is similar to a second product; determining, by a database, one or more specification keys of the first product that a database record of the second product contain; for each of the specification keys, increasing a weight counter for the specification key in response to the positive input; calculating a closeness score between the first and second products based on values of the specification keys of the first product, values of the specification keys of the second product, and weight counters for the specification keys; and recommending the first product as a replacement of the second product based on the closeness score. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279190 | RECOMMENDED CONTENT GENERATION AND DISTRIBUTION - A system to receive external data from one or more data sources, process the external data, determine available items of a first client, and retrieve user transactions associated with a targeted user. User attributes of the targeted user and item attributes of the available items are paired and the mean purchasing frequency for each of the pairs is determined. Global transactions of a population of users are analyzed to determine the standard deviation and a global mean purchasing frequency. A relevance score for each user attribute and item attribute pair is calculated. The item relevance score for each available item is determined based on the relevance score for each of the user attribute and item attribute pairs. Available items of the first client are selected based upon calculated relevance scores. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279191 | CHECKOUT AND/OR ORDERING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Methods and apparatus are disclosed provide various enhancements and/or improvements to the conventional shopping process used by brick-and-mortar stores. In some embodiments, a customer may use a mobile computing device, such as a smart phone, to select and pay for items in a brick-and-mortar store. Such shopping process may permit the customer to purchase numerous items without the using of shopping basket or a wheeled shopping cart. The shopping process may further permit the customer to pay for items and leave the store with such items without waiting in a checkout line. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279192 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERSONALIZATION OF A PRODUCT OR SERVICE - The present disclosure relates to automated or computerized devices and methods for shopping. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279193 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING PRODUCT RECOMMENDATIONS INCORPORATING SECONDARY SOURCES OF INFORMATION - A system and method provides product/service recommendations by rendering and analyzing content on webpages that are linked to on a user's personal webpage. In this manner, the system and method compiles a more complete view of the user's interest and preferences, thus providing more effective and finely-attuned user recommendations. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279194 | SKU-DRIVEN APPAREL SIZE DETERMINATION FOR CARDHOLDERS - Repositories of apparel purchase data combined with payment card data can be used to determine accurate cardholder apparel sizes by examining their historical clothing purchases. Using these profiles to identify cardholders with similar figures, and their purchases to extrapolate what sizes to purchase in as yet unpurchased items. The present method can be implemented on an e-commerce platform or in brick & mortar locations, for example as a smartphone app with barcode scanner. Shopping becomes more efficient for cardholders, the retailer sees increased throughput, and returns for size are reduced. No effort by customer is needed. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279195 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING AND RECOMMENDING RELEVANT PRODUCTS - Techniques for a product search grid are disclosed herein. The method for presenting a grid includes receiving data in association with a plurality of products from one or more merchant websites; presenting a data grid including cells based on the data, wherein each cell of the cells represents a product of the products or a replacement of a product of the products; displaying information regarding the products or the replacements of the products in the cells; and updating the contents of cells of the data grid automatically in real time in response to new data received from the merchant websites. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279196 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING SPATIALLY SEGMENTED RECOMMENDATIONS - In certain implementations, data is spatially segmented into a variety of grids having particular keyed location data. Items of interest located within the boundaries of each grid are identified and stored in association with the grid location information. Data with respect to venue attributes is encoded and stored in association with corresponding grid location data. The system will identify a grid location based on a recommendation request or based on the user location and will generate a list of items of interest in that location and neighboring locations. This information is filtered based on the particularities of the user request to form a final filter set. User attribute weights are then applied to the final filter set to determine an overall score for each item of interest. Items of interest are then recommended to the user based on their overall score. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279197 | ENHANCING REVENUE OF A RETAILER BY MAKING A RECOMMENDATION TO A CUSTOMER - A retailer's revenue may be enhanced by recommending items in context of a specific collection built for a customer's specific preferences. Customer input that pertains to their previously purchased items and future preferences is received. The input that pertains to the customer is analyzed. A recommendation for the customer is dynamically generated that includes a collection of coordinated items that provides a personalized ensemble based on the input. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279198 | PERSON-TO-PERSON ITEM RECOMMENDATION WITH DECLINE - A system that allows individuals to maintain lists of items of interest in an account, such as books, restaurants, hotels, clothes, etc. The system allows an individual to share an item in a list with another individual. When an individual wishes to share an item, the system may generate a share message to be sent by a selected method to a recipient. The share message may include a link for allowing the recipient to view the item on the system and provide a mechanism for allowing the recipient to accept or decline the share. The acceptance or, in particular, the rejection of the share establishes a positive or negative relationship between each individual and the item. The sharing of Items between individuals can be temporally and geographically mapped to identify patterns of interest, the value of an item to one or more people, or the strength of the bond between two or more people. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279199 | Generating Recommendations Based On Hospitality Customer Feedback - Method, system, and computer program product embodiments are disclosed for generating recommendations to hospitality customers. Defining steps include enabling a customer to select a particular business from among one or more businesses at a mobile device utilized by the customer, configuring the customer's mobile device to receive a recommendation from the customer, and providing the recommendation to a user at the particular business for review, wherein the recommendation is selectable for public review by potential customers requesting information about the particular business. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279200 | DESTINATION SHOPPING SYSTEM - Techniques for facilitating a shopping experience based on a passenger's destination are described. According to various embodiments, a destination location of a passenger on a vehicle is determined. Contextual electronic content is then selected, based on the destination location of the passenger. Thereafter, the contextual electronic content is displayed via a user interface on a vehicle passenger seat display screen associated with the passenger or on the passenger's mobile device. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279201 | ASSESSMENT OF BEST FIT CLOUD DEPLOYMENT INFRASTRUCTURES - A system configured to facilitate selling hybrid cloud services comprises a plurality of user interface structures each coupled to an information processor. A first user interface structure is configured to request information characterizing deployment of an application within a current operational infrastructure. A second user interface structure is configured to display a recommended deployment infrastructure supporting migration of the application thereto. A third user interface structure is configured to display information characterizing migration of the application to the recommended deployment infrastructure. The information processor is configured to receive the current application deployment characterizing information from the first user interface structure, to determine the recommended deployment infrastructure using at least a portion of the current application deployment characterizing information, and to determine the information characterizing migration of the application to the recommended deployment infrastructure using at least a portion of the current application deployment. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279202 | Recommendations Based Upon Explicit User Similarity - A system and method for providing recommendations to individuals on a social network, in which the recommendations include information indicating the similarity of the individuals to one another, to aid the individuals in judging the degree to which the opinions of the others are applicable to the themselves. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279203 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTERACTIVE EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS WITH RESPONDENT DIRECTED BREEDING - A method comprises displaying visual representations of a plurality of product alternatives each including at least one attribute variant to a respondent, receiving from the respondent an indication of a preferred one of the plurality of product alternatives, transmitting a request to the respondent to identify at least one attribute variant of a non-preferred product alternative that is preferred by the respondent to the corresponding attribute variant of the preferred one of the plurality of product alternatives and receiving a response from the respondent identifying at least one attribute variant of a non-preferred product alternative that is preferred by the respondent to the corresponding attribute variant of the preferred one of the plurality of product alternatives. | 2014-09-18 |
20140279204 | RECURRING TRANSACTIONS FOR PURCHASES - The invention provides a method for identifying recurring products and/or transactions. A record of purchases of a user is reviewed, and the record includes purchases from one or more retailers. The record is stored in a temporary or activated account for the user. A recurring pattern of the purchases from the stored record is identified. A recommendation to initiate a transaction based on the identified recurring pattern is provided. The method further receives a confirmation to the provided recommendation. Further facilitates a future easier purchase based on recurring pattern. | 2014-09-18 |