45th week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 46 |
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20150317590 | REMINDER SYSTEM - A reminder system is provided. The system provides a user-friendly interface to a user's existing email, and in some embodiments to the user's document management, calendar and other systems, in order to ensure that an appropriate user is notified when action should be taken, and also provides notation to the user indicating the appropriate course of action to be taken. The system provides a calendaring feature where a supervisor or manager can determine the workload of a group of workers for an upcoming time period. The system provides an easily accessible and traceable database of information pertaining to a project checklist, document, a client name, a client matter number, a document type, or other customizable fields in order for a user to search and sort the information for their own use. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317591 | MOBILE COMPUTING APPLICATION FOR INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION MANUFACTURING DATA - Systems, methods, and software to facilitate visualization of an application associated with an industrial automation environment are disclosed herein. In at least one implementation, a graphical user interface to the application having a plurality of key performance indicators (KPIs) is rendered. A selection of at least one KPI of the plurality of KPIs is received along with instructions to link the at least one KPI to a home screen of an operating system. Dynamic KPI data associated with the at least one KPI is fed to the operating system for visualization of the at least one KPI on the home screen. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317592 | CONCENTRATION RATIO MEASUREMENT APPARATUS AND PROGRAM - A presentation device is configured to present a plurality of recognition objects to a test subject. An input device is configured to allow the test subject input an answer of a work problem as a mental work to each recognition object. The evaluation device includes a work memory part configured to store, as work information, an answering time from a time when a recognition object is presented on the presentation device to a time when the answer is inputted into the input device. Also, the evaluation device includes an evaluating arithmetic part configured to calculate an evaluation value of a concentration ratio of the test subject using a statistics value of the work information stored in the work memory part while the plurality of recognition objects are presented on the presentation device. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317593 | Task Delegation Assessment with Fatigue-Based Hazard Analysis - A fatigue analysis technique is provided for optimizing task scheduling to minimize cumulative fatigue. Fatigue analysis applies to a crew member's task schedule to minimize or mitigate the likelihood of failure during the performance of tasks which may be associated with hazardous events. A fatigue value is associated with each task and the projected amount of fatigue expended by a crew member over the course of a shift may be evaluated in determining whether the performance of some tasks should be prioritized over other tasks. A failure severity level associated with performance of tasks may be used in prioritizing the order of tasks. Thus, the occurrence of potentially catastrophic or critical events due to error caused by human fatigue may be avoided. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317594 | ACTIONS FOR AN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CASE - Recommending actions to an Information Technology (IT) case can include searching an index for an IT case that matches a received IT case, identifying a plurality of actions for the received IT case based on the search, and recommending a subset of actions from the plurality of actions for the received IT case to an IT agent. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317595 | AUTOMATIC TASK ASSIGNMENT SYSTEM - A system is provided that automatically assigns tasks to resources. The system receives a notification that a resource is about to enter an idle period or has entered the idle period. The system further automatically assigns a filler task or a portion of the filler task to the resource, where the filler task is a task that can be split into multiple portions. The system further receives a notification that the resource is about to exit the idle period or has exited the idle period. The system further automatically un-assigns the filler task or the portion of the filler task from the resource. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317596 | Mailport for Automated Parcel Carriers - A Mailport that solves a variety of problems caused by the proliferation of Automated Parcel Carriers, including unmanned aerial vehicles (“UAVs”). The preferred embodiment of the invention features an access aperture designed to retrieve and transfer packages to and from Automated Parcel Carriers. The preferred embodiment of the invention also features a storage area for parcels, and a secured aperture to enable intended recipients to receive or send Parcels as appropriate. Various embodiments of the invention may stand alone or otherwise integrate within the structure of a building. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317597 | MACHINE-READABLE DELIVERY PLATFORM FOR AUTOMATED PACKAGE DELIVERY - A user requests a package delivery from a package delivery system. The package delivery system provides the user with a machine-readable code for display at the delivery location. An aerial delivery device receives, from the package delivery system computing device, information associated with the delivery location of the package. The information comprises information matching the information in the machine-readable code associated with the delivery location and a delivery address. The delivery device secures the package for transporting to the delivery location and transports the package to the delivery address. The delivery device locates the machine-readable code on a display at the delivery address and verifies that the information from the machine-readable code is associated with the package. The delivery device deposits the package on the display. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317598 | MULTI-PACKAGE DELIVERY METHODS - The present invention involves methods for the delivery of a plurality of parcels shipped by one or more shippers to a location via a carrier. Methods are disclosed for aggregating parcels shipped by one or more shippers for a single delivery to the location, thereby reducing the need for multiple deliveries to the same location. In one method, the dates of the shipment of the parcels are coordinated such that the plurality of parcels may be delivered substantially simultaneously to the customer. In another method, some parcels are delayed in their shipping route while others may be expedited such that the plurality of parcels are delivered substantially simultaneously to the location by the carrier. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317599 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRACKING AUTHENTICATED ITEMS - A system for tracking an authenticated item is provided. The system includes an authentication device affixed to the item. An item registration system receives authentication device data from the authentication device and associated item data and stores the authentication device data and the associated item data. An owner registration system receives owner registration data after a buyer has acquired the item. A buyer verification system receives the authentication device data, the associated item data and the owner registration data and stores buyer verified data if the associated item data correlates to the owner registration data, such as if the external tag number or event data entered by the owner matches external tag number or event data for the item. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317600 | REQUIREMENT-SPECIFIC CONFIGURATION OF USER INTERFACE FORMS - Various embodiments of systems and methods for form design are described herein. A user interface to configure a procurement-related non-catalogue form is displayed. The user interface includes configuring options that enable customization of form name, form category, and form fields. Configuration data is received in response to user input corresponding to the configuring options. The received configuration data is saved corresponding to the non-catalogue form. The saved configuration data is read for rendering the non-catalogue form. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317601 | USER FEEDBACK METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BUSINESS SUITE CUSTOMIZATION - A computer-implemented user feedback method, system and program product for customizing business suite software is executable on a computer system. The method includes: acquiring a business logic software function associated with a feedback mechanism in a business suite software user interface for the business suite software; acquiring an existing customization requirement related to the business logic software function and the relationship between the existing customization requirement related to the business logic software function and another existing customization requirement related to the business logic software function; and presenting the acquired existing customization requirement and the relationship between the existing customization requirement related to the business logic software function and the other existing customization requirement related to the business logic software function. The system includes: a business logic software function collector; a customization requirement manager; and a customization requirement presenter. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317602 | SCORING MODEL METHODS AND APPARATUS - Techniques comprising: obtaining natural language input comprising a job description for a job; generating at least one representation of job requirements for the job at least in part by automatically processing the natural language input using at least one natural language processing technique; obtaining credential information for a candidate; and calculating a talent score for the candidate based, at least in part, on the at least one representation of job requirements and the credential information. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317603 | SCORING MODEL METHODS AND APPARATUS - Techniques comprising using at least one computer hardware processor to perform: obtaining first credential information for at least one individual; generating at least one representation of job requirements for a job based, at least in part, on the first credential information; obtaining second credential information for a candidate different from the at least one individual; and calculating a talent score for the candidate at least in part by using the at least one representation of job requirements and the second credential information. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317604 | SCORING MODEL METHODS AND APPARATUS - Techniques comprising: obtaining information associated with a job; obtaining semi-structured natural language input comprising credentials of a candidate for the job; identifying the candidate's credentials at least in part by automatically processing the semi-structured natural language input; and calculating a talent score for the candidate based, at least in part, on the identified the candidate's credentials and the information associated with the job. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317605 | SCORING MODEL METHODS AND APPARATUS - Techniques comprising: obtaining information about a first job associated with a first recruiter; identifying a second job associated with a second recruiter, the identifying comprising calculating a measure of similarity between the information about the first job and information about the second job; identifying at least one candidate for the first job from among a plurality of users of an online service associated with users, each of the plurality of users being associated with the second employer via the online network; and calculating a talent score for the identified at least one candidate based, at least in part, on the information about the first job and credentials of the identified candidate, the talent score indicating suitability of the identified at least one candidate for the first job. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317606 | SCORING MODEL METHODS AND APPARATUS - Techniques comprising using at least one computer hardware processor to perform: generating a representation of job requirements for a job based, at least in part, on obtained information about the job; generating a search query comprising at least a first keyword in the representation of job requirements and at least a second keyword related to the first keyword, wherein the second keyword is not in the job representation; identifying, using the search query, at least one candidate for the job from among users of an online service associated with a plurality of users; and calculating a talent score for each identified candidate for the job based on the at least one representation of job requirements. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317607 | System and Method for Matching Job Candidates to Job Opportunities - The disclosure relates to a system and method for matching a job candidate to a job opportunity. The method and system includes prompting preference-selections of one or more GUI widgets that indicate preferences for a set of job attributes. The prompting displays the GUI widgets as part of a presented job opportunity. The method and system includes prompting, via the graphical user interface, one or more priority inputs corresponding to the set of job attributes. The method and system includes causing to receive a list of one or more matched job-postings in which each of the matched job-postings has an associated score value and in which the list and associated score values have been determined at least in part using a portion of the preference selections and a portion of the one or more priority inputs. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317608 | JOB RECRUITER AND JOB APPLICANT CONNECTOR - A system maintains member profiles and job postings on a social networking service, a business networking service, or a job posting service. The system displays a member profile to a job recruiter or a job posting to a job candidate. The system receives from the job recruiter an indication of an interest in the job candidate, and receives from the job candidate an indication of an interest in the job posting. After receiving both the interest of the recruiter and the interest of the member, the system transmits a message to the recruiter informing the recruiter of the interest of the job candidate and transmits a message to the job candidate informing the job candidate of the interest of the recruiter. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317609 | COMPANY PERSONNEL ASSET ENGINE - A system maintains one or more of member profiles, company profiles, and job postings on a social networking service. The system identifies a business organization using the one or more of member profiles, company profiles, and job postings. The system identifies a job title or a job function at the business organization using the one or more of member profiles, company profiles, and job postings. The system also identifies a number of employees in the job title or job function at the business organization using one or more of the member profiles and the company profiles. The system determines a number of years that each employee has been employed in the job title or job function for the business organization using at least the member profiles, and calculates an average time period that a typical employee has been in the job title or job function for the business organization. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317610 | METHODS AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY OBTAINING INFORMATION FROM A RESUME TO UPDATE AN ONLINE PROFILE - Techniques involving accessing a resume of a person; automatically parsing the resume at least in part by: identifying, based at least in part on formatting of the resume, a plurality of sections in the resume including a first section; identifying, based at least in part on content in the first section and formatting of the content, a plurality of subsections of the first section; and processing text in the plurality of subsections to identify a plurality of credentials and associated attributes; and updating a profile for the person to reflect the plurality of credentials and the associated attributes. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317611 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING PARTICIPATION VALIDATIONS - A method for providing a participation validation of a first client for participation in at least one event of a plurality of events to a second client and providing event information on the at least one event to the first client, the method comprising steps being performed by a server computer. The steps are accessing at least one first database comprising data associated with the first client, classifying the data whether it is related to participation in the event or not, parsing the data that is related to participation in the event, providing, to the second client, a participation validation at a predetermined time before the at least one event occurs, accessing at least one second database comprising data associated with the plurality of events, obtaining event information associated with the at least one event based on the parsed data, and providing, to the first client, the event information on the at least one event at a predetermined time before the at least one event occurs, in a format that is independent of the accessed at least one second database and the second client. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317612 | COMPUTER-ASSISTED AND/OR ENABLED SYSTEMS, METHODS, TECHNIQUES, SERVICES AND USER INTERFACES FOR CONDUCTING MOTOR VEHICLE AND OTHER INSPECTIONS - A computer-assisted inspection system including an integrated software suite provides vehicle inspection services for various clients. Features include automatic grading, flat car part picking, easy to use, ability to run in an environment where the inspector has no constant connectivity to the network (no guaranteed access to the internet, full data replication, intermittent connectivity, synch back up), inspectors can be geographically separated (e.g., all over the country), and the system is installable over the internet to provide efficient installation to far-flung install sites. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317613 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING ANONYMIZED TRANSACTION DATA TO THIRD-PARTIES - A computer-implemented method for authorizing access to transaction data to a third-party computer system is implemented by a payment processor computer system coupled to a memory. The method includes receiving a request for access to transaction data associated with a cardholder account, requesting a set of authentication information associated with the cardholder account, authenticating the set of authentication information upon receiving the set of authentication information, and authorizing the third-party computer system to receive transaction data associated with the cardholder account. Upon validation, the payment processor computer system generates an authorization token and provides the authorization token to the third-party computer system. The third-party computer system uses the authorization token and a secure identifier to retrieve transaction data associated with the cardholder account. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317614 | Methods and Systems for Payment with a Transponder - A payment system is provided comprising a transponder, an associated account with account settings, and transponder reading equipment/systems for electronic toll collection and electronic entry into contests, sweepstakes, games, and/or lotteries. Methods are provided to facilitate use of a transponder, an account, and related transponder reading equipment to simultaneously pay a toll and facilitate purchase of a lottery ticket. An account may be debited for a toll and a contest, game, or lottery entry, and credited if one is won. The payment method and system may be used to purchase goods, such as gasoline, and to simultaneously electronically enter contests, sweepstakes, games, and/or lotteries. The purchase of goods/services with a vehicle-mounted transponder may also employ use of rounding amounts to facilitate the electronic purchase of game or lottery tickets or entry to other contests, games, or sweepstakes, wherein the rounding amounts may aggregate to comprise an award that may be won. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317615 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROCESSING ELECTRONIC TRANSACTIONS AND MANAGING VEHICLE COSTS - A computer-implemented method for performing an electronic transaction using a payment computer coupled to a database is provided. The transaction includes an item purchased in association with a vehicle and initiated by a cardholder with a merchant. The method includes receiving, at the payment computer, an authorization request message from the merchant, the authorization request message including first transaction data, wherein the first transaction data includes a vehicle identifier for identifying the vehicle, an account data associated with the cardholder, and purchase data associated with a first purchased item; transmitting an authorization response message from the payment computer to the merchant, the authorization response message including an approval of the electronic transaction by an issuer bank; storing, within the database, the first transaction data including the vehicle identifier; storing, within the database, other transaction data associated with other purchased items for the vehicle, wherein the first transaction data and the other transaction data define a total transaction data associated with the vehicle; and tracking, by the vehicle identifier, the total transaction data for access by the cardholder. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317616 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLLECTING AND DISBURSING ELECTRONIC GRATUITIES - The present invention relates to systems and methods for collecting and disbursing electronic gratuities. According to one embodiment, a device for submitting gratuities by credit card is provided at a place of business or other appropriate location. A method of using this device is disclosed, whereby consumers pay a predetermined or adjustable gratuity amount by inserting a credit card into the device. According to another embodiment, technological infrastructure is provided to transmit encrypted payment information such that the acquiring bank of the device provider obtains authorization for gratuity transactions conducted using the device. The acquiring bank is thus enabled to credit the device provider's merchant account or disbursal accounts with electronic gratuity payments less acquisition fees. According to another embodiment, a method of disbursing gratuity shares to employees of the business is provided, wherein processing fees are collected by the device provider. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317617 | METHOD OF OPERATING AUTOMATED TELLER MACHINE IN MULTI-SHEET WITHDRAWALS - A method of operating a device ( | 2015-11-05 |
20150317618 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - In an information processor having a function to check out a content to a portable device such as a portable disc player, a content is recorded to a content data base under the control of a content management program, and it is set under the control of a display/operation instruction program whether the recorded content has to be checked out to the portable device. If a content is recorded in case it has been set that the content has to be checked out, the content having been recorded in the content data base is checked out to the portable device. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317619 | Kiosk Gift Card System and Method - A kiosk gift card system and method for purchasing and redeeming gift cards is disclosed. The system/method includes a gift card distribution kiosk that provides a user with access to a multitude of different forms of gift cards that may be purchased and printed onto customizable gift card stock. The kiosk includes a kiosk processor interface, a gift card dispenser, a card reader, and gift card management server connected to a network. The gift card management server, through the kiosk processor interface, provides vendor options to users to select and pay via the card reader. The kiosk may be used to redeem unused user gift cards for a reduced value user selected gift card, reduced cash value, full value store card, rewards points, bank debit, and/or an electronic code (eCode) towards online user purchases. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317620 | DIGITAL POINT-OF-SALE ANALYZER - A digital point-of-sale system for determining key performance indicators (KPIs) at a point-of-sale includes a product identification unit and a realogram creation unit. The product identification unit is configured to receive a captured image of a product display and to identify products in the captured image by comparing features determined from the captured image to features determined from products templates. The realogram creation unit is configured to create a realogram from the identified products and product templates. A product price KPI unit is configured to identify a product label proximally located to each identified product, and to recognize the product price on each product label. Each product price is compared to a predetermined range of prices to determine whether the product label proximally located to the identified product is a correct product label for the identified product. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317621 | Working Mode Negotiating Method, Device, and System - A working mode negotiating method including receiving, by a first device, a negotiation message that a second device sends after detecting the first device; activating, by the first device, a P2P mode when determining that information about a commodity for which a prepayment has been made successfully needs to be acquired from the second device; or activating a card emulation mode when information about a commodity for which a prepayment has been made successfully does not need to be acquired from the second device; sending, by the first device, an activated working mode to the second device, so that the second device activates a working mode that is the same as the activated working mode; and performing communication according to the activated working mode when the first device and the second device perform communication using an NFC technology. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317622 | MOBILE PAYMENTS - A method and system for processing payment transaction at a computing device is provided. The method includes receiving a payment request at the computing device from a purchaser terminal, the payment request including purchaser information, determining whether payment information associated with the purchaser information exists at the computing device, and processing payment transaction using the payment information if it is determined that the payment information associated with the purchaser information exists at the computing device. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317623 | TECHNIQUE TO AUTHENTICATE IN A MOBILE APPLICATION USING NEAR-FIELD COMMUNICATION - A method for operating a mobile communication appliance enabled for Near Field Communication (NFC) has steps for (a) positioning the communication appliance and an article associated with a person, the article enabled for NFC and storing a unique identifier, within a near-field threshold; (b) acquiring by the communication appliance through NFC the unique digital identifier from the article; and (c) using the identifier to select and initiate a particular functionality of the communication appliance. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317624 | RF TRANSACTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STORING USER PERSONAL DATA - A system and method for a RF transaction device for storing user personal data is disclosed. The invention includes a system and method for facilitating a healthcare transaction using a transponder system configured to store different healthcare information in different storage areas on a database. The invention includes providing account information in ISO/IEC 7816 magnetic stripe Track 1/Track 2 format. The invention also includes an RFID reader for transmitting account and database information. In one embodiment the invention provides an RFID reader as a free standing or a computer implemented device. In another embodiment, biometric security measures are used in conjunction with the transponder system. In another embodiment, the transponder system communicates with one or more third-party healthcare providers to facilitate the transfer of healthcare and personal information. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317625 | VERIFICATION OF PORTABLE CONSUMER DEVICES - Apparatuses, methods, and systems pertaining to the verification of portable consumer devices are disclosed. In one implementation, a verification token is coupled to a computer by a USB connection so as to use the computer's networking facilities. The verification token reads identification information from a user's portable consumer device (e.g., credit card) and sends the information to a validation entry over a communications network using the computer's networking facilities. The validation entity applies one or more validation tests to the information that it receives from the verification token. If a selected number of tests are passed, the validation entity sends a device verification value to the verification token, and optionally to a payment processing network. The verification token may enter the device verification value into a CVV field of a web page appearing on the computer's display, or may display the value to the user using the computer's display. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317626 | SECURE PROXIMITY EXCHANGE OF PAYMENT INFORMATION BETWEEN MOBILE WALLET AND POINT-OF-SALE - A method for processing payment is disclosed. The method includes obtaining, by a point-of-sale (POS) device from a certification authority, a certificate data item that identifies the POS device for completing a purchase by a consumer, generating a payment request containing the certificate data item, broadcasting the payment request via a wireless signal within a pre-determined range of the POS device for receiving by a mobile device of the consumer, where the mobile device stores payment credential of the consumer, receiving, by the POS device, an encrypted payment credential from the mobile device, where the encrypted payment credential is generated by the mobile device encrypting the payment credential based on the certificate data item, and decrypting the encrypted payment credential based on the certificate data item to retrieve the payment credential for processing the payment. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317627 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREVENTING FRAUD - Disclosed herein are methods and systems of preventing fraud during a financial transaction. A consumer can subscribe, enter, and store their personal and business credit and debit card information, account numbers, pin numbers, logins, and passwords on a secure website. The consumer also can upload biometric data, such as a thumbprint or fingerprint, to the security system using a smart phone or tablet. The thumbprint and fingerprints act as the consumer's identifier when using the service and system. At the point of sale, the consumer places their thumb or finger on the biometric reader. The purchase amount is sent to the security system after the consumer chooses a credit or debit card. The security system sends a request for payment to the credit card company if the thumbprint matches. The credit card company determines whether to approve the transaction and if so, remits payment to the security system. The security system then remits the payment to the vendor. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317628 | Assisted Approval of Denied Self-Service Transactions - A Self-Service Terminal (SST) transaction is denied over an SST network. Transaction details for the transaction are sent over a second network to an assistant. The transaction details are evaluated to determine whether to override the transaction on the second network or whether to provide assistance to a customer associated with the transaction to successfully reprocess the transaction at the SST. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317629 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTHORIZING A PURCHASE TRANSACTION USING NET WORTH ESTIMATE - Systems and methods for permitting a consumer to consummate a purchase transaction when the purchase transaction amount exceeds an available credit limit and that consumer has assets to cover the overage amount. Thus, in some embodiments a net worth confirmation platform receives transaction information, transmits the transaction information to an Issuer financial institution (FI), receives an indication from the Issuer FI that the that the transaction is unauthorized, and determines that at least one business rule applies to the transaction and an overage amount. The net worth confirmation platform also determines a net worth estimate of the consumer based on at least one asset of the consumer, and transmits a transaction authorization message to the merchant when the business rule(s) is or are satisfied. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317630 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTHENTICATION TOKEN GENERATION - Methods, media, and systems to receive a request for an authentication value for a transaction in an application programming interface (API) call from a software application; determine the request for the authentication value includes an indication of a first transaction type; generate, in response to the determination that the request for the authentication value includes an indication of the first transaction type, an authentication value for the transaction; and as an indication of a verified authentication send, to the software application, an API response including the generated authentication value for the transaction. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317631 | MATCHING PERSONAL PHOTO IMAGES WITH PURCHASE HISTORY - At a photo server, a payment card account number is obtained from a cardholder. At the photo server, access is obtained to a database of payment card transaction information, using the payment card account number. At least one digital photo is putatively matched to a location of at least one transaction for the payment card account number in the database of transaction information, based on at least one of time stamp and geolocation, to obtain a first putative match. An indication of the first putative match is provided to the cardholder. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317632 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING TRANSACTION USING DYNAMIC PAN - The present invention relates to a method for processing a transaction using a dynamic primary account number (PAN), which can minimize changes of existing infrastructures such as a card reader, a VAN server, and a card company server; reduce burdens relating to such changes; and can improve the security of a transaction of payment devices such as a magnetic strip card, an IC card, and a portable terminal. To this end, the method for processing a transaction using a dynamic PAN, according to the present invention, is performed by a payment device which provides track 2 information of an international standardization organization (ISO) standard to a card reader and comprises the steps of: partitioning a PAN area of track 2 information into a first area which includes a bank information number (BIN) and a second area which does not include the BIN; forming a dynamic area by encoding the second area; forming one dynamic PAN area by combining the first area and the dynamic area; and providing track 2 information which includes the dynamic PAN area to the card reader. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317633 | ANALYTICS RULES ENGINE FOR PAYMENT PROCESSING SYSTEM - According to some embodiments, a payment system authorization platform may receive an authorization message from an acquirer platform. The payment system authorization platform may determine that the authorization request meets a pre-determined condition and transmit information about the authorization message to an analytics rules engine, such as by transmitting the authorization message. The analytics rules engine may analyze the information about the authorization message in accordance with at least one rule to generate a result and transmit information about the authorization message to the payment system authorization platform, such as by transmitting a supplemented authorization message or an authorization approval decision, including an indication that the authorization message is assigned to a segmentation dimension category. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317634 | SECURE TEXT INITIATED PAYMENT PROCESSING SYSTEM - To process a secure payment transaction, a payment processing system receives a request for an authorization code for an authorized payment amount from a payor's electronic device, verifies the payor's identity, generates an authorization code for a payment transaction, stores the authorization code in association with the authorized payment amount, and sends the authorization code to a mobile device associated with the payor. When the system receives, from a third party payee, a request for payment comprising a requested payment amount and a verification code, the system determines whether the verification code and the requested payment match the authorization code and the authorized amount. The system transmits an instruction to proceed with the payment in the authorized payment amount to the third party payee only if the verification code and the requested payment match the authorization code and the authorized amount. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317635 | ELECTRONIC GESTURE-BASED SIGNATURES - In various embodiments, facilitation of transactions using electronic gesture-based signatures is described. A party participating in a transaction may provide an electronic signature using a mobile device. The mobile device may be configured to record electronic signature data made through physical manipulation of the mobile device, such as by recording data from one or more instruments of the mobile device. The mobile device may then send the electronic signature data to a gesture-based signature confirmation system (“GSC”), which may confirm an identity of the party and/or confirm an intent of the party to participate in the transaction. The GSC may send an indication to another party to the transaction that the identity has been confirmed, and/or that the first party intends to participate in the transaction, and may generate a record of the signature. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317636 | ELECTRONIC TRANSACTION VERIFICATION SYSTEM WITH BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION - An electronic transaction verification system for use with transaction tokens such as checks, credit cards, debit cards, and smart cards that gathers and transmits information about the transaction token and biometric data. Customers can be enrolled in the system by receiving customer information that includes at least a biometric datum, associating the received customer information with a transaction instrument issued to the customers and storing the received customer information and the issued transaction instrument information in a database for future reference. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317637 | MULTIBANK BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM APPLIED IN AUTOMATIC TELLER MACHINES EQUIPPED WITH BIOMETRIC SENSORS - “MULTIBANK BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM APPLIED IN AUTOMATIC TELLER MACHINES EQUIPPED WITH BIOMETRIC SENSORS”, the “MULTIBANK BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM APPLIED IN AUTOMATIC TELLER MACHINES WITH BIOMETRIC SENSORS” refers, more specifically, to the use of automatic teller machines to perform transactions with multibank biometric authentication with one, two or three biometric sensors; the system proposed enables transactions to be performed requiring only the biometric authentication or requiring contingency devices, i.e., positive identification, TAN CODE, TOKEN, or further, that it is realized requesting the combination of devices, being the referred solution developed to reduce costs and increase accuracy in the user (U) authentication, providing full security in financial transactions, on a configurable customized manner to attend the needs of the financial institutions ( | 2015-11-05 |
20150317638 | Methods, Devices and Systems for Transaction Initiation - Methods, devices and a system for transaction initiation are disclosed. Biometric information is obtained from a user, and the obtained biometric information is compared with a plurality of stored account identifiers, to identify an account having an account identifier corresponding to the obtained biometric information. Access is permitted for the user to the identified transaction account to initiate the transaction. To enable this initiation, biometric user information is obtained and associated with an account identifier for the user, and the account identifier is stored for a user account, for permitting access to the user account to the user on provision of the biometric user information. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317639 | Automated Remote Transaction Assistance - A customer uses a customer device to interact with an expert using a remote device in a real-time communication session. The expert drives the interactions and can activate peripherals on the customer device to capture information, which is automatically sent from the customer device to the remote device for consumption by the expert. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317640 | Methods and Systems for Providing Customer Relations Information - Methods and systems for providing information to a mortgage recipient or other customer of a financial institution. A system identifies potential customer inquiries and provides a list of scripts responsive to the potential customer inquiries. If none of the scripts address the customer's inquiry, the customer specifies the inquiry and an additional list of scripts is generated. The scripts include scripted text, account information, and financial transaction information. In one variation, the customer accesses a website maintained by the financial institution and views a script responsive to the inquiry. In another variation, the customer telephones a customer service agent who selects a script responsive to the inquiry, and reads the script to the customer. In yet another variation, the script is provided to the customer via an Interactive Voice Response system. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317641 | EVALUATION OF VOICE COMMUNICATIONS - One-to-many comparisons of callers' words and/or voice prints with known words and/or voice prints to identify any substantial matches between them. When a customer communicates with a particular entity, such as a customer service center, the system makes a recording of the real-time call including both the customer's and agent's voices. The system segments the recording to extract different words, such as words of anger. The system may also segment at least a portion of the customer's voice to create a tone profile, and it formats the segmented words and tone profiles for network transmission to a server. The server compares the customer's words and/or tone profiles with multiple known words and/or tone profiles stored on a database to determine any substantial matches. The identification of any matches may be used for a variety of purposes, such as providing representative feedback or customer follow-up. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317642 | PROCESS TO QUERY ELECTRONIC SALES RECEIPTS WITH A PORTABLE COMPUTERIZED DEVICE - A process permitting a customer to access a stored electronic sales receipt and provide information from the electronic sales receipt to a customer service associate can include, in a computerized device operated by the customer, accessing the stored electronic sales receipt and generating a displayed indication to the electronic sales receipt. The process can further include, in a computerized device operated by the customer service associate, receiving the displayed indication and processing a transaction related to the electronic sales receipt based upon the displayed indication. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317643 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SIGNING ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS - An apparatus for a signer to apply a signature to a signature field of an electronic document. A personal electronic device includes a browser application, a screen, and an input unit. A logic activates a web link on the personal electronic device with the browser application to connect the personal electronic device and a remote server via a communications network. A logic presents a signor-side image copy of the electronic document with the signature field on the screen of the personal electronic device. A logic accepts the signature of the signer into the signature field from the input unit of the personal electronic device. And a logic communicates the electronic document containing the signature of the signer to the remote server. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317644 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MARKING MANUFACTURED ITEMS USING PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTIC - A method of marking a manufactured item is described, comprising: creating a unique product identifier for a manufactured item; creating one or more encryption keys; generating a secret key using the unique product identifier and the one or more encryption keys; generating a system noise value by performing a hash function on the secret key and the unique product identifier; generating a physical key from a measured physical property of the manufactured item; generating a physical noise value by performing a hash function on the physical key and the unique product identifier; generating a secure identifier derived from or incorporating the system noise value and the physical noise value; and placing a mark on the manufactured item, the mark comprising the secure identifier or an identifier derived from the secure identifier. Also described are methods of authenticating items marked in accordance with the described method. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317645 | LEAD-BASED ACTIVATION OF M2M DEVICES ON AN OPERATOR NETWORK - Devices may receive lead information from a user. The lead information may indicate a potential customer for a vendor. The devices may receive a user identifier that identifies the user. The devices may generate a lead identifier that identifies the lead information and associate the lead information, the user identifier, and the lead identifier. The devices may provide the lead information and the lead identifier to a vendor. The devices may receive an activation request and the lead identifier from the vendor. The devices may activate a particular device to communicate via the operator network based on the activation request. The device may determine the user identifier associated with the lead identifier. The devices may cause the user, identified by the user identifier, to be compensated based on the particular device being activated to communicate via the operator network. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317646 | TRANSFORMATION OF FINANCIAL TARGET AND QUOTA DEPLOYMENT - One or more processors determine a financial target for a plurality of business accounts across a plurality of product brands that are included in a business account level of an organizational hierarchy of a business organization. The organizational hierarchy includes a plurality of levels. One or more processors determine respective financial targets and quotas for a plurality of nodes included in a level of the organizational hierarchy. One or more processors determine respective financial targets for combinations of business accounts and product brands. The determination of the financial targets is based on a statistical model that is fitted at a middle level of the organizational hierarchy, and a risk-based stochastic optimization that is used to set financial targets and quotas at one or more levels of the organizational hierarchy. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317647 | Method And Apparatus For Correlating Biometric Responses To Analyze Audience Reactions - A method for analyzing audience reaction while viewing audio-visual content commences by first collecting biometeric data from audience members while viewing the audio-visual content. The collected biometric data undergoes cross-correlation to establish a correlation graph having nodes indicative of individual audience member's reaction to the viewed audio-visual content. Thereafter, edges in the graph corresponding to nodes, which are similar, are identified to indicate audience members reacting similarly to the viewed content. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317648 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSESSING AND RANKING NEWSWORTHINESS - A system and method for making a recommendation for increasing a newsworthiness score for a news story that includes determining, by the processor, the newsworthiness score for the news story, analyzing at least one of: a set of pre-determined factors in data describing the news story, or at least one of a set of pre-calculated values, to identify a change to the data describing the news story that will increase the newsworthiness score, and generating, by the processor, a recommendation, where the recommendation includes instructions to implement the change to the data. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317649 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING PASSPHRASE ENABLED POINT OF INTEREST - An approach is provided for determining a request from a user to access data associated with at least one point of interest ( | 2015-11-05 |
20150317650 | Regression Modeling System Using Activation Rating Values as Inputs to a Regression to Predict Healthcare Utilization and Cost and/or Changes Thereto - In a regression modeling system, activation rating values over a plurality of survey participants is used to generate a regression to identify a predictive model that can have a direct explanatory relationship to healthcare utilization and cost. The activation rating for a given individual is thus a predictive variable that can be changed with a known effect on outcomes. For example, healthcare utilization and costs will decline as an activation rating value goes up. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317651 | PLATFORM FOR CONTEXTUAL MARKETING BASED ON TRANSACTIONAL BEHAVIORAL DATA - Subject innovations are directed towards a platform architecture, system, and special purpose software and hardware that employs a machine learning approach using transactional behavioral events and data about customers to allow a telecommunications marketer to express a set of configurable business rules and constraints, and within a dynamic optimization approach, derive solutions or marketing approaches to optimize delayed key performance indicators. In one embodiment, this is obtained using marketing experiments that seek to learn and influence long term behaviors of customers. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317652 | Sales Management System - A method includes receiving a set of customer records and identifying any duplicate customers within the set of customer records. The method includes consolidating customer records of any duplicate customers, and identifying whether any customers represented within the received set of customer records have an existing customer record in data store hardware. The method includes receiving a segmentation criteria defined as an active customer, an inactive customer, or a prospective customer, and segmenting the customers in the data store hardware based on the segmentation criteria. The method includes assigning an active status to active customers. The active status being active defecting (customer having no associated purchase history) or active declining (customer having a threshold decrease in sales over a third period of time). The method also includes associating customer metrics with the customers, and generating a report illustrating the customer segmentation and customer metrics. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317653 | OMNI-CHANNEL DEMAND MODELING AND PRICE OPTIMIZATION - Predicting demand of a product offered in multiple channels for a seller that has a plurality of physical store channels and one or more virtual channels, may comprise obtaining transaction log data having records of sales transactions with location identifiers in the one or more virtual channels. The one or more virtual channels may be segmented by locations based on locations of the physical stores and the location identifiers in the transaction log data. A demand model may be estimated by location that incorporates demand for the multiple channels in that location and captures cross-effect of said multiple channels in the same location based on historic sales and transaction data. Integrated price optimization may be performed across all channels and locations that compute one or more prices for each virtual channel and one price for each location in the other channels while also satisfying a plurality of inter-channel and inter-locations constraints. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317654 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LINKING TRAFFIC DATA TO PURCHASE BEHAVIOR - A method for linking traffic data to transaction data includes: storing a plurality of transaction data entries, each entry including data related to a payment transaction including at least a geographic location associated with the related payment transaction, a transaction time and/or date, and transaction data; receiving traffic data, the traffic data being related to vehicle traffic and including at least a geographic traffic area, a period of time, and one or more traffic characteristics associated with the vehicle traffic; identifying a subset of transaction data entries where each entry in the subset includes a geographic location included in a geographic transaction area corresponding to the geographic traffic area and a transaction time and/or date included in the period of time; and identifying an economic impact of the vehicle traffic based on at least the transaction data included in each of the transaction data entries included in the identified subset. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317655 | CROWDSOURCED NEWS END-TO-END SYSTEM - Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for sourcing, processing, and distributing information in general, and more specifically, information that is generally news or news-related in nature. An embodiment operates by determining a geographic area and selecting stories associated with the geographic area. The embodiment further generates map display information for the geographic area including a plurality of selectable indicators, each corresponding to one of the one or more stories, and transmits the map display information to an interactive user device. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317656 | Systems and Methods for Aggregation of Online Advocacy Activity Data Based Upon Electoral District - Systems and methods for aggregating online advocacy activities based upon electoral district are described that can display information derived from aggregated advocacy activities via an interactive map. Online advocacy activities can also include the reporting of advocacy activities that were not conducted online. The availability of online data describing advocacy activities conducted both online and offline enables the mapping of the aggregated advocacy activities. In many embodiments, advocacy activities performed online via one or more social media services are automatically aggregated by an aggregation server based upon congressional district. Online advocacy activity can be aggregated across multiple social media services and several embodiments of the invention enable communication with identified constituents to further coordinate and/or respond to online advocacy activities. In a number of embodiments, a mobile software application can be utilized to enable online advocacy activity, report of online advocacy, and/or conduct crowd fundraising. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317657 | Dynamic ads and group purchases on a movie theatre screen - A movie theatre shows a barcode on a projection screen. The barcode lets a patron buy tickets to movies shown in trailers. Using a phone to go from the barcode to a web page to buy tickets. The screen shows a table of purchases, with thresholds for discounted prices. Dynamic group purchasing of tickets by gamification in an interactive feedback loop. A theatre auctions ad slots. A trailer is replaced by one or more non-trailer ads if advertisers bid enough. A free market finds the value of trailers. A theatre inserts its location into the barcode of an ad. The advertiser finds where the patron is, who decoded the barcode. The theatre can encode an advertiser URL as a sound and play this when the ad plays on the screen. A patron decodes the sound and interacts with the advertiser. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317658 | DETERMINING A LOWEST PRICE FOR A DYNAMICALLY PRICED PRODUCT - In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes receiving a request for a product. Two or more fingerprints are selected, where each fingerprint includes digital data describing a corresponding virtual customer. By a computer processor, a first fingerprint is loaded to emulate a first virtual customer. A first price query is submitted to a vendor's web service for the product, where the first price query uses the loaded first fingerprint. A second fingerprint is loaded to emulate a second virtual customer. A second price query is submitted to the vendor's web service for the product, where the second price query uses the loaded second fingerprint. Two or more prices are received from the vendor's web service, including a first price received in response to the first price query and a second price received in response to the second price query. A lowest price is selected from among the prices received. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317659 | DYNAMIC PRICING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Example dynamic pricing systems and methods are described. In one implementation, a method receives an indication of an occurrence of a first event unrelated to a particular customer. The method also receives an indication of an occurrence of a second event unrelated to a particular customer. Based on the first event and the second event, the method determines whether to adjust a price associated with a particular item. If the method determines that the price associated with the particular item needs adjustment, a new price for the particular item is determined based on the first event and the second event. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317660 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING ELECTRONIC COMMERCE VIA PARTICIPATION INCENTIVES - An apparatus and method for enhancing electronic commerce through a dynamic hierarchal protocol of scalable participation incentives for both buyers and sellers. The apparatus and method of use collects a brokerage fee from each consummated transaction and distributes the fee to select participants according to their special and/or relational association to the consummated the transaction. Periodically the hierarchal relationships of participating individuals are reorganized based relative participation. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317661 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ELECTRONIC DELIVERY OF INCENTIVE INFORMATION BASED ON USER PROXIMITY - A method and system for the electronic distribution of product or service promotion information to a mobile user are disclosed. A user may provide profile information to an online promotion service, such as user interests and preferences with respect to products and services as well as other information. The online promotion service may receive location information of point-of-sale facilities associated with particular promotions for products or services. The online promotion service may generate one or more targeted promotions to a mobile user when the user travels within a predetermined distance of an associated point-of-sale facility. A mobile user's location may be identified by a global positioning system and conveyed to the online promotion service. The user location information may be transmitted via a cell phone, a PDA, a pager or other device. This enables the user to take advantage of targeted or requested promotions while the user is within a close proximity to an associated point-of-sale facility. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317662 | Systems and Methods for Secure Distribution of Coupons - Systems and methods for secure distribution of electronic coupons involve a mobile device receiving an electronic coupon and displaying a degraded image of the electronic coupon. A non-degraded image of the electronic coupon is displayed by the mobile device when an attempt to capture the electronic coupon is detected. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317663 | MOBILE LOYALTY AND PAYMENT SYSTEM USING TEMPORARY SHORT CODES - A loyalty server enables customers to use a merchant's mobile loyalty and payment program by pairing a customer's loyalty account through use of temporary codes. A customer may login to the customer's loyalty and payment account using a loyalty application installed on a mobile device. The customer can request a temporary code from the loyalty server, and provide it to a POS system associated with a merchant. The POS system can send a request to the loyalty server to retrieve customer information corresponding to the temporary code. The POS system can receive the customer's information, and the customer then earns rewards for transactions conducted with the merchant. In some embodiments, the POS system conducts a transaction using rewards or coupons. In some embodiments, the loyalty server obtains and utilizes the geolocation of the mobile device and the merchant as a portion of the means for pairing. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317664 | MULTIPLE CRM LOYALTY INTERFACE FRAMEWORK - A system and method for providing a customer loyalty framework for a customer relationship management (CRM) system. The framework includes an internal CRM system, an internal loyalty system and an internal enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. The internal CRM system has a CRM repository storing CRM data and the internal loyalty system has a loyalty repository storing loyalty data for one or more customers enrolled in a company loyalty program. The internal CRM system stores business logic that is executable by the internal loyalty system, the internal CRM system, and/or the internal ERP system to execute the company loyalty program. The system further includes an external CRM system connected with the internal network by an external communication network. The external CRM system generates a web user interface for receiving customer transaction data, and transmitting the customer transaction data via the external communication network to the internal network for processing by the internal CRM system, the internal loyalty system and an the internal ERP system according to the business logic. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317665 | Credit Card Reward Program Incorporating Investing in Precious Metals - In a credit card reward program incorporating investment in precious metals, a credit card holder is provided with a credit card account and a precious metals account. The precious metals account contains balances of one or more precious metals. Cash is accumulated from activity on the credit card account at a reward rate, and may be increased by rounding up transactions on the credit card account and crediting the round-up funds to the total. Periodically, for example monthly, precious metals in proportion to a designated basket are purchased using the cash balance and the metals are added to the balances of metals in the precious metals account. Precious metals may be exchanged for fabricated products in fabrication transactions. Additionally, a precious metal protection program transaction may be provided whereby, for a fee, a price cap may be obtained for the duration of a program period. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317666 | COLLABORATIVE REWARD SYSTEM - An advertisement that includes a discount percentage value is received from an advertiser and converted to an ad point value. An indication of a redemption of the advertisement by a shopper is received. A first quantity of earned ad points is provided to the shopper and a second quantity of earned ad points is provided to the advertiser based on the indication of the redemption of the advertisement and on the ad point value of the advertisement. The shopper and the advertiser are associated with first and second reward distribution grids, respectively based on the first and second quantities of earned ad points, respectively. The shopper and advertiser are rewarded with first and second quantities of reward currency, respectively, based on the first and second reward distribution grids, respectively, and on the first and second quantities of earned ad points, respectively. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317667 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING DYNAMIC PRICING USING IN-STORE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - Methods and apparatuses for providing a notification of a discount price for an item are disclosed. For example, a method includes detecting a presence of a mobile device at a store, and sending the notification via a wireless communication to the mobile device, the notification comprising an identification of the item, the discount price for the item, an expiration date for the item and information associated with a location of the item within the store, wherein the discount price for the item is based upon the expiration date of the item. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317668 | CUSTOMER VOICE ORDER TRIGGERED MUTUAL AFFINITY MERCHANT DONATION - A customer uses a mobile device to verbally request an offer that includes an incentive to transact at a merchant's brick and mortar store in the customer's local community in exchange for the merchant's agreement to make an auditable donation to a charity serving the local community. Business rules limit the merchant's charitable donations over calendar periods, which donations can be made directly by the merchant to the community charity, or indirectly to the charity by way of a blind donation made by the merchant to a donation disbursement agency acting on the merchant's behalf to satisfy the merchant's commitment to donate. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317669 | PROTECTIVE COVER WITH INFORMATION DISPLAY FUNCTION - A protective cover with information display function includes a main body, at least one receiving unit provided on the main body, and at least one sheet of e-paper. The main body has an opening formed on and sunk from one side of the main body, and an object to be protected can be fitted into the opening and safely covered by the main body. The receiving unit is wirelessly connected to an external interface for receiving an electromagnetic wave. The e-paper is selectively provided on the main body or the receiving unit and is electrically connected to the receiving unit, and can be driven by the electromagnetic wave to display information thereon. With the main body having the receiving unit and the e-paper provided thereon, the protective cover can effectively provide the function of displaying advertisement and other information at any place in real time. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317670 | DYNAMIC MARKETING RESOURCE ARBITRAGE - Techniques are disclosed for generating a forward-looking, goal seeking marketing plan that links prior media purchase transactions to predicted future financial results for a brand, product market, or campaign. A computing device is configured to receive input data associated with one or more marketing elements, such as television ads, print ads, and online ads. From the input data, response factors corresponding to each marketing element can be calculated. These response factors can be used to generate a model upon which future marketing transactions can be planned in accordance with scenarios associated with a particular marketing campaign. A marketing plan can be generated from the model in which some or all marketing elements are ordered in a flighting schedule that provides optimum financial results for a selected scenario. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317671 | CLICKSTREAM ANALYSIS METHODS AND SYSTEMS RELATED TO MODIFYING AN OFFLINE PROMOTION FOR A CONSUMER GOOD - Methods and systems are provided herein for the analysis of clickstream data of online users. The analysis methods and systems allow for the creation of new offline business methods based on online consumer behavior. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317672 | System and Method for Event Management with Explicit Content Delivery Through Dynamic Network Authentication - A system and method for exchanging data in a controlled network provides each participant in an event with a data storage medium that can be accessed throughout the event in order to readily share data among the participants. Scan data for the data storage medium of each of the participants is recorded and relayed to an event host in real time. Additionally, the scan data is graphically organized and distributed to the participants following the event to facilitate continual contact between the participants. A user account accessed on a user controlled device is authenticated through the controlled network, such that event based advertisements determined by the event host can be delivered to the user controlled device. Authentication of the user account and distribution of each of the event based advertisements is facilitated by inserting either an authentication source code or advertisement source code into a webpage source code. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317673 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMIC TEXTUAL AD DISTRIBUTION VIA EMAIL - A system and method for providing dynamic pay-for-placement advertisements via graphics-enabled email that generates a display of advertisements when the email newsletter is opened so the advertisements displayed are based on rankings at the time the email is opened instead of when the email was generated and transmitted. In one embodiment, a graphical-content email having one or more embedded advertisement image references is provided to one or more email recipients. The advertisement image reference, in one embodiment, may include query string parameters indicating the context of the image reference and/or portion of the image reference (i.e., identifying the image reference as being part of a particular newsletter email), a position of the image reference in the email display, and the like. A URL reference also may be included with each advertisement image reference (.e.g., one URL for each advertisement portion of the image to be retrieved by the advertising image reference). | 2015-11-05 |
20150317674 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INCORPORATING PAYMENT DATA TO IMPROVE ONLINE ADVERTISING - A method for identifying purchase data for advertisement suppression includes: receiving, by a receiving device, a data file originating from a computing device, wherein the data file includes at least a computer identifier associated with the computing device, a purchase identifier, and an origination time and/or date; receiving, by the receiving device, transaction data for a payment transaction, where a portion of the transaction data corresponds to the purchase identifier, wherein the transaction data includes at least purchase data and a transaction time and/or date, and wherein the transaction time and/or date is within a predetermined period of time of the origination time and/or date; and transmitting, by a transmitting device, at least the purchase data included in the received transaction data and the computer identifier for suppression of advertisements distributed to the computing device based on at least the purchase data. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317675 | DYNAMIC TARGETING TO ACHIEVE A DESIRED OBJECTIVE - Techniques to dynamically adjust a target audience for a content posting are described. Consistent with some embodiments, subsequent to a member of a social networking service specifying a desired objective to be achieved with a content campaign (e.g., increasing follower acquisition rate, or increasing a click-to-convert rate), a member-targeting optimization module dynamically adjusts the targeted audience of members who are presented with the content posting, with a view to increasing the likelihood that the desired objective will be achieved. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317676 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING AND RESPONDING TO CUSTOMER FEEDBACK - Systems and methods for sending promotions to customers. One system includes a server configured to provide a user interface accessible by an organization over a network connection. The server receives promotion data from the organization through the user interface for a promotion. The promotion data includes at least one offer, an expiration date, and criteria for publishing the promotion. The server collects customer feedback associated with the organization from a plurality of channels. The customer feedback includes feedback from a customer. The server compares the feedback from the customer to the criteria for publishing the promotion. When the feedback satisfies the criteria for publishing the promotion, the server sends the promotion to the customer. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317677 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A CUSTOMIZED SELECTION OF AUDIO CONTENT OVER THE INTERNET - A method an apparatus is provided for providing selected media files, which are chosen from among a plurality of media files, to a user over a packet-switched network such as the Internet. The method begins by receiving over the packet-switched network a request from the user to receive media content. Next, a user profile associated with the user is retrieved from a database. The user profile reflects user preferences in media content to be received over the packet-switched network. The plurality of media files are ranked based at least in part on the user profile. At least one highly ranked media file is selected from among the ranked plurality of media files. At least one of the highly ranked media files is forwarded to the user over the packet-switched network. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317678 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTING AND DISPLAYING ADVERTISEMENTS IN ASSOCIATION WTIH IMAGE BASED SEARCH RESULTS - A computer-implemented method that includes submitting, to a content server, a request for page content, receiving, from the content server, the page content, displaying, via a graphical user interface, the page content, determining whether a user has viewed the page content for at least a threshold period of time, sending to an advertisement server, in response to at least determining that the user has viewed the page content for at least the threshold period of time, an ad-request for an advertisement to be displayed in association with the page content, the ad request specifying keywords associated with the page content displayed, receiving, from the advertisement server, an advertisement based on the keywords, and displaying the advertisement via the graphical user interface. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317679 | ASSOCIATING FEATURES WITH ENTITIES, SUCH AS CATEGORIES OF WEB PAGE DOCUMENTS, AND/OR WEIGHTING SUCH FEATURES - Features that may be used to represent relevance information (e.g., properties, characteristics, etc.) of an entity, such as a document or concept for example, may be associated with the document by accepting an identifier that identifies a document; obtaining search query information (and/or other serving parameter information) related to the document using the document identifier, determining features using the obtained query information (and/or other serving parameter information), and associating the features determined with the document. Weights of such features may be similarly determined. The weights may be determined using scores. The scores may be a function of one or more of whether the document was selected, a user dwell time on a selected document, whether or not a conversion occurred with respect to the document, etc. The document may be a Web page. The features may be n-grams. The relevance information of the document may be used to target the serving of advertisements with the document. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317680 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DELIVERING MEDIA CONTENT WITH ADVERTISEMENTS BASED ON PLAYLIST CONTEXT AND ADVERTISEMENT CAMPAIGNS - Described herein are techniques for streaming digital media content, such as music, video, or television content. In accordance with an embodiment, the system includes support for selection of targeted advertisement or other sponsor-directed content based on a playlist context. A media device enables access by a user to one or more playlists of media content at a media server. Advertisements can be selected for providing to the user, based on one or more characteristics of a playlist, such as the playlist's description, or the playlist being part of an advertisement campaign. For example, a playlist bearing a particular descriptive title can be used to trigger advertisements that may be relevant to that descriptive title. Adding a particular song to a playlist can be used to trigger advertisements that may be relevant to that song. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317681 | MERCHANT CUSTOMER SHARING SYSTEM - Systems and methods for sharing customer traffic between merchants include a system provider device that may establish an alliance between a first merchant at a first merchant location and a second merchant at a second merchant location. The system provider device detects events associated with the first merchant that satisfy one or more merchant activity rules. The system provider may also determine an availability of the second merchant to service one or more customers. Thereafter, the system provider device refers at least one customer at the first merchant location to the second merchant at the second merchant location. In addition, the system provider device may receive bids from a plurality of allied merchants for the referral of the at least one customer, may credit a first merchant account based on a transaction with a referred customer at the second merchant location, and may recognize opportunities for merchant alliances. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317682 | ADVERTISING BEACON FOR RETAIL ENVIRONMENTS - An advertising beacon configured to inductively couple to a power and control system which may include various retail electronic devices such as electronic shelf labels, video monitor displays, out of stock or inventory control sensors, promotional glass displays, and the like. The advertising beacon wirelessly broadcasts content, such as a web address or a programmed computer code associated with a web address, to smart devices which are able to retrieve coupons, advertisements, product information and the like from the web address. The advertising beacon operates in conjunction with other electrical devices of the power and control system to aid a customer's product selection and to aid store personnel's inventory and information management. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317683 | Navigation-Based Advertisement Targeting - A method for providing information to a user comprises receiving, by a user device, data about a route to be taken by the user, and receiving, by the user device, a selection of a type of information from the user. The method further comprises retrieving, by the user device, information from a database based on the data about the route and the selected type of information, and presenting, by the user device, the retrieved information to the user. Moreover, machine-readable media and mobile user devices are described. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317684 | ACOUSTIC TAGS, RELATED COMPUTING DEVICES/SYSTEMS, AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF - A method for mobile advertising, comprising transmitting, by an acoustic tag, a pre-determined acoustic signal associated with the acoustic tag, using a first software program executed on the acoustic tag, initiating, by a handheld electronic device, a monitoring of ambient sound for the emitted acoustic signal associated with the acoustic tag, determining, in the ambient sound, a particular acoustic signal associated with a particular acoustic tag; and presenting at least one advertisement message. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317685 | VIRTUAL BILLBOARD DISPLAY ON A MOBILE DEVICE - A method, system, and apparatus are directed to providing advertising information to a mobile device over a network. A request is received from the mobile device. The request may comprise a query, geo-location information, and/or a user preference. If the request comprises the query, a search result is generated based on a search for the received query and/or the received geo-location information. At least one virtual billboard is determined, wherein the at least one virtual billboard is in proximity with a first geo-location identified by the received geo-location information and/or a second geo-location associated with the search result. The virtual billboard may also be based on a type of the virtual billboard, a time, a user preference (criterion), and/or a keyword included in the query. The virtual billboard is provided to the mobile device. An advertising usage is recorded for the provided virtual billboard. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317686 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PLACING ADVERTISEMENTS BASED ON SOCIAL MEDIA ACTIVITY - Systems and methods for placing advertisements based on social media activity are provided. Control circuitry may retrieve a user profile for the first user and determine whether the media asset matches characteristics of the user profile. The control circuitry may detect that the first user has transmitted a communication to a remote server, which in turn transmits the communication to a plurality of other users associated with the first user on the remote server. The control circuitry may then determine whether the content of the communication is related to the media asset. In response to determining that the content of the communication is not related to the media asset and that the media asset matches characteristics of the user profile, the control circuitry may cause an advertisement to be presented to the user. The control circuitry may responsively present an advertisement. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317687 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYTICS-BASED ADVERTISING - Various systems and methods for analytics-based advertising are described herein. A system for analytics-based advertising comprises a processing module to receive vehicle traffic data; obtain a vehicle identification of a vehicle from the vehicle traffic data, use the vehicle identification to classify the vehicle into a demographic profile, and calculate a demographic model from the demographic profile. The system includes an advertising module to access a group of advertisements and select an advertisement from the group of advertisements based on the demographic model. The system includes a presentation module to cause the advertisement to be displayed on an outdoor advertising apparatus. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317688 | OPTIMIZING A CONTENT CAMPAIGN TO ACHIEVE A DESIRED OBJECTIVE - Techniques to facilitate recommendations for sponsored content campaigns are described. Consistent with some embodiments, subsequent to a member of a social networking service specifying a desired objective to be achieved with a content campaign (e.g., increasing follower acquisition rate, or increasing a click-to-convert rate), a campaign optimization module provides, for a member-specified content posting, a recommended target audience that is most likely to react to the content posting in a manner that will enable the member to achieve the desired objective. Alternatively, a member may specify a desired objective and a target audience, and the campaign optimization module provides a recommendation as to the particular content posting that the member should promote or sponsor in order to achieve the desired objective. | 2015-11-05 |
20150317689 | OPTIMIZING A CONTENT CAMPAIGN TO ACHIEVE A DESIRED OBJECTIVE - Techniques to facilitate recommendations for sponsored content campaigns are described. Consistent with some embodiments, subsequent to a member of a social networking service specifying a desired objective to be achieved with a content campaign (e.g., increasing follower acquisition rate, or increasing a click-to-convert rate), a campaign optimization module provides, for a member-specified content posting, a recommended target audience that is most likely to react to the content posting in a manner that will enable the member to achieve the desired objective. Alternatively, a member may specify a desired objective and a target audience, and the campaign optimization module provides a recommendation as to the particular content posting that the member should promote or sponsor in order to achieve the desired objective. | 2015-11-05 |