46th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 55 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120290319 | AUTOMATIC CODING OF PATIENT OUTCOMES - Systems and methods can mine structured clinical event data in an electronic health record (EHR) system to determine patient outcomes. Mining the structured clinical event data instead of or in addition to mining discharge summaries can increase the accuracy of patient outcome identification. Sophisticated language models can be used to extract outcomes from discharge summaries while also inferring outcomes from cues or hints contained in the structured clinical event data. For example, the clinical event data can include information regarding treatments and medications prescribed by clinicians to specifically manage patient complications; thus, presence or absence of relevant treatments in the clinical event data can provide independent indicators to disambiguate cases where current language processing approaches fail. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290320 | SYSTEM FOR LEVERAGING SOCIAL AND RESTRICTED AVAILABILITY CONTENT IN CLINICAL PROCESSES, AND A METHOD THEREOF - A system for data integration and collation of medical data is described. The system includes: a plurality of data stores comprising untraditional profile data; a gateway communicating with the data stores; a database comprising a patient medical record, a prescribed protocol, and a rule set describing the prescribed protocol; and a medical rule evaluator for accessing the rule set and applying the rule set to the untraditional profile data to generate key indicators. Also described is a data collection system including a plurality of data sources and a plurality of connectors, wherein the data sources include data from a untraditional profile data source and a clinical data source, a connector and source are paired, and each paired connector converts source data between a first format and a second format different from the first format medical protocol; and a core transaction processing system. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290321 | Computer implemented compensation for medical services - A computer implemented method and system for compensating costs for medical services are provided. The system has at least three actors, a compensation unit, a referring computer and a service computer for executing the medical service ordered by the referring computer. After receiving a medical report as result of the medical services rendered, the referring computer is an evaluation unit for accessing quality of the medical service. Evaluation data are transmitted to the compensation unit for computation of compensation for the medical service taken into account the evaluation data for accessing quality of the medical service. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290322 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COORDINATING THE DELIVERY OF HIGH-QUALITY HEALTH CARE OVER AN INFORMATION NETWORK - The field of the invention relates to systems and methods for managing healthcare information systems, and more particularly to systems and methods for coordinating the delivery of high-quality health care and medical services over an information network. In one embodiment, a processing server is configured to electronically receive a patient's health information over a data network from one or more patient systems. The processing server also includes a computer program product having a computer-usable medium including a sequence of instructions which, when executed by a processor, causes said processor to execute a process that coordinates the delivery of transferrable patient health information and provides preoperative testing recommendations based on a single acquisition of electronic patient health information. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290323 | INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATION FOR HEALTHCARE - This disclosure relates to a visualization tool that can be implemented to facilitate medical decision making by providing an interactive graphical map of relevant health data. The interactive map can include graphical elements representing health data that can be obtained from an EHR and associations between such data that are represented by graphical connections. The graphical elements and associations can be modified to reflect medical decision making. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290324 | DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES FOR CONTINUOUS STORAGE AND JOINT ANALYSIS OF BOTH IMAGE AND NON-IMAGE MEDICAL DATA - An apparatus comprises: a database ( | 2012-11-15 |
20120290325 | SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATION OF HEALTH CARE DATA - An apparatus for communicating health care data from a sender to a receiver is provided. The apparatus has a first computer system, a second computer system, and a rules engine. The first computer system has health care data stored therein. The second computer system is in operable communication with, and is configured to extract the health care data from, the first computer system. The rules engine normalizes the extracted health care data to a predefined format. The rules engine defines a plurality of health care data fields in the predefined format, as well as a plurality of relationships between fields of normalized data. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290326 | AUTHORIZATION PROCESS FOR HIGH INTENSITY MEDICAL INTERVENTIONS - A process is provided for gaining third party authorization for a medical intervention for a patient. The process includes a dialogue between a user and a computer, facilitated by an algorithm in the computer. A user enters into the computer medical information about the patient and an authorization request for a medical intervention for the patient. The algorithm generates one or more questions responsive to the information and authorization request, directed to refining an assessment of whether the medical intervention is indicated. The user enters into the computer one or more answers responsive to the one or more questions. The algorithm generates feedback responsive to the one or more answers. The feedback instructs the user as to whether or not the medical intervention is indicated. The algorithm permits the user to withdraw the request throughout the process but ultimately grants the request if the user does not withdraw the request. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290327 | MEDICAL HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR HEALTH ASSESSMENT, WEIGHT MANAGEMENT AND MEAL PLANNING - A system and method provide nutrition assessments and tools for enabling users to achieve health-related goals based on specific health needs. The tools can include a nutrition assessment tool, a weight solution tool, a meal planning tool, and a meal tracking tool. The method includes receiving patient phenotype data. The phenotype data can include, but is not limited to, biometric data specific to the patient, medical claims data specific to the patient, organizational data specific to an organization to which the patient belongs, and behavioral data including dietary habits and nutritional history. One or more algorithms are executed on at least one processor of a computing apparatus to provide analyses of patient data in order. The results are output to a user in various web pages customized to provide features to the user. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290328 | SEARCHING AN ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD - A method, system, and medium are provided for searching an electronic medical record. Search results are returned in response to a search query. The search query may be one or more designated medical concepts. The search results may be displayed according to a ranking that determines which search results are likely to be the most responsive to a query submitted by a particular clinician based on matching the most important clinical concepts in each document to the most important clinical concepts in the search query. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290329 | SOCIAL NETWORK PLATFORM FOR UNDERWRITING - A social networking platform for peer-to-peer underwriting is disclosed. A user's social network acquaintances may be contacted or otherwise polled to determine their agreeability with serving as an underwriter for the user's desired financial services in order to reduce (or eliminate) the financial risk of providing the financial services to the user by the financial services provider. With a plurality of acquaintances willing to underwrite, the financial risk may be substantially dispersed among numerous acquaintances while the user is granted their desired financial services (or a reduced rate for the financial services). | 2012-11-15 |
20120290330 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WEB-BASED INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION - Systems and methods are disclosed herein for determining an insurance evaluation based on an industrial classification. The system includes a content processor, a computerized predictive model, and a business logic processor. The content processor retrieves content from a website related to an entity seeking an insurance policy and extracts data from the website content. The computerized predictive model accepts the data extracted from the website content from the content processor, processes the extracted data, and outputs data indicative of at least one industrial classification associated with the entity. The business logic processor determines an insurance evaluation of the entity based on its industrial classification(s). | 2012-11-15 |
20120290331 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING DEFERRED ANNUITIES WITH AN INCOME RESET FEATURE - Methods and corresponding systems are provided for providing and administering deferred annuities with an annuity reset feature that provide periodic income payments to an annuitant for a term beginning at a start date. The methods include the step or steps of: receiving annuity information for an annuitant; determining at a first date one of a purchase price and an amount of at least one income payment due to the annuitant at the start date. The purchase price or the amount of at least one income payment due the annuitant includes a fee for the annuity reset feature that resets at least one variable of the annuity at a reset date later than the first date if the at least one variable of the annuity at the reset date is more beneficial to the annuitant than at least the first date; and offering the annuity with the reset feature to the annuitant. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290332 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ONLINE AGENCY - The present disclosure describes novel systems and methods for a customer to receive information and/or purchase a product or service while interacting with multiple vendors through a single contact/agency. The customer is able to communicate with the agency through a variety of communication modes. The agency adapts the customer's input as necessary to meet the requirements of the vendors and the agency returns information to the customer so that the customer can conveniently interact with the multiple vendors. The systems and methods allow for the customer to stop and restart the process at various points using any of the communication modes. The agency has the ability to present the customer with prospecting, sales, service, upgrades, cross-sells, and other pre- and post-purchase services at the single point-of-contact agency. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290333 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REPAIR CALCULATION, REPLACEMENT CALCULATION, AND INSURANCE ADJUSTMENT - Disclosed is a novel system and method that provides real time information to an insurance adjuster. The system obtains information related to an insured item which has an outstanding claim. Information includes the cost to repair a specific item, the salvage value of the item, and the cost to replace the item. The system then compares the information related to the insured item from an economic perspective to determine whether it should be repaired or replaced. Since the system is objective, it reduces the reliance on subjective human factors such as collusion and lack of expertise. As a result, the system reduces the number of fraudulent and inaccurate transactions related to the specific item. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290334 | System and Method for Producing a Flexible Geographical Grid - A variable resolution grid provides a mechanism for focusing specific concentrations of risk exposure on a geographical grid to determine projected loss caused by a particular catastrophe. The geographic grid provides a stable base map by using latitudes and longitudes to define the grid points and cells. Each cell is assigned a geographic identifier or geocode that identifies the location of the cell and its associated resolution. The resolution of the grid may be varied depending in part, on the resolution of any available of hazard data. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290335 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING OF DATA RELATED TO UNDERWRITING OF INSURANCE - This invention relates generally to a computer system and method for integrating insurance policy underwriting. In one aspect it integrates the older legacy insurance policy generating systems to on line systems where users access the system through browsers. The computer system to perform the process of underwriting, rating, quoting, binding, and booking an insurance policy includes browsers, data bases, processors and a dispatcher that parses the information to select an insurance process. Suitable software programs review messages received from users to determine if certain messages are less than a prescribed limit. If a message is greater than the limit, then the message is parsed into a header information and one or more data fields whereby the header information is provided to a legacy processor and to policy generation software for further creation of policy related information and documentation. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290336 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING EVENT-RELATED INCENTIVES - Systems, methods, and devices for providing event-related incentives are provided. For example, a device for managing an electronic event ticket may include a processor configured to run an electronic ticket management application, a memory device configured to store data associated with the electronic ticket management application, an electronic display configured to display at least a portion of the data associated with the electronic ticket management application, and an input/output interface configured to receive an electronic ticket and the data associated with the electronic ticket for management by the electronic ticket management application. The electronic ticket management application may be configured to enable the electronic device to gain entry to an event and to obtain at least one other event-related benefit after the electronic ticket is received by the input/output interface. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290337 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SHARING DEMAND-RESPONSE DATA - A system and method for sharing demand-response data is provided. The system includes a communications interface and storage. The communications interface enables communication with transit operator systems of transit operators. The storage stores customer profiles from the transit operators for customers thereof, the customer profiles including customer data. Computer-executable instructions are executed by at least one processor of the computer system for synchronizing said customer profiles with said transit operator systems | 2012-11-15 |
20120290338 | System and Method for Electronic Reservations, Booking, and Payments - The present invention is a system and method for electronic reservations providing the ability to send and confirm bookings directly into a point of sale (POS) terminal. The POS can be either or both internal or external to the system. Additionally, Affiliate programs are included in the system. The system allows both advertising and booking managers to control the advertising and booking of time specific opportunities and services and the user to pay for the services provided by the system. The system also handles the distribution of payments and benefits to the Affiliates, Service Providers and Customers. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290339 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RESOURCE ALLOCATION - Systems and methods are described for processing queue data and for providing queue messaging over a network. An illustrative queuing system includes a first queue configured to hold resource requests from a plurality of users, and program code stored in computer readable memory configured to determine or estimate whether a resource requested by a first resource request submitted by a first requester will be available when the first resource request will be serviced, and to transmit a message over a network to the first requester indicating that the requested resource will not be available when the queued request is serviced if it is estimated or determined that the requested resource will not be available when the first request is serviced. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290340 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING CONCURRENT PURCHASE OF ANY COMBINATION OF TICKETS, CONCESSIONS AND MERCHANDIZE FOR ENTERTAINMENT AND SPORTING EVENTS LEVERAGING WEB, MOBILE DEVICES AND SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLS - The preferred embodiment of the present invention is directed to a method, system and apparatus to automate the sale and purchase of entertainment tickets along with concessions and/or merchandize, individually or as a package, in the electronic media comprising web, mobile apps and social media channels. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290341 | Method and Apparatus for Customer Direct On-Line Reservation of Rental Vehicles Including Deep-Linking - A method and apparatus are disclosed for expediting how rental vehicle reservations can be booked by employing deep-link uniform resource locators (URLs) that encode aspects of a rental vehicle reservation transaction to relieve users of a need to enter reservation data themselves when booking a rental vehicle reservation. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290342 | PRODUCT LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES - Product lifecycle management techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a request is received from a user for information relating to product lifecycle management of a product associated with an enterprise and a job function of the user within the enterprise is determined. Information that relates to the product is collected and displayed in a user interface using a format and terminology that corresponds to the determined job function. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290343 | Work Order Audit System - A system for auditing and analyzing work performed by other individuals is disclosed. Data is imported into the system, where the data represents one or more elements of work performed at one or more locations. This data is parsed out into individual items to be audited. These items, along with a number of questions with discrete answers are then transmitted by the system to one or more auditing technicians who audit the work performed by capturing one or more visual images. These visual images, along with answers to the questions are then transmitted back to the system. The system then saves the visual images and associated answers for archiving and generating reports. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290344 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING EMISSIONS OF GREENHOUSE GASES (GHG) IN THE PRODUCTION OF BIOPRODUCTS - A method for quickly and remotely GHG emissions without providing the sources of raw material production means to collect parameters is disclosed. The method uses a processing unit for executing instructions related to the determination of emissions, a database to store relevant parameters related to the production of raw materials, means of transmission of data to recover the parameters of the database and transmit these parameters to the processing unit, and a modeling module of GHG emissions connected to the processing unit and adapted to generate a level of GHG emissions. The method comprises considering a partial estimate for emissions in relation to any process and an add value for such global GHG emissions. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290345 | Smarter Business Intelligence Systems - An embodiment of the invention provides a method and system for analyzing a plurality of reports. More specifically, a change detection module predicts results of future reports based on past reports and identifies a first report that deviates from its predicted results. A dependency analysis module connected to the change detection module at least one report sharing a dependency with the first report by performing a dependency analysis and/or a usage analysis. The dependency analysis labels the first report and at least one second report as sharing a dependency if the second report deviates from its predicted results. The usage analysis labeling the first report and at least one report analyzed by an analyst as sharing a dependency if the report analyzed by the analyst is analyzed in response to the identification of the first report. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290346 | EXECUTING A BUSINESS PROCESS BY A STANDARD BUSINESS PROCESS ENGINE - Executing a business process can include providing a context data object including a payload data structure for storing a payload data and automatically splitting an annotated context data object into one or more utility data objects. Responsive to creating a second utility data object, a pre-processing task can be injected into the business process, the pre-processing task using a copy of a first mapping to read data from the predefined data structure instance and to store the read data as payload data in the payload data structure of the first utility data object. Responsive to creating a third utility object, a post-processing task can be injected into the business process. The post-processing task can use a copy of the second mapping to write the payload data of the first utility data object to elements of a predefined data structure instance. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290347 | PROGRESS MONITORING METHOD - The progress monitoring method is based on a critical path method (CPM) and conducts comparisons against multiple possible outcomes utilizing neural networks that classify planned progress at specified cut-off dates during a planning stage. The classifications are used to monitor and evaluate actual progress during the construction stage. The pattern recognition techniques generalize a virtual benchmark to represent planned progress based on multiple possible outcomes generated at each cut-off date. The generalization feature overcomes the problem of variation in the quality of data collected. Patterns are constructed to encode planned and actual progress at different cut-off dates. Patterns are readily manipulated within computer programs and substitute for photographs, which are not comprehensive in representing the work status of interior and hidden parts of the under-construction facilities. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290348 | ROUTING SERVICE REQUESTS BASED ON LOWEST ACTUAL COST WITHIN A FEDERATED VIRTUAL SERVICE CLOUD - A method for providing a virtual cloud service at the lowest actual cost can begin with an optimal transaction handler of a federated virtual service cloud maintaining a virtual resource pool of transactional units. Each transactional unit can represent a service application deployed to a cloud service provided by a cloud service provider having a usage-based service cost model that allows transactional units to be placed in an inactive state to suspend its operating expense. Operational metrics data for the cloud service providers can be continuously captured. In response to a service request, the transactional unit that meets fulfillment requirements of the service request and incurs a lowest actual cost can be determined based upon cost factors derived from the operational metrics data, the usage-based service cost model, and a current usage state of the virtual resource pool. The received service request can be routed to the determined transactional unit. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290349 | Real-Time Product Delivery During Customer-Driven Point Of Sale Retail Transactions - According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, an approach is provided in which a product request is received that corresponds to a point-of-sale (POS) device, which is located at a merchant facility. In addition to identifying a product location corresponding to the product, an employee location of an employee in proximity to the product location is also identified. In turn, an electronic message is sent to the employee's mobile device that includes a request to transport the product from the product location to the POS device. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290350 | WORKFLOW SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSOR, AND MEHTOD AND PROGRAM FOR WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT - A workflow system is provided in which one person in charge efficiently processes each activity assigned to successive nodes. When a client request management program execution unit | 2012-11-15 |
20120290351 | SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED SALES TEAM IDENTIFICATION AND/OR CREATION - A system identifies candidate persons of an enterprise team, such as a sales team. An example method includes providing a first user option to select one or more persons based on a first set of one or more criteria, yielding an indication of one or more candidate persons in response thereto; retrieving data for each of the one or more candidate persons, wherein the data includes information comprising a first metric and a second metric; and providing a second user option to chose one or more candidate persons for an enterprise team based on the one or more indications of one or more candidate persons and the metrics. The example method further includes graphically depicting one or more indications of one or more candidate persons based on the first metric and the second metric, which may include measurements of a person's versatility and sales performance history, respectively. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290352 | Systems and methods for efficient delivery of financial advisory services - System comprising a set of interconnected processors for managing the delivery of financial advisory services. In one embodiment, the system manages activities and workflows for a plurality of clients over a financial planning period. The financial planning period may comprise a calendar year, which may be divided into distinct seasonal portions, each with a predetermined, specific focus on a financial topic or grouping of topics. Workflow of the firm may be controlled by utilizing a plurality of processors to automate workflow handling. A first processor is used for individual client scheduling, a second processor aggregates the appointments, calculates utilization metrics based thereon, and a third processor generates reports, providing feedback to modulate input into the first processor. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290353 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC CHANNEL OPTIMIZER - Systems and methods are described for determining an allocation of resources among a plurality of channels. In one embodiment, a business objective is received as user input that corresponds to a participant in a market or business sector. A business segment corresponding to the market participant's products or interests, one or more products within the business segment, and a market channel of the plurality of channels is selected by the user, also as user input. Once these inputs have been established, an high performing allocation resources for achieving the business objective is generated for that market channel. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290354 | Pegging Resources to Shipments in a Pre-Existing Production Plan - In software systems for resource-constrained production planning (RCPP), it is often beneficial to determine a detailed association, or “pegging”, between the resources and the shipments that are enabled by those resources. The method implemented in the software systems is called “Pegging By Explosion” (PBE), for constructing a pegging of a production plan for an RCPP problem. The Pegging By Explosion technique takes a feasible production plan and reconstructs it, using its own specialized incremental allocation technique. A Pegging By Monitoring technique is applied to this reconstruction in order to produce the pegging. The reconstruction is accomplished by a specialized “explosion” technique related to the explosion technique of Material Requirements Planning (MRP). | 2012-11-15 |
20120290355 | Identification of Customer Behavioral Characteristic Data - Systems and methods for identifying one or more customer behavioral characteristics based on data received from one or more sources is provided. The system and method include receiving customer data from a first source which may include a current access parameter and a plurality of previous access parameters. A pattern may be identified in the current access parameter and previous access parameters. The system and method may include receiving customer data from a second data source different from the first data source. A second current access parameter and second plurality of previous parameters may be received and a pattern may be identified between the second current access parameter and the second previous parameters. The identified patterns may be compiled to identify one or more customer behavioral characteristics. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290356 | METHOD FOR OPERATING AN ONLINE SERVICE FOR EVALUATING AND AWARDING WEBSITES - The present invention relates to a method for operating an online service for evaluating and awarding websites. The objective for implementing the technology is to provide a method for operating an online service for evaluating and awarding websites, which enables an evaluation service operator server to invite public participation for providing an award and to receive applications from a variety of newly constructed or renewed websites in each field, and which selects, on the basis of preset evaluation criteria, a website that provides excellent service, and awards the selected website, to thereby propose website construction technologies and technical changes and direction. Therefore, to achieve the above objective, the present invention comprises the following specific means: an evaluation service operator server including an automatic information-processing unit, a registration applying unit, an evaluation board selecting unit, a review and evaluation processing unit, an information and data searching unit and an evaluation report generating unit; a website evaluation application server which applies and registers websites to be evaluated to the evaluation service operator server; and a user server which provides review and evaluation information on the applied websites. In addition, the objective of the present invention is accomplished by using the above-described system, and performing an evaluation registration applying step, a registration-type selecting step, an evaluation board selecting step, a review and evaluation preparing step, a review and evaluating step, a ranking processing step, a winner selecting step, and an award result information processing step. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290357 | IDENTIFYING INDUSTRY SEGMENTS WITH HIGHEST POTENTIAL FOR NEW CUSTOMERS OR NEW SPENDING FOR CURRENT CUSTOMERS - A method and system are used to identify industry segments with highest potential for new customers or new spending for current customers. This includes receiving data, segregated into each of a plurality of industries, relating to a number of small businesses, cost of goods sold for each of the small businesses, and percentage of cost of goods sold that is spent on raw materials and inventory for each of the small businesses. Capturing data, segregated into each of the plurality of industries, relating to average amount charged per current card member, percentage of the current card members charging the raw materials and the inventory, percentage of card member penetration, and total estimated charging for the current card members. Determining which of the plurality of industries or segments are available for a highest potential for new card members. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290358 | Loyalty Measurement - A computer-implemented system measures loyalty of one partner to another partner in a relationship, such as the loyalty of a company's customer to the company. The first partner's loyalty is measured by obtaining information from the partner, such as through answers to survey questions, about the partner's perception of the climate of the relationship. A loyalty index function may be applied to scores associated with the answers to produce a single loyalty index representing the first partner's loyalty to the other partner. The system may recommend that the second partner change their practices to increase the first partner's loyalty index. For example, the system may recommend that the second partner improve practices related to “satisfier” dimensions of the relationship, and/or that the second partner improve practices which empirical data have demonstrated to correlate most strongly with increased loyalty. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290359 | PREDICTING SUCCESS OF A PROPOSED PROJECT - A computer implemented method, system, and/or computer program product predicts a success of a currently proposed project. Responsive answers to a survey questionnaire for a currently proposed project are received and used to create a predicted success score for the currently proposed project, based on a pattern of responsive answers to a predetermined combination of questions from the survey questionnaire. The predicted success score for the currently proposed project is compared with and matched to actual success scores from prior projects. If the percentage of prior projects that retained their success scores through completion exceeds a predetermined accuracy threshold, then the currently proposed project is approved for implementation. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290360 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MAPPING LOCATIONS OF WIRELESS TRANSMITTERS FOR USE IN GATHERING MARKET RESEARCH DATA - Methods and systems are provided for mapping locations of wireless transmitters for use in gathering market research data. A layout map includes location data representing a plurality of locations within a market research area. Transmitter data representing respective ones of the wireless transmitters is provided and the transmitter data is associated with the location data. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290361 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EFFICIENTLY ESTIMATING A RELIABLE PRICE ELASTICITY OF DEMAND USING THE JOINT DEMAND MODEL - The present invention relates to a system and method for efficiently estimating the sensitivity, or elasticity, of customer demand to changes in price in a business-to-business market environment. More particularly, this method relies on a parametric demand model, and a corresponding offer model which is referred to as the Joint Demand Model. This model is used to estimate the elasticity of market segments using win-only transactional data. In addition, this invention provides a method for efficiently calculating the estimation error of the estimated elasticity, and uses such estimation error in a weighting scheme based on a hierarchical model in order to produce a reliable estimate of elasticity. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290362 | METHOD OF MEASUREMENT OF EMISSIONS OF GREENHOUSE GAS INDUSTRY RELATED BIOPRODUCTS - The method hereby described allows the measurement of greenhouse gas emissions produced during feedstock production, processing thereof in said transport byproduct and byproduct from different sources of material, considering the transportation of said raw material taken as fountain. The method comprises capturing, processing and manipulating different parameters and data regarding GHG emissions associated with each task needed to produce and distribute the byproduct and the provision of that byproduct and/or source material that will be transformed into the bioproduct, with in order to generate an overall value of greenhouse gas emissions. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290363 | METHOD OF MONITORING SUSTAINABILITY OF BIOPRODUCTS - Described herein is a method of monitoring the origin and composition of bioproducts such as biofuels that are the result of mixing more than one type of biofuel, thereby ensuring that a particular bioproduct presents a certain amount of a particular type of each bioproduct with corresponding emissions related data and sustainability. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290364 | SCORING SUPPLIER PERFORMANCE - A method includes receiving a supplier scoring tree having a first node including a first function of supplier performance connected via a first link to a second node operative to receive a first value associated with a metric of the supplier performance, receiving the first value, performing the first function of the first node, outputting a result of the function to a display, and displaying the result value to a user for analysis of supplier performance by the user. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290365 | SYSTEM FOR SELECTING EMPLOYMENT CANDIDATES - A computer system receives data relating to a plurality of persons. The persons are employed in the same occupation. A portion of the persons is top performers in the occupation, and a portion of the persons is bottom performers in the occupation. The data relates to personal traits and performance traits. The data is input into a software-based neural network, and the neural network generates models for the personal traits as a function of the personal traits and the performance traits of the top performers. The neural network further generates a performance model, which is made up of the models. The performance model is configured to determine that a particular person will likely be a top performer in the occupation. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290366 | OPTIMIZATION OF PURCHASE BENEFITS BY USE OF MULTIPLE FINANCIAL ACCOUNTS - Systems and methods for optimization of purchase benefits by use of multiple financial accounts are disclosed. According to an aspect, a method includes determining a category among multiple categories for each purchase item of multiple purchase items. The method may include determining reward program benefits associated with financial accounts. Further, the method may include associating each purchase item with one of the financial accounts based on the category of the purchase item and the reward program benefits. A purchase item may be associated with the financial account that provides the greatest monetary benefit in exchange for purchase of the purchase item. The method may also include conducting a plurality of purchase transactions for purchasing the purchase items. Each purchase transaction may use a different one of the financial accounts to purchase the purchase item(s) associated with the financial account. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290367 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING A SAVINGS GOAL - Example embodiments describe a method and a system to control activities of a financial account. In example embodiments, a secondary account is linked to a primary account. Within the secondary account, a spending account and a savings account are established. A savings goal in the savings account of the secondary account that enables a portion of the savings account of the secondary account to be set aside is created. The savings goal includes a goal amount. An automatic purchase of a product associated with the savings goal upon the goal amount being met may be allowed. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290368 | POINT-OF-SALE SYSTEM USING PREPAID/GIFT CARD NETWORK - A method and an apparatus for operating a gift card network are disclosed. The system receives registration data from first and second merchants, each having one or more points of sale, and processes the registration data to establish membership of the merchants in a gift card network. The system then receives card issuance data from the first merchant, the card issuance data reflecting at least a unique serial number and a monetary value associated with a network gift card issued by the first merchant. The network gift card is redeemable at the first merchant or at other merchants which have established membership in the gift card network. When a transaction occurs in which the card issued by the first merchant is used at the second merchant, transaction data is received from the second merchant, the transaction data indicating that at least a portion of the monetary value of the network gift card has been redeemed at the second merchant. In response, the system applies a credit to the first merchant, the credit being equal to or derived from the value that has been redeemed at the second merchant. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290369 | REFERENDUM ENHANCED SUBSCRIPTION BASED APPLICATION SYSTEM - The present invention is directed toward a system and method for conducting a referendum. The system comprises a subscription based application having a content and a referendum having at least one attribute wherein the at least one attribute is relevant to the content and the referendum is presented in close proximity to the content within the subscription based application. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290370 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING BRAND LOYALTY - A system for tracking brand interactions is provided. The system includes a memory and at least one processor coupled to the memory. The at least processor is configured to receive information defining a plurality of brand interactions, receive a first indication of a first interaction defined within the plurality of brand interactions from a first source system, receive a second indication of a second interaction defined within the plurality of brand interactions from a second source system different from the first source system, and record an association between the brand, the first interaction, the second interaction and the brand enthusiast. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290371 | RESPONSE ATTRIBUTION VALUATION - A computer-implemented method is described for determining a response attribution value that represents a credit assignment to a communication, for an associated response received from a recipient during a marketing campaign. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290372 | DIGITAL COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A system for targeting contextually relevant digital communications based on past, current, or forecasted weather conditions is disclosed. The system receives passive location information from a viewer and a real-time feed of weather information from a weather database. The disclosed system assesses the weather condition in a given location and then manages the display and rotation of advertisements with both direct and indirect weather dependencies. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290373 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MARKETING-BASED DYNAMIC ATTRIBUTION - A computer implemented method and apparatus for determining marketing-based attribution that may be used for targeted and effective acquisition of customers when multiple marketing interactions are employed to target the consumers attention. The method and apparatus provide also provides a mechanism for appropriately rewarding the marketing partners in customer acquisition. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290374 | Social Marketplace Process and Architecture - A method and system are disclosed for managing social commerce within a social media environment. A merchant implements a social commerce storefront on behalf of an affiliate, who selects a subset of available products contained in a master catalog. The selected products are then displayed as purchasable products within the affiliate's social commerce storefront. Users of various social media environments are then referred by the affiliate to the social commerce storefront, where they purchase the merchant's products. In turn, the affiliate receives a portion of each sale as compensation for referring the user. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290375 | Multi-Consumer Classification and Automated Rewards-Based System - Approaches for reward based system for multiple consumers organized as a group. Group data and incentive data are stored. Group data identifies a group of users that have entered into an agreement to negotiate, as a single entity, with a seller for terms of a loyalty rewards program. Incentive data identifies a negotiated loyalty rewards program between the group and the seller. User profile data that identifies that the payment instrument is associated with the particular user may also be stored. Upon receiving payment data from a payment processor associated with a payment instrument of a particular user of the group, whether the particular user is entitled to receive a particular reward based upon (a) a purchase of the particular user identified in the payment data and (b) the negotiated loyalty rewards program is determined. The payment instrument may be credited with a monetary sum corresponding to the particular reward. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290376 | PROCESSING ELECTRONIC PAYMENT INVOLVING MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - Mobile payments and processing data related to electronic transactions. A near field communication connection is established between a mobile communication device of a consumer that serves as a mobile wallet and an electronic payment device of a merchant. Authorization data is shared between the mobile communication device and the electronic payment device without providing electronic payment instrument (e.g. credit card) data to the merchant. Authorization data is transmitted from the mobile communication device to a cloud computer or resource that serves as a cloud wallet and hosts respective data of respective electronic payment instruments of respective consumers, and from the electronic payment device a payment processor computer. The payment processor computer presents the authorization data to the cloud wallet, and in response, the cloud wallet transmits the credit card data to the payment processor computer, which processes the transaction. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290377 | PROVIDING SUBSET OF PRODUCTS - A product adaptor of a server receives a request from an interface application associated with the product adaptor. The request includes a request for a subset of all available products that are offered by a communication service provider. The subset of the products includes particular products that a user is permitted to purchase. The product adaptor determining whether a cache of the product adaptor stores a response that satisfies the request based on information in the request. The response includes information about the subset of the products. The product adaptor retrieves the response from the cache of the product adaptor when the cache of the product adaptor stores the response. The product adaptor further transmits the information about the subset of the products to the interface application. The interface application utilizes the information about the subset of the products to offer one or more of the particular products to the user. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290378 | PROMOTION PROCESSOR AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A data processing system employs a unique coded promotional vehicle to attract customers into retail establishments for the purchase of discounted goods. The promotional vehicle includes coupon styled graphics integrated with a code to allow data tracking by the store pursuant to purchases by that customer. The promotional vehicle is easier and less costly to distribute compared to the prior art, avoids cutting of coupons, and post purchase redemptions. The system further allows more targeted discounting at a lower cost, and substantially reducing fraud by eliminating post purchase coupon processing and redemption. Additionally, the system provides for selective deactivation of the code for each discount used by redemption of the vehicle without deactivating the code for the discounts not used so that the code may remain selectively active for future use. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290379 | System and method for facilitating the onboarding of prospective payersto an electronic payment system. - A system for marketing, to a prospective payer, a system which automates payments to enrolled vendors. The system comprises a vendor history file received from the prospective payer which associates identifying attributes and annual spend value with each target vendor to which the payer makes payments. Marketing instructions include, for each target vendor, determining a rebate potential by: i) using the identifying attributes to determine a industry code to associate with the target vendor; ii) using the industry code to look up a sensitivity rating; iii) calculating a transaction fee rate as a function of the sensitivity rating; and iv) calculating rebate potential as the product of the spend value multiplied by the transaction fee rate. An onboard report includes identification of the prospective payer and in association with the identification of the prospective payer, the rebate potential. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290380 | REWARD TRAVEL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE AND METHODS - There is disclosed a system, including a computer system, for managing travel points. In one embodiment, the system includes a single graphical user interface provided by a website, the single graphical user interface configured with a plurality of different rewards programs. The system includes a query tool configured to allow searching for award instance based on one of miles and points. The system includes a booking tool configured to facilitate online booking for at least one of regular fares and award redemptions. The system also includes software that determines relevant loyalty program bonus details, credit card offers, or program membership offers to feature in the search results. Other embodiments are also disclosed. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290381 | Electronic payment system with variable transaction fee and variable rebate capabilities - A system for making payments from each payer of a community of payers to each supplier of a community of suppliers assesses a variable transaction fee to each supplier. The system comprises a database which associates, for each payer, identification of a group of transaction rates to apply to payments made by the payer. Associated with each transaction rate is a subgroup of suppliers to which the transaction rate applies on payments made by the payer. In response to receiving a payment instruction, a payment application generates a credit transaction to the account of the supplier in the amount of the payment less a transaction fee. The transaction fee is the amount of the first payment multiplied by the transaction rate, of the group of transaction rates associated with the payer, that associates with the subgroup of suppliers to which the first supplier is associated. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290382 | Electronic payment system with payer controlled transaction fees and variable rebate capabilities - A system makes payments from each payer of a community of payers to each vendor of a community of vendors, assesses a variable transaction fee to each vendor, and provides a variable rebate to each payer. The transaction fee is “variable” because it may be varied: i) amongst vendors (the same payer may use different fee rates for different vendors); and ii) amongst payers (the same vendor may be subjected to different rates, based on the payer making the payment). The variable rebate is based on the total transaction fee applicable to payments made by the payer during a period of time. The rebate may be the sum of: i) the product of the total transaction fee multiplied by a base rebate percentage; and ii) the product of that portion of the total transaction fee in excess of an accelerator threshold multiplied by an accelerated rebate percentage. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290383 | Systems and Methods to Advertise a Physical Business Location with Digital Location-Based Coupons - Methods and systems that record the location of a user and transmit targeted content to a user based upon their current and past location information. A network is configured to include a server programmed with a database of targeted content, a database of location information, a database of user information, a database searching algorithm, and a wireless communication system capable of communicating with the user's mobile device. The location of the mobile device is ascertained and recorded. The location information is analyzed to determine the routes taken by the user, businesses visited by the user, and other behaviors of the user. Targeted content is sent to the mobile device of the user and whether the user visits the physical locations associated with the targeted content is monitored. Once it is verified that the user has visited the physical location, then any associated promotional offers may be authorized. Payment systems, phone exchange systems, and other features may also be integrated to provide detailed conversion tracking to producers of targeted content and business owners. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290384 | RESIDUAL FUNDRAISING AND ADVERTISING SYSTEM - A benefit card may be presented to a retailer to cause a portion of the proceeds be directed to a beneficiary selected by the cardholder. The benefit card may be used to direct advertisements or coupons to cardholders. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290385 | RESPONSE ATTRIBUTION VALUATION - A computer-implemented method is described for determining a response attribution value that represents a credit assignment to a communication, for an associated response received from a recipient during a marketing campaign. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290386 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING KEYWORD BIDDING PRICES - A computer-implemented method and system for managing keyword bidding prices are disclosed. An example system embodiment includes an automatic keyword bidding module, operably coupled with a processor and a memory, operable to determine a revenue per click value associated with a keyword, obtain bidding information associated with the keyword, obtain automatic bid controls associated with the keyword, and automatically generate a bid value for the keyword based on the revenue per click value, the bidding information, and the automatic bid controls. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290387 | System and Method of Advertising for Objects Displayed on a Webpage - A method of advertising for objects displayed on a webpage of a website hosted by a web server accessible over a network, the method comprising electronically associating one or more objects displayed in an element on the webpage with respective keywords identifying the one or more objects, retrieving advertising data for the one or more objects based on the respective keywords from at least one data store in data communication with the web server, and outputting the advertising data with the one or more objects for display with the element on the webpage. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290388 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPLETING AN ONLINE TRANSACTION REQUEST ON A NETWORK DEVICE - A method for completing an online transaction request on a network device is disclosed. The method includes collecting transaction information and providing a visible transaction window interface on a network device. The method also includes providing transaction information in the visible transaction window interface. The method further includes initiating an online transaction request from the visible transaction window interface and determining whether the request was successful. The method also includes providing notice as to the results of the transaction request. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290389 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MATCHING PURCHASE TRANSACTION HISTORY TO REAL-TIME LOCATION INFORMATION - Embodiments are described for a system and method for providing a list of current offers from retailers to a user operating a mobile client device. Aspects of the method comprise analyzing a transaction history of the user to identify a vendor who has transacted with the user; determining a present geographic location of the user based on a location of the mobile client device; determining a location of the vendor proximate the user based on the transaction history and the present geographic location of the user; searching for a current promotion offered by the vendor; and facilitating the serving of the current promotion to the user through the mobile client device. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290390 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TAKE-OUT ORDER ANALYTICS - Systems and methods for take-out order management and analysis. In an embodiment, for each of a plurality of restaurants, an interactive menu associated with the restaurant is provided to a plurality of users, a plurality of orders are received from the plurality of users, and the plurality of orders are sent to the restaurant. Order information related to the plurality of orders and the plurality of users is stored in at least one database, and analyzed. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290391 | CLIENT AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING SELECTABLE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES LISTS TO USERS OF MOBILE DEVICES - A system for mobile devices that facilitates the creation and dissemination of interactive media to a plurality of mobile devices and PCs/laptops that comprise a client component. The interactive media may comprise of a list of products and services that are for sale and the user can select one or more for purchase. It may also comprise a list of real estate entries with associated user interest solicitation and the user can indicate his interest in one or more of the entries. The server can help the user make an appointment to view the corresponding real estate properties. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290392 | Contextual Keywords Based Advertising System - There is envisaged a method of contextual keywords based advertising on network enabled device comprising the steps of extracting the text and other contents in response to user action of entering the contents on network enabled device or in response to receiving any content and in response to data pushed or transferred from to output peripherals; identifying and extracting alpha numeric characters from the extracted contents; storing alpha numeric characters in a memory of the user device; forming meaningful keywords out of alpha numeric characters; randomizing the keywords; sending said keywords to the server over network; pulling advertisements in the form of marketing promotions/search results/information/content/applications/contents from advertisement server based on said keywords and storing retrieved advertisements in memory of device; receiving attributes for advertisements to be displayed and displaying the advertisements according to said attributes on the main or separate screen of network enabled device. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290393 | USER CONTROLLED ADVERTISING PREFERENCES - Mechanisms provide content consumers with the ability to select types of advertising. Advertising types may include commercials for a particular brand or company, product placement type advertising, commercials interspersed between clips of content, advertising having a particular rating, or no advertising in exchange for payment of a fee or completion of a questionnaire. The advertisement type selections may also apply to different devices the user accesses to consume content, whether content is a movie played using a set top box, a banner advertisement shown alongside an article, or a product placed in a video game. The selections may be applied to a variety of devices associated with a user in a uniform or varying manner. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290394 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING DIGITAL CONTENT - The present invention is of system for publishing digital content. The system includes a device for displaying digital content and a remote server that is in communication with the device. The remote server is configured for determining a geo-location of the device; and communicating digital data to the device according to a parameter relating to individuals being in proximity to a user operating the device. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290395 | METHOD AND COMPUTER MEDIUM FOR TRACKING SOCIAL INTERACTIONS AND TARGETING OFFERS - Mechanisms are provided to facilitate buying and selling products utilizing social pricing. Sellers initiate sale of a product with volume discounts for a limited time. In other words, the more people that buy a product, the lower the price for the group. Buyers have a real incentive to become prosumers that not only purchase a product but also promote purchase by others. A social pricing system brokers interaction between sellers and buyer groups, and provisions mechanisms to aid promotion of products by consumers utilizing social networks and other online activities. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290396 | SHORT-RANGE COMMUNICATION ENABLED LOCATION SERVICE - In some examples, aspects of the present disclosure may include techniques to identify a physical location of an item with potentially enhanced precision. In one example, a method includes, receiving an item descriptor that describes one or more physical items. The method also includes receiving a data payload from a peripheral device using short-range wireless communication that includes information usable to locate at least one of the one or more physical items. The further includes selecting physical location data based on the item descriptor and the data payload, wherein the physical location data includes a representation of a physical location of the at least one of the one or more physical items; and outputting the physical location data that is usable to locate the at least one of the one or more physical items. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290397 | METHOD FOR ADVERTISING ON DIGITAL CELLULAR TELEPHONES AND REDUCING COSTS TO THE END USER - The present invention relates to a method for displaying messages, such as advertisements, consumer promotions, and customer service announcements, on digital wireless communication devices, such as digital cellular telephones. One method includes downloading wirelessly a single database containing a plurality of graphical interactive advertising contents. The plurality of graphical interactive advertising contents are stored to a mobile wireless communications device. At least one graphical interactive advertising content is displayed a particular time period the display of the mobile wireless communication device. The mobile wireless communication device is connected to a mobile communications medium upon user activation of the at least one graphic interactive advertising content. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290398 | Content Distribution Utilizing Customer Behavioral Characteristic Data - Systems and methods for providing content to a user at an account accessing device is described A first user input may be received at a first account processing device. A type of channel between the user and the account accessing device, a temporal parameter associated with the first access, user used financial entity services associated with at least one account of the user and current allowable actions on the first account by the user may be determined. A second user input may be received indicating an action, of the current allowable actions, of the user at the first account accessing device. Content for output to the user upon another occurrence of the user accessing the first account accessing device may be determined. The content may be based upon at least one behavioral characteristic of the user and may be an offer for at least one user unused financial entity service. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290399 | Web Optimization and Campaign Management in a Syndicated Commerce Environment - A method and system are disclosed for optimizing webpages and managing campaigns in a syndicated commerce environment. Social data associated with a first user is used to determine their user characteristics. These characteristics are then used to identify a set of second users that possess the same characteristics. The past online behavior of the set of second users is analyzed to identify online conversion actions they have performed. In turn, the online conversion actions are analyzed to identify campaign data associated with a campaign goal, which is then provided to the first user. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290400 | System and method for facilitating the onboarding of target vendors to an electronic payment system - A system for facilitating on-boarding of target vendors to an electronic payment system comprises a vendor community database with a group of target vendor records, each associated with identification of one or more payers. In association with each payer is identification of a payer aggregate spend value and a target transaction fee rate. The target transaction fee rate may be a fractional value which, when multiplied by the payer spend value, yields an aggregate transaction fee. Machine readable instructions determine, for each target vendor, a target vendor priority value as a function of the aggregate spend value for all payers and the transaction fee rate of each customer payer. The machine readable instructions further comprise generating a target vendor report which includes identification of each target vendor and, in association with the identification of the target vendor, the target vendor priority value. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290401 | GAZE TRACKING SYSTEM - A gaze tracking technique is implemented with a head mounted gaze tracking device that communicates with a server. The server receives scene images from the head mounted gaze tracking device which captures external scenes viewed by a user wearing the head mounted device. The server also receives gaze direction information from the head mounted gaze tracking device. The gaze direction information indicates where in the external scenes the user was gazing when viewing the external scenes. An image recognition algorithm is executed on the scene images to identify items within the external scenes viewed by the user. A gazing log tracking the identified items viewed by the user is generated. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290402 | SOFTWARE SYSTEM FOR DECENTRALIZING eCOMMERCE WITH SINGLE PAGE BUY - A software system with a “single page buy” capability—both product information and purchase information on a single webpage. The software does the backend work needed to display both, in order to simplify the user experience. In one embodiment, commerce is “atomized” by pushing out the capability to purchase throughout the Internet—to ads on 3rd party sites, references in blogs, articles, etc. In one embodiment, a gliding product display is provided. The ad has a banner-type ad dimension, with product icons scrolling or gliding across it. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290403 | NETWORK-ADVERTISING, OPTIONS PROGRAM (ADVESTOR) - A system, method and business method implemented by way of a network enabled computer system configured to provide a platform for the trading of online advertising option contracts. The options are for future on-line advertisement rights, where the right to buy the advertisement rights for a predefined price is the traded commodity. The present invention further discloses a Web Site Index Trading Platform for trading based on web site indexes. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290404 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROMOTING MULTI-LAYER-FORWARDING MESSAGES - A system and a method for promoting multi-layer forwarding messages are provided. An embodiment of the method for use in an advertisement server system includes the following steps. At least one feedback message is received, wherein each of the at least one feedback message includes a forwarding user identifier and a user identifier of a corresponding first receiving device, and the advertisement server system interprets the at least one feedback message as a first-layer forwarding of an advertisement message associated with the forwarding user identifier. The forwarding number of the first-layer forwarding of the advertisement message is stored according to at least one feedback message of the first-layer forwarding of the advertisement message. An encouraging message is sent to a forwarding mobile device of the forwarding user identifier, wherein the encouraging message includes information based on a forwarding weight is determined according to at least the forwarding number. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290405 | MONETIZING SOCIAL AND CONTENT NETWORKS AND EBOOKS THROUGH REFERENCE LINK DRIVEN ADVERTISING AND REFERENCE PRETARGETING - An advertising system that increases response rates to advertisements on a social network based on the personal interest score of users and the commercial score of clicked links is described. The system is based on the choices made by the user in selecting and clicking on the links that are displayed in his or her timeline on their social presence. The system also generates additional ‘real estate’ where highly pertinent advertisements may be displayed to the user while also presenting a safer user experience by pre-scanning the clicked reference links for malicious code. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290406 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A DATA DRIVEN META-AUCTION MECHANISM FOR SPONSORED SEARCH - Apparatuses, methods, and systems directed to deriving optimal parameters of a learning algorithm to maximize an objective function of online keyword auctions for bidded terms. Some embodiments of the invention simulate online keyword auctions based on historical data for the bidded terms, wherein the parameters of the simulated auctions such as market reserve prices of the bidded terms are determined by an adaptive learning algorithm. The values of the parameters of the learning algorithm are optimized by a stochastic optimization method to maximize an objective function for the auctions of the bidded terms. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290407 | SELECTION OF KEYWORD PHRASES FOR PROVIDING CONTEXTUALLY RELEVANT CONTENT TO USERS - A process is described for assessing the suitability of particular keyword phrases for use in serving contextually relevant content for display on pages of network-accessible sites. In one embodiment, the process involves scoring the key phrases based in part on collected user behavioral data, such as view counts of associated social media content items. A process is also disclosed in which selected keyword phrases on a page are transformed into links that can be selected by a user to view bundled content that is related to such keyword phrases. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290408 | AFFINITY GROUP - A method of creating an affinity group image for application to an affinity group transaction means, the method comprising: displaying at least one image for application to a transaction means associated with the affinity group; receiving instructions to manipulate an image selected from the at least one image; processing the selected image by applying the received manipulation instructions to the selected image to produces a personalized image; and saving the personalized image for selection by a member of the affinity group. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290409 | MARKETING MATERIAL ENHANCED WAIT STATES - A marketing materials presentation system identifies wait states such as loading states and idle states and selects marketing materials for presentation during wait states. Marketing materials may be selected based on materials viewed prior to a wait state and activity requested that triggered the wait state. In some examples, characteristics of a viewer including demographic informational, profile data, past viewing and purchase activity, neuro-response data, etc., is analyzed to select wait state marketing materials. Wait state marketing materials may also be selected using wait state characteirstics and marketing material characteristics. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290410 | ELECTRONIC CATALOG CONSTRUCTION - Various method and systems concerning electronic calendars are described including constructing an electronic catalog where the constructing includes embedding in he electronic catalog a digital asset with an associated tag for triggering an automatic on line purchasing sequence and associated code for synchronizing comments made about the digital asset on the electronic catalog onto a social web site. Another method includes displaying digital media content on a computer display and in response to a user's input, incorporating a digital asset of the digital media content onto an electronic calendar. Another method includes receiving at a computer system changes, updates and/or promotions concerning items on an electronic catalog, and, notifying a user of the computer system of any of the changes, updates and/or promotions. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290411 | Method and Apparatus for Display of Operator Ads - A method and apparatus for delivering network operator advertisements to a mobile terminal in association with providing content from a content delivery network (CDN) are disclosed. A network node resides within a wireless communication network supporting the mobile terminal. The network node receives a content request directed to locally-cached content from the CDN, and determines that the requested content includes or is associated with an advertisement placeholder. In response to this determination, the network node sends an advertisement ID request that includes a network operator ID to an external advertisement server. An advertisement ID is received from the advertisement server responsive to the advertisement ID request. The network node maps the advertisement ID to a network operator advertisement associated with the advertisement ID, and dynamically links the network operator advertisement to the requested content. The network node delivers the requested content, including the network operator advertisement, to the mobile terminal. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290412 | System, method, and apparatus for integrating real world and virtual world advertising and marketing, which may optionally include a coupon exchange system - The present invention relates to the use of free delivery to create a new system, method, and apparatus for delivering hard copy advertising and marketing materials to a consumer, and/or configured as a system, method, and apparatus for uploading, listening, and downloading of music. The data in the present invention may be exchanged using unique data encoding unstructured and untagged text message protocols to form a text message body that can be used to transmit and receive semi-structured, or structured text message bodies, which optionally may also use various, widely used Markup Languages. In addition, the present invention may include a coupon exchange system, method, and apparatus. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290413 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TAKE-OUT ORDER MANAGEMENT - Systems and methods for automating a take-out ordering process. In an embodiment, menu data is imported from a restaurant Point-of-Sale (POS) system over at least one network. The menu data may comprise a plurality of menu items. A menu user interface is generated. The menu user interface may comprise one or more menu screens, which comprise a subset of one or more of the plurality of menu items. A selection of at least one menu item from the subset may be received from a user. Up-sell options can be determined and provided to the user. Once completed, an order is sent to the restaurant POS system over the at least one network. The order can comprise the selected menu item(s) and any of the up-sell options selected by the user. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290414 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TAKE-OUT ORDER SHARING - Systems and methods for take-out order sharing. In an embodiment, a restaurant is identified, and an interactive menu associated with the restaurant is provided to a user through a user interface. An order may be received from the user through the user interface. Information related to the user can be shared with one or more contacts of the user on one or more social networking sites through at least one application interface. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290415 | MOBILE IMAGE PAYMENT SYSTEM - A Mobile Image Payment System (MIPS) for mobile commerce, which enables a Consumer to use a mobile device to make payments for online, Electronic Media, Print Media and POS Transactions. In an embodiment, the Consumer scans an encoded, mobile device scannable image that is displayed by a merchant, to initiate a transaction. The MIPS may complete the transaction by processing information between a Mobile Payment Client residing on the Consumer's mobile device, a Mobile Payment Interface residing on a Transaction Server, and, in a further embodiment, a Mobile Payment Application residing on a merchant's device or POS terminal. The Consumer's mobile device may communicate with a Payment Platform, which may communicate with a Merchant Transaction Server in order to process and complete the mobile transaction. The merchant MDSI can be displayed on any product or advertising medium. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290416 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND PROCESSOR-READABLE MEDIA FOR CONVERTING COINS TO ELECTRONIC FUNDS DEPOSITED WITH AN ACCOUNT ASSOCIATED WITH A USER AT A POINT OF SALE - Methods, systems and processor-readable media for converting coins at a point-of-sale into electronic funds. Cash can be accepted from a payer for payment of a transaction at a point-of-sale together with identifying information for a virtual coin purse associated with the payer. An amount due for payment and an amount due as change for a settlement of the transaction at the point-of-sale can be reconciled. The virtual coin purse associated with the payer can be credited in a form of electronic funds for change due in lieu of coins with respect to the transaction. The amount due as change, an amount due as bills, and an amount due as the coins can be categorized. Bills can be provided to the payer and the amount due as coins are then directed as electronic funds to the virtual coin purse. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290417 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND PROCESSOR-READABLE MEDIA FOR CONVERTING COINS TO ELECTRONIC FUNDS DEPOSITED WITH AN ACCOUNT ASSOCIATED WITH A USER AT A POINT OF SALE - Methods, systems and processor-readable media for converting coins at a point-of-sale into electronic funds. Cash can be accepted from a payor for payment of a transaction at a point-of-sale together with identifying information for a virtual coin purse associated with the payor. An amount due for payment and an amount due as change for a settlement of the transaction at the point-of-sale can be reconciled. The virtual coin purse associated with the payor can be credited in a form of electronic funds for change due in lieu of coins with respect to the transaction. The amount due as change and an amount due as bills and an amount due as the coins can be categorized. Bills can be provided to the payor and the amount due as coins are then directed as electronic funds to the virtual coin purse. | 2012-11-15 |
20120290418 | MERCHANT ORDERING SYSTEM USING OPTICAL MACHINE READABLE IMAGE REPRESENTATION OF INVOICE INFORMATION - A system and method for assisting ordering and payment processing of an order invoice associated with a product selected by a customer. The system comprises collecting product data about the product and generates the order invoice information for use by at least an accounting system of the merchant. The system receives symbology information in an aggregated barcode associated with the order invoice, the symbology information including at least a portion of the order invoice information encoded using a coding scheme of a barcode. The system provides an image of the aggregated barcode to the customer for use in generating a transaction request for settlement of the order invoice, and receives a transaction response indicating transaction approval or transaction denial of the order invoice. | 2012-11-15 |