48th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 60 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140350937 | VOICE PROCESSING DEVICE AND VOICE PROCESSING METHOD - A voice processing device includes a processor; and a memory which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, causing the processor to execute: acquiring an input voice; detecting a sound period included in the input voice and a silent period adjacent to a back end of the sound period; calculating a number of words included in the sound period; and controlling a length of the silent period according to the number of words. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350938 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING SYNTHETIC SPEAKER VERIFICATION - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and tangible computer readable-media for detecting synthetic speaker verification. The method comprises receiving a plurality of speech samples of the same word or phrase for verification, comparing each of the plurality of speech samples to each other, denying verification if the plurality of speech samples demonstrate little variance over time or are the same, and verifying the plurality of speech samples if the plurality of speech samples demonstrates sufficient variance over time. One embodiment further adds that each of the plurality of speech samples is collected at different times or in different contexts. In other embodiments, variance is based on a pre-determined threshold or the threshold for variance is adjusted based on a need for authentication certainty. In another embodiment, if the initial comparison is inconclusive, additional speech samples are received. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350939 | Systems and Methods for Adding Punctuations - Systems and methods are provided for adding punctuations. For example, one or more first feature units are identified in a voice file taken as a whole; the voice file is divided into multiple segments: one or more second feature units are identified in the voice file; a first aggregate weight of first punctuation states of the voice file and a second aggregate weight of second punctuation states of the voice file are determined, using a language model established based on word separation and third semantic features; a weighted calculation is performed to generate a third aggregate weight based on at least information associated with the first aggregate weight and the second aggregate weight; and one or more final punctuations are added to the voice file based on at least information associated with the third aggregate weight. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350940 | System and Method for Generalized Preselection for Unit Selection Synthesis - Disclosed herein are systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer-readable storage media for unit selection synthesis. The method causes a computing device to add a supplemental phoneset to a speech synthesizer front end having an existing phoneset, modify a unit preselection process based on the supplemental phoneset, preselect units from the supplemental phoneset and the existing phoneset based on the modified unit preselection process, and generate speech based on the preselected units. The supplemental phoneset can be a variation of the existing phoneset, can include a word boundary feature, can include a cluster feature where initial consonant clusters and some word boundaries are marked with diacritics, can include a function word feature which marks units as originating from a function word or a content word, and/or can include a pre-vocalic or post-vocalic feature. The speech synthesizer front end can incorporates the supplemental phoneset as an extra feature. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350941 | Method For Finding Elements In A Webpage Suitable For Use In A Voice User Interface (Disambiguation) - A disambiguation process for a voice interface for web pages or other documents. The process identifies interactive elements such as links, obtains one or more phrases of each interactive element, such as link text, title text and alternative text for images, and adds the phrases to a grammar which is used for speech recognition. A group of interactive elements are identified as potential best matches to a voice command when there is no single, clear best match. The disambiguation process modifies a display of the document to provide unique labels for each interactive element in the group, and the user is prompted to provide a subsequent spoke command to identify one of the unique labels. The selected unique label is identified and a click event is generated for the corresponding interactive element. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350942 | VEHICLE HUMAN MACHINE INTERFACE WITH GAZE DIRECTION AND VOICE RECOGNITION - A human machine interface (HMI) system for a vehicle equipped with a plurality of voice activated devices. An occupant monitor is used to determine a gaze direction or gesture of an occupant of the vehicle. The system determines to which of the voice activated devices a voice command is directed based on the gaze direction or gesture. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350943 | PERSONAL AUDIO ASSISTANT DEVICE AND METHOD - A server includes one or more processors, and a computer readable memory coupled to the one or more processors. The computer readable memory contains instructions which when executed by the one or more processors causes the one or more processors to perform the operations of receiving captured audio via an microphone of a mobile or wearable device at a location remote from the server via a communications module operatively coupled to the mobile or wearable device, analyzing the captured audio to provide analyzed captured audio, and sending information to the communications module in response to the analyzed captured audio, the information including instructions to initiate control of media content or initiate operations of the mobile or wearable device. A method operating at the server and other embodiments are disclosed. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350944 | ENCODING AND REPRODUCTION OF THREE DIMENSIONAL AUDIO SOUNDTRACKS - The present invention provides a novel end-to-end solution for creating, encoding, transmitting, decoding and reproducing spatial audio soundtracks. The provided soundtrack encoding format is compatible with legacy surround-sound encoding formats, so that soundtracks encoded in the new format may be decoded and reproduced on legacy playback equipment with no loss of quality compared to legacy formats. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350945 | System and Method for Validation of Pharmaceutical Composition Formulations - The present disclosure relates to a method for validating formulations in pharmaceutical compositions. The method may include entering inventory into the system, formulating the batch, storing batch compounding data, manufacturing the batch, assigning and printing a barcode on the pharmaceutical compositions, scanning the barcode, checking if correct chemicals are used, and correcting the pharmaceutical compositions formulation if required. The present method may prevent a batch to be produced until the batch has been corrected in cases where incorrect chemicals are used in pharmaceutical compositions, and may additionally improve accuracy and efficiency of quality control because data, such as lot numbers, does not have to be hand-typed when barcodes are scanned. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350946 | Methods for Tracking Workflow in Pharmacies Involving Compound Operations - The present disclosure relates to a workflow method that may be utilized in pharmacies involving compounding operations. The method may classify prescriptions depending on the need to compound them, and may thereafter assign the location of the different pharmaceutical compositions for pharmacy personnel to retrieve them, or may locate the different chemicals needed to compound the required pharmaceutical compositions if the desired pharmaceutical compositions are not available in inventory. The present workflow method may manage an unlimited number of activities depending on the pharmacy workload, pharmacy layout, and types of pharmaceutical compositions. The present workflow method may increase accuracy and efficiency of pharmaceutical operations. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350947 | MEDICATION DELIVERY MANAGEMENT - Methods for managing a delivery of prepared medications are provided. In one aspect, a method includes receiving first information includes a delivery deadline for a first medication, and receiving second information includes a preparation status of a second medication. The method also includes comparing the first information includes the delivery deadline for the first medication with the second information includes the preparation status of the second medication to determine whether the first medication should be indicated for delivery prior to completing preparation of the second medication, and providing a notification indicating when to deliver the first medication based on the determination. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350948 | MANAGING RE-USE OF RETURNED MEDICATIONS - Methods for managing a return of a prepared medication are provided. In one aspect, a method includes receiving an identification of at least one returned medication delivered to a first location, and receiving an order for another medication. The method also includes determining whether the at least one returned medication is usable for completing the order of the other medication, and when the determination indicates that the at least one returned medication is usable for completing the order of the other medication, providing a notification indicating that the at least one returned medication is usable for completing the order of the other medication. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350949 | MEDICATION RETRIEVAL OPTIMIZATION - Systems for managing a retrieval of a prepared medication are provided. In one aspect, a system includes a memory that includes instructions, and one or more processors. The one or more processors is configured to execute the instructions to receive an identification of a plurality of unused medications and a current location of each of the plurality of unused medications, and determine an order in which to retrieve at least two of the plurality of unused medications and return the at least two of the plurality of unused medications to a return location. The one or more processors is also configured to execute the instructions to provide, for display, a listing of the at least two of the plurality of unused medications based on the order for retrieving the at least two of the plurality of unused medications. Methods and machine-readable media are also provided. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350950 | MEDICATION PREPARATION QUEUE - Methods for managing preparation of a medication for a patient are provided. In one aspect, a method includes receiving information indicative of an order for medication for a patient from an electronic data feed, and determining whether the order for medication for the patient can be filled with a returned medication. The method also includes providing a notification to fill the order with the returned medication when the determination indicates the order can be filled with a returned medication, and providing a notification to fill the order by preparing the medication when the determination indicates a returned medication is not available to fill the order. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350951 | METHOD FOR INFUSION THERAPY MANAGEMENT AND MOBILE DEVICE READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR EXECUTING APPLICATION RECORDED THE METHOD - Disclosed is a method for infusion therapy management and recording medium which records the method in mobile device readable application, which controls fluid flow rate of the fluid set with acoustic output on a cycle of dropping rate corresponding to condition for injection of drug to be mixed in the fluid by inputting the condition as prescription for infusion therapy, registers management items by the patient, manages many patients under infusion therapy using one mobile device with knowledge of the present condition of infusion and infusion ending point, and controls the entire process of fluid infusion by modifying the condition of fluid infusion during the infusion | 2014-11-27 |
20140350952 | AUTOMATED UTILIZATION DRIVEN INVENTORY MANAGEMENT - Methods for automated inventory management are provided. In one aspect, a method includes receiving storage capability data for an item in a dispensing unit, retrospective usage data for the item in the dispensing unit, and an indicator of a minimum time period for which to stock the item in the dispensing unit. The dispensing unit includes a compartment assigned for storing stock of the item. The method also includes determining, based on the minimum time period for which to stock the item, the storage capability data, and the retrospective usage data, a minimum number of stock of the item to store in the compartment, and providing a notification indicating the determined minimum number of stock of the item to store in the compartment. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350953 | METHOD FOR SHARING MEDICAL IMAGE DATA BASED ON CLOUD PLATFORM, CLOUD PLATFORM AND SYSTEM - A method for sharing medical image data based on a cloud platform, a cloud platform and a system are disclosed. The cloud platform is connected to at least one medical imaging device. The method includes: receiving a medical image and/or scan data transmitted from the at least one medical imaging device; and storing, on the cloud platform, the medical image and/or scan data from the at least one medical imaging device. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350954 | System and Methods for Personalized Clinical Decision Support Tools - The use of a medical software platform to collect, normalize, and aggregate clinical data. Supports clinical care and provides research and clinical tools for institutions, healthcare providers, researchers, and patients. The invention provides a graphical interface to customize searches in the database for specified subsets of conditions, treatments or outcomes. The invention also provides a system and method for searching through clinical databases for desired terms which may provide additional information to a physician regarding patient care. Furthermore, this invention facilitates personalized medicine-based practices as relationships between genetics, personal heath data from multiple sources, disease risk and drug response can be more easily visualized and utilized for patient care and research. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350955 | MEDICAL DATA TRANSMISSION AND COLLECTION SYSTEM AND PROCESS - A system for electronically transferring patient medical data from a medical diagnostic device at a non-medical location to a diagnostic facility for analysis, processing, and publishing for review is disclosed. In some embodiments, the system comprises a set of medical diagnostic devices, a mobile computing device that connects to and receives patient medical data from a medical diagnostic device, a server that receives encrypted patient medical data from the mobile computing device for data processing and publication, and a server for hosting a web site on which the published patient medical data is posted for review by the patient and professionals of the diagnostic facility. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350956 | MEDICAL DEVICE IMPLANT MONITORING - In a method of monitoring complications relating to a plurality of medical devices, which are each implanted in one of a plurality of patients, information for each of the implanted medical devices is entered in a computing device by displaying a plurality of candidate complications for the medical device on a display of the computing device, receiving a selection of one or more of the candidate complications using an input device of the computing device, and storing the one or more selected candidate complications a memory of the computing device or a remote data store. One or more reports identifying the selected complications for the medical devices are generated using the computing device, and the one or more reports are displayed on the display. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350957 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REDUCING EARLY READMISSION - The exemplary embodiments are related to systems and methods for reducing early readmission according to an exemplary embodiment described herein. One embodiment relates to a method comprising receiving patient data for a patient; creating a personalized risk model for the patient based on the patient data, the personalized risk model including an overall risk level based on a plurality of risk factors; selecting one of the risk factors; administering treatment relating to the selected risk factor; updating the personalized risk model after administering treatment, the updating including determining an updated risk level; determining whether the updated risk level is above a threshold level; and repeating the selecting, administering, updating and determining steps if the risk level is above the threshold level. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350958 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HEALTH CARE CREDIT TRANSACTIONS - Systems, methods, and computer program media for creating, managing, backing, and transferring health care credits are described. Health care credits may be implemented as freely transferable financial instruments whose initial value can be based on costs or savings generated by an individual, or by a health care provider, that are associated with a health-related metric or a health benefiting behavior(s). | 2014-11-27 |
20140350959 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REDUCING HEALTHCARE TRANSACTION COSTS - A centralized network can be established by contracting medical facilities and insurance providers, in which the medical facilities agree to waive all or a portion of a deductible amount owed as part of their contractual obligation with the network. The insurance providers agree to provide a credit of the premium to be paid by beneficiaries that use a contracted medical facility to receive a service for which the deductible amount is waived. Specific uses of the systems and methods disclosed can include management of a Medicare supplemental insurance network in which Part A deductibles are waived by hospitals or similar medical facilities, and premium credits are provided to beneficiaries of Medicare supplemental insurance policies who use contracted medical facilities. The cost savings and increased revenue recognized by both medical facilities and insurance providers can enable claims to be re-priced while reducing transactional costs for all parties. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350960 | INTERACTIVE TESTING SYSTEM FOR ANALYSING BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES - The invention relates to a system and a method for health monitoring service based on a central server. Measurements of biological samples (e.g. blood, saliva and urine) are carried out by a remote measurement system. The measurement data are sent to a central server, where the data are processed and analyzed, for example by expert knowledge systems, and a health profile generated is sent back to the remote measurement system. A health care provider may receive the results of the analysis carried out by the expert knowledge system, and the health care provider may further upload laboratory measurements, which can be included in the health analysis of the person. It is preferred that the system and method according to the invention is capable of providing an early warning of diseases that causes changes in chemical components in the biological sample. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350961 | TARGETED SUMMARIZATION OF MEDICAL DATA BASED ON IMPLICIT QUERIES - A system and method for targeted summarization of a patient's electronic medical records are provided. The system includes an aggregation component which provides an aggregation of health records of a patient. A transformation component transforms the health records of the patient into representations in a multidimensional search space. A search component generates an implicit query in the multidimensional search space and retrieves responsive heath records based on the implicit query. A summarization component generates a summary based on the retrieved responsive health records for display to a healthcare provider on an associated user interface. A processor implements the aggregation component, transformation component, search component, and summarization component. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350962 | GENERATING REVIEWS OF MEDICAL IMAGE REPORTS - Embodiments are directed towards generating reviews of exams. An exam of interest (EOI) may be anonymized and blinded. N−1 anonymized and blinded foil exams may be selected from an exam database, where N is an integer greater than 1. An anonymized and blinded exam set may be generated for review, where the exam set includes the EOI and the selected foil exams. The exam set may be provided to a reviewer. The reviewer may not be able to discriminate between the EOI and the foil exams. An assessment metric may be generated based on a review of each exam in the exam set. An assessment metric set may be generated, where the assessment metric set includes each generated assessment metric. A report may be generated based on the assessment metric set. The report may indicate a reviewer determination of an overall quality of the EOI. The report may indicate a consistency score for the reviewer, based at least on the reviews of the foil exams. The exam database may be updated based on at least one of the EOI, the assessment metric set, or the consistency score. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350963 | DENTAL PRACTICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A dental management practice system and method for a dental office. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350964 | PROBABILISTIC EVENT CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Probabilistic event classifications systems and method are provided herein. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an event narrative, the event narrative comprising textual content describing a safety event, parsing the textual content to identify key terms, searching a safety event database for classifications associated with the key terms, selecting a set of classifications based on the key terms using statistical analysis, the set of classifications comprising potential event types for the event narrative, and displaying the set of classifications for the event narrative via a graphical user interface. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350965 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EXTRACTING SPECIFIED DATA FROM NARRATIVE TEXT - Embodiments are directed to extracting specified data items from narrative text. In one scenario, a computer system accesses narrative textual information which includes data items that are to be identified and extracted. The computer system identifies specified data items in the narrative textual information that are to be extracted from the narrative textual information. The computer system then filters the identified data items to remove false positive identifications. The false positive filtering includes classifying the identified data items as specified data items, so that classified data items are identified as true positive items that are to be extracted from the narrative textual information. The computer system further extracts, from the narrative textual information, those filtered data items that were classified as being true positive items. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350966 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING MEDICAL SERVICES - Systems and methods are provided for managing patients during pain management treatment that includes a server and a medical database including patient information associated with patients within a territory, the medical information including a status of each patient indicating a stage of treatment between a candidate for treatment stage, one or more pre-treatment stages, and one or more treatment stages. The system also includes team electronic devices communicating with the server to add and/or update information regarding patients in the medical database and/or synchronize local databases of the team electronic devices with the medical database. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350967 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRIORITIZING RISK MODELS AND SUGGESTING SERVICES BASED ON A PATIENT PROFILE - The exemplary embodiments are related to systems and methods for prioritizing risk models and suggesting services tailored to a patient profile according to an exemplary embodiment described herein. One embodiment relates to a method comprising retrieving risk model and parameter data from a risk database, retrieving hospital profile data from a records database, determining a recommendation value for the model and parameter data based on the hospital profile data, determining at least one recommended service for a patient based on the recommendation value, and outputting the at least one recommended service to a user. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350968 | COLLOCATED SYSTEMS FOR STORING, PROCESSING AND UTILIZING GENETIC INFORMATION - A system of collocated servers, databases, computers, software applications, or any other computing module for the processing and utilization of genetic information. The computing modules allow for the analysis of genetic information stored in a database and the reporting of genetic test results without the need for sending the genetic information across the internet. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350969 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO PROVIDE ALTERED BENEFIT BASED ON PREFERRED STATUS - A method and a system to facilitate differentiated levels of service in a network-based marketplace are described. The system may include a transaction monitor to monitor activity of a user with respect to a network-based marketplace; a status generator to generate a status within the network-based marketplace, for the user based at least partially on the monitored activity; and a user service module to provide service within the network-based marketplace to the user in accordance with the determined status of the user. Users may achieve a preferred user status within the network-based marketplace. A preferred user may receive preview listings of items that are not available to users who did not achieve a preferred user status. A preferred user may also receive personalized customer service within the network-based marketplace. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350970 | COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING GEOGRAPHIC-LOCATION ASSOCIATED CONDITIONS - Pursuant to some embodiments, computer systems for generating safety scores relating to vehicle travel routes are provided which include a data storage device for storing, updating and providing access to loss risk score data. In some embodiments, a request for information associated with a user's location identified by user location data may be received over a communications network. A computer processing system may then be operated to generate a safety score associated with said use location data, the safety score being based on a plurality of loss risk factors associated with the user location data. A response, including the safety score, may then be transmitted to the user over the communications network. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350971 | Computer System for Assigning Customers to Group Dividend Plans Based on Data Indicative of Participation in Loss Prevention Programs or Affinity Groups - Systems and methods for providing dividends to customers are disclosed. The system includes a database for storing data and a business logic processor for determining a dividend to provide to a customer. The stored data includes eligibility criteria for membership in one of a plurality of group dividend plans, data about customers assigned to the plans, and premium payments associated with the customers. The business logic processor receives eligibility data related to a customer's eligibility for assignment to a group dividend plan. The business logic processor uses the received data to identify a dividend group plan that a customer is eligible to join and assigns the customer to the identified plan. Finally, the business logic processor calculates a dividend to provide to the customer based on the assigned plan. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350972 | Computer System for Generating and Displaying Interactive User Interfaces - A computer system generates interactive user interfaces. The system is configured to receive first data input via a user interface, access stored data including guideline data based on the received first data, and generate a modified user interface based on the accessed stored data. The first data, and second data received via the modified user interface, are processed and employed for adjusting workflows. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350973 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HEDGING PORTFOLIOS OF VARIABLE ANNUITY LIABILITIES - A system and method for managing hedge program liability involving obtaining policyholder information that constitutes the liability portfolio and asset information that constitute the asset portfolio; simulating at least one partial sensitivity and valuation for the liability portfolio for projected market data to obtain valuation simulation data. The system and method then involves using market date information estimating at least one partial sensitivity and valuation of the liability and asset portfolios using the simulated partial sensitivity and the market data. Based on comparing the one estimated partial sensitivity against at least one partial sensitivity limit buying or selling one or more assets to restore the estimated partial sensitivity within the limit if the estimated partial sensitivity breaches the at least one partial sensitivity limit. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350974 | ROLL-CALL PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A roll-call processing method is executed by a server. The method records first connection information of a first electronic device and transmits a roll-call interface to the first electronic device when the server receives a request for the roll-call interface from the first electronic device. The method further records second connection information of at least one second electronic device and receives a photo transmitted from the second electronic device. The method transmits the received photo of the second electronic device to the first electronic device to display the received photo on the roll-call interface of the first electronic device. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350975 | Method for facilitating automatic scheduling of a rideshare trip - Methods are provided for facilitating automatic scheduling of a meeting between a driver and a passenger for a rideshare trip. Readiness information of the passenger, readiness information of the driver and original vehicle location are acquired. A meeting location corresponding to the rideshare trip is determined. A pre-meeting driving time corresponding to the original vehicle location and the meeting location is determined using a GIS. A readiness time interval of the passenger corresponding to the readiness information of the passenger and a readiness time interval of the driver corresponding to the readiness information of the driver are determined. Scheduling information corresponding to the rideshare trip is determined based at least in part on a function of at least the readiness time interval of the passenger, the readiness time interval of the driver and the pre-meeting driving time. The methods are performed on one or more computing devices. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350976 | ELECTRONIC SYSTEM FOR MANAGEMENT OF QUEUES - A system that delivers online information for smart phones, personal computers, or other electronic devices, of the counting of the turn number in the waiting list. In one aspect a device that, using internet, cellular web, or another electronic data transfer form, delivers information of a waiting number that appears in the counter together with the estimated time of attention. The system is intended to supermarkets, grocery stores, banks, payment centers, companies customer support, registry office, among others and is especially advantageous for a person that has taken a number from that system, because is it possible to be far away from the place of attention and he/she will be continuously monitoring the status of his/her position in the queue. Additionally the person will be informed when his/her turn is approaching. In this way, the person can perform other activities while his/her turn in the queue is moving. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350977 | ELECTRONIC-TICKET UPDATE DEVICE, ELECTRONIC-TICKET UPDATE METHOD, ELECTRONIC-TICKET UPDATE PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM CONTAINING SAID PROGRAM - Provided is an electronic ticket renewal device according to one embodiment that renews a validity period of an electronic ticket stored in a storage medium storing the electronic ticket and electronic money used for payment when the electronic ticket is not valid, including a specifying unit configured to compare payment information of the electronic money acquired from a storage unit with a service available by the electronic ticket, and specify a payment that would have not been made if the electronic ticket had been valid among payments made during a period from expiration of the validity period of the electronic ticket before renewal to present, and a calculation unit configured to perform processing to reduce at least part of the amount of the payment specified by the specifying unit. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350978 | METHOD, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR RESERVATION BASED ON PANORAMIC MAP - This document publishes a method, a device and a storage medium for reservation based on panoramic map. In one embodiment, the method includes the following steps: obtaining and displaying a panoramic map corresponding to a destination, the panoramic map having a plurality of reservations displayed thereon; detecting a navigation operation on the panoramic map by a user; in response to the navigation operation, displaying a part of the panoramic map corresponding to the navigation operation; receiving a selection request for selecting a reservation from the plurality of reservations on the part of the panoramic map; and sending the selection request to a server. According to the method, the device and the storage medium, it is possible to know the actual location and surroundings of various tables in the real world when the user makes reservation, so the intuition and accuracy of reservation is significantly improved. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350979 | MULTI-MODAL JOURNEY PLANNING AND PAYMENT - Techniques are disclosed for providing trip planning and associated payment of a trip involving multiple modes of transportation (i.e., “multi-modal trip planning”). Embodiments can enable a user to plan a multi-modal journey on an electronic device, and pay for products (tolls, tickets, etc.) associated with the journey on the same electronic device, or a different electronic device. Embodiments can also allow for re-planning a journey, providing for an alternative route when current information regarding an original route suggests the alternate route would be advisable. Payment for products associated with the alternate route can be provided. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350980 | GEOGRAPHIC MOBILE CUSTOMER RELATIONS MANAGEMENT - A system for geographic mobile customer relations management, comprising a database that stores CRM data, a tile server that provides discrete portions of CRM data, an object relational mapping server that associates location-based information with CRM data, and an interface that provides the CRM data to external applications. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350981 | SERVICE PROVIDER ALLOCATION SYSTEM AND ALLOCATION MANAGEMENT DEVICE - In the present invention, the allocation process of a service provider to a target case, which is performed for each case unit, is performed by calculating the grace period for extending the allocation process, and controlling the allocation to cases, including the target case, according to the state relating to allocation of the other cases while reflecting the service request level including the compatibility between the other service providers and the user in the grace period. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350982 | TUTOR REGISTRATION AND RECOMMENDATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS IN A MODULAR LEARNING SYSTEM - A modular learning system registers tutors for association with various learning applications. The tutor provides identity items and tutoring preferences to the modular learning system. The modular learning system maintains databases of activities for association with tutors, such as learning applications, application services, and microlearning events. The tutor's identity items and preferences are used to identify applicable services for the tutor to teach or evaluate. The tutor is associated with the services selected by the tutor and learning users subsequently may request the tutor to teach an associated service. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350983 | PROVIDING BEST PRACTICE WORKFLOW TO AID USER IN COMPLETING PROJECT THAT IS CONSTANTLY UPDATED BASED ON USER FEEDBACK - A method, system and computer program product for providing a best practice workflow to aid a user in completing a project. A system receives practice instances for completing a project (e.g., obtaining a job), where a “practice instance” refers to a graph of nodes and directed edges, where each node represents a task in a process for completing the project and each directed edge illustrates an execute sequence between two tasks. The system receives rankings from users (“crowdsourcing”) for each of these practice instances and computes a single ranking for each practice instance based on these received rankings. The system may then generate a workflow for completing a project based on these practice instances with a single ranking that exceeds a threshold and are directed to completing the same project. By using user feedback to rank these practice instances, a more effective and useful workflow will be generated. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350984 | PROJECT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - Systems and methods of the invention relate to creating a schedule to assign one or more workers to a project on one or more dates based on project information and/or worker information. Resource data (e.g., workers, equipment, tools, among others) and project data (e.g., location, type, cost, client, lead time, parts needed, among others) can be evaluated by an aggregation component in which a manager component can create a schedule that includes at least one worker and an assignment to the project based on the evaluation of the resource data and/or the worker information. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350985 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS FOR PROVIDING INTEGRATED CRITICAL PATH METHOD SCHEDULE MANAGEMENT & DATA ANALYTICS - Various embodiments of systems, methods, and computer programs are disclosed for managing and analyzing a project. One embodiment of a method comprises: storing in a database an as-planned critical path method (CPM) schedule for a project; sending assigned activities to corresponding project participants via a communication network; receiving and storing in a memory structured progress data associated with the assigned activities from the corresponding project participants via the communication network; automatically generating an as-built CPM schedule for the project by using the stored structured progress data received from the project participants as data input; and calculating project performance metrics using the as-built CPM schedule. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350986 | SHOWROOM MANAGEMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM - The present disclosure concerns management of vehicle showrooms. A processor receives user data associated with a user and sends the user data to a database to access a vehicle configuration previously stored in association with the user data, the vehicle configuration being used in a purchase process of a vehicle. The processor then presents a user interface on a screen and presents in the user interface the vehicle configuration to proceed with the purchase process. The user data is sent to a data base to access a vehicle configuration that is presented in the user interface. As a result, the vehicle configuration that was previously stored in the database, such that by a previous visit by the user, is made available and can be presented to the user the second time. The user is not required to remember any of the vehicle configurations and no data needs to be re-entered. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350987 | HIERARCHICAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN LEARNERS IN A MODULAR LEARNING SYSTEM - A system and method for establishing hierarchical relationships between learning users is disclosed. Learning applications are stored in the modular learning system and include metadata defining performance metrics. Performance measurements based on the performance metrics are also stored in the modular learning system, with each performance measurement associated with a learning user and a learning application. The modular learning system receives a request from a first learning user for tutoring by a second learning user. The modular learning system determines a relative ranking of the first and second learning users. If the second learning user is ranked higher, the system facilitates management of the requested tutoring by displaying the request to the second learning user and granting the second learning user access to a tutoring management interface. After the first learning user completes an application performance, the modular learning system revokes the access to the tutoring management interface from second learning user. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350988 | MANAGING BUSINESS PROCESS CALENDARS - A system and method of managing business process calendars. A method of managing a process includes defining at least one process to be performed by a first entity for at least one second entity, and associating a first subset of a plurality of tasks of the at least one process with the first entity. The method further includes associating a second subset of the plurality of tasks with the at least one second entity, and creating a process calendar based upon the at least one process and the plurality of tasks. The method additionally includes displaying the process calendar. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350989 | MAINTENANCE PROCEDURE SYSTEM AND METHOD - Systems and methods of the invention relate to creating a schedule to perform a maintenance procedure on a client asset based on a usage of the client asset. A pre-defined interval of time to perform a maintenance procedure on a client asset and a portion of real time usage data for the client asset can be collected and/or received by an aggregation component in which a manager component can be configured to define an updated interval of time to perform the maintenance procedure based at least in part upon a comparison of the pre-defined interval of time and the real time usage date for the client asset. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350990 | Simulated Print Demand - A computer readable memory ( | 2014-11-27 |
20140350991 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOGISTICS NETWORK MANAGEMENT - A method for managing a logistics network is disclosed. The method may include receiving, by a processor, historical demand data representing historical demand for an item at each one of a plurality of facilities associated with the logistics network, the plurality of facilities including at least one manufacturing facility and at least one distributing facility; forecasting future demand data representing a forecasted future demand for the item at each one of the plurality of facilities based on the respective historical demand data and one or more respective business goals for each facility; adjusting the future demand data at each one of the facilities by compensating for a shipping time delay associated with shipping the item from a supplier to the facility; and combining the adjusted future demand data at each one of the facilities to generate combined future demand data representing demand for the item at the supplier. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350992 | INTEGRATED MAINTENANCE SCORING APPARATUS AND METHOD - Methods and apparatus for computational aggregation of information from an infrastructure system process by analytical programs tracking condition, maintenance, and scoring for both. An integrated score provides additional insights into actual real-life expectations for continued operation for an infrastructure asset. The system may be accessed over a presentation interface that permits “what if” testing, searching for similarly situated assets, incorporation of actual data of inspections and maintenance efforts, as well as data from similarly situated environments and systems. The information may be processed through numerical methods systems and statistical modules in order to obtain correlations, calculations, and predictions of useful life of assets and systems of assets. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350993 | INFORMATION MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND METHOD - An information management device collects from a plurality of equipment and retains operation information being information that indicates operation statuses of the plurality of equipment, and refers with an information utilizing device that provides a service that utilizes the operation information, including retaining information relating to a contract that has defined a service level provided in relation to the equipment, acquiring the contract information of the equipment, and creating based on the contract information management policy information being information that defines a management scheme of the operation information retained for each of the equipment, to include storage location information being information of a storage location of at least each of the storage information. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350994 | PROVIDING BEST PRACTICE WORKFLOW TO AID USER IN COMPLETING PROJECT THAT IS CONSTANTLY UPDATED BASED ON USER FEEDBACK - A method, system and computer program product for providing a best practice workflow to aid a user in completing a project. A system receives practice instances for completing a project (e.g., obtaining a job), where a “practice instance” refers to a graph of nodes and directed edges, where each node represents a task in a process for completing the project and each directed edge illustrates an execute sequence between two tasks. The system receives rankings from users (“crowdsourcing”) for each of these practice instances and computes a single ranking for each practice instance based on these received rankings. The system may then generate a workflow for completing a project based on these practice instances with a single ranking that exceeds a threshold and are directed to completing the same project. By using user feedback to rank these practice instances, a more effective and useful workflow will be generated. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350995 | Characterizing Statistical Time-Bounded Incident Management Systems - Techniques, systems, and articles of manufacture for characterizing statistical time-bounded incident management systems. A method includes generating an expected distribution of multiple work requests in an incident management system across multiple characterization classes based on a target service level agreement for each of the multiple work requests and one or more probability distribution values, analyzing the multiple work requests in the incident management system to determine an actual distribution of the multiple work requests across the multiple characterization classes, and comparing the expected distribution of the multiple work requests to the actual distribution of the multiple work requests for each of the multiple characterization classes to characterize performance of the incident management system. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350996 | JOB MONITORING SUPPORT METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus includes a memory and a processor. The memory stores job information including execution order information of a plurality of jobs. With respect to each of the plurality of jobs, the processor calculates the number of preceding jobs that hand over processed data to the job and the number of succeeding jobs that take over the processed data from the job, on the basis of the job information. The processor generates a graph that selectively displays selected jobs from the plurality of jobs on the basis of the number of preceding jobs and the number of succeeding jobs. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350997 | USER-DEFINED WORKFLOWS IN APP-BASED COLLABORATIVE WORKSPACE SYSTEM - An online collaborative workspace system includes a set of first subsystems and a workflow subsystem. The first subsystems provide a project-oriented social network environment in which system users collaboratively interact with user-defined application objects that store user data and user-determined application functions executed to display the user data and interlink the application objects into project-scale organizations. The first subsystems can include commenting, task and status subsystems. The workflow subsystem includes a workflow builder and a workflow engine. The workflow builder provides a visual interface enabling a user to define custom workflows for the application objects, where a workflow is a cause-effect structure identifying a trigger event that causes the workflow to be executed and defining an action performed on or by an application object in response to the trigger event. The workflow engine receives system events and executes workflows having corresponding triggers. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350998 | PROJECT RISK PATTERNS MODELING AND RISK MITIGATION - Project risk patterns modeling and risk mitigation. The method includes obtaining potential risk factors associated with a project. Further, at least one interacting potential risk factor influencing at least another potential risk factor may be ascertained. The ascertaining is performed based on interaction indicators. The interaction indicators are indicative of an interaction between the at least one interacting potential risk factor and the at least another potential risk factor. Further, a risk emergence pattern is identified based on the interaction between the at least one interacting potential risk factor and the at least another potential risk factor. The risk emergence pattern is indicative of a recurrent interaction between the at least one interacting potential risk factor and the at least another potential risk factor. | 2014-11-27 |
20140350999 | SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR PROVIDING RISK MANAGEMENT - The present invention provides a system and a method for the risk management through ratio scale measures. The present invention identifies the risk of occurrence of events, develops ratio scale measures for impact of events and likelihood of events and deriving the risk of the events by multiplying the ratio scale measures for impacts with the ratio scale measures for likelihoods of the identified risk events. The ratio scale measures for impact of risk events is the sum-product of the ratio scale measures of the importance of the objectives and ratio scale measures of the impact of associated risk events on the objectives. The ratio scale measures for likelihoods of risk events is the sum-product of the probabilities of the identified causes times the probability of the risk events given the identified causes. | 2014-11-27 |
20140351000 | Dynamic Modification of A Parameter of An Image Based on User Interest - Methods and systems for changing a parameter associated with an image displayed on a display screen based on criteria related to a user are described. One of the methods includes receiving a selection of an image from a plurality of images. The method further includes examining the selected image to identify a keyword and criteria associated with the selected image. The keyword includes an identification of the image and the criteria including a time associated with the selected image. The method further includes ranking the selected image compared to remaining images of the plurality of images based on the keyword and the criteria, assigning a weight to an image parameter of the selected image to associate the image parameter with the rank of the selected image, and sending the assigned weight of the image parameter to a display device for display of the selected image according to the assigned weight. | 2014-11-27 |
20140351001 | BUSINESS ENTERPRISE SALES AND OPERATIONS PLANNING THROUGH A BIG DATA AND BIG MEMORY COMPUTATIONAL ARCHITECTURE - Disclosed are methods, devices, and systems to provide sales and operations planning (S&OP) for a business enterprise. In one embodiment, a machine-implemented method includes aggregating a S&OP raw data by one or more relational database management systems (RDBMS) communicatively coupled to a big data computation engine; performing a S&OP simulation, by one or more processing nodes of the big data computation engine, using the S&OP raw data; caching a result of the S&OP simulation in a big memory cache communicatively coupled to the big data computation engine; and edge caching the result of the S&OP simulation in an edge cache server near a geographical point of origin of the S&OP raw data. The S&OP raw data may be a historical or forward-looking data input from an ERP program, a CRM program, an SRM program, an MRP program, an SKU database, or a user client device. | 2014-11-27 |
20140351002 | CONTENT EFFECTIVENESS VIA ANALYSIS OF THE PROVISIONING THEREOF BY A CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - The facilitation of access to content may be enhanced. The content may be received from a content provider. The content may be made available for access by a plurality of content consumers. Data related to access to the content by at least one of the plurality of content consumers may be obtained. The obtained data may be analyzed. One or more recommendations corresponding to the content may be formulated. The one or more recommendations may be provided to the content provider. | 2014-11-27 |
20140351003 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPUTATION OF VALUE REALIZATION INDEX - System and Method for computing a value realization index for Information Technology (IT) services is disclosed. According to the system and the method, a data receiving module may be configured for receiving input data indicative of monetary value invested by a use on the IT services. Further, computational weights for qualities associated with the IT services may be received from the user. A data normalization module may be configured for normalizing the computational weights. A metric capturing module may be configured for capturing quality metrics for the qualities and the business metrics for the IT services. A metric mapping module may be configured for mapping the quality metrics with the business metrics using the normalized computational weights and domain benchmark values. A derivation module may be configured for deriving a business value. An index computation engine may be configured for computing the value realization index for the IT services. | 2014-11-27 |
20140351004 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLLECTING CONSUMER INFORMATION AND REWARDING CONSUMERS THEREFOR - A method and system is provided for obtaining, maintaining and using consumer information of interest including consumer demographic information and consumer transaction information. The information is obtained with the consent and participation of the consumers who are compensated for the use of their information by clients of the system and method. The system and method can obtain information directly from the consumers and from a variety of transaction service providers that the consumer interacts with. By having active participation from the consumers, and by compensating the consumers for the use of their data, it is believed that a more comprehensive and better quality data set will be obtained than that available from other consumer information systems. Preferably, the compensation to the consumers is based upon each use of their data and thus compensation can be paid multiple times for the same data and may be earned over extended time periods, thus encouraging consumers to continue their participation in the system and method. | 2014-11-27 |
20140351005 | Data Collection Method and Apparatus - Example implementations described herein are directed to collection of social media information based on a social media event. The example implementations provide for the service of digital marketing, especially for public sector marketing in which it may be necessary to collect user's needs and opinions at the early stage. The example implementations may determine a start time for collection of social media based on the social media event, as well as a stop time. | 2014-11-27 |
20140351006 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AND UTILIZING GLOBAL INFORMATION FROM TRANSACTION RECORDS - A system and method is provided for utilizing global information determined from commercial transactions by first storing data identifying a plurality of store locations of the multi-point merchant. The stored data is associated with an account of the multi-point merchant. A transaction record is received from each of a plurality of devices. Each of the devices is associated with a corresponding store location of the multi-point merchant. The information provided with each transaction record is processed in order to extract information that is non-specific to at least each of a corresponding transaction, a user of the corresponding transaction, and a merchant of the transaction. The processed information is then aggregated based on one or more global criteria so that reports may be generated based on the processed information and the one or more global criteria. | 2014-11-27 |
20140351007 | ESTIMATING THE TOTAL SALES OVER STREAMING BIDS - A mechanism is provided for computing an estimation of maximum total sales over streaming items. Each item having an associated value is designated as an item value pair. Value ranges are established to place the item value pairs. The value ranges are distinct. Each of the item value pairs is added into the value ranges according to each of the associated values for the item value pairs. Repeated item value pairs are removed that are in the same value ranges. A number of the item value pairs is reduced in each of the value ranges respectively based on an error factor, by randomly selecting the item value pairs to remove from each of the value ranges. An estimate of a total maximum value of the bids for the item value pairs in all of the value ranges is computed based on a scale factor. | 2014-11-27 |
20140351008 | CALCULATING MACHINE, PREDICTION METHOD, AND PREDICTION PROGRAM - A calculating machine stores intermediate data generated for each product based on social media data including statements on a plurality of products. The intermediate data about each of the products includes at least a frequency of statements on each of the products for a predetermined period of time. The products include a first product that is not displayed for provision to a consumer at a present time, or at least a second product that has been displayed for provision at the present time. The calculating machine stores sales amount data indicating a sales amount of the second product, and calculates a social media correlation degree indicating a correlation between the intermediate data about the first product and the intermediate data about the second product to predict a sales amount of the first product based on the calculated social media correlation degree and the sales amount data about the second product. | 2014-11-27 |
20140351009 | ANONYMIZING FACIAL EXPRESSION DATA WITH A SMART-CAM - A method comprises: receiving, from a content provider, a request for information collected from users who meet one or more criteria; determining at least one particular user who meets the one or more criteria; retrieving timestream data collected for the at least one particular user; wherein the timestream data is time-stamped and associated with a history of user sessions; wherein absolute time references in the timestream data have been converted to relative time references that relate to start-times of the user sessions; determining one or more levels of privacy requested by each of the at least one particular user; processing the timestream data to ensure the one or more levels of privacy in the timestream data; generating one or more statistical datasets from the processed timestream data; determining a fee for providing the one or more statistical datasets, and determining an award for the at least one particular user. | 2014-11-27 |
20140351010 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DEMOCRATIZING POWER TO CREATE A META-EXCHANGE - The present invention provides a system and method for providing democratizing power in a power grid system. In architecture, the system includes a module for receiving a plurality of user preferences concerning load shedding using a graphical user interface, and a module for implementing the user preferences during a grid irregularity. The system is operable to aggregate power in order to facilitate continuous demand response and for emergency purposes. The method of providing democratizing power, can be broadly summarized by the following steps of determining if a device needs a transfer of energy, determining if an electric network connected to the device is able to supply backup power, and determining the quantity of the backup power. The method further includes the steps of determining the cost of the backup power and facilitating payment of the cost of the backup power. | 2014-11-27 |
20140351011 | RETAIL SALES FORECAST SYSTEM WITH PROMOTIONAL CROSS-ITEM EFFECTS PREDICTION - A system that predicts promotional cross item (“PCI”) effects for retail items for a store receives historical sales data for the store and stores the historical sales data in a panel data format. The system then aggregates the stored sales data as a first level of aggregation that is aggregated to the store, a product and a time period. The system further aggregates the first level of aggregation aggregated data as a second level of aggregation that is based on a promotional cross effect attribute (“PCEA”) and is aggregated to the store, the time period and a PCEA level. The system derives PCI effect predictor variables from the second level of aggregation and, for each PCEA within a retail item family, forms a regression model. The system then generates estimated model parameters for one or more PCI effects for each PCEA from the regression models. | 2014-11-27 |
20140351012 | Methods and Systems for Managing Promotional Campaigns Based on Predicted Consumer Behavior - Systems and methods for running a promotional campaign in which publicly available information on social-media websites regarding member preferences and individuals with whom they socialize is computationally analyzed to drive selection of a cohort to whom a promotion will be directed by identifying individuals clustered into groups with shared preferences and habits directly associated with the subject matter of the promotional campaign. | 2014-11-27 |
20140351013 | ANCILLARY SERVICE BID GENERATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Ancillary service bid generation systems and methods are described herein. One example of a method for ancillary service bid generation includes quantifying an electric demand for a number of electrical devices, determining an electric demand reduction capability of the number of electrical devices for a number of event scenarios, and preparing an ancillary service bid based on the electric demand reduction capability of the number of electrical devices. | 2014-11-27 |
20140351014 | PROPERTY VALUATION INCLUDING ENERGY USAGE - An apparatus, system, and method for property valuation including energy usage. A method is disclosed that includes predicting energy usage for a property for a period of time, aggregating a predicted energy usage reduction based on a project that decreases the energy usage for the property, and determining a value adjusted for the aggregated energy usage reduction. An apparatus or system perform the method. | 2014-11-27 |
20140351015 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, DEVICES AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR PROVIDING GIFTS - A social gift-giving system is operable with a social networking service such as Facebook. A graphical user interface (GUI) is provided on a display of a computing device. A user logs in to the social networking service. Responsive to selection of a first region of the GUI, the GUI displays a list of other users of the social networking service associated with the first user. These other users may be the first user's Facebook friends. Using the GUI, the user can select a Facebook friend, select a gift for the friend, and purchase the gift for the friend. | 2014-11-27 |
20140351016 | GENERATING AND IMPLEMENTING CAMPAIGNS TO OBTAIN INFORMATION REGARDING PRODUCTS AND SERVICES PROVIDED BY ENTITIES - Systems and processes may generate and implement campaigns to obtain information regarding products and services provided an entity. A campaign may include one or more questions regarding a product or service offered by an entity, such as a merchant or service provider. The questions of a campaign may relate to an experience of a customer with respect to the product or service offered by the entity. After receiving answers to questions of a campaign, one or more actions may be performed based on the content of the answers. For example, a reward may be provided to a customer for answering questions of the campaign, a representative of an entity may contact the customer regarding answers to questions of the campaign, or a request may be provided to a customer to obtain video feedback from the customer regarding the experience of the customer with the entity. | 2014-11-27 |
20140351017 | Surveying Wireless Device Users by Location - The present invention is a system and method for conducting survey using wireless devices. The system architecture of the present invention comprises a location server and a location system. The location server can receive a survey request from a subscriber, delineate a survey area for the survey, broadcast a query containing the survey to a plurality of wireless devices, process responses received from the wireless devices, and deliver a result of the survey to the subscriber. The location system can generate location information for each of the wireless devices that received the query. The location system may be a network-based unit or a portable unit provisioned at each of the wireless devices. In one of the embodiments, the location system is a GPS receiver that generates the longitude and the latitude of the wireless devices at which it is provisioned. | 2014-11-27 |
20140351018 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BENCHMARKING ENERGY USAGE - A system and method is disclosed for benchmarking and comparing energy consumption of a particular consumer to a relevant set of comparison consumers using a system that maintains a database of payment information. Using the payment information and publicly available information, the system identifies comparison consumers, dwelling addresses, calculates energy consumption and generates consumer profiles containing dwelling, location and demographic characteristics. The system also compares profiles to identify “look-a-like” consumers and analyzes energy consumption to determine a benchmark and compares a particular consumer's consumption to the benchmark. The system also generates reports detailing the comparison and provides the report to consumers. The system thereby accurately measures on a national scale whether a particular consumer's monthly energy consumption and payments are above/below/on-target with very specific look-a-like consumers and provides a solution for consumers/business to understand the accuracy of their invoice and if their structure has outsized consumption. | 2014-11-27 |
20140351019 | SUBMISSION VALIDATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - The present general inventive concept provides a system and method to analyze and validate data submission of real estate data related to property value, store the real estate data, and track any manipulation thereof, thereby providing secure real estate data with increased accuracy. | 2014-11-27 |
20140351020 | ESTIMATING THE TOTAL SALES OVER STREAMING BIDS - A mechanism is provided for computing an estimation of maximum total sales over streaming items. Each item having an associated value is designated as an item value pair. Value ranges are established to place the item value pairs. The value ranges are distinct. Each of the item value pairs is added into the value ranges according to each of the associated values for the item value pairs. Repeated item value pairs are removed that are in the same value ranges. A number of the item value pairs is reduced in each of the value ranges respectively based on an error factor, by randomly selecting the item value pairs to remove from each of the value ranges. An estimate of a total maximum value of the bids for the item value pairs in all of the value ranges is computed based on a scale factor. | 2014-11-27 |
20140351021 | CROWD PRICING SYSTEM AND METHOD HAVING TIER-BASED RATINGS - A crowd pricing system and method having tier-based ratings includes a pricing table hosted on a memory. The pricing table has a plurality of pricing tiers, wherein the pricing table is correlated to at least one downloadable media item. A download popularity value is calculated based on a quantity of downloads of the at least one downloadable media item within an evaluation period, wherein a position of the at least one downloadable media item is movable between the plurality of pricing tiers based on the download popularity value, wherein position movement of the at least one downloadable media item is regulated by at least one control factor. A ratings designation is paired with each of the plurality of pricing tiers, the ratings designation having a cumulative user ratings score calculated by the processor, wherein the cumulative user ratings score provides an indication of cumulative user rating of the at least one downloadable media item. | 2014-11-27 |
20140351022 | MODEL-BASED PROMOTION AND PRICE COMPUTATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method for providing model-based promotion and price computation is described in which promotional offers in the form of promotion information from a manufacturer are combined with price determination parameters from the retailer to calculate a final retail price. The system prevents fraud by eliminating the heavy dependence on unverifiable trust between the retailer and manufacturer and by assuring that the consumer will receive the benefit of the promotions intended by the manufacturer. | 2014-11-27 |
20140351023 | AGGREGATING BUSINESS ANALYTICS ARCHITECTURE AND CONFIGURATOR - A computer implemented method, a data processing system, and a computer program product are provided for designing an architectural solution. Functional requirements and nonfunctional requirements of the architectural solution are received. Responsive to receiving the functional requirements and nonfunctional requirements, first level outputs are produced. Further input is received through a guided questionnaire based on the first level outputs. Responsive to receiving the further input, a list of client specific components and subcomponents, a client specific solution reference architecture, and a set of reference links is produced. | 2014-11-27 |
20140351024 | EXTRAPOLATING USER ACTIONS - There are provided a system, a method and a computer program product for extrapolating a next action for a user. The system enables the user to select or specify one or more role models. The system monitors data associated with the one or more role models. The system monitors data associated with the user. The system compares the data associated with the one or more role models with the data associated with the user. The system identifies, based on the comparison one or more discrepancies between the data associated with the one or more role models and the data associated with the user. The system suggests, based on the data associated with the one or more role models and based on the identified one or more discrepancies, one or more actions to the user. | 2014-11-27 |
20140351025 | EXTRAPOLATING USER ACTIONS - There are provided a system, a method and a computer program product for extrapolating a next action for a user. The system enables the user to select or specify one or more role models. The system monitors data associated with the one or more role models. The system monitors data associated with the user. The system compares the data associated with the one or more role models with the data associated with the user. The system identifies, based on the comparison one or more discrepancies between the data associated with the one or more role models and the data associated with the user. The system suggests, based on the data associated with the one or more role models and based on the identified one or more discrepancies, one or more actions to the user. | 2014-11-27 |
20140351026 | COMPUTER BASED BALLOT SYSTEM AND PROCESS - The present invention relates to a computer based ballot system and apparatus enabling polling to be implemented by Wide Area Networks, such as the Internet. A user is able to cast a vote utilising a voting device in the form of a computing process, via a voting interface, which may be a distributed computing element, distributed by webpages. Persons may be able to place votes relating to the content of various webpages. Ballots are generated as a plurality of linked ballots, and when a vote is placed on one ballot the vote may propagate through the other ballots that are linked to it. The structure of the linkage between the ballots may be determined based on user input. | 2014-11-27 |
20140351027 | RFID VEHICLE TAG WITH MANUALLY ADJUSTABLE DATA FIELDS - An RFID tag for use in a vehicle for use in an electronic toll collecting system. The tag is capable of transmitting data to a tag interrogator indicating the occupancy status of the vehicle. In an embodiment, the tag has a user input and a visual and audible tag status indicator. The user input is used to change the occupancy status of the tag, wherein the occupancy status is a portion of a message sent by radio frequency to the interrogator when the vehicle passes through a toll area. | 2014-11-27 |
20140351028 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEDIA AND COMMERCE MANAGEMENT - A system and method for media and commerce management is disclosed herein. The system includes a user interface, a customer overview module accessible through the user interface and configured to allow a user to manage customers, a search module accessible through the user interface and configured to allow the user to search for one or more of orders, customers, contacts, activities, leads campaigns, and opportunities, an activities module accessible through the user interface and configured to allow the user to manage tasks, an opportunities module accessible through the user interface and configured to allow the user to track potential opportunities for sales, a campaign module accessible through the user interface and configured to allow the user to create and manage plans to generate sales, and a leads module accessible through the user interface and configured to allow the user to manage potential customers. | 2014-11-27 |
20140351029 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SERVING RELEVANT ADVERTISEMENTS - The relevance of advertisements to a user's interests is improved. In one implementation, the content of a web page is analyzed to determine a list of one or more topics associated with that web page. An advertisement is considered to be relevant to that web page if it is associated with keywords belonging to the list of one or more topics. One or more of these relevant advertisements may be provided for rendering in conjunction with the web page or related web pages. | 2014-11-27 |
20140351030 | Electronic Distribution and Management of Transactional Promotional Campaigns - Systems and methods for distributing and tracking a promotional offer that is electronically claimable and redeemable by consumers determine a predicted fill rate, and compare the predicted fill rate to a target fill rate to dynamically adjust distribution and availability of the offer. | 2014-11-27 |
20140351031 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING ONLINE AUCTIONS WITH SWEEPSTAKES ENTRIES - A system for allowing a user to participate in a sweepstakes event via user computing devices is described herein. The system includes a database including a list of sweepstakes awards and a controller coupled to the database and a user computing device. The controller is configured to receive a request to purchase a bid unit for use in bidding on one or more auction items from the user via the user computing device, distribute at least one sweepstakes entry into a sweepstakes event to the user in response to the received request, select a sweepstakes award being associated with the at least one sweepstakes entry from the list of sweepstakes awards included in the database, and transmit an award notification message to the user that is indicative of the sweepstakes award. | 2014-11-27 |
20140351032 | Name Based Customer Referral System - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for managing a referral program. One or more of a name and additional identifying details for a referrer are registered in a database. A referrer's name is received from a referred party. It is verified whether the referrer's name provided by the referred party matches a registered referrer's name in the database. Additional identity information is used to verify a referrer's identity in the event that two registered referrers have identical names. A reward is granted to the referrer after a specified act has been completed by the referred party. | 2014-11-27 |
20140351033 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF INCENTIVIZING TRANSACTIONS - Methods, devices, and computer program products for processing a mobile payment. In one aspect, a method includes providing an offer for a transaction, the offer contingent upon a social media promotion requirements. The method further includes receiving an authorization for the transaction and the social media promotion requirements based on the transaction. The method further includes performing the social media promotion requirements based on the transaction. The method further includes processing the mobile payment after verifying the social media promotion requirements based on the transaction. | 2014-11-27 |
20140351034 | DIRECT ETAILING - System, method and program product, the method comprising: receiving an entity agreement to fulfill a product or a service; providing scan indicator image information; receiving and storing image information relating to a product or service image; providing a software application to a plurality of consumers to initiate picture function and to transmit image information; receiving on the server the transmitted image information; comparing the transmitted image information to portions of the stored image information; when a match, then: retrieving the data for entity agreeing to fulfill the product or service; serving price data for the product or service corresponding to the image match, wherein the price data is net of the advertised discount; receiving a purchase selection; requesting fulfillment of the selected product or service; initiating a payment process. | 2014-11-27 |
20140351035 | AUTO-REDEEMABLE BASKET LEVEL OFFERS IN A PREPAID ARCHITECTURE - A method for maintaining a prepaid payment system comprises a user account that can be utilized to complete a purchase transaction with a merchant. A delayed processing window is introduced between a time when the merchant receives a payment approval notification from the payment system and a time when the payment system transmits a payment request to an issuer of a funding account associated with the user's payment system account. The payment system utilizes a user's stored value account maintained by the payment system to satisfy the requirements of a prepaid program, and therefore processes the payment request received from the merchant and transmits the payment approval notification without obtaining prior authorization from the issuer of the funding account. The payment system submits one or more payment requests for the funding transaction at a time after the completion of the purchase transaction between the user and the merchant. | 2014-11-27 |
20140351036 | METHODS FOR DYNAMIC DISCOUNTING - The subject invention relates to electronic buying and selling systems and methods. In particular, the invention concerns relations among distinct price curves, price curve attributes (i.e., factors of the offer that can affect the price curves) and buyers or potential buyers. For instance, a price offered to a system user can vary based on total volume of all people aggregating in private environments, cumulative total order by user, ship date, optimal time, as well as terms and conditions associated with the offer (e.g., no cancellation of order, cancellation possible, payment method . . . ). | 2014-11-27 |