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20080267294 | TRANSCODERS AND METHODS - Transcoding as from MPEG-2 SDTV to MPEG-4 CIF reuses motion vectors and downsamples in the frequency (DCT) domain with differing treatments of frame-DCT and field-DCT blocks, and alternatively uses de-interlacing IDCT with respect to the row dimension plus deferred column downsampling for reference frame blocks. | 10-30-2008 |
20080298463 | System, Method, and Computer-Readable Medium for Reducing Required Throughput in an Ultra-Wideband System - A system, method and computer-readable medium for reducing the required throughput in an ultra-wideband system is provided. A temporal sub-sampling routine limits the number of frames, or portions thereof, to be transmitted to a sink over an RF link. The temporal sub-sampling routine may have a fixed, or static, sub-sampling rate that specifies the rate at which frames are discarded. In accordance with another embodiment, an automatic temporal sub-sampling mechanism is provided. Additionally, a tile copying mechanism may be implemented for reducing the throughput of the RF link. A WDV subsystem may include an interface to an external frame buffer that facilitates the temporal sub-sampling and tile copy routines disclosed herein. | 12-04-2008 |
20130064417 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ROBUST LOW-COMPLEXITY VIDEO FINGERPRINTING - An apparatus and method for video fingerprinting are provided. The method includes, for each frame of a video sequence including a plurality of frames, removing a portion of the frame, dividing a remaining portion of the frame into blocks, dividing each block into sub-blocks, computing a block level feature as a mean of pixels in each sub-block within the block, concatenating all block level features in the frame, and concatenating features of all frames in the video sequence. | 03-14-2013 |
20140177706 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING SUPER-RESOLUTION OF QUANTIZED IMAGES AND VIDEO - An image-encoding system that is configured to generate an output stream based on an input image is provided that includes an encoder and a metadata extractor. The encoder is configured to encode a low-resolution image to generate a quantized, low-resolution image. The low-resolution image is generated based on the input image. The metadata extractor is configured to extract super-resolution (SR) metadata from the input image. The output stream comprises the quantized, low-resolution image and the SR metadata. An image-decoding system is configured to receive the output stream. The image-decoding system includes a decoder and an SR processor. The decoder is configured to decode the quantized, low-resolution image to generate a decoded image. The super-resolution processor is configured to perform super-resolution on the decoded image based on the SR metadata to generate a super-resolved image. | 06-26-2014 |
20150279265 | STORAGE AND CARRIAGE OF GREEN METADATA FOR DISPLAY ADAPTATION - A method for providing display adaptation metadata (DAM) to a user equipment (UE) at a system level is provided. The method includes configuring DAM for storage in an ISO Base Media File Format (ISOBMFF). The method also includes transmitting the DAM to a UE to control an energy consumption of a presentation on a display of the UE. A method for providing display adaptation metadata (DAM) to a user equipment (UE) at a system level is provided. The method includes configuring DAM for carriage in an MPEG-2 transport system (M2TS). The method also includes transmitting the DAM to a UE to control an energy consumption of a presentation on a display of the UE. | 10-01-2015 |
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20130278642 | PERCEPTUAL LOSSLESS DISPLAY POWER REDUCTION - Segments for a video are transmitted in payload units with an extended network abstraction layer unit (NALU) header or supplemental enhancement information (SEI) message within which is embedded display adaptation information that may be employed to control display brightness and thereby reduce power consumption during display of the respective segment. The display adaptation information includes at least a maximum pixel brightness that may be used to scale pixel brightness and correspondingly reduce backlighting for liquid crystal displays, or to adjust the supply voltage for OLED displays. The maximum pixel brightness is set to a level saturating a portion of the pixel histogram without perceptual loss to the viewer, resulting in further reduction of power consumption. | 10-24-2013 |
20130278834 | DISPLAY POWER REDUCTION USING EXTENDED NAL UNIT HEADER INFORMATION - Segments for a video are transmitted in payload units with an extended network abstraction layer unit (NALU) header within which is embedded display adaptation information that may be employed to control display brightness and thereby reduce power consumption during display of the respective segment. The display adaptation information includes at least a maximum pixel brightness that may be used to scale pixel brightness to maximum and correspondingly reduce backlighting for liquid crystal displays, or to adjust the supply voltage for OLED displays. The display adaptation information may optionally include a minimum pixel brightness, a pixel histogram step size, and an indicator of scaling method. | 10-24-2013 |
20140136727 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMPLEXITY ADAPTIVE STREAMING - A method includes calculating a complexity value for each segment or version of multimedia content. The multimedia content has multiple versions associated with common content and different encoding parameters, and each version is divided into segments. The method also includes adaptively streaming the multimedia content to a client device based on at least some of the calculated complexity values. The complexity value for each segment or version is calculated by summing multiple operation complexity values defining complexities of operations for decoding the segment or version. The operation complexity values could include values for a bit parsing operation, a buffer initialization operation, an intra-prediction operation, an inverse quantization and transform operation, a reference block fetch operation, a fractional interpolation operation, and in-loop deblocking operation, a sample adaptive offset correction operation, an adaptive loop filtering operation, and a de-ringing filtering operation. | 05-15-2014 |
20140253601 | DISPLAY POWER REDUCTION USING SEI INFORMATION - Segments for a video are transmitted in payload units with a supplemental enhancement information (SEI) message within which is embedded display adaptation information that may be employed to control display brightness and thereby reduce power consumption during display of the respective segment. The display adaptation information includes at least a maximum pixel brightness that may be used to scale pixel brightness to maximum and correspondingly reduce backlighting for liquid crystal displays, or to adjust the supply voltage for OLED displays. The display adaptation information may optionally include a minimum pixel brightness, a pixel histogram step size, and an indicator of scaling method. | 09-11-2014 |
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20140055504 | GPU-BASED LCD DYNAMIC BACKLIGHT SCALING - Apparatus and methods scale a backlight of a display. A graphics processing unit (GPU) is configured to calculate a histogram. A central processing unit (CPU) is configured to control the backlight of the display responsive to a backlight level that is based on the histogram. | 02-27-2014 |
20140072048 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A SWITCHABLE DE-RINGING FILTER FOR IMAGE/VIDEO CODING - Apparatus and methods are provided to process a downsampled image. The downsampled image is encoded. The downsampled image is upsampled. The downsampled image is filtered in combination with the upsampling to form predictor image. Weights of a spatial weight matrix are based on a spatial scaling ratio. | 03-13-2014 |
20140254661 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR APPLYING SECONDARY TRANSFORMS ON ENHANCEMENT-LAYER RESIDUALS - A method includes receiving a video bitstream and a flag and interpreting the flag to determine a transform that was used at an encoder. The method also includes, upon a determination that the transform that was used at the encoder includes a secondary transform, applying an inverse secondary transform to the received video bitstream, where the inverse secondary transform corresponds to the secondary transform used at the encoder. The method further includes applying an inverse discrete cosine transform (DCT) to the video bitstream after applying the inverse secondary transform. | 09-11-2014 |
20140376618 | DYNAMIC VOLTAGE/FREQUENCY SCALING FOR VIDEO PROCESSING USING EMBEDDED COMPLEXITY METRICS - A video decoder performs a method of dynamic voltage/frequency scaling (DVFS) for video processing. The method includes parsing a bitstream associated with a video to determine embedded information associated with a complexity of a first portion of the video, estimating the complexity of the first portion of the video using the embedded information, determining a voltage and frequency to be used for decoding the first portion of the video based on the estimated complexity, and decoding the first portion of the video at the determined voltage and frequency. | 12-25-2014 |
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20120057630 | LOW COMPLEXITY TRANSFORM CODING USING ADAPTIVE DCT/DST FOR INTRA-PREDICTION - A method and apparatus encode and decode video by determining whether to use discrete cosine transform (DCT) and DST for each of the horizontal and vertical transforms. During encoding, an intra-prediction is performed based on an intra-prediction mode determined for an M×N input image block to obtain an M×N intra-prediction residue matrix (E). Based on the intra-prediction mode, each of a horizontal transform and a vertical transform is performed using one of DCT and DST according to the intra-prediction mode. During decoding, the intra-prediction mode is determined from an incoming video bitstream. The M×N transformed coefficient matrix of the error residue is obtained from the video bitstream using an inverse quantizer. Based on the intra prediction mode, one of DCT and DST is performed for each of an inverse vertical transform and an inverse horizontal transform. | 03-08-2012 |
20120082391 | LOW COMPLEXITY SECONDARY TRANSFORM FOR IMAGE AND VIDEO COMPRESSION - A method for encoding video or images includes receiving input data associated with a block within a video or image frame and performing a transform of the input data to produce a first set of output coefficients. The method also includes receiving the first set of output coefficients and performing a second transform to produce a second set of output coefficients. The method further includes quantizing the second set of output coefficients. The second transform is performed using a rotational transform matrix that is selected to maximize a degree of orthogonality of the rotational transform matrix. | 04-05-2012 |
20120183078 | FILTER ADAPTATION WITH DIRECTIONAL FEATURES FOR VIDEO/IMAGE CODING - A method for processing video information by a video encoder includes classifying video information based on at least one local directional feature of the video information to design multiple filters. The encoder encodes filter coefficients of the multiple filters. The multiple filters are designed with symmetric constraints on the filter coefficients configured according to the classification of the video information based on at least one local directional feature of the video information. The method also includes applying, by the encoder, the multiple directional filters to the video information. A decoder is configured to decode filter coefficients of multiple filters and apply the multiple filters to the video information. The decoder constructs, from decoded filter coefficients, multiple filters with symmetric constraints on the filter coefficients configured according to the classification of the video information based on at least one local directional feature of the video information. | 07-19-2012 |
20120320972 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR LOW-COMPLEXITY OPTIMAL TRANSFORM SELECTION - A video processing system includes prediction primary transforms, quantization, entropy coding and filtering configured to receive and compress video information and output compressed video information corresponding to the received video information. The compressed video information comprising prediction mode, transform block size, quantization parameter, and filtering type. The video processing system also includes a secondary transform configured to receive and compress the compressed video information. The video processing system also includes a quantization stage configured to receive and compress the transformed coefficients. The video processing system also includes an entropy coding stage configured to convert the compressed video information into binary bits. The video processing system also includes a filtering stage configured to improve the reconstructed video information for better prediction. | 12-20-2012 |
20120321205 | SHAPE AND SYMMETRY DESIGN FOR FILTERS IN VIDEO/IMAGE CODING - An apparatus includes a video/image encoder configured to design a two-dimensional star-shaped spatial filter and encode image/video information using the X-shaped spatial filter. The star-shaped spatial filter includes a first linear arrangement of coefficients that extend outwardly in a first diagonal direction from a center pixel coefficient, a second linear arrangement of coefficients that extend outwardly in a second diagonal direction, and two linear arrangements of coefficients that extend outwardly in horizontal and vertical directions from the center pixel coefficient from the center pixel coefficient. The second diagonal direction is oriented in a different direction relative to the first diagonal direction. | 12-20-2012 |
20130003856 | MODE-DEPENDENT TRANSFORMS FOR RESIDUAL CODING WITH LOW LATENCY - An apparatus and method for processing video data are provided. The method includes determining a primary transform C | 01-03-2013 |
20140016863 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING VISUAL SEARCH - A method comprises computing a color factor value indicating an amount of color gradients in at least one color channel from the query image. The method comprises combining the color-keypoints with the gray-keypoints when the color factor value is greater than a threshold. A method for performing a visual search comprises extracting a plurality of local descriptors from a query image and then selecting a subset of them based on various criteria's such as visual meaning score. A method comprises aggregating each mean vector for each visual codeword from distances between each visual codeword and local descriptors. The method comprises aggregating variance vector for each visual codeword from the distance between each visual codeword, and local descriptors. The method comprises transmitting aggregated mean vector information and aggregated variance vector information to a search server for efficient image retrieval. | 01-16-2014 |
20140185941 | ROBUST KEYPOINT FEATURE SELECTION FOR VISUAL SEARCH WITH SELF MATCHING SCORE - To improve feature selection accuracy during a visual search, interest points within a query image are two-way matched to features in an affine transformed image or otherwise transformed version of the query image. A user device implements a method for selecting local descriptors in the visual search. The method includes: detecting a first set of interest points for the original image; computing an affine transform matrix; computing a new image as a transformation of the original image using the affine transform matrix; detecting a second set of interest points from the and new image; performing a two-way matching between the first set of interest points and the second set of interest points; sorting matching pairs according to a specified self-matching score (SMS); assigning an infinite value to SMS of unmatched interest points from the original image; selecting the interest points based on SMS. Significant performance gains reduce false positive matches. | 07-03-2014 |
20140195560 | TWO WAY LOCAL FEATURE MATCHING TO IMPROVE VISUAL SEARCH ACCURACY - To improve precision of visual search processing, SIFT points within a query image are forward matched to features in each of a plurality of repository images and SIFT points within each repository image are backward matched to features within the query image. Forward-only, backward-only and forward-and-backward matches may be weighted differently in determining an image match. Two way matching may be triggered by query image bit rate in excess of a threshold or by a sum of weighted distances between matching points exceeding a threshold. Significant performance gains in eliminating false positive matches are achieved. | 07-10-2014 |
20140198998 | NOVEL CRITERIA FOR GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL CLUSTER SELECTION IN SCALABLE COMPRESSED FISHER VECTOR (SCFV) GLOBAL DESCRIPTOR - A wireless communication device includes a processor configured to execute an image query. The image query utilizes cluster selection criteria for a cluster-aggregation based vectorization of a set of local features based on a quantity of top local features having the highest posteriori probability values. The cluster selection criterion is measured as the summation of the posteriori probability values of the top local features. The quantity of top local features is determined by a predetermined integer value greater than one. | 07-17-2014 |
20140201200 | VISUAL SEARCH ACCURACY WITH HAMMING DISTANCE ORDER STATISTICS LEARNING - Global descriptors for images within an image repository accessible to a visual search server are compared based on order statistics processing including sorting (which is a non-linear transform) and heat kernel matching. Affinity scores are computed for Hamming distances between Fisher vector components corresponding to different clusters of global descriptors from a pair of images and normalized to [0, 1], with zero affinity scores assigned to non-active cluster pairs. Linear Discriminant Analysis is employed to determine a sorted vector of affinity scores to obtain a new global descriptor. The resulting global descriptors produce significantly more accurate matching. | 07-17-2014 |
20140310314 | MATCHING PERFORMANCE AND COMPRESSION EFFICIENCY WITH DESCRIPTOR CODE SEGMENT COLLISION PROBABILITY OPTIMIZATION - A method and apparatus include extracting a global descriptor from a query image with a plurality of segments. The method also includes identifying segments with a desirable discriminating potential by analyzing data of the plurality of segments based on an available image database. The method also includes creating a bitmask where the identified segments are active. The method also includes masking any segment of the plurality of segments of the global descriptor that are inactive according to the bitmask | 10-16-2014 |
20150016516 | METHOD FOR INTRA PREDICTION IMPROVEMENTS FOR OBLIQUE MODES IN VIDEO CODING - In various embodiments, a method and a decoder include identifying a directional intra prediction mode with an angle of prediction. The method also includes identifying a first and second reference neighboring samples in a block of the video along the angle of prediction; the angle of prediction intersects a pixel to be predicted. The method further includes determining which of the first and second reference samples is nearest the angle of prediction and applying a value of the nearest reference neighboring sample to the pixel as a predictor. Also, a method and a decoder include determining whether a block type of a block of the video is intra block copy. The method also includes responsive to the block type being the intra block copy, determining a transform block size of the block and, responsive to the transform block size being 4×4, applying a discrete sine transform to the block. | 01-15-2015 |
20150029394 | DISPLAY POWER REDUCTION USING HISTOGRAM METADATA - A method includes identifying an optimal backlight value for at least one quality level of a first video segment. The method also includes transmitting data for the first video segment. The transmitted data for the first video segment includes a message containing a first set of display adaptation information. The first set of display adaptation information includes the optimal backlight value for the at least one quality level of the first video segment. The method further includes identifying a backlight value for the at least one quality level of a second video segment. The method also includes determining a maximum backlight value change threshold between successive video segments. In addition, the method includes applying temporal smoothing between the optimal backlight value and the backlight value based on the maximum backlight value change threshold. | 01-29-2015 |
20150110181 | METHODS FOR PALETTE PREDICTION AND INTRA BLOCK COPY PADDING - A method is provided that includes receiving a bitstream. The method also includes parsing the bitstream for a flag indicating whether a palette was used from a first or second coding unit. The method also includes decoding the first coding unit using the palette from the first or second coding unit indicated by the flag. The palette is determined based on which palette of the first or second coding unit improves compression performance. Also, a method is provided that includes receiving a bitstream with a predicted pixel. A coding unit and a reference unit are identified. A number of pixels of the coding unit and the reference unit overlap. A set of available pixels and a set of unavailable pixels of the reference unit are identified. The predicted pixel of the set of unavailable pixels is estimated as a pixel of the set of available pixels. | 04-23-2015 |
20160105680 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO PROCESSING WITH COMPLEXITY INFORMATION - A decoder for video processing includes a receiver configured to receive a bitstream associated with a video from a coder. The decoder also includes a processor configured to parse the bitstream to determine a percentage of at least one a number of six tap filterings or a number of alpha point deblocking instances, in a specified period. The processor is further configured to determine a voltage and frequency to be used for decoding the video proportional to the percentage of the at least one of the number of six tap filterings or the number of alpha point deblocking instances. The processor is configured to decode the video at the determined voltage and frequency. Other embodiments including a encoder and method also are disclosed. | 04-14-2016 |
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20160089159 | Surgical Guide for Use in Ligament Repair Procedures - Devices, systems, and methods are provided for ligament repair procedures, and can be used to establish a location and trajectory for forming a bone tunnel in bone. One exemplary embodiment of a surgical guide for using in a ligament repair procedure includes a guide arm and a carriage that can be selectively locked along the guide arm to define an angle of the bone tunnel. The guide arm also defines a location of a distal end of the bone tunnel. In some embodiments the carriage is configured to have a bullet side-loaded into it, and the bullet can be used to define a location of a proximal end of the bone tunnel. The present disclosure also provides for a gage that limits the distance a drill pin that drills the bone tunnel can travel. A variety of other, devices, systems, and methods are also provided. | 03-31-2016 |
20160089160 | Side-Loading Carriage for Use in Surgical Guide - Devices, systems, and methods are provided for ligament repair procedures, and can be used to establish a location and trajectory for forming a bone tunnel in bone. One exemplary embodiment of a surgical guide for using in a ligament repair procedure includes a guide arm and a carriage that can be selectively locked along the guide arm to define an angle of the bone tunnel. The guide arm also defines a location of a distal end of the bone tunnel. In some embodiments the carriage is configured to have a bullet side-loaded into it, and the bullet can be used to define a location of a proximal end of the bone tunnel. The present disclosure also provides for a gage that limits the distance a drill pin that drills the bone tunnel can travel. A variety of other, devices, systems, and methods are also provided. | 03-31-2016 |
20160089161 | Gage for Limiting Distal Travel of Drill Pin - Devices, systems, and methods are provided for ligament repair procedures, and can be used to establish a location and trajectory for forming a bone tunnel in bone. One exemplary embodiment of a surgical guide for using in a ligament repair procedure includes a guide arm and a carriage that can be selectively locked along the guide arm to define an angle of the bone tunnel. The guide arm also defines a location of a distal end of the bone tunnel. In some embodiments the carriage is configured to have a bullet side-loaded into it, and the bullet can be used to define a location of a proximal end of the bone tunnel. The present disclosure also provides for a gage that limits the distance a drill pin that drills the bone tunnel can travel. A variety of other, devices, systems, and methods are also provided. | 03-31-2016 |
20160089162 | Universal Surgical Guide Systems and Methods - Devices, systems, and methods are provided for ligament repair procedures, and can be used to establish a location and trajectory for forming a bone tunnel in bone. One exemplary embodiment of a surgical guide for using in a ligament repair procedure includes a guide arm and a carriage that can be selectively locked along the guide arm to define an angle of the bone tunnel. The guide arm also defines a location of a distal end of the bone tunnel. In some embodiments the carriage is configured to have a bullet side-loaded into it, and the bullet can be used to define a location of a proximal end of the bone tunnel. The present disclosure also provides for a gage that limits the distance a drill pin that drills the bone tunnel can travel. A variety of other, devices, systems, and methods are also provided. | 03-31-2016 |
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20110294713 | Colored Speckles Having Delayed Release Properties - This invention relates to non-bleeding and controlled color-releasing speckles for use in granular laundry detergents and other consumer products. The speckles are comprised of a salt or salt-containing carrier, a coloring agent, and a water-insoluble (or minimally water-soluble) salt coating. | 12-01-2011 |
20110294716 | Colored Speckles For Use In Granular Detergents - This invention relates to non-bleeding, non-staining colored speckles for use in granular or powdered detergents such as laundry detergents and automatic dishwashing detergents. The colored speckles are comprised of a salt or salt-containing carrier and a coloring agent and are characterized as being substantially uniformly colored throughout the cross-sectional volume of the speckle. | 12-01-2011 |
20120220514 | CAPSULES AND COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING THE SAME - A seamless capsule comprises at least one core and a shell layer. The capsule can further comprise an intermediate layer which surrounds the core(s) and is surrounded by the shell layer. The shell layer comprises a material selected from the group consisting of water-soluble polymers, water-dispersible polymer, hydrogels. The shell layer can further comprise a disintegration aid. | 08-30-2012 |
20120220515 | CAPSULES AND COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING THE SAME - A seamless capsule comprises at least one core and a shell layer. The capsule can further comprise an intermediate layer which surrounds the core(s) and is surrounded by the shell layer. The shell layer comprises a material selected from the group consisting of water-soluble polymers, water-dispersible polymer, hydrogels. The shell layer can further comprise a disintegration aid. | 08-30-2012 |
20130217609 | CAPSULES AND COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING THE SAME - A seamless capsule comprises at least one core and a shell layer. The capsule can further comprise an intermediate layer which surrounds the core(s) and is surrounded by the shell layer. The shell layer comprises a solvent-soluble, film forming agent. The shell layer can further comprise a disintegration aid. | 08-22-2013 |
20130303428 | Laundry Detergent Composition Comprising A Particle Having Hueing Agent and Clay - The present invention relates to a laundry detergent composition comprising a particle comprising hueing agent and clay. The particle can be incorporated into laundry detergent products, such as a laundry detergent powder. The particle exhibits an excellent storage stability profile with very little bleeding of the hueing dye from the particle, exhibits excellent fabric deposition of the hueing dye during a laundering process without causing any spot staining of the fabric, and does not impact the visual appearance of a laundry detergent powder when incorporated therein. | 11-14-2013 |
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20110302020 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NETWORKED LOYALTY PROGRAM - The present invention provides a system for implementing a loyalty program on a network-wide level. The system associates UPC and SKU data on a network level to reward consumers and/or to analyze the data for a variety of business purposes, such as market segmentation analyses and/or analyses relating to consumer spending behaviors or patterns, for example. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, the network may comprise any number of participants, including consumers (such primary and supplementary members of an aggregate consumer account), retailers (and any of their employees), manufacturers, third-party providers, and the like. In accordance with one aspect, the system enables participation by supplementary members who are associated with a primary member and, in this manner, facilitates the tracking of supplementary member purchasing behavior, reward points earning behavior, and reward points redemption behavior. In accordance with another aspect, the system permits instant enrollment of consumers at a retailer point-of-sale using information that the retailer has previously gathered from the consumer. In accordance with another aspect, the system facilitates the compilation of a purchaser profile, which may be used for a variety of purposes, including various types of marketing analyses. | 12-08-2011 |
20140195314 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NETWORKED LOYALTY PROGRAM - This disclosure provides a loyalty program on a network-wide level. Embodiments may associate UPC and SKU data on a network level to reward consumers and/or to analyze the data for a variety of business purposes, such as market segmentation analyses and/or analyses relating to consumer spending behaviors or patterns, for example. In accordance with one embodiment, the network may comprise any number of participants, including consumers (such as primary and supplementary members of an aggregate consumer account), retailers (e.g. including any of their employees), manufacturers, third-party providers, and the like. In accordance with one embodiment, this disclosure enables participation by supplementary members who are associated with a primary member and, in this manner, facilitates the tracking of supplementary member purchasing behavior, reward points earning behavior, and reward points redemption behavior. | 07-10-2014 |
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20140365951 | NAVIGATING A CALENDAR - A calendar view smoothly and progressively transitions between different calendar views. Instead of snapping to a week view in response to changing from a month view to the week view, the month view progressively transitions to the week view while receiving an interaction. For example, the week view may smoothly expand while the view of the other weeks in the month smoothly decrease in size while the interaction is being received. A user may navigate between different calendar views such as year to month, month to week, week to multiple days, days to single days, and the like. When navigating month to month, week to week, day to day, and the like, the transitions between each time element are progressively and smoothly transitioned. Task information or other information that is displayed in the calendar progressively transitions to show more or less information depending on the interaction being received. | 12-11-2014 |
20140372898 | DISPLAYING LIFE EVENTS WHILE NAVIGATING A CALENDAR - Life events relating to a user are displayed on a calendar. A user may navigate to different time periods in the calendar and see past life events relating to the user displayed on the calendar. The life events that are displayed on the calendar may include different types of content and be determined from different sources. For example, the life events for the time period may be: pictures, events, social media posts, messages, and the like. Different content sources may be used to locate the life events relating to the user. The life events that are selected for display on the calendar may be shown differently from other content that is included on the calendar. The life events may be processed to adjust an appearance of the life event before it is displayed. A user may also share a life experience with other users. | 12-18-2014 |
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20080215698 | Method and Apparatus for Adding Recipients to Sent Email - A data processing system for resending a previously sent email message. A new recipient for the previously sent email message is selected. The new recipient of the previously sent email message is added in response to selecting the new recipient, wherein the previously sent email message is directed to the new recipient and a previous recipient. An indicator to the previously sent email message is added in response to selecting the new recipient, wherein the indicator indicates that the new recipient has been added to a form a new version of the previously sent email message. The new version of the previously sent email message is sent in response to adding the indicator, wherein the indicator causes the new version of the previously sent email message to replace the previously sent email message at an email program of the previous recipient. | 09-04-2008 |
20080222266 | REDIRECTING CLIENT CONNECTION REQUESTS AMONG SOCKETS PROVIDING A SAME SERVICE - A method, system, and program for redirecting client connection requests among sockets providing a same service are provided. An application requests multiple sockets from a kernel. In addition, the application generates a socket call option to bind the sockets to a particular port number and passes a list of the sockets to the kernel, where the list indicates that the sockets will all provide access to server systems providing the same service. In response, the kernel sets up the sockets, bound to the same port, and set to reference one another. Then, when a connection request is received for a first socket in the list with a queue that is full, the kernel redirects the connection request to a second socket in the list with available queue space. Thus, rather than drop the connection request from the first socket when it lacks available queue space, the connection request is redirected to another socket providing access to the same service. | 09-11-2008 |
20080301312 | Tunneling IPv6 Packets - Methods, systems, and products are provided for tunneling IPv6 packets. Embodiments include receiving, by an origin IPv6 border router from an origin IPv6 host, an IPv6 packet having an IPv6 destination address; receiving, by an origin IPv6 border router from an origin IPv6 host, an IPv4 address for a destination IPv6 border router retrieved from a data structure associating IPv6 destination addresses with IPv4 addresses for destination IPv6 border routers; encapsulating, by the origin IPv6 border router, the IPv6 packet in an IPv4 packet; and sending the encapsulated packet to a destination IPv6 border router at the IPv4 address. In many embodiments, encapsulating, by the origin IPv6 border router, the IPv6 packet in an IPv4 packet is carried out by adding an IPv4 header to the IPv6 packet. | 12-04-2008 |
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20090133162 | Method of increasing plant organ and seed size in a plant - The present invention provides methods and DNA molecules useful for producing transgenic plants with agronomically desired traits based on altered sizes of plant organs and tissues. | 05-21-2009 |
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20110252501 | Transgenic plants with enhanced agronomic traits - This invention provides transgenic plant cells with recombinant DNA for expression of proteins that are useful for imparting enhanced agronomic trait(s) to transgenic crop plants. This invention also provides transgenic plants and progeny seed comprising the transgenic plant cells where the plants are selected for having an enhanced trait selected from the group of traits consisting of enhanced water use efficiency, enhanced cold tolerance, increased yield, enhanced nitrogen use efficiency, enhanced seed protein and enhanced seed oil. Also disclosed are methods for manufacturing transgenic seed and plants with enhanced traits. | 10-13-2011 |
20120159664 | Transgenic Plants With Enhanced Agronomic Traits - This invention provides recombinant DNA for expression of proteins that are useful for imparting enhanced agronomic trait(s) to transgenic crop plants. Also provided by this invention is transgenic seed for growing a transgenic plant having recombinant DNA in its genome and exhibiting an enhance agronomic trait, i.e. enhanced nitrogen use efficiency, increased yield, enhanced water use efficiency, enhanced tolerance to cold stress and/or improved seed compositions. Also disclosed are methods for identifying such transgenic plants by screening for nitrogen use efficiency, yield, water use efficiency, growth under cold stress, and seed composition changes. This invention also discloses a method of identifying the target genes of a transcription factor. | 06-21-2012 |
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20140196161 | Transgenic Plants With Enhanced Agronomic Traits - This invention provides recombinant DNA for expression of proteins that are useful for imparting enhanced agronomic trait(s) to transgenic crop plants. Also provided by this invention is transgenic seed for growing a transgenic plant having recombinant DNA in its genome and exhibiting an enhance agronomic trait, i.e. enhanced nitrogen use efficiency, increased yield, enhanced water use efficiency, enhanced tolerance to cold stress and/or improved seed compositions. Also disclosed are methods for identifying such transgenic plants by screening for nitrogen use efficiency, yield, water use efficiency, growth under cold stress, and seed composition changes. This invention also discloses a method of identifying the target genes of a transcription factor. | 07-10-2014 |
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20130317736 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO DETERMINE AN INITIAL INSURANCE POLICY BENEFIT BASED ON TELEMATICS DATA COLLECTED BY A SMARTPHONE - A system and method are disclosed herein to determine an insurance policy benefit based on telematics data. The system includes a computer memory and a processor in communication with the computer memory. The computer memory stores data indicative of preliminary telematics data collected by a smartphone associated with a vehicle, including at least one of geo-position information of the vehicle and vehicle kinematics data collected prior to issuance of an insurance policy for the vehicle. The processor is configured to calculate and apply an initial insurance policy benefit in exchange for receiving the data indicative of actual telematics data. When the data indicative of the actual telematics data meets a pre-determined condition, the processor may compute a final insurance policy benefit and replace the initial insurance policy benefit with the final insurance policy benefit. | 11-28-2013 |
20130317862 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO PREDICT AN INSURANCE POLICY BENEFIT ASSOCIATED WITH TELEMATICS DATA - A system and method are disclosed herein to predict an insurance benefit, such as a discount, associated with telematics data. The system includes a processor configured to determine demographic information associated with a driver of a vehicle. A first average number of safety events associated with a first safety event type may be displayed along with a second average number of safety events associated with a second safety event type, wherein the averages are based at least in part on the demographic information. A first predicted number of safety events associated with the first safety event type may be received from the driver along with a second predicted number of safety events associated with the second safety event type. A predicted discount may be automatically calculated and output. | 11-28-2013 |
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20150187013 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING DRIVER SIGNATURES - A system configured to determine an insurance premium associated with an account that covers at least one vehicle and at least one driver comprising a computer memory that stores biographical information; a processor that receives information associated with telematics data associated with at least one of the vehicle(s), concerning use of the at least one vehicle(s); the processor further configured to determine discrete segments of use by at least one vehicle(s), and to determine a driver signature associated with each of the discrete segments of use; the processor further configured to generate a driver risk assessment responsive to the at least one of the discrete segments of use; the processor further configured to calculate pricing information based at least in part on the at least one risk assessment and the biographical information; and a transmitter configured to transmit the pricing information to a user device or user transmission device. | 07-02-2015 |
20150187014 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXPECTATION BASED PROCESSING - A system for determining insurance pricing information based on telematics data, the system comprising, a processor configured to generate a driver proxy score (DPS) based on a combination of rating variables in a conventional class plan; the processor, configured to receive information associated with telematics data received from a telematics device, wherein the telematics data includes a plurality of risk factors; the processor further configured to determine a driver telematics score (DTS) based on the information associated with the telematics data; the processor further configured to generate an expectation based rating, based on the DPS and the DTS, which measures a variance of the telematics data from the expected value; the processor further configured to update pricing information based on the determined expectation based rating; and a transmitter configured to transmit the updated pricing information to a user device. | 07-02-2015 |
20150187015 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DESTINATION BASED UNDERWRITING - A system for determining risk associated with a driver, the system comprising a receiver, configured to receive information associated with telematics data; a processor further configured to determine, based at least in part on the telematics data, that a vehicle has reached a destination, a length of time spent at the destination and a times of day during which the vehicle is at the destination; the processor configured to determine a direct exposure rating based on at least the determined destination, the length of time spent at the destination, and the times of day during which the vehicle is at the location; the processor further configured to adjust an insurance pricing information based on the direct exposure rating; and a transmitter configured to transmit the adjusted pricing information to a user device. | 07-02-2015 |
20150187016 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TELEMATICS BASED UNDERWRITING - A system for determining insurance pricing information comprising a computer memory for storing biographical information, including an expected total mileage driven by a vehicle and an initial risk assessment based on at least the expected total mileage driven; the processor further configured to determine, based on telematics data, a plurality of relativity factors, wherein relativity factors are numerical values generated based on a comparison of the information associated with the received telematics data with other drivers; the processor configured to calculate the product of the plurality of relativity factors with a starting discount and compare the product with a predetermined threshold; the processor further configured to adjust insurance pricing information based on the comparison of the product of the relativity factors with the predetermined threshold. | 07-02-2015 |
20150187019 | SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE DATA PROCESSING - A system configured to determine an insurance premium associated with an account that covers a vehicle including an autonomous feature and a driver comprising a computer memory that stores biographical information including information regarding the autonomous feature; a processor that receives information associated with telematics data associated with the vehicle, concerning use of the vehicle and the autonomous feature; the processor further configured to determine discrete segments of use by the vehicle, and to determine a driver signature associated with each of the discrete segments of use; the processor further configured to generate a driver risk assessment responsive to the one of the discrete segments of use; the processor further configured to calculate pricing information based on the risk assessment and the biographical information; and a transmitter configured to transmit the pricing information to a user device. | 07-02-2015 |
20150248731 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING ACTUAL TELEMATICS DATA FOR A VEHICLE BASED ON DETERMINATION OF AN INITIAL BENEFIT FROM PRELIMINARY TELEMATICS DATA COLLECTED BY A SMARTPHONE - A system and method are disclosed herein to receive preliminary telematics data collected by a smartphone and actual telematics data collected by a data collection device. The system includes a computer memory and a processor in communication with the computer memory. The computer memory stores the data indicative of preliminary telematics data collected by the smartphone, including at least one of geo-position information of the vehicle and vehicle kinematics data. The processor is configured to calculate an initial benefit based upon the preliminary telematics data, and apply the initial benefit in exchange for receiving the data indicative of actual telematics data via the data collection device within the vehicle. When the received data indicative of the actual telematics data meets a pre-determined condition, the processor may compute a final benefit based on the actual telematics data. | 09-03-2015 |
20150363886 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO PROVIDE VEHICLE TELEMATICS BASED DATA ON A MAP DISPLAY - A system and method are disclosed herein to determine an insurance premium discount based on telematics data. The system includes a computer memory and a processor in communication with the computer memory. The computer memory stores data indicative telematics data received from a sensor within a vehicle, including at least one of geo-position information of the vehicle and vehicle kinematics data. The processor is configured to identify safety events and associated safety event locations based on the telematics data. The processor is further configured to display to the driver indications of the safety events on a map display along with indications of safety events associated with other drivers. | 12-17-2015 |