Patent application number | Description | Published |
20120016528 | REMOTE ENERGY MANAGEMENT USING PERSISTENT SMART GRID NETWORK CONTEXT - A server device includes a storage device to store policies that govern the manner in which a curtailment operation or a replenish operation are performed. The policies include a threshold associated with a quantity of power consumption permitted by smart grid devices or another threshold associated with a minimum quantity of power to be supplied by a smart grid device. The server device also includes a processor to obtain, via a web service enabled by a tunneling protocol, a quantity of power consumed by the smart grid devices and another quantity of power to be supplied by the smart grid device; compare the threshold with the quantity of power; send an instruction to perform the curtailment operation when the quantity of power exceeds the threshold; compare the other threshold with the other quantity of power, when the quantity of power is less than the threshold; and send another instruction to perform the replenish operation when the other quantity of power is less than the other threshold. | 01-19-2012 |
20130041770 | PERSISTENT NETWORK-BASED ELECTRONIC TRANSACTION SERVICES - A system configured to receive a request to perform an electronic transaction associated with merchant equipment, where the request identifies one or more value-added services that are to be provided when the transaction is performed; retrieve workflow information, associated with a workflow that corresponds to the transaction, where the workflow information identifies how the transaction is to be performed and how the value-added services are to be provided; obtain information associated with one or more second server devices that provide the value-added services; instruct the second server devices to provide the value-added services, in a manner that conforms to the workflow information, based on the information associated with the one or more second server devices; perform the transaction in a manner that conforms to the workflow information; and transmit, to the merchant equipment, a notification that the transaction has been performed or that the value-added services have been provided. | 02-14-2013 |
20130103221 | REMOTE ENERGY MANAGEMENT USING PERSISTENT SMART GRID NETWORK CONTEXT - A device may include a memory to store control policies set for a network of smart grid. devices connected to a power grid, the control policies including an energy consumption threshold associated with the network of smart grid devices; and a processor configured to obtain network content including energy consumption data associated with the network of smart grid devices, compare the energy consumption data to the energy consumption threshold associated with the network of smart grid devices, generate a first instruction with respect to energy consumption associated with network of smart grid devices, and generate a second instruction with respect to replenishment of unforced capacity associated with the network of smart grid devices. | 04-25-2013 |
20130117121 | CONTENT DELIVERY USING SOCIAL AFFINE TARGETING - A content delivery system using social affine targeting may include a device that determines, based on presence information received from mobile devices, users in a vicinity of an electronic billboard. The device may further determine, based on user behavior information relating to the users, affinities of the users; and determine commonality of the affinities of the users. Still further, the device may select, based on the determined commonality of the affinities, one or more advertisements to present by the electronic billboard; and transmit the selected one or more advertisements to the electronic billboard. | 05-09-2013 |
20130167231 | PREDICTIVE SCORING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR APPLICATION BEHAVIOR - A system may be provided that comprises one or more servers to: receive information regarding known epitypes of malness, where the information includes malness scores and behaviors for the known epitypes of malness; store the information regarding the known epitypes of malness; generate rules for a model based on the information regarding the known epitypes of malness; input application data from an application on a device into the model; output a malness score from the model based on the application data; and allow the application and/or the device access to a network when the malness scores for the application is below a first threshold level, or block the application and/or the device access to the network when the malness score the application is above a second threshold level, where the first threshold level is less than the second threshold level. | 06-27-2013 |
20130310078 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSOCIATING CONTEXT INFORMATION WITH DEFINED LOCATION DATA - An approach for enabling contextual categories to be associated and scored in connection with a defined geographic region is described. An affinity determination platform identifies an anomaly in a score associated with at least one contextual category of a defined geographic region based on information related to the points-of-interest. The affinity determination platform generates an updated score to associate with the at least one contextual category based on the analysis of verification information related to the defined geographical region and associates the updated score with the contextual category. | 11-21-2013 |
20130312071 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INITIATING SECURE TRANSACTIONS WITHIN A DEFINED GEOGRAPHIC REGION - An approach for enabling contextual categories to be associated and scored in connection with a defined geographic region is described. A transient services platform establishes, based on biometric authentication of a user, a limited session for completing a transaction. The transient services platform then determines, based on a defined geographic region, a context to associate with the transaction. Credentials associated with the user are transferred to the transaction agent based on the authentication and the determined context. | 11-21-2013 |
20140053244 | ANONYMIZATION AS A SERVICE - One or more network devices receive user criteria for providing anonymization of data from a user device and generate a default workflow for achieving the user criteria. The network devices provide, to the user device, the default workflow and receive user input to the default workflow. The network devices generate and send, based on the user input, final workflow instructions for transmitting data from the user device. The network devices also receive anonymized data transmitted from the user device based on the final workflow instructions. The network devices can provide trend observations of the anonymized data for use by third parties without granting access to the anonymized data. | 02-20-2014 |
20140058825 | AUGMENTED-REALITY-BASED OFFER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A network device receives location information from a user device and identifies, from an index of offers, a set of offers applicable in proximity to the location. Each offer in the set of offers includes location data to associate the offer with a particular geographic location. The network device sends, to the user device, at least a portion of set of offers as a default offer set. The user device store user preferences for advertising categories and presents, to a user, a reality image from the location of the user device. The user device selects—based on the user preferences, the reality image, and the location data—offers in the default offer set that are applicable to a user of the user device. The user device displays indications of the applicable offers overlaid on a portion of the reality image and makes the indications available for selection by the user. | 02-27-2014 |
20140156470 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A TRANSIENT VIRTUAL SHOP - An approach for providing a transient virtual shop is described. A transaction request is received, from a mobile device, for a virtual merchant service. Contextual information relating to the mobile device is determined. Communication is initiated with a merchant system configured to facilitate a transaction associated with the merchant service. Transaction data is received from the merchant system based on the determined contextual information. Transmission of the transaction data is initiated to the mobile device for presentation, wherein the presentation includes projecting a graphical user interface to represent the transaction data. The graphical user interface supports gesture-based input. User input corresponding to the transaction is received via the graphical user interface. | 06-05-2014 |
20140188617 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING DYNAMIC CONSUMER OFFERS - An approach for providing consumption behavior modification is described. Location information associated with a mobile device is received as part of a consumption behavior modification service. An applicable behavior modification grid tile is identified based on the location information, wherein the behavior modification grid tile is among a plurality of modification grid tiles mapping to a behavior continuum space. One of a plurality of offers designated for the identified grid is selected. An incentive message specifying a behavior modification inducement incentive is generated for transmission to the mobile device. | 07-03-2014 |
20140258121 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING SECURED ANONYMIZED PAYMENT - An approach for secured payment through anonymized settlement services without the use of physical trusted service management (TSM) devices includes receiving a payment request from a first user directed to a second user, wherein the payment request includes, at least in part, an abstracted identity of the first user, determining one or more payment accounts associated with the first user based, at least in part, on the abstracted identity, initiating a payment using the one or more payments accounts to the second user based on the payment request, and sending an acknowledgement message of the payment to the second user, wherein the acknowledgement message includes anonymized information associated with the payment. | 09-11-2014 |
20140322676 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING DRIVING QUALITY FEEDBACK AND AUTOMOTIVE SUPPORT - An approach for determining and scoring driving quality in real-time while supporting various in-vehicle services and leveraging information associated with and related to the driving experience includes collecting, in real-time, a plurality of contextual parameters associated with a user, classifying driving behavior of the user based on the contextual parameters, wherein the driving behavior corresponds to operation of one or more vehicles by the user, and generating a driving profile for the user according to the classification. | 10-30-2014 |
20140343955 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A PREDICTIVE HEALTHCARE SERVICE - An approach for providing a predictive healthcare service includes generating an ensemble model for predicting one or more health classifications based on one or more health variables, the ensemble model consisting of a plurality of predictive models. The approach also includes tuning the ensemble model based on a test data set and providing a predictive healthcare service based on the ensemble model. | 11-20-2014 |