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20100010901 | POINT-OF-SALE TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT - A point-of-sale system comprises a webserver that receives lists of products and services offered at retail points of sale, and that can sort them into items that are qualified, conditionally qualified, and non-qualified to be purchased by a cardholder using a flexible spending account payment card. The qualified items are permissible to be purchased by all cardholders, but purchases of conditionally qualified items are only permissible when the cardholder has registered a particular qualifying characteristic. For example, a health condition for which a doctor has prescribed the retail item for purchase. The demographics of the cardholders are available for affinity programs, promotional offers, discounts, and rebates. Such are proffered at the point of sale during transaction authorization to be considered by the cardholder or to be automatically exercised. Purchases in excess of the funds then available in the cardholders' flexible spending accounts can be deducted from other registered accounts or payrolls. | 01-14-2010 |
20100010909 | BENEFIT ORDERING AND COMPLIANCE SERVER - A benefits ordering system provides flexible spending account debit cards to employees and allows their employer to enroll in a Plan that ensures compliance with ERISA regulations. The system applies compliance rules during a data collection and plan definition stages of ordering, and produces an ERISA-compliant Plan and documentation as legally required. A directed questioning and answering wizard guides companies and participants through the placing of orders for products. The particular sequence of questions is dependent on the products being ordered, and the parameters drive variations in the plans. Rules and parameters are built into libraries used by the system, and it is these that direct the information collection flow. Each type of Plan is constructed from previously composed paragraphs that are threaded together to encapsulate the parameters and include the required components. Plans can be modified, if new compliance rules must be met, based on changing parameters. | 01-14-2010 |
20110087592 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING TRANSACTIONS - Pursuant to some embodiments, a payment account including multiple subaccounts is provided where each subaccount can be used only for payment for a designated category of products. Pursuant to some embodiments, purchases using the subaccounts can be automatically combined in a single transaction to redeem multiple categories of products, with each subaccount providing funds for the redemption of a single product category. In some embodiments, the payment account may include a subaccount that contains value that is unrestricted and available for general spending or to automatically provide supplementary funds for the redemption of products from subaccounts with product category restrictions. The value contained within each subaccount may be immediately available funds, access to credit provided by an entity who has agreed to extend credit to the account holder for purchasing products in a designated category or a combination of these types of value. Alternatively, in some embodiments, the value may include benefits provided by a health care plan whose redemption is limited to specific categories of products and services as provided by the plan. | 04-14-2011 |
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20090002374 | ERROR METRICS FOR CHARACTERS - Generating an error from an error metric quantifying differences between reference objects representing characters and representations of the reference objects. One embodiment includes a method which includes accessing a reference object representing a character. One or more reference object characteristics are quantified. The reference object characteristics are related to character structural and color information of at least a portion of the reference object to generate a reference object metric. A representation object of the reference object is accessed. One or more representation object characteristics are quantified to create a representation object metric. The representation object characteristics are related to character structural and color information of a portion of the representation object of the reference object corresponding to the portion of the reference object. An error is calculated based on a difference between the reference object metric and the representation object metric. The error is output to a user. | 01-01-2009 |
20090003711 | OPTIMIZING CHARACTER RENDERING - Optimizing objects output to a user. One method includes accessing a reference object of a character representing an idealized output. A different representation of the reference object is accessed. The reference object is compared to the representation of the reference object to generate an error metric. An optimization is applied to the representation of the reference object. The optimization is directed to causing the representation of the reference object to more closely approximate the reference object. Comparing objects and applying optimizations is repeated until an acceptable representation of the reference object is achieved. The acceptable representation of the reference object is displayed. | 01-01-2009 |
20090009529 | ADAPTIVE CONTEXTUAL FILTERING - Selectively applying graphical filtering to a portion of an object. One method described herein includes a method including accessing an object to be rendered. At least one characteristic of a portion of the object is determined. A filter is selected that has been pre-specified for the at least one determined characteristic. The filter is applied to the portion of the object, while not applying the filter to at least one other portion of the object. | 01-08-2009 |
20110018894 | ADAPTIVE CONTEXTUAL FILTERING BASED ON OBSERVER COLORBLINDNESS CHARACTERISTICS - Selectively applying graphical filtering to characters can include the identification of observer characteristics and characteristics associated with different portions of the character. Corresponding filters can then be identified and selectively applied to the characters and, in some instances, without applying the filter to the entire character. | 01-27-2011 |
20110018900 | ADAPTIVE CONTEXTUAL FILTERING BASED ON TYPOGRAPHICAL CHARACTERISTICS - Selectively applying graphical filtering to a portion of an object can include accessing an object to be rendered and identifying at least one characteristic of a portion of the object. A corresponding filter is then selectively applied to the at least one determined characteristic and, in some instances, without applying the filter to at least one other portion of the object. | 01-27-2011 |
20110096086 | ERROR METRICS FOR CHARACTERS - Generating an error from an error metric quantifying differences between reference objects representing characters and representations of the reference objects. One embodiment includes a method which includes accessing a reference object representing a character. One or more reference object characteristics are quantified. The reference object characteristics are related to character structural and color information of at least a portion of the reference object to generate a reference object metric. A representation object of the reference object is accessed. One or more representation object characteristics are quantified to create a representation object metric. The representation object characteristics are related to character structural and color information of a portion of the representation object of the reference object corresponding to the portion of the reference object. An error is calculated based on a difference between the reference object metric and the representation object metric. The error is output to a user. | 04-28-2011 |
20130113821 | ASSIGNING COLOR VALUES TO PIXELS BASED ON OBJECT STRUCTURE - Systems and methods are provided for assigning color values to pixels based on object structure. For example, when rendering a writing system symbol on an electronic display, a non-color characteristic of the symbol can be measured and the measurement can be used to select a color value for a pixel associated with the symbol. Legibility of open and closed line-based graphical objects can be increased by inferring spatial depth and distance through application of a color assignment model. | 05-09-2013 |
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20110208857 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR GATHERING USAGE STATISTICS - The present disclosure enables remote device management. A programmatic interface is associated with each application plug-in. A web server included with the on-device agent provides access to the programmatic interfaces according to open standards such as HTML or XML. The present disclosure enables access to remote devices through existing infrastructure without the need for proprietary systems. An IT administrator or other administrator may remotely access and update software and hardware, track device data plan usage statistics, provide live support, and track current and historical device locations. The phone and messaging feature enables an administrator to access information regarding data plan and usage statistics of devices. This allows organizations to optimize data plans based on messaging, e-mail, and other data plan statistics. Further, the present disclosure allows access to network connectivity details of devices and logs of emails, text messages, and the like. | 08-25-2011 |
20110213821 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR REMOTE ASSISTANCE, SUPPORT, AND TROUBLESHOOTING - The present disclosure enables remote device management. A programmatic interface is associated with each application plug-in. A web server included with the on-device agent provides access to the programmatic interfaces according to open standards such as HTML or XML. The present disclosure enables access to remote devices through existing infrastructure without the need for proprietary systems. An IT administrator or other administrator may remotely access and update software and hardware, track device data plan usage statistics, provide live support, and track current and historical device locations. Through the support features of the present disclosure an IT administrator or other support operator may remotely operate a device as if they were actually holding the device. This feature provides direct access to device files and software while also showing the IT administrator screen views of the remote device. Thus, the IT administrator actually sees what the remote user also sees. | 09-01-2011 |
20110213831 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR REMOTE DEVICE MANAGEMENT - The present disclosure enables remote device management. A programmatic interface is associated with each application plug-in. A web server included with the on-device agent provides access to the programmatic interfaces according to open standards such as HTML or XML. The present disclosure enables access to remote devices through existing infrastructure without the need for proprietary systems. An IT administrator or other administrator may remotely access and update software and hardware, track device data plan usage statistics, provide live support, and track current and historical device locations. Further, through the use of the present disclosure developers may provide customizable applications employing plug-ins on the remote device targeted for their own system. | 09-01-2011 |
20110214121 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR PROVISIONING AND REMOTE DISTRIBUTION - The present disclosure enables remote device management. A programmatic interface is associated with each application plug-in. A web server included with the on-device agent provides access to the programmatic interfaces according to open standards such as HTML or XML. The present disclosure enables access to remote devices through existing infrastructure without the need for proprietary systems. An IT administrator or other administrator may remotely access and update software and hardware, track device data plan usage statistics, provide live support, and track current and historical device locations. An IT administrator or other user may update device settings, detect corrupt software, provide unattended installation of software, update applications while in use, and update applications sharing common files. IT administrators may employ the teachings of the present disclosure to provide customizable solutions for their own organization with features disclosed herein. | 09-01-2011 |