Patent application number | Description | Published |
20120284083 | System and method for merchandise distribution - A lightweight merchandise distribution system for online group-buying is provided. The distribution system comprises a computer server, a plurality of small distribution centers, and a plurality of delivery entities. The computer server comprises a merchandise sales-prediction module and a distribution center-optimization module. Before a product is featured on a group-buying website, the number of small distribution centers is set up in a densely populated city based on the center-optimization result. The featured product is then pre-allocated to each distribution center based on the sales-prediction result. Each delivery entity comprises a delivery person, a wireless handheld device, and a delivery vehicle. The delivery person preloads the featured products onto the delivery vehicle before receiving any order. The delivery person delivers the ordered product by the delivery vehicle once the purchase order is received from the wireless handheld device. | 11-08-2012 |
20130036076 | METHOD FOR KEYWORD EXTRACTION - Presented is a method of extracting keywords. The method includes obtaining a corpus of documents, determining a first set of words that appear as keywords in a document present in the corpus of documents, determining a second set of words that appear in the corpus of documents but not necessarily appear as keywords in the document, and determining a final set of keywords for the document by combining the first set of words with the second set of words. | 02-07-2013 |
20130046595 | System and method for providing location-based time-sensitive deals - A system and method of providing online location-based time-sensitive deals are proposed. An online retailer accepts an instant deal submitted by a merchant. The instant deal is a discounted service provided by the merchant at a geographic location. The instant deal is approved only if the merchant is qualified and if the deal is qualified based on a set of pre-configured rules. The online retailer advertises a deal coupon for the discounted service during a limited time for a limited quantity to consumers located near the geographic location. In one example, the geographic location is defined by a business district or a landmark. When a buyer places a purchase order, the deal coupon is delivered to the buyer. The deal coupon is redeemable during a limited time without additional reservation. If the buyer does not redeem the coupon within the limited time, the purchase amount is automatically refunded. | 02-21-2013 |
20130061132 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WEB PAGE SEGMENTATION USING ADAPTIVE THRESHOLD COMPUTATION - A system and method for an adaptive threshold Web Page segmenting is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method performed by a physical computing system having one or more processors for segmenting a Web page including a plurality of nodes includes parsing content in the Web page into the plurality of nodes using the physical computing system, obtaining feature values between each pair of nodes using the physical computing system, estimating an adaptive threshold value using the obtained feature values using the physical computing system, and segmenting the Web page by comparing the feature values associated with each pair of nodes with the estimated adaptive threshold value. | 03-07-2013 |
20130073337 | System and method for merchandise selection based on Location and produce trials - A merchandise selection system comprises a merchandise trial selection module, a sales volume prediction module, and a targeted selling module. The trial selection module determines a set of trial parameters including city information, product information, price information, and trial period information. The sales volume prediction module determines estimated sales volume for a product during a sales period in a selected city based on trial result. The targeted selling module determines to feature the product for the sales period in the selected city if the estimated sales volume meets a threshold. The merchandise selection system provides better prediction result, facilitates precise planning, and enables better control of shelf space in each city. | 03-21-2013 |
20130110500 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND APPARTUS FOR SELECTING AN ACRONYM EXPANSION | 05-02-2013 |
20130132179 | System and Method for Combining Group Buying with Regular Selling - A system and method of combining group buying with regular selling is provided. A group-buying company advertises a first product for sale from a group-buying website. The first product is a group-buying deal with deep discount offered for a short period of time. The group-buying websites also provides recommendation information on one or more products based on the first product. The one or more recommended products are supplied by another non-group-buying company. Consumers are able to purchase the one or more recommended products from the group-buying website. | 05-23-2013 |
20130159080 | System and Method for Mobile Device-Based Smart Wallet - A method for conducting a payment transaction using a smart wallet is proposed. The smart wallet accepts financial account information input by a consumer. The smart wallet stores the financial account information and transmits the financial account information to a smart wallet management server. When the consumer shops at a store, the smart wallet displays a list of merchandise purchased at the store and a total payment amount of the purchased merchandise. The smart wallet also provides a recommendation for making the payment amount. Finally, the smart wallet transmits a payment request to the smart wallet management server such that the payment is authorized and the payment transaction is completed. In one embodiment, the smart wallet can be used as a key to access shared mailboxes, resulting in significant improvement on package delivery operations for both couriers and consumers. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159209 | PRODUCT INFORMATION - Disclosed is a method of generating a model representation of product information. The method obtains a list of products from a source of product information. A hierarchical tree is then constructed from the obtained list of products, wherein each hierarchical layer of the tree corresponds to a different category of product information. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159889 | Obtaining Rendering Co-ordinates Of Visible Text Elements - A computer-implemented method for obtaining the rendering co-ordinates of visible text elements on a web page is disclosed. The web page is represented by an input data structure comprising a plurality of text nodes, each of which represents a text element on the web page. The method comprises the following steps:
| 06-20-2013 |
20130188824 | DIGITAL WATERMARKING - A method for embedding, using a processor, digital watermark data into image data representing a number of pixels, each of which has respective saturation values is disclosed. The method comprises the following steps:
| 07-25-2013 |
20130204835 | METHOD OF EXTRACTING NAMED ENTITY - Presented is a method of extracting named entities from a large-scale document corpus. The method includes identifying named entities in the corpus and forming a set of seed entities manually or automatically using some existing resources, constructing a named entity graph to discover same-type probability between any given pair of named entities, expanding the set of seed entities and performing a confidence propagation of the seed entities on the named entity graph. | 08-08-2013 |
20130211874 | System and Method for Mass Production and Sale of Configurable and Personalized Tablet Computers - A method to mass produce and sell electronic devices using open architecture manufacturing model and group-buying business model is provided. A group-buying company receives a plurality of offers to buy electronic devices from a plurality of consumers, and each offer is associated with a minimum requirement for each corresponding electronic device. The group-buying company determines one or more final device configurations of a plurality of electronic devices that satisfies the minimum requirements of all the offers, and all the electronic devices are substantially identical to be sold to the plurality of consumers as a group-buying deal. The group-buying company then arranges a single run of the identical electronic devices to be mass produced by a third entity. Finally, the group-buying company supplies the identical electronic devices to each of the plurality of consumers. | 08-15-2013 |
20130223758 | Stitched Digital Images - Disclosed is a method of blending stitched document image portions. The method identifies background pixels and foreground pixels on each boundary of the image portions. Pixels of the image portions are then modified based on a pixel value difference between corresponding background pixels on the respective boundary of the first and second portions. | 08-29-2013 |