04th week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 57 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150025893 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image processing apparatus and control method are provided. The image processing apparatus includes: a communication interface which is configured to communicably connect to a server; a voice input interface which is configured to receive a speech of a user and generate a voice signal corresponding the speech; a storage which is configured to store at least one user account of the image processing apparatus and signal characteristic information of a voice signal that is designated corresponding to the user account; and a controller which is configured to, in response to an occurrence of a log-in event with respect to the user account, determine a signal characteristic of the voice signal corresponding the speech received by the voice input interface, select and automatically log in to a user account corresponding to the determined signal characteristic from among the at least one user account stored in the storage, and control the communication interface to connect to the server with the selected user account. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025894 | METHOD FOR ENCODING AND DECODING OF MULTI CHANNEL AUDIO SIGNAL, ENCODER AND DECODER - Provided are a method of encoding and decoding a multichannel audio signal, and an encoder and a decoder to perform the method. The present invention may perform encoding into consideration of a size of bit to be allocated based on a feature of audio signal for each channel with respect to an audio signal having a plurality of channels, thereby enhancing an encoding efficiency of the multichannel audio signal. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025895 | Audio Encoder with Parallel Architecture - The present document relates to methods and systems for audio encoding. In particular, the present document relates to methods and systems for fast audio encoding using a parallel system architecture. A frame-based audio encoder ( | 2015-01-22 |
20150025896 | Enabling Sampling Rate Diversity In A Voice Communication System - An audio communication endpoint receives a bitstream containing spectral components representing spectral content of an audio signal, wherein the spectral components relate to a first range extending up to a first break frequency, above which any spectral components are unassigned. The endpoint adapts the received bitstream in accordance with a second range extending up to a second break frequency by removing spectral components or adding neutral-valued spectral components relating to a range between the first and second break frequencies. The endpoint then attenuates spectral content in a neighbourhood of the least of the first and second break frequencies for thereby achieving a gradual spectral decay. After this, reconstructing the audio signal is reconstructed by an inverse transform operating on spectral components relating to said second range in the adapted and attenuated received bitstream. At small computational expense, the endpoint may to adapt to different sample rates in received bitstreams. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025897 | System and Method for Audio Coding and Decoding - In accordance with an embodiment, a method of generating an encoded audio signal, the method includes estimating a time-frequency energy of an input audio signal from a time-frequency filter bank, computing a global variance of the time-frequency energy, determining a post-processing method according to the global variance, and transmitting an encoded representation of the input audio signal along with an indication of the determined post-processing method. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025898 | Systems And Methods Relating To Control Of Third Party Payment For Healthcare Products - Preventing multiple payment for healthcare product by a third party payor includes receiving an electronic request for third party payment, receiving electronic data indicative of an expected remainder of healthcare product in a serialized allotment, and comparing an amount of the healthcare product to be dispensed with the expected remainder. A payment fault is generated responsive to the comparison, such that payment for healthcare product already depleted from the serialized allotment is prevented. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025899 | METHOD OF IMPROVING PATIENT ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE SERVICES - In accordance with one embodiment, a method is provided for improving patient recruitment by obtaining a lead that was exposed to at least one message through a referral channel, identifying the lead's contact information and the referral channel the lead was obtained through and storing it in a memory, and tracking the lead to determine if the lead becomes a patient. In one particular embodiment, the referral channel may comprise print, radio, television, or web-based advertising. In another embodiment, the referral channel may be a co-managing provider. In some embodiments, the present invention further comprises splitting a fee, which was incurred by the patient, with the co-managing provider based on the service performed by the co-managing provider; and establishing a relationship with a co-managing provider by referring a patient to the co-managing provider to have a healthcare service performed. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025900 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSESSING DATA QUALITY DURING CLINICAL TRIALS - The present invention relates to a system and methods for facilitating the improvement of data quality generated during drug and medical device clinical trials. In one embodiment, the invention includes a system and method for generating an ideal subject suitability score for one or more interaction points of a clinical trial. One or more individual subject suitability scores may then be generated from actual subject interaction with the clinical trial for each of the interaction points of the clinical trial. For each interaction point for which an ideal subject suitability score is generated, the one or more individual subject suitability scores may be compared to the ideal subject suitability score to determine the deviation there between. The quality of data collected from actual subject interaction with the clinical trial may be a function of the difference between the individual and ideal subject suitability scores. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025901 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING HEALTHCARE - The instant disclosure provides methods and apparatus for prescribing drugs and obtaining and using outcome information associated with use of the prescribed drugs. Doctors and patients may be registered in a centralized system though which drugs may be prescribed and delivered directly to the patients together with outcome data collection apparatus. Outcome data associated with use of the prescription drug is entered into the system and used in a variety of ways. The instant invention also includes membership fee-based models and permits virtual office visits between doctors and patients. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025902 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INDIRECT MEDICAL CONSULTATION - A method and apparatus is provided comprising a technology engine designed to facilitate indirect medical consultation with health care providers and create a medical record of this indirect consultation event. In one embodiment is provided a method and apparatus for capturing electronically one or more of the following: (a) patient complaints; (b) health care provider's impression/review; (c) health care provider/patient discussion of complaint symptoms following which a treatment plan is formulated regarding health care strategy; (d) any prescription issued by the health care provider; and/or (e) a set of follow-up visits by the patient. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025903 | "INDIMA APPARATUS" SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR INDIVIDUALIZED AND COLLABORATIVE HEALTH CARE - A system and method for ‘Individualized Life Management’ focusing on individualized and collaborative health care involving a plurality of individuals, using groups of state parameters for defining a state of each individual, and using groups of action parameters for defining ‘treatment options’ and/or ‘behavior options’ targeted at an individual. The system includes a data processor for processing input data, which are based on the groups of state parameters, into output data, which are the basis for the groups of action parameters, using defined relationships/assignments between groups of state parameters and groups of action parameters. Data storage stores the groups of state parameters and action parameters and the defined relationships/assignments between groups of the state and action parameters. A data communication system/platform communicates state parameters and/or action parameters among the individuals. The data processor means can include an adaptive structure (e.g., neural networks) where the defined relationships/assignments between groups are redefined/updated using empirical pairs of action parameter groups and state parameter groups. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025904 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PATIENT AND HEALTHCARE-RELATED MESSAGING - A system and method for patient-related messaging is disclosed herein. The system provides a micro-blogging plat-form accessible by computer systems (via a web portal using a conventional web browser) or mobile phones operated by medical personnel. The system allows medical personnel to post and/or view messages related to patient care, which could include a status identifier to communicate information quickly and effectively. The messages are easily filtered and organized according to a user's preferences, such as by using role-based filters. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025905 | METHOD FOR MEDICAL INFORMATION MONITORING AND PROCESSING - A method of monitoring health parameters of subjects within a defined space and over a period of time includes collecting first data corresponding to a physiological parameter of an ambulatory subject, collecting second data corresponding to a behavioral and cognitive parameter of the ambulatory subject, collecting third data corresponding to an identity and a location of the one of the subjects, collecting fourth data corresponding to the one of the ambulatory subjects from third party sources, generating a data record for the one of the ambulatory subjects based upon the first, second, third, and fourth data, and outputting a modified data record, the modified data record containing portions of the data record, the portions selected based upon an access level of a person requesting the data record and a format of the modified data record selected based upon the access level and community needs. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025906 | Health Information System - A health information system related to the field of data management is disclosed. The system includes at least one medical institution server, a front end processor, two or more data gateways, and a data exchange platform, where the at least one medical institution server is configured to send medical data to the front end processor, the front end processor is configured to receive the medical data from the at least one medical institution server, acquire a destination data gateway from the two or more data gateways, and send the medical data to the destination data gateway, the two or more data gateways are configured to receive the medical data and send the medical data to the data exchange platform, and the data exchange platform is configured to process the received medical data. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025907 | TREATMENT ANALYSIS SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A dental treatment planning system includes an input form to receive one or more dental patient inputs; and an engine adapted to receive the dental patient data from the input form and validating the dental patient data in a predetermined sequence. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025908 | CLUSTERING AND ANALYSIS OF ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS - A technique includes clustering a plurality of electronic patient records (PRs) based on related diagnostic codes into a plurality of clusters, and analyzing one of the plurality of clusters to determine variations in resource usage within the cluster. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025909 | METHOD FOR SEARCHING A TEXT (OR ALPHANUMERIC STRING) DATABASE, RESTRUCTURING AND PARSING TEXT DATA (OR ALPHANUMERIC STRING), CREATION/APPLICATION OF A NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING ENGINE, AND THE CREATION/APPLICATION OF AN AUTOMATED ANALYZER FOR THE CREATION OF MEDICAL REPORTS - A sequential series of methods for optimized searching within a text (or alphanumeric string) database to retrieve specific and relevant results, followed by optimized restructuring and parsing of text data (or alphanumeric string), followed by creation/application of a natural language processing engine, followed by the creation/application of an automated analyzer is presented. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025910 | Medical Billing and Coding Process - In an embodiment, the present invention provides a medical billing and coding process, including the steps of storing in memory medical base codes and add-on codes, their descriptions, images of products corresponding to the codes, medical justifications for the codes, and ordering and pricing information for the products corresponding to each code. The process includes providing the medical base code and add-on code descriptions when selected, and providing medical justifications corresponding to a selected code. The process includes providing products corresponding to the selected codes, and providing ordering information for the products corresponding to the selected codes. The process includes rendering the image corresponding to the codes such that additional codes, their descriptions, and additional products associated with the codes may be viewed and selected. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025911 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DISTRIBUTING SENSITIVE OR CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION - Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a communication network allowing a user transmit confidential or sensitive information to a recipient through a third party, while ensuring that privacy is maintained. A user can access a mobile application to request a third party to send information to a recipient. Following the user request, a built-in procedure of the mobile application may automatically institute a consent process between the third party and the desired recipient, without requiring any further action on the part of the requesting user. A coded message may be delivered to the intended recipient, including a selectable link directing them to a consent procedure within the third party communication network service. Completion of the consent procedure creates an association between the requesting user and the intended recipient within a relationship database, allowing confidential information to be exchanged between the user and recipient, through the third party communication service. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025912 | ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD SYSTEM AND METHOD - Provided are a system and method for efficiently creating patient health records with help of expert clinical decision support. The system and method also ensures the doctor's documentation and diagnosis comply with the government healthcare quality measures. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025913 | ASSOCIATING RECORDS IN HEALTHCARE DATABASES WITH INDIVIDUALS - At least one attribute type associated with an individual in a first record of a first database and one or more similar attribute types in record(s) of other second database(s) are located. The attribute types compared. Based on the comparison, a first weighted score for the first record and another weighted score for each other records are computed. The weighted score indicates a likelihood the particular attribute type is associated with a same individual as other attribute type(s) located in other record(s) and further accounts for a time delta between measurements of the attribute types. Confidence score outputs for the records are also computed. The confidence score output of a record is based on all weighted scores of that record and indicates a likelihood that record is associated with the same individual. At least one database is updated based on at least one of the confidence score outputs. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025914 | PROPERTY INSPECTION USING AERIAL IMAGERY - A method, system and computer-readable medium are provided for performing a property inspection using aerial images, the method including the steps of receiving an indication of a request from a user to receive a quote regarding a property, identifying the property, retrieving one or more aerial images associated with the property, extracting information regarding the property from the one or more aerial images and providing an insurance decision for the property to the user according to the extracted information from the one or more aerial images in response to the request from the user. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025915 | VIRTUAL HOME INSPECTION - A method, system and computer-readable medium are provided for facilitating a virtual inspection of an insurable area, the method including the steps of receiving an indication of a request from a user at a user mobile device to perform a virtual inspection of an insurable area, determining one or more information items needed with respect to the insurable area, providing a set of instructions to the user at the mobile device for capturing one or more image items based on the determined one or more information items, receiving a set of image items from the mobile device in response to the instructions and providing an insurance decision for the insurable area based on the received set of image items. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025916 | IMPAIRED DRIVING PREVENTION - An aspect of impaired driving prevention services utilizes a method including registering a client for impaired driving prevention services. The impaired driving prevention services provide access to driver services for the client when the client is impaired. Agreement by the client to use the driver services when an impairment situation occurs is a condition of registration. The method also includes incorporating a benefit into an insurance policy of the registered client with respect to the impaired driving prevention services. The method also includes processing impaired driving prevention activities conducted between a driver service and the client, storing results of processed activities in a database record of the client, and reporting the results of the processed activities to an insurance provider that issued the insurance policy. A future benefit for the client is determined as a function of the results. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025917 | System and method for determining an underwriting risk, risk score, or price of insurance using cognitive information - In one embodiment a system for determining a level of risk associated with an individual for underwriting purposes comprises at least one sensor that provides information, such as a camera providing one or more images or video for example, used to determine one or more properties of the individual. The individual information, such as eye related information, can be processed to generate cognitive information for the individual, which can be used to determine the level of risk associated with the individual. The cognitive information can be compared to baseline cognitive information for the individual to determine the level of risk. In another embodiment, a method for determining a level of risk or price of insurance includes obtaining information from a sensor, generating cognitive information from the sensor information, and generating a level of risk or price of insurance using at least the first cognitive information. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025918 | FORECASTING AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD CONCERNING TICKET TRANSACTIONS IN MULTIPLE MARKETS - System and methods of managing ticket inventory multiple ticket exchanges receive a selection of listing data relating to a set of tickets in a user's ticket inventory; identify, based on the listing data and one or more predefined user preferences, a set of available ticket listings listed on a ticket exchange representing a relative market with which to compare the listing data; determine a current market price and a future market price for the relative market; assess whether the future market price exceeds the current market price; and set a listing price based on the assessing step. The listing price is set relative to a reference price when the future market price does not exceed the current market price. The reference price is monitored for changes; and the listing price is dynamically adjusted as required to remain priced relative to the reference price. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025919 | Notification System - A notification system and method that allows a user to be placed on a waiting list, disclosing only the personal information the user chooses to disclose, and receive updates or other information relating to his status on the waiting list through a personal communication device. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025920 | CHECK-IN REDUCED CARRY ON BAGGAGE SYSTEM AND OTHER BOARDING PROCESS ENHANCEMENTS - A method for improving boarding of passengers and baggage onto a flight, comprises, at a predetermined time before the scheduled departure of the flight, determining an eligible carry-on baggage items count of carry-on baggage items eligible for treatment as checked baggage items. The eligible carry-on baggage items count is based on predetermined criteria comprising at least one of an aircraft type for the flight, a passenger load factor for the flight and carrier historical data relevant to the flight. If the eligible carry-on items count is greater than zero, then an offer to a passenger on the flight to have the passenger's carry-on baggage item treated as a checked baggage item is communicated, and the passenger's communication in response to the offer is received. For each accepted offer, decrementing the eligible carry-on items count. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025921 | ON-VEHICLE TICKETING AND VALIDATION - Enabling a passenger of a vehicle to enter or board the vehicle without necessarily having previously purchased a ticket or fare, and then to perfect a ticket purchase using their handheld device while on-board the vehicle. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025922 | DISTRIBUTIVE ON-DEMAND ADMINISTRATIVE TASKING APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS - The DISTRIBUTIVE ON-DEMAND ADMINISTRATIVE TASKING APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“DODAT™ embodiments”), in many embodiments, transform ticket and user inputs via DODAT™ components into payment and work product outputs. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025923 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND ARTICLE FOR PROVIDING TO A USER DEVICE INFORMATION REGARDING AVAILABILITY OF PORTABLE ELECTRICAL ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES AT A PORTABLE ELECTRICAL ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE COLLECTION, CHARGING AND DISTRIBUTION MACHINE - A network of collection, charging and distribution machines collect, charge and distribute portable electrical energy storage devices (e.g., batteries, supercapacitors or ultracapacitors). Availability of charged portable electrical energy storage devices available at a collection, charging and distribution machine are communicated to or acquired by a mobile device of a user or a user's vehicle. Once the mobile device of a user or a user's vehicle comes within close proximity of the collection, charging and distribution machine or within a particular area surrounding the collection, charging and distribution machine, the collection, charging and distribution machine or a collection, charging and distribution machine management system communicates an alert (e.g., over a cellular network, short range wireless signal or wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) network) to the mobile device or vehicle indicating how many portable electrical energy storage devices are available at the distribution machine. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025924 | METHODS OF DISPLAYING INFORMATION TO A USER, AND SYSTEMS AND DEVICES FOR USE IN PRACTICING THE SAME - Methods of displaying information to a user are provided. Aspects of the methods include receiving information, correlating the received information with one or more factors previously identified as being relevant to the information, deriving a non-linear representation of the information based on the correlation between the information and the one or more factors, displaying a linear representation of the information, and displaying the non-linear representation of the information. Aspects of the invention further include devices and systems for practicing the methods. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025925 | SUPPLEMENTAL SYSTEM FOR BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS - In various implementations, a supplemental system may be provided. The supplemental system may be coupled to business intelligence environment(s) to facilitate deployment, version control, testing, and/or other processes. In some implementations, the supplemental system may be communicably coupled to an external version control. The external version control may store one or more versions of components of the business intelligence environment(s) and the supplemental system may utilize the versions to perform one or more operations, such as, but not limited to, facilitating deployment, version controlling, and/or testing. In some implementations, the supplemental system may utilize information from a ticket manager in deployments of BI Artifact(s). | 2015-01-22 |
20150025926 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCED USE OF DATA IN AGRICULTURE MANAGEMENT - A computer system for managing agricultural sales involving a salesperson and a first grower is provided. The computer system includes a database. The computer system also includes a processor. The processor is programmed to store historical sales data for the first grower in the database. The historical sales data includes a prior purchase of a first agricultural product by the grower. The processor is also programmed to identify a second agricultural product appropriate for the first grower based at least in part on the historical sales data. The processor is further programmed to create a task for the salesperson. The task is related to engaging the first grower regarding the second agricultural product. The processor is also programmed to display the task to the salesperson for engaging the first grower. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025927 | MISSION COMPONENT EVALUATION AND RESPONSE ARCHITECTURE - This document discusses, among other things, apparatus and methods for context-aware mission management. In an example, a system can include a processing center and a plurality of mobile devices. The processing center can be configured to receive one or more mission objectives for one or more mission stages, and to receive information from a plurality of sources, the processing center including a data broker reasoner (DBR) configured to compare the information to the one or more mission objectives and to provide role-based task information for accomplishing the one or more mission objectives. The plurality of mobile devices can be configured to wirelessly communicate with the processing center, to receive login information, to register with the processing center using the login information and to display a portion of the role-based task information associated with the login information. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025928 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR RECOMMENDING EMPLOYEES FOR A TASK - A method, a system, and a computer program product for recommending one or more employees from a group of employees for a task are provided. For an employee in the group of employees a processor is used for determining a degree of separation metric with respect to other employees in the group of employees. Further, for the employee the processor is used for determining a personality metric based at least partially on a measure of past collaboration with other employees in the group of employees. The processor is further used for recommending the one or more employees from the group of employees for the task based on the degree of separation metric and the personality metric. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025929 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ASSISTANCE - A system is provided that provides customer service functions within a store location. In one implementation, an application is provided that executes on a customer's personal device (e.g., a cell phone) or other store systems (e.g., kiosks) that allows the customer to request assistance from store employees. Such requests may be made that identify a customer's location, and a customer assistance system determines appropriate employee(s) who may service the request. In one implementation, the system may be integrated with a task-based employee management system that communicates tasks to devices used by employees. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025930 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECOMMENDING POSITION OF INTEREST - A method, performed by a device, of receiving a recommendation of a position from a position-recommendation apparatus, a device for receiving a recommendation from a position-recommendation apparatus, and a position-recommendation apparatus for recommending a position to a device are provided. The method includes obtaining a selected time, for which a position is to be recommended, from a user, transmitting a position-recommendation request, which includes schedule event information relating to the selected time, to the position-recommendation apparatus, and receiving a response to the position-recommendation request, which includes one or more positions that are searched for based on the schedule event information, from the position-recommendation apparatus. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025931 | BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY FORECASTING - A method and apparatus to determine: (a) the likelihood and timing for a sales opportunity to become a sale based on analytical models that incorporate the history of sales stage evolution and other covariates; and (b) the expected number of sales from invisible opportunities prior to a target date. Additionally, the method and apparatus is configured to predict an expected amount of revenue and/or an amount of resources given a current sales history. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025932 | IN-FIELD DEVICE FOR DE-CENTRALIZED WORKFLOW AUTOMATION - In one example, a system is provided. The system includes a portable, in-field unit including: a tag reader to acquire an ID tag identifier from a tag located in or on a physical item positioned within functional range of the in-field unit tag reader; a digital processor arranged for executing software code stored in the in-field unit responsive to the acquired ID tag identifier, the stored software code including—a customer application layer; and a database adapter component configured to provide database services to the processor; wherein the database services include accessing a stored database to acquire stored data associated with the acquired ID tag identifier. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025933 | VALUE AT RISK INSIGHTS ENGINE - A method for risk mitigation comprises calculating on at least one processor, a likelihood of occurrence for a risk event, a degree of disruption for the risk event and a disruption time for the risk event. Each risk event is in a list of risk events. The likelihood of occurrence is based on a frequency of risk of the risk event. The degree of disruption is based on a severity of risk of the risk event. The disruption time is based on a duration of restoring an asset to a condition prior to the risk event. A value at risk based on the likelihood of occurrence, the degree of disruption and the disruption time is determined for the risk event. A mitigation action is determined to reduce the value at risk. An indication of the mitigating action is presented on a user interface. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025934 | CUSTOMER-CENTRIC ENERGY USAGE DATA SHARING - A method of sharing energy usage data may include requesting customer-specific energy usage data (CSEUD). The method further includes receiving a modified CSEUD record. The modified CSEUD record includes modified energy usage data with respect to original energy usage data of an original CSEUD record from which the modified CSEUD record is derived. The method also includes authenticating the modified CSEUD record to verify the integrity of the modified energy usage data. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025935 | CONTENT TRIAL USAGE VIA DIGITAL CONTENT DELIVERY PLATFORM - A content distribution platform receives a respective trial time window for each of multiple items of digital content stored at the content distribution platform, and offers one of the items of the digital content to multiple customers during the respective trial time window. The content distribution platform tracks, during the respective trial time window, usage of the one of the plurality of items of digital content by one or more of the multiple customers. The content distribution platform generates, based on the tracked usage, a first usage report for the one of the multiple items of digital content at expiration of the respective trial time window | 2015-01-22 |
20150025936 | SYSTEM FOR MONITORING AND ANALYZING BEHAVIOR AND USES THEREOF - Systems for monitoring and analyzing behavior in various applications and uses thereof. Generally, the systems (and uses thereof) are for monitoring and analyzing consumer purchasing behavior in real-time to drive sales via engaging digital customer experiences. In embodiments, the disclosed system can include a retail store system that features and includes MAC address tracking, user eye tracking, object identification of goods on shelves, open API, advertising broker rules engine. In addition, the system can include a customer engagement with interactive output displays including displays with demographic intelligence, displays with demographics and MAC-panels throughout store at product, displays with demographics and MAC-single panel or few panels scattered throughout store, automated customer assistance at shelf, customer purchase at shelf. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025937 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OBTAINING AND USING TARGETED INSIGHTS WITHIN A DIGITAL CONTENT AND INFORMATION SHARING SYSTEM - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for obtaining insight information for a plurality of user devices. In an embodiment, an identification of target location(s) are received from a client. For each of the target location(s), the target location is categorized, and insight algorithm is automatically selected for the target location from a plurality of different insight algorithms based on the categorization of the target location. The selected insight algorithm can be configured to, for each of a plurality of user devices, receive a location of the user device, and determine whether or not to store an event record for the user device based on the location of the user device. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025938 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRICING NEW PRODUCT, SERVICE OR SOLUTION - Embodiments of the present invention relate to method and apparatus for pricing at least one of a new product, service or solution. The method comprises launching the new product, service or solution at an initial price, iteratively varying the initial price corresponding to quantities demanded based on a real time feedback, generating a demand schedule by capturing the quantities demanded and correspondingly varying prices, tracing a demand curve based on the demand schedule in real time, determining a demand function and a corresponding demand equation based on the demand curve and repeating step b to reach a point on the demand curve at which the profit margin is a maximum. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025939 | Company Centric Social Media Platfonn for Content Sharing aud Tracking - Social networks by their nature are networks of people and their user-generated content. This content is usually un-curated and does not follow a general theme. This makes it very hard for people to find information they seek in these networks. When it comes to business centric communities, they need a better network where content is curated, tagged, and indexed properly thus making it easy for users to find the relevant content. SharePract is a community of curated, tagged, and indexed companies along with curated, tagged, and indexed content, making it easy for companies to find their business partners, clients, vendors, service providers, legal documents, marketing reports, business videos, webinars, and much more. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025940 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING CUSTOMER SOLUTIONS - Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for generating customer solutions using real-time information for new customer sales and/or current customer support. In one implementation, technical infrastructure information for an installed network design providing one or more telecommunication products at one or more customer sites is retrieved. Customer service analytics are generated based on the technical infrastructure information and output for display on a graphical user interface. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025941 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING PRODUCT TEST ORDER TRACKING, REPORTING, AND PRODUCT DISPOSITION - A method and system for collecting and managing data of test orders of a number of different service types, and presenting in a plurality of different formats the up-to-date data, status, and results of the test orders. Such method and system can be an integral part of product manufacturing, logistic, and/or quality control and assurance processes. Such method and system can filter, organize, and generate from the test order records a plurality of different types of reports organized by the characteristics of the information recorded in the reports, wherein the characteristics include, but not limited to, granularity of the information, request dates, service dates, and report dates of the test orders, service types, product items, product categories, industries, suppliers, factories, factory countries, product and process dispositions associated with the test orders, statuses, and results of the test orders. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025942 | FRAMEWORK FOR INTERNAL QUALITY ANALYSIS - An apparatus for assessing and controlling the quality of a project in a production environment is provided. The apparatus comprises a memory, a processor, and a module stored in memory, executable by the processor, and configured to: receive a deliverable; process the deliverable, wherein processing the deliverable comprises assigning a quality score to the deliverable; compare the quality score value to a threshold value; and determine if the deliverable requires an action in response to comparing the quality score to the threshold value. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025943 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEASURING, COMPARING AND IMPROVING WORK FORCE COMMUNICATION RESPONSE TIMES, PERFORMANCE, EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS - A system and method for measuring the efficiency and effectiveness of individuals and automated systems by using transaction based measurements of communications that are normalized into a velocity score to depict excellent performance versus poor performance. Individual velocity scores may be aggregated to grade a person, a group, a department, a company or an industry or geography. The velocity score includes a plurality of weights that are used to provide higher or lower velocity scores depending on criteria selected by the entity. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025944 | DETERMINING A QUALITY SCORE FOR INTERNAL QUALITY ANALYSIS - An apparatus for assessing and controlling the quality of a project in a production environment is provided. The apparatus is configured to: receive a first score, wherein the first score comprises a first numerical value associated with a first level of quality, wherein the first level of quality is associated with a first deliverable; receive a second score, wherein the second score comprises a second numerical value associated with a second level of quality, wherein the second level of quality is associated with the first deliverable; and process the first score and the second score to generate a third score. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025945 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC REGISTRATION OF USE OF STUDDED TIRES - This publication describes a method and a system for registering use of studded decks ( | 2015-01-22 |
20150025946 | ON-LINE AUTHORIZATION IN ACCESS ENVIRONMENT - A method is disclosed. The method includes interacting with a gate access device that is capable of preventing access to a location, where the gate access device subsequently sends an authorization request message to an issuer for approval, the authorization request message including a request to charge a predetermined amount of money to pay for access to a location, and entering the location if the gate access device receives an authorization response message indicating that the charge is authorized. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025947 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ELECTRONIC PAYMENT FOR PARKING IN GATED GARAGES - The methods describe the use of Handset Apps in garages currently using paper tickets or ID tokens in ways that minimize disruption to the existing infrastructure. The techniques include automatic recognition of garage/gate ID, automatic identification of paper ticket ID without optical scanning, and direct payment in manually operated garages, including those using valet parking. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025948 | Brand Aware Advertising Systems - An example brand aware advertising system includes: (a) an advertising server interface operative to receive an advertisement request from an advertisement requestor; (b) a brand affinity engine coupled to the advertising server interface and operative to develop a brand affinity list from the advertisement request; and (c) an advertisement matching engine operative to provide a result to the advertising server interface if there is a match with the brand affinity list which can then be provided to the advertisement requestor. An alternate example embodiment further includes a brand aware ad exchange server operative to receive the brand affinity list from the advertisement matching engine if there is no match and to provide a result to the advertising server which is one of an advertisement and a null. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025949 | SCHEME FOR DETERMINING THE LOCATIONS AND TIMING OF ADVERTISEMENTS AND OTHER INSERTIONS IN MEDIA - A non-transitory computer readable storage medium stores one or more computer programs adapted to cause a processor based system to execute steps that include analyzing an image, identifying one or more faces in the image using a face recognition technique, designating at least one of the identified faces collectively as a first area of interest, and determining whether an insertion area exists in the image where additional content can be inserted without obstructing the first area of interest. Another computer program is adapted to cause a processor based system to execute steps that include determining whether the insertion area can be divided into two or more regions based on color. Methods and processor based apparatuses that perform one or more of these steps are also disclosed. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025950 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING CONFIGURABLE VARIABLE REVENUE SHARING IN ONLINE COMMERCE - Method and server system for providing configurable variable revenue sharing in online commerce are disclosed. The method includes: receiving a revenue sharing configuration for each promoter in a promotion chain; receiving a purchase notification for a sale of a respective merchandise established by a respective one of the promoters in the promotion chain; identifying the respective revenue sharing configurations of the respective one of the promoters and all other promoters above the respective one of the promoters in the promotion chain; and distributing payment received for the sale among the respective one of the promoters and all the other promoters above the respective one of the promoters in the promotion chain. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025951 | Incentive Providing Task Management System - An incentive providing task management system is disclosed. A plurality of providers are enabled to directly provide financial incentives to a user in exchange for a specific user performance. A user is enabled to set up a trust account on the system to accumulate the financial incentives. A user task performance may include a school study, a feedback to teachers or a feedback about a medicine or a political survey, or a contracted task performance between two contracting parties. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025952 | Method of Assigning a Prospective Member to an Enrollment Tree - A method of incorporating a prospect into an enrollment tree of a multi-level marketing organization using a microprocessor, the enrollment tree having a tree structure and a member, each member being positioned on a level of the enrollment tree, said method having the steps of: determining a value of a sponsor goal, obtaining network information, obtaining enrollment information, identifying a vacancy in the downline of a member, assigning a prospect to the identified vacancy, and incorporating the prospect into the enrollment tree as a new member. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025953 | REWARDING INFLUENCERS - A method embodiment includes receiving data indicative of a person accessing at least one of a first network-available electronic content or a second network-available electronic content, perhaps in a Web 2.0 environment. Also, receiving data indicative of an involvement between the person and a third party. The involvement being independent of the person activating a link to a site owned by the third party that is included in the first network-available electronic content or in the second network available electronic content. Further, assessing a behavioral influence by the first network-available electronic content and/or the second network-available electronic content on the indicated involvement with respect to the possible matters of interest between the person and a third party. Also, facilitating delivery of a benefit to an owner of the first network-available electronic content and/or an owner of the second network-available electronic content in response to the assessed behavioral influence. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025954 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REDEEMING PRODUCT MARKETING REBATES - A system and method for processing product marketing rebate claims submitted by a consumer in satisfaction of a rebate offer, the consumer having purchased designated products in a qualified transaction recorded by a point-of-sale data processing and storage system that issues a receipt containing a corresponding transaction serial number. The method comprises providing a designated site of a computer information network and accessible by the consumer, and receiving a rebate claim on the designated site. The rebate claim comprises (i) the transaction serial number corresponding to the qualified transaction, and (ii) identifying information corresponding to the consumer. The transaction serial number and the identifying information is stored as a stored data record. An electronic file transfer is received from the point-of-sale data processing and storage system comprising purchase data records, each record comprising the list of products purchased and the transaction serial number for a qualified transaction in which at least one designated product was purchased. Each stored data record is associated with a purchase data record having an identical serial number, and the records are processed to validate the rebate claim. Finally, the value of the rebate offer is then transferred to the consumer. Consumer access by the designated site may be via the global computer information network or by telephone, and may also optionally integrate paper-based and smart/credit/debit-card-based rebate claims. A system for performing the above method is also claimed. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025955 | SYSTEM FOR ENROLLMENT OF CUSTOMERS INTO COMPANY LOYALTY PROGRAMS - Enrollment into a customer loyalty program may be performed on the spot by using a mobile computing device and a software application that receives a person's information and generates a membership account. The information may be extracted from, for example, a driver's license and the software application may associate the information with the member and may issue a membership card to the person without the person having to leave their present location. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025956 | Systems and Methods for Transaction Processing Using Various Value Types - The present subject discloses systems and methods for processing transaction payments. More specifically, the present subject discloses systems and methods in which transactions are processed for payment from any of a plurality of applicable purses associated with an account, wherein the plurality of purses include values defined by: currency; SKUs; discounts; conditional values; loyalty points; or other non-standard currencies and/or various combinations thereof. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025957 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TESTING IN-PRODUCT MARKETING CONTENT - A computer implemented method and apparatus for testing in-product marketing content. The method comprise defining a plurality of populations for a user base of a software application using a plurality of population identifiers, wherein a population identifier of the plurality of population identifiers is generated by the software application and identifies a population of the plurality of populations; associating at least one in-product message with each defined population in the plurality of populations; and supplying the in-product messages to the software application having a population identifier within a range of population identifiers that define the population. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025958 | COLLABORATION MONITOR FOR CROSS-MEDIA MARKETING CAMPAIGN DESIGN - The present invention generally relates to systems and methods for assessing a multi-media marketing campaign under development. The techniques presented assess, for example, whether pairs of touchpoints of the campaign are compatible in terms of best practices related to content and style and whether contributors to the touchpoints are effectively collaborating. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025959 | MAIL FEEDBACK TO THE ADVERTISERS - Enabling advertisers to evaluate performance of an email advertisement campaign is disclosed. An advertisement is circulated via email among the users of an email system and feedback associated with one or more of user actions or automated actions by the email system with respect to the circulated advertisement are detected. The feedback is analyzed to determine the performance of the email advertisement campaign across various user segments. Informative reports regarding the feedback are generated and provided to the advertiser for a charge by the email system provider. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025960 | ENHANCED FEATURES FOR AN ENTERPRISE LEVEL BUSINESS INFORMATION NETWORKING ENVIRONMENT - Systems, apparatus, and methods for implementing enterprise level social and business information networking are provided. Users can receive relevant information about a database system and its users at an appropriate time. Users can then use this relevant information to reduce errors and limit redundant efforts. For example, an update of a record in the database can be identified, and a story created automatically about the update and sent to the users that are following the record. Other events besides updating of records can also be tracked. A variety of enhanced features and functions are also presented in the context of an enterprise level social and business information networking environment. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025961 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ONLINE MARKETING MEASUREMENTS - Method and system for online marketing measurements relating to a web shop website and associated advertising websites. Item data related to items for sale from the web shop website is received, the item data is tagged and the tagged item data is disseminated to the associated advertising websites. Furthermore, sales data associated with an actual sale of an item is received from the web shop website, and view data including the tagged item data associated with a view on the associated advertising websites is received from the associated advertising websites. From the received sales data and view data a route is determined of consecutive touch-points on the associated advertising websites and web shop website resulting in the actual sale, and the contribution of each touch-point to the actual sale is calculated. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025962 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR PRICING AND ALLOCATING ADVERTISING INVENTORY ON DIGITAL AND WEB PUBLISHER PROPERTIES - An apparatus and method that pulls campaign criteria from a plurality of servers, including a publisher's ad server, and processes user-input campaign criteria to generate a media plan wherein delivery goals and rates for each ad placement, and flight dates for fixed ad placements are determined by the system. While the delivery goals and the rates for each ad placement and the date for fixed ad placements are automated, there is a graphical user interface wherein a user can edit these values to meet the advertiser's specific needs. This media plan can then be sent to the advertiser via the system and pushed to the publisher's ad server as an order capable of receiving creative assets for ad trafficking. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025963 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TARGETED CROWDSOURCING - A method and system are provided for targeted crowdsourcing. The method includes defining a target audience for a crowdsourcing task using fine-grain target audience parameters. At least one of the parameters is based on a user selection. The method further includes generating a targeted advertisement for a non-public landing page directed to the target audience. The method also includes generating the non-public landing page as a sole entry point for workers on the crowdsourcing task that is only visible to members of the target audience that click on the targeted advertisement. The method additionally includes permitting only members of the target audience that click on the targeted advertisement to proceed to the non-public landing page. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025964 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEMONSTRATING A SOFTWARE APPLICATION - A method and system for demonstrating a software application to a user is provided. The system comprises an application management platform that communicates with an electronic device of the user over a communication network. The application management platform provides an advertisement notification to the user via the electronic device. On performing an action on the advertisement notification by the user, a connection is established between the electronic device and the application management platform. The application management platform streams audiovisual content of the software application to the electronic device and captures user inputs from the electronic device. The user inputs comprise motions performed by the user on the streamed audiovisual content. The application management platform thereby provides the demonstration of a full version of the software application to the user. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025965 | METHODS, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS, AND APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING TARGETED CONTENT BASED ON LOCALLY STORED USED DATA - Targeted content is delivered to and received by at least one user device based on user information stored locally at the user device. Program content and targeted content are received. The targeted content received is associated with user information stored locally on the user device, while the program content is broadcast to multiple users. A determination by a scanning process is made at what position or at what time in the program content to include the targeted content. The program content and the targeted content are rendered, with the targeted content included at the determined position or time in the program content, for presentation to the user. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025966 | Systems and Methods for Enterprise Branded Application Frameworks for Mobile and Other Environments - An application framework for mobile devices may provide a variety of application modules directed towards enterprise brand extension. The application modules are organized into five main categories: (1) featured, (2) community, (3) play/engage, (4) media, and (5) shop. The “featured” category may allow enterprises to push specific content onto its consumers. The “community” category may allow enterprises to leverage social networks and consumer communities that build and expand around their brands. The “play/engage” category may allow enterprises to offer compelling value and engaging utility to its customers. The “media” category may allow enterprises to entertain, inform, and educate consumers about brands through media content. The “shop” category may allow enterprises to facilitate electronic commerce with its customers. Further application analytics may be utilized by aggregating affiliate, sales, or usage data, etc. to better drive new revenue streams and optimize the return on investment associated with sales, promotion and advertising efforts. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025967 | REVERSE SHOWROOMING AND MERCHANT-CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT SYSTEM - Systems and methods for providing a merchant-customer engagement system include a physical merchant location in which a customer may be tracked to determine products within the physical merchant location that the customer is interested in. A merchant may use a wearable merchant device that is configured to identify the customer via a camera that captures an image of the customer, and that image may be used to retrieve customer account information for that customer. Using the customer account information and the products that the customer is showing interest in, the wearable merchant device may be used to display merchant-customer engagement information next to a view of the customer to allow the merchant to help the customer while utilizing a variety of displayed information about the customer including, for example, past purchases, products browsed in-store and previously browsed online, time spent in an area of the physical merchant location, etc. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025968 | DATA MANAGEMENT PROCESS UTILIZING A FIRST-PARTY TECHNIQUE - Internet users are becoming more aware of data transfer through third-party cookies to multiple publisher sites without their consent. Subsequently, they are taking action to block or delete third-party cookies through browser controls or automated anti-spyware programs. This blocking and deleting process reduces the ability of third-party networks to accurately target users for relevant advertising. First-party cookies are less susceptible to cookie deletion and are therefore able to provide better targeting for more relevant ad delivery. There is an extended opportunity for “Trusted” First-Party networks to share non-Personally Identifiable Information (non-PII) across the network to prevent data leakage outside the trusted partners. For example, a large corporation with multiple companies that have either their own domains (domain | 2015-01-22 |
20150025969 | Multisystem Interface for Roaming Self-Checkout - An interface device fits between a point-of-sale terminal and a peripheral element, for example, the UPC scanner, to permit a rapid checkout of groceries or the like by simulating rapid scanning of a stored grocery list accumulated by a consumer in a roaming checkout through the store. The consumer scans items as he or she shops to create the stored grocery list. A promotional system for providing coupons at the point of purchase decision and the novel method of handling items that need to be weighed are also provided. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025970 | Real Time Advertising Campaigns Utilizing Streaming Analytics Engines - The disclosure provides methods and systems for use in real time advertising campaigns and advertisement targeting. The systems sample streams of electronic data in real time. Sampled data may be analyzed and used to determine topics of interest. Sampled data may be analyzed or filtered to determine targeting data that includes a targeting keyword and a targeting user character. The systems may then launch a real time advertising campaign using the targeting data. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025971 | USER INITIATED PROMOTIONS USING SOCIAL NETWORKS - Systems and methods are provided for using social media to petition a company for a promotional offer. A user generates a petition that includes a request for a promotional offer from the company. The user can invite other users to join the petition using social media. The user can post the petition to social media. Other users can join the petition. The company can determine whether to offer the promotional offer based on the number of users that join the petition. The terms of the promotional offer can be based on the level of consumer interest and the number of users that join the petition. The company can offer the promotion using social media. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025972 | ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An advertisement delivery system includes a first transmission part configured to transmit to a plurality of devices advertisement information representing an advertisement displayed on the devices; a reception part configured to receive, from the devices which have received the advertisement information, execution information representing that the respective devices have executed a predetermined operation; a first identification part configured to identify two or more of the devices in which the execution information received from the devices meets a first condition; and a second identification part configured to identify more than a predetermined number of the devices from the two or more of the devices identified by the first identification part such that all of the devices identified by the second identification part are located in a circular area with a predetermined radius. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025973 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOCATION BASED CONTENT CORRELATION - A method and a system to correlate location and content. For example, data is received from a client device that includes current geographical position data identifying a geographical position of the client device. A vendor having a geographical location within a specified distance of the geographical position of the client device is identified. An offer from the vendor within the distance of the client device is returned to the client device. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025974 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOCATION BASED CONTENT CORRELATION - A method and a system to correlate location and content. For example, data is received from a client device that includes current geographical position data identifying a geographical position of the client device. A vendor having a geographical location within a specified distance of the geographical position of the client device is identified. An offer from the vendor within the distance of the client device is returned to the client device. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025975 | Personal Expression and Advertising Display for a Vehicle - Disclosed is a device for digitally displaying personal effects on the exterior of a vehicle, including a display mounted on the exterior of a vehicle or visible from the exterior of a vehicle, a mobile controller including a storage device with personal effects of a user of the mobile controller, and a wireless packet-switched data connection on which the personal effects and at least one advertisement are received, and a short-range wireless communication mechanism, functionally associated with the display and the mobile controller, communicating the personal effects of the user and the at least one advertisement from the mobile controller to the display for display thereon, wherein the display exhibits personal effects of the user and the at least one advertisement based on input, the exhibiting based on user input or lack thereof received by way of an input mechanism of the mobile controller. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025976 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING MOBILE APPLICATIONS TO USERS AT A PREDETERMINED DATA RATE - Systems and methods are described for providing mobile applications at a predetermined data rate. In an embodiment, a request for a campaign is received, the request including an application title, an access endpoint, a campaign duration, and a list of a plurality of communication network operators. In response to receiving the request for the campaign, a special rating request is sent to each communications network operator on the list. The special rating request requests that a predetermined data rate be applied to data associated with the access endpoint for the campaign period. The data associated with the access endpoint is made available at the predetermined data rate on a communications network. Furthermore, advertising may be provided that communicates that the application is available for download and for use on the communications network at the predetermined data rate. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025977 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AGGREGATING SOCIAL NETWORK FEED INFORMATION - In accordance with disclosed embodiments, there are provided methods, systems, and apparatuses for aggregating social network feed information including, for example, means for receiving user activity data from one or more social networks; parsing the user activity data to render a plurality of targeting parameters culled from the user activity data; matching one or more of the plurality of targeting parameters with advertising conditions for a social media campaign, wherein the advertising conditions of the social media campaign are contextually relevant to the one or more targeting parameters matched; recommending the social media campaign via a user interface; receiving authorization to launch the social media campaign via input received at the user interface or automatically launching the social media campaign based on pre-defined parameters; and deploying the social media campaign to one or many social media networks. Other related embodiments are disclosed. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025978 | MARKETING ACKNOWLEDGEMENT SYSTEM FOR REAL-TIME EVENTS - Disclosed herein is a method for marketing for use with a real-time event that includes: receiving data indicative of demographic information from a plurality of users devices, each user account associated with at least one user; generating a promotional communication associated with the real-time event; receiving a plurality of responses to the promotional communication from at least some of the user devices; providing an offer to the user devices that have responded to the promotional communication; receiving a plurality of responses to the offer from at least some of the user devices; and transmitting, to a third party promoter or one or more content partners, data indicative of demographic information associated with users that have given at least a promotional communication response or an offer response. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025979 | TARGETED MARKETING BASED ON SOCIAL MEDIA INTERACTION - A system and method for providing targeted marketing to a user based on the user's social media interaction. The system includes one or more computing platforms providing computer-automated functionality performing method steps for accepting a digital media and digital media related data from a publisher, generating associated information unique identifiers, monitoring social media networks for member-user rankings of the digital media after it is posted, and communicating to a member-user targeted marketing information based on the user rankings. A data storage device persists the digital media, digital media related data, and information unique identifier, which may include a linking hash character, a unique identifier, an account identifier, and/or social media network system-defined elements. The publisher selects digital media and information representing digital media elements, and posts the digital media on the social media network website. Edits, if applied to the selected digital media, are persisted in the data storage. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025980 | COMPUTER-BASED SYSTEMS, APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR A SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM FOR PROCESSING INTERNET TRAFFIC THROUGH ADVERTISING REVENUE - Integrated ad serving technology for utilizing real-time bidding to maximize revenue for each ad impression, based on cost-per-thousand (CPM), cost-per-click (CPC), or other factors. The ad serving technology may communicate in real-time with various ad networks, ad exchanges, real-time bidding platforms, and direct advertisers simultaneously, and selects the highest paid advertisements to display to the visitor. An analytics engine provides detailed statistics and insight about audience engagement. Analytics provides discovery and communication of meaningful patterns in data. Especially valuable in areas rich with recorded information, analytics relies on the simultaneous application of statistics, computer programming and operations research to quantify performance. Analytics may be applied to business data, to describe, predict, and improve business performance, such as optimizing audience engagement, marketing optimizations, price and promotion modeling, predictive science, and fraud analytics. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025981 | URL SHORTENING COMPUTER-PROCESSED PLATFORM FOR PROCESSING INTERNET TRAFFIC - A method and system is provided for URL shortening application that allows content publishers to process and monetize traffic through advertising-related data established via a computer network. A computer system may be configured to produce advertisement before redirecting to the destination page. Using certain processing techniques, publishers and related entities may be credited values by the computer system to determine advertisement revenue. Using specialized algorithms, the computer system is optimized to operate more efficiently in processing such data. Because the shortened link is text based, it can also be advantageously configured to be shared on any social media, website, email, text messaging, or other mediums. Advertisements may be displayed any time a shortened link is clicked, so connections with social followers can be achieved through more personal interactions, which are proven to increase click-throughs. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025982 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SOCIAL MEDIA ADVERTISING - A system and method for encouraging and rewarding users for providing exposure that is desired by other entities. The reward is at least partially dependent upon the expected and/or actual demonstrated reach and/or impact of the generated exposure. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025983 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING RESTAURANT ORDERS - A method for facilitating restaurant orders includes the step of communicating to a first computing device, data indicative a plurality of restaurants in proximity to the first computing device. The method further includes the step of communicating to the first computing device data indicative of a plurality of items associated with a selected restaurant of the plurality of restaurants. The method further includes the step of receiving data indicative of an order, comprising at least one item of the plurality of items, from the first computing device. The method further includes the step of communicating data indicative of the order to a second computing device associated with the selected restaurant. The method further includes the step of communicating, to the first computing device, data indicative of a change in status of the order. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025984 | Method for making orders without wired or wireless connection and without in person contact - An application for coding and decoding an order of product or service can be installed in a handheld device, such as a mobile phone or a tablet device, to help make an order with no need of talking with a clerk at the store. This application, after receiving the order, is able to convert the received order into a code, wherein the code may be a conventional bar code or a matrix bar code which is capable of storing more information. At a location of a vendor, the user of the application is able to direct scan the generated code with a reading device at the location, such as a scanner. The scanner is able to read the code and then convert it back to the order information which will be further automatically sent to the vendor to make the order. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025985 | COMMODITY SALES DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TAKING OVER PROCESSING BY THE SAME - In accordance with one embodiment, a commodity sales data processing apparatus comprises a stationary type docking station with a storage module, and a portable information terminal which is attached to and detached from the docking station freely. The information terminal receives an input of data relating to the sales of a commodity to process the received data, and stores the data required to take over the processing in the storage module of the docking station Then the information terminal successively executes, if the information terminal is attached to the docking station, the processing by referring to the data stored in the storage module of the docking station. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025986 | ELECTRONIC RECEIPT SYSTEM WITH SOCIAL MEDIA LINK AND RELATED SERVERS AND METHODS - An electronic receipt system may include a point-of-sale (POS) terminal having a near field communication (NFC) device for communicating with a mobile wireless communications device during a transaction for purchasing at least one item, and a server. The server may be for receiving a user identifier transmitted from the mobile communication device via the NFC device, verifying an enrollment status of the user identifier, based upon results of the verifying, generating an electronic receipt associated with the transaction, and generating a social media network link feature in the electronic receipt and associated with the item, the social media network link feature for sharing the purchase of the item on a corresponding social media network. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025987 | MOBILE COMMERCE PLATFORMS AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONVERTING CONSUMER COINS, CASH, AND/OR OTHER FORMS OF VALUE FOR USE WITH SAME - Systems and methods for converting consumer coins, cash, and/or other forms of value for use with mobile commerce platforms implemented on, for example, smart phones, PDAs, and other mobile devices. In one embodiment, a method for implementing a mobile commerce account on a mobile device includes receiving coins and/or other funds from a user at a consumer-operated kiosk. The method can further include counting the coins and/or other funds to determine a value, and then communicating at least a portion of the value from the kiosk to the hand-held mobile device for deposit in the mobile commerce account. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025988 | ELECTRONIC WAVE PAYMENTS - The present invention provides a method and apparatus for completing a transaction using a wireless mobile communication channel and another communication channel, particularly another communication channel that provides for near field radio channels (NFC), as well as other communication channels, such as Bluetooth or WIFI. The present invention also provides a method of completing a transaction in which a management server assists a transaction server and a point of sale terminal in forwarding transaction information to a hand-held mobile device, with the transaction having originated from the hand-held mobile device. There is also provided a hand-held mobile device that wirelessly communicates between a secure element and a radio element that are associated with the hand-held mobile device. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025989 | REMOTE CONFIGURATION OF A POINT-OF-SALE DEVICE - A method of remotely configuring a point-of-sale device that is configured with resident executable program code involves the resident executable program code transmitting a framework update request to a computer server. The resident executable program code imposes a security requirement prohibiting unauthorized change of the resident executable program code. The resident executable program code also defines an operational framework of at least one allowed mode of operation for the point-of-sale device. The framework update request includes a credential. In accordance with a validity of the credential, the point-of-sale device receives a framework update payload in response to the framework update request, and installs the framework update payload into the point-of-sale device. The resident executable program code together with the framework update payload define an updated version of the operational framework. The updated version of the operational framework maintains the imposed security requirement. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025990 | COMMODITY SALES DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION TERMINAL AND CONTROL METHOD - In accordance with one embodiment, a commodity sales data processing apparatus comprises a stationary type docking station, and a portable information terminal which can be attached to and detached from the docking station freely. The information terminal reads the data attached to a commodity, registers the read data, displays the registration content, and executes, if the information terminal is attached to the docking station, a checkout processing of calculating a checkout amount based on the registration content. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025991 | INTERNET BASED E-COMMERCE PLATFORM FOR USE BY CONSUMERS USING SOCIAL NETWORKS - A dynamic social-buying platform that provides a consumer with the necessary tools to leverage social media outlets (e.g. email, blogs, posting, etc.) in order to achieve specific levels of scale in assembling a specific group interested in a specific product or service, which in turn forces a retailer (who has previously committed to the platform) to furnish a given product or service at predetermined discount levels (which are directly correlated to the size of the group). In essence, a consumer forms a virtual group (for a specific product of interest), the consumer then recruits members to their virtual group via social media channels, and upon achieving certain levels of scale for that particular virtual group the consumer can force a retailer in the network to furnish the given product at a set discount level. | 2015-01-22 |
20150025992 | REAL-TIME REVERSED AUCTION METHOD - A buyer sends an inquiry with a copy of a contract to the auction platform administrator. The administrator checks the inquiry with the contract on whether it contains sufficient and complete information. If the information is insufficient or incomplete, then the inquiry is returned to the buyer to be verified. After correcting, the revised inquiry is again sent by the buyer to the administrator. If the check of completeness of the inquiry by the administrator finds that there is sufficient information, then the product and the product cards and potential suppliers are identified. The product cards are then consolidated and sorted to obtain a ranking of the product cards. The ranking is then sent to the buyer. The ranking is also sent to the suppliers. Check if an improvement of the offer was made by a supplier. If an improvement was made by a supplier, then the product cards are again consolidated for obtaining a revised ranking and are thereupon sent to the buyer and seller. | 2015-01-22 |